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For me
Anything Bill Bixby did was great but The Incredible Hulk was my favorite of his work
I love Patrick Stewart as Picard in Star Trek
Matt Smith as The Doctor in Doctor Who is easily my favorite portrayal of the character
Jeremy Brett is fantastic as Sherlock Holmes Peter Cushing was also great
Michael Gross as Burt Gummer in the Tremors TV series was also really fun
James Gandolfini as Tony is one of the few performances that feels like he could actually be a real person.
Bryan Cranston as Walter White and Aaron Paul as Jesse Pinkman come to mind. More recently, Evan Peters was scary as Dahmer.
Matthew McCaughney as Rust Cohle in True Detective s1.
They called him the Tax Man. Which as far as nicknames go, ain’t so bad.
“What’s ‘scented meat?”
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Evangeline Lilly was certainly solid but I felt Kate was horribly written. The writers really let her down.
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. The fact he never received or was nominated for an Emmy was a crime in-and-of-itself.
James Gandolfini - The Sopranos Peter Capaldi - The Doctor
Brad Dourif as Doc Cochran on Deadwood
Jason Alexander playing George Costanza in Seinfeld. What’s there to say, it was comedy gold.
Terry O'Quinn playing John Locke in LOST. He really was phenomenal in LOST, for me without him the show wouldn’t have been as special as it was.
Bryan Cranston as Walter White in Breaking Bad.
The characters George and Newman in Seinfeld were so brilliantly portrayed they deserved a spinoff.
dozens and dozens, which would be a pretty long and boring list, from Alec Guinness in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy to Olivia Colman in anything she's ever done (even her early Mitchell & Webb "numberwang" sketches), Stephen Rea in The Honourable Woman, the entire cast of TNG and DS9, James Gandolfini in The Sopranos, Steve Coogan as Partridge, Jared Harris in The Crown, Hugh Laurie in House, David Suchet in Poirot...
I really loved Michael Shannon's Van Alden character on Boardwalk Empire, he was just a real nut but I was so interested every time he was on screen
Far too many to list, but Grace Park as Boomer in Battlestar Galactica is a performance that should be praised more, in my opinion. Why she didn't get an Emmy for her acting in the season one episode "WATER", is beyond me.
Brian Cox as Logan Roy in Succession! But honestly, the entire cast of Succession deserves this one!!!
And obviously Bryan Cranston as Walter White is a must in a list like this. Even the man, Anthony Hopkins himself, said that it was the best acting performance he had ever seen
MASH - Alan Alda as Hawkeye, and David Ogden Stiers as Charles
Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul - Both Bryan Cranston and Bob Odenkirk did a great job in their respective leading roles.
Star Trek TNG - Patrick Stewart as Picard
Star Trek Voyager - Robert Picardo as the Doctor, and Jeri Ryan as Seven
Star Trek DS9 - So many from this cast, but especially Avery Brooks as Sisko, Armin Shimmerman as Quark, Rene Auberjonois as Odo, Andrew Robinson as Garak, and Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat
As much as I love many of Ds9's other actors, I think Andrew Robinson as Garak takes the cake for me. Others inhabited their roles as well as him, but Garak is compelling basically every time he's on screen.
Charles Dance (I think?) as Tywin Lannister also comes to mind as being arguably the most compelling character in a big cast of great characters.
+1 Hugh Laurie. He and his character carried a show through a lot of otherwise formulaic writing and silly plots. And finding out he's British was a trip after watching him do a perfect American accent for multiple seasons and never suspecting a thing.
Robert Picardo as the Doctor (AKA competent Tobias Funke) is also a good one for injecting a lot of much-needed character into Voyager. But mostly I just wanted to make the Tobias comparison.
Ian McShane as Al Swearengen - Deadwood
Bryan Cranston as Walter White - Breaking Bad
James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano - The Sopranos
Marco D'Amore as Ciro Di Marzio - Gomorrah
Charles Dance as Tywin Lannister - Game of Thrones
Jonathan Tucker as Jay Kulina in Kingdom
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There were a lot of great performances in Brand New Cherry Flavor, but Eric Lange as the producer really stood out. Really enjoyed watching him and the lead character on screen
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Brett Goldstein as Roy Kent on Ted Lasso. It's like the complete opposite of his real life self (which you can see on Sesame Street.)
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Rami Malek as Elliott on Mr Robot
Michael K Williams as Omar on The Wire
Carrie Coon as Nora on The Leftovers
Rhea Seehorn as Kim on Better Call Saul