List of actors who have played Jesus

This is a list of actors who have played Jesus.

Howard Gaye as the Nazarene: "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her." (Intolerance, 1916)

List of actors who have played Jesus

Actor(s)	Movie	Year	Director(s)	Notes
Robert Henderson-Bland	From the Manger to the Cross	1912	Sidney Olcott	[1]
George Fisher	Civilization	1916	Thomas H. Ince	[2]
Howard Gaye	Intolerance	1916	D. W. Griffith	[3]
Claude Payton	Ben-Hur	1925	Fred Niblo	[4]
H.B. Warner	The King of Kings	1927	Cecil B. DeMille	[5]
Robert Le Vigan	Golgotha	1935	Julien Duvivier	[6]
Robert Wilson	The Living Christ Series	1951	John T Coyle
Donald C. Klune	The Robe	1953	Henry Koster	[7]
Jon Shepodd	The Power of the Resurrection	1958	Harold D. Schuster	[8]
Claude Heater	Ben-Hur	1959	William Wyler	[9]
Jeffrey Hunter	King of Kings	1961	Nicholas Ray	[10]
Roy Mangano	Barabbas	1961	Richard Fleischer
Enrique Irazoqui	The Gospel According to St.Matthew	1964	Pier Paolo Pasolini	[11]
Max von Sydow	The Greatest Story Ever Told	1965	George Stevens	[12]
Donald Sutherland	Johnny Got His Gun	1971	Dalton Trumbo	[13]
Kamal Haasan	Annai Velankanni	1971	K. Thangappan	[14]
Victor Garber	Godspell	1973	David Greene	[15]
Ted Neeley	Jesus Christ Superstar	1973	Norman Jewison	[16]
Murali Das	Jesus	1973	P. A. Thomas	[17]
Murali	Thomasleeha	1975	P. A. Thomas	[18]
Robert Powell	Jesus of Nazareth	1977	Franco Zeffirelli	[19]
Liam Neeson	Pilgrim's Progress	1978	Ken Anderson	[20]
Vijayachander	Karunamayudu (Dayamayudu)	1978	A. Bhimsingh	[21]
Kenneth Colley	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones	[22]
Brian Deacon	Jesus	1979	Peter Sykes
Chris Sarandon	The Day Christ Died	1980	James Cellan Jones	[23]
Vijayachander	Rajadhi Raju	1980	Bapu	[24]
John Hurt	History of the World, Part I	1981	Mel Brooks
Michael Wilding Jr.	A.D.	1985	Stuart Cooper
Jürgen Prochnow	The Seventh Sign	1988	Carl Schultz
Willem Dafoe	The Last Temptation of Christ	1988	Martin Scorsese
Vijaya Kumaranatunga	Christhu Charithaya	1990	Sunil Ariyaratne	Christhu Charithaya
Vincent Laresca	Bad Lieutenant	1992	Abel Ferrara
Bruce Marchiano	The Visual Bible: Matthew	1993	Regardt van den Bergh	[25]
Mat Ranillo III	Kristo	1996	Ben Yalung	[26]
Vijayachander	Dayasagar	1996	Vijayachander
Jeremy Sisto	Jesus	1999	Roger Young
Christian Bale	Mary, Mother of Jesus	1999	Kevin Connor
Will Ferrell	Superstar	1999	Bruce McCulloch
Glenn Carter	Jesus Christ Superstar	2000	Gale Edwards Nick Morris
David J. Francis	Dracula 2000	2000	Patrick Lussier	[27]
Jan Michelini	The Apocalypse	2002	Raffaele Mertes
Henry Ian Cusick	The Gospel of John	2003	Philip Saville
Siva Krishna	Yesu Mahimalu	2003	Natti Kumar	[28]
Jim Caviezel	The Passion of the Christ	2004	Mel Gibson
Jonathan Scarfe	Judas	2004	Charles Robert Carner
Krishna	Shanti Sandesham	2004	P. Chandrasekhar Reddy	[29]
D'Arcy Browning	Cross and Bones	2005	Paul Carrière	[30]
Robert Torti	Reefer Madness	2005	Andy Fickman
Matthew Modine	Mary	2005	Abel Ferrara
Suman	Mulla Kireetam	2005	N.S. Raja Reddy	[31]
Ahmad Soleimani Nia	The Messiah	2007	Nader Talebzadeh
Joseph Mawle	The Passion	2008	Michael Offer
Julian Casey	Ben Hur	2010	Steve Shill
Shredy Jabarin	المخلص (The Savior, Arabic language film)	2014	Robert Savo	[32]
Diogo Morgado	Son of God	2014	Christopher Spencer	[33]
Selva Rasalingam	The Gospel of John	2014	David Batty	[34]
Selva Rasalingam	The Gospel of Matthew	2014	David Batty	[35]
Selva Rasalingam	The Gospel of Mark	2015	David Batty	[36]
Selva Rasalingam	The Gospel of Luke	2015	David Batty	[37]
Ewan McGregor	Last Days in the Desert	2015	Rodrigo Garcia
Haaz Sleiman	Killing Jesus	2015	Christopher Menaul
Juan Pablo Di Pace	A.D. The Bible Continues	2015	Ciaran Donnelly
DJ Perry	40 Nights	2016	Jesse Low
Joseph Mesiano	Joseph & Mary	2016	Roger Christian
Rodrigo Santoro	Ben-Hur	2016	Timur Bekmambetov	[38]
Cliff Curtis	Risen	2016	Kevin Reynolds
Adam Greaves-Neal	The Young Messiah	2016	Cyrus Nowrasteh
Aviv Alush	The Shack	2017	Stuart Hazeldine
Jeremy Davies	American Gods	2017	Floria Sigismondi
Jonathan Roumie	The Chosen	2017	Dallas Jenkins	[39]
Joaquin Phoenix	Mary Magdalene	2018	Garth Davis
DJ Perry	The Christ Slayer	2019	Nathaniel Nose
Adam Bond	Good Omens	2019	Douglas Mackinnon
John Legend	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert	2019	David Leveaux Alex Rudzinski
Vivaan Shah	Yeshu	2020	Arvind Babbal	[40]
Shayan Ardalan	40: The Temptation of Christ	2020	Douglas James Vail
Juan Pablo Di Pace	Resurrection	2021	Ciaran Donnelly

Notes

• Jesus (character) at IMDb

External links

• Jesus in Film and TV: 13 Devilishly Handsome Actors Who've Played the Son of God
• 20 Actors That Have Played Jesus Christ
• Actors who have portrayed Jesus
• Actors Who Played Jesus
• A look at actors who have played Jesus in movies
• Blestemul unui rol fascinant: ce s-a intamplat cu actorii care l-au jucat pe Iisus in filme, ProTv

See also

• The Nativity (1978)
• List of films set in ancient Rome § The Life of Jesus Christ
• The Robe (1953)
• List of films based on the Bible