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Top 10 Big Screen Performances by Small Screen
Actors
Article by
Todd Plucknett
Posted - 11/21/10
This topic is something that I have been
thinking about for quite a while. I have always been
interested in movies starring actors who take time out of
their television series to make a film. Normally, they wind
up giving great performances in solid films, oftentimes
being smaller, character-driven films. So, I decided to do a
countdown of the 10 best performances by television actors.
Now, this has a
fair amount of subjectivity to it. I am going to define a
small screen actor as one who is most known for a television
role. So, even though there are some people who cannot think
of Anna Paquin without thinking of Sookie Stackhouse, I
always think of Rogue. George Clooney in
ER, Bruce Willis in
Moonlighting, Woody
Harrelson in
Cheers,
Will Smith in
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
All of these are iconic roles, but these actors have made
the most noise on the big screen, in my opinion at least.
People may think the same thing about Jennifer Aniston or
Helen Hunt, but they will always be Rachel Green and the
girl from
Mad About You
in my eyes.
So, my list has a wide range of actors. I
am going to limit this to the last 25 years of film
performances, simply because I know almost nothing about
pre-1980s television. Here is what I came up with…
Others receiving votes
Jennifer Aniston – The Good Girl (2002)
Patricia Arquette – True Romance (1993)
John Goodman – Barton Fink (1991)
Dennis Haysbert – Far from Heaven (2002)
Lisa Kudrow – The Opposite of Sex (1998)
Robert Sean Leonard – Dead Poets Society
(1989)
Damian Lewis – Keane (2005)
Wentworth Miller – The Human Stain (2003)
Mary-Louise Parker – Grand Canyon (1991)
Kyra Sedgwick – The Woodsman (2004)

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