MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
It’s not easy to upstage Bette Davis.
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
One scene, really, but they absolutely run with it, and make it one of the most memorable, quotable scenes in a memorable, quotable movie.
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
Wearing a fat suit and bald cap, Cruise as Les Grossman is a profane, ill-tempered Hollywood producer, reputedly based on Scott Rudin and Harvey Weinstein.
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
He played a sleazy used-car dealer to hilarious perfection.
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
- Alan Rickman - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
A scenery-chewing, sinister Sheriff of Nottingham. The only actor in the film to receive an award, a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actor.
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
- Alan Rickman - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
- Benicio Del Toro - The Usual Suspects
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
- Alan Rickman - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
- Benicio Del Toro - The Usual Suspects
- Helen Hayes – Airport (1970)
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- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
- Alan Rickman - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
- Benicio Del Toro - The Usual Suspects
- Helen Hayes – Airport (1970)
- Una O’Connor in pretty much every movie she was in
MORE actors and actresses who play secondary characters but steal every scene they’re in!
- Patricia Hitchcock – Strangers on a Train
- Claude Rains - Deception
- Billy Crystal and Carol Kane - The Princess Bride
- Tom Cruise - Tropic Thunder
- Bill Paxton - True Lies
- Alan Rickman - Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
- Benicio Del Toro - The Usual Suspects
- Helen Hayes – Airport (1970)
- Una O’Connor in pretty much every movie she was in
- Randall “Tex” Cobb - Raising Arizona
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Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
And other films.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
- Evan Rachel Wood, Barefoot
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
- Evan Rachel Wood, Barefoot
- Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
Her character was the first thus described, by film critic Nathan Rabin in 2007.
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
- Evan Rachel Wood, Barefoot
- Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
- Malanie Griffith, Something Wild
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
- Evan Rachel Wood, Barefoot
- Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
- Malanie Griffith, Something Wild
- Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Manic Pixie Dream Girls
- Zooey Deschanel, Yes Man
- Katharine Hepburn, Bringing Up Baby
- Michelle Meyrink, Real Genius
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Natalie Portman, Garden State
- Evan Rachel Wood, Barefoot
- Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
- Malanie Griffith, Something Wild
- Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Goldie Hawn, Butterflies are Free
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