100+ Favorite Actors

By: Ally the Manic Listmaker

IMDB Version of this List
Also see my list: Great Performances

Bette Davis (All About Eve) MUBI List
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) MUBI List
Isabelle Adjani (La Reine Margot) MUBI List
Irène Jacob  (Red) MUBI List | Great Article
Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.) MUBI List
Janet Gaynor (A Star Is Born) IMDB List
Charlotte Gainsbourg (Merci La Vie) MUBI List
Faye Dunaway (Bonnie & Clyde) MUBI List
Brigitte Bardot (Contempt) MUBI List
Ludivine Sagnier (8 Women)

Béatrice Dalle (À l’intérieur/Inside)
Monica Vitti  (Red Desert)
Natalie Wood (Inside Daisy Clover)
Cary Grant   (North by Northwest) MUBI List
Humphrey Bogart (Casablanca)
Dustin Hoffman  (The Graduate)
Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac)
William Holden  (Stalag 17)
Sandrine Kiberlain  (Apres vous…)
Elliott Gould (The Long Goodbye)

Marie Trintingnant  (Betty) MUBI List

Jean Seberg  (Breathless)
Naomi Watts (Mulholland Dr.)
James Mason (Bigger Than Life)
Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs)
Jean-Paul Belmondo (Classe Tous Risques)
Juliette Binoche   (Blue) MUBI List
Sandrine Bonnaire  (A Nos Amours)
Audrey Hepburn (Roman Holiday)
Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity)

Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet) MUBI List

Margit Carstensen (Fear of Fear)
Catherine Deneuve (The Young Girls of Rochefort)  
Rita Hayworth (Gilda)
Mia Farrow  (The Purple Rose of Cairo)
Jean-Louis Trintingnant (Confidentially Yours)
Daniel Auteuil (The Closet)
Isabelle Carré  (Coeurs/Private Fears in Public Places)
Joseph Cotten (Shadow of a Doubt)
Carroll Baker (Baby Doll) MUBI List

Fabrice Luchini (Intimate Strangers)

Grégori Derangère (Bon Voyage)
Corinne Marchand (Cleo From 5 to 7)
Susan Tyrrell (Fat City)
Valérie Lemercier  (Avenue Montaigne) MUBI List
Colleen Moore (Her Wild Oat)
William Powell (The Thin Man)
Charles Laughton (Witness For the Prosecution)
Robert Mitchum  (Pursued) 
Buster Keaton (Sherlock, Jr.) MUBI List

Christopher Walken (Communion)
James Woods (The Onion Field)
Fanny Ardant (Don’t Tempt Me)
Sandy Dennis (Up the Down Staircase)
Eli Wallach (The Ghost Writer)
Steve Martin  (L.A. Story)
Bill Murray   (What About Bob?)
Kristin Scott Thomas (I’ve Loved You So Long)
Carole Bouquet (That Obscure Object of Desire)
Stéphane Audran (Le Boucher)

Marie-France Pisier (Antoine et Colette) MUBI List
Peter Lorre (M)
Willem Dafoe (The Life Aquatic)
Diane Keaton   (Love and Death)
Carmen Maura (Volver)
Jean Reno (Leon)
Yvan Attal (In the Eyes of the World)
Cecile de France (Un Secret)
Léa Seydoux (La Belle Personne)
Dame Judith Anderson (And Then There Were None)

Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Patricia Clarkson (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)
James Stewart  (Vertigo)
Pascale Ogier (Le pont du Nord)
Marisa Paredes (Flower of My Secret) 
Joe Montegna (Godfather III)
Sylvie Testud (Fear and Trembling)
Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother)
Edward G. Robinson (The Red House)
Arsinee Khanjian (Adoration)

Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune) 

François Cluzet (Tell No One)
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant)
Kate Winslet (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) 
Jeanne Moreau (Jim and Jules)
Romy Schneider (The Passerby)
Shirley MacLaine (The Apartment)
Tommy Lee Jones (In the Electric Mist)
Rossy De Palma (Broken Embraces)
Maurice Bénichou (Cache) 

Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada)
Emma Thompson (Sense & Sensibility)
Jack Nicholson (As Good As It Gets) 
Sally Hawkins
Rinko Kikuchi  (Babel)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs of New York)  
Katharine Hepburn  (Bringing Up Baby)
Mary Steenburgen
Olivia Williams
Harry Dean Stanton (Paris, TX) 

  Honorable Mention:
-Aurore Clement (Lacombe, Lucien)
-Peter Coyote (Kika)
-Walter Matthau
-Jodie Foster
-Jeff Bridges
-Marlene Dietrich (The Devil is a Woman) 
-Emmanuelle Béart (Manon des Sources)
-Emily Watson (Synecdoche, NY) 
-Samantha Morton   (Sweet and Lowdown) 
-Gene Hackman (The French Connection)
-Mathilde Seigner (The Girl From Paris) 
-Carey Mulligan (An Education) 
-Veronica Lake (Sullivan’s Travels)
-Arielle Dombasle (Pauline at the Beach) 
-Fredric March (A Star is Born) 
-Richard Conte
-Jane Greer
-Javier Cámara
-Diane Kruger
-Teresa Wright
-Woody Allen
-Dianne Wiest
-Evan Rachel Wood