Who do you feel are the most talented high-profile* actors working today?
My very rough list of who I believe the most talented major actors to be, that talent may be tapped or untapped:
(in alphabetical order by last name) Norma Aleandro Bae Du-na Sandrine Bonnaire Toni Collette Chris Cooper Matt Damon Hannelore Elsner Vera Farmiga Ralph Fiennes Sally Hawkins Isabelle Huppert Jennifer Jason Leugh Tony Leung (Chiu-wai) Simon Pegg Lynn Redgrave Miranda Richardson Timothy Spall Tilda Swinton Sylvie Testud Luis Tosar
Honourable mentions: Amy Adams, Joan Allen, Nathalie Baye, Daniel Bruhl, Patricia Clarkson, George Clooney, Marie-Josee Croze, Penelope Cruz, Anna Deavere Smith, Kirsten Dunst, America Ferrera, Robert Forster, Paul Giamatti, Richard Jenkins, Laura Linney, Emily Mortimer, Brittany Murphy, Candela Pena, Parker Posey, Fiona Shaw, Brooke Smith, Shinobu Terajima, Regina Taylor, David Thewlis, Stanley Tucci, Eileen Walsh, Michelle Williams, Grace Zabriskie
*because for all we know, the best actor or actress in the world might be in a travelling gypsy theatre troupe in the siberian countryside, or something similar
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Kate Winslet Amy Adams Leonardo Dicaprio Edward Norton Paul Giamatti Tom Hanks Bryan Cranston James Gandolfini Anne Hathaway Paul Rudd Paul Dano Joseph Gordon Levitt Daniel Day Lewis Emile Hirsch James Franco Natalie Portman Michelle Monaghan Billy Crudup Catherine Keener Don Cheadle
Benicio Del Toro Jeffrey Wright Gael Garcia Bernal Christian Bale Sacha Baron Cohen Val Kilmer Brad Pitt Ralph Fiennes Robert Downey Jr. Colin Farrell John Leguizamo (I kinda can't stand him but I think he's really talented.) Toni Collette Frances McDormand Ziyi Zhang Aaron Eckhart Steve Zahn Joseph Gordon Levitt Charlize Theron Robin Williams Eddie Murphy
is that 20? I'm sure there's more but I went stream of consciousness this time.
FYC District 9 and Sharlto Copley The Hurt Locker and Jeremy Renner and Kathryn Bigelow Watchmen This Is It Christoph Waltz in Inglourious Basterds Paul Rudd in I Love You, Man
Meryl Streep Sean Penn Vanessa Redgrave Daniel Day Lewis Julianne Moore Amy Adams Gael Garcia Bernal Penelope Cruz Stockard Channing Ralph Fiennes Jesse Eisenberg Annette Benning Ryan Gosling Chitewel Ejiofor Benicio Del Toro Maggie Smith Michael Douglas Willem Dafoe Felicity Huffman Glenn Close
hmmm, more my favorites that anything else. And, I had trouble deciding if I should consider their body of work the past 10 years vs. their entire career. Like, should I include Faye Dunaway if I haven't really enjoyed her work for the past two decades, but her work through the 60s,70s, and 80s would easily put her on this list for me.
