favorite actor male or female

[norway]

post your favs, all genre's count

[D]

1.Johnny Depp
2.Brad Pitt
3.John Travolta
4.Jason Lee
5. Edward Norton
6.Mark Ruffalo one of the greatest new actors u need to check out
7.Tim Robbins
8.Kevin Bacon
9.Jim Carrey
10.Adam Sandler
11.Samuel L Jackson
12.Morgan Freeman
13.Sylvester Stallone
14.Arnold Schwarzenegger
15. Tom Cruise
16. Emilio Estevez
17.Jon Bon Jovi

1.Julia Roberts
2.Kate Winslet
3.Kathy Bates
4.Julia Stiles
5.Uma Thurman
6.Jennifer Garner

[journey]

Sally Field
Julia Roberts
Meg Ryan
Claire Danes
Winona Ryder

Tom Hanks
Billy Crystal
Johnny Depp
Christian Slater
Morgan Freeman
Hugh Grant

[Where is Hassan Nasrallah ?]

a good movie with bad acting stays a good movie (star wars ...)
a bad movie with good acting stays a bad movie

so, for actors/actress i'd go by the looks > Catherine Zeta Jones !!! 

[Hammy]

1. Bill Paxton - Great comic turn in Weird Science, stole the show in Aliens as the shit-scared Hudson, Showed he could be a leading man in Twister, played a great serious role in A Simple Plan and showed off his acting and directing ablities in the film that really makes you think and is above the standard horror crap these days Frailty.  Also great in Near Dark, Predator 2, Club Dread, Titanic, Tombstone, Navy Seals, True Lies, U-571 etc.  Has only occasionaly slipped up e.g. he plays Jeff Tracy in Thunderbirds, and is Dinky Winks in the Spy Kids films.  Is also the only person to of starred in a Predator film and an Alien film.  He was also the first victim of The Terminator, the punk with the green mohawk   Also has a high death rate in films you'll struggle to find an actor who dies in as many films as he does, always does it in style as well e.g. U-571 - Standing on top of a submarine when it gets blown up knocking him flying into the water....but wait he's not dead....they think about saving him but being the brave captain he is he tells them to leave him and save themselves as he sinks to a watery grave
2. Johnny Depp - Extremely versatile, can do serious and funny so well with a mixture of accents, best film has to be Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas the bug-eyed drugged fueled ecstasy of this film is portrayed so well by his character.
3. Christopher Walken - Was one of the best James Bond bad guys with his portrayel of Max Zorrin in A View To A Kill with his uncharacteristic Blonde hair, great bad guy in Nick of Time w/ Johnny Depp as well as his humreous but sadistic short role in True Romance.  Has gone off recently doing some awful films like Joe Dirt but his earlier classics make up for it, also check out Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepy Hollow, Suicide Kings, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World 2, Batman Returns 
4. Daniel Day-Lewis - Has not done many movies throughout his career but that's because he puts his all into what he does spending years sometimes preparing.  The Boxer was a great irish film and afterwards Barry McGuigan actually said he could be a champion boxer he was so good.  Last of The Mohicans i always loved reading the book when i was younger and the film version was just as good, he supposedly lived out in the woods eating berries for months in preparation.  Gangs of New York not the greatest film but he saved it portraying one of my favourite bad guys of all time Bill The Butcher.
Fun Facts:
According to "Gangs of New York" co-star John C. Reilly, Day-Lewis got sick during shooting in Italy, refusing to trade his character's threadbare coat for a warmer coat, because the warmer coat did not exist in the 19th century; doctors finally forced him to take antibiotics.
He listened to Eminem to get into an angry, self-righteous frame of mind as Bill the Butcher while shooting "Gangs of New York."
Turned down the role of Aragon (Strider) in The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
He was Jonathan Demme's first choice for the part of Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia. He turned the part down to work on In the Name of the Father and Tom Hanks was cast in Philadelphia instead. He earned an Oscar nomination for best actor in In the Name of the Father but Hanks won the best actor Oscar for Philadelphia, the part he turned down.

