What Broadway Actors Could Be Successfull In All Three Mediums - Stage, TV & Film

Hugh Jackman - We know he can do all three already
Christian Hoff - Very charismatic
Dominick Cooper - Ditto
The young woman who was in Gypsy...she played the young Judy Garland in the TV mini-series??? - I love her. So talented.

Patrick Wilson comes mind but I think he's best on stage. I've not been all that taken with his film performances. Phantom was almost a waste for him.
Psst....ever have a tryst with an actor/actress

Kristin Chenoweth. Although her TV show bombed, she was very good in it.

John Lloyd Young.

i second Kristin
but actually, she is already successful in all three (TV: The West Wing, Movies: RV, Bewitched, etc., Shows: Wicked, etc)

yeah

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Kelli O'Hara
Jackie Hoffman
Sarah Jones
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Sara Gettelfinger
Gavin Creel
LaChanze

Kristin Chenoweth, John Lithgow, Hugh Jackman, Norbet Leo Butz, Harry Connick Jr, and Patti Lupone, Audra McDonald, Taye Diggs, Bernadette Peters, Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Sarah Jessica Parker.

The late Jerry Orbach was.

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Updated On: 6/4/06 at 10:34 AM

John Slattery does Film, Television, and Theatre to perfection!

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John Lloyd Young
J.Robert Spencer
Daniel Reichard
Christian Hoff
Idina Menzel
Taye Diggs
Norbet Leo Butz

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Julia Roberts

"JLY is 5'7". Tom Cruise is the same height. Height is completely not an issue in film and TV. Tell Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman the same thing as well. "

JLY is hardly Pacino or Hoffman. Right now, he's just a guy with a great voice who did a good impression of someone else. There's really been no other examples of his "talent." (And I'm not saying he's not talented, I'm just saying that one great role doesn't mean the guy is the next Pacino.) I was never blown away by Hoffman's Capote or Foxx's Ray Charles, either. I prefer a performance where the actor created a character simply from the words in a script and his own choices.

Cruise has never done stage or tv and I don't think he'd do well at either. He's awful in interviews. Look at Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain. Those are two personas that need film to push along their performances/personalities. In interviews and in print, they're both horrible bores.

Craig Bierko is a great example, as is Hugh Jackman. I like Idina, but she's more a singer than actress to me. She did a few episodes of Digg's Kevin Hill and I thought she fell flat.

I think what it takes to do all three extremely well is charisma. I don't think Idina is at all charismatic, nor do I see that in JLY. Domimick Cooper will be the next Jude Law, Bierko is extremely charming, Cerveris has something sexy-sinister about him that would work as well. Christian Hoff is also charismatic. Chenoweth is more energetic than charismatic but her voice just bugs me.

Streisand has it
Kathleen Turner had it and could get it back
Patricia Clarkson has it
Dominick Cooper Has it
Cerveris has it
Megan Mullally has it
Hugh Jackman has it
Patrick Wilson sort of has it but needs to dirty up a bit. Hard Candy was a good move for him.
Jude Law has done all three as well - Indiscretions in the early 90's, The West Enders soap drama thingy he did in London and his films.


Psstt...ever hook up with another actor?

"John Lloyd Young
J.Robert Spencer
Daniel Reichard
Christian Hoff
Idina Menzel
Taye Diggs
Norbet Leo Butz"

They are not all I know, that is just who I think would be good in theratre, tv and films.

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Cerveris is already successful in all three mediums.

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i think these guys already are:

bradley cooper
naveen andrews
paul rudd
megan mullally
david schwimmer
idina menzel
taye diggs
jesse l. martin
sarah jessica parker
matthew broderick
cheno
philip seymour hoffman, if he did a tv show :)


i think some other people would too, like

will ferell
anthony rapp (did he do tv?)
richard gere
john & joan cusack
christian levantino
tom hanks
johnny depp
sean hayes
drew barrymore
debra messing
terry quinn
sean penn
tracie thoms
matt damon
and especially topher grace