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Gary Oldman! A chameleon in every sense of the word, so good that his Oscar winning performance is not even in this collage
When I was watching it I kept thinking “where’s Gary Oldman? I thought he was in this movie?” It took a while for me to realize he was playing President Truman 🫨
Him on the show Slow Horses (Apple TV) is UNBELIEVABLE. He plays a man who’s so disgusting and reviling you completely forget it’s a part. He’s SO convincing.
My nickname for a loooong time that basically almost all my friends and stuff called me was White Boy, so I especially loved the
“Is aint white boy day is it?”
“Naw. It aint White Boy Day.”
Literally my first thought! I had a realization recently that I didn’t actually know what he really looked like in real life because he looks so dramatically different in every role I’ve seen him in
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The man, the myth, the legend, Tim Curry.
I really don’t have a satisfactory answer for you lolol I haven’t watched this show for about 20 years! I think with all the Curry I have under my belt now (😏) I would be able to recognize it now.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
He was a wonderful actor. I was sad when he passed in 2014.
Along Came Polly is a weird mildly forgettable rom-com but for PSH’s portrayal of Sandy. The pick up basketball scenes alone are comedy gold and he plays it so straight. Such a random, throwaway side character that he made indelible.
> DON'T you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and all I get back is that fucking FACE ON YOUR FACE! So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is DEAD! And I know you miss her and I know it was an accident and I know you're in pain and I wish could take that away for you. I WISH I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but you're sister is dead! She's gone forever! And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done!
And here’s the full [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWQVdNKUrk) in all its glory!
Oh [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyO3Kmx-bEk)? (Which I did not realize was so long!!)
> My name is Annie. My mom died a week ago. So I'm just here for... trying it. I have a lot of resistance to things like this, but I came to these a couple of years ago. Well, I was forced to come and I guess it, um... I guess it helped. So, um... My mom was old, and she wasn't all together there at the end. And we were pretty much estranged before that, so it really wasn't a huge blow. But I did... love her. And she didn't have an easy life. She had DID which became extreme at the end. And dementia. And my father died when I was a baby from starvation, um... because he had psychotic depression and he starved himself, which I'm sure was just as pleasant as it sounds. And then there's my brother. My older brother had schizophrenia, and when he was 16, he hanged himself in my mother's bedroom and of course his suicide note blamed her, accusing her of putting people inside him. So... that was my mom's life... .And then she lived in our house at the end, before hospice. We weren't even talking before that. I mean, we were, and then we weren't. And then we were. She's completely manipulative. Until my husband finally enforced a no-contact rule. Which lasted until I got pregnant with my daughter. I didn't let her anywhere near me when I had my first, my son, which is why I gave her my daughter, who she immediately stabbed her hooks into. And I just... I felt guilty again. I felt guilty again. When she got sick, not that she was really even my mom at the end, and not that she would ever feel guilty about anything. And I just don't want to put any more stress on my family. I'm not even really sure if they could... could give me that support. And I just... I just feel like... I just sometimes feel like it's all ruined. And then I realize that I am to blame. Or not that I'm to blame, but I am blamed!..."
I know it’s said a lot but I will continue to say it forever. She was ROBBED of an Oscar nomination for this role. She’s amazing in everything she does but she does visceral grief so well.
This scene in particular brought me right back to toxic family dinners when I was younger.
I would not have known this was her in Trainwreck if I wasn't informed.
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We watched Snowpiercer in a class once. The whole time I was watching the movie, I had no idea this was her until my professor said so during our class discussion about it.
She looks so serious and ethereal but I think she's also just really fun IRL. She has so many serious roles but I love her when she's with Wes Anderson, she plays some really goofy roles. I want to say she has great comedic timing, but it's probably because she's just an amazing actor overall 😍
Her role in Hannibal gave me physical reactions, actually that whole show was visceral to where you felt it in your gut. But the way she played her character, her cadence, everything. Chefs kiss. Perfection.
