- Thespis of Icaria (ca. 534 – 455 f.Kr.), krediteret som den originale sceneskuespiller.
- Richard Burbage (1567-1619)
- David Garrick (1717–1779).
- Sarah Siddons (1755–1831).
- Edmund Kean (1787–1833).
- William Charles Macready (1793-1873)
- Edwin Booth (1833-1893)
- Laurence Olivier (1907-1989)
- John Gielgud (1904-2000)
- Vivien Leigh (1913–1967).
- Marlon Brando (1924–2004).
- James Dean (1931-1955).
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011).
- Paul Newman (1925–2008).
- Robert Redford (1936–)
- Meryl Streep (1949–).
- Daniel Day-Lewis (1957–)
- Joaquin Phoenix (1974–).