Which actors could you watch in just about anything?

[WallabyWay]

I'm thinking of their talent as an actor but I'll let you decide what makes them so watchable.

Ralph Fiennes for me.

And I've just forgotten the rest of my list.

Mads Mikklesen

Sam West
Matthew McFadyen
Paul Mescal
Olivia Colman
Juliet Stevenson
Rebecca Front
All have that quality of being immensely watchable. Sounds like damning with faint praise but that's not how I mean it!

Fiona Shaw and Charlotte Rampling are both magnificent.
Amy Adams is a joy. Pitch-perfect in The Muppets and Enchanted.
Viola Davis – SO charismatic.
Toby Jones is a totally safe pair of hands; never feel like he's not going to be excellent. So understated and believable.
Saoirse Ronan. Not just a great performance but an above-and-beyond performance in everything.
Joan Cusack. Not as well-known/praised as she deserves to be.
Jack O'Connell: amazing charisma. Would love him to be James Bond.
The late lamented Chadwick Boseman. So horribly unfair what happened to him.

Colin Firth

Lots of the above, and a new one coming through Lauren Lyle.

Jon Hamm
Charles Dance
Helena Bonham Carter

Sarah Lancashire
Siobhan Finneran
Mark Rylance
David Suchet

Jodie Foster
Gwynneth Paltrow
Nicole Kidman
Lesley Sharp
Nicola Walker

Hmm, all women!

Henry Cavill.

@MarcelEtCeleste and @mackthepony

Have either of you seen Valhalla Rising? I can't see Mads Mickelson without getting a flashback to one of the worst films I've ever seen. Though he does get his shirt off, I'll give you that.

Julia Roberts
Ryan Reynolds
George Clooney
Brad Pitt
Robert Downey Jr

Keeley Hawes

Also as mentioned above...

Olivia Coleman
Nicola Walker

You just know that anything they touch will be good.

Matthew McConaughey
Kieran Hines
Cate Blanchett
Meryl Streep
Brendan Gleeson

Keanu

The first two names to come to mind for me were Nicola Walker and Florence Pugh. I'd watch anything NW is in - she's just brilliant. I can't think of a male actor who I feel that way about though lots of the names here are great.

That said, has anyone mentioned Tom Burke yet?!

Mark Rylance
Philip Seymour-Hoffman
Harry Dean Stanton
Jude Law
Frances McDormand
Helena Bonham-Carter
Laura Linney
Samantha Morton

Not sure if anyone has mentioned Elisabeth Moss

Diane Morgan

Same

Toby Jones
Mark Rylance
Sarah Lancashire
Nicola Walker
Tilda Swinton
Sarah Lancashire
James Norton

And if I could see them together all in a single production I would purr with pleasure.

Ed Norton. He's the only reason I watched American History X

I love him.

Benedict Cumberbatch for me.

Martin Shaw.

Dominic West
That voice

David Tennant
Michael Sheen
Josie Lawrence
Harriet Walter
Anton Lesser
Annette Badland
Andrew Scott
Nicola Walker

Jeff Goldblum