The other day I was bored and started thinking about actors who took movie roles and really nailed the character they were playing. You know, hit just the right notes and inhabited that character inside and out. Now there are plenty of great performances, even award winning ones, where the actor didn’t hit the bullseye completely. I mean some very famous actors have never completely nailed a role. So I came up with a by- no - means - complete list of roles where I think the actor really nailed it. Who’s on your list????

Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs

Al Pacino - The Godfather and Glengarry Glen Ross

Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich

Ed Harris - Apollo 13

Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean

Daniel Day Lewis - Gangs of New York and My Left Foot

Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump, Castaway, and The Terminal

Denzel Washington - Malcolm X and Training Day

Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

Jamie Foxx - Ray

Jack Nicholson - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Chinatown

Michael Cera - Juno

Ellen Page - Juno

Javier Bardem - No Country For Old Men

Diane Keaton - Annie Hall

Robert Deniro - Raging Bull and The King of Comedy

Tommy Lee Jones - No Country For Old Men

Frances McDormand - Fargo

William H. Macy - Fargo

The entire cast of Arrested Development