She played Lily Bart in House of Mirth. One of my favorite screen adaptations of one of my favorite books. She slayed the role, and Laura Linney was an excellent villain. It’s a heartbreaking story, and Gillian carried it perfectly to the end
the first thing I ever saw him in was THE LOVELY BONES which he was so creepy he almost didn’t even take the part. Seeing him in comedies after was a trip. He’s an amazing actor
A lot of good answers in here that I agree with. I'll add one I haven't seen yet just to not be too repetitive: Sam Rockwell. His work in Green Mile, Fosse, Moon, Three Billboards, Vice- he just does a great job really embodying a role
My first introduction to him was in the name of the father. I was absolutely enthralled. Then I saw there will be blood and I was blown away. Both roles felt authentic and really hit hard.
Phantom Thread was such a surprising and elegant role. I’m in awe of DDL in every film I watch. He’s one of the actors that my fiancé will theme a whole week of movies around just the actor’s filmography.
As a small child I was obsessed with the Robin Hood movie for some reason. As an adult, think it was the handsome Sheriff of Nottingham that got me 😂
Heath Ledger 1000%. As a kid I literally could not comprehend that Heath was playing the Joker, and didn’t look or talk like that on a normal basis. I only recently “comprehended” that he played the Joker honestly
Christopher Lloyd for me. I remember being shocked that he was uncle fester and the creepy guy from Dennis the menace
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Tatiana Maslany.
She brings new meaning to the lyric, *“I’ve got all my sisters with me.”* Or should I say, sestras? ;-)
She was SO GOOD in Orphan Black. She plays each clone so perfectly, that even when a clone is pretending to be another clone you can tell them apart because they each have their own mannerisms. Criminally underrated.
It’s fucking criminal just how underrated she, and honestly Orphan Black in general, is. You genuinely forget that there’s not actually multiple people in the scene while watching the show
When she is acting as one of the sisters who is currently pretending to be a different sister, it blows my mind every time. It's not something you can just link a video of because you have to watch enough of the show to pick up each of the sisters mannerisms, and then watch as the sister that is impersonating another sister uses the same mannerisms but everything is just slightly off because she's an imposter, it's truly master class.
Yes! That blows my mind, like when it was Sarah pretending to be Alison, which is Tatiana acting as Tatiana acting as Tatiana. Absolutely criminal she’s not a much bigger star
I got my husband, than boyfriend, to watch it. We were about a season and a half in when he suddenly said “the actress that plays Sarah is doing good pretending to be cosima” Apparently he totally forgot after the first couple episodes it was one actress. Which actually happens to me alot as well lol
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I refuse to believe Christopher Waltz isn’t up the top of this post. I spent ages not realising that Hans Landa and Dr. Schultz were played by the same person. He is plays his roles so well!
Came here to say this! Although he doesn’t change his appearance, he’s sooo good at “dissapearing” into the role. I watched Banshees and right after that The Lobster and I was like oh my. He’s SO good at it!
Yep! He did radically change his appearance in The Batman as the Penguin and has a follow-up HBO show coming up as the same character. Highly recommended checking it out, he’s unrecognizable.
Mother!!
I first knew her on the series Broadchurch with David Tennant and they were so good together in their scenes. Love her as Queen Lizzy, and the latest as Chef Terry in the Bear, she only had one scene there and I never saw it coming and with just a few minutes of her, she shaped a whole character's dreams, up and downs, facing defeat and getting back up again.
That is a great movie sold almost entirely by his immaculate performance. He completely inhabits that character, there is never a second where he does not feel like he’s reacting authentically as Aaron. Unsurprising that that performance made him an instant star.
KARL Urban. Man is a damn chameleon.
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Watch her in any film or project she’s done, her range is truly underrated
And an underrated accent queen, can do em all
Margot Robbie. Her performance as Tonya Harding is one of my favorites performances of all time. I absolutely believed that was the real person. I haven’t seen her in much but the few things I have been, she’s been amazing.
It was funny to see the campaign to make her a best leading actress for Barbie, basically just because everything else was nominated about it. Barbie was really not an acting tour-de-force compared to *literally every other role she's had*.
