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Aamir Khan
Indian actor, director, and producer regarded as one of Hindi cinema's most influential figures, known for socially themed mainstream films.
Below are actors that contain the letter R anywhere in the name. Each of the 100 actors below opens to a full profile.
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List of Actors That Contain R
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Aaron Eckhart
American actor known for both leading-man and morally complex character work across thrillers, comedies, and prestige drama.
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Aaron Paul
American actor best known as Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Bad and its sequel film, a three-time Primetime Emmy winner.
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Adam Sandler
American actor, comedian, and producer known for broad mainstream comedies and acclaimed dramatic turns later in his career.
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Adrien Brody
American actor known for intense character work, the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner for The Pianist at age 29.
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Andy Garcia
Cuban-American actor known for leading roles in crime dramas, ensemble heist films, and prestige pictures across four decades.
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Antonio Banderas
Spanish actor who rose with Pedro Almodovar's films and became a Hollywood leading man in action, comedy, and animation.
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Benedict Cumberbatch
English actor known for Sherlock Holmes on BBC, Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and intense biographical leads.
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Bill Murray
American actor and comedian who rose with Saturday Night Live and built a second career as a melancholic leading man in independent film.
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Brad Pitt
American actor and producer, Academy Award winner for acting and producing, with leading roles across more than four decades.
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Brendan Fraser
Canadian-American actor who led action-adventure films in the late 1990s and 2000s and won an Academy Award for The Whale.
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Bruce Lee
Hong Kong American martial artist and actor whose films popularized Chinese martial arts cinema worldwide and inspired generations of action performers.
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Bruce Willis
American actor who became an international action star as John McClane in Die Hard and built a varied career across action, drama, and comedy.
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Burt Lancaster
American actor and producer of the classical Hollywood era, Academy Award winner whose career spanned forty-five years.
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Buster Keaton
American silent-era actor, filmmaker, and stunt performer celebrated for his stoic comic persona and elaborate physical comedy.
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Cary Grant
English-American actor of the classical Hollywood era, recognized for screwball comedy, romantic leads, and Hitchcock thrillers.
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Charlton Heston
American actor known for epic and biblical screen roles, Academy Award winner for Ben-Hur and a recurring leading man of mid-century Hollywood.
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Chris Evans
American actor best known as Steve Rogers/Captain America across the Marvel Cinematic Universe and for action and ensemble dramas.
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Christian Bale
English actor known for extreme physical transformation across roles and his portrayal of Batman in Christopher Nolan's trilogy.
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Christoph Waltz
Austrian actor and director who rose to international fame with Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, two-time Academy Award winner.
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Colin Firth
English actor known for period drama, romantic leads, and his Academy Award-winning portrayal of King George VI in The King's Speech.
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Daniel Craig
English actor who played James Bond across five Eon Productions films and led the Knives Out detective franchise.
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Ed Harris
American actor and director known for steely supporting and lead performances in dramas, thrillers, and biographies across more than four decades.
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Eddie Murphy
American comedian and actor who rose with Saturday Night Live and became one of the most bankable comedy leads of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Eddie Redmayne
English actor known for biographical leads and the title role in the Fantastic Beasts series, Academy Award winner for The Theory of Everything.
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Edward Norton
American actor and filmmaker known for intense character work in Primal Fear, American History X, Fight Club, and Birdman.
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Errol Flynn
Australian-American actor of the classical Hollywood era best known for swashbuckling adventure films at Warner Bros.
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Forest Whitaker
American actor, producer, and director, Academy Award winner for his portrayal of Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland.
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Forrest Tucker
American actor of stage and screen known for Westerns, war films, and the long-running sitcom F Troop.
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Frank Sinatra
American singer and actor whose film career included an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity and leading roles across drama and musical comedy.
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Fred Astaire
American dancer, choreographer, actor, and singer regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and television.
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Freddie Highmore
English actor known for child leads in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Finding Neverland, later in TV series Bates Motel and The Good Doctor.
