What actor/ess traverses both TV and film equally well? (2 Viewers)

[Madmarsha]

also he doesn't 'quite' fit in with the OP mostly b/c he's a character actor but Giancarlo Esposito is very fluid across both media (and in and out of characters)

Oh, I think he fits, yes, but I never would have thought of him.

Laurence Fishburne is an EXCELLENT specimen. I'll never forget when I first learned he was Cowboy Curtis!

 

[Madmarsha]

Alec Baldwin
He was a major movie star and goes seamlessly between tv and major movies. He's great on SNL and was a huge part of 30 Rock's success. And he still does big movies like the Mission Impossible series.

Yes. I remember him from the Dallas spinoff Knot's Landing.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Oh, I think he fits, yes, but I never would have thought of him.

before Gus Fring became such an iconic character, he was hard to track as an actor b/c he disappeared so thoroughly into his roles

 

[Madmarsha]

seems like we have regressed to naming anyone who did film and TV .

Indeed. Seemed like a good topic at the time. Really just an exercise to tide the agonizing wait till the next game that counts while I binge watch GoT.

 

[superchuck500]

so we're talking about (good) actors we'd expect to see in a Waffle house?
with this new wave of clean living celebrities this is gonna be tough...
i'll go with Gael Garcia Bernal - maybe that's why we haven't seen much of him lately

Michael Madsen.

 

[Bishop]

Norman Reedus. My son ran into him at the Atl DMV a couple years ago, so I then assumed he wouldn't get killed off. Son asked if he was an actor. He said yeah, but declined a pic because others would bother him. My phone buzzed like 5x while I was in a meeting, and it was him going to say hi to me. Son reported that he had shades on and had gotten whiff of liquor as they chatted.

 

[49erKiller]

No love for Don Cheadle?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

No love for Don Cheadle?

I think he’s more an IHOP guy

 

[Torgo]

What about Paul Rudd? He did multiple episodes of Friends, Reno 911, and Parks & Rec while still doing decent movies.

 

[superchuck500]

No love for Don Cheadle?

What about Paul Rudd? He did multiple episodes of Friends, Reno 911, and Parks & Rec while still doing decent movies.

And there you have it. One guy says Don Cheadle, and one guy says Paul Rudd.

 

[Torgo]

And there you have it. One guy says Don Cheadle, and one guy says Paul Rudd.

I honestly can't think of any TV shows I've seen Cheadle in. Even after a quick IMDB search. Movies, though? Dude is money.

 

[Madmarsha]

Yeah, there's lesser known actors just going where the work is, then there's the ones who really made a splash in one medium and then try to "break out" in another "splashy" way with flame out results. Best example of that I can think of is David Caruso.

 

[0rion]

 

[Madmarsha]

Yes, Jennifer Anniston. Obvs made her splash on TV but tons of movie roles while Courtney Cox and Lisa Kudrow have remained in TV for the most part.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jeffrey Wright

I don't know if he's done any tv other than Westworld and he never has large movie roles but he's always excellent

I guess westworld would make Anthony Hopkins eligible too

I'd also add john Lithgow