List of action film actors

Action film actors appear in action movies, a film genre in which one or more heroes are thrust into a series of challenges that typically include physical feats, extended fight scenes, violence, and frantic chases. Action films tend to feature a resourceful character struggling against incredible odds, which include life-threatening situations, a villain, or a pursuit which generally concludes in victory for the hero.

Notable actors

 * Scott Adkins
 * Ben Affleck
 * Carlos Agassi
 * Malin Åkerman
 * Jessica Alba
 * Jestoni Alarcon
 * Karen Allen
 * Dwayne Johnson
 * Vidyut Jammwal
 * Anthony Alonzo
 * Dan Alvaro
 * Gerald Anderson
 * Gillian Anderson
 * Jun Aristorenas
 * Cüneyt Arkın
 * Steve Austin
 * Morena Baccarin
 * Kevin Bacon
 * Joe Don Baker
 * Adam Baldwin
 * Christian Bale
 * Antonio Banderas
 * Ahmed El Sakka
 * Drew Barrymore
 * Angela Bassett
 * Dave Bautista
 * Sean Bean
 * Kate Beckinsale
 * Zoë Bell
 * David Belle
 * Jean-Paul Belmondo
 * Jim Belushi
 * Julie Benz
 * Tom Berenger
 * Kathryn Bernardo
 * Daniel Bernhardt
 * Halle Berry
 * Michael Biehn
 * Jessica Biel
 * Shane Black
 * Emily Blunt
 * Christian Boeving
 * Bernard Bonnin
 * Ernest Borgnine
 * Johnny Yong Bosch
 * Brian Bosworth
 * Kate Bosworth
 * Jeff Bridges
 * James Brolin
 * Josh Brolin
 * Charles Bronson
 * Pierce Brosnan
 * Jim Brown
 * Reb Brown
 * Sandra Bullock
 * Steve Buscemi
 * Gary Busey
 * Richard Burgi
 * Gerard Butler
 * Nicolas Cage
 * Michael Caine
 * David Caruso
 * Bruce Campbell
 * Gina Carano
 * Charisma Carpenter
 * David Carradine
 * Lynda Carter
 * Henry Cavill
 * John Cena
 * Danny Chan Kwok Kwan
 * Jackie Chan
 * Maggie Cheung
 * David Chiang
 * Shin'ichi Chiba
 * Cheng Pei-pei
 * Chin Kar-lok
 * Chow Yun-fat
 * George Clooney
 * James Coburn
 * Jennifer Connelly
 * Sean Connery
 * Bradley Cooper
 * Dominic Cooper
 * Kevin Costner
 * Jai Courtney
 * Randy Couture
 * Daniel Craig
 * Terry Crews
 * Russell Crowe
 * Tom Cruise
 * Penélope Cruz
 * Ice Cube
 * Jamie Lee Curtis
 * John Cusack
 * Mark Dacascos
 * Timothy Dalton
 * Matt Damon
 * Gary Daniels
 * Dingdong Dantes
 * Ricky Davao
 * Robert Davi
 * Keith David
 * Geena Davis
 * Michael de Mesa
 * Robert De Niro
 * Monsour del Rosario
 * Benicio del Toro
 * Alain Delon
 * Sunny Deol
 * Johnny Depp
 * Ajay Devgn
 * Cameron Diaz
 * Joko Diaz
 * Vin Diesel
 * Lexa Doig
 * Kirk Douglas
 * Robert Downey Jr.
 * Michael Dudikoff
 * Bill Duke
 * Eliza Dushku
 * Sanjay Dutt
 * Clint Eastwood
 * Gigi Edgley
 * Jesse Eisenberg
 * E.R. Ejercito
 * Idris Elba
 * Cary Elwes
 * Emilio Estevez
 * Gary Estrada
 * Jinggoy Estrada
 * Joseph Estrada
 * Chris Evans
 * Ejay Falcon
 * Colin Farrell
 * Oded Fehr
 * Mark Anthony Fernandez
 * Rudy Fernandez
 * Tony Ferrer
 * Lou Ferrigno
 * Nathan Fillion
 * Colin Firth
 * Laurence Fishburne
 * Harrison Ford
 * Robert Forster
 * William Forsythe
 * Ben Foster
 * Megan Fox
 * Jamie Foxx
 * Jason David Frank
 * Rila Fukushima
 * Gal Gadot
 * Eddie Garcia
 * Andrew Garfield
 * Jennifer Garner
 * Sarah Michelle Gellar
 * Janno Gibbs
 * Mel Gibson
 * Danny Glover
 * Cuba Gooding Jr.
