Name an actor you see no matter what he/she is in

For me it’s Audra MacDonald. Everything she does on stage is just luminous.

Sadly, she makes so much more in TV and movies but they only display a small portion of her talent.

Bryan Cranston.

Denzel, Tom Hanks, Christian Bale, Meryl, Pacino, Jessica Chastain.

Brad Pitt

Cheryl Ladd - ANYTHING she is in..

Idris Elba

Meredith Baxter-Birney

Meryl used to guarantee a good movie but then she did Mamma Mia.

Tom Cruise also used to guarantee a good movie but then he did a ton of crapola over the last decade

Andie MacDowell

Gail O’Grady

I knew Carey Mulligan was going to be a star when I saw her Bway debut The Seagull.

She’s great in everything

Christopher Abbott. His black eyes can look warm or psycho.

Sir Ian McKellan

Rupert Graves

climb that ladder Scudder, only connect

Vanessa Redgrave

Michelle Pfeiffer

Another for Brad Pitt

I can't think of any living/currently working actors I still do this for. Phillip Seymour Hoffman was the last one.

Dawson

Riz Ahmed. Andre Holland.

They have a pretty high quotient of "good or better" credits.

Laura Linney. I love her.

Not a fan of all his movies, but Daniel Day-Lewis

I used to do this.

Then, I started high school.

Ewan McGregor. Always good and interesting.

Johnny Depp, Evan Peters, Jeremy Irons, Daniel Day-Lewis, Richard E Grant, Helena Bonham Carter, Jessica Lange, Marilyn Monroe,

Julianne Moore. Seriously.

(Even Dear Evan Hansen.)

Mads Mikkelson

Vincent D'onofrio

previously, Brittany Murphy

Helena Bonham Carter! Definitely.

Mark Rylance.

Cate Blanchett, Kate Winslet. Definitely.

R16, have you seen her in Cheri? Never a bad angle.

M

G

Aw, thank you G!

Thank YOU, M!

Stockard Channing

Lately Claire Foy.

lange, foster, pfeiffer, field, jeff bridges, dench, mirren... a few others...

John Leguizamo & Regina King. They’re top notch in everything, have been his fan since 1993 & hers since 1986/ 227 days!

John Cazale. And Jess of Sean Cody.

Skye Knoxxx

ZEB ATLAS!

Marcos Goiano

Nicholas Cage

Diane Keaton

LAINIE KAZAN!

it used to be Michael Pitt

I will watch Ryan Corr in anything.

Toni Collette

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Blade Thompson (I have quite the collection)

Brandon Routh makes Mama's mussy as moist as a snack cake.

Jason Bateman, I admit I have a thing for him. Sadly, this also means I have watched some utter shit over the years.

Ann Ramsey

Another vote for Sir Ian McKellan, love him in everything.

Helen Mirren, Charles Dance, Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith.

Used to be Sian Phillips, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris and Paul Newman.

Lee Pussywether

You know I don't think there is anyone for me. It's the director mainly. But even people I love- like Julianne Moore- I won't watch everything. I haven't seen still Alice

Léa Seydoux, Catherine Deneuve, Valérie Lemercier, Fanny Ardant

Jake

Timmy

I would say Julian Sands, but most of his movies stink.

Florence Lawrence

Toni Collette, Margo Martindale, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup

Bette Davis

Judy Davis.

Olivia Colman.

Tom Hardy

Ewan McGregor

Adam Driver

Allison Janney

Daniel Brühl

Do u like Lee Pussywether?

Jennifer Coolidge....well, I couldn’t stomach “Two Broke Girls.” Terrible show

Christine Baranski, Jennifer Lawrence, Parker Posey, Jean Smart.

Frank Langella

Amy Sedalia, Mark Ruffalo, Annette Bening, Leonardo DiCaprio

Sedaris

Clint Walker - I have, I believe, completed the task, having seen everything he was ever in.

Daniel Craig.

Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Robert Downey Jr., Sigourney Weaver.

Amy Adams. Except "Hillbilly Elegy". I won't watch that on principle.

Sharon Stone.

Let’s just say, it’s been an often challenging journey.

Marlon Brando.

florence pugh. can't wait to see the rest of her career. not really looking forward to watching her make out with harry styles, though.

