Most annoying actor & actress?

[Superdude]

Who, in Hollywood, bothers you the most? What actor and actress would you love to see completely erased from existance (or at least celluloid)?

I think I'd have to say:

Female-Gwynneth Paltrow. "Hi, Mister Speilberg? Can I be in 'Hook' since my daddy and you are friends? I can! Great! Do I have to audition? No? Thank you, Mister Speilberg!"

Male-Nicholas Cage. The man is the SAME CHARACTER in everything he does! He should, IMHO, NEVER have won the Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas." It should have gone to Sean Penn for "Dead Man Walking."

[ElwoodCuse]

Five words: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

[El_Kabong]

Female: Annette Bening

Male: Robin Williams

Guess I have a low tolerance for screeching histrionics and shameless mugging.

[lissener]

All time? Debra Winger and Robin Williams.

Currently? Julia Roberts and Tom Hanks.

[riley dieffenbach]

I'll have to agree whole heartedly (or is that one word?) with the Nicholas Cage nomination. The only actor whose movies I won't see on principle.

Tom Hanks though! Granted Forrest Gump was godawful but its hard for me to find the huge offensiveness quotient.

My nominations go to two slightly less prominent figures. David Arquette (How much do you think Courteney is regretting that?) and the inestimably awful Fairuza Balk.
One only has to see "The Island of Dr. Moreau" to know what I'm talking about.

[Icarus]

Toby Macguire

Angelina Jolie

Michael Douglas

And, the one who will unfailingly make me spit and rail, the exception that proves the rule for all worthy talent out there:

Woody Harrelson

[Deiket]

Fran Dresher (Or however you spell her name) The Nanny is a curse upon all who own a TV....

As for guys, I can't think of any off the top of my head, though Brad Pitt tends to irk me.... <ducks>

[barking frog]

Alec Baldwin.

[Tequila Mockingbird]

All time-Christopher Lambert and/or Tom Cruise and Darryl Hannah/Kim Bassinger/Julia Roberts.

Current-Leonardo Decaprio and Amanda Peet.

[Xerxes]

Tom Cruise. Easily.

Female? Harder. Lemme get back to you on that one.

[jabe]

Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts

[Francesca]

He's not a hollywood actor, but there's a guy who presents programmes on British TV called Bradley Walsh. I literally cannot watch a programme if he's on it- he makes me run screaming from the room.

As for Hollywood actors, i would have to go with Michael Douglas. Get off my screen you horrible, slimey man.

Actresses: I second Julia Roberts and add Demi Moore.

Fran

[FairyChatMom]

Alan Alda and Fran Drescher - he's obnoxious and she's annoying

[ChoosyChipsAndCeilingWhacks]

Kirstie Alley and Tim Allen.

[Zumba The Cat]

Actress would definitely be Lorraine Bracco. She plays Dr. Melfi on the Sopranos. I love that show except the parts where she comes on. She has the most annoying voice I have ever heard. I want to throw things at the TV every time she starts whining.

Actor would have to be Leonardo DeCaprio. (I am sure I spelled his name wrong. I don't feel like looking it up though.) I watched about 20 minutes of The Beach yesterday and couldn't take anymore.

[Eliahna]

Cameron Diaz. She's annoying, all simpering about how shy she is and how embarrassed she was to talk in front of people. Yeah, sure, whatever you say, Cameron...

For males, I'd have to vote Dylan McDermott from the Practise. He may not be a big movie star, but with a little luck, he never will be. I can't stand him.

[CalMeacham]

Andy Kauffman

[BiblioCat]

Meg Ryan. She plays the same character over and over and over. If she would just learn to comb her hair, I might like her a little better.

Tom Cruise. Same thing. Can't stand him.

Not really actors, but celebrities I can't stand:
Joan Rivers
Kathy Lee Gifford

[dodge_this]

Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk

Helen Hunt post-Mad About You

Meg Ryan post-When Harry Met Sally

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Paul Reiser in pretty much anything

The cast of Friends post season two

Kenneth Branagh when he's not doing Shakespeare

Keanu Reeves when he's doing Shakespeare

Hugh Grant overdoing the bumbling Englishman bit

but the mother of all screen annoyances - Gwyneth Paltrow. Somehow the girl irks the hell outta me. And as luck would have it, she always ends up being cast opposite my favourite actors (Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Juliette Binoche etc). There is no God.

