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- These actors turned in career-defining performances on their first try! For this list, we’ll be looking at the best debut performances in movie history. Our countdown includes Alan Rickman, Orson Welles, Natalie Portman, Anya Taylor-Joy, Oprah Winfrey, and more! What do you think is the best debut performance of all time? Let us know in the comments below!
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What do you think is the best debut performance of all time? Let us know below, and be sure to also check out our video of the Top 10 Teen Movie Scenes That Will NEVER Get Old: th-cam.com/video/4SLZbItW-Jo/w-d-xo.html
Top 20, and took all the way to no.8 to finally get someone making their acting debut. Everyone else already having cut their teeth in television or on Broadway or as a singer ... All these Mojo channels with all these videos and hardly any of them can follow the plot of their own lists ... shame.
Alan Rickman should have been WAY higher on this list.
Glad I'm not the only one,it's bullshit that Anya T-J and Jason Schwartzman are higher like wtf?,smfh...trash list imo lol
I agree! And Poitier should have been higher on this list too
I don’t think they’re in any specific order
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Yeah & where’s BenKinsley for Ghandi (pardon my spelling) + plenty more
Mm
top 5 at least
Yes, thanks for including Natalie Portman because she's incredible in Léon: The Professional, and will always stay in my mind because of that.
It's an awesome movie. As a SW nut I love Natalie but Hean Reno and Gary Oldman, fantastic cast.
I would have her in the second spot.
Edward Norton was so chilling in "Primal Fear", that you'd be surprised in learning that this was his first onscreen acting role. He had me captivated from start to finish.
Yes! I've seen that movie countless times, the parts when he changes characters so quick always amused me! I heard he's a diffficult actor to work with, but I found all his acting jobs were top notches! ❤
Kirsten Dunst deserves at least an honorable mention for Interview with the Vampire!
I totally agree.
How she didn’t win the Oscar for that role is beyond me. Acting way beyond her years
Biggest miss on the list for sure
IKR
She´s missing because Interview with a Vamipe wasn´t her debut in a movie, it was her breakthrough role but not the first movie she ever acted in.
Alan Rickman, what a talent! I miss him!
Some great choices!
My favs you didn't mention (in no particular order):
1. James Dean (East of Eden)
2. Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People)
3. Angela Lansbury (Gaslight)
4. Frances McDormand (Blood Simple)
5. Sigourney Weaver (Alien)
6. Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)
Just heard an interview with Dennis Hopper. His own film debut was Rebel Without a Cause, and he said that seeing James Dean in that made him want to make it a profession. He considered Dean to be a mentor.
@@What_Makes_Climate_Tick Speaks to Dean's selflessness, sharing his love for his profession with Dennis like that....
That was his 5th appearance.
Bruce Lee in "The Big Boss".
Lupita Nyong’o in 12 Years a Slave will forever be one of the greatest movie debuts ever!!
Gabourey Sidibe was phenomenal as Precious, her performance conveyed so much hurt and pain from her facial expressions alone. I always thought that she deserved the Oscar that year, no shade to Sandra Bullock.
The ending of Primal Fear is the most jaw dropping twist in a movie surpassed only by the ending of The Sixth Sense.
Both are topping my favorite twist ending movies as well! ❤ Edward Norton is an amazing actor.
@@LadyVoldemort yes he is. I wasn't looking for that ending either
Alan Rickman was the best villain ever and he always played a bad guy. He was amazing.
Not always a bad guy, no. In fact, only a handful of his roles were of a villain. His Colonel Brandon in Sense & Sensibility was the kindest and best of men.
He played many romantic leads, not always a bad guy at all
Agreed. Though Snape was an antihero, not really a villain
Both Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey were incredible in "Heavenly Creatures." It was the film debut for both of them.
Alan Rickman was fantastic as Hans Gruber. His voice is so mellifluous and rich.
Thank you for mentioning Melanie Lynskey. Both young women were revelations!
I can’t believe you could show Kate Winslet’s debut in Heavenly Creatures and not even mention Melanie Lynskey. The movie was also her debut and she was amazing!
Consider Bette Davis in "Of Human Bondage," "Angela Lansbury" in "Gaslight" and Whoopi Goldberg in "The Color Purple."
Bette Davis made more than a dozen films prior to Of Human Bondage in 1934. She is for me the greatest actress ever and my favourite. Davis was preparing to return to New York when actor George Arliss chose Davis for the lead female role in the Warner Bros. picture The Man Who Played God (1932), and for the rest of her life, Davis credited him with helping her achieve her "break" in Hollywood.
