What actor causes you to keep flipping channels, when you see s/he's in the movie?

[Honeycombe8]

173. OMG! I think she's one of the best actors around. Oscar winner...multiple types of characters.

She can play almost any sort of character totally believably.

Sometimes pretty women get short shrift for their acting chops. A person can dislike her, but there's no doubt that she's one of the best actors around.

Marilyn Monroe was also a pretty good actress, but that was overshadowed by her sex symbol status.

If you see Kidman in The Paperboy (offensive movie) and To Die For, she plays two very different characters (the latter is a real person), and she does both practically perfectly and totally believably. Not many actors can do that.

By contrast, actors like Kevin Costner reached the highs of fame and glory on mediocre acting skills. It's so easy for white males in the acting business. Most roles are for males.

I understand you think differently, and I don't mean to argue, but as a movie buff, I feel passionately about the subject, so I just had to hit one for the gipper, so to speak! (Someone actually said to me once that she didn't think Meryl Streep could act very well, and did bad accents. Really! She was probably a Chuck Norris lover.)