[WIGGUM]

Jennifer Tilly- Her voice makes me want to jump off a bridge.

Antonio Banderas- Need I say more?

Steven Segal and Jean Claude Van Damme- I'd like to see them fight to both of their deaths.

Any athlete who can't act (pretty much all of them except for Carl Weathers)

Molly Ringwald- I realize you can only see her on Lifetime these days, but she's still annoying.

[Tygr]

Oh-so-easy.

Babsie Streisand and Martin Sheen.

Goddam limousine liberals, shut the hell up and get outta Washington, you're confusing the poor simpletons who are trying to run our guv'mint.

[Ike Witt]

Originally posted by jabe
Bruce Willis and Julia Roberts

Without them, The Player wouldn't have been anywhere near as good as it was.

[barking frog]

For the females, I'll have to add Katie Holmes. If we're including non-actresses also then add Britney Spears to the list.

[heembo]

Male: Keanu Reeves. This guy has the uncanny ability to get cast in movies that are actually good, and then nearly or totally ruins them with his complete lack of talent.

Female: Keanu Reeves - you don't really believe he's a man, right?

Did I mention I didn't like Keanu Reeves?

[Johanna]

Male Most Annoying Actor Ever: Ranjit Chowdhry.

Who? you're asking. He's from India, not a big Hollywood name, but far more annoying than anyone else mentioned so far. Fortunately, he's only gotten minor supporting roles; it would be simply impossible to build a feature film around him, since his very existence is a huge turnoff. He played the sexually frustrated husband in Mississippi Masala (he busted the lovers' tryst and assaulted Denzel Washington, the single most obnoxious performance I've ever seen), the Asshole Immigration Official in The Perez Family, and the masturbating houseboy in Fire. In Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, he was on screen for all of five seconds, and still managed to be irritating. His role as a sidewalk artist in the Indian film Such a Long Journey was astonishing for his not portraying an asshole. But that doesn't keep me from hating him for everything else he's done. I just had to take this opportunity to vent my spleen. Thank you.

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[Edited by TVeblen on 04-07-2001 at 01:22 AM]

[Myrnalene]

Toby McGuire, oh my yes.
Why does he think a perpetual, dopey-eyed half smile is the only expression he will ever need? I'd like to slap it right off his pasty little face.

[A3926AFL]

Andy Kaufman
Pauley Shore
Lucille Ball {I do not love Lucy.}

[kasuo]

Nominees for Worst Actress ever:
- Jessica Lange
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Heather Graham (she is not human - she has no emotions nor does she express any due to the lack of acting ability)

Nominees for Worst Actor ever:
- Quentin Tarantino (Destiny Turns on the Radio? WTF)

[vivalostwages]

--Pauly Shore.

--Christine Baranski.

--David Arquette.

--Meredith Monroe.

[-ism]

I know all of the following have been mentioned but I figure that it can't hurt to put my two cents worth in. :)

Michael Douglas (closely followed by)
Nicholas Cage (everything he and Michael Douglas have done I've not liked)
Kevin Costner (apart from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Dances with Wolves because I thought they were both good)
Keanu Reeves (outside of the Bill and Ted's duo I can't think of a role where he actually ACTED, he's sooo wooden. The Matrix was a worthy watch though)


Meg Ryan (aside from When Harry Met Sally what else has she done that was worthwhile?)

Katie Holmes (too girl-next-door-cash-in-on-my-cuteness-Hollywood-fast-tracked-starlet for me...)

:P There, I've said it. They all suck

[King Rat]

I second Barbra Streisand. Her arrogance and hubris knows no bounds. She'd been trying to sell her palatial triplex penthouse on Manhattan's Central Park West. The price had fallen from over $10 million to around the $8 million range (get out your hankies, please). Anyway, all her perspective purchasers had been turned down by the building's board of directors. When Mariah Carey was turned down what did Barabra say?

"If artists can't live...on the Upper West Side where can they live?" source: http://www.nypost.com/realestate/21846.htm

Yah, those poor artists can't get a decent $8 mil apartment anymore. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!

