2) Sylvester Stallone

Sylvester Enzio Stallone is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. starting in 1976 with his role as boxer Rocky Balboa, in the first film of the successful Rocky series (1976–present). Up until 1982, Stallone’s films were not big box office successes. This changed with the successful action film First Blood in which he portrayed the PTSD-plagued soldier John Rambo.

Stallone would play the role in a total of five Rambo films (1982–2019). From the mid-1980s through to the late 1990s, Stallone would go on to become one of Hollywood’s highest-paid actors of that era by appearing in a slew of commercially successful action films.

In the 2010s, Stallone launched The Expendables films series (2010–2014), in which he played the lead as the mercenary Barney Ross. In 2013, he starred in the successful Escape Plan and acted in its sequels. Stallone is the only actor in the history of U.S. cinema to have starred in a box office number one film across six consecutive decades.