Since its inception, cinema has truly become the most popular of the arts, and the main people in cinema - actors - are idols of many generations. This was how it was during the “great silent” times, and this continued when sound came to cinema, and then color. This book tells about the most famous representatives of the acting profession who delighted film lovers from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day: Charlie Chaplin and Anatoly Papanov, Mary Pickford and Sophia Loren, Ivan Mozzhukhin and Leonardo DiCaprio and many others.