13 Actors Who Are About To Make It Big

9. Timothy Olyphant

Timothy Olyphant1 Handsome, charismatic, and a damn fine actor, it's no wonder that Timothy Olyphant has never taken off like he should have. First gaining cult television prominence in the role of Seth Bullock on HBO's oft-lamented but still remarkably little-seen western Deadwood that was too damn smart for its own good. You may also recognize him as the main villain from Live Free or Die Hard, the movie that took the durable but ultimately fallible John McClane we knew from Die Hard and put him on top of a jet as it crashed into a highway. Now Olyphant looks like he's really enjoying his time as the patron handsome saint of good television on Justified (which is easily one of the top five best TV shows on the air but still manages to avoid viewers because they'd much rather watch boring people fight zombies in a prison), but I'd still like to see him garner the recognition that he deserves, even if it is only as an Expendables villain on some such nonsense.
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