| 100% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "Pulp Fiction" actor who plays an assassin in "The Hitman's Bodyguard": 3 wds. |
| 61% | SALMAHAYEK | 10 | "Frida" actress who plays an assassin's wife in "The Hitman's Bodyguard": 2 wds. |
| 57% | GARYOLDMAN | 10 | "The Dark Knight" actor who plays a dictator in "The Hitman's Bodyguard": 2 wds. |
| 52% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "Pulp Fiction" actor who received an honorary Oscar in 2021: 3 wds. |
| 52% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "Snakes on a Plane" actor who played criminal Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction": 3 wds. |
| 51% | MARKRUFFALO | 11 | "Spotlight" actor who plays an unscrupulous lawyer in the 2023 film adaptation of 27-Across's "Poor Things" (2 wds.) |
| 51% | JOHNTRAVOLTA | 12 | "Saturday Night Fever" actor who played hit man Vincent Vega in the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | Actor who played 15-Across in the 1987 film "The Untouchables": 3 wds. |
| 50% | JOHNTRAVOLTA | 12 | "Pulp Fiction" actor who plays a professional thief attempting a bank heist in the 2024 film "Cash Out" (2 wds.) |
| 50% | TOMMYLEEJONES | 13 | Actor who played Samuel Gerard, the man who leads a team of U.S. Marshals in 18a: 3 wds. |
| 50% | TOMMYLEEJONES | 13 | Actor who played baseball's Ty Cobb in the 1994 biopic "Cobb": 3 wds. |
| 50% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | "Taxi Driver" actor who plays mob hitman Frank Sheeran in "The Irishman" (3 wds.) |
| 49% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | "Joy" actor who plays the title character in 18-Across: 3 wds. |
| 49% | ROBERTDENIRO | 12 | "Casino" actor who plays Murray Franklin in the psychological thriller "Joker": 3 wds. |
| 49% | CUBAGOODINGJR | 13 | "Jerry Maguire" actor who played Tre in "Boyz n the Hood": 3 wds. |
| 49% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "The Avengers" actor who played hit man Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction" (2 wds.) |
| 49% | MICHAELKEATON | 13 | Actor who plays an alternate-universe Batman in "The Flash": 2 wds. |
| 48% | MARTINFREEMAN | 13 | Actor who played Bilbo Baggins in 2012's "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey": 2 wds. |
| 48% | HARVEYKEITEL | 12 | "The Irishman" actor who played "cleaner" Winston Wolfe in "Pulp Fiction" (2 wds.) |
| 48% | SAMUELLJACKSON | 14 | "Pulp Fiction" actor who plays Ray Arnold in 42-Across (3 wds.) |
| 48% | ROBERTDOWNEYJR | 14 | "The Avengers" actor who played the title role in "Chaplin": 3 wds., abbr. |
| 48% | CHANNINGTATUM | 13 | Actor who played an exotic dancer in 2012's "Magic Mike": 2 wds. |
| 48% | JOAQUINPHOENIX | 14 | Actor who won an Oscar playing the Joker in 2019's "Joker," 11 years after Heath Ledger did the same: 2 wds. |
| 48% | GEORGECLOONEY | 13 | Actor who played Danny Ocean in the Ocean's trilogy: 2 wds. |
| 48% | HEATHLEDGER | 11 | Actor who played The Joker in "The Dark Knight," and met an untimely death, aged only 28: 2 wds. |
| 47% | HARVEYKEITEL | 12 | "Reservoir Dogs" actor who played "cleaner" Winston Wolfe in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction": 2 wds. |
| 47% | JEFFREYWRIGHT | 13 | "American Fiction" actor who plays American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the film "Basquiat" (2 wds.) |
| 47% | JESSELMARTIN | 12 | "The Flash" actor who played Tom Collins in the original Broadway cast of "Rent": 3 wds. |
| 47% | VINGRHAMES | 10 | "Pulp Fiction" actor who says "We have the meats!" in Arby's commercials (2 wds.) |
| 47% | CHANNINGTATUM | 13 | Actor who plays one of the studio's stars in 18-Across: 2 wds. |