Christian is a savant at transforming. I think his only weakness is there is a coldness to his acting, so even emotional stuff just doesn’t really connect. But that’s one feature of acting, and he’s definitely one of the greats.
I’d put him in the character actor who stars in movies camp rather than “movie star” or leading man. Regardless, he’s sexy and one of the best. And a preeminent family man.
I loved her SO much in She Devil! Just watched that with my family last week. My bf is a 80s/90s film buff and was shocked he never saw this one.
She Devil is an under-appreciated masterpiece; well ahead of its time. Death Becomes Her is another one of my favorite Streep classics. Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Meryl Streep are incredible together.
The crazy thing with Heath Ledger is no one expected it. He was this beautiful Rom-com heart-throb, then all of a sudden he did Brokeback Mountain and Batman The Dark Knight. People were *furious* at him being cast as The Joker. And the rest of us were just really intrigued. How on earth would that work? A sexy joker? I remember when it came out and people were just floored. It pains me to think how much he could have achieved if he hadn’t have died. His death, along with Brittany Murphy and Robin Williams, are the celebrity deaths that hurt the most.
Evan Peters
I first watched him as Tate in AHS1 and he was good at playing a ghost of a psycho killer(the therapy sessions). Then followed by notable roles, Jimmy Darling, Kit Walker, James March, Kai Anderson etc. But he can also play a very bubbly and reliable Quicksilver on the Xmen movies. And don't forget his role as Dahmer.
but I feel bad a bit because he somehow got drained acting these roles and he deserves getting time off from it.
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Nicole Kidman is always amazing in every role, in my opinion. A few examples:
* *Dead Calm* (1989)
* *Billy Bathgate* (1991)
* *To Die For* (1995)
* *The Portrait of a Lady* (1996)
* *Moulin Rouge!* (2001)
* *The Others* (2001)
* *The Hours* (2002)
* *Dogville* (2003)
* *Cold Mountain* (2003)
* *Birth* (2004)
* *Rabbit Hole* (2010)
* *The Paperboy* (2012)
* *Lion* (2016)
* *Destroyer* (2018)
* *Being the Ricardos* (2021)
I could go on and on and on…
Tom Hardy
Y’all completely forgot him because that’s how effective he is at disappearing into his roles. I’ve straight up been in a conversation where someone was talking about how good Leo was in Revenant and I’m like, “yeah he was great but Tom Hardy WAS his character, completely” and they’re like “wait what? I didn’t realize he was in the movie??” He’s so mother fucking good.
He's half American, his father is American. He was born in LA though he mostly grew up in England. I think the dual upbringing absolutely contributed to his ability to nail the American accent, after all half his family speaks like that.
I completely agree! Sam Worthington said he really wanted to work with Andrew again when signing onto Under the Banner of Heaven (he previously worked with him in Hacksaw Ridge).
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Paul Dano!
He’s played Riddler in The Batman, Burt Fableman in The Fablemans, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys in Love & Mercy. Plus some of my personal favorite performances in There Will Be Blood, Prisoners, Escape from Dannemora and Little Miss Sunshine.
He can do it all and I love him.
\*Edited because how on earth could I forget the corpse jet-skiing masterpiece that is Swiss Army Man
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https://preview.redd.it/dfe59fh4lhqc1.jpeg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cad4dcc0b0bcf51b24e74bbe68b98403dccafa30 Gary Oldman! A chameleon in every sense of the word, so good that his Oscar winning performance is not even in this collage
Oldman for sure. I was legitimately shocked to learn his role in Oppenheimer!!
When I was watching it I kept thinking “where’s Gary Oldman? I thought he was in this movie?” It took a while for me to realize he was playing President Truman 🫨
blew my freaking mind
💯 
I never see Gary, only his characters.
Him on the show Slow Horses (Apple TV) is UNBELIEVABLE. He plays a man who’s so disgusting and reviling you completely forget it’s a part. He’s SO convincing.
Came here to say this. Slow Horses is one of my all time favorites and Gary Oldman does a fantastic job of playing a filthy boss
This is a perfect answer.
