Chi are the more talented and loved American actors of all time? Despite the exorbitant number of impromptu research and rankings from social networks, deciding which US interpreters are among the most appreciated is a difficult company. From silent cinema to the birth of the Star Systemfrom the golden age of Hollywood to the present day, The world has always loved star like Clark Gable O Humphrey Bogart. And he is ready to fall in love – if not already fully cooked – of faces and talents of the new generations such as Timothée Chalamet and Jeremy Allen White.
Male American actors: the most famous of yesterday and today
If in 1929 the Austrian Jannnings, the first leading actor Oscar, winned the first Oscar of actor, The world of cinema is dotted with legends Made in America. For example, as forget the Rat packthe playful nickname given by Lauren Bacall a Spencer Tracy, Frank SinatraDean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., a group of actors who have recorded deeply in the imagination of the show.
Famous American actors: Gene Hackman and Robert Redford
Their excellent children? Names like Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, Robert Duvall. American actors who came to glory both for the undoubted recitative qualities and for their socio -political commitment. Despite being a step back from them, Gene Hackman deserves as much fame.
An interpreter capable of acting with the same conviction in thriller as The violent arm of the law or in a dramatic author film as The conversation of Coppola. With incursions in the class comedy of Frankenstein Junior and in the cinema of superheroes with Superman. And then collaborations with younger directors such as in Teenbaum by Wes Anderson. The actor, who has just turned 95, He decided to retire in 2004.
Robert Redford Perhaps he cannot approach the innate technique and talent of illustrious colleagues such as the triad Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Nevertheless It embodies, most of all, the beauty, talent and commitment of Hollywood author cinema. Incredibly romantic in As we were, Barefoot in the park And My Africa. And busy politically in All the men of the President, The three days of the Condor, the candidate.
One Oscar, the career one, flanked by a flattering statuette for Ordinaryhis first director’s film. Last but not least, the commitment for independent cinema with the foundation of the Sundance Film Festival, who baptized a significant number of first works intended for success.
Robert Redford in the 70s. (IPA)
Current American actors
Willem Dafoe, American actor with Italian citizenshipmarried to director Giada Colagrande, lives between Rome and New York. With 4 Oscars candidates in active but no victory, It is known for its eclecticism. From the role of Goblin in Spider-man to the tormented Jesus of The last temptation of Christ by Martin Scorsese, His face and talent always leave the mark. He is one of the fetish actors of Abel Ferrara and Wes Anderson.
Matthew McConaughey, born in 1969, ideally embodies the figure of the beautiful, blond, muscular American actor and Prestente. Only in recent years he managed to free himself from his attractiveness thanks to the role as protagonist in the dramatic Dallas Buyers Club by Jean-Marc Vallée. Although in the role of a HIV -positive cowboy he won an Oscar, to convince really everyone is interpretation master of the policeman Rustin Cohle in the series True Detective.
Matthew McConaughey in 2016. (Getty Images)
American color actors, Denzel Washington
After Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington is the symbol and lighthouse for entire generations of African American actors. One of the few, together with Eddie Murphy, capable of bringing spectators to the cinema with the only strength of his name. A rare and appreciable quality especially for those who have always had to fight against interracial stereotypes.
Although he has 10 Oscar nominations, he won with two films – Glory And Training day – who did not do it justice. Despite many nineties blockbusters, The role of his life is that of Malcom X In the Spike Lee film of the same name.
Jamie Foxx’s career alternates successes to moments of great difficulty. With the biopic Raywhere it gives life to a perfect Ray Charles, in 2005 He receives a well -deserved Oscar. For Quentin Tarantino it is a perfect rebellious and vindictive slave in Django Unchained. In 2023 he ends up in a coma due to a non -diagnosed strokefollowed by a long rehabilitation. The return to the cinema, with great style, is next to Cameron Diaz in the Netflix movie Back in action.
Denzel Washington. (Jeffrey Mayer/Wireimage)
Robert Downey Jr. and Adrien Brody
Robert Downey Jr. has lived many lives in one. At 27, his first nomination For the magnificent interpretation of Charlie Chaplin in Charlot (1993). Then a sudden setback due to the dependencies from alcohol and drugs. The real rebirth arrives first With the role of the billionaire Tony Starck in the saga Iron Man of Marvel.
