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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 20, 2017 0:06:23 GMT
Both of these actors. I love them in everything they appear in:
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Post by Viced on Oct 21, 2017 22:21:35 GMT
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Post by Drish on Oct 22, 2017 15:48:14 GMT
Kelly Macdonald
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Post by stephen on Oct 22, 2017 15:49:09 GMT
I've been thinking a lot lately of the squandered potential of Boardwalk Empire's final season, and she is one of the biggest victims of it (though not as much as Michael Stuhlbarg).
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Post by urbanpatrician on Oct 22, 2017 18:58:37 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 2, 2017 1:59:08 GMT
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Dec 30, 2017 11:13:10 GMT
CARY FREAKIN' ELWES
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Post by tastytomatoes on Jan 3, 2018 15:17:43 GMT
He was great in interstellar, especially the scene after Miller's planet. Why isn't he getting any roles?
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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Jan 4, 2018 13:31:55 GMT
James Russo Wallace Shawn Oliver Platt Ron Silver Chelcie Ross
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2018 18:42:22 GMT
I'm really enjoying exploring his filmography.
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Post by HELENA MARIA on May 27, 2018 0:28:17 GMT
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Post by MsMovieStar on May 27, 2018 0:53:49 GMT
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Post by fiosnasiob on May 27, 2018 13:21:58 GMT
I was reading the "Meryl Streep of others countries" topic and how the discussion turned about the tremendous lack of A-List Canadian actresses in Hollywood. I think Sandra Oh is Canada's finest actress and when you consider where she comes from, the fact that she's asian and not a queen of beauty, becoming such a famous and succesful, awards winner TV actress in America is a great achievement for her but talent-wise she should (have) becomes bigger, like, the first great (awards and considerations) English speaking Asian FILM actress in Hollywood. Watching younger Sandra Oh in Canadian stuffs (Double Happiness, The Diary of Evelyn Lau, Last Night...) is every bit as impressive as watching younger Cate Blanchett or (name the Hollywood actress you find to be the very best of the last 20 years), she's really superb actress with a special, mesmerizing screen presence. That being said, I think she will gets a supporting oscar nomination at some point. On films she hasn't really (got the chance to) challenge(d) herself as an actress since she becomes famous with Grey's Anatomy but she has always been a welcome presence in American movies, hopefully the right role/film will comes someday...and I think it will, her enormous talent will makes the rest. I will start Killing Eve soon, she's apparently brillant in it, which isn't surprising.
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Post by mrimpossible on May 27, 2018 21:08:52 GMT
For me it has to be Gwyneth Paltrow. She gets hate because of her antics which I think is undeserved but she is undeniably talented. She has great performances under her belt like Shakespeare in Love, Emma, The Royal Tenenbaums, Two Lovers, etc. Even in bad movies she at least watchable in them.
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Post by stabcaesar on May 28, 2018 5:44:55 GMT
For me it has to be Gwyneth Paltrow. She gets hate because of her antics which I think is undeserved but she is undeniably talented. She has great performances under her belt like Shakespeare in Love, Emma, The Royal Tenenbaums, Two Lovers, etc. Even in bad movies she at least watchable in them. +1 on Paltrow. People don’t know how good she could be. Margot Tenenbaum is iconic af and she was wonderful in Hard Eight and Se7en as well.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 26, 2019 11:48:03 GMT
I realised we had plenty of threads and discussions about the more celebrated and elite performers of screen and stage, but I thought it might make a nice change of pace to talk about actors that are good or you enjoy that don't neccesarily get that type of elite status thrust upon them. In effect, they (male or female) can be considered or regarded as journeymen actors. They may have seen high levels of success (ie leading their own TV shows or major film/stage roles), they may even have won a few awards and gotten nominations in their careers, but are rarely fervently discussed on boards like this or in "greatest actor of their generation" discussions. And many of them are far better or talented than the "journeyman" label might actually imply. I'll kick it off with someone I've admired, particularly for one wonderful performance he gave across several seasons of a classic sci-fi show. Scott Bakula
I'll always rate this guy for his work on Quantum Leap, a fantastically imaginative time-travel show that ran from 1989 to 1993. A stage trained actor who made his Broadway debut playing baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, Bakula's career though successful, particularly in television (he did a 4 year stint as Captain Jonathan Archer on TV's Star Trek: Enterprise ). But his career has been fully defined (and perhaps overshadowed) by his role as Dr Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap (for which he received a Golden Globe and a couple of Emmy nominations). As Beckett, Bakula is a time-traveller who "leaps" into the bodies of different people across time (no restrictions on age, race or gender) and has to "put something right that once went wrong". Beckett was a peach of a role for Bakula, and allowed him to play everything from physical comedy to serious dramatic pathos. His sheer all-American, mid-western likability in the role made him comparable to someone like Tom Hanks, and perhaps he might have had a career like Hanks if he hadn't end up being perceived as more of a small screen actor than a potential movie star. Bakula had an incredible chemistry on the show with Dean Stockwell, who played his holographic guide Al, on his time travel journeys. I've seen Bakula in several things since Quantum Leap, and while he remains a fine and likable jobbing actor, he's never for me recaptured the magic of his performance as Sam Beckett on Quantum Leap.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2019 12:01:19 GMT
From our previous thread "Underrated "great talents" who deserve more acclaim" - which may have some ideas for people, I've recopied this one of mine: I'll mention Dylan Baker who is in the soon to be TV show The Hunt a guy who always seems to give great thought and care to everything he does - most memorably as the pedophile in Happiness but he has a huge filmography and TV work too, to some acclaim but not that I think matches his creativity and professionalism. He's always memorable to me anyway no matter how major or small the role - he takes it on and carves a fascinating niche. He's particularly great at how he's reading text and he's a sort of master at shifty-eyed uncomfortable dread. In a way he reminds me a bit of Richard Jenkins - as a guy who has been around a lot, and did lots of good work that eventually paid off with really good roles (and awards).