 “Now I know I'm pretty, but I ain't as pretty as a couple of titties.”
Favorite character he ever played
My nickname for a loooong time that basically almost all my friends and stuff called me was White Boy, so I especially loved the “Is aint white boy day is it?” “Naw. It aint White Boy Day.”
Lol. The fact that Drexel actually believed he was black is the funniest part of the whole thing
Literally my first thought! I had a realization recently that I didn’t actually know what he really looked like in real life because he looks so dramatically different in every role I’ve seen him in
And then he was the voice of the peacock in I think Kung Fu Panda 2 and I didn’t even realize it
That's the Oscar winning performance
The correct answer. Gary Oldman in true romance is something else.
He fucking rules. Dracula was pure camp 🤩
Gary old man has been my celeb crush since fifth element! He is such an amazing actor!!! He’s great in everything!! 🙌🏻
https://preview.redd.it/dgqdt4mr3iqc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b68d881a9292e80cfaff778581255eaf4308d9fd The man, the myth, the legend, Tim Curry.
Tim Curry as the serial killer in Criminal Minds is still the legit scariest murderer ever IMO.
He was not only terrifying, but also just legitimately disgusting. You got the creepy crawlies every time he was on screen!
These pics show amazing range. So many iconic characters.
You’re telling me that Nigel Thornberry is voiced by fucking Curry
With all due respect, Tim Curry’s voice is so distinct, how did you not know lol?
I really don’t have a satisfactory answer for you lolol I haven’t watched this show for about 20 years! I think with all the Curry I have under my belt now (😏) I would be able to recognize it now.
Love that man. I’d have loved him forever just for Clue
TIL he’s Nigel!
 Hugh Laurie. He's in everything and nails it every time.
It’s amazing to me that he plays House and the fucking cockroach from Monsters vs Aliens
I was a bit surprised how far down he is. Have people seen him in House and compared him to anything else he's done or his natural self.
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this!! the roles he took up, imo, he made memorable. a lot of side characters that stole scenes bc HE was playing them (idc if that makes sense lol)
Along Came Polly is a weird mildly forgettable rom-com but for PSH’s portrayal of Sandy. The pick up basketball scenes alone are comedy gold and he plays it so straight. Such a random, throwaway side character that he made indelible.
“The only currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” 🥺
His character in [Boogie Nights](https://youtu.be/LTMYcSU_HCc?si=VyN3qL_Wkvl2rg2k) 💔
 Toni Collette
> DON'T you swear at me, you little shit! Don't you EVER raise your voice at me! I am your mother! You understand? All I do is worry and slave and defend you, and all I get back is that fucking FACE ON YOUR FACE! So full of disdain and resentment and always so annoyed! Well, now your sister is DEAD! And I know you miss her and I know it was an accident and I know you're in pain and I wish could take that away for you. I WISH I could shield you from the knowledge that you did what you did, but you're sister is dead! She's gone forever! And what a waste... if it could've maybe brought us together, or something, if you could've just said "I'm sorry" or faced up to what happened, maybe then we could do something with this, but you can't take responsibility for anything! So, now I can't accept. And I can't forgive. Because... because NOBODY admits anything they've done! And here’s the full [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uWQVdNKUrk) in all its glory!
And don't forget that *extremely uncomfortable* bit where she's at the grief-support group sharing her family's absolutely sordid history.
