I dunno, it’s hard to pick a single actor because they don’t all do equivalent roles.

I think it fair to say that Edward Norton is damn high on my list though. He does take on a wide range of roles, and I’ve yet to see anything where he didn’t just own the role he was in, even if the rest of the movie wasn’t as good. But he also doesn’t take on roles in shitty movies either. I can’t think of any where the movie wasn’t at least well made, even if it wasn’t super successful.

I’m in the same place with Samuel L Jackson for similar reasons, though sometimes he does jump into bad-ish movies that are only watchable because he’s in it. Like, snakes on plane? If he wasn’t in it, no way would it be as fun as it is. But he’s kinda stealth despite his reputation. People know he can act, but then he pulls out something like black snake moan and everyone is all “damn, I forgot he could do that”. He seems like he enjoys taking on lighter roles just for the fun of acting, and then he finds something meaty he can sink his teeth into and goes beast mode. But I can’t think of any performances he’s done that weren’t worth watching, even the shitty commercials lol