Movies about Villain played by lead actor
Sometimes, actors only hit it big after playing a villain or two, and some actors go their whole careers without ever once playing a bad guy. Others, though, kind of make playing bad guys their whole deal, and they are often really good at it. Whether they’re versatile actors who have played a little of everything — including some iconic bad guys — or the kind of actors who play characters you love to hate pretty exclusively, this collection features some of the top actors known for playing villainous parts.
Yet these aren’t actors who keep their light under a bad guy bushel. We’ve got Oscar winners aplenty here — and some of them won their awards for playing villains — so vote up your favorite actors who are so good at being bad.
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Alan Rickman
The Villains: Hans Gruber in Die Hard , the Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves , Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd , et al. The Actor: While many modern viewers may know him best as the conflicted Severus Snape from the Harry Potter series, whose definition as a villain is questionable, Alan Rickman already had a well-trod reputation for playing nefarious, reptilian roles long before he donned the robes of Hogwarts’ master of potions. In fact, his breakout role came more than a decade earlier, when he played one of the most memorable villains in cinematic history — the terrorist mastermind Hans Gruber in John McTiernan’s original Die Hard.
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Gary Oldman
The Villains: Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK , Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula , Stansfield in The Professional , Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg in The Fifth Element , Drexl Spivey in True Romance , Dr. Smith in Lost in Space , Mason Verger in Hannibal , et al. The Actor: Gary Oldman has played, well, pretty much everybody at one point or another. He’s been Pontius Pilate and Commissioner Gordon, punk rock legend Sid Vicious and Winston Churchill and Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. He’s been a wizard, a spy, a rabbi, numerous scientists, and the devil. He’s also played lots and lots of villains. His breakout performance for mainstream audiences was probably in Francis Ford Coppola’s baroque 1992 adaptation of Dracula , where Oldman played the eponymous count under old age makeup, Victorian dress, and even several monstrous transformations. He even went toe-to-toe with one of cinema’s most iconic villains, Hannibal Lecter, when he played (under acres of prosthetics) the sadistic Mason Verger in Ridley Scott’s Hannibal .
15 Best Realistic Movie Villains, Ranked for 2023
W ho is the best movie villain of all time? There are a number of lists that include The Joker, Darth Vader, Freddy Krueger, and Nurse Ratched, but we wanted to make a list that wasn’t so… disparate.
In this list, we’re going to give you a list of the best realistic movie villains. These are the people that make your skin crawl because they might be sitting next to you on the subway or behind you in the grocery line, especially if you notice them buying fava beans in bulk.
Best Movie Villains Of All Time
Criteria for our best movie villain list
For our list of the best movie villains of all time, we had to make some hard decisions. We like lists here at StudioBinder, and that includes lists for the best horror movie villain and the best super-villains, so we decided to omit these types of movie villains from this particular list.
We based our movie villains and antagonists on a few things. The first of the criteria was that these villains had to have the ability to actually exist, which is why you won’t find Darth Vader on here. We looked at dialogue, performance, actions, and how well the villain’s overall demeanor was able to instill fear and stress while you watch the movie play out.
This is all reliant on the competency of the filmmaking team which is why we used these criteria to help create our list of the best villains.
Best Movie Antagonists
15. Snatch | Brick Top (2000)
Hraje: Alan Ford
If you’ve ever seen the film, you’ll know that Brick Top is a seriously creepy and oddly charismatic movie villain. He has a few awesome monologues, one on the definition of ‘nemesis’ as well as a few scenes where he uses a pack of dogs to torture his adversaries.
The 51 greatest movie villains of all time, ranked
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51. Biff Tannen («Back to the Future» franchise)
Perhaps one of the biggest bullies in movie history, we watch Biff terrorize the McFly family over three movies with his «butthead» taunts. And with that, actor Thomas F. Wilson will always be a part of movie history.
50. Norman Stansfield («Léon: The Professional»)
Gary Oldman loves every moment while playing this crooked cop who needs «EVERYONE!!» to take out a hitman (Jean Reno) who just wants to be left alone.
49. Emperor Palpatine («Star Wars» franchise)
The evil overlord of the Sith is the ultimate puppet master of a galaxy far, far away.
48. Hans Gruber («Die Hard»)
This terrorist mastermind may not have been as memorable if it weren’t for the amazing acting by Alan Rickman, who made the character so fun to watch.
47. Buffalo Bill («Silence of the Lambs»)
«Silence of the Lambs» is so diabolical it gave us two memorable villains (we’ll meet the other one later).
Ted Levine’s portrayal of the serial killer «Buffalo Bill» (real name James Gumb) who is in search of making the perfect woman suit from actual women’s skin is horrific regardless how many times you’ve seen the movie.
46. Staff Sergeant Barnes («Platoon»)
In Oliver Stone’s gripping look at the Vietnam War the performance by Tom Berenger as the scarred-up, tough-as-nails Sgt. Barnes is a chilling one. He’s so demented his men are convinced «the only thing that can kill Barnes is Barnes.»
45. Joan Crawford («Mommie Dearest»)
The off-camera life of actress Joan Crawford is brought to startling life thanks to Faye Dunaway’s performance. An adaptation of the memoir by Crawford’s adopted daughter Christina Crawford, we watch how the actress manipulated and abused her family. Topped with the classic line: «No wire hangers. «
44. Damien («The Omen»)
As the son of an American ambassador (Gregory Peck) who turns out to be the Antichrist, Damien’s evil is heightened becomes it comes from what looks like a very cute-looking child, played perfectly by Harvey Spencer Stephens.
43. Hedy Carlson («Single White Female»)
Jennifer Jason Leigh’s performance led to a generation of women being completely frightened about getting a new roommate. Hedy Carlson’s complete obsession with Allison (Bridget Fonda), even getting the same identical haircut she has, makes her a worthy addition to this list.
42. Green Goblin («Spider-Man,» «Spider-Man: Now Way Home»)
Willem Dafoe has always had a knack for delivering off-the-wall performances, but being cast as Green Goblin didn’t just allow him to do it for a much bigger paycheck than he often gets, he was also introduced to an audience that doesn’t often go see him in indie dramas.
The result is a performance that has stayed with audiences since 2002’s «Spider-Man» was released.
Playing wealthy industrialist Norman Osborn who goes wildly mad and becomes the Green Goblin alter ego after injecting himself with a superhuman serum, Dafoe delivers a wicked Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde persona that’s the perfect villain to Spider-Man.
And Dafoe’s performance was cemented as an all-time great when Green Goblin wreaked havoc in «Spider-Man: No Way Home.»
41. Alex («A Clockwork Orange»)
There are some villains that are so bad you can’t help but root for them and that’s the case with the lead in one of Stanley Kubrick’s most demented movies. Malcolm McDowell’s sinister Alex and his «ultra-violent» ways lead to some very dark moments, but the way Alex does everything means you just can’t turn away.
40. Amy Dunne («Gone Girl»)
Don’t ever cheat on your partner. That’s the moral of the story in «Gone Girl,» as Amy Dunne shows what payback is. Disappearing on her fifth wedding anniversary and concocting a plan so it looks like her husband, Nick (Ben Affleck), is responsible, Amy (played perfectly by Rosamund Pike) pulls off a mix of twisted liberation and revenge.
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