Actor Filmographies: Cast, Directors & Movie Credits

Al Pacino

Known for intense character work across crime dramas and American cinema. His catalogue connection is the crime-family classic The Godfather, in which Michael Corleone's transformation sits at the centre of the story.

VALUTED MOVIES title: The Godfather (1972) · Role: Michael Corleone.

Anne Hathaway

Performer known for dramatic roles, comedy and science-fiction adventures. In this catalogue she appears in Christopher Nolan's space epic Interstellar as Dr. Amelia Brand.

VALUTED MOVIES title: Interstellar (2014).

Brad Pitt

Actor and producer whose work spans dark comedy, crime, drama and action. The catalogue includes David Fincher's cult psychological drama Fight Club, featuring Pitt as Tyler Durden.

VALUTED MOVIES title: Fight Club (1999).

Carrie-Anne Moss

Known internationally for playing Trinity in the science-fiction action film The Matrix, a story built around simulated reality, identity and resistance.

VALUTED MOVIES title: The Matrix (1999).

Choi Woo-shik

South Korean actor who plays Kim Ki-woo in Bong Joon-ho's award-winning social thriller Parasite. The film uses a family's changing relationship with a wealthy household to explore class and inequality.

VALUTED MOVIES title: Parasite (2019).

Chris Evans

Actor associated with Steve Rogers / Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The catalogue links him to the ensemble superhero stories Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

VALUTED MOVIES titles: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) · Avengers: Endgame (2019).

Christian Bale

Known for physically and dramatically demanding roles. He plays Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight, Christopher Nolan's crime thriller featuring Gotham City, Harvey Dent and the Joker.

VALUTED MOVIES title: The Dark Knight (2008).

Cillian Murphy

Frequent collaborator of Christopher Nolan, appearing as Robert Fischer in Inception and as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer in other work outside this site's current catalogue. His catalogue role in Inception is central to the dream-infiltration team's mission.

VALUTED MOVIES title: Inception (2010).

Christopher Nolan

Writer-director known for puzzle-like storytelling, practical spectacle and themes of memory, time and identity. His films in this catalogue include The Dark Knight, The Prestige, Inception and Interstellar.

Catalogue directing credits: The Dark Knight (2008), The Prestige (2006), Inception (2010), Interstellar (2014).

Chris Hemsworth

Known for playing Thor in Marvel's superhero films. His catalogue entries include Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, both ensemble stories involving the Avengers and the threat posed by Thanos.

David Fincher

Director associated with meticulous visual control and morally complex characters. His catalogue title Fight Club (1999) explores consumer identity, alienation and an underground fight movement.

Edward Norton

Plays the unnamed narrator in Fight Club, a story whose perspective and identity become increasingly unstable. The film is one of the catalogue's key psychological dramas.

Elliot Page

Plays Ariadne, the architect who designs dream spaces, in Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010).

Elijah Wood

Plays Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy saga. The catalogue includes The Fellowship of the Ring and The Return of the King.

Francis Ford Coppola

Director of The Godfather (1972), a landmark crime drama about family, loyalty, power and the Corleone organization.

Frank Darabont

Directed The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Green Mile (1999), two prison-set dramas concerned with friendship, dignity, hope and justice.

Hayao Miyazaki

Writer-director of Studio Ghibli's animated fantasy Spirited Away (2001), which follows Chihiro through a mysterious spirit world.

Heath Ledger

Plays the Joker in The Dark Knight (2008). The character's unpredictable campaign challenges Batman, Gotham's police and district attorney Harvey Dent.

Jack Nicholson

Plays Frank Costello in Martin Scorsese's crime thriller The Departed (2006), a story of informants and undercover identities.

James Caan

Plays Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972), part of the Corleone family's struggle over power and succession.

Joaquin Phoenix

Plays Commodus, the ambitious heir to the Roman throne, in Ridley Scott’s historical epic Gladiator (2000).

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Plays Arthur, the practical point man of the dream-infiltration crew, in Inception (2010).

Keanu Reeves

Plays Neo in The Matrix (1999), a science-fiction film about a hacker who discovers the apparent world is a simulation.

Laurence Fishburne

Plays Morpheus in The Matrix, guiding Neo toward the truth about the world he inhabits.

Leonardo DiCaprio

Plays Dom Cobb in Inception (2010), a specialist who enters dreams to extract secrets and is offered a dangerous final assignment.

Mark Ruffalo

Plays Bruce Banner / Hulk in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Matthew McConaughey

Plays Cooper, a former pilot recruited for a mission beyond a wormhole, in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014).

Matt Damon

Plays Colin Sullivan in The Departed (2006), working within the Massachusetts State Police while secretly serving a crime boss.

Morgan Freeman

Plays Ellis “Red” Redding in The Shawshank Redemption and Lucius Fox in The Dark Knight. These roles connect him to both a prison drama and a modern superhero crime story.

Marion Cotillard

Plays Mal, a figure in Cobb's memories and dreams, in Inception (2010).

Martin Scorsese

Director of GoodFellas (1990) and The Departed (2006), both crime films that explore loyalty, betrayal and the blurred boundary between criminal organizations and law enforcement.

Peter Jackson

Director of the catalogue's Middle-earth films: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) and The Return of the King (2003).

Quentin Tarantino

Writer-director of Pulp Fiction (1994), a crime film built from interlocking Los Angeles stories and a nonlinear narrative.

Robert Downey Jr.

Plays Tony Stark / Iron Man in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Robert Zemeckis

Director of Forrest Gump (1994), the story of a man whose personal life intersects with major moments in modern American history.

Robin Wright

Plays Jenny Curran in Forrest Gump (1994), whose life remains closely intertwined with Forrest's.

Paul W. S. Anderson

Writer-director of the 2002 Resident Evil film, which adapts the survival-horror video-game premise into a science-fiction action horror story.

Samuel L. Jackson

Plays Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction and Nick Fury in the Avengers films Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame.

Song Kang-ho

Plays Kim Ki-taek in Bong Joon-ho's Parasite (2019), a thriller about a family that gradually enters the lives of a wealthy household.

Tom Hanks

Plays Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump (1994), a drama that follows its central character through decades of change.

Tom Hardy

Plays Eames in Inception and Bane in other films outside the current catalogue. In Inception, Eames uses impersonation as part of the dream team's plan.

Tom Holland

Plays Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), an adventure involving alternate realities and consequences of a spell gone wrong.

Uma Thurman

Plays Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), one of the film's interwoven crime stories.

Zendaya

Plays MJ in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), where Peter Parker's personal life is caught up in a multiverse crisis.