Matt Damon and Ryan Reynolds. Looking at them makes me happy.

Kristin Scott Thomas though she has made some stinkers like The Party.

Leonardo DiCaprio. He's getting better as he grows older.

Viggo Mortensen

Taylor Lautner

Edward Norton

Cate Blanchett

RDJ, Channing Tatum, Corey Stoll, Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet

Julianne Moore, seriously. However, it’s going to take a lot of alcohol to sit through DEH.

Willem Dafoe

Vivian Vance

Sam Elliott

clint walker, steve reeves, reg park, cal bolder, ed clark, jorge rivero, hugh o'brian, robert horton, gil gerard, lee majors, reb brown..

I think there is a trend here! lol!..

PSH. Someone said so before too. Rip.

Klinton Spilsbury

Bogart.

Stanwyck

Tomas Brand the porn actor. I'll watch him in literally anything.

Dolores Gray

Ryan Gosling; Jodie Foster; Crispin Glover; Sean Penn; Melissa Leo; Kristen Stewart; Charlize Theron; Colin Farrell.

Benedict Cumberbatch. Colin Firth. Helen Mirren.

Bruce Dern. Gets better as he ages.

Patricia Clarkson

Tom Hardy

Carrie Coon

Timothy Spall

Vanessa Redgrave

Gael García Bernal

Willem Dafoe

Frances McDormand

Samuel L. Jackson

Melora Walters

Elijah Wood

R95 - I used to think Stanwyck was great in everything but i recently watched her in a June Allyson Show episode and playing drunk she was awful.

Colin Firth and Jeff Bridges.

R102, Her breakdown scene in "Executive Suite" is embarrassing.

Mary Kay Place. I have loved her since I was eight years old when I saw her on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. I wish she worked more!

Kate Winslet

After watching some of the films featured in the Wong Kar-wai retrospective at the IFC Center, I have to add a name to my post @ R64:

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

And LOL @ R93, you knucklehead

No one is perfect. I love Barbara Stanwyck. But she’s given some questionable performances. So have a lot of good actors.

The Gummer girls. Not by choice, mind you.

R107 the Wong Kar-Wai retrospective was fantastic - I’d forgotten how talented he and his company of actors are.

The Willis sisters - they're fantastic!

Paul rudd

Angela Lansbury

Angelina Jolie

Olive Deering.

Roger Allam.

Mary Astor.

You know what, I will confess. Sharon Stone. She's an uneven actress but she picks interesting material and when she nails it, she's phenomenal.

Laura Dern

Oscar Isaac

Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Ian Holm. Basically the cast of ALIEN. John Hurt, Harry Dean, Yaphet Kotto, Skerritt.

Hanno Koffler

Sharon Tate, even though all her movies are shit, she's just so pretty.

Jodie Foster, except to Silence She's really a terrible actress, except for Silence.

Parker Posey

Molly Shannon

Patricia Arquette

Cillian Murphy

Melanie Lynskey

Gael Garcia Bernal

Romain Duris

Timothee Chalamet

Isabelle Huppert

Jonathan Majors

Gary Oldman

Juliette Binoche

I've been interested in Melora Hardin since I realized she isn't actually a butch lesbian like she played in Transparent

🤗 Snoopy and Woodstock

Your mastery of the English language, r123, is far worse than Foster's acting.

R126 Are you aware Melora is a cafe, lounge-type singer on the side? She's good too!

I realized again how hot Burt Lancaster was back in the olden days. Turner Classic Moves had From Hefe to Eternity on last evening. Nice looking man!

LaKeith Standfield

R124 you have really good taste

I’ve seen all of Madonna’s movies. Thank God she’ll never work again with her grotesque new face. She can’t play a relatable human anymore. (Couldn’t ever really act like one either).

Julianna Moore...seriously! She's one of my faves.

Riz Ahmed, I've been following his career way before Nightcrawler and The Night Of.

Damn auto correct, Julianne Moore.

Wink Martindale. Especially any opera he's in.

Yes R130, "From Hefe to Eternity" is one of my favorites as well.

Joey De Matteo and Xavier Robitaille

(are they the same man?)

Margo Channing

Mags Mikkelson , Tom Hardy,Mathias Schoenart ,Toni Collete.

