Top 10 Best Jewish Actors
I took the Greatest Actors list and piled up the top ranked Jews.
Harrison Ford is an American actor and film producer. He gained worldwide fame for his starring roles as Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the titular character of the Indiana Jones film series. American Half-Jewish actor, born 1942, known for his performances as Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise and the title character from the Indiana Jones films
Dustin Lee Hoffman is an American actor and director with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He has been known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and vulnerable characters. American actor, born 1937, known for his role in drag from the comedy movie Tootsie, along with several dramas, and even Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda films.
Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is an English actor. He holds both British and Irish citizenship. He has won 3 Academy Awards for Best Actor for My Left Foot, There Will be Blood, and Lincoln. Irish-British actor, born 1957, most well known for his performance in There Will Be Blood
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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1965) is an American actor and producer. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a resurgence of commercial success in middle age. Like Harrison Ford, half-Jewish American actor, born 1967, well known for his portrayal of Iron Man/Tony Stark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Adam Richard Sandler is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a Saturday Night Live cast member, Sandler went on to star in many Hollywood feature films that combined have grossed over $2 billion at the box office. I took the top 10 highest rated Jews on the greatest actors list and this is one of them. God I hate some voters. Born in 1966, Sandler Well known for SNL and making some good movies back then, and some bad movies nowadays
Benjamin Edward Meara "Ben" Stiller is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He is well known for his roles in various comedies including There's Something About Mary, Zoolander, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, and Tropic Thunder. Better version of Adam Sandler born in 1965, well known for his performances in several comedies
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe is an English actor who rose to prominence as the title character in the Harry Potter film series. English actor, born 1989, well known for his performance as the title character in the Harry Potter movies, based on the books by JK Rowling
Seth Aaron Rogen is a Canadian actor, filmmaker and comedian. He began his career performing stand-up comedy during his teenage years, winning the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest in 1998. While still living in his native Vancouver, he landed a supporting role in the series Freaks and Geeks. He has appeared in movies such as Paul, Knocked Up, Neighbors, This Is The End, The Kung Fu Panda Franchise, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Sausage Party and Horton Hears A Who! He's actually a very talented actor. He gave excellent performances in 'Take This Waltz' and 'The Guilt Trip'.
Emanuel Goldenberg, known professionally as Edward G. Robinson, was an American actor, born on December 12, 1893, in Romania. A popular star on stage and screen during Hollywood's Golden Age, he appeared in 40 Broadway plays and more than 100 films during a 50-year career. He is best remembered for his tough-guy roles as a gangster, starring in such films as 'Little Caesar', and 'Key Largo'. He died on January 26, 1973, at the age of 79, due to bladder cancer. ...read more. A versatile leading character actor.
Eli Herschel Wallach was an American film, television and stage actor whose career spanned more than six decades, beginning in the late 1940s.
Peter Lorre, born László Löwenstein (26 June 1904 – 23 March 1964) was an Austro-Hungarian-American actor. In Austria, he began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he had his breakthrough, first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre ...read more.
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black is an American actor, singer, musician and comedian. His acting career has been extensive, starring primarily in comedy films. Black is the lead vocalist of the comedic rock group Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with friend Kyle Gass. They have released the albums Tenacious D, The Pick of Destiny and Rize of the Fenix. American actor, born 1969, known for his comedy band Tenacious D, but also an actor known for playing very silly roles, like in School of Rock and the Kung Fu Panda movies.
Kirk Douglas (December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, filmmaker, author and centenarian. He was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry's Golden Age. After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he had his film debut in The Strange Love of ...read more.
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter. A graduate of Christ's College, Cambridge, Baron Cohen is most widely known for creating and playing five fictional characters: Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard, Admiral General Aladeen and Nobby Butcher.
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, professional racing driver and team owner, environmentalist, activist and philanthropist.
Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 - 24 July 1980) was an English actor and comedian. He first came to prominence performing in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series.
One of the best actors in 'Friends' (It takes a lot of talent for a kind and generous man like Schwimmer to play a jerk like Ross Geller) and he gave a great performance as Robert Kardashian in 'The People vs. OJ Simpson'.
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum is an American actor and musician. He has starred in some of the highest-grossing films of his era, Jurassic Park and Independence Day, as well as their respective sequels, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Independence Day: Resurgence.
Yes, Leslie Howard, known for playing whitebread gentlemen, was Jewish.
Jerome Silberman, known professionally as Gene Wilder, is an American stage and screen comic actor, screenwriter, and author. Wilder began his career on stage, and made his screen debut in the TV-series Armstrong Circle Theatre in 1962. On August 28th 2016, Wilder died due to complications with Alzheimer's ...read more.
Julius Henry Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977), known professionally as Groucho Marx, was an American comedian, film and television star. He was known as a master of quick wit and is widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden ...read more.
Arthur Marx, born Adolph Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964), known professionally as Harpo Marx, was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. ...read more.
Jacob Benjamin "Jake" Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980) is an American actor, known for his work in films like "Donnie Darko", "Brokeback Mountain", "Prisoners" and "Nightcrawler". He is the son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner. Jake and his sister Maggie have been acting since childhood. American actor, born 1980, well known as one of the most talented actors of our generation, who gained fame from the film Donnie Darko.
Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor, voice actor, DJ, and producer. He is best known for his role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's epic film trilogy The Lord of the Rings. American actor, born 1981, well known for his role as Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings films