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50 Actors We'd Watch in Anything (Part 1)

DON CHEADLE
For years, Don Cheadle instilled cuddly-named villains — like Mouse (Devil in a Blue Dress) and Snoopy (Out of Sight) — with chilling brutality, while enhancing virtually every revered ensemble cast (Boogie Nights, Traffic, Crash, the Ocean's flicks).). But after Hotel Rwanda, no one could deny he'd become a leading man in his own right. —Jeff Labrecque