10 Actors Who Massively Changed Hollywood

Hollywood is a constantly evolving engine, with some ahead-of-their-time actors contributing to pushing the medium forward through their influence. There’s a reason Hollywood movie stars get paid so much. The quality of acting is a huge part of selling a film, be it the charisma of an action star or the prestige transformation at the center of a biopic. As much as films have changed over the span of a century, so have the performances at the center of them, with specific actors responsible for shifting things forward in significant ways.