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Gary Cooper
American actor of the classical Hollywood era, two-time Academy Award winner whose career bridged silent films and the early 1960s.
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Gary Oldman
English actor known for villains and historical leads, Academy Award winner for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour.
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George Clooney
American actor, director, and producer, Academy Award winner for Syriana and Argo, with a long-running career in television and film.
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Gerard Butler
Scottish actor and producer known for action leads, fantasy epics, and the role of King Leonidas in 300.
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Gregory Peck
American actor of the classical Hollywood era, Academy Award winner for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Harrison Ford
American actor whose career-defining roles include Han Solo in Star Wars and Indiana Jones across five films directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Heath Ledger
Australian actor who rose with Brokeback Mountain and won the Academy Award for his portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight.
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Henry Fonda
American actor of stage and screen whose six-decade career ranged from John Ford Westerns to On Golden Pond, his final and Oscar-winning role.
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Hugh Grant
English actor known for romantic comedies in the 1990s and 2000s and a later turn to character work in dramas and thrillers.
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Humphrey Bogart
American actor of the classical Hollywood era, defining film noir star and Academy Award winner for The African Queen.
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Idris Elba
English actor and producer known for The Wire, Luther, and lead roles in studio franchises across action, drama, and animation.
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Irrfan Khan
Indian actor of Hindi cinema and international film, acclaimed for naturalistic performances in dramas including The Lunchbox and Life of Pi.
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James Stewart
American actor of the classical Hollywood era, Academy Award winner for The Philadelphia Story and a long Frank Capra and Alfred Hitchcock collaborator.
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Jared Leto
American actor and musician, Academy Award winner for Dallas Buyers Club, and lead singer of the rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars.
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Jeff Bridges
American actor, Academy Award winner for Crazy Heart and the lead of The Big Lebowski, with a six-decade career across drama and Westerns.
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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.
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John Travolta
American actor, singer, and dancer who rose with Saturday Night Fever and revived his career with Pulp Fiction.
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Keanu Reeves
Canadian actor known for the Matrix and John Wick franchises, Speed, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Kevin Costner
American actor, director, and producer, two-time Academy Award winner for Dances with Wolves across Best Director and Best Picture.
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Kirk Douglas
American actor and producer of the classical Hollywood era known for Spartacus, Paths of Glory, and Lust for Life.
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Kit Harington
English actor best known as Jon Snow on HBO's Game of Thrones, with feature roles in Pompeii, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, and Eternals.
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Laurence Olivier
English actor, director, and producer regarded as one of the foremost Shakespearean actors of the twentieth century and Academy Award winner for Hamlet.
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Lee Marvin
American actor of the classical and New Hollywood eras, Academy Award winner for Cat Ballou and lead of war films and Westerns.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor and producer, Academy Award winner for The Revenant and long-running collaborator of Martin Scorsese.
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Mark Wahlberg
American actor, producer, and former rapper known as Marky Mark, leading roles across action, crime drama, and the Ted franchise.
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Marlon Brando
American actor regarded as among the most influential of the twentieth century, two-time Academy Award winner whose method work reshaped screen acting.
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Michael Fassbender
Irish-German actor known for dramatic and franchise leads including 12 Years a Slave, Shame, and the prequel X-Men films.
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Morgan Freeman
American actor and producer, Academy Award winner for Million Dollar Baby and one of the most recognizable narrative voices in modern film.
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Naseeruddin Shah
Indian actor of stage, parallel cinema, and mainstream Hindi film, recipient of the Padma Bhushan and four-time National Film Award winner.
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Norman Reedus
American actor and model best known as Daryl Dixon on AMC's The Walking Dead and as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints.
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Olivier Martinez
French actor known for Unfaithful, Before Night Falls, and Spanish, French, and English-language film and television work.
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Omar Sharif
Egyptian actor of international film known for Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, and Funny Girl.
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Orlando Bloom
English actor known for Legolas in The Lord of the Rings, Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean, and Carnival Row.
