You’re not alone in feeling that way.
I saw the touring company of **Newsies **on Sunday. The female lead, Morgan Keene, was really bad. She sang okay and was a decent dancer, but she seemed to feel that she had to shout to the back row of the theater, even though she had a microphone.
Two that immediately came to mind are Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in The Game of Thrones series, and Jennifer Carpenter as Debra Morgan in the Dexter series.
Domnhall Gleeson in Ex Machina had me half-expecting his character to turn out to be a robot.
Manny (Rico Rodriguez) and Luke (Nolan Gould) on Modern Family. They’re both extremely wooden, and they almost take me out of the show. Fortunately they’re not getting many lines these days (if anything, they’re focusing on the even-younger kids, Joe and Lily).
I was very surprised at the unusually poor acting from some of the minor parts in House of Cards Season 4. Can’t name any names, but most of the first few episodes, plus a few assorted scenes throughout the season, had acting so bad it took me right out of the scene.
Yeah but he’s like Hayden Christiansen where rarely he will give a phenomenal performance (Butterfly Effect) so people start thinking he can act.
I thought the person playing the father in the recent Poltergeist remake did a particularly poor job. He was definitely worse than Craig T Nelson in the original.
Going back a bit, the actress that played Tara on True Blood was a major reason why I stopped watching the show. It’s pretty difficult to upstage all the other not-great acting on that show, but she pulled it off.
Modern Family, Manny is Manny and he’ll never change so I’m resigned to it but Luke used to be very funny when he was younger. Now he’s all awkward and teenagery and can’t deliver a line to save his life. Lily was great with the deadpan putdowns but she’s getting self conscious too.
Pride and Prejudice, Keira Knightley could deliver her lines well enough but her mannerisms and facial expressions were all heaving late 20th c emo.
Can’t point to anyone specifically but whenever I see bad acting I think there are so many professional actors out there so why use someone that thinks they’re in a college play or worst yet impersonating Calculon.
How much of that was on the writers (or directors I guess) though? I mean, after Season 2 she pretty much cried every single episode. That’s a good show to list, though. Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer were terrible, while most of the lesser characters were fantastic. The actors playing Lafayette, Arlene, Terry, Jason, and Andy killed it every episode.
I cannot watch Sarah Paulson in virtually any role.
I sincerely hope Angelina Jolie is putting her time to better use.
Is there no beginning to Sophia Vergara’s acting abilities?
In reverse order of the most wooden performances I have had the displeasure of seeing:
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Megan Boone (Blacklist).
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Kristen Stewart (Snow White and the Huntsman).
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Bitsie Tulloch (Grimm).
So changing her to ‘Eve’, where wooden acting is required, was the right move? 
January Jones in everything. Her non-emoting usually worked for Betty Draper, but I think only because they quickly learned not to write her anything remotely challenging. When she ventured off- onto SNL for example- she was so wooden she got dry rot.
Not exactly acting, but Johnny Depp (suddenly looking his age and like he’s using again) and Amber Heard’s viral apology to Australia is… um, interesting.
Lily, I’m not sure if she’s a cute kid that grew up & couldn’t act & they’re stuck with or a joke that I don’t get.
I guess not many people here have seen The Gallows yet; it’s on cable, so I DVRed it. Wow, the acting is bad. Like, school-play bad.
Sullen Sullivan Stapleton from Blindspot. I’m pretty sure he’d grimace and growl if you tickled him.
That’s the worst acting you’ve seen lately!?