Who do you consider to be THE sci-fi actor?
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
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THE sci-fi actor? Tough to choose, but Sigourney Weaver deserves to be on the nomination list.
Milla Jovovich too.
Yes!
Patrick Stewart has been in some real bangers
Good point!
Name one
Gurney Haleck
https://youtu.be/DyfpEP_CCDE
Jeffrey Combs.
He's mostly a supporting actor, but he's a chameleon who always delivers.
This is the answer. Patrick Stewart is the face, but Jeffrey Combs is the backbone
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.
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.
Oh for sure! Just rewatched it a few weeks ago actually.
"My body... is a roadmap of pain."
From Beyond!
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
Karl Urban is great, but he still has a bit to catch up to Jeffrey Combs lol
Best Dredd ever.
Almost Human series too.
Zoe Saldana should be in the conversation
She was the first person I thought of.
Second, probably Patrick Stewart.
Then, I think, Sigourney Weaver.
Speaking on behalf of the Star Trek nerds: Jeffrey Combs or Vaughan Armstrong with an honorable mention for J.G. Hertzler
Jude Law's in most scifi i like, such as eXistenZ, Gattaca, AI, etc...
Max Von Sydow
Yep, absolutely, it's not even a contest
Guy played multiple roles in some of the same episodes.
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.
Game over man!
Moon: Sam Rockwell
And Galaxy Quest. And Iron Man II (if it counts). And "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy".
Is it about the best actors or about your favourite movies?
If it's about actors, then:
P.S. Also who the fuck considers stupid comic book movies a Sci-Fi?
Emily Blunt also delivers an incredible performance in "The Edge of Tomorrow".
Agree!
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.
I hate comics with passion. They're nothing but mental diarrhea.
Wow, what a dumb and toxic take.
S. Weaver, Z. Saldaña, S. Agdashloo, N. Portman
Matt Frewer.
The Binder! Nice pick
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.
Wayne Alexander, he's the Jeffrey Combs of Babylon 5
To be fair, Jeffrey Combs played every second alien in Star Trek, Wayne Alexander every second alien in Babylon 5, but: Jeffrey Combs was also in B5, Wayne Alexander never in Star Trek
Oh yeah, so he was.
Oscar Isaac was also the tech bro ceo in ex machina.
I'd like to nominate Alan Tudyk.
Maybe William Shatner or perhaps the guy from Blue's Clues
Sam Neill
Acting credits aside, Djimon is literally named after a sci-fi franchise
John Hurt.