Bakula on “Quantum Leap”
Eve Harlow on “Agents of SHIELD”
For me Colm Meaney wins this hands down. Good in Star Trek but great in other things.
Layer Cake, It’s always sunny in Philadelphia and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa are the 3 that come to mind first.
pretty good in the “Hell on Wheels” series. It also features Anson Mount.
The Commitments.
great villain in stargate atlantis
Colm Meaney’s performance in Layer Cake is simply astounding!
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Gangs of London
Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock
Benny in the behind-the-scenes footage from The Hobbit in his mo-cap suit.
Whoopi Goldberg, Sister Act II
Karl Urban, Dredd
Any of his roles are awesome, but I’d hold McCoy up there with the rest. I believed he was the doctor. Criticize the script for lines and actions, but Karl nailed the mannerisms. As he always does. He’s got a Gary Oldman ability to become something different every time.
100% agree. Of all of the Kelvin cast, he felt like Bones. Karl Urban was a fantastic casting decision.
Karl Urban is ALWAYS a fantastic casting decision!
Mulgrew. Flemeth. (Kidding).
Levar Burton will always be reading rainbow guy, no matter what he does.
Zachary Quinto. Silar. One of the better villains, until the writers went on strike and the show fell off the rails. Granted, this likely just marks the man’s range as an actor.
John Cho. The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
Koenig. Bester.
You could argue that everything Stewart does is equally well done. Scrooge. X. Gurney.
It would be easy to just gesture vaguely at all of Sir Patrick Stewart’s career. But your question was about better performances than in Trek, and I actually think he did an excellent Picard during the original TNG run. Not quite a hot take, I know.
However, for a double off-Trek billing, I suggest Green room (2015) where he plays against Anton Yelchin among others. It’s a pretty taut little thriller about a punk band on the road that realise to their horror that their gig for the night is at a neonazi club out in the sticks. It goes downhill from there.
Michelle Yeoh, Supercop
She participated in the greatest movie fight scene ever. Crouching Tiger.
Which one is sure on it? https://youtu.be/uxkr4wS7XqY
Either way, she is cool.
Jeff Combs was excellent in “The Frighteners”
How many roles did he play?
And Re-animator, and Castle freak. He has a very good track record in a certain subset of horror movies!
Whoopi Goldberg for The Color Purple.
Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once
Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Oh hell yes for Louise Fletcher…!
Michelle Yeoh in everything
*almost everything (you forgot about section 31?)
You are right, that was bad…
It was bad, but I don’t think it was her fault.
There’s a an admiral in Star Trek Beyond that looked familiar, I had to look it up and it’s Shohreh Aghdashloo. A forgettable role, only noteworthy because I recognized the actor.
She plays Avasarala in The Expanse. Total powerhouse performance.
Brent Spiner was brilliant in Master of Disguise, a phenomenal movie
Armin Shimmerman was just as good as Principal Snyder as he was as Quark.
I met him at a convention once and got him sign a letter as Principal Snyder, suspending my friend (who’s a huge Buffy fan) from Sunnydale High and threatening to expel her. He read it and thought it was hilarious.
That’s an awesome story and I agree he was great in that role.
Anthony Montgomery (Travis Mayweather) as Postmaster P in Leprechaun in the Hood
The fact that it lost to American Beauty that year is a travesty
Damn, nearly did not recognize Keating, his performance in that gif gives heavy David Tennant to me.
He should have won best actor for his performance as “Ian” in Jungle 2 Jungle.
