Great Actors of Our Time

[memoryspectre]

Stemming from another thread where we ended up talking about an actor, I thought it'd be nice to have a thread to discuss actors we like. The point of this thread is to discuss actors of our time - meaning they have to be alive and still appearing in movies and such.

My personal top 5 favourites are:
1. Edward Norton (Fight Club, The Illusionist, Red Dragon, American History X, etc)
2. Bruce Willis (The Fifth Element, Whole Nine Yards, Sin City, Lucky Number Sleven, etc)
3. Nicole Kidman (Batman Forever, The Others, Dogville, The Stepford Wives, etc)
4. John Cusack (High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich, America's Sweethearts, Serendipity, etc)
5. Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorshands, Pirates of the Caribbean, Finding Neverland, Secret Window, etc)

[makhan]

hmm, my favourites in no particular order:
- Claire Danes (Romeo + Juliet, Brokedown Palace, Stage Beauty, Stardust)
- Natalie Portman (Leon, Star Wars, V for Vendetta)
- Keira Knightley (Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice, Domino)
- Edward Norton (Primal Fear, 25th Hour, The Illusionist)
- Johnny Depp (Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Carribbean, Sweeney Todd)

I could miss someone, since I don't really have a list of my favourite actors, I just like some of them and dislike the others :p

[moonster x]

this is mine
-Jim Carrey (The Mask, Ace Ventura,Bruce almighty)
-Nicholas Cage (Con Air, Ghost Rider, National Treasure)
-Wesley Snipes(Demolition man, Blade, ZigZag)
-Devon Aoki (2fast 2furious, Sin City, War)

[mab]

well for me :
Robert De Niro
Dustin Hoffman
Al Pacino
Daniel Day-Lewis
Edward Norton

there is more but i cannot recall there name :p but the above five is the like the best

[memoryspectre]

OMG. I just realised...I didn't put Brad Pitt on that list...O_O
Replace John Cusack with Brad Pitt..
Brad Pitt (Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen, etc)

[Vamalia]

Julia Roberts [Erin Brokovitch, My Bestfriend's Wedding, Pretty Woman, Ocean's]
Gérard Depardieu [Asterix Movies, Last Holiday, Bogus]
Jude Law [The Holiday, Alfie, Gattaca]
Whoopi Goldberg [Sister Act, Jumping Jack Flash, Corrina Corrina]
Guy Jodoin [Dans Une Galaxie Près De Chez Vous, Les Boys, A Vos Marques, Party!]

I listed my fav movies of each that most people know so... ^^

[michiyohayashi]

Hiroshi Abe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Abe_%28actor%29

[sonny_noone]

Choosing is very hard...
In casual order:
Edward Norton;
Denzel Washington;
Jim Carrey;
Luca Zingaretti (beside the Montalbano serie, he did very good movies about mafia, particularly his role as Don Pino Puglisi was very moving);
Giancarlo Giannini (although his last movies are a pale shade of his early works).

[VelvetRose]

mine are:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Lucy liu
Drew Berrymore
Zhang Ziyi

Hayden Christensen
Denzel Washington
Morgan Freeman
Adrien Brody
among others, i just can't think of em right now

[duowolf]

Lets see mine are:

Denzal Washington
Morgan Freeman
Orlando Bloom
Takeshi Kaneshiro
Bruce Campbell

[makhan]

right, I forgot about Morgan Freeman
He is also one of my favourites :]

[Anon]

meh... you ppl don't have a clue about the actors :p

Mine are:

- Kevin Spacey
- Morgan Freeman
- Jodie Foster
- Tim Robins
- Clint Eastwood
- Robert De Niro
- Tom Hanks

[duowolf]

Which reminds me I forgot to add Kevin Bacon to the list. The mans a genius.