# List of actors who have played Jesus

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 | |
| George Fisher | Civilization | 1916 | Thomas H. Ince | |
| Howard Gaye | Intolerance | 1916 | D. W. Griffith | |
| Claude Payton | Ben-Hur | 1925 | Fred Niblo | |
| H.B. Warner | The King of Kings | 1927 | Cecil B. DeMille | |
| Robert Le Vigan | Golgotha | 1935 | Julien Duvivier | |
| Robert Wilson | The Living Christ Series | 1951 | John T Coyle | |
| Donald C. Klune | The Robe | 1953 | Henry Koster | |
| Jon Shepodd | The Power of the Resurrection | 1958 | Harold D. Schuster | |
| Claude Heater | Ben-Hur | 1959 | William Wyler | |
| Jeffrey Hunter | King of Kings | 1961 | Nicholas Ray | |
| Roy Mangano | Barabbas | 1961 | Richard Fleischer | |
| Enrique Irazoqui | The Gospel According to St.Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | |
| Max von Sydow | The Greatest Story Ever Told | 1965 | George Stevens | |
| Donald Sutherland | Johnny Got His Gun | 1971 | Dalton Trumbo | |
| Kamal Haasan | Annai Velankanni | 1971 | K. Thangappan | |
| Victor Garber | Godspell | 1973 | David Greene | |
| Ted Neeley | Jesus Christ Superstar | 1973 | Norman Jewison | |
| Murali Das | Jesus | 1973 | P. A. Thomas | |
| Murali | Thomasleeha | 1975 | P. A. Thomas | |
| Robert Powell | Jesus of Nazareth | 1977 | Franco Zeffirelli | |
| Liam Neeson | Pilgrim's Progress | 1978 | Ken Anderson | |
| Vijayachander | Karunamayudu (Dayamayudu) | 1978 | A. Bhimsingh | |
| Kenneth Colley | Monty Python's Life of Brian | 1979 | Terry Jones | |
| Brian Deacon | Jesus | 1979 | Peter Sykes | |
| Chris Sarandon | The Day Christ Died | 1980 | James Cellan Jones | |
| Vijayachander | Rajadhi Raju | 1980 | Bapu | |
| 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 | |
| Mat Ranillo III | Kristo | 1996 | Ben Yalung | |
| 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 | |
| Jan Michelini | The Apocalypse | 2002 | Raffaele Mertes | |
| Henry Ian Cusick | The Gospel of John | 2003 | Philip Saville | |
| Siva Krishna | Yesu Mahimalu | 2003 | Natti