10 Actors Who Just Gave Their Best Performance Ever

10. Barry Keoghan – Saltburn

Ever fancied watching a young man dance naked to Sophie Ellis-Bextor, drink bathwater, and have carnal relations with another young man's grave? Boy do we have the film - and performance - for you.

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Saltburn offers all of the above and more, as troubled Oxford Uni student Oliver (Barry Keoghan) becomes fixated with popular, upper-class college-mate Felix (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to spend the summer on his eccentric and impossibly rich family's estate: Saltburn. Carnage, deception, debauchery and bad vibes ensue across a hot and deadly summer.

Emerald Fennell's second film has divided audiences with its portrayal of a life of luxury and wealth featuring seemingly no redeemable characters. Nevertheless, Keoghan brings his fluid and perpetually developing A-game to the bath-sippin' lead role. The Dublin-born actor whacks on a soft scouse accent and proceeds to blend together the energy and qualities he brought to The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Calm with Horses, in a part that demands his gory all.

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