The number one actor ranking, and every list underneath it. Built on verified credits and recorded award honours rather than votes or follower counts.
The main board. Ranked by composite score.
Boards populate as actors publish verified profiles. Rankings recalculate every week.
Create your profile40 boards, each a filtered projection of the same verified dataset. Every one declares the criterion it sorts on and the population it draws from.
The full composite ranking, every medium and market in one board.
The Top 100 Actors
The main board. Every medium, every market, one composite score out of 100 built from verified credits, award honours, media depth, engagement, tenure and identity verification.
Composite score
The Top 500 Actors
The extended board, for anyone who needs depth past the first hundred.
Composite score
Ranked within a single medium, counting only credits in that medium.
Top Film Actors
Feature films, shorts and streaming originals. Ranked on verified film credits only, so a heavy television resume does not carry an actor onto this board.
Composite score
Top Television Actors
Episodic series, limited series and movies for television. Series-regular volume dominates here, which is why the composition differs sharply from the film board.
Composite score
Top Theater Actors
Broadway, West End, off-Broadway, regional and touring work. The one board where an actor with no screen credits can finish at the top.
Composite score
Top Commercial Actors
National and regional advertising and branded content. The largest paid-work segment by volume and the least visible in conventional rankings.
Composite score
Top Voiceover Actors
Animation, video games, audiobooks, narration and dubbing. Ranked on voice credits and on honours from the Annies, the Audies and the Emmy voice categories.
Composite score
Ranked by weighted award points. A win at a peak-tier body is worth 100 points; a nomination is worth 35 percent of a win.
The Most Decorated Actors
Ranked purely on hardware. Every recorded honour contributes its award tier weight multiplied by an outcome multiplier, so a peak-tier win is worth 100 points, a nomination at the same body is worth 35, and a shortlist is worth 12.
Weighted award points
Peak Tier Award Winners
Restricted to the seven bodies in tier one. This is the shortest and hardest board on the site to appear on at all.
Weighted award points
Top Festival Honored Actors
Jury prizes rather than academy ballots. Festival acting awards are decided by a handful of people in a room, which makes them volatile, unpredictable and disproportionately career-defining.
Weighted award points
Top Academy Awards Actors
The oldest and most consequential film award in the world, voted by the roughly ten thousand members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Four competitive acting categories have run continuously since the 1936 ceremony.
Weighted award points
Top Primetime Emmy Awards Actors
The definitive American television honour, split across drama, comedy and limited series, with separate lead, supporting and guest performance categories in each.
Weighted award points
Top Tony Awards Actors
The highest honour in American theatre, restricted to productions staged in the forty-one eligible Broadway houses during the season.
Weighted award points
Top BAFTA Film Awards Actors
Britain's principal film honour and the most reliable non-American predictor of the Academy Awards, with a jury-moderated longlist and a chapter-voted final ballot.
Weighted award points
Top Laurence Olivier Awards Actors
The West End equivalent of the Tonys, covering London theatre, opera and dance, renamed for Laurence Olivier in 1984.
Weighted award points
Top Screen Actors Guild Awards Actors
The only major award voted exclusively by working actors, and the only one that honours the full ensemble as a unit. Because the acting branch is the largest bloc of the Academy, SAG is the strongest single predictor of Oscar acting outcomes.
Weighted award points
Top Golden Globe Awards Actors
The first major stop on the awards calendar, and the only one that splits film performance by drama versus musical or comedy, which doubles the number of lead slots available each year.
Weighted award points
Top Critics Choice Awards Actors
Voted by several hundred North American critics and entertainment journalists across both film and television in a single combined ceremony.
Weighted award points
Top Film Independent Spirit Awards Actors
The leading honour for American independent film, with a budget ceiling on eligibility. Acting categories became gender-neutral from the 2023 ceremony.
Weighted award points
Top Annie Awards Actors
The principal honour in animation, and the most significant competitive award available to a voice actor.
Weighted award points
Top Daytime Emmy Awards Actors
Honours American daytime programming, and the single most important award for the soap opera performers who make up a large share of working series-regular actors.
Weighted award points
Top Drama Desk Awards Actors
The only New York theatre award that judges Broadway, off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions in the same categories, which makes it the broadest measure of a New York stage career.
Weighted award points
Ranked by movement rather than standing, which is where new talent surfaces first.
The Fastest Rising Actors
Sorted on movement, not standing. An actor who went from 4,000 to 900 in one cycle outranks an established name who held steady, which is the point.
Week over week movement
Breakout Actors
Under three years of documented professional work. Ranked on composite score, so these are actors who built a real credit base fast rather than actors who simply signed up recently.
Composite score
The Most Viewed Actors
Attention rather than achievement. Ranked on profile views and casting search appearances over a rolling thirty days.
Profile engagement over 30 days
Ranked within a single hiring market, for casting that has to be local.
Top Actors in Los Angeles
The largest single concentration of screen work on earth, and the centre of pilot season.
Composite score
Top Actors in New York
Broadway, prestige television and the strongest theatre-to-screen pipeline in the industry.
Composite score
Top Actors in Atlanta
The largest production hub in the American South, driven by state tax incentives.
Composite score
Top Actors in Chicago
A storefront theatre tradition that feeds a steady stream of network series regulars.
Composite score
Top Actors in Vancouver
Hollywood North, and the busiest series production market outside Los Angeles.
Composite score
Top Actors in Toronto
Canada's largest market, strong in both domestic and American service production.
Composite score
Top Actors in London
The West End plus the studio corridor at Pinewood, Leavesden and Elstree.
Composite score
Top Actors in Austin
An independent film ecosystem anchored by SXSW and a growing series presence.
Composite score
Top Actors in Albuquerque
A purpose-built studio market with sustained series production.
Composite score
Top Actors in Dublin
A small market with an outsized export record in prestige drama.
Composite score
Top Actors in Sydney
The centre of Australian screen production and a major service market.
Composite score
Top Actors in Mumbai
The largest film industry in the world by output.
Composite score
Filtered on a verifiable credential rather than a score.
Top Verified Actors
Restricted to actors who proved control of an external professional profile through link-back verification. If you are casting off a cold list, start here.
Composite score
Five Star Actors
Five stars requires a resume on file, at least one credit, at least one piece of media and a verified industry link. It is a completeness measure, not a talent measure, and it is what makes an actor findable.
Composite score
The Most Credited Actors
Volume alone, across all five media. Working actors with long unglamorous resumes tend to beat prestige names on this board, which is the most honest thing about it.
Verified credit volume
Six weighted components summing to 100, plus a separate award axis. Nothing here is a vote.
Profile completeness
max 20Links, media and resume on file.
stars × 4
Verified credits
max 20Roles across all five media.
credits × 0.4, capped at 50
Media depth
max 20Headshots and reels.
photos × 2 + videos × 4
Engagement
max 20Thirty-day profile views.
log₁₀(views + 1) × 5
Career tenure
max 10Span of documented work.
years × 2, capped at 5 years
Verification
max 10Link-back identity proof.
10 if verified
Award honours sit on their own axis rather than inside the composite, because a single Academy Award should not be diluted by an incomplete profile. Weighted award points drive the most decorated boards and every per-award leaderboard. The full model, including every class, property and concept scheme, is published at /ontology.