One of the reasons why I read books or watch movies is to get lost in another world, to escape the mundane and taste the exotic.

However, another equally powerful reason is to meet interesting people. Just like a good story will make you want to escape and live in another world, a great work fills you with the desire to meet the characters that inhabit that world.These are the people who you’d like to hang out with, talk to, pick their brains if possible.

This list was in danger of being dominated by a single movie (The Godfather is my favorite movie of all time, so the top 3 slots would easily be filled by quite a few of the cast).

But, that’d be boring! Instead,  I thought hard about the characters on the big and small screens that have left a significant impact on me. These are…