According to actor Omar Sharif, ``She wants to be a woman and she wants to be beautiful and she is neither.''

[D-bear]

Pepsi Girl.

I had to turn off Bicentennial man!

[Evnglion]

D-bear is absolutely right....

As far as pairs go, I hate it when Julia Roberts does stuff with Hugh Grant. I also find Fran Drecher extreemly annoying, and she kinda matches up with Gilbert Godfried

[Scarred]

The girl from that "Buffy' vampire show and any of the kid actors on Nickelodeon. Child actors make me grind my teeth.

Also, I hate Hugh Grant, but I was entertained by that movie he did with Julia Roberts where he was a bookstore owner and she was a superstar actress. I love those free preview weekends on cable.

[Fiddle Peghead]

Originally posted by Superdude

Male-Nicholas Cage. The man is the SAME CHARACTER in everything he does! He should, IMHO, NEVER have won the Oscar for "Leaving Las Vegas." It should have gone to Sean Penn for "Dead Man Walking." [/B]

I'd like to defend Cage a little bit. I liked him in "Vampire's Kiss", "Birdy", and especially "Guarding Tess", but I would agree that the in the last, oh 50 movies he's made he has been utterly boring.

My vote goes to any actor with three names.

[Kamandi]

The perpetually vile Sean Young. She's so wooden, she makes me want to set her on fire. Hell, watching her make me want to set myself on fire.

The horse-faced wonder that is Andie Macdowell. I don't know what it is about her that makes me want to claw my eyes out.

I will not watch Kevin Costner or that grinning baboon Tom Cruise.

[ghandi5569]

I abhor Jim Carrey. That man makes me want to projectile vomit every time that I see one of his movies. I avoid them like the plague, but I was dragged to see The Truman Show and Man on the Moon. And the remake of the Grinch? The thought of that makes me wretch. Heaven forbid I ever have to see that remake; I would personally have to find him and beat him with a wet noodle.

I also dislike David Arquette, but the Deputy Dewey role in the Scream movies parially validates his exisitance.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

Tho mine are both.

Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon.

They have both jammed their political, social, and liberal causes down my throat so often, that I now catagorically refuse to watch anything they do, and my life is not poorer for it.

[wolfseyn]

Jennifer Love Hewitt is very annoying and must leave.

[rowrrbazzle]

By some strange coincidence, I just submitted this site to Weird Earls:

http://www.amiannoyingornot.com/

So many annoying people, so little time. :D

[TVeblen]

I agree--emphatically--with so many of these: Kevin Costner, Jim Carrey, Gweneth Paltrow, Nicholas Cage, Michael Douglas...

One that hasn't been mentioned yet: Alec Baldwin. Whoever dubbed this guy an actor? He's generically hunky and basically stands around looking blank, when he isn't mugging. I can never figure out if the facial contortions are supposed to denote emotion or he just has gas. There's nothing behind the eyes.

This might be heresey, but: Glenn Close. Oh, she can act but I can't ever forget for one second that she's GLENN CLOSE. Somehow or other she's never the character for me; she's always GLENN CLOSE. Skilled but weirdly unconvincing.

Special mention: Hugh Grant. Bag the twinkly amoral British twit schtick, already.

Demi Moore: telegraphs EGO and has the light touch of a ballpeen hammer across the front teeth.

Meg Tilley: just so fey and twee and annoying she gives me hives.

Robin Williams: funny in stand-up work but godawful in movies. He has two gears: mania and bathos. Both are annoying as hell.

Barbra Streisand AND Charleton Heston: I don't give a whoop about their politics. "Star" opinions are crashingly useless. They both exude so much egomania the screen cringes.

Veb

[GuanoLad]

Meg Tilly? Nah, she's nice, I like her. But Jennifer Tilly??? Argh! Fie, fie and thrice fie, you and your stupid annoying whiny voice! Waaaagh!

In the male section, I've always found Avery Brooks (from Star Trek:DS9) to be really annoying. He always had this blank disinterested look in his eyes as they wandered around all over the set, eyelids drooping with nerves and boredom, plus he has a monotone staccato voice. Ugh.

