10) Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell spent his early years as Disney’s clean-cut golden boy, starring in movies like The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and The Barefoot Executive. The sweet Disney kid image could’ve followed him forever, but he flipped the script in the ’80s. He played a hardened antihero in Escape from New York (1981) and then battled aliens in The Thing (1982). That was the end of the Disney version of Kurt Russell. He leaned into action movies, played tough guys, and built a career that had grit instead of gloss.
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Edited by Sangeeta Mathew