Whoopi's first film was Citizen 1982
Two notable omissions are Goldie Hawn, who won an Oscar for her film debut in Cactus Flower, and Dakota Fanning's acclaimed performance in I Am Sam, for which she won a SAG award.
Not their first movies.
@@MelindaSchwartz-sq2bm You're right about Goldie, she did have a role in one movie before Cactus Flower. Dakota did previously appear in a short film, Father Christmas, and for literally about 5 seconds in the movie Tomcats. Lucy in I Am Sam was her first real role in a feature length movie, and I think she should be eligible for the list on that basis.
Oh, I remember that movie. Ingrid Bergman and Walter Matthau, right? She looked odd.
No Timothy Hutton for “Ordinary People”???😬
That hurts my heart.
I don’t think that was his first film.
As soon as I saw this video I immediately thought of Anna Paquin for her work in the film The Piano. Has to be number 1 since she won an oscar and the second youngest in history. Anya Taylor Joy for her work in The Witch has to be here too. My shout-out goes to the girl who played Lyra in the Golden Compass. Say what you want about that Film but I never would've guessed that was her first film role. I thought she did well personally but that's just my opinion
Dakota Blue Richards?
It's a crime not to have Ned Beatty on this list, for Deliverence. Holy Cow, he got poundeed in the pooper by a mountain man for crying out loud.
Julie Andrews was perfect as Mary Poppins ❤️❤️ such a great film debut and she absolutely delivered 👍 same as Alan Rickman as Hans and everybody else 😊
You missed a great one in patty duke's the miracle worker. She was astonishing!
My favorite actors who made their debuts and I'm surprised they didn't make this list are:
Val Kilmer - Top Secret
Michael Fassbender - 300
Hailee Steinfeld should have ranked much higher on this list. She stole the whole movie!
Love Alan Rickman in Die Hard he was the perfect villain! Hans Gruber! Loved Natalie Portman in The Professional but Jean Reno was awesome too! Also Tatum O’Neal with her dad Ryan O’Neal in Paper Moon! And Cameron Diaz in The Mask! ❤️💕😎🎶😘😍
Alan Rickman makes the movie
The three leads in Rabbit Proof Fence. I wish Everlyn Sampi, the actress who played Molly in the movie, had more opportunities after the movie but she was sadly dealing with trauma after being sexually assaulted as a child, addiction, illiteracy, and family members taking advantage of her. Thankfully, she’s in a better place now as she’s a mother and away from the spotlight.
I've never seen that film, but I'd really love to check it out. It's a shame that Everlyn Sampi never pursued more acting roles, but as long as she's thriving with raising a family, and being out of the spotlight.
@@trinaq It’s an amazing movie. It’s an Australian movie that came out in 2002 and is based on a book that’s a true story about the author’s mother, aunt, and their cousin being removed by the Australian government for being mixed race where they have to be forced into white society and they were able to escape the government’s custody by walking a long distance back to their hometown. I found out about what happened to Everlyn in an article 12 years after the movie’s release.
Brad Renfro in The Client (1994)
Keisha Castle-Hughes was 12 years old in the Whale Rider... she was Oscar nominated for Best Actress, for her debut role.
She was amazing
What about Christian Bale in Empire Of The Sun?
This was my immediate thought. Such a mature performance in Jim’s character arc.
How can you always leave Emily Watson out of this videos? She was superb in 'Breaking the waves'!
Catalina Sandino Moreno Was the star of "Maria Full of Grace". The film is all about her, and she carries it beautifully. She was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. On IMDB she has no previous credits, nothing. There are performances on your list that shouldn't even be mentioned in the same story as Sandino Moreno's incredible performance. But one of your criteria seems to be "Hollywood stars" and Indie people are ignored. Find the film. Watch it. You won't be able to keep it off your list -- maybe at #1. Including stage actors changes the list a lot. You should look a little harder and keep it to just movie actors. While we're at it, go watch "Red Sorghum" to see the auspicious debut of the incredible Gong Li, now recognized as one of the great actors in the world.
There’s so many first time actors, Alan Rickman, Kirsten Dundnsts, Edward Norton are just a few that are more notable that I know of but not all of my favorite actors and actresses that were introduced in their first introduction. However they are all incredible talented people who have left us with great chemistry on the screen.
I thought for sure #1 would be Leonardo DiCaprio in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?"
That would be my number one!
That wasn’t his first film.
When True Grit came out, I was the same age as Hailee Steinfeld in that movie. So seeing her more popular as we both grew up over the years, it’s what made her my top celebrity crush
Groooooot.
"I am Groot!"
