Actors Who Have Real Talent But Got Overlooked in Hollywood

[That-Guy]

Yeah, but I think Laura Liney is doing it exactly the way she wants......

Yeh, Linney may not be a big mainstream name like Julia Roberts or whatever, but she's really respected and works a LOT, just usually in smaller films. But they tend to be good ones.

 

[enterthemadness]

Casper Van Dien is to acting what Adolf Hitler is to race relations.

*shakes head*

 

[Venomfan]

ok off the top of my head lol

Alan Rickman
Willem Dafoe
Liam Neeson
Nathon Fillion
Keven Mckidd
Djimon Honsou
Ray Stevenson
Ciaran Hinds
Brenden Gleeson
Ian Mckellen
Romola Garai
Timothy Spall
Sean Bean
Michael Clarke Duncan
Angus Macfayden
Ray Winstone
Robert Downey Jr.
David Wenham
Bernard Hill
Miranda Otto
Gary Oldman
David Thewlis
Sean Astin
Ron Perlman
Jean Reno
Andy Serkis
William H Macey
Kevin Costner
Geoffrey Rush
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Chistopher Walken
Samuel L Jackson
Michael Cain
Morgan Freeman
JK Simmons
Dylan Baker
Andy Garcia
Jason Isaacs
Rufus Sewell
Ioan Gruffudd

 

[odiin]

ok off the top of my head lol

Alan Rickman
Willem Dafoe
Liam Neeson
Nathon Fillion
Keven Mckidd
Djimon Honsou
Ray Stevenson
Ciaran Hinds
Brenden Gleeson
Ian Mckellen
Romola Garai
Timothy Spall
Sean Bean
Michael Clarke Duncan
Angus Macfayden
Ray Winstone
Robert Downey Jr.
David Wenham
Bernard Hill
Miranda Otto
Gary Oldman
David Thewlis
Sean Astin
Ron Perlman
Jean Reno
Andy Serkis
William H Macey
Kevin Costner
Geoffrey Rush
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Chistopher Walken
Samuel L Jackson
Michael Cain
Morgan Freeman
JK Simmons
Dylan Baker
Andy Garcia
Jason Isaacs
Rufus Sewell
Ioan Gruffudd

Umm... What? most of these guys don't fit with this topic at all. Samuel L. Jackson is overlooked, seriously??

 

[strikezone89]

james marsden for sure

 

[Venomfan]

Umm... What? most of these guys don't fit with this topic at all. Samuel L. Jackson is overlooked, seriously??

im going by the general audience, most people have no idea what these guys names are, they just know them as "that guy thats in tons of movies" like Steve Buscemi, who i would add to my list

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

im going by the general audience, most people have no idea what these guys names are, they just know them as "that guy thats in tons of movies" like Steve Buscemi, who i would add to my list

Ummmmmm no. Most of general audience do know those people.

I mean Sam Jackson alone has been in Star Wars, Die Hard, Shaft, etc... Too many to list.

 

[KnightBat]

Elisabeth Shue

 

[luke1234]

Tim Roth and Viggo Moretensan

 

[Jspider13]

Dolph Lundgren

 

[Stryder]

Jean Claude Van Damme

 

[Abaddon]

im going by the general audience, most people have no idea what these guys names are, they just know them as "that guy thats in tons of movies" like Steve Buscemi, who i would add to my list

do you live amongst mole people? People know who Sam Jackson is.


and Morgan Freeman? are you ****ting me?

 

[Warhammer]

im going by the general audience, most people have no idea what these guys names are, they just know them as "that guy thats in tons of movies" like Steve Buscemi, who i would add to my list

Just because they aren't as universally known like Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't mean they are overlooked.

 

[mikeyh89]

Neve Campbell, for me.

 

[cryptic name]

Casper Van Dien is to acting what Adolf Hitler is to race relations.

Best.

Analogy.

Ever.

 

[Stryder]

Christopher Lambert, Rowdy Roddy Piper

 

[kronos251]

Originally Posted by Casey
I know, that one is a mystery. Maybe he was just too perfect as Luke.

