There are many actors who aid make scientific discipline fiction and fantasy awe-inspiring , but there are some faces you see again and again . And some actor just mechanically brighten the screen whenever they seem . No matter what movie or TV show they ’re in , they make it good .
Here are 10 actors who automatically make everything better just by showing up .
methodological analysis : We came up with a moderately farsighted list of actors whom we ’ve generally liked , and taste to focus on people who ’d blown us away in several things — or especially , people who had been in bad movies or show , and made them a slight moment better . A lot of actors were disqualified because they had just not quite managed to rise above some bad cloth , once or doubly . There are also some great doer that we had to leave off , as we whittle the list down to our 10 favorite .
1 . Alan Rickman
What he ’s been in : Harry Potter , Galaxy Quest , sincerely Madly Deeply , Alice in Wonderland , Hitchhiker ’s Guide to the Galaxy , Dogma , Mesmer and A Fish Tale .
The worst matter he ’s done : Mesmer . Or if that ’s not scientific discipline fictional enough , then Hitchhiker ’s .
Why he always makes things practiced : Alan Rickman just govern . He contribute amazing character to every role , and he managed to be one of the funniest parts of Galaxy Quest , despite being fence in by a pretty great stamp . He was a huge part of lay down the dour Severus Snape lovable . And he ’s utterly dazzling in the absymal Robin Hood , as well as theonly watchable partof Mesmer .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIStTHeDJtw
2 . James McAvoy
What he ’s been in : X - man : First Class , Wanted , Arthur Christmas , Gnomeo and Juliet , The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe and Children of Dune .
The bad thing he ’s done : Gnomeo and Juliet . Or maybe Narnia .
Why he always makes thing well : Just watch him encounter a silly piping - playing faun in Narnia , with absolute full conviction and friendliness . This is the variety of role that a lot of actors stumble in . Also , McAvoy can dally a full dipshit — in Wanted and X - Men , among others — and still make the consultation link up to him . And he actually made Gnomeo a merriment movie .
3 . Callum Keith Rennie
What he ’s been in : Literally everything . Among other things : Memento , Alphas , Battlestar Galactica , Supernatural , Tin Man , Bionic Woman , Smallville , Painkiller Jane , Blade : Trinity , The Butterfly Effect , Tru Calling , Mutant X and eXistenZ.
The worst thing he ’s done : Wow . It ’s so hard to choose . Painkiller Jane , maybe ? Or no — Bionic Woman .
Why he always induce things better : He ’s been in a muckle of gravid thing , and a lot of drek . And he ’s always just altogether juicy and menacing and a little bit brainsick . you could put this guy in anything , and he ’s always nuts . Just watch this clip of him playing a totally line villain in Highlander : The Series , and he totally rock it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcjNGJeGKXA
4 . Michelle Rodriguez
What she ’s been in : Avatar , Battle : Los Angeles , Lost , SpongeBob Squarepants , Bloodrayne , Halo 2 , Resident Evil , and a ton of other things .
The worst matter she ’s done : Probably Uwe Boll ’s Bloodrayne , in which she handle to institute a playfulness swagger to a unfeignedly fearful movie .
Why she always makes thing better : Rodriguez ordinarily gets typecast as “ the tough wench ” who often gets killed off in the final reel . But she totally commits to these roles , and when she ’s in a fair cinema , she usually raises the tonus . And she often manages to convey that she ’s a smart problematic skirt , not just a regular tough doll . Plus she was the most relatable role in Avatar , and one of the best things about Lost ’s second season .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j-TK_pz1N0
5 . David Warner
What he ’s been in : Tron , Star Trek : The Next multiplication , Doctor Who : Dreamland , Hogfather , The League of Gentlemen ’s Apocalypse , Time Bandits , Cyber Wars , Cortex , Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , Battle Force : Andromeda , The Little Unicorn , Planet of the Apes , The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne , Buzz Lightyear of Star Command , Batman Beyond , The thirstiness , Men In Black : The Series , Superman , The Outer Limits , Total Recall : The Series , Spider - Man , Perversions of Science , Freakazoid ! , Beastmaster : The Eye of Braxus , Gargoyles , Iron Man , The Batman , Babylon 5 , Lois and Clark : The New Adventures of Superman , the Adventures of Brisco County Jr. , Wild Palms , Captain Planet , Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country , Twin Peaks , The Man With Two Brains , The Omen , and so much more .
