Jim Dale was also Tony-nominated for Best Supporting Actor.

Actor Jim Conroy was born in Ellenville in 1971.

Actor Jim Sturgess was raised in Farnham ( 1981 ).

Day-Lewis threw his personal version of " method acting " into full throttle in 1989 with his performance as Christy Brown in Jim Sheridan's My Left Foot which garnered him numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Actor Jim Varney was cast as Jed Clampett.

Jim Carrey and Ed Harris both won Golden Globes as Best Actor-Drama and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, as did Burkhard Dallwitz and Philip Glass for Best Original Score.

* Jim Sturgess: Actor

* David Watson / Jim Denley / Rik Rue / Amanda Stewart / Ikue Mori-Bit-Part Actor ( CD ), Braille Records, 1996

Jim Broadbent, Best Supporting Actor winner

Wolf won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Jim Harrison and Wesley Strick's screenplay, and it was nominated for a further 5 Saturn Awards, in the categories of Best Horror Film, Best Actor ( Jack Nicholson ), Best Actress ( Michelle Pfeiffer ), Best Supporting Actor ( James Spader ) and Best Make-up ( Rick Baker ).

* Jim Cummings — Actor in movie ( uncredited )

* Actor ( male ): Jim Broadbent ( Any Human Heart )

Moriarty's role in Menagerie ( as " Jim ," the Gentleman Caller ; Waterston played the son " Tom ") won him an Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor of the Year.

Jim Norton's performance as Richard Harkin in The Seafarer at The National Theatre won the 2007 Best Supporting Actor Laurence Olivier Award, and he picked up a Tony Award in 2008 for Best Featured Actor in a play.

Scott's notable television roles have included Paul McCartney in the BBC television drama Lennon Naked and arch-villain Jim Moriarty in Sherlock, for which he was awarded the 2012 British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Actor Brian Posehn gives Del a distinct low, droning voice, similar to the one used for Jim Cuback on the short-lived animated series Mission Hill.

* Actor Jim Carrey made the song famous once again for a short time in 2004, when he sang it on the Late Night with Conan O ' Brien show when the show travelled to Toronto to tape four episodes.

* Actor Jim Carrey replicated the Tempur-Pedic wine glass test in Yes Man.

Actor and longtime Sesame Street writer Jim Thurman performed all character voices.

Actor Jim O ' Connor hosted the show for the first several years of its existence.

Since Missing, Shea has starred in many films, including Armyan Bernstein's Windy City ( opposite Kate Capshaw for which he won a " Best Actor " award at the Montreal Film Festival in 1984 ); Stealing Home with Mark Harmon, Jodie Foster and Blair Brown ; the French thriller Lune de Miel with Nathalie Baye ( also known as Honeymoon, shot in both French and English ); Uri Barbash's epic Unsettled Land ( also known as Ha-Holmeim, Israel, 1987 ) with Kelly McGillis ; Alan Alda's comedy A New Life with Alan Alda and Ann-Margret ; Jim Goddard's The Impossible Spy with Eli Wallach, also shot in Israel (" Best Actor " Golden Panda Award in China ); the futuristic Freejack ( 1992 ) with Rene Russo ; and the comedy Honey, I Blew Up the Kid with Rick Moranis.

Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the character Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle in The French Connection ( film ) | The French Connection, 1971

Voight, who was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival, for his portrait of an embittered paraplegic, reportedly based on real-life Vietnam veteran-turned-anti-war activist Ron Kovic, with whom Fonda's character falls in love.

Actor / comedian Robin Williams revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Zelda Rae is named after the title character in the series.

Actor Sean Bean made an one-off appearance in 1996 titled " I've Bean to Paradise " where the main character, unhappy with his long term relationship, attempts to seek out for more physically attractive women by undergoing a makeover as a lookalike of the actor ( played by himself ) and passing himself off as the actor with references to his past screen roles.

Actor Kevin Tod Smith played popular character Ares, God of War, and Alexandra Tydings played his counterpart Aphrodite, Goddess of Love.

Actor Andrew J. Robinson has also stated that his Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character, Elim Garak, was partially influenced by Bixby's character.

* Shared Performances: All three of the young actors who shared the duties of performing the lead character in Billy Elliot the Musical ( 2009 awards ) — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish — also shared a single nomination, then shared the win, for Best Actor in a Musical.

Actor Jason David Frank studied Jeet Kune Do in real life, bringing the techniques to the character.

Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas's character memorably declaring that " greed, for lack of a better word, is good ".

Astaire continued to act into the 1970s, appearing on television as the father of Robert Wagner's character of Alexander Mundy in It Takes a Thief and in films such as The Towering Inferno ( 1974 ), in which he danced with Jennifer Jones and for which he received his only Academy Award nomination, in the category of Best Supporting Actor.

He continued as a character actor for another forty years, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 ( How Green Was My Valley ).

He played the title character in The Scarlet Pimpernel ( 1934 ) and later Professor Henry Higgins in the film version of George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion ( 1938 ), which earned him another Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

However, Nolte's co-star, James Coburn, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing the father of Nolte's character.

* Freddie Smith, Actor, known for playing the first openly gay character Jackson " Sonny " Kiriakis of the daytime soap opera Days Of Our Lives.

He worked extensively on his character and was again nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.

* The film Bugsy ( 1991 ), a biography of Bugsy Siegel, included Lansky as a major character, played by Ben Kingsley, who was nominated Best Supporting Actor for the role.

Actor Robert Duvall and other filmmakers denied this and claimed the character was based on nobody in particular.

He starred as the title character in the 1992 film Chaplin, earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

Actor Michael Massee's character fires a revolver at Lee as he walks into the room.

Actor Cy Grant, who voiced the character of Lieutenant Green in the 1960s and interpreted the series as having positive multicultural value, noted the allegorical nature of Captain Scarlet.

Actor David Boreanaz explains, " I think having a character like Faith come back at a pivotal point when she finds out Angelus is loose is really, for her character, a way of saying: ' I'm paying you back, Angel, for saving me, therefore, I'm gonna save you.

Actor Joseph Jefferson was most associated with the character on the 19th century stage and made a series of short films in 1896 recreating scenes from his stage adaptation, and which are collectively in the U. S. National Film Registry.

Interactive character technology was first introduced in Microsoft Bob, which used an early version of Agent technology internally referred to as " Microsoft Actor.