My nominees and some of their top sci-fi roles:

Oscar Isaac:

• Star Wars 7-9 - Poe Dameron

• Dune Part 1 - Duke Leto Atreides

• X-Men Apocalypse - Apocalypse

• MCU (Moon Knight) - all 3 Moon Knight personae

• Spider-Verse movies - Miguel O’Hara (Spider-Man 2099)

Christopher Lloyd:

• Back to the Future I-III - “Doc” Emmet Brown

• Star Trek 3 - Kruge

• Star Wars (The Mandalorian) - Commissioner Helgait

Djimon Honsou:

• MCU films (Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain Marvel) - Korath the Pursuer

• DCEU film (Aquaman) - Fisherman King

• DCEU films (Shazam 1 & 2, Black Adam) - the Wizard Shazam

• Stargate - Horus

  • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 days ago

    I cannot believe no one has mentioned Bill Paxton, who is, to my knowledge, the only actor to have been killed onscreen by the Terminator, a xenomorph, AND a Predator. If that doesn’t qualify him for a spot in the genre HoF, idk what does.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    5 days ago

    Jeffrey Combs.

    He’s mostly a supporting actor, but he’s a chameleon who always delivers.

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      5 days ago

      Watch the Re-animator movies. He gets to be the lead! He has a knack for delivering B-horror scripts with the gravitas of the finest stage actors.

      • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I’ve been meaning to watch it for a while now; I’ll have to make that happen soon.

        Ever seen The Frighteners? The CGI definitely does not hold up, but the plot and acting are top-notch. Combs plays a super creep in it that you love to hate.

        • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          Oh for sure! Just rewatched it a few weeks ago actually.

          “My body… is a roadmap of pain.”

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
    155·
    4 days ago

    Is it about the best actors or about your favourite movies?

    If it’s about actors, then:

    • Sigourney Weaver - played in many Sci-Fi movies, excellent actress and her talent is not limited to a bad ass from Alien. I would say that she defined a woman’s place in Sci-Fi works and you can see a lot of women leading Sci-Fi these days.
    • Harrison Ford - again, played in many Sci-Fi movies, got popular for his role as Han Solo, but he’s very talented and got a huge list of incredible roles.
    • Emily Blunt is a great actress, but her exposure to Sci-Fi is limited. With that said she did an amazing job in Quiet Place.
    • Cillian Murphy is one of my favourites! And he has some banging Sci-Fi roles: from 28 x Later zombie series to Inception to Sunshine.
    • Wes Chatham. He has a few Sci-Fi roles, but his portrayal of Amos Burton is just next level shit in the world of Sci-Fi. A very atypical character, which just blew my mind.

    P.S. Also who the fuck considers stupid comic book movies a Sci-Fi?

    • Wolf314159@startrek.website
      21·
      3 days ago

      Whoa there. Are you seriously gatekeeping sci-fi? Don’t be a jerk.

      Just the MCU characters with an obvious sci-fi backstory: Tony Stark, Hulk (an actual scientist), everyone in Guardians of the Galaxy. Even Thor is actually an alien using Sci-Fi tech. Bucky Barnes is a cybernetic super soldier. There’s the Nazi scientist from Hydra that transferred his consciousness into a computer. Fucking Vision and his love story with Wanda. Black Panther may mix in some mystical drug, but his suit and all the other toys are all science fiction.

      I’m not arguing that ANY of these are great science fiction stories, but they are still undeniably science fiction. Sci-fi stories are often also something else: horror, action, humanist, dramatic, comedy, or all of the above.

      Not every science fiction story needs to use the obvious sci-fi tropes either. Ursula K Le Guin wrote a bunch of very influencial science fiction stories that you could be forgiven for classifying as fantasy and have very little shiny tech in them.

  • notaviking@lemmy.world
    251·
    5 days ago

    How has no one mentioned Karl Urban yet, criminal. Apart from fantasy and superhero films, his sci-fi films like Doom, Judge Dredd, Star Trek, Riddick

    • blarth@thelemmy.club
      2·
      5 days ago

      She was the first person I thought of.

      Second, probably Patrick Stewart.

      Then, I think, Sigourney Weaver.

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    20·
    5 days ago

    Speaking on behalf of the Star Trek nerds: Jeffrey Combs or Vaughan Armstrong with an honorable mention for J.G. Hertzler

  • Strayce@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    8·
    5 days ago

    My first thougt is Rutger Hauer. Rarely in anything spectacular, but always delivers. Just a good solid back catalogue of surprisingly decent performances in otherwise B-movies.