Top 10 Action Actors
1.Leonardo DiCaprio
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo
DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a
supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3, to a major teenage heart-throb in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in movies such as Romeo + Juliet and Titanic...
2.Jason Statham
Jason Statham has done quite a lot in a
short time. He has been an Olympic Diver on the British National Diving
Team and finished 12th in the World Championships in 1992. He has also
been a fashion model, black market salesman and finally of course,
actor. He got the audition for his debut role as Bacon in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels through French Connection...
3.Brad Pitt
Brad Pitt was born in 1963 in Oklahoma and
raised in Springfield, Missouri. His mother's name is Jane Etta
Hillhouse. His father, William (Bill) Pitt, worked in management at a
trucking firm in Springfield. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug)
Pitt and a younger sister Julie Neal Pitt. At Kickapoo High School...
4.Bruce Willis
Born in Germany to parents living on a US
military base, New Jersey raised US actor and musician well known for
his film appearances as wise cracking or hard edged characters, often in
spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that
have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD placing him in the top ten
stars in terms of box office receipts...
5.Matt Damon
Matthew Paige Damon, or better known to fans as Matt Damon was born in Boston Massachusetts, USA to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, Realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige,
an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has
an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. Unfortunately for
Matt and his brother, their parents divorced in the year 1973...
6.Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg was born June
5th, 1971 in the poor working class district of Boston known as
Dorchester, the youngest of nine children. His parents were Alma &
Donald Wahlberg. The large Wahlberg brood didn't have a lot growing up,
especially after his parents divorced when he was eleven...
7.Tom Cruise
If you had told 14 year old Franciscan
seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too
distant future he would be considered one of the top 100 movie stars of
all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition
was to become a priest. Nonetheless, this sensitive...
8.Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves, whose first name means "cool
breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in
1964. His mother, Patricia Taylor,
was a showgirl; his father, Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. After
their marriage dissolved, Keanu moved with his mother and younger
sister, Kim Reeves...
9.Samuel L. Jackson
Actor, Pulp Fiction
Samuel L. Jackson usually played bad guys and drug addicts before becoming an action hero, as the character Mitch Henessey, in The Long Kiss Goodnight and in Die Hard: With a Vengeance. From character player to leading man. His performance in Pulp Fiction gave him an Oscar nomination for his character Jules Winnfield...
10.Liam Neeson
Actor, Schindler's List
Born in Northern Ireland, UK, Neeson
worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant
architect and an amateur boxer. He had originally sought a career as a
teacher by attending St. Mary's Teaching College in Belfast. However, in
1976, Neeson joined the Belfast Lyric Players' Theater and made his
professional acting debut in the play "The Risen People"...
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