Kate Winslet

Toni Collette

Colin Firth

Ewan McGregor

I don’t think there is one. Maybe Chloe Sevigny. I like to see what she does.

Oh yes, Kate W. I even watched her shit young adult movies with shaylinn whoodlen

Kyle Richards

Martita Hunt is always fascinating — even when she's dubbed by others.

Another fan of Kate Winslet. She's THAT good.

Judi Dench. Always. Even when she's playing Shakespeare's 50-something wife at 80-plus.

Maggie Smith.

Cate Blanchett.

Used to love everything Michael Caine did, but his last pics were just stupid money grabs. Same for DeNiro.

Timothee, honestly.

Ms. Lange, Ms. Anderson, Mr. Madden and Mr. Tatum. x

Ah yes, i forgot Gillian Anderson. She picks *interesting* projects and is quite good in them.

Timothee and Jack Dylan are my celebrity crushes, so I don't miss them. Otherwise I love British girls Olivia Coleman, Kate Winslet and Sally Hawkins.

Yes r150, Sally Hawkins as well. She doesn't have movie star looks, but damn she can act the hell out of any role.

I also really like Nicola Walker.

Emma Thompson after she dumped thin-lipped Kenny.

Nobody. None of them are worth it.

Jake Gyllenhaal, for exactly the same reason as Sharon Stone

Bradley Cooper.

Keri Russell

I realized when thinking about this that I apparently have unintentionally wound up like this with Mickey Rourke. I will watch him in anything.

I really loved Joaquin’s earlier roles and saw most of them through “Walk the Line.” I think he is one of the best at playing the walking wounded.

Gary Oldman

I've always enjoyed the late Peter O'Toole's acting, I saw all his films.

[quote] Peter O'Toole's acting, I saw all his films

You didn't see his plays.

He was a shocker. The National Theatre lost a great deal of money over his 'Hamlet'. Drunk every night.

John Lithgow.

That's an excellent choice r162, he's criminally underrated

Miss Lindsay Wagner

Thanks R163. He can pretty much do anything, and seems to have such fun, regardless if the part is drama or comedy.

Johnny Depp. Particularly some of the foreign films he's made.

No longer with us but Natalie Wood. Joaquin Phoenix.

Robin Weigert

Margo Martindale

Merritt Weaver

Ann Dowd.

Ann Dowd is such a good actress, I wonder why she always plays such super creepy characters, such as her character in the first season of an HBO series, the name I cannot recall, and her character in Hereditary.

Jack Davenport. I even forced myself to sit through all iterations of Pirates of the Caribbean.

Louis Garrel..most of them.

Plan to follow Axel Auriant , Maxence Danet, and Benjamin Voisin.

I love Jack Davenport. I saw him in The story of Mary Bryant and rooted for him even though he was technically the viillain. He was also great in "Why women kill".

R159 seconded

If you’re so inclined, here is a great interview with Ann Dowd and the equally great Margo Martindale.

Andrea Riseborough (watch the series National Treasure with Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters; Riseborough outshines even them)

Mark Bonnar

Susan Lynch

Amelia Bullmore

Robin Williams

Jennifer Coolidge

Tilda Swinton

Ben Whishaw

Colin Firth

Adam Sandler

Alec Guinness.

He was a genuine actor. Most of the other people listed here merely knew how to stand in front of camera.

R170, you’re thinking of THE LEFTOVERS. Brilliant show in which she deserved an Emmy nod if not a win. She got neither.

I watched all Dolph Lundgren movies until I just couldn't stand them anymore. The last few I watched were really Grade Z.

I have a new favorite actor. Eric Lange. It’s taken me a while to notice him, but he was fantastic in three different projects in the last year: The Premise (Hulu), Brand New Cherry Flavor (Netflix), and Antebellum (Amazon). Totally different performances. While not a “hunk” there is also something attractive about him to me. Not sure why, but anyway, great actor.

Cate Blanchett, don't care what rubbish it is, I'm there.

r167, Did you see Marjorie Morningstar. I DID. I'm very committed.

R185, no I haven't gotten to that one yet. I just figured it would be too hard to find a copy or see it anywhere since It's not that well known.

R162, Lithgow was great as Churchill in "The Crown" although he is a much bigger person than Churchill himself was.

R187 What do you mean by "bigger"?

