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The best-known film, television and stage actors in our archive, ranked by historical popularity.

1,391 actors in our database, ranked by historical popularity. Page 12 of 28.

Most famous actor

Charlie Chaplin

Highest historical popularity score (HPI 89.8)

Most common birth month

April

140 of 1,391 were born in April

Living vs deceased

980 / 411

70% are still living

Most common nationality

American

796 people, 57% of the list

Editor-written profiles

262

19% have a full original profile so far

The ranked list (from #551)

  1. 551Edward G. RobinsonEdward G. RobinsonPlayed the gangster Rico in Little Caesar, becoming Hollywood's defining screen tough guy of the 1930s.🇺🇸American · Born December 12, 1893 · Died January 26, 1973View profile
  2. 552Elliot PageElliot PageEarned an Oscar nomination for the title role in Juno and starred in Inception and The Umbrella Academy.🇨🇦Canadian · Born February 21, 1987View profile
  3. 553Rebecca FergusonRebecca FergusonSwedish actress who played the agent Ilsa Faust in Mission: Impossible films and Lady Jessica in Dune.🇸🇪Swedish · Born October 19, 1983View profile
  4. 554Mark RuffaloMark RuffaloActor who plays Bruce Banner, the Hulk, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films.🇺🇸American · Born November 22, 1967View profile
  5. 555Jack BlackJack BlackComic actor who led School of Rock and voices Po in the Kung Fu Panda films.🇺🇸American · Born August 28, 1969View profile
  6. 556Sissy SpacekSissy SpacekActress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter.🇺🇸American · Born December 25, 1949View profile
  7. 557Alyson HanniganAlyson HanniganActress who played Willow Rosenberg in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Lily Aldrin in How I Met Your Mother.🇺🇸American · Born March 24, 1974View profile
  8. 558Billy Bob ThorntonBilly Bob ThorntonWrote, directed and starred in Sling Blade, winning an Oscar for its screenplay.🇺🇸American · Born August 4, 1955View profile
  9. 559Woody HarrelsonWoody HarrelsonActor who won an Emmy as the bartender Woody Boyd in Cheers and was Oscar-nominated for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.🇺🇸American · Born July 23, 1961View profile
  10. 560Gong LiGong LiActress who worked with director Zhang Yimou on Raise the Red Lantern and Farewell My Concubine.🇨🇳Chinese · Born December 31, 1965View profile
  11. 561Charles BoyerCharles BoyerRomantic leading man of 1930s Hollywood, remembered for the film Algiers and for starring opposite Ingrid Bergman in Gaslight.🇫🇷French · Born August 28, 1899 · Died August 26, 1978View profile
  12. 562Angela BassettAngela BassettActress who earned an Oscar nomination for playing Tina Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It.🇺🇸American · Born August 16, 1958View profile
  13. 563Giancarlo EspositoGiancarlo EspositoPlayed the calculating drug lord Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and reprised the part in Better Call Saul.🇺🇸American · Born April 26, 1958View profile
  14. 564Famke JanssenFamke JanssenPlayed the villainous Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and later Jean Grey, also known as Phoenix, in the X-Men films.🇳🇱Dutch · Born November 5, 1964View profile
  15. 565Maureen O'HaraMaureen O'HaraRed-haired Hollywood star who played spirited heroines opposite John Wayne in The Quiet Man.🇮🇪Irish · Born August 17, 1920 · Died October 24, 2015View profile
  16. 566Hal HolbrookHal HolbrookActor who toured for decades in his one-man show Mark Twain Tonight! and was nominated for an Oscar for Into the Wild.🇺🇸American · Born February 17, 1925 · Died January 23, 2021View profile
  17. 567Tim RothTim RothPlayed Mr Orange in Reservoir Dogs and earned an Oscar nomination for playing Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy.🇬🇧British · Born May 14, 1961View profile
  18. 568Jeff BennettJeff BennettProlific voice actor who has played Johnny Bravo's rivals and many characters in cartoons such as Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Laboratory.🇺🇸American · Born October 2, 1962View profile
  19. 569Tom HollandTom HollandEnglish actor who plays Spider-Man in the Marvel films and started in Billy Elliot the Musical.🇬🇧British · Born June 1, 1996View profile
  20. 570Dan AykroydDan AykroydCo-created the Blues Brothers with John Belushi and co-wrote and starred in Ghostbusters.🇨🇦Canadian · Born July 1, 1952View profile
  21. 571Eva Marie SaintEva Marie SaintWon the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for On the Waterfront, and later starred in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.🇺🇸American · Born July 4, 1924 · Died October 6, 2026View profile
  22. 572Mark HarmonMark HarmonPlays Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the long-running CBS series NCIS.🇺🇸American · Born September 2, 1951View profile
  23. 573Tony ShalhoubTony ShalhoubActor who won Emmys as the detective in Monk.🇺🇸American · Born October 9, 1953View profile
  24. 574Kathleen TurnerKathleen TurnerActress with a distinctive husky voice, known for Body Heat and Romancing the Stone, and the voice of Jessica Rabbit.🇺🇸American · Born June 19, 1954View profile
  25. 575Pedro PascalPedro PascalPlayed the bounty hunter in The Mandalorian and the gruff survivor Joel in HBO's The Last of Us.🇺🇸American · Born April 2, 1975View profile
  26. 576Rene RussoRene RussoModel turned actress of Lethal Weapon 3 and The Thomas Crown Affair.🇺🇸American · Born February 17, 1954View profile
  27. 577Tom HardyTom HardyPlayed Bane in The Dark Knight Rises and Max Rockatansky in Mad Max: Fury Road.🇬🇧British · Born September 15, 1977View profile
  28. 578Donna ReedDonna ReedWon the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for From Here to Eternity and starred in The Donna Reed Show.🇺🇸American · Born January 27, 1921 · Died January 14, 1986View profile