 * John Goodman
 * Suresh Gopi
 * Joseph Gordon-Levitt
 * Louis Gossett Jr.
 * Kelsey Grammer
 * Erin Gray
 * Pam Grier
 * Frank Grillo
 * Michael Gross
 * Richard Gutierrez
 * Jake Gyllenhaal
 * Gene Hackman
 * Charles Hallahan
 * Linda Hamilton
 * Armie Hammer
 * Daryl Hannah
 * Tom Hanks
 * Tom Hardy
 * Kit Harington
 * Danielle Harris
 * Naomie Harris
 * David Hasselhoff
 * Anne Hathaway
 * Rutger Hauer
 * Salma Hayek
 * Marg Helgenberger
 * Tricia Helfer
 * Chris Hemsworth
 * Liam Hemsworth
 * Lance Henriksen
 * Mark Herras
 * Charlton Heston
 * Hulk Hogan
 * Djimon Hounsou
 * Sibelle Hu
 * Vanessa Hudgens
 * Ernie Hudson
 * Brent Huff
 * Sammo Hung
 * Josh Hutcherson
 * Rhene Imperial
 * Kadir İnanır
 * Michael Ironside
 * Jason Isaacs
 * Tony Jaa
 * Hugh Jackman
 * Kate Jackson
 * Samuel L. Jackson
 * Theo James
 * Thomas Jane
 * Famke Janssen
 * Scarlett Johansson
 * Don Johnson
 * Dwayne Johnson
 * Angelina Jolie
 * Felicity Jones
 * January Jones
 * Sam J. Jones
 * Tommy Lee Jones
 * Vinnie Jones
 * Michael B. Jordan
 * Milla Jovovich
 * Meiko Kaji
 * Lau Kar-leung
 * Michael Keaton
 * Toby Kebbell
 * Mila Kunis
 * Shah Rukh Khan
 * Cynthia Khan
 * Richard Kiel
 * Rinko Kikuchi
 * Val Kilmer
 * Ben Kingsley
 * Ravi Teja
 * Takeshi Kitano
 * Keira Knightley
 * Kane Kosugi
 * Shô Kosugi
 * Martin Kove
 * Akshay Kumar
 * Chiaki Kuriyama
 * Aaron Kwok
 * Shia LaBeouf
 * Lorenzo Lamas
 * Christopher Lambert
 * Burt Lancaster
 * Sonny Landham
 * Jess Lapid, Jr.
 * Jess Lapid, Sr.
 * Lito Lapid
 * Mark Lapid
 * Sanaa Lathan
 * Andy Lau
 * Taylor Lautner
 * Lucy Lawless
 * Jennifer Lawrence
 * Martin Lawrence
 * George Lazenby
 * Bruce Lee
 * Don Lee
 * Jason Scott Lee
 * Lee Min-ho
 * Moon Lee
 * Kier Legaspi
 * Zoren Legaspi
 * Al Leong
 * Jet Li
 * Lucy Liu
 * Angel Locsin
 * Dolph Lundgren
 * Kellan Lutz
 * Anthony Mackie
 * Michael Madsen
 * Tobey Maguire
 * Robert Maillet
 * John Malkovich
 * Rey Malonzo
 * Joe Manganiello
 * Edu Manzano
 * Baldo Marro
 * Coco Martin
 * Lee Marvin
 * Matt McColm
 * Matthew McConaughey
 * Mary McDonnell
 * Rose McGowan
 * Steve McQueen
 * Ian McShane
 * Johnny Messner
 * Sasha Mitchell
 * Rhona Mitra
 * Mohanlal
 * Jason Momoa
 * Cesar Montano
 * Demi Moore
 * Roger Moore
 * Chloë Grace Moretz
 * Carrie-Anne Moss
 * Eddie Murphy
 * Michael Murphy
 * Liam Neeson
 * Nichelle Nichols
 * Rachel Nichols
 * Jack Nicholson
 * Brigitte Nielsen
 * Connie Nielsen
 * Nick Nolte
 * Chuck Norris
 * Edward Norton
 * Warren Oates
 * Timothy Olyphant
 * Victor Ortiz
 * Yukari Ôshima
 * Clive Owen
 * Al Pacino
 * Daniel Padilla
 * Robin Padilla
 * Rommel Padilla
 * Michael Paré
 * Anne Parillaud
 * Ray Park
 * Sonny Parsons
 * Robert Patrick
 * Guy Pearce
 * Gregory Peck
 * Anthony Perkins
 * Ron Perlman
 * William Petersen
 * Alex Pettyfer
 * Ryan Phillippe
 * Lou Diamond Phillips
 * Chris Pine
 * Brad Pitt
 * Fernando Poe Jr.
