Young actors/actresses that could have the most promising future 5/5

could make it

  • Craig Roberts

  • Michael B Jordan

  • Jake Short

  • Tom Holland

  • Thomas Turgoose

  • Samantha Barks

  • Isabelle Allen

  • Isabelle Furhman

  • Martin Spanjers

  • Jean-Luc Bilodeau

  • Coco Jack Gillies

  • Kiernan Shipka

  • Patrick Schwarzenegger

  • Scott Eastwood

  • Jacob Lofland

  • Carter Jenkins

  • Devon Bostick

  • Austin Butler

  • Samuel Patrick Chu

  • Jake Abel

  • Lukas Cruikshank

  • Trevor Morgan

  • Charlie Rowe

  • Tom Sturridge

  • Ryan Kelley

  • Carly Schroeder

  • Nick Robinson

  • Angus T Jones

  • Ansel Elgort

  • Aaron Refvem

  • Callan McAuliffe

  • Israel Broussard

  • Taissa Farmiga

  • Brenton Thwaites

  • Robbie Kay

  • John Bell

  • Aneurin Barnard

  • Ellar Coltrane

  • Keir Gilchrist

  • Gal Gadot


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Last ordinary poll.

And I want to say something to the people in the poll:

Do your best! Be good! Behave!
Treat your fans with respect, but also journalists and photographers. Don't be difficult to interview unless you have become so big that it doesn't matter anymore.
Don't play the same type of character all the time. Granted, you can play a troubled kid a couple of times but don't build your whole career on that (like the late Brad Renfro). More lightweight stuff is needed from time to time. It's extremely important that you switch between genres such as comedy, drama, thriller, action, war, adventure, horror, western etc. You don't need to do all of them, but try as many as possible.
If you're not a pretty boy or a beautiful girl, you need a lot of talent. It's a bonus, though, if your looks also works in your favor.

To the people here at the forum: There's a difference between those who WILL become big and those who COULD. The latter people have a lot of potential, some of them are just as good as the former, but in most cases they can't keep up with how things function in Hollywood and after some years they tend to be overlooked when the studios have found a new golden boy/girl a.k.a. flavor of the month.
 
Really, the only ones I know enough about on this list are Taissa Farmiga and Gal Gadot, both promising young actresses.

I have to laugh seeing Angus T. Jones on the list. Out of all the names on the 5 lists combined he is probably the least likely to have a long successful career in Hollywood. He pretty much torpedoed his career in spectacular, and public, fashion.
 
I would rather have neither. You did add Angus for laughs, right? Because his career is pretty much dead and yet..he's on the list.
 
Read my original post about the difference between "will" and "could". :)
 
Similar situation for me too. A very big majority of those people I've never heard of or can't remember hearing about them if I did.

Should Jordan and Gadot be on this list? Everyone else seems to be in the playing teens part of their careers.
 
Read my original post about the difference between "will" and "could". :)

How about won't? He is on the list because of a technicality because he's a young actor, not because of his career trajectory as a promising star.
 
Hard to predict the future with these names. The people on the list are mostly anonymous guys and gals who only enjoyed 15 minutes of fame. Maybe not even that much.
But there are some that stand out, either because of talent OR a lot of exposure.
My votes go to: Michael B Jordan, Jake Abel, Tom Sturridge, Ansel Elgort, Brenton Thwaites, Gal Gadot
 
I had to do a search on about 99% of people on the poll because I don't know jack who they are.

Wonder why Shailene Woodley isn't on the poll, she seems promising but she needs more break out roles to make it on the A-list.

Of those I have seen maybe Gal Gadot could be a household name if her Wonder Woman interpretation is memorable but I see her doing romcoms in the future.

Michael B. Jordan is pretty hot right now, if he chooses his projects carefully he might become another Denzel Washington or if not then maybe another Cuba Gooding Jr.

As for the rest I fear they will get lost and forgotten within the next couple of years.
 
Craig Roberts was great in underrated coming of age movie Submarine. Roberts is becoming the go to creepy nerdy kid going by Skins and Neighbours.

Tom Sturridge has been a guy who has been on the verge of breaking out but it has never really happened. Sturridge stage work has been acclaimed but his films have not really been successful. His big break as the lead in Jumper was squashed when he got replaced two months before production on the film Jumper by Hayden Christensen because the studio got nervous about casting a relative unknown in a multimillion dollar possible franchise movie.
 
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Don't know any of those names except for Michael B Jordan and Gal Gadot.

How about Logan Lerman? He seems like he could have a promising career ahead of him. Also Dylan Minnette, who played Jack's son on Lost and has been pretty good in the movies I've seen him in.
 
Logan Lerman has also been in a poll before.

But to the people who claim they haven't heard any of the names. Have you been living under a rock? Ansel Elgort is appearing in several recent films and he's all over the place. Many of the others have also played in films that have got media coverage, like John Bell (Wrath of the Titans, Desolation of Smaug)
 
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Michael B Jordan has potential. Dot. Know the rest besides Gal Gadot. I have serious sounds about her , but it will be interesting to see if her Wonder Woman takes off.
 
Logan Lerman has also been in a poll before.

But to the people who claim they haven't heard any of the names. Have you been living under a rock? Ansel Elgort is appearing in several recent films and he's all over the place. Many of the others have also played in films that have got media coverage, like John Bell (Wrath of the Titans, Desolation of Smaug)
I don't think its a matter of living under a rock is the issue, the truth is that there are new crops of actors/actresses trying to break into the spotlight every 5 years it seems that its hard for them to stand out and get noticed.

A good example is despite shows like The Walking Dead, Game Of Thrones, Orange Is The New Black being monster hits none but maybe a handful of the actors are household names yet.
 
I know enough about on this list are Taissa Farmiga and Gal Gadot, both promising young actresses.
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Some of these actors might be in some decent movies but when will there be another Deniro, Al Pacino, Nicholson, or Tom Hanks?
 
It's too soon to tell for any of these people
 
Former Skins actor Jack O'Connell seems to be gathering hype as the next big thing after winning rave reviews for his films Starred Up, 71 and the upcoming Angelina Jolie directed film Unbroken.

Starred up trailer
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71 trailer
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Unbroken trailer
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O'Connell has been in films This Is England, Eden Lake, Harry Brown, 300: Rise of an Empire and Tower Block.
 
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