Then in the brilliant vintage clothes of Sherlock Holmes Next to the British Jude Law. His golden age does not mention the set: In 2024 he was nominated for best assets for the cult Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan.
Equipped with unconventional beautylover of difficult roles that he prepares with obsessive attention, Adrien Brody never ends up surprising. His indisputable talent finds a large number of directors willing to do anything to work with him.
The first Oscar he arrives For The pianist by Roman Polanski, Taken from the autobiographical novel by Władysław Szpilman. For The brutalist by Brady Corbetis an architect who survived the concentration camps. A complex character, between genius and self -destruction, that He could bring him a second statuette on the Night of the Oscars 2025.
Edward Norton and Joaquin Phoenix
In the eighties, a small circle of young stars like Rob Lowe, Kevin Bacon, Tom Cruise and Demi Moore you jokingly self -proclaimed Brat Pack. To follow them closely, In the nineties, they thought about it Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Steve Carell and the brothers Owen and Luke Wilson with i Frat pack.
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon And Ben Affleck conclude the circle of the millennium with excellent movies and sidereal proceeds. Neverthelessat the center of these faint artistic currents There is the much talented Edward Norton. Impossible not to love him. His debut as a co-protagonist in Chips of fear Next to Richard Gere made it known to the general public.
Edward Norton, American star and actor. (Kikapress)
Norton He has the rare ability to embody, at the same time, both the good boy and the brutal psychopath. Her artistic partnership with Wes Anderson lasting, with which a prolific collaboration continues. To leave the mark are his interpretations in radical films such as American History X And Fight Club. It also stands out in brilliant roles like the grotesque Birdman of Inarritu but is unsurpassed in the role of the Monty drug dealer in The 25th hour by Spike Lee.
Artistically born in the shade of his brother, the late River Phoenix, Joaquin Phoenix soon became one of the most loved actors of his generation. Shady and shy personality, he conquered everyone in role of life, that of Arthur Fleck in Joker by Todd Philips, who made him win a well -deserved Oscar for best leading actor.
Beautiful American actors: Johnny Deep
That of Johnny Depp It is a complex personality whose lasting success has been blurred, in recent years, by not a few judicial troubles. The difficult divorce from Amber Heard and a media process to the limit of the grotesque, however, did not delete the affection of his fans. A talent recognized even by the greatest of the actors, Marlon Brandowith whom he shared the set and a paternal friendship.
Unforgettable in Edward of scissors, wonderful in And Woodromantic gypsy in Chocolat, In each role it touches perfection. The expected return to the big screen is with the British director Terry Gilliam, with which he had already worked for Fear and delirium in Las Vegas. Depp He will be the devil himself.
From the explosive success of Titanic to Oscar for The Revenant – the first after an infinite number of nominations – Leonardo DiCaprio is divided between films directed by Martin Scorsese, girlfriends under 30 and his well -known commitment as an environmental activist. There is also the parallel profession of manufacturer. Among his latest projects, a full -action thriller set in Hawaii With Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.
Youth American actors, Timothée Chalamet
More than actor, a real star. The success of Timothée Chalamet, between millions of admirers and a dense agenda until the next millennium, He approaches irresistiblely to that of his older brother (and almost father) Leonardo DiCaprio. It is not only his contemporary beauty that conquers but his undoubted skill.
From the Exploit in Call me by your name directed by Luca Guadagnino to the legendary sequel to DuneChalamet is perfect in every role. The most explosive one, in the role of the minstrel Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown (James Mangold), he could bring him his first Oscar.
Jeremy Allen White has in common with Chalamet the fame of beauty of cinema And the role of a musical legend. In the biopic Deliver me from Nowhere by Scott Cooper And The great American singer -songwriter Bruce Springsteen. After being noticed in the long -lived series Shameless, He convinced everyone like Carmic Berzatto in The Bear.
His abdominals carved in Calvin Klein’s advertising did the rest. Although it does not yet have an Oscar nomination yet or films of immense success, for this talented actor It’s just a matter of time.
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