Top 10 Most Popular
Hollywood Actors
A movie star
is a celebrity who is well-known, or famous, for his or her starring, or
leading, roles in motion pictures. The term may also apply to an actor or
actress who is recognized as a marketable commodity and whose name is used to
promote a movie in trailers and posters. The most widely known, prominent or
successful actors are sometimes called “superstars” by writers and journalists.
According to an online dictionary, a movie star is an actor or actress who is
famous for playing leading roles in movies
10. Bradley Cooper
Bradley
Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor and producer. He has
been nominated for four Academy Awards, three for acting and one for producing,
and one Tony Award. He was named the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People
magazine in 2011.
Cooper
garnered three consecutive Oscar nominations from 2013 to 2015 for his roles in
the romantic comedy Silver Linings Playbook (2012), the comedy-drama American
Hustle (2013), and the biographical war drama American Sniper (2014). For
producing American Sniper, Cooper also received an Academy Award for Best
Picture nomination. For starring in the 2014 Broadway revival of the play The
Elephant Man, Cooper garnered a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination.
MOVIE - ALOHA 2015
09. Chris Pratt
Christopher
Michael "Chris" Pratt (born June 21, 1979)[1] is an American actor.
Pratt first became known for his television roles, such as Bright Abbott in
Everwood (2002–2006) and Andy Dwyer in Parks and Recreation (2009–2015). His
film career began with supporting roles in films such as Wanted (2008), Bride
Wars (2009), Jennifer's Body (2009), Moneyball (2011), What's Your Number?
(2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Movie 43
(2012), Delivery Man (2013), and Her (2013).
Pratt
achieved leading man status by voicing Emmet Brickowski in The Lego Movie
(2014) and playing Peter Quill / Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014),
both blockbuster films. He will star in Jurassic World (2015), the continuation
of the popular Jurassic Park franchis
MOVIE - Jurassic World
08. Robert Pattinson
Robert
Douglas Thomas Pattinson (born 13 May 1986) is an English actor, model,
musician and producer.
Pattinson
started his film career by playing Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire, a 2005 fantasy film. He later got the leading role of vampire
Edward Cullen in the film adaptations of the Twilight novels by Stephenie
Meyer, which consisted of five films between 2008 and 2012 which grossed over
$3.3 billion in worldwide receipts
He gained
critical appreciation for his performances in David Michod's futuristic western
The Rover (2014), in Cronenberg's satire drama Maps to the Stars (2014), in
Werner Herzog's biopic film Queen of the Desert (2015) and in Anton Corbijn's
Life (2015), a drama film about Life Magazine photographer Dennis Stock and
James Dean.
MOVIES - Queen of the
Desert
Life
The
Childhood of a Leader
07. Brad Pitt
William
Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and
producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award,
and three Academy Award nominations in acting categories, and received two
further Academy Award nominations, winning one, for productions of his film
production company Plan B Entertainment.
Pitt starred
in Fury, a World War II film directed and written by David Ayer, and
co-starring Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal and Michael Pena.The film
was released on October 17, 2014.
It was
announced on 8 JUN 2015 that Pitt will star in War Machine, a satirical comedy
produced by Netflix.>http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/06/08/brad-pitt-to-star-in-netflix-original-movie-war-machine>http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/06/08/brad-pitt-to-star-in-netflix-original-movie-war-machine</ref
MOVIE - By the Sea
06. Jamie Dornan
James
"Jamie" Dornan (born 1 May 1982) is a Northern Irish actor, model,
and musician. He played Axel von Fersen in Sofia Coppola's film Marie
Antoinette, Sheriff Graham Humbert in the ABC series Once Upon a Time and
serial killer Paul Spector in the BBC Two crime drama series The Fall. He
played the titular character, Christian Grey, in the film Fifty Shades of Grey
(2015).
In February
2015 it was confirmed that Dornan has signed up for the second instalment of
the Fifty Shades film franchise – Fifty Shades Darker.
In March
2015 it was reported that the BBC drama The Fall will return for a third
series, finally revealing the fate of the serial killer played by Jamie Dornan.
MOVIES - The 9th Life of
Louis Drax
Fifty Shades of
Grey
05. Matthew McConaughey
Matthew
David McConaughey (born November 4, 1969) is an American actor and producer. He
first gained notice for his breakout role in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and
Confused (1993), and went on to appear in films such as the slasher Texas
Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), the legal thriller A Time to
Kill (1996), Steven Spielberg's historical drama Amistad (1997), the science
fiction drama Contact (1997), the comedy EDtv (1999) and the war film U-571
(2000).
McConaughey achieved much success in 2013 for
portraying a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the biographical film Dallas Buyers
Club, which earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor and Golden Globe Award
for Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. In 2014, he also starred as
Rustin Cohle in the acclaimed HBO crime anthology series True Detective, for
which he won a Critics' Choice Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy
Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
MOVIE - The Sea of Trees
04. Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise
(born Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; July 3, 1962) is an American actor and
filmmaker. Cruise has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three
Golden Globe Awards. He started his career at age 19 in the 1981 film Endless
Love. After portraying supporting roles in Taps (1981) and The Outsiders
(1983), his first leading role was in the romantic comedy Risky Business,
released in August 1983. Cruise became a full-fledged movie star after starring
as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell in the action drama Top Gun (1986). Since
1996 he has been well known for his role as secret agent Ethan Hunt in the
Mission: Impossible film series, which has a fifth film set for release in
2015.
MOVIE - Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
03. Zac Efron
Zachary
David Alexander "Zac" Efron (born October 18, 1987) is an American
actor and singer. He began acting professionally in the early 2000s, and became
known as a teen idol after his lead roles in the Disney Channel Original Movie
High School Musical, the WB series Summerland, and the 2007 film version of the
Broadway musical Hairspray. Efron has since starred in the films 17 Again, Me
and Orson Welles, Charlie St. Cloud, New Year's Eve, The Lucky One, That
Awkward Moment, Neighbors, and The Lorax.
MOVIE - We Are Your Friends
02. George Clooney
George
Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor, writer, producer,
director and activist. He has received three Golden Globe Awards for his work
as an actor and two Academy Awards, one for acting and the other for producing.
He won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Middle East thriller Syriana
(2005), and subsequently earned Best Actor nominations for the legal thriller
Michael Clayton (2007), the comedy-drama Up in the Air (2009) and the drama The
Descendants (2011). In 2013, he received the Academy Award for Best Picture for
producing the political thriller Argo, alongside Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov.
He is the only person ever to be nominated for Academy Awards in six
categories.
MOVIES - Money Monster
Tomorrowland
01. Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo
Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film
producer. He has been nominated for ten Golden Globe Awards, winning two, and
five Academy Awards.
His
portrayal of Howard Hughes in The Aviator (2004) and Jordan Belfort in The Wolf
of Wall Street (2013) won him the Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Drama
and Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, respectively. In addition to acting,
DiCaprio owns a production company named Appian Way Productions. He is also a
committed environmentalist.
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