The worst thing he ’s done : God , it ’s so hard to say . plausibly Cyber Wars , which is a movie that try really hard but fail . Or peradventure the Tim Burton Planet of the Apes .
Why he always make thing in force : Warner has played some of your favorite roles , and you may not even get laid it . He was Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI . He was the Cardassian who rack Picard in Star Trek : The Next Generation . He was Sark / Dillinger in Tron . He was Evil Genius in Time Bandits . He did the voice of Ra ’s Al - Ghul in several unlike DC vivify TV shows . And so on . But he ’s also been in some in truth dreadful thing , and he ’s always highly watchable , because of that ringing voice and that , that … undercurrent of pure scorn that he put into everything . Just watch the above television , fitly call “ David Warner Summons Cthulhu . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcLt1sqtBNU
6 . Edward James Olmos
What he ’s been in : Battlestar Galactica , Blade Runner , The Green Hornet , The Batman , Touched by An Angel , Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Faerie Tale Theatre
The worst thing he ’s done : Quite possibly The Green Hornet .
Why he always makes thing better : Just watch this snippet from Wolfen , a cheesy motion-picture show about killer Native American wolf spirits from 1981 — Olmos is the guy in plaid . He has the same self-worth and fervor in this purpose as he has as Admiral Adama and every other great part he ’s bring .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUvLUlzidpQ
7 . Chiwetel Ejiofor
What he ’s been in : Serenity , Children of Men , Salt and 2012
The worst thing he ’s done : 2012 .
Why he always take in thing honest : Ejiofor has only been in a handful of genre projects , compared to MVPs like Rennie and Warner , but he ’s always shove off us aside with his lovingness — and how quickly it can turn sinister and eldritch . And you bang , he has to play the “ skill consultant ” ( there should be about ten rowing of quote around that idiom ) in 2012 and he makes it work somehow , while macking on Thandie Newton . ( See time , woefully dubbed . ) Plus he goes toe - to - toe with the whole roll of Firefly and still bring off to be one of the most memorable division of Serenity .
8 . Tilda Swinton
What she ’s been in : Orlando , The Chronicles of Narnia , The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Teknolust , Constantine , Adaptation , Vanilla Sky , Possible Worlds and Conceiving Ada .
The worst affair she ’s done : Ooh . likely Constantine . Or maybe Vanilla Sky .
Why she always makes things better : Unlike some of the other actors on this list , who have been in a short ton of refutable projects , Swinton seems to nibble and choose moderately carefully — and even when she ’s in a terrible movie , she manage to be fiddle the one unearthly , oddball theatrical role in it . She ’s this variety of angelical front , even when she ’s act a scoundrel . She always finds fascinating ways to flirt with gender and identity , and to dally strong characters without you even imagine she ’s playing a strong distaff character . She brings a niggling chip of “ art movie ” to everything she ’s in .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5RoSt7aoUM
9 . Sir Ian McKellen
What he ’s been in : Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit , the ten - Men movies , The Prisoner , The Golden Compass and Doogal .
The unfit matter he ’s done : Probably X - manpower : The Last Stand . Or perchance The Prisoner .
Why he always reach things good : He ’s get down this sort of core of furor decently under his cheery exterior , that comes out when he bellows “ You shall not pass ” or reveals what drives Magneto frontward . And even when he ’s in the middle of a sodden mess of a floor like tenner - Men 3 , he still has that sardonic fire . And in The Prisoner , which wants so badly to be bass and cagey , he ’s still kind of brilliant as Two .
10 . Sigourney Weaver
What she ’s been in : She ’s the queen of science fiction , with roles including the Alien movies , Avatar , Ghostbusters , Paul , Vamps , Galaxy Quest , Wall - vitamin E , Be Kind Rewind , Futurama and Snow White : A Tale of Terror .
The worst thing she ’s done : Umm … maybe Avatar ?
Why she always make things better : She ’s just always one of the good thing about any project she ’s in . Including Avatar , where she single - handedly make a caboodle of the scenes on the human al-Qaeda fascinating just by bringing that supernumerary electric discharge to them . Her performance as Grace is one of the main reason you think in this slightly far - fetched frame-up and are capable to get vest in Jake Sully ’s journeying .
Thanks to Naamen , Claire and Annalee for brainstorming .
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