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Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty

HBO 2022

A fast-break series chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of sports’ most revered and dominant dynasties — a team that defined an era, both on and off the court.
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The Top 10 Actors and Characters of Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Ranked Cast in 2024)

Jason Segel

#1 - Jason Segel (Paul Westhead)

Jason Jordan Segel (born January 18, 1980) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, author, and producer. He is best known for his role as Marshall Eriksen in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, as well as for his work with director and producer Judd Apatow on the television series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared, and for the critically successful comedies in which he has starred, written, and produced. Segel has starred in several films, including Knocked Up (2007), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), Despicable Me (2010), Bad Teacher (2011), Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), The Muppets (2011), The Five-Year Engagement (2012), This Is 40 (2012), Sex Tape (2014), The Discovery (2017), and Our Friend (2019). His performance as the late author David Foster Wallace in the 2015 film The End of the Tour was met with critical acclaim, earning him a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.

Jason Segel plays as Paul Westhead in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Jason Segel is the top #1 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Sally Field

#2 - Sally Field (Jessie Buss)

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She has received many awards and nominations, including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and nominations for a Tony Award and for two British Academy Film Awards. Field began her career on television, starring in the comedies Gidget (1965–1966), The Flying Nun (1967–1970), and The Girl with Something Extra (1973–1974). In 1967, she was also in the western The Way West. In 1976, she attracted critical acclaim for her performance in the television film Sybil, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie. Her film debut was as an extra in Moon Pilot (1962). Her film career escalated during the 1970s with starring roles in films including Stay Hungry (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Heroes (1977), The End (1978), and Hooper (1978). During the 1980s she won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice for Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984), and she appeared in Smokey and the Bandit II (1980), Absence of Malice (1981), Kiss Me Goodbye (1982), Murphy's Romance (1985), Steel Magnolias (1989), Soapdish (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and Forrest Gump (1994). In the 2000s, Field returned to television with a recurring role on the NBC medical drama ER, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 2001 and the following year made her stage debut with Edward Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?. For her portrayal of Nora Walker in the ABC television family drama series Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011), Field won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (2012), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and she portrayed Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel, with the first being her highest-grossing release. In 2015, she portrayed the title character in Hello, My Name Is Doris, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. In 2017, she returned to the stage after an absence of 15 years with the revival of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, for which was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. In 2014, she was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2019, she received the Kennedy Center Honor.

Sally Field plays as Jessie Buss in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Sally Field is the top #2 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Molly Gordon

#3 - Molly Gordon (Linda Zafrani)

Molly Gordon is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for playing series regular Nicky on the television drama Animal Kingdom (2016-2018), as well as for her supporting roles in the comedy feature films Life of the Party, Booksmart, Good Boys, and Shiva Baby.

Molly Gordon plays as Linda Zafrani in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Molly Gordon is the top #3 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Adrien Brody

#4 - Adrien Brody (Pat Riley)

Adrien Nicholas Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor and producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring as Władysław Szpilman in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29, becoming the youngest actor to win in that category. Brody is the second male American actor after Christopher Lambert to receive the César Award for Best Actor. Other successful films that Brody has starred in are The Thin Red Line (1998), The Village (2004), King Kong (2005), Predators (2010) and Midnight in Paris (2011). He is a frequent collaborator of Wes Anderson's, having starred in four of Anderson's films, The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and The French Dispatch (2021). In 2017, he portrayed Luca Changretta in the fourth season of the BBC series Peaky Blinders. He will star in the upcoming Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde (2022). In 2022, he also starred as Pat Riley in the first season of the HBO sports drama series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.

Adrien Brody plays as Pat Riley in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Adrien Brody is the top #4 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

John C. Reilly

#5 - John C. Reilly (Jerry Buss)

John Christopher Reilly (born May 24, 1965), better known as John C. Reilly is an American film and theatre actor. Debuting in Casualties of War in 1989, he is one of several actors whose careers were launched by Brian De Palma. To date, he has appeared in more than fifty films, including three separate films in 2002, each of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Chicago and a Grammy Award for the song "Walk Hard", which he performed in Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. Description above from the Wikipedia article John C. Reilly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

John C. Reilly plays as Jerry Buss in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
John C. Reilly is the top #5 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Quincy Isaiah

#6 - Quincy Isaiah (Earvin 'Magic' Johnson)

Quincy Isaiah plays as Earvin 'Magic' Johnson in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Quincy Isaiah is the top #6 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Jason Clarke

#7 - Jason Clarke (Jerry West)

An Australian film and television actor. Clarke has appeared in many TV series. He is best known as a TV actor for his role as Tommy Caffee on the television series Brotherhood. He has also appeared in many films, often as an antagonist.

Jason Clarke plays as Jerry West in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Jason Clarke is the top #7 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Gaby Hoffmann

#8 - Gaby Hoffmann (Claire Rothman)

Gabrielle Mary Hoffmann (born January 8, 1982) is an American film and television actress best known for her roles on Sleepless in Seattle, Transparent and Girls, which garnered her nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2015, respectively. Additionally, she is remembered as a child actress from the films Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, Now and Then, and Volcano. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gaby Hoffmann plays as Claire Rothman in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Gaby Hoffmann is the top #8 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Tracy Letts

#9 - Tracy Letts (Jack McKinney)

Tracy Letts (born July 4, 1965) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. He received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County and a Tony Award for his portrayal of George in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He is also known for his portrayal of Andrew Lockhart in seasons 3 and 4 of Showtime's Homeland, for which he has been nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards as a member of the ensemble. He currently portrays Nick on the HBO comedy Divorce. Letts wrote the screenplays of three films adapted from his own plays: Bug and Killer Joe, both directed by William Friedkin, and August: Osage County, directed by John Wells. His 2009 play Superior Donuts was adapted into a television series of the same name which is currently in its second season on CBS.

Tracy Letts plays as Jack McKinney in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Tracy Letts is the top #9 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Hadley Robinson

#10 - Hadley Robinson (Jeanie Buss)

Hadley Robinson plays as Jeanie Buss in Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty.
Hadley Robinson is the top #10 member of the cast and appears in 10 episodes.

Last updated: Feb 06, 2023

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