[PunditLisa]

Winona Ryder - although this rant should probably be directed at the casting directors and not her. I have yet to see her in a role where she isn't horribly miscast, and the thing that annoys me most is that she twice landed a role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis (a god of a man) and they have no chemistry together. Zilch. She was surrounded by awesome actors (DDL, Joan Allen) in "The Crucible", yet she single-handedly ruined the movie because her part (Abigail) was so woefully miscast. Winona Ryder as smoldering, sexual, devious Abigail??? I don't think so. (She may have produced this movie, which explained the casting, though.)

Tom Cruise - I loved him when he didn't realize how good-looking he was -- when his nose was big and his teeth were crooked. He had character then. Now he's just another pretty, phony, Hollywood face who is just going through the emotions. Clench your jaw to look angry, grin widely to evoke charm, flex your muscle to make them swoon. Yeah, yeah. I'll take Mark Wahlberg over this guy anyday.

Ditto on the Barbra Streisand, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Woody Harrelson comments. I have trouble immersing myself in their characters because their real personalities are etched so prominently in my mind.

[Typo Negative]

Danny DeVito. As TVeblen said of Glenn Close. Oh, she can act but I can't ever forget for one second that she's GLENN CLOSE. Somehow or other she's never the character for me that goes double for me with this guy. I'm always surprised when other characters don't call him 'Danny'.

[Purd Werfect]

Rainier Wolfcastle. His acting has about as much dimension as a cartoon character.

[Coldfire]

Originally posted by TVeblen
Special mention: Hugh Grant. Bag the twinkly amoral British twit schtick, already. [/B]My boss went to school with Hugh Grant. He told me two things about him: That's not acting, that clumsy British Public School dork IS what he really is like.
He always got picked last for the school plays. :D
Says it all, doesn't it?

[AwSnappity]

Meet the Parents made me hate everyone who was in that movie.

Every single snot-faced kid in Saved by the Bell.

Those Olsen brats.

Taj Mowry.

Tia and Tamara Mowry.

Oh God, how I hate Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant!

Mira Sorvino. Ick. Although, American Beauty is one of my all-time favorites. She plays that brat so well.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by FireUnderpantsBoobs
Mira Sorvino. Ick. Although, American Beauty is one of my all-time favorites. She plays that brat so well.

uhhhh......Mena Suvari was in American Beauty....Mira Sorvino is someone else......

[DMC]

Although she is probably talented in some respects, the OP asked for annoying. Bette Midler does the trick for me.

Male: Adam Sandler/Pauly Shore/Gilbert Godfried would get a three-way tie.

[Sealemon88]

Female: Sandra Burnhardt (sp), Babs, and Bette Middler. Also Torri Spelling. And the Olsen mutant clones.

male: Freddy Prinze Jr. (sp), Carrot Top, Woody Allen, and John claude Van Damme/Stephen Segal.

[Bottle of Smoke]

Chris Tucker -- Is he supposed to be funny? His voice is so annoying it made me wish Jackie Chan would've snapped his neck.

Jennifer Aniston -- I can't explain why. She just bugs me.

[jeel]

I don't think...and can't believe that nobody has mentioned Rosie Perez...if a movie has her in it...I run away...far away.

I ended up suffering through that movie with Bridget Fonda and Nicolas Cage about the lottery....I can't even remember the name, that's how annoyed I was that Rosie Perez starred in it.

[AwSnappity]

Thanks, Icarus. Their names are so similar; I always say the wrong one. I do the same thing with Shelly Long and Shelly Duvall.

[Salieri2]

Since Sean Young and Andie MacDowell have already been mentioned, I will have to default to somewhat less-annoying but still major-league irksome:

Steve Buscemi
David Duchovny

Christina Ricci
any Arquettes

[Superdude]

Originally posted by jeel
I don't think...and can't believe that nobody has mentioned Rosie Perez...if a movie has her in it...I run away...far away.

I ended up suffering through that movie with Bridget Fonda and Nicolas Cage about the lottery....I can't even remember the name, that's how annoyed I was that Rosie Perez starred in it.


You know, I came this close to mentioning her myself. I saw that movie. On a date. And we still left halfway through. Nicholas cage and Rosie Perez are, IMHO, a recipe for disaster.