Your Top 10 Actors/Actresses of All Time

I'm generally not one who pays much attention to acting, so I don't know if I could provide a good answer, but I'm curious to see who the rest of you go with.

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My current top 10 (in alphabetical order)

Woody Allen
Cate Blanchett
Humphrey Bogart
Daniel Day-Lewis
Leonardo DiCaprio
Cary Grant
Tom Hanks
Jimmy Stewart
Meryl Streep
John Wayne

Top 10 Actors:
Tatsuya Nakadai
Max von Sydow
Klaus Kinski
Anton Walbrook
Toshiro Mifune
Anthony Wong
Simon Yam
Neil Breen
Emil Jannings
Erland Josephson

Top 10 Actresses:
Setsuko Hara
Hideko Takamine
Liv Ullmann
Gena Rowlands
Chingmy Yau
Li Gong
Joey Wong
Kinuyo Tanaka
Chieko Baisho
Kyoko Kagawa

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Dennis Lavant
Toshiro Mifune
Jô Shishido
Max von Sydow
Tony Leung
Jean-Louis Trintignant


Gena Rowlands
Juliette Binoche
Laurie Metcalf
Isabelle Huppert

I can never settle on favorite actors, so I'll just list a couple of favorite performances (in no order)...

Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood and Phantom Thread
Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
Edith Evans, The Whisperers
Anthony Perkins, Psycho
Olivia de Haviland, The Heiress
Emil Jannings, The Last Laugh
Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler and Prisoners
Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster, Sweet Smell of Success

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In no particular order.

Ladies first:
Gloria Grahame
Vivien Leigh
Susan Hayward
Audrey Hepburn
Bette Davis
Joan Crawford
Barbara Stanwyck
Claudette Colbert
Ginger Rogers
Doris Day
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Humphrey Bogart
Gregory Peck
Cary Grant
William Holden
John Wayne
Fred Astaire
Dan Duryea
Burt Lancaster
Errol Flynn
Van Johnson

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What?!?!


One of the most disturbing things I've ever heard.

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He only pays attention to how hot people on the screen are. He's Mr. Objectifier!

Joaquin Phoenix
Leonardo DiCaprio
Russell Crowe
John Cusack
Kevin Costner
Bruce Campbell
Johnny Depp
Samuel L. Jackson
John Malkovich
Brad Pitt

Last half is only very loosely ordered. On another day, Pitt could easily be replaced by someone else like Antonio Banderas, Brenden Fraser, Steve Buscemi, or Tom Hanks.

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Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against people who praise and criticize acting in films. Go for it, by all means. It's just something which rarely sticks out to me when I watch films. Heck, I could probably name every single acting performance which stood out to me in a significant way on one hand:

Bette Davis in All About Eve.
Ellen Burstyn in Requiem for a Dream.
Jason Robards in Magnolia.
John Goodman in at least a few films.
Mahershala Ali in Moonlight.
I might be forgetting a few, but that's all I can think of right now.

I think all of us have elements that might be considered “blind spots”, for lack of a better word. I feel really dumb when it comes to music in movies, especially score. I enjoy it in the moment, but outside of a few exceptions I don’t recall scores or needle drops.

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I think I do pretty decent at remembering scores from films, though music generally isn't my favorite thing about a film.

That's me exactly. Unless a score really stands out like a sore thumb or is really triumphant I never take notice of a film's score.

Woody Woody Allen? Really? As an actor? I think his work as a writer and director is unprecedented, but I've never seen him as a great actor. There are a few acting gems on his resume, but he wouldn't be in my top ten of favorite actors of all time.

My current list:

Actors (Male)
Scott Adkins
Al Pacino
Jackie Chan
Robert De Niro
Eddie Murphy
Bruce Willis
Donnie Yen
Bill Skarsgard
Keanu Reeves
Rob Van Vuuren

Actors (Female)
Liesl Ahlers
Reine Swart
Charlize Theron
Erica Wessels
Sharla Cheung
Amy Johnston
Cynthia Rothrock
Diane Franklin
Kelli Maroney
Barbara Crampton

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