Originally posted by TheVileOne
Watch THE BIG RED ONE sometime with Mark Hammill. Hammill plays a soldier under the command of LEE MARVIN.

exactamente. I could hardly believe the range he has actingwise - as Luke Skywalker, The Joker. And you mention the beleaguered WWII soldier with an M1 Garand, with a haunting expression on his face as he slowly but continually shoots the same Nazi guy in a concentration camp 20 -30 times in the head ... over a span of the entire afternoon.


Other people who deserve a lot more recognition for their work:


Madeleine Stowe - The Last of the Mohicans, Twelve Monkeys, Bad Girls

Miranda Richardson - Empire of the Sun, Fatherland, Merlin, Damage, The Crying Game

Isabella Rosellini - Death Becomes Her, Blue Velvet, Wyatt Earp

Julian Glover - Indiana Jones, Empire Strikes Back, Treasure Island
Alison Doody - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. I thought she would've had more roles after that

Nigel Havers - Dr Rawlins from Empire of the Sun; A Passage to India

 

[kronos251]

Jean Claude Van Damme

LMAO!

...

I may not agree on some of what Venomfan listed, but I think I know what he was trying to get at by Sam Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Alan Rickman, Sean Bean, etc. They weren't given due recognition, and/or only won a serious award a lifetime ago (ie. Christopher Walken won his only Oscar back in '78; his most recent nomination is for his role in that musical, Hairspray, which is pathetic.....)


...


Tim Roth, I definitely agree.
Harvey Keitel
Dougray Scott - Ripley's Game, To Kill a King
Ernie Hudson - best known in the Ghostbusters, Congo. He was also in The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, Leviathan, and The Crow.

and

Michael Keaton - He still is the definitive Batman, imo. Also in Beetlejuice, Mr. Mom, Gung Ho, Multiplicity, The Paper, Live from Baghdad, and The Company miniseries. This year he's turning 57.

Speaking of another Batman, whatever happend to this kid?

After Treasure Island, he kinda disappeared in the 90s. Now I'm glad the kid is back.
And he still deserves an Oscar...

 

[Poetic Chaos]

James Van Der Beek. Rules of Attraction was a great movie.

 

[pyromaniac]

im going by the general audience, most people have no idea what these guys names are, they just know them as "that guy thats in tons of movies" like Steve Buscemi, who i would add to my list

You miss the point of this topic, but other guys have rectified it for you.

I'd like to add that you may want to consider that some of the people who have not 'hit it big' in Hollywood haven't because they chose not to, whether it be suitability, career choice variety and etc.

So it's not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, fame and media exposure is proportional to acting talent anyway.

 

[FIREPHOENIX]

Helen Slater
Dolph Lungdren
James Marsden
Famke Jensen

 

[Bat Attack]

I was thinking possibly Sean Young? I thought she was awesome in Blade Runner, but I've honestly never seen anything else she's done (except Ace Ventura).

 

[livrule]

He should have been huge, but I don't know what happened.

Agree.

Biehn said this a few years ago in an interview ..

"I do firmly believe that I've been overlooked, especially in "Terminator." Jim Cameron was saying to me at the time, "I don't know Michael why you are not being offered more movies now. All of us expected it, you know?" But now, five or six years later, when everyone has seen the movie five or six times on video people are beginning to realize how good it was and what a good performance it was. But I have to say I don't feel shortchanged and I don't resent anything."

 

[ALP]

B****! Have a swig of my pimp juice from my golden goblet!

 

[Golgo-13]

Jim Caveziel- should have been huge after POTC.

LL Cool J - a far better rapper turned actor than Will Smith. It's just a matter of him getting the next role.

Charles S.Dutton- i love this guy. Well known in Hollywood as an actor, writer, director. i dunno, i just wish he was bigger.

Tommy Flanagan-this guy has probably been in ever badass movie i've ever seen, yet i didn't even know his name until i looked him up, LOL!