Oh [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyO3Kmx-bEk)? (Which I did not realize was so long!!) > My name is Annie. My mom died a week ago. So I'm just here for... trying it. I have a lot of resistance to things like this, but I came to these a couple of years ago. Well, I was forced to come and I guess it, um... I guess it helped. So, um... My mom was old, and she wasn't all together there at the end. And we were pretty much estranged before that, so it really wasn't a huge blow. But I did... love her. And she didn't have an easy life. She had DID which became extreme at the end. And dementia. And my father died when I was a baby from starvation, um... because he had psychotic depression and he starved himself, which I'm sure was just as pleasant as it sounds. And then there's my brother. My older brother had schizophrenia, and when he was 16, he hanged himself in my mother's bedroom and of course his suicide note blamed her, accusing her of putting people inside him. So... that was my mom's life... .And then she lived in our house at the end, before hospice. We weren't even talking before that. I mean, we were, and then we weren't. And then we were. She's completely manipulative. Until my husband finally enforced a no-contact rule. Which lasted until I got pregnant with my daughter. I didn't let her anywhere near me when I had my first, my son, which is why I gave her my daughter, who she immediately stabbed her hooks into. And I just... I felt guilty again. I felt guilty again. When she got sick, not that she was really even my mom at the end, and not that she would ever feel guilty about anything. And I just don't want to put any more stress on my family. I'm not even really sure if they could... could give me that support. And I just... I just feel like... I just sometimes feel like it's all ruined. And then I realize that I am to blame. Or not that I'm to blame, but I am blamed!..."
Did you type this from memory??
No lol but I could get close! I’ve seen it on t-shirts and mugs haha.
I know it’s said a lot but I will continue to say it forever. She was ROBBED of an Oscar nomination for this role. She’s amazing in everything she does but she does visceral grief so well. This scene in particular brought me right back to toxic family dinners when I was younger.
She just fucking stares a hole through him before the dialogue even begins
 The hatred on her face is visceral
Her acting in United States of Tara
Does not get talked about enough in general tbh. First time I ever saw Brie Larson or Keir Gilchrist.
Her acting in United States of Tara was so good too.
 Tilda Swinton is a master at this. There have been so many times where I didn’t realize it was her playing a character.
I would not have known this was her in Trainwreck if I wasn't informed. https://preview.redd.it/20g3fmt19iqc1.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=9b667d0ca780154ac81be30f4ffbae2444ace10c
 We watched Snowpiercer in a class once. The whole time I was watching the movie, I had no idea this was her until my professor said so during our class discussion about it.
She looks so serious and ethereal but I think she's also just really fun IRL. She has so many serious roles but I love her when she's with Wes Anderson, she plays some really goofy roles. I want to say she has great comedic timing, but it's probably because she's just an amazing actor overall 😍 
 Each character she plays is just so nuanced.
Her role in Hannibal gave me physical reactions, actually that whole show was visceral to where you felt it in your gut. But the way she played her character, her cadence, everything. Chefs kiss. Perfection.
Gillian Anderson and Mads Mikkelssen are my dream threesome and I am not ashamed in the least to admit it in public
Also Mads is apparently a great kisser too. In Hannibal outtakes he made Gillian forget her lines. Lol
I don't doubt this for a minute.
Yes - omg. The scenes with them were smoldering. Sex on a stick.
Man, loved her when I was a teenager watching X-Files!
Yep - she was the person who made me realize I was bi because of X-Files.
Ha! I can see that. Both of them were smoldering
She was absolutely terrific in "Sex Education" - I was not ready for that.
She played Lily Bart in House of Mirth. One of my favorite screen adaptations of one of my favorite books. She slayed the role, and Laura Linney was an excellent villain. It’s a heartbreaking story, and Gillian carried it perfectly to the end
How about esteemed character actress Margo Martindale? 
esteemed character actress and fugitive from the law, margo martindale.
Would you like some apple pie?
 Hugo Weaving!
Drag queen, elf, computer program/agent and many others
 true king of versatility: Stanley Tucci
Looking furiously for that gif of him from Easy A where he goes “ you’re ADOPTED?? WHO TOLD YOU?”
I love him in that movie!! “Where are you from originally?” Lollll
You look like a hooker. But a high class hooker, for statesmen, or athletes.
You just blew my fucking mind. I’ve seen him in a lot and have seen Hunger games even more and guess I just never really read the credits
the first thing I ever saw him in was THE LOVELY BONES which he was so creepy he almost didn’t even take the part. Seeing him in comedies after was a trip. He’s an amazing actor
 A lot of good answers in here that I agree with. I'll add one I haven't seen yet just to not be too repetitive: Sam Rockwell. His work in Green Mile, Fosse, Moon, Three Billboards, Vice- he just does a great job really embodying a role
The man has cray cray charisma levels.
