| 100% | PATRICKSWAYZE | 13 | "Ghost" actor who played surfer and bank robber Bodhi in "Point Break": 2 wds. |
| 52% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | "Ocean's Eleven" actor who played bank robber Jack Foley in 23-/35-Across: 2 wds. |
| 48% | ADAMSANDLER | 11 | Actor who played Jill in "Jack and Jill": 2 wds. |
| 47% | BRYANCRANSTON | 13 | American actor who played the lead in "Breaking Bad" and also starred in "Malcolm in the Middle": 2 wds. |
| 47% | EWANMCGREGOR | 12 | Actor who played 29-/32-Across in the 1990s and 2000s: 2 wds. |
| 47% | ALECGUINNESS | 12 | Actor who played 29-/32-Across in the 1970s and 1980s: 2 wds. |
| 47% | EDDIEMURPHY | 11 | Actor who played Mama and Granny Klump in "The Nutty Professor": 2 wds. |
| 47% | PATRICKSWAYZE | 13 | "Dirty Dancing" actor who played a ghost in the 1990 movie "Ghost": 2 wds. |
| 47% | ALECBALDWIN | 11 | "30 Rock" actor who played a ghost in the 1988 movie "Beetlejuice": 2 wds. |
| 46% | MICHAELGROSS | 12 | Actor who played Burt Gummer in both the movie and TV series "Tremors": 2 wds. |
| 46% | ALANRICKMAN | 11 | "Die Hard" actor who played Colonel Brandon in "Sense and Sensibility": 2 wds. |
| 46% | JESSEPLEMONS | 12 | "Jungle Cruise" actor who plays Allan Gore in "Love and Death": 2 wds. |
| 46% | ALANRICKMAN | 11 | Actor who played Professor Snape and was a misunderstood character in "Harry Potter" series: 2 wds. |
| 46% | JOSEPHCOTTEN | 12 | Actor who played a reporter and friend of the title character in 17-Across: 2 wds. |
| 46% | COLINHANKS | 10 | Actor who plays officer Gus Grimly in "Fargo" and whose father is Tom Hanks: 2 wds. |
| 46% | KENNETHBRANAGH | 14 | Actor who directed and played the title character in 1996's "Hamlet": 2 wds. |
| 46% | MANNYJACINTO | 12 | Actor who played Yao on "Nine Perfect Strangers" and costarred in 29- and 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 46% | ROBINWILLIAMS | 13 | Actor who played Daniel Hillard, and the title character, in the 1993 film "Mrs. Doubtfire": 2 wds. |
| 46% | ANTHONYMACKIE | 13 | Actor who plays Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has been on "Black Mirror": 2 wds. |
| 45% | BRUCEWILLIS | 11 | "Glass" actor who played a ghost in the 1999 movie "The Sixth Sense": 2 wds. |
| 45% | CHARLTONHESTON | 14 | "Ben-Hur" actor who played painter Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ANTHONYMACKIE | 13 | "Avengers: Endgame" actor who plays Falcon in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": 2 wds. |
| 45% | KELSEYGRAMMER | 13 | Actor who played Dr. Frasier Crane in "Frasier" and "Cheers", and hosted the 1998 Grammy Awards: 2 wds. |
| 45% | IDRISELBA | 9 | Actor who played Bloodsport in DC's "The Suicide Squad" and Heimdall in Marvel's "Thor": 2 wds. |
| 45% | JONFAVREAU | 10 | Actor who plays Happy Hogan in Marvel films, and has directed the pilot for "The Orville": 2 wds. |
| 45% | ALECBALDWIN | 11 | Actor who plays Alan Hunley in the fifth and sixth installment of the "Mission: Impossible" series: 2 wds. |
| 45% | DANIELKALUUYA | 13 | Actor who plays W'Kabi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has been on "Black Mirror": 2 wds. |
| 45% | SIDNEYPOITIER | 13 | "To Sir, With Love" actor who played Nelson Mandela in "Mandela and de Klerk": 2 wds. |
| 45% | DANSTEVENS | 10 | "Downton Abbey" actor who played the Beast in 2017's "Beauty and the Beast": 2 wds. |
| 45% | LESLIENIELSEN | 13 | "Airplane!" actor who played a vampire in the comedy "Dracula: Dead and Loving It": 2 wds. |