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Oscar Isaac
American actor of Guatemalan birth known for Inside Llewyn Davis, Ex Machina, Star Wars sequels, and Marvel's Moon Knight.
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Patrick Stewart
English actor known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on Star Trek The Next Generation and Professor X in the X-Men films, with a long Shakespearean stage career.
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Peter OToole
Irish actor known for the title role of David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia, eight-time Oscar nominee, and recipient of an Academy Honorary Award.
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Peter Sellers
English actor and comedian known for the Pink Panther series as Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Strangelove, and his work with The Goons.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish actor known for four James Bond films, Remington Steele, and Mamma Mia, with a long career across action and romantic comedy.
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Quentin Tarantino
American filmmaker and actor known for writing and directing Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds, with occasional screen acting appearances.
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Richard Burton
Welsh actor of stage and screen, seven-time Academy Award nominee known for Shakespeare, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
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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.
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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.
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Robert Redford
American actor, director, and founder of the Sundance Institute, Academy Award winner for Best Director for Ordinary People.
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Robin Williams
American actor and comedian, Academy Award winner for Good Will Hunting, known for Aladdin, Dead Poets Society, and stand-up.
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Russell Crowe
New Zealand-Australian actor, Academy Award winner for Best Actor for Gladiator and a leading dramatic and historical screen performer.
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Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor known for La La Land, Drive, The Notebook, and Barbie, with Academy Award nominations across drama, musical, and comedy.
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Ryan Reynolds
Canadian actor and producer best known as the title character in the Deadpool franchise and for romantic comedies and action films.
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Sean Connery
Scottish actor who originated the screen James Bond and won an Academy Award for The Untouchables.
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Shah Rukh Khan
Indian actor and producer of Hindi cinema, called the King of Bollywood, with one of the largest global fan bases in film.
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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.
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Steve Carell
American actor and comedian known for The Office, Anchorman, and Foxcatcher, with Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for dramatic work.
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Sylvester Stallone
American actor, screenwriter, and director known for the Rocky and Rambo franchises and as a founding lead of The Expendables.
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Tobey Maguire
American actor best known as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Sam Raimi's trilogy and for Seabiscuit, The Cider House Rules, and Brothers.
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Tom Cruise
American actor and producer known for the Mission Impossible and Top Gun franchises and as one of the highest-grossing film leads in history.
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Tom Hardy
English actor known for Bronson, Mad Max Fury Road, the Venom franchise, and collaborations with Christopher Nolan.
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Toshiro Mifune
Japanese actor regarded as one of the foremost stars of post-war cinema, lead of sixteen films directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Uday Chopra
Indian actor and producer of Hindi cinema known for the Dhoom action franchise and producing Hollywood and Indian films through Yash Raj Films.
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Ulrich Tukur
German actor of stage and screen, known internationally for The Lives of Others, Amen, and the long-running Tatort detective Felix Murot.
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Val Kilmer
American actor known for Top Gun, Heat, The Doors, Tombstone, and the title role in Batman Forever.
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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.
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Vincent Price
American actor of stage and screen known for horror and gothic film leads including The House of Wax, Witchfinder General, and the Roger Corman Poe cycle.
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Woody Harrelson
American actor known for Cheers, Natural Born Killers, No Country for Old Men, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.
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Xander Berkeley
American actor known for 24 as George Mason, The Walking Dead as Gregory, Air Force One, and Terminator 2 Judgment Day.
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Xavier Samuel
Australian actor known for The Twilight Saga Eclipse, Anonymous, Adore, and Australian dramas including Love and Honor.
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Xolo Mariduena
American actor known as Miguel Diaz on Cobra Kai and as the title role in DC's Blue Beetle.
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Yul Brynner
Russian-American actor and singer, Academy Award winner for The King and I and lead of The Magnificent Seven and The Ten Commandments.
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Zac Efron
American actor known for the High School Musical trilogy, The Greatest Showman, Baywatch, and The Iron Claw.
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Zachary Quinto
American actor known as Sylar on Heroes and as Spock in the rebooted Star Trek film series.
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