My Top 100 Favourite Actors and Actresses

1. Cary Grant

Favourite Performance: His Girl Friday (1940)

2. Katherine Hepburn

Favourite Performance: The Philadelphia Story (1940)

3.  James Dean

Favourite Performance: Rebel Without A Cause (1955)

4. Ingrid Bergman

Favourite Performance: Casablanca (1942)

5. Humphrey Bogart

Favourite Performance: Casablanca (1942)

6. James Stewart

Favourite Performance: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

7. Bette Davis

Favourite Performance: All About Eve (1950)

8. Marlon Brando

Favourite Performance: The Godfather (1972)

9. Meryl Streep

Favourite Performance: Sophie’s Choice (1982)

10. Gregory Peck

Favourite Performance: To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

11. Audrey Hepburn

Favourite Performance: Roman Holiday (1953)

12. Charles Chaplin

Favourite Performance: City Lights (1931)

13. Al Pacino

Favourite Performance: The Godfather Part 2 (1974)

14. Anthony Hopkins

Favourite Performance: Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

15. Robert De Niro

Favourite Performance: Raging Bull (1980)

16. Henry Fonda

Favourite Performance: 12 Angry Men (1957)

17. Alec Guinness

Favourite Performance: Kind Hearts And Coronets (1949)

18. Orson Welles

Favourite Performance: Citizen Kane (1941)

19. Lawrence Olivier

Favourite Performance: Rebecca (1940)

20. Robert Mitchum

Favourite Performance: The Night Of The Hunter (1955)

21. Marilyn Monroe

Favourite Performance: Some Like It Hot (1959)

21. Dustin Hoffman

Favourite Performance: Tootsie (1982)

22. Buster Keaton

Favourite Performance: The General (1926)

23. John Wayne

Favourite Performance: The Searchers (1956)

24. Jack Nicholson

Favourite Performance: One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

25. Elizabeth Taylor

Favourite Performance: Who’s Afraid Of Virgina Woolf? (1966)

26. Barbara Stanwyck

Favourite Performance: Double Indemnity (1944)

27. Peter Sellers

Favourite Performance: Dr. Strangelove (1962)

28. Spencer Tracy

Favourite Performance: Captains Courageous (1937)

29. Clint Eastwood

Favourite Performance: The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)

30. Jack Lemmon

Favourite Performance: The Apartment (1960)

31. Faye Dunnaway

Favourite Performance: Network (1976)

32. Grace Kelly

Favourite Performance: Rear Window (1954)

33. Harrison Ford

Favourite Performance: Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)

34. Rosalind Russell

Favourite Performance: Auntie Mame (1958)

35. Gene Kelly

Favourite Performance: Singin’ In The Rain (1952)

36. Judy Garland

Favourite Performance: The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

37. Maggie Smith

Favourite Performance: Gosford Park (2001)

38. Cate Blanchett

Favourite Performance: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

39. Jeremy Irons

Favourite Performance: Reversal Of Fortune (1990)

40. Tom Hanks

Favourite Performance: Forrest Gump (1994)

41. Daniel Day Lewis

Favourite Performance: There Will Be Blood (2007)

42. Kate Winslet

Favourite Performance: Titanic (1997)

43. Leonardo Di Caprio

Favourite Performance: Titanic (1997)

44. Johnny Depp

Favourite Performance: Pirates Of The Carribean (2003)

45. Diane Keaton

Favourite Performance: Annie Hall (1977)

46. Claude Rains

Favourite Performance: Casablanca (1942)

47. Peter Ustinov

Favourite Performance: Evil Under The Sun (1978)

48. John Gielgud

Favourite Performance: Murder On The Orient Express (1974)

49. Vivien Leigh

Favourite Performance: Gone With The Wind (1939)

50. Gary Cooper

Favourite Performance: High Noon (1952)

51. Sean Connery

Favourite Performance: Marine (1964)

52. Marlene Dietrich

Favourite Performance: Touch Of Evil (1958)

53. Julia Roberts

Favourite Performance: Erin Brokovich (2000)

54. Tilda Swinton

Favourite Performance: I Am Love (2009)

55. Sean Penn

Favourite Performance: Milk (2008)

56. Bill Murray

Favourite Performance: Groundhog Day (1993)

57. Burt Lancaster

Favourite Performance: The Leopard (1963)

58. Joan Crawford

Favourite Performance: Mildred Pierce (1945)

59. Sigourney Weaver

Favourite Performance: Alien (1979)

60. Morgan Freeman

Favourite Performance: The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

61. Anthony Perkins

Favourite Performance: Psycho (1960)

62. Edward Norton

Favourite Performance: American History X (1999)

63. Ralph Finnes

Favourite Performance: Schindler’s List (1993)

64. Samuel L. Jackson

Favourite Performance: Pulp Fiction (1994)

65. Michael Caine

Favourite Performance: Children Of Men (2006)

66. Julianne Moore

Favourite Performance: Far From Heaven (2002)

67. Charles Laughton

Favourite Performance: Witness For The Prosecution (1957)

68. Jodie Foster

Favourite Performance: Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

69. James Mason

Favourite Performance: A Star Is Born (1954)

70. Robin Williams

Favourite Performance: Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

71. Julie Andrews

Favourite Performance: The Sound Of Music (1965)

72. Paul Newman

Favourite Performance: Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (1958)

73. Marcello Mastroianni

Favourite Performance: 8 1/2 (1963)

74. Clarke Gable

Favourite Performance: Gone With The Wind (1939)

75. Woody Allen

Favourite Performance: Annie Hall (1977)

76. Robert Duvall

Favourite Performance: The Godfather (1972)

77. Anthony Quinn

Favourite Performance: La Strada (1954)

78. Philip Seymour Hoffman

Favourite Performance: Capote (2005)

79. Kirk Douglas

Favourite Performance: Paths Of Glory (1957)

80. George Sanders

Favourite Performance: All About Eve (1950)

81. Denzel Washington

Favourite Performance: Training Day (2001)

82. Edward G. Robinson

Favourite Performance: Key Largo (1948)

83. Brad Pitt

Favourite Performance: Fight Club (1999)

84. Ian McKellan

Favourite Performance: The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

85. Rock Hudson

Favourite Performance: Giant (1956)

86. Judi Dench

Favourite Performance: Notes On A Scandal (2006)

87. Jeff Bridges

Favourite Performance: The Big Lebowski (1998)

88. William Holden

Favourite Performance: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

89. Colin Firth

Favourite Performance: A Single Man (2009)

90. Deborah Kerr

Favourite Performance: The King And I (1956)

91. Juliet Binoche

Favourite Performance: Three Colours: Blue (1993)

92. Marion Cotillard

Favourite Performance: La Vie En Rose (2007)

93. Vincent Price

Favourite Performance: Laura (1944)

94. Michelle Pfeiffer

Favourite Performance: Cheri (2009)

95. Glen Close

Favourite Performance: Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

96. Heath Ledger

Favourite Performance: The Dark Knight (2008)

97. Hillary Swank 

Favourite Performance: Million Dollar Baby (2004)

98. Joesph Cotton

Favourite Performance: Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)

99. Lauren Bacall

Favourite Performance: To Have, To Have Not (1944)

100. Fred Astaire

Favourite Performance: The Band Wagon (1953)