Catalina Sandino Moreno got an Oscar nomination for her debut in Maria Full of Grace
Hailee Steinfeld true grit
“Primal Fear.” So creepy. A must-see movie.
I was today years old when I realized that Julie Andrews was stroking an American Robin instead of a European Robin in "Mary Poppins", a film set in London.
Angela Lansbury, Gaslight…Audrey Hepburn, who WON an Oscar for her debut movie, Roman Holiday, for goodness sake!
Roman Holiday was her Hollywood debut but not film debut.
Number 18 on the list should've been a joint entry, featuring Melanie Lynskey as well as Winslet. Yet, the NZ-born actress doesn't get a single mention. I want either this video channel or WatchMojo to create a list chronicling Lynskey's 10 best on-screen performances, as compensation for her absence.
Seriously? Not even an honorable mention for Amy Adams debut in Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) and Madelyn Kahn in What's Up Doc (1972)?
How on earth was Alan Rickman so low on the list?! Seriously?! He should’ve been MUCH higher!
Agreed!
Jennifer Lawrence, The Burning Plain
Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday should be a tie with Orson Welles.
If any child actress ever made a splash on the scene, it was surely Shirley Temple.
How about Madeline Kahn in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’
Honorable mention: Alfred Molina as Satipo in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Meredith Salenger's role as Natty Gann in "The Journey of Natty Gann" was her first credited role and won a Young Artist award. She went on to costar in teen movies the rest of the 1980s before departing for Harvard. Her career has slowed a bit after her graduation but she has voiced Barriss Offee in the Star Wars franchise and went on to one of Hollywood's best marriages with Patton Oswalt.
You need the only two inexperienced actors to win Oscars. Harold Russell and Haing S. Ngor
The fact that Hailee Steinfeld was nominated for an oscar in her first role at such a young age is incredible.
At one point I thought Kirsten dunst for interview with a vampire and Danielle Harris for Halloween 4 were the best performances I'd ever seen by child actors
24:59 Amanda Seyfried should have been first she was so funny in that part so hilarious when I first watch mean girls
It's a tie: Alan Rickman, Barbra Streisand, Sidney Poitier, Jennifer Hudson, Eddie Murphy, Julie Andrews, Natalie Portman (I loved Leon the Professional), and Orson Welles. Those are my choices
Marlee Matlin, Children of A Lesser God?
Warren Beatty, Splendor In The Grass?
What about Bette Midler in “The Rose?” She was nominated for an Oscar-and should’ve won
That wasn’t her film debut. She had small roles in films prior to The Rose.
Happy sunday night, Phoebe, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well
MMM ok Orson Wells in Citizen Kane is one of the greatest movies of all time. Sidney Portier was in another movie with an actress who made her screen debut Elizabeth Hartman in a patch of blue she was nominated for an Oscar for best actress and would have been the youngest at her time at age 22 just a thought there
Tatum O'Neal was so good in Paper Moon.
"I started at the top and worked my way down."
-Orson Welles
"There, but for the grace of God, goes God." - Herman Mankiewicz on Orson Welles
Jaye Davidson debut in The crying Game should have been in the list.
More to add:
Amy Adams (Drop Dead Gorgeous)
Anna Hathaway (The Princess Diaries)
Jacob Tremblay (Room)
I wish Ke Huy Quan had been mentioned for his performance as Short Round in the Indiana Jones movie
Keisha Castle-Hughes?? At 12 years old she was nominated for Best Actress for her role in the movie Whale Rider(her first acting role).
Julia Butters - Once Upon A Time in Hollywood
Keisha Castle-Hughes - Whale Rider
My # 1:Linda Blair in The Exorcist: One of the most shocking performances in history.To this day, I can't watch this movie.
Good call.
I sectetly sneaked out of my bedroom and watched it at the age of 13 on HBO alone in my parent's living room at 2 AM. I can't move my body from my spot on the floor in front of the TV after the film finished (can't even remember what movie played after it, LoL), until my parents woke up and come out of their bedroom at 6 AM. My body was as cold as ice, thinking the whole time about how stupid I was for not listening to my parents to NOT watch the movie! 😂😂😂😂😂 That and Ringu (Japanese version of The Ring, which I also watched alone in my rented room in university...I covered my TV with a rug for 3 days afterwards, LoL) used to be topping my list of the scariest movies I've ever watch. 😂 Although nowadays as a middle-aged woman who still loves watching horror movies at night (I live alone next to a graveyard complex), after watching them so many times, they're not that scary anymore. 😅 Topping my list for now is Hereditary.
That was her breakout role but not her film debut.
