Actors who never played villains

No, but What Lies Beneath and The Conversation probably do.

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Will Smith could probably never play a villain. He's way too likeable. Well, if Dicaprio could pull it off in Django Unchained, maybe he can do the same?

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Will Smith needs to step outside of the box, and do a darker role. He can't play the nice guy role in every single movie. It's gotten really stale.

Yeah but Di Caprio had already shown dark sides to his acting, For the good part of his career, his characters have been a bit ****ed up in one way or another.

Will Smith is just great, can't see him in a dark role. Not that I think he doesn't have it in him. Just that from what we've seen, it's really hard to imagine.

True. Even Will's rapping career has been clean for the most part. I think he should try for a crime drama (we all know another one's bound to pop up) and play a crime lord or a corrupt cop, similar to how Denzel has found success there.

I find it hard to think of Frank Abagnale as a villain...DiCaprio and Spielberg made the character so extremely likable you couldn't help but excuse a lot of his behavior.

I Happen To Notice That Bruce Dern Was Known For Playing Villains During His Earlier Years,However,Laura Dern Never Played Or Did The Voice Of Any Villainesses.

Tom Hanks, Will Smith, and Robert Downey Jr. come to mind

Nathalie Portman comes in my mind, Brad Pitt (he's not really a vilain in Fight Club tho) and Clint Eastwood...

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There was nothing nice about Leo's character in Django Unchained...if that character wasn't a villain, I don't know who was.

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but Will Smith is playing Deadshot in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie.
Now Deadshot may not exactly be a "villain" in that context (an anti-hero at best), but from his DC comics' inception he's always been a villain - he's an assassin and, based on the number of people he's killed, he'd qualify as both a mass murderer and serial killer.

Am I the only one who doesn't consider Will Smith's character in Six Degrees of Separation a villain?

You do realize that post was from 2010, right? Django Unchained didn't even exist at that point.

Someone posted that Leo DiCaprio played the bad guy in [i]Catch me if You Can[/] and I can't wrap my head around that one. Frank Abignale may have been doing illegal things but the character was way to likable to be considered a bad guy.

You made this exact post like 5 posts above this one.

I don't consider Will Smith's character in Six Degrees of Separation a villain either. But I think Smith would make an awesome villain in the right vehicle.

@mojofilter, Robert Downy played a badguy in US Marshals.

And even more clearly than his duplicitous character in that one (we only discover he is a baddie after a late plot twist), RDJ is a super creepy serial killer in Neil Jordan's In Dreams (1999).

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Will Ferrell was definitely the villain in Zoolander.

I could see Portman pulling off some kind of icy villain. Think of Cate Blanchett's role in Hanna.

You'd need a really good director, though. She can be kind of stiff sometimes. Aronofsky or Fincher could do it. Lynne Ramsay as well.