Name a longtime supporting actor/actress who deserves a leading role in a major movie or show.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

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Watching John Carroll Lynch in the most recent episode of The Walking Dead, I was really impressed with his acting abilities. He's been playing supporting roles forever. I loved him as Norm in Fargo. He did a great job in American Horror Story. And he stood out in several other projects as well.

I'd love for him to go the J.K. Simmons route. For years, he played many supporting roles where his performance was more memorable to people than his name. Finally, his dues were paid and he got one of the leads in Whiplash, and was rewarded with an Oscar for his performance (okay, so it was technically still a Best Supporting Actor award, but honestly he owned that movie).

[Scuba]

1. Buscemi.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Buscemi finally got his major leading role in Boardwalk Empire.

But he certainly deserves many more leading roles as well.

Another great actor I discovered first from Fargo.

[Scuba]

3. I'll put that on my "see soon" list.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. It's a well done show.

It might not quite reach the elite level bar set by The Sopranos, The Wire, and Breaking Bad, but it's still quite solid with lots of good writing and acting. Binge away!

[Jade Fox]

18. See 'Trees Lounge"

If memory serves, he was the lead.

[Paladin]

4. Powers Boothe.

He deserves recognition for a solid body of work---beyond that classic "Well.......bye" line in "Tombstone."

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. Had to look him up on IMDB.

But look like he's well-regarded in his smaller roles.

[Aristus]

5. Nancy Travis.

She's beautiful, sexy, appealing, and a good actress. She started out in commercials in the eighties, and graduated to some supporting roles, and one or two leads in second-rate movies. She's now in a sitcom playing the 'gorgeous wife inexplicably married to an oafish dolt' role.

But she's never really had a good breakout lead role. She deserves one.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. I liked her in.....

So I Married an Axe Murderer and The Vanishing.

Agreed she ought to have more leading roles. Good actress.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Another one: James Ransone

He was great in The Wire (as Ziggy Sobakta) and in Generation Kill.

He's still relatively young but I wish his career had exploded by now.

[Snobblevitch]

10. Mayim Bialik

Wait, maybe she already had her chance to be the star.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. Well, she was the title star of Blossom years ago.

But her work on Big Bang Theory definitely deserves more starring roles going forward. She's very funny.

[Skittles]

11. I like Celia Weston

she does not disappoint

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Enjoyed her in AHS last year. nt

[bigwillq]

14. Patricia Clarkson (nt)

[Capt. Obvious]

15. Clint Howard

How has his brother not hooked him up?

[Little Star]

16. Emilia Clarke~khaleesi

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. Stephen Root. He steals the show in just about everything he's in.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. No kidding, there are at least three of my favorite movies in that montage there.

Great actor.

[PasadenaTrudy]

20. Jonathan Banks n/t