Top Ten Best Australian Actors
Hugh Michael Jackman (born October 12, 1968) is an Australian actor, producer and musician. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. Come on! He is the Wolverine himself! You should see his movies like Logan, The Prisoners, The Prestige, Les Misérables, and so many more. He is a very talented actor and puts a lot of effort into every movie or project he does.
Other than acting and good looks, he is very disciplined, friendly, caring, nice, and beloved! I think he is the sexiest among all not just because of his looks but because of who he is to other people and how he treats his fans and co-stars. Being sexy is not just about looks. He is the best! That's what made me his biggest fan.
Heath Andrew Ledger was an Australian actor and director. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger left for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. Um, seriously people, this is really, really obvious! Heath was very possibly the best actor I ever had the pleasure to witness. I think about him every day and miss him so much. He was great. I loved seeing his smile. It's such a shame that his brilliant young life was cut short.
He had such a magnificent future ahead of him. We were all blessed just to see his performances. It's such a tragedy that he's gone. Twenty-eight is far too young to die. R.I.P. Heath. I love you, man.
Won't go into detail about his best performance, but you can sum up Heath Ledger with two words: Monster's Ball. He was in that movie for five minutes and completely stole the entire film.
Geoffrey Rush is one of the finest Aussie actors to hit the screen, and his talent is displayed in films such as Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Mary and Max, and Bran Nue Dae.
Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away and as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame... read more
Catherine Élise "Cate" Blanchett is an Australian actress and theatre director. She has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work, including two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTA Awards, six AACTA Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Nicole Mary Kidman is an Australian-American actress and film producer. Kidman's breakthrough roles were in the 1989 feature film thriller Dead Calm and television thriller miniseries Bangkok Hilton.
Margot Elise Robbie is an Australian actress. Robbie started her career by appearing in Australian independent films in the late 2000s. She got her big break in 2013 with The Wolf of Wall Street, where she was acclaimed for her performance... read more
Rodney Sturt "Rod" Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor of film and television. He appeared in over 50 films, including The Catered Affair, The Time Machine, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Seven Seas to Calais, The Birds, Sunday in New York, Young Cassidy, Dark of the... read more
Toni Collette is an Australian actress and musician, known for her acting work on stage, television, and film as well as a secondary career as the lead singer of the band Toni Collette & the Finish.
How can you not love Guy Pearce? He's one of the most underrated actors out there, and I think he deserves more credibility. He's going to receive an Oscar nomination one day, I just know it. Love, love, love him!
Memento! He played his part so well in that movie!
Eric Bana is an Australian actor and comedian. He began his career in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biographical crime film Chopper.
Very talented and equally handsome, Mendelsohn is a unique and underrated actor who is, of course, a proud Aussie!
Hugo Wallace Weaving is an English-Australian film and stage actor. He is best known for playing Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy, Elrond in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, V in V for Vendetta, Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger and the father in Hacksaw Ridge. No other Australian actor has the range this guy has. Any role, any kind of film, he'll play that character to perfection. I mean, in V for Vendetta you never even see the guy, but he's phenomenal.
Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He played the role of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours and as Marcus on the children's television series The Elephant Princess.
Simon Baker is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is known for his lead roles in the CBS television series The Mentalist and The Guardian.
Must be the best living Australian actor, simply for the body of his great works since the 1970s. His acting over three decades has been honest and believable. He has played many intricate and gut-wrenching performances.
The others on your list, to a great degree, mystify me. Firstly, HEATH LEDGER as number one is ridiculous. He had three great movies, but he is dead. Where is the rest of his body of work to come from? People should get over his passing. At best, he might make it into my top 100. HUGH JACKMAN is a great actor but spends too much time in theatre to build up the body of work to be taken seriously against Bryan Brown. The rest on your top 10 list are discounted because they either have had very few top roles, are remembered for 1 or 2 performances, are method actors who put in the same basic acting every time, or are just bloody lousy. The only exception is number 6, GEOFFREY RUSH. He would be placed second on my list.
No Australian actor is better than Crocodile Dundee! Period!
Samuel Henry John Worthington is an Australian actor. He portrayed the protagonist Jake Sully in the 2009 film Avatar; Marcus Wright in Terminator Salvation; and Perseus in Clash of the Titans and its sequel, Wrath of the Titans; before transitioning to more dramatic roles, in Everest, Hacksaw Ridge,... read more This is ridiculous. Sam Worthington is a great actor. He shouldn't be number 30! He should at least be in the top ten!
He was the protagonist in Clash of the Titans! Good actor!
Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin, nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian wildlife expert, television personality, and conservationist.
Isla Lang Fisher is an Omani born Australian actress. Born to Scottish parents in Oman, she moved to Australia at age 6. She appeared on the children's adventure series Bay Cove and the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach, before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away.
Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor who achieved fame in Hollywood after 1935. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, as well as frequent partnerships with Olivia de Havilland.