Which actors do you consider over rated?

Yeah, Danny Dire, very dire ...

Danny Dyer is trying very hard to be a 'geezer' and failing. I don't want to sound over critical as we have watched a lot of TV over the last year (why, I wonder?) and seen many sublime performances; there are some character actors who can, with a glance, convey such emotion. However, with many others, I think Daisy is pretty appalling in Coronation Street, Fizz grates on my nerves and Dev behaves like a man trying to keep a lid on mania -what is going on with that voice? However, Jane Danson's performance as the mother of a dying child warrants an Oscar - she was outstandingly good.

Nicole Kidman - can't understand the plaudits for her acting and at the other end of the spectrum - Brian Blessed, who has become a caricature - please retire from interviews and panel shows, too.......

Keira Knightly and most the young actors in the soaps. The older ones are more realistic

Hugh Grant, Nigel Havers , Michael Caine, Danny Dyer don't know what the fuss is about. Find them all annoying
Totally disagree about Olivia Coleman

NellG

Kristen Stewart - she pretty much just does wooden, pained or constipated.

Can agree re Olivia Coleman - she's still Bev, of Bev and Kev in their 'whizzy' car.

I agree with you about Kristen Stewart or woodentop as I call her. Instantly turn off when she is in anything

Hugh Grant has become a much better actor with age. Absolutely amazing in Gentlemen. Nice to see he’s shaken off the bumbling English man Americans seem to love watching

John Wayne, Michael Caine and Sean Connery. Useless! IMO.

Olivia Colman, who always plays herself. She’s just not that interesting.

RulaNula

Not a fan of Suranne Jones either.

There's a chap who used to be in everything. Some antique thing. A drama.

Some people found him attractive but I never did.

Can I remember his name?

No I can't

Ian Mc Shane?

Mandy Patinkin can't comment on as an actor but a singer, wonderful.

Its going back a bit but I saw an old 50s film set in London a few months back on TPTV and it starred George Raft. He was totally wooden, as if someone was holding up a board with his words on and he just read them out. (Maybe true!) Johnny Depp is a more up to date one. Very overrated.

I saw Gentlemen. Brilliant film and Hugh Grant was excellent!

I think most of the soap actors are just playing themselves - no great skill in that. Jennie Seagrove is always the same, wooden actress in everything she does, and Anne Reid is just a basic, mumsie sort of person in all her roles.

I think we should differentiate between OTT adulation for a good actor and inexplicable praise for a mediocre one. With a special category for good actors who have got stuck in a repetitive but lucrative rut. First sort - well, Coleman and Dench CAN'T be as good as they're made out to be! No-one could.

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skye7

James Nesbitt always has the same awful stricken look on his face. Perhaps that just is his normal face !!

I can’t watch James Nesbitt in crime dramas or anything where he’s serious but adore him in comic roles like Monroe and Cold Feet. Also in live interviews, he’s really twinkly and funny, fancy the pants off him ?

I've never been a fan of Brad Pitt although in some roles, I've thought he was very good i.e Seven and Fight Club.
Likewise Nicholas Cage, he seems to go from the sublime (Leaving Las Vegas) to the ridiculous Face/Off
James Nesbitt...just no!

Absolutely hate Danny Dyer, grating voice and no acting ability whatsoever. Dislike Hugh Grant (really boring) and agree that most, but not all, American actors are not so good. I'm sure that you have noticed the muffled whispering that passes for realistic speaking but can't be picked up by the listener especially when accompanied by background music to tell us what to feel and when!

I'm another one that thinks Daniel Craig is overrated. He reminds me of one of the Thunderbird puppets as he barely moves his lips!
There are quite a few actors that whatever part they play, they are exactly the same. I haven't Actually seen Danny Dyer in anything else other than Eastenders, so can't say if he's the same but his cockney wide boy thing that he carries around with him means that whenever his quiz show comes on, means I change channel!
I love Richard Gere, but he has certain mannerisms that are in every part he plays, same with Tom Cruise - the dramatic look away as if in thought then back to the camera/ actor or actress they are with !
James Nesbitt I can never watch, he just irritates me and also wish he'd just pluck his eyebrows !!!

'fraid I'm another vote for Keira Knightley.

I like Mandy Patinkin, saw him in Concert in London in 2009, a unique voice. Ronnie Corbett and his wife were sitting behind me ...

My ex hated Nicholas Cage, but I adore him in Moonstruck, one of my absolute favourite films.

Emma Thompson she is the same in every film!

Idris Elba and Danny Dyer (his voice ?)

I love Hugh Grant but have to agree he always played the romantic lead in the same way when he was younger. He was brilliant in a Very English Scandal as others have said. Also a comic genius in Florence Foster Jenkins. Sinister in The Undoing. Haven’t seen Paddington but might look it up.
Also adore Maggie Smith but she always plays Maggie Smith, same mannerisms, same arch looks and pursed mouth.
Olivia Coleman, especially in The Favourite, awful cringeworthy performance, didn’t she get an Oscar for it?
Can’t think of any others at the moment.

Stilton

Agree with majority of these (don't know the soap ones)

However, I'm in vehement disagreement about Nicolas Cage. He's an amazing actor, incredibly diverse. Also very, very wouldable

To each her own. But I wouldn't!!