Thriller Actors

Samuel L. Jackson

Jackson was born on 21st December 1948. He is an American film and television actor. His most known films are Pulp Fiction (where he recieved several award nominations), Jurassic Park, Goodfellas, The 51st State and many more

In becoming involved as an actor, Jackson firstly became committed to the Civil Rights Movement, which introduced and moved him on to acting in theatre and then in films. He is one of the highest grossing actors at the box office, where he has appeared in over 100 films. Here is a filmography of the thriller films Jackson has appeared in:

• The Exorcist III (1989)
• Sea of Love (1989)
• A Shock to the System (1990)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Assault at West Point (1994)
• Kiss of Death (1995)
• A Time to Kill (1996)
• The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
• Hard Eight (1996)
• One Eight Seven (1997)
• The Negotiator (1998)
• Unbreakable (2000)
• Changing Lanes (2002)
• No Good Deed (2002)
• Basic (2003)
• Twisted (2004)
• Cleaner (2007)
  

Kevin Bacon

Bacon was born on 8th July 1958 in Philadelphia. He is a film and theatre actor whose most memorable pieces of work are in Apollo 13, Friday the 13th, Footloose and many more. Bacon has been nominated for Golden Globe, Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

He was the youngest of six chidren, and at 16 he joint the Pennsylvania Governors School for the Arts. The next year he left homw and pursued his theatre career in New York, in a production at the Circle in the Square Theatre School.

Bacon has appeared in mainly comedy themed films over the last four decades and is regarded as one of the best actors to never recieve an Oscar nomination. Here is a filmography of some of the thriller films Bacon has appeared in:

• Criminal Law (1989)
• The River Wild (1994)
• Wild Things (1998)
• Stir or Echoes (1999)
• Hollow Man (2000)
• Trapped (2002)
• In the Cut (2003)