10 Actors Who Won Everyone Over With ONE Performance

10. Ryan Reynolds - Buried

Ryan Reynolds made a name for himself throughout the 2000s as that handsome, quippy motormouth typically cast as the charming douchebag in any number of mainstream studio comedies.

Few were taking him seriously as a dramatic actor, but with 2010's Buried, that all changed.

Reynolds starred in the low-budget survival thriller as Paul Conroy, an American truck driver working in Iraq who wakes up buried alive in a wooden coffin, and spends the movie's entire 95-minute runtime desperately trying to find a way out.

Reynolds basically is the movie - he's in almost every single shot and there would be absolutely nowhere for him to hide were his performance not up to par. 

But Reynolds cast his popular movie star persona aside and gave a decidedly vanity-free performance as a terrified everyman doing all he can to escape his fraught situation.

Honestly, it's a brilliant enough performance to make you wish Reynolds would throw himself into strange, un-Hollywood genre films like this more often. 

Superb though he is as Deadpool, it'd be great to see him hop off the blockbuster conveyor-belt every now and then.