Which actors do you consider over rated?

Sara1954 - Bill Nighy sexy!!! I do not think so!!! Not one bit!!!

The first two that come to mind is the Daniel Craig (adult) and Leonardo DiCaprio. Can’t see their characters, only them.
Saved is Hugh Grant because of the Jeremy Thorpe.
Don’t like Danny Dyer hosting shows and I don’t watch soaps.

Calendargirl.

Was it Chicago Hope?

I’ve given up watching all the ‘soaps’ now - terrible wooden acting and ridiculous storylines.

Luckygirl
Who cares, he’s so sexy!

Well, the Oscars aren’t about best actors and actresses.

More about whose turn it is, which factions are we appealing to this year, who is riding high in the popularity stakes at the moment......

Grandmajet
Oh yes, Hugh Grant was fabulous in Paddington.

Bill Nighy is dire- he just...drones...on...and...on...in ...his...dull...dull...voice.

He does not make even a passing attempt to act - he could be reading a shopping list. How he gets work I do not know.

Talking about Judi Dench and Oscars, which I think we were. Judi D played a sublime Queen Victoria in Mrs Brown. Jessica Tandy got the Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy because they thought it was about time. Dench got one the following year for her 8 minute performance in Shakespeare in Love.

Adding to the Corrie list (the only soap I watch) - Fizz is so wooden, and Nina and Paul...

Michael Caine always plays Michael Caine,same accent, same actions, boring!

Our Friends in the North featuring a relatively unknown Daniel Craig as mentioned by Trisher up thread was one of the best dramas I'd seen on TV. I don't think DC has ever been better than he was in that role, he's always a bit granite faced as James Bond for my liking.

Don't agree with you about Keeley Hawes though Trisher.

Mandy Patinkin used to be in an American hospital series on a Saturday night, it wasn’t ER, cannot recall the title, he played a surgeon, but I didn’t like him in it.

As for Daniel Craig. He was in a tv show, The Ice House, think it was based on a Minette Walters book but may have got that wrong.

Be still my beating heart! In it, he was sex on legs!

Danny Dyer is just beyond awful.

Hugh Grant but I didn't see the Jeremy Thorpe film so he may have been better in that
Danny Dyer
A lot of the Corrie cast Steve, Dev, Nick, Gail, but Mary has a great comedy talent.
Richard Gere
I agree that some actors are continually cast in the same sort of roles so we don't get to see their range of talent.

Hugh Grant always played himself for years, but the casting of him in the Jeremy Thorpe drama was inspired, and he shoed himself to be a good actor. Maybe the problem was casting directors always wanting him to play the same kind of foppish role?

I disagree about Hugh Grant. He was terrific in Paddington, and that thing about Jeremy Thorpe.

The man who plays Nick in Corrie is dreadful, so wooden.

I watched YouTube interview with Matthew McCaunaghey and Hugh Grant, they have both been cast in a film Gentlemen directed by Guy Ritchie. Apparently Hugh Grantplays a right East End sleaze ball in it. Looks interesting.
I wonder if he can pull it off?

Anyone who thinks Daniel Craig isn't good should watch "Our Friends in the North". Nothing like the Bond character he plays.
Can't stand Keeley Hawes- 3 looks-idiot smile, pained but trying and about to cry.

Thank you, TerriBull!

Simon Gregson, who plays Steve McDonald in Corrie . His voice drives me nuts!

Brad Pitt, I always think we are just watching brad Pitt.

Richard Gere, he always does that head down, sigh, and a slow shaking of the head from side to side, squeezes his eyes shut as if suppressing tears.
I liked him in Yanks and American Gigalo, he still did all of the above in these films.

Sorry Tabbycat that was you who quoted John Wayne

Except for Judy Dench,all of the above.

I'm a new comer to liking Hugh Grant. Yes I know we're not discussing who we like, but I'd like more full answers if anyone is interested in giving them?

Hugh Grant for instance was out of his comfort zone when he played in A very English scandal.

Calendergirl (no shooting down, I'm just interested in your pov) and Aveline
Have you seen JD in Macbeth?
Do you have any instances which show why you think she plays herself?

Lots of actors get type cast, precisely because they are good at a particular role.

I agree with those mentioned in Corri but lots of actors in that show are being stretched beyond their limits because of covid, (including the writers) and it shows.

Olivia Colman