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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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Meryl Streep - Silkwood
Phillip Seymour Hoffman - The Talented Mr Ripley
Kate Winslet - Sense and Sensibility
Jennifer Aniston - Office Space
Denzel Washington - Mississippi Masala
Leo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Matt Damon - The Rainmaker
Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
Daniel Day Lewis - A Room With a View
Rachel Weiss - The Constant Gardener
Ralph Fiennes - Hamlet
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Tom Hanks - Bachelor Party 😂

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I genuinely cannot remember what film made me a Tom Hanks fan.

I just found myself liking his films.

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Christina Hendricks - Mad Men (2007 TV)

Johnny Lee Miller - Elementary (2012 TV)

Angelina Jolie - Girl, Interrupted (1999)

Marion Cotillard - Love Me If You Dare (2003)

Jame McAvoy - The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)

Anjelica Huston - Ever After (1999)

Elijah Wood - The Good Son (1993)

Isabella Rossellini - Merlin (1998 TV)

and many more.

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James McEvoy - The Last King of Scotland
Forest Whitaker - The Color of Money
Paul Newman - The Sting
Robert Redford - All The Presidents Men
Dustin Hoffman - Midnight Cowboy
Bob Balaban - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Richard Dreyfuss - American Graffiti
Harrison Ford - Star Wars
Carrie Fisher - When Harry Met Sally
Bruno Kirby - Godfather II
Al Pacino - Dog Day Afternoon
John Cazale - The Godfather
Robert Duvall - Apocalypse Now
Dennis Hopper - Easy Rider
Jack Nicholson - Chinatown

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Primal fear: Edward Norton
Basketball diaries: Di Caprio

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Heartbreak RIdge - CLint Eastwood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pVXbtarMVM&t=10s
Lonesome Dove- Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eIgcUgO5J0&t=12s

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Paul Scofield and Burt Lancaster - The Train (1964)
Gregory Peck - To Kill a Mockingbird (1963)
Henry Fonda - The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night (1964)
Paul Dooley - Breaking Away (1979)
Russell Crowe - Master and Commander (2003)
John Wayne and Bruce Dern - The Cowboys (1972)
Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood (2007)
Paul Newman - Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Lee Van Cleef - For a Few Dollars More (1965)
Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn - The Falcon and The Snowman (1985)
(don't laugh)
Max von Sydow - Strange Brew (1983)

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I've been a huge fan of Mads Mikkelsen for ages, but I never plan to watch Hannibal. Ever.

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Harrison Ford- Indy
Sigourney Weaver- Aliens
Charlton Heston- Planet of the Apes
Jason Isaacs- The Patriot
Daisy Ridley- Star Wars
Peter Sellers- Closeau
Joaquin Phoenix- Gladiator
Michael Douglas- Falling Down
Michael J. Fox- Back to the future
Brendan Fraser - The Mummy, Bedazzled
Robert Downey Jr. - Sherlock Holmes

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Harrison Ford - The Fugitive

Michael Douglas - The Game/Romancing the Stone

Brendan Fraser - The Mummy

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Kristanna Loken - Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

I wouldn't say I'm a big fan now, but I had a crush on her back in the day!

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I was the same with Jessica Alba.

Wouldn't say she's my favorite actress but I had a huge crush on her in the late 90s & early 2000s

Would watch anything that she was in. lol

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