The famous magazine of the world film “Umpire” has released the list of 50 greatest actors of the world.
Shahrukh Khan is the only one from India who has been selected in the list prepared for the February edition of the magazine.
The magazine writes, ‘If there are films, there are actors. To be the greatest actor in the world is to be able to be many things.
The first place in the list is Hollywood actor Denzel Washington.
Here is the list of the top 50 Greatest Actors in the World:
1. Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been described as an actor who reconfigured “the concept of classic movie stardom”.
2. Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Hanks’ films have grossed more than $4.9 billion in North America and more than $9.96 billion worldwide, making him the fourth-highest-grossing actor in North America.
3. Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe ( born Norma Jeane Mortenson; June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress.
4. Robert De Niro
Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. ( Italian: born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation.
5. Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth “Bette” Davis ( April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress with a career spanning more than 50 years and 100 acting credits.
6. Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag, June 9, 1981) is an Israeli-born American actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards.
7. Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and retired novelist. In a career that has spanned more than six decades, Hackman has won two Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, one Screen Actors Guild Award, two BAFTAs and one Silver Bear.
8. Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor and music video director. After playing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career further.
9. Catherine Hepbane
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress in film, stage, and television. Her career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned over 60 years.
10. Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), known professionally as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and producer. One of the world’s highest paid actors, he has received various accolades.
11. Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio ( born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. Known for his work as a leading man in biopics and period films, he is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award a British Academy Film Award and three Golden Globe Awards.
12. Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Film Award and a British Academy Film Award.
13. Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and producer who holds both American and Gabonese citizenship. He is also known as Nick Fury in hollywood.
14. Toshiro Muffine
Toshiro Mifune ( Mifune Toshirō, April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 150 feature films.
15. Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. Born into the Coppola family.
16. Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart ( December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957), nicknamed Bogie, was an American film and stage actor.
17. Viola Davis
Viola Davis ( born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of Various accolades.
18. Cate Blanchett
Catherine Elise Blanchett ( born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor. Regarded as one of the finest performers of her generation, she is known for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage.
19. Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century, he received numerous accolades throughout his career
20. Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor. After an early career on the stage, Guinness was featured in several of the Ealing comedies.
21. Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor. Known for his distinctive Cokney. accent,[2] he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades.
22. Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, (born 6 August 1962) is a Malaysian actress. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early Hong Kong films, she rose to fame in the 1990s after starring in a series of Hong Kong action films where she performed her own stunts.
23. Tom Hardy
Edward Thomas “Tom” Hardy (born 15 September 1977) is an English actor. After studying acting at the Drama Centre London, he made his film debut in Ridley Scott‘s Black Hawk Down (2001). He is also known as Venom now a days.
24. Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona.
25. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014) was an American actor. Known for his distinctive supporting and character roles typically lowlifes, eccentrics, underdogs, and misfits he acted in many films and theatrical productions, including leading roles, from the early 1990s until his death in 2014.
26. Jack Nicholson
John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. In many of his films, he played rebels against the social structure.
27. Meryl Streep
Mary Louise “Meryl” Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. Often described as “the best actress of her generation”, Streep is particularly known for her versatility and accent adaptability.
28. Kristine Bell
Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. Beginning her acting career by starring in stage productions while attending the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
29. Michelle Williams
Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress. Known for primarily starring in small-scale independent films with dark or tragic themes, she is the recipient of various accolades.
30. Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. One of Britain’s most recognisable and prolific actors, he is known for his performances on the screen and stage.
31. Gary Oldman
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades.
32. Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh ( born 3 January 1996) is an English actress. She made her acting debut in 2014 in the drama film The Falling.
33. Sidney Poitier
Sydney Tamiia Poitier is an American television and film actress.
34. Julian Moore
Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films.
35. Shah Rukh Khan
Shah Rukh Khan ( born 2 November 1965), also known by the initialism SRK, is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who works in Hindi films.
36. Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”.
37. Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron (born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer.
38. Laurence Oliver
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier ( 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor and director.
39. Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films and particularly period dramas, and for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women.
40. Penelope Cruz
Penélope Cruz Sánchez ( born 28 April 1974) is a Spanish actress. Known for her roles in films of several genres, particularly those in the Spanish language.
41. Al Pacino
Alfredo James Pacino ( born April 25, 1940) is an American actor. Considered one of the most influential actors of the 20th century.
42. Frances McDermand
Frances Louise McDormand (born Cynthia Ann Smith; June 23, 1957) is an American actress and producer. Throughout her career spanning over four decades.
43. Joaquin Phoenix
oaquin Rafael Phoenix ( Bottom; born October 28, 1974) is an American actor. He is known for playing dark and unconventional characters in independent films.
44. Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films, television movies, and plays. With a career spanning five decades, she is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history.
45. Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman (born June 1, 1937) is an American actor, director, and narrator. He is known for his distinctive deep voice and various roles in a wide variety of film genres.
46. Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
47. Olivia Coleman
Sarah Caroline Sinclair (Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress.
48. Daniel-De-Lewis
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is an English retired actor. Often described as one of the preeminent actors of his generation.
49. James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 – July 2, 1997) was an American actor and military pilot. Known for his distinctive drawl and everyman screen persona, Stewart’s film career spanned 80 films from 1935 to 1991. With the strong morality he portrayed both on and off the screen, he epitomized the “American ideal” in the mid-twentieth century.
50. Nicole Kidman
Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an American-Australian actress and producer. Known for her work across various film and television productions from several genres, she has consistently ranked among the world’s highest-paid actresses.
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