| 100% | EWANMCGREGOR | 12 | Actor who played 29-/32-Across in the 1990s and 2000s: 2 wds. |
| 86% | ALECGUINNESS | 12 | Actor who played 29-/32-Across in the 1970s and 1980s: 2 wds. |
| 71% | PETERSELLERS | 12 | Actor who played Pres. Merkin Muffley, Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake, and the title character in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 66% | SPENCERTRACY | 12 | Actor who played the lawyer based on Clarence Darrow in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 66% | MADSMIKKELSEN | 13 | "Hannibal" actor who plays the villain Kaecilius in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 65% | JOSHOCONNOR | 11 | "Emma" actor who played 32-Across in seasons 3 and 4 of "The Crown": 2 wds. |
| 65% | FREDRICMARCH | 12 | Actor who played the lawyer based on William Jennings Bryan in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 65% | PIERCEBROSNAN | 13 | Actor who plays 29-Across in "GoldenEye," "Tomorrow Never Dies," "The World Is Not Enough," and 15-Across (2 wds.) |
| 65% | JOSEPHCOTTEN | 12 | Actor who played a reporter and friend of the title character in 17-Across: 2 wds. |
| 65% | HENRYFONDA | 10 | "On Golden Pond" actor who played the title role in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 64% | NEILFLYNN | 9 | Actor who played the janitor in "Scrubs" and stars as Mike Heck in 53-Across (2 wds.) |
| 64% | ETHANHAWKE | 10 | Actor who plays Jesse in the 31-Across and who turns 50 years old today (2 wds.) |
| 64% | RUSSELLCROWE | 12 | "Gladiator" actor who plays Javert in the 2012 film adaptation of 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 64% | FREDSAVAGE | 10 | Actor who played Kevin Arnold in the original version of 36-Across and is coproducing the reboot: 2 wds. |
| 63% | SHAWNHATOSY | 11 | "In & Out" actor who plays the son Andrew "Pope" Cody in 32-Across: 2 wds. |
| 63% | VINDIESEL | 9 | Actor who plays Dominic Toretto in the "Fast and Furious" films (2 wds.) |
| 62% | STANLEYTUCCI | 12 | 19-Across and 32-Across actor who plays Dr. Abraham Erskine in "Captain America: The First Avenger" (2 wds.) |
| 62% | MANNYJACINTO | 12 | Actor who played Yao on "Nine Perfect Strangers" and costarred in 29- and 42-Across: 2 wds. |
| 62% | JIMCARREY | 9 | "Dumb and Dumber" actor who played The Riddler in 43-Across (2 wds.) |
| 62% | RAULJULIA | 9 | Actor who played Gomez Addams in two "Addams Family" films in the 1990s (2 wds.) |
| 62% | MICHAELGROSS | 12 | Actor who played Burt Gummer in both the movie and TV series "Tremors": 2 wds. |
| 61% | DEANJONES | 9 | "The Love Bug" actor who played Wilby Daniels as an adult in the sequel to 29-Across: 2 wds. |
| 61% | FREDSAVAGE | 10 | Actor who played Kevin Arnold on the original 32-Across and who directed the first episode of the 2021 reboot of 32-Across (2 wds.) |
| 61% | DANAYKROYD | 10 | "The Blues Brothers" actor who played Ray Stantz in 29-Across: 2 wds. |
| 61% | ROBINWILLIAMS | 13 | Actor who played Daniel Hillard, and the title character, in the 1993 film "Mrs. Doubtfire": 2 wds. |
| 61% | GREGORYPECK | 11 | Actor who plays Abraham Lincoln in the 1982 TV miniseries "The Blue and the Gray" (2 wds.) |
| 61% | CHARLIECOX | 10 | Actor who plays the Marvel Comics hero Daredevil in "Daredevil" and "The Defenders" on Netflix (2 wds.) |
| 61% | ANTHONYMACKIE | 13 | Actor who plays Falcon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and has been on "Black Mirror": 2 wds. |
| 61% | CHARLTONHESTON | 14 | "Ben-Hur" actor who played painter Michelangelo in "The Agony and the Ecstasy": 2 wds. |
| 61% | ANTHONYMACKIE | 13 | "Avengers: Endgame" actor who plays Falcon in "The Falcon and the Winter Soldier": 2 wds. |