10 Actors With Shockingly High Movie Death Counts
A lifetime of dying over, and over, and over again.
Movies don't let actors have an easy time when it comes to bringing their stories to life. In fact, rather ironically, they're almost always all about death instead.
Passing away is part and parcel of being an actor, meaning you're going to have to do your best impression of being brown bread at some point in your career if you've got any hopes of making it.
Whether it's bullet-ridden bodies in action movies, drawn out and torturous violence in horror, or just straight up, heart-breaking 'natural causes' in a drama, audiences love the Grim Reaper to stick his scythe in to spice things up in their films. And let's be real, he's got to have a favourite, since some actors have made it part of their brand to consistently get cut down in the name of their craft.
So let's take a look at the actors who made it a competition to see how many times they could end up sleeping with the fishes, and who really can take the cark-it crown for dying the most. In this case, we'll be looking specifically at those actors with epic bodycounts as well as those you may be shocked to learn have died quite so many times.
And If you already 'know' it's going to be Sean Bean at number one, then think again - he's basically a pretender to the crown...
10. Charlize Theron - 25 Movie Deaths
The only woman to rack up the deaths high enough for this list, Charlize Theron isn't the first name you think of when considering people passing away on screen - but with 25 deaths to 52 films, her chances of biting it during a feature are higher than most.
Playing everything from death row inmate Aileen Wuornos to super powered immortal in Hancock, Theron has worked hard at establishing her brand of authenticity across every genre in the book - and then been impaled by a murderous plant-demon as thanks for it.
The only death that matters, incidentally, is the one in Prometheus, in which her character Meredith Vickers forgets how physics works entirely and runs in a straight line away from a crashing spaceship. Whilst her death in Monster by lethal injection was Oscar-winning and ageing to the point of decrepitness in Snow White and The Hunstman was fun and all, forgetting to zig zag is still the only one that serves as a lasting memory. She's better than what that film did to her.