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Adam Sandler
American actor, comedian, and producer known for broad mainstream comedies and acclaimed dramatic turns later in his career.
This page lists actors that end with R. 16 actors are detailed below. Each entry below is a doorway into a full profile — not just a name on a list.
List of Actors That End With R
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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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Burt Lancaster
American actor and producer of the classical Hollywood era, Academy Award winner whose career spanned forty-five years.
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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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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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Gerard Butler
Scottish actor and producer known for action leads, fantasy epics, and the role of King Leonidas in 300.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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