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 five actors that have starred in exactly 16 movies that I have seen, even with three years ago.
Amy Adams
Amy Adams made her first appearance on my screen in 2001, when I watched the repurposed television pilot that became Cruel Intentions 2. She returned in 2008, starting a run of eight films in four years. After a five-year absence, she returned in 2022 to start another three-year run, ending with 2024’s Nightbitch.
Drew Barrymore
One of the most prolific actors on my radar in the 1990s and 2000s, she has disappeared since, with the most recent of her films that I’ve seen, Music And Lyrics, coming in 2008.
Jamie Lee Curtis
My first experience with the former teenage scream queen was likely one of the first two Halloween films, the franchise that is responsible for nearly 47% of the films on this list. After a seven-year lull, she returned with the latest reboot/continuation of the Halloween franchise, which culminated in 2022’s Halloween Ends. Her most recent appearance came in 2025, thanks to the sequel Freakier Friday.
Angelina Jolie
The first starring role of Angelina Jolie’s that I saw was 1995’s Hackers. 2005 was my most prolific Jolie year, when I took in three of her films, and she hit with two in 2000, 2004, and 2011. After an eleven-year absence, she returned to my screen was in 2023, when I saw her in 2021’s Those Who Wish Me Dead.
Brad Pitt
In 1994, I saw a little film called Kalifornia, which introduced me to Brad Pitt. While he would become a mega-star over the next few years, I was a bit of a late comer to his films. Other than watching A River Runs Through It in 1997 during the Sports in Literature class I took during my last semester of college, it was 2000 before I saw another Pitt film. Making up for lost time, I plowed through three films in 2000. He had a four-year streak between in 2010 and 2013, then entered a dry spell that ended in 2020, when he reappeared with two films. His most recent appearance was in 2022, thanks to that year’s Bullet Train.
