10 Highly Successful Actors Who Don't Actually Act

10. Vinnie Jones

Let's not get carried away before we start, because we all know that Vinnie Jones has never been in the highest ring of acting talent, and I'd be more than amazed if that ever changed. But the man has won praise for his performances in pictures such as Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, whether that acclaim was dished out because it was unexpected of a former football hardman or not is anybody's guess. Jones has a knack of playing giant, muscle-bound henchmen who either don't speak at all, or spend their entire time on screen screaming another character into a bloody pulp. Seemingly every time you see Vinnie Jones in a movie, he's wearing some form of suit and standing with his arms crossed at his waist, or if he's not doing that, he's wearing a dodgy leather supervillain garb and screaming that he is, indeed, the Juggernaut. And as for the aforementioned use of dialogue, there appears to be a trend in Vinnie's performances; if the film is British made, he speaks/shouts just as much as everyone else in the film. If he's in an American movie, the less speaking the better, as we saw in roles like Gone In 60 Seconds. But by far the best piece of management when it comes to the acting talents afforded by Vinnie Jones was in the Kazakhstani movie Liquidator. Seeing as the filmmakers were shooting the film in the native language, and that Jones definitely does not speak said language, they decided to just carry on filming anyway, and get Vinnie to be completely mute. They didn't dub over and give him dialogue either, he literally says nothing for the entire movie in which he is the star. Jones, like Lee in LotR would appear to just wander onto a film set and go about his usual Cockney gangster/henchman business until the day is done, picking up a nice fee for it at the end of the day.