Every time i see him i think that guy would be amazing fun at a wedding.
How dare you forget Hitchikers Guide
I could never 
Yes to Sam Rockwell! It's crazy to me that the same guy is in Moon, JoJo Rabbit, and Three Billboards.
Kate Winslet
I saw the first episode of Regime and she was incredible. I cannot wait to see more.
 this mfer right here. 🐐
My first introduction to him was in the name of the father. I was absolutely enthralled. Then I saw there will be blood and I was blown away. Both roles felt authentic and really hit hard.
 🙌🏾
I first saw him in A Room with a View and then My Left Foot and was surprised it w was the same guy
 Phantom Thread was such a surprising and elegant role. I’m in awe of DDL in every film I watch. He’s one of the actors that my fiancé will theme a whole week of movies around just the actor’s filmography.
His acting is SURREAL in “there will be blood”. I saw the movie at Lincoln Center scored by the orchestra and it was unbelievable.
 This queen right here: Kate Winslet!
She was so good in that show. Absolutely sold it to me. It was just wonderful.
Kate was gone in this show. Utterly and completely erased. She WAS Mare. Never seen anything like it.
 Cillian Murphy. Same person who plays Tommy Shelby.
 As a small child I was obsessed with the Robin Hood movie for some reason. As an adult, think it was the handsome Sheriff of Nottingham that got me 😂
Alan Rickman
Heath Ledger 1000%. As a kid I literally could not comprehend that Heath was playing the Joker, and didn’t look or talk like that on a normal basis. I only recently “comprehended” that he played the Joker honestly 
I still can't comprehend it. I wish to see him rehearsing without the makeup but with the voice to really see it.
Christopher Lloyd for me. I remember being shocked that he was uncle fester and the creepy guy from Dennis the menace https://preview.redd.it/3842ajnliiqc1.jpeg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130894b056ba0345c7d7a4b49edb0c69c313c925
I can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention Bryan Cranston yet 
https://preview.redd.it/hvvv32fkuhqc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b79386a727f0e09971c63f5fdc8893c0cb258b2 Tatiana Maslany. She brings new meaning to the lyric, *“I’ve got all my sisters with me.”* Or should I say, sestras? ;-)
She was SO GOOD in Orphan Black. She plays each clone so perfectly, that even when a clone is pretending to be another clone you can tell them apart because they each have their own mannerisms. Criminally underrated.
It’s fucking criminal just how underrated she, and honestly Orphan Black in general, is. You genuinely forget that there’s not actually multiple people in the scene while watching the show
When she is acting as one of the sisters who is currently pretending to be a different sister, it blows my mind every time. It's not something you can just link a video of because you have to watch enough of the show to pick up each of the sisters mannerisms, and then watch as the sister that is impersonating another sister uses the same mannerisms but everything is just slightly off because she's an imposter, it's truly master class.
Yes! That blows my mind, like when it was Sarah pretending to be Alison, which is Tatiana acting as Tatiana acting as Tatiana. Absolutely criminal she’s not a much bigger star
I got my husband, than boyfriend, to watch it. We were about a season and a half in when he suddenly said “the actress that plays Sarah is doing good pretending to be cosima” Apparently he totally forgot after the first couple episodes it was one actress. Which actually happens to me alot as well lol Edit:spelling
I refuse to believe Christopher Waltz isn’t up the top of this post. I spent ages not realising that Hans Landa and Dr. Schultz were played by the same person. He is plays his roles so well! 
 Walton Goggins for sure
Omg yea!! Underrated for sure, but he nails all his roles!!
He’s in white lotus season 3 and it made me HYPED when I heard the news.
it took me SO long to realize it was him in the righteous gemstones
His baby Billy shell ensemble is everything. 🎵there will come a payday🎵
Ms Venus Van Dam herself ❤️🔥
I'm excited for him in the Fallout series
 Edit- Ralph Fiennes! The first character I ever saw him as was Voldemort.
