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)

This is a list of actors who have played Jesus.

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		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]
Robert Wilson	Day of Triumph	1954	Irving Pichel and John T. Coyle
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		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		K. Thangappan	[14]
Victor Garber	Godspell	1973	David Greene	[15]
Ted Neeley	Jesus Christ Superstar		Norman Jewison	[16]
Murali Das	Jesus		P. A. Thomas	[17]
Murali	Thomasleeha	1975		[18]
Robert Powell	Jesus of Nazareth	1977	Franco Zeffirelli	[19]
Liam Neeson	Pilgrim's Progress	1978	Ken Anderson	[20]
Vijayachander	Karunamayudu (Dayamayudu)		A. Bhimsingh	[21]
Kenneth Colley	Monty Python's Life of Brian	1979	Terry Jones	[22]
Brian Deacon	Jesus		Peter Sykes
Chris Sarandon	The Day Christ Died	1980	James Cellan Jones	[23]
Vijayachander	Rajadhi Raju		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		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		Vijayachander
Jeremy Sisto	Jesus	1999	Roger Young
Christian Bale	Mary, Mother of Jesus		Kevin Connor
Will Ferrell	Superstar		Bruce McCulloch
Maurício Gonçalves	O Auto da Compadecida	2000	Guel Arraes	[27]
Glenn Carter	Jesus Christ Superstar		Gale Edwards Nick Morris
David J. Francis	Dracula 2000		Patrick Lussier	[28]
Jan Michelini	The Apocalypse	2002	Raffaele Mertes
Luigi Baricelli	Maria - Mãe do Filho de Deus	2003	Moacyr Góes	[29]
Henry Ian Cusick	The Gospel of John		Philip Saville
Siva Krishna	Yesu Mahimalu		Natti Kumar	[30]
Jim Caviezel	The Passion of the Christ	2004	Mel Gibson
Jonathan Scarfe	Judas		Charles Robert Carner
Krishna	Shanti Sandesham		P. Chandrasekhar Reddy	[31]
D'Arcy Browning	Cross and Bones	2005	Paul Carrière	[32]
Robert Torti	Reefer Madness		Andy Fickman
Matthew Modine	Mary		Abel Ferrara
Suman	Mulla Kireetam		N.S. Raja Reddy	[33]
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	[34]
Diogo Morgado	Son of God		Christopher Spencer	[35]
Selva Rasalingam	The Gospel of John		David Batty	[36]
	The Gospel of Matthew			[37]
	The Gospel of Mark	2015		[38]
	The Gospel of Luke			[39]
Ewan McGregor	Last Days in the Desert		Rodrigo Garcia
Haaz Sleiman	Killing Jesus		Christopher Menaul
Juan Pablo Di Pace	A.D. The Bible Continues		Ciaran Donnelly
DJ Perry	40 Nights	2016	Jesse Low
Joseph Mesiano	Joseph & Mary		Roger Christian
Rodrigo Santoro	Ben-Hur		Timur Bekmambetov	[40]
Cliff Curtis	Risen		Kevin Reynolds
Adam Greaves-Neal	The Young Messiah		Cyrus Nowrasteh
Aviv Alush	The Shack	2017	Stuart Hazeldine
Jeremy Davies	American Gods		Floria Sigismondi
Jonathan Roumie	The Chosen		Dallas Jenkins	[41]
Joaquin Phoenix	Mary Magdalene	2018	Garth Davis
DJ Perry	The Christ Slayer	2019	Nathaniel Nose
Adam Bond	Good Omens		Douglas Mackinnon
John Legend	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert		David Leveaux Alex Rudzinski
Vivaan Shah	Yeshu	2020	Arvind Babbal	[42]
Shayan Ardalan	40: The Temptation of Christ		Douglas James Vail
Juan Pablo Di Pace	Resurrection	2021	Ciaran Donnelly
Oscar Isaac	The King of Kings	2025	Seong-ho Jang

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