Many years ago, using the weekly TV guide that came with the Sunday Chicago Tribune, I started keeping track of all of the movies I had seen over the course of my lifetime. The guide would list the two main stars for each movie, and that is a tradition that I’ve carried on in my database ever since. Given those guidelines, it is time once again to look at the now 111 actors that have starred in at least 10 films that I have seen, as of August 1.
We continue today with the two actors that have starred in exactly 17 movies that I have seen, a level that was bare just three years ago.
Cameron Diaz
I first encountered Cameron Diaz back in 1996, when I saw her in a little indie film called The Last Supper. She managed to get two films on my list in four different years, most recently in 2010. She has mostly retired from acting, although she did return in 2025 for Back In Action.
Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon crashed into my movie going consciousness in 1996 with two entries, Fear and Freeway. A six-year streak started in 1999 and finished in 2004 with the sequel to Legally Blonde. She last crossed my path, at least on the silver screen, in 2023, when I saw her in both that year’s Your Place or Mine and again in 2010’s How Do You Know.