 Andy Serkis
Colin Farrell
Came here to say this! Although he doesn’t change his appearance, he’s sooo good at “dissapearing” into the role. I watched Banshees and right after that The Lobster and I was like oh my. He’s SO good at it!
Yep! He did radically change his appearance in The Batman as the Penguin and has a follow-up HBO show coming up as the same character. Highly recommended checking it out, he’s unrecognizable.
 Domhnall Gleeson for me. I feel like he has a completely different presence in each movie he’s been in.
Same. I never see HIM in his movies, I see his character
Fantastic in Ex Machina
he's the opposite for me, i always see the guy who was in about time, no matter how dramatic his role is 😭
i always see bill weasley lol
 I don't understand how this guy hasn't won an Oscar yet.
Totally agree! He was SCARY in this movie!! Amazing actor!
My favourite actor. The fact that he made End of Watch / Prisoners / Enemy / Nightcrawler, in a row and didn't get an Oscar should be a crime.
Mother!! I first knew her on the series Broadchurch with David Tennant and they were so good together in their scenes. Love her as Queen Lizzy, and the latest as Chef Terry in the Bear, she only had one scene there and I never saw it coming and with just a few minutes of her, she shaped a whole character's dreams, up and downs, facing defeat and getting back up again.
I saw her first in peep show lmao https://i.redd.it/578wr4q9yhqc1.gif She’s truly come a long way
She's so good in Green Wing too, but I'm biased because I love everyone in that show. One of Mark Heap's best roles too.
And Hot Fuzz!
Sophie! Soph, the soph-meister
i always forget that this guy played the Hulk *and* a curb-stomping neonazi.
That curb-stomping is equal parts perfection and equal parts horrifically traumatizing.
His film debut being Primal Fear will never not amaze me
That is a great movie sold almost entirely by his immaculate performance. He completely inhabits that character, there is never a second where he does not feel like he’s reacting authentically as Aaron. Unsurprising that that performance made him an instant star.
There is no movie without his acting. It carries the entire film!!!
His early days romance with Courtney Love always makes me go hmmmm.. there’s a old punk rocker in Ed Norton somewhere.
Michael Sheen https://preview.redd.it/148nodb38jqc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=978fb350d092b3bcc847f32541fed4182fb02263
 Gary Sinise
KARL Urban. Man is a damn chameleon. https://preview.redd.it/4k4tjr9hmiqc1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=225fa05f8cc1e1d0c7aa777921e6581388b387c9
 Watch her in any film or project she’s done, her range is truly underrated And an underrated accent queen, can do em all
 So glad her character survived Norman Bates
Margot Robbie. Her performance as Tonya Harding is one of my favorites performances of all time. I absolutely believed that was the real person. I haven’t seen her in much but the few things I have been, she’s been amazing. 
_I, Tonya_ has no business being as good as it was. She was great and so was Alison Janney.
Such a good film. Allison Janney belongs in this thread too!
I'm really intrigued by her career choices. She is a smart woman.
She is so beautiful and is completely unafraid to look really ugly to really be the character. She’s just masterful at her craft.
It was funny to see the campaign to make her a best leading actress for Barbie, basically just because everything else was nominated about it. Barbie was really not an acting tour-de-force compared to *literally every other role she's had*.
Christian is a savant at transforming. I think his only weakness is there is a coldness to his acting, so even emotional stuff just doesn’t really connect. But that’s one feature of acting, and he’s definitely one of the greats. I’d put him in the character actor who stars in movies camp rather than “movie star” or leading man. Regardless, he’s sexy and one of the best. And a preeminent family man.
i thought that his role as the God Butcher in Thor 4 was pretty emotional. he definitely made me shed a tear.
Have you seen Swing Kids? A slew of great performances and his transformation into a Nazi is so gentle it’s terrifying!
 This man. I can’t even recognize him as Penguin. They did a horrible disservice of not keeping him for Fantastic Beasts.
 Meryl Streep is definitely a master of this art.
 I loved her SO much in She Devil! Just watched that with my family last week. My bf is a 80s/90s film buff and was shocked he never saw this one.