Timothy Dalton, the Lion in Winter
I’m surprised they didn’t mention Dominic Sessa’s debut as Angus Tully in the Holdovers - who have thought it was his debut role.
Raindrops on roses 🌹 this is a great video!
Alan Rickman was in Love Actually with Emma Thompson and he did Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets with Kenneth Branagh and he reunited with Emma Thompson in Harry Potter and Alan Rickman is really a good actor . R I P . Eddie Murphy is a great actor and voiced as Mushu from Mulan and he voiced as Donkey from Shrek franchise
Dafne Keen (X-23) should have been on the list.
This list loses all credibility by not mentioning either 13-yr old Christian Bale's epic leading role in Empire of the Sun, or Jamie Bell's eponymous role in Billy Elliott.
Mark Hamill. Can't believe he was not in this.
Alan Rickman! Perfect. I wish they did not kill his character….imagine the sequel
I would put Natalie Portman in Leon / The Professional at the top of the list
Natalie Portman and Tatum O'Neal are good entries. I would add Walker Scobel in The Adam Project. Only 13 and pretty terrific, sharing the lead with Ryan Reynolds.
Proves that the actors have talent
I know there are always disagreements, but leaving off Audrey Hepburn (who, incidentally, won an Oscar for her performance) in Roman Holiday was a big miss.
Robert Duvall is without question a great actor. However, he is barely on screen for more than you showed in the clip of To Kill a Mockingbird. He's lovely, but it's not quite amongst the greatest acting debuts.
I had no idea Ann's Taylor joys first role was the which. Also , I loved hailee steinfeld acting since her first movie True Grit.
Orson Welles is greatest actor & director...
ABSURD: Where is Peter O’Toole for Lawrence of Arabia? That has to be 1 or 2.
That wasn’t his film debut.
How do you leave Keisha Castle-Hughes off of this list? Keisha Castle-Hughes is a New Zealand actress. She made her acting debut in the drama film Whale Rider, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the second-youngest nominee in such category. Quvenzhané Wallis listed 13 here was the youngest.
Amazing debuts
I wouldn't rioted if Anya Taylor-Joy didn't make this list
why wouldn't you?
It probably doesn't belong on the list, but I consider 1981's Taps to be interesting. It was Sean Penn's movie debut, playing what I consider to be the #2 character. The unhinged #3 was played by Tom Cruise in not quite a debut. #1 was played by Timothy Hutton, who was the It Guy of that time for playing teen boys after winning an Oscar the year before, but kind of disappeared after the 80s.
You forgot Kirk Douglas!
In his first movie he stole the show, and the great Kirk Douglas was already there, right from the start!
Please do top 10 best tom kenny voice roles 😢
Yes, I would watch that
Barkhad Abdi as Abduwali Muse in Captain Phillips, staring Tom Hanks, and Haing S. Ngor as Dith Pran, in The Killing Fields, staring Sam Waterston.
AMY ADAMS DROP DEAD GORGEOUS!
JIM Carrey EARTH GIRLS ARe EASY
Winona ryder Lucas
Kristen Dunst Interview witha a vampire
How can Julie Andrew's have a nine decade career if she's only 88 years old?
Im not awesome at math, but she started in the 40s, so from then to 2020 thats 9 decades.
Her parents had her singing on stage at age 3, she said in an interview.
About Cameron Diaz: "with no acting experience" Yeah, no kidding.
A 5 year old doesn’t “lie about” their age to get past the minimum age requirements. Come on. That was the choice made by her stage parents. Let’s not act like this was her choice at that age.
Sharlto Copley shouldn’t have been in the ‘Honorable Mentions’ segment, in my opinion. The order seems to be according to who won the most awards/recognition for their debut.
Great list 😘 I love Anthony Perkins in Psycho!
The True Grit remake is one of my favorite westerns
Hailee was incredible in True Grit.
Die Hard had modern graphics for a 1988 movie. And it looks beautiful. Then you watch something like Full Metal Jacket which came out the same time, and while still a brilliant movie, the graphics look vintage.
unrelated but Phoebe is my favorite narrator on Mojo ❤
Barbara Streisand needs to be WAY higher on that list.
Imagine who would the next newcomers be
One to look out for is William A Fitzgerald in Ezra
That movie was incredible. I was shocked to find out that he is a teenager as I initially thought he was 10 or 11 years old.
@@kamsismith I know. But I think he was 13 when filming
@@emiliobello2538 Which makes him a teenager.
@@jamiethal1319 wow
Bette Midler - The Rose 🌹
I dont care what anyone says. Christoph Waltz should be number 1...