3. Wentworth Miller
You may recognise him as: For five years Miller played the lead on the increasingly ridiculous Prison Break. Millers Michael Scofield got himself sent to prison in order to break his brother out, all with the aid of his hugely elaborate tattoo. Unfortunately, once the titular prison break occurred, the show struggled to have many fresh ideas beyond further break outs. Nevertheless, Miller impressed enough in Prison Breaks early days to earn a Best Actor nomination at the Golden Globes. Prior to Prison Break, mixed race star Miller had appeared in the movie The Human Stain, as a black man passing for white, and Disneys dinosaurs and humans coexisting miniseries Dinotopia. Miller got his first break as a fish-man on the school swim team in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (co-starring with this lists number one choice). But you may not know: Millers debut script, Stoker, first appeared on the Black List, Hollywoods list of the best unproduced screenplays, in 2010. A psycho-sexual Southern Gothic riff on Hitchcocks Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchs favourite of his own films), Stoker was eventually picked up by Oldboy and Sympathy for Mr Vengeance director Park Chan-wook as his first English language film. Released earlier this year with Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman as the three leads, Stoker proved to be one of 2013s most interesting and engaging films and one of the best horror pictures in years. Since Stoker, another of Millers family drama horror scripts, The Disappointments Room, has also began development for a possible future release.