5-syllable Actors

List of 5-syllable Actors

1

Anthony Hopkins

Welsh actor celebrated for stage and screen, two-time Academy Award winner best known as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

2

Chadwick Boseman

American actor best known as T'Challa in Marvel's Black Panther and for biographical leads as Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall.

3

Daniel Day-Lewis

English actor regarded as among the finest of his generation, three-time Academy Award winner for Best Actor across My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.

4

Denzel Washington

American actor, director, and producer, two-time Academy Award winner across acting categories and one of the foremost dramatic leads of his generation.

5

George Clooney

American actor, director, and producer, Academy Award winner for Syriana and Argo, with a long-running career in television and film.

6

Ian McKellen

English actor of stage and screen, six-decade career across Shakespeare on stage and lead franchise work as Gandalf and Magneto.

7

Jeremy Irons

English actor known for stage classics, prestige film leads, and his Academy Award-winning portrayal of Claus von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune.

8

Michael Fassbender

Irish-German actor known for dramatic and franchise leads including 12 Years a Slave, Shame, and the prequel X-Men films.

9

Naseeruddin Shah

Indian actor of stage, parallel cinema, and mainstream Hindi film, recipient of the Padma Bhushan and four-time National Film Award winner.

10

Nathan Fillion

Canadian actor known for the cult sci-fi series Firefly, ABC's Castle and The Rookie, and Marvel and DC franchise appearances.

11

Robert De Niro

American actor and producer, two-time Academy Award winner whose collaborations with Martin Scorsese define a major strand of New Hollywood cinema.

12

Robert Downey Jr

American actor known as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Sherlock Holmes for Guy Ritchie, and Academy Award winner for Oppenheimer.

13

Robin Williams

American actor and comedian, Academy Award winner for Good Will Hunting, known for Aladdin, Dead Poets Society, and stand-up.

14

Samuel L Jackson

American actor among the highest-grossing leads in film history, known for collaborations with Quentin Tarantino and as Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

15

Sidney Poitier

Bahamian-American actor, the first Black recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actor and a defining lead of post-war American film.

16

Sylvester Stallone

American actor, screenwriter, and director known for the Rocky and Rambo franchises and as a founding lead of The Expendables.

17

Toshiro Mifune

Japanese actor regarded as one of the foremost stars of post-war cinema, lead of sixteen films directed by Akira Kurosawa.

18

Ugo Tognazzi

Italian actor of the post-war commedia all'italiana, Cannes Best Actor winner for The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man.

19

Viggo Mortensen

Danish-American actor known as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, with Academy Award nominations for Eastern Promises, Captain Fantastic, and Green Book.

20

Woody Harrelson

American actor known for Cheers, Natural Born Killers, No Country for Old Men, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

21

Xander Berkeley

American actor known for 24 as George Mason, The Walking Dead as Gregory, Air Force One, and Terminator 2 Judgment Day.

22

Xavier Samuel

Australian actor known for The Twilight Saga Eclipse, Anonymous, Adore, and Australian dramas including Love and Honor.

23

Yusuke Iseya

Japanese actor and filmmaker known for 13 Assassins, Casshern, Sweet Rain Accuracy of Death, and the Netflix prison drama First Love.

24

Zachary Quinto

American actor known as Sylar on Heroes and as Spock in the rebooted Star Trek film series.