  29. 579Joseph CottenJoseph CottenAppeared in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane and starred in The Third Man.🇺🇸American · Born May 15, 1905 · Died February 6, 1994View profile
  30. 580Kiefer SutherlandKiefer SutherlandPlayed counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer in the hit television thriller 24 across several seasons.🇬🇧British · Born December 21, 1966View profile
  31. 581Bruce DernBruce DernVeteran character actor who earned an Oscar nomination for playing a stubborn father in Nebraska.🇺🇸American · Born June 4, 1936View profile
  32. 582Ben StillerBen StillerStarred in and directed Zoolander, and became a leading comic actor through Meet the Parents.🇺🇸American · Born November 30, 1965View profile
  33. 583Ed O'NeillEd O'NeillPlayed the long-suffering shoe salesman Al Bundy in Married... with Children and Jay Pritchett in Modern Family.🇺🇸American · Born April 12, 1946View profile
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    ColucheComedian who founded the Restos du Cœur charity in 1985, providing free meals to people in need.🇫🇷French · Born October 28, 1944 · Died June 19, 1986View profile
  35. 585Tommy Lister Jr.Tommy Lister Jr.Towering actor remembered as Deebo's rival in Friday and for playing the prison-yard president in The Fifth Element.🇺🇸American · Born June 24, 1958 · Died December 10, 2020View profile
  36. 586Ajay DevgnAjay DevgnProlific Hindi film actor and director, winner of several National Film Awards, including one for The Legend of Bhagat Singh.🇮🇳Indian · Born April 2, 1968View profile
  37. 587Lee GrantLee GrantWon the Academy Award for best supporting actress for Shampoo, and later became an Oscar-winning documentary maker.🇺🇸American · Born October 31, 1925View profile
  38. 588Shohreh AghdashlooShohreh AghdashlooActress who earned an Oscar nomination for House of Sand and Fog and later won an Emmy for House of Saddam.🇮🇷Iranian · Born May 11, 1952View profile
  39. 589Kaley CuocoKaley CuocoActress who played Penny for twelve seasons on The Big Bang Theory and later led the thriller series The Flight Attendant.🇺🇸American · Born November 30, 1985View profile
  40. 590Glenn FordGlenn FordHollywood leading man who starred in the film noir Gilda and the western 3:10 to Yuma.🇨🇦Canadian · Born May 1, 1916 · Died August 30, 2006View profile
  41. 591Kareena KapoorKareena KapoorBollywood star of Jab We Met and 3 Idiots from the Kapoor film family.🇮🇳Indian · Born September 21, 1980View profile
  42. 592Ethan HawkeEthan HawkeActor who starred in Dead Poets Society and the Before trilogy, and was filmed over twelve years in Boyhood.🇺🇸American · Born November 6, 1970View profile
  43. 593Steve CarellSteve CarellPlayed the clueless regional manager Michael Scott in the American version of The Office.🇺🇸American · Born August 16, 1962View profile
  44. 594Emmanuelle BéartEmmanuelle BéartFrench actress who won a César for Best Supporting Actress for Manon des Sources and starred in Mission: Impossible.🇫🇷French · Born August 14, 1963View profile
  45. 595Connie NielsenConnie NielsenPlayed Lucilla in Gladiator and its sequel, and Queen Hippolyta in DC superhero films.🇩🇰Danish · Born July 3, 1965View profile
  46. 596Jennifer CoolidgeJennifer CoolidgeComic actress known as Stifler's Mom in American Pie and for an Emmy-winning role in The White Lotus.🇺🇸American · Born August 28, 1961View profile
  47. 597Angie DickinsonAngie DickinsonActress who starred as Sergeant Pepper Anderson in the 1970s police drama Police Woman and appeared in Rio Bravo.🇺🇸American · Born September 30, 1931View profile
  48. 598Clara BowClara BowSilent film star who became known as the original It Girl after the 1927 hit It.🇺🇸American · Born July 29, 1905 · Died September 27, 1965View profile
  49. 599Cliff RobertsonCliff RobertsonWon the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a man with intellectual disability in Charly.🇺🇸American · Born September 9, 1923 · Died September 10, 2011View profile
  50. 600Teri HatcherTeri HatcherStarred as Lois Lane opposite Dean Cain in the television series Lois & Clark, and later as Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives.🇺🇸American · Born December 8, 1964View profile

How we rank and select

  • Ranking: people are ordered by their Historical Popularity Index (HPI) from Pantheon. HPI combines how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about a person, how many page views those articles get, how evenly the views are spread across languages and how long ago the person lived. People Pantheon does not yet cover are listed after them, ordered by our own popularity score (the number of Wikipedia language editions with an article about them).
  • Membership: each person appears in one occupation list only, based on their primary occupation as classified by Pantheon (for example, a queen who wrote poetry is listed as royalty, not as a writer). Kings, queens, emperors, sultans and royal consorts are not listed as politicians or writers: anyone who held a monarch's office on Wikidata, and never served as a president or head of government, counts as royalty. For the few people Pantheon does not cover, we use the primary field recorded in our database.
  • One-line summaries: each summary is an original line written for this site with AI assistance under our editorial rules, then checked against the Wikipedia introduction so no wording is copied.
  • Statistics: every figure on this page is calculated live from our database each time the page loads, so it changes as we add people.

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Last reviewed: October 2026

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