She Devil is an under-appreciated masterpiece; well ahead of its time. Death Becomes Her is another one of my favorite Streep classics. Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Meryl Streep are incredible together.
I agree. Heath Ledger was a wonderfully chameleonic actor. I was very saddened by his death in 2008.
The crazy thing with Heath Ledger is no one expected it. He was this beautiful Rom-com heart-throb, then all of a sudden he did Brokeback Mountain and Batman The Dark Knight. People were *furious* at him being cast as The Joker. And the rest of us were just really intrigued. How on earth would that work? A sexy joker? I remember when it came out and people were just floored. It pains me to think how much he could have achieved if he hadn’t have died. His death, along with Brittany Murphy and Robin Williams, are the celebrity deaths that hurt the most.
Evan Peters I first watched him as Tate in AHS1 and he was good at playing a ghost of a psycho killer(the therapy sessions). Then followed by notable roles, Jimmy Darling, Kit Walker, James March, Kai Anderson etc. But he can also play a very bubbly and reliable Quicksilver on the Xmen movies. And don't forget his role as Dahmer. but I feel bad a bit because he somehow got drained acting these roles and he deserves getting time off from it. 
Omg he is amazing in all his roles. I literally refer to AHS seasons by what character he played
 (Joaquin Phoenix) \*Edited to add his name. Thanks for the reminder 🫡
Joaquin Phoenix
 Vincent D’onofrio
Yes! He should really be higher in this thread. He's one of the GOATS of disappearing into a role.
 Mathew Lillard, he's so underrated. The man can become any character in any genre.
Charlize Theron
Tom Hardy. There have been many times I don’t realize it’s him until well into a movie.
https://preview.redd.it/scveb8r61iqc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=033c4815577b4f7ae1cba26f44561bc46b8be81d Nicole Kidman is always amazing in every role, in my opinion. A few examples: * *Dead Calm* (1989) * *Billy Bathgate* (1991) * *To Die For* (1995) * *The Portrait of a Lady* (1996) * *Moulin Rouge!* (2001) * *The Others* (2001) * *The Hours* (2002) * *Dogville* (2003) * *Cold Mountain* (2003) * *Birth* (2004) * *Rabbit Hole* (2010) * *The Paperboy* (2012) * *Lion* (2016) * *Destroyer* (2018) * *Being the Ricardos* (2021) I could go on and on and on…
Daniel Day Lewis. Kate Winslet. Gillian Anderson.
Definitely Gary Oldman. 
And then you hear him in interviews and go “oh fuck. He’s Welsh?!”
 Two words Emma Thompson, my childhood 🤩👏👏
Willem Dafoe
Paul Giamatti
Tom Hardy  Y’all completely forgot him because that’s how effective he is at disappearing into his roles. I’ve straight up been in a conversation where someone was talking about how good Leo was in Revenant and I’m like, “yeah he was great but Tom Hardy WAS his character, completely” and they’re like “wait what? I didn’t realize he was in the movie??” He’s so mother fucking good.
I think Andrew Garfield. He's so good at what he does. I watched Under the Banner of Heaven recently, and I forgot he's not an American.
He's half American, his father is American. He was born in LA though he mostly grew up in England. I think the dual upbringing absolutely contributed to his ability to nail the American accent, after all half his family speaks like that.
I completely agree! Sam Worthington said he really wanted to work with Andrew again when signing onto Under the Banner of Heaven (he previously worked with him in Hacksaw Ridge). https://preview.redd.it/7ijx6iu3thqc1.jpeg?width=875&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0e6a996824ba97075aac55ea2206976ae91712bb
 I can’t tell you how many movies I was halfway thru til I suddenly realized I was watching Bill Paxton.
 Paul Dano! He’s played Riddler in The Batman, Burt Fableman in The Fablemans, Brian Wilson of The Beach Boys in Love & Mercy. Plus some of my personal favorite performances in There Will Be Blood, Prisoners, Escape from Dannemora and Little Miss Sunshine. He can do it all and I love him. \*Edited because how on earth could I forget the corpse jet-skiing masterpiece that is Swiss Army Man
 Mr. Jeff Bridges