[Genesis]

Male: John Malkovich
Female: Charlize Theron

[nesquick]

- Harisson Ford
- Johnny Depp
- Tom Cruise
- Arnold Scharzenegger
- Sylvester Stallone
- Thierry Lermitte, Pierre Richard, G?rard Jugnot, Michel Blanc, Alain Chabat (French actors)
- Matt Damon
- Al Pacino

- Julia Roberts
- Alissa Milano
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Uma Thurman

[Pryor Murphy]

I'm just gonna say a few names(these are in no order)

female
Julianne Moore, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Nicole Kidman, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Meryl Streep, Kathy Bates, Charlize Theron, Angelina Jolie, Susan Sarandon, Pam Grier, Diane Keaton, Uma Thurman & Julia Roberts

male
Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson, Steve McQueen, John Candy, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin & Chris Farley

[Gunner80]

Male - Johnny Depp

Female- Niomi Watts 

[jgfnsr]

A few off the top of my head (in alphabetical order...)

Robert DeNiro
Johnny Depp
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Jack Nicholson
Edward Norton
Gary Oldman
Al Pacino
Kevin Spacey
Chistopher Walken

[MadmanDan]

Jenna Jameson 

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

A few off the top of my head (in alphabetical order...)

Robert DeNiro
Johnny Depp
Dustin Hoffman
Anthony Hopkins
Jack Nicholson
Edward Norton
Gary Oldman
Al Pacino
Kevin Spacey
Chistopher Walken

Pacino
DeNiro
Nicholson
Hopkins
Spacey...   yup  yup yup... all GREAT actors
who you just LOVE to watch on screen
Ill add

Brad Pitt - I think a lot of his acting ablities have been overshadowed by is looks(
Johnny Depp - same comment as above
and oh... 
hehe   

Clint Eastwood is the man!


an I think Robert Downey Jr. is a great actor...   too bad about all the time (and opportunities) he lost because of his drug problem
watch him in Chaplin     

another great actor in a great role - Mel Gibson in Hamlet

you guys mentioned a lot of my favorite actors

Christopher Walken - anything he is in becomes MORE interesting and BETTER just because he is in it

yes! Catch Me If You Can and I'll add the chick flick "The Stephford Wives"   --- he is frickin' funny!

Edward Norton - Fight Club! and Primal Fear! 
which reminds me...

Richard Gere...   really enjoyable to watch...
from his first screen appearance in Looking for Mr. Goodbar
American Gigolo... Officer and a Gentleman..  Breathless <----- loved these
And in Internal Affairs...   the guy is just wicked and *wooooo*
also really enjoyed Sommersby, Mr. Jones, and Intersection
of course there is Pretty Woman
and Runaway Bride which I didn't enoy as much as I did (and was surprised to) enjoy Chicago

ok.. enough

again... new in the OT section so i'll have to restrain myself 

[jgfnsr]

Jenna Jameson?

Oh yeah!  The Meryl Streep of porn!   

[Drew]

Male
Matt Damon
Sean Penn
Johnny Depp
Robert De Niro
Benicio Del Toro
Edward Burns
Brian Cox
Chris Cooper
Denzel Washington

Female
Kate Beckinsale
Sissy Spacek
Dakota Fanning
Kate Winslet

[norway]

again... new in the OT section so i'll have to restrain myself?

don't,
maybe have mods 4 that

[Eva GnRAxlRosette]

Male
Matt Damon

yes he's actually a good actor... unlike Ben Affleck!


and oh... i was watching "blown away" on cable the other night and I gotta say I really like Tommy Lee Jones playing the role of 'the bad guy'.... reminded me of his role as 2Face in the batman movie...

which reminded me of Jim Carey playing the Riddler.....
another actor (actor/comedian) whose abilities i think shine in darker more serious roles

has Tom Hanks been mentioned?

he's great
case in point: "Terminal"   

[Drew]

Gene Hackman is another favorite actor of mine.

[youngerformofaxl]

Male: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt.

Female: Kathy Bates, Sandra Bullock.

[Jessica]

Female :

Ava Gardner
Catherine hepburn
Diana Rigg
Judi Dench
Joely Richardson
Jodie Foster
Renee Russo
Susan sarandon
Whoopi Goldberg
Michelle Pfeiffer
Jennifer Saunders
Bryce Dallas Howard
Audrey Tautou
Nathalie Baye
Angelica Huston
Emma Thompson
Charlize Theron
Mathilde Seigner
Cate Blanchett


Men

Derek Jacobi
Alan Rickman
Jeremy Irons
Robert Redford
John Malkovitch
Vincent Cassel
Johnny Depp
Joaquin Phoenix
Sean Penn
Al pacino
Orlando Bloom
Viggo Mortensen
Christopher Walken
DD Lewis
Jude Law
Peter o'Toole
Morgan Freeman
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover

[Tied-Up]

Male:  Johnny Depp & Kevin Spacey
Female:  Sandra Bullock