Jessica Walter, RIP

R188, I should have written taller. WC was not a tall man.

Lily Rabe

R186, You were wrong.

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lin Shaye

[quote][R170], you’re thinking of THE LEFTOVERS. Brilliant show in which she deserved an Emmy nod if not a win. She got neither.

No, not The Leftovers, think it was True Detective? I can't remember much of about her character, but she was very disturbing.

The lovely Michael anytime.

Unfortunately his romantic and financial life went haywire and he started appearing trash from 1958 until his demise.

John Lithgow creeps me out with his fawning way of acting, in the way that Stephen Fry did in "Wilde." I can't watch him.

What I admire about John Lithgow is his versatility.

Loretta Devine

Samuel West

Kirsten Dunst, pretty much.

R183 I thought his performance as Lou in Brand New Cherry Flavor was excellent. He really managed to combine sleaze and venality with pathos. To the point where there were moments where I found myself almost feeling bad for this Beverly Hills asshole. Not many actors can pull that off.

Christopher Walken, Benicio Del Toro, Xavier Bardem, Penelope Cruz, Edgar Ramirez, Jessica Chastain, Meryl.

I may be getting old, blasé and cynical but I can't name an actor nowadays I want to see no matter what he's is in.

All the riveting actors are well and truly dead. I thought Daniel Day Lewis was the last of the riveting actors.

R203, DDL is extraordinary. But there are a number of actors who I love to watch because they're always interesting, and sometimes it is pure entertainment.

Jim Varney was always good for a laugh.

R205, The operative word being "a".

Well he probably can't watch you either R196.

R167, R195, I'd hardly call Natalie Wood an actor. She was a personality, but couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Incapable of showing any emotion in a natural way. Hence her win for 1966's Harvard Lampoon Worst Actor of the Year.

She WAS however, an excellent beard!

Brian Cox

R208, But not an excellent swimmer.

R208, How do you explain her three(3) Academy Award nominations?

R211 I'm not 208 but I would suggest Wood was nominated by the morons of Hollywood.

Wood was very good at playing hysterical adolescents but I would suggest that was borne about by being abused by abusive directors who would work her into a state of hysteria.

I never miss a Liv Ullmann musical.

When given a script with rich characterizations and a strong director to help mold her, Natalie could be very, very good: Rebel Without a Cause, The Searchers, Splendor in the Grass, West Side Story, Gypsy, Love with the Proper Stranger, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, all solid performances.

Dustin Ingram

R214, Did she even speak in "The Searchers"?

Yes, r216. The bigger question is how did Native Americans in the 1870s get their hands on Max Factor makeup?

R217 OMG, didn't you know it was created by indigenous two-spirit people! Max Factor, a WHITE man, stole it from the Two-Spirit and made it into a tool of oppression against women and queers.

Mark Rylance

I see them because they can't act and almost always play the exact same character:

Tom Cruise

Keanu Reeves

Adam Sandler

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Jennifer Lopez

Jason Statham

Ashton Kutcher

Nicholas Cage

Mark Wahlberg

Steven Seagal

So glad to hear that someone else said that Natalie Wood was a rotten actress. She truly was.

[quote] Natalie Wood was a rotten actress.

Wood wasn't an actress. She misbehaved in front of a camera.

r221 would you say she was Wood-en?

Mel Gibson

Even The Beaver?

Thank you R221, me too.

John Saxon.

He made a lot of craptastic movies, but if I see he's in the cast...I'll tune in anyway. Just to see a younger or older version of this:

Suranne Jones

Harold Lloyd

Steve Zahn

Xander Berkeley

.,.,

Andrea Riseborough seconded. Always different in everything.

Susan Richardson

Kathy Bates. Good in everything and gave Kate a run for her money in Elizabeth. Yes, Gimme Gimme Gimme was stupid, but she was just so funny in it.

R232 Burke, you fat whore.

I have seen most movies Topher Grace is in. I'm watching that new show he's in on ABC, even though it's pretty awful. I've watched every episode of That '70s Show at least twice.

I'll watch anything with full frontal male nudity.

Topher Grace, Wilmer Valderama, Adrian Guinier Now there's three guys who hit the lottery, with successful TV series. Because they couldn't act for shit.

Regina King.