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Jun 26, 2019 12:01:27 GMT
I've always felt this way about Fred Ward. He has in innate ability just slip into all these normal, and often rather likeable roles. He is never less than reliable and often very good, whatever the quality of the project he's is in, which is often not great.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 26, 2019 12:06:49 GMT
I've always felt this way about Fred Ward. He has in innate ability just slip into all these normal, and often rather likeable roles. He is never less than reliable and often very good, whatever the quality of the project he's is in, which is often not great.
Good choice. I suspect his "unsung" nature may be down to his typecasting. He's always asked to play these gruff, salt of the earth characters. Danny Trejo and perhaps Michael Madsen fall into being cast into narrow types as well.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2019 12:17:40 GMT
I've always felt this way about Fred Ward. He has in innate ability just slip into all these normal, and often rather likeable roles. He is never less than reliable and often very good, whatever the quality of the project he's is in, which is often not great.
I love Fred Ward and there was a time when he looked like he may become a quirky star too - the awesome Miami Blues and stuff like that. He's the lead in a film I love the idea for HBO - Cast A Deadly Spell - a satanic detective story which I think Hollywood never gets right but should be a slam dunk - (they get some of it a little right, (Fallen) or even better than that (Angel Heart) or even better than that even (John Carpenter's great idea Cigarette Burns) but never 100% totally right. That HBO one was kind of close but too many special effects and comedy but it had the right idea otherwise and Ward was great in that. At one point he almost looked like he was this generations equal to the God of unsung actors although he transcended that............Warren Oates who if he is anywhere near your movie automatically made it better.
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Post by pupdurcs on Jun 26, 2019 12:41:48 GMT
Okay, my next "unsung actor" is: Morris ChestnutChestnut got his breakthrough role almost as soon as he started acting, playing the tragic Ricky Baker in 1990's classic Boyz In The Hood (directed by the late John Singleton). A key role, though somewhat overshadowed by the performances of Laurence Fishburne, Ice Cube and Cuba Gooding jr. But that role was clearly the gift that kept on giving, as Chestnut has seemingly never been out of work since. The guy went to the gym, shaved his head, got a smooth goatee and for years managed to corner the market as the middle class African-American sex symbol of choice for films directly aimed at the black market. So movies like The Best Man, The Brothers & Two Can Play That Game. A sturdy, reliable leading man able to traverse many genres, Chestnut has generally applied the "golden age movie star" credo to his career. Rarely one to significantly alter his appearance or how he presents himself, he manages to coast from project to project on film and TV with the ease of a black (if B-list) Cary Grant, which may actually be what he is, though he'll never attain that type of kudos. But the guy stays working, and is never out of a leading man gig for pilot season, so good for him.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 26, 2019 13:34:29 GMT
If you think about it, the "type" that's hardest to make any impact in is actually the person playing the straight white female especially in supporting - that character is the definition of visual wallpaper. But Judy Greer transcended that into an almost stardom or consistent work at least - and for fans of any number of sitcoms - like an insane amount - she's f'n hilarious (I'm a fan myself of her short-lived bomb Miss Guided with Chris Parnell). She can do drama too - she's like Madeline Kahn I think in a lot of ways. I wouldn't necessarily call her unsung - she has quite a fanbase for those in the know - but relative to how many times I've loved her in stuff she is and in the general sense I don't think the average Joe knows her name.
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