 * Natalie Portman
 * Glen Powell
 * Chris Pratt
 * Freddie Prinze Jr.
 * Dominic Purcell
 * Maggie Q
 * Dennis Quaid
 * Puneeth Rajkumar
 * Cyril Raffaelli
 * Derek Ramsay
 * Oliver Reed
 * Keanu Reeves
 * John Regala
 * James Remar
 * Jeremy Renner
 * Jean Reno
 * Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr.
 * Ramon Revilla, Sr.
 * Efren Reyes Jr.
 * Efren Reyes Sr.
 * Burt Reynolds
 * Ryan Reynolds
 * Ving Rhames
 * Ronnie Ricketts
 * Marian Rivera
 * Margot Robbie
 * Eric Roberts
 * Bembol Roco
 * Eddie Rodriguez
 * Michelle Rodriguez
 * Miguel Rodriguez
 * Henry Rollins
 * Michael Rooker
 * Ruby Rose
 * Hrithik Roshan
 * Cynthia Rothrock
 * Richard Roundtree
 * Mickey Rourke
 * Ronda Rousey
 * Paul Rudd
 * Kurt Russell
 * Jeri Ryan
 * Katee Sackhoff
 * Zoe Saldana
 * Phillip Salvador
 * Raymart Santiago
 * Susan Sarandon
 * Romnick Sarmenta
 * Catherine Schell
 * Roy Scheider
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * Steven Seagal
 * Tom Selleck
 * William Shatner
 * Robert Shaw
 * Charlie Sheen
 * Sunil Shetty
 * Robin Shou
 * Tiger Shroff
 * Elisabeth Shue
 * Tom Sizemore
 * Alexander Skarsgård
 * Tom Skerritt
 * Christian Slater
 * Will Smith
 * Wesley Snipes
 * Kevin Sorbo
 * Jeff Speakman
 * Sylvester Stallone
 * Sebastian Stan
 * Jason Statham
 * Ray Stevenson
 * Sharon Stone
 * Meryl Streep
 * Kiefer Sutherland
 * Hilary Swank
 * Patrick Swayze
 * Mr. T
 * Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
 * Amanda Tapping
 * Joe Taslim
 * Channing Tatum
 * Charlize Theron
 * Uma Thurman
 * Ti Lung
 * Gina Torres
 * John Travolta
 * Danny Trejo
 * Nicholas Tse
 * Mike Tyson
 * Karl Urban
 * Iko Uwais
 * Jean-Claude Van Damme
 * Casper Van Dien
 * Vic Vargas
 * Ronaldo Valdez
 * Dante Varona
 * Robert Vaughn
 * Ian Veneracion
 * Jesse Ventura
 * Ace Vergel
 * Joseph Vijay
 * Sharni Vinson
 * Roi Vinzon
 * Jon Voight
 * Lindsay Wagner
 * Mark Wahlberg
 * Paul Walker
 * Fred Ward
 * Denzel Washington
 * Emma Watson
 * Naomi Watts
 * John Wayne
 * Carl Weathers
 * Sigourney Weaver
 * Hugo Weaving
 * Zhao Wei
 * Raquel Welch
 * Peter Weller
 * Vernon Wells
 * Weng Weng
 * Adam West
 * Forest Whitaker
 * David A.R. White
 * Michael Jai White
 * Billy Dee Williams
 * Maisie Williams
 * Fred Williamson
 * Bruce Willis
 * Don "The Dragon" Wilson
 * Owen Wilson
 * Jeff Wincott
 * Kate Winslet
 * Shailene Woodley
 * Sam Worthington
 * Simon Yam
 * Yanin Vismitananda
 * Donnie Yen
 * Gong Yoo
 * Michelle Yeoh
 * Bolo Yeung
 * Nan Yu
 * Yuen Biao
 * Ramon Zamora
 * Billy Zane
 * Marko Zaror
 * Zhang Ziyi
 * Zaldy Zshornack