For a few ladies that are good at sinister characters, I’d like to nominate Marcia Gay Hardin as Mrs. Carmody in The Mist, and Laura Linney in Mystic River, Ozark, and Primal Fear.
Yeah, in Primal Fear, she was technically a “good guy,” but she was perfect as the prosecuting attorney.
Tom Hardy. He was great as both Kray brothers in “Legend”, and his Alfie in “Peaky Blinders” was so good they kept bringing him back after they killed him off.
His whole sequence of deciding & convincing his companion to leave DiCaprio behind in “The Revenant” was excellent too. And looking back, Bane is better than the attitudes at the time gave him credit for.
Vladek Sheybal
Raymond Massey in “Arsenic and Old Lace”.
Ian Holm in “Alien”
Martin Sheen in “Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane”
Louise Fletcher in “…Cuckoo’s Nest”