These are the worker that were so safe in their roles that you ca n’t even fathom a domain where they did n’t play them .

We’ve all had that experience where we’ve been so impressed by one of the actosr in a movie or TV show that you can’t help but think to yourself,They are so perfect in this there is NO way anybody else could’ve played it!Heath Ledger as theJokerinThe Dark Knightis a perfect example of this and one everybody agrees on.

And a more recent example isJanelle Jamesas Ava Coleman inAbbott Elementary. Recently, I came across this Reddit thread where userAMissKathyNewmanwas curious about just that when they started athreadtitled: “Actors who were absolutely perfect for their role.”

The thread got over 3.8K responses from people eager to share the actors they thought were just perfectly cast in their movie and TV roles. Below are the top, best, and most often commented actors:

1.Rachel McAdamsas Regina George inMean Girls

2.Nick Offerman as Bill inThe Last of US

3.Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods in theLegally Blondefilms

4.Catherine O’Hara as Moira Rose inSchitt’s Creek

5.Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer inOppenheimer

6.Leighton Meester as Blair Waldorf inGossip Girl

7.Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes inMisery

8.Antony Starr as Homelander inThe Boys

9.J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson in theSpider-Manfilms

10.Hugh Laurie as Dr. Gregory House inHouse

11.Jessica Walter as Lucille Bluth inArrested Development

12.Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman inAmerican Psycho

13.Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn inThe Lord of the Rings films

14.Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark/Iron Man in the MCU

15.Lena Headey as Cersei Lannister inGame of Thrones

16.Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman in theSupermanfilms

17.Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates inPsycho

18.Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness inWandaVision

19.Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter inThe Silence of the Lambs

20.James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano inThe Sopranos

21.Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley, The Dowager Countess of Grantham inDownton Abbey

22.Glenn Close as Cruella de Vil in101 Dalmatiansand102 Dalmatians

23.And lastly, Ryan Gosling as Ken inBarbie

You can read the full thread of responses onReddit.

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