Sir Anthony Hopkins
Al Pacino
Robert DeNiro
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tom Hanks
Phillip Seymour Hoffman
Gary Oldman
Meryl Streep
Gene Hackman
Robert Duvall
Cate Blanchett
Alan Rickman
Jeff Bridges
Donald Sutherland
John Malkovich
Alec Baldwin
Frances McDormand
I admire many more, but this is the list that comes to mind. I mainly value two characteristics -- screen presence (Hopkins, Streep, Rickman and Malkovich instantly bring a certain weight to any scene in which they appear), and flexibility/range (Pacino, DiCaprio and Oldman are utterly convincing in vastly different roles).
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