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Name a role that made you a fan of an actor/actresses


You might've even liked them before but this particular performance in a show, film or stage play made them one of your favorite entertainers.

There are a lot but here are a few of mine

1. Timothy Olyphant - Justified (2010 TV)

2. Idris Elba - Luther (2010 TV)

3. Sam Rockwell - Seven Psychopaths (2012)

4. Mads Mikkelsen - Hannibal - (2013 TV)

5. Lena Headey - Game of Thrones (2011 TV)

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Johnny Depp - Ed Wood
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed

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Ed Wood is excellent. I think it might be my favorite Tim Burton film.

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Agreed %100

It was so good it inspired me to watch Plan 9😄

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JOHNNY DEPP HAS FAILED TO LIVE UP TO THE BAR HE SET WITH ED WOOD.

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Gladiator and then Walk The Line - Jake Phoenix

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead - Tim Roth (great, great underappreciated film)

Cabin Boy - Chris Elliot (j/k, but I love the guy)

Doubt - Meryl Streep

Frozen River - Melissa Leo

Rectify - The Whole Cast

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Tom Wilkinson - In the Bedroom

Maximilian Schell - Judgment at Nuremberg

Kate Winslet - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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ditto on Wilkenson - what a movie that was.

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Same here with Winslet.

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Darren McGavin - Carl Kolchak

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Good one!

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gary oldman- fifth element(1997)
agree on Idris Elba
also Sam Rockwell
no one says Raiders of lost ark (1981)
never watched Hannibal or Game of Thrones
Sir Ian Murray McKellen both Xmen and Lord of the Rings

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Ditto, Gary Goldman. Fifth Element is my favorite movie.

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Whatchu tawkin bout Willis?

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Fifth Element is one of my favorite Sci-fi films.

But what made me a fan of Gary Oldman is another Luc Besson film, Leon the Professional

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John Thaw - Inspector Morse
David Suchet - Poirot
Helena Bonham Carter - A Hazard of Hearts
Reese Witherspoon - The Man in the Moon
Val Kilmer - Tombstone
Patrick Malahide - Middlemarch
Anthony Hopkins - Meet Joe Black
Justine Waddell - Wives and Daughters
Bill Paterson - Wives and Daughters
Michael Gambon - Perfect Strangers
Lindsay Duncan - Perfect Strangers
Amy Adams - Junebug
Charles Dance - Bleak House
Gillian Anderson - Bleak House
Anna Maxwell Martin - Bleak House
Ruth Wilson - Jane Eyre
Toby Stephens - Jane Eyre
Sally Hawkins - Persuasion
Mia Wasikowska - In Treatment Season 1
Alison Pill - In Treatment Season 2
Isabelle Fuhrman - Orphan
Saoirse Ronan - Hanna
Maleficent - Angelina Jolie
Eliza Scanlen - Sharp Objects
Emilia Clarke - Game of Thrones
Daisy Ridley - Star Wars
Anya Taylor Joy - The Queen's Gambit
Paddy Considine - House of the Dragon




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Same with Val Kilmer. He was absolutely fantastic in Tombstone

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John Thaw - Inspector Morse. Agreed. That was actually my introduction to his talent.
Reese Witherspoon - The Man in the Moon. 👍🏻
Saoirse Ronan - Brooklyn. I was late to her talents.

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Reese and Saoirse both had the acting talent from an early age. Reese was lucky enough to have appeared in some very good films but Saoirse had to make do with lesser films most of the time.

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1. Cillian Murphy - Peaky Blinders (2013)
2. Bruno Ganz - Downfall (2004)
3. Michael Gambon - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
4. Leonardo Dicaprio - Blood Diamond (2006)

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Became a fan of both DiCaprio & Djimon Hounsou thanks to Blood Diamond

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Same here! A couple of great performances in a very good movie. Hounsou was also especially good in The Four Feathers (2002).

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Yes! They were both fantastic in this. I feel that they under used Jennifer Connelly though.

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Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York

Christian Bale - American Psycho

Leonardo DiCaprio - The aviator

James Gandolfini - The Sopranos

Michael Chiklis - The shield

Glenn Howerton - It's always sunny in Philadelphia

Larry David - Curb your enthusiasm

Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator

Gene Hackman - Mississippi burning



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Same here with Day Lewis. Like holy shit he was good in that film.

One of my all time favorite performances.

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Daniel Day Lewis was absolute dynamite in The Last of the Mohicans (1992)! So was Hackman in Mississippi Burning.

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Same with Val Kilmer. He was absolutely fantastic in Tombstone https://teatv.ltd/


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I agree.

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