The 20 Best Actors Working Today

From stalwarts of the New York stage to up-and-coming British favourites, it’s time to reveal our latest selection of The 20 Best Actors Working Today. This is as objective as possible — I have excluded some personal favourites like Alec Baldwin, Jeff Daniels, Tom Cruise and Jim Carrey who I feel it’s simply untrue to call the best actors working in the hopes of giving this list a seriousness of intent. Therefore, I present to you now, this year’s list…

1. Michael Stuhlbarg

Most likely to be seen as…. Any number of things. Stuhlbarg is the most chameleonic actor alive, and can play any number of characters, from neurotic physics professor Larry Gopnik in A Serious Man to the caring patriarch of Call Me By Your Name. But Hollywood’s biggest projects seem to want to pigeonhole him as a nervous scientist. They should stop.

Best collaborator: The Coen Brothers, without a doubt. A Serious Man is an all-time American classic that made the genius move of casting Stuhlbarg as its lead (the only time this has really happened). The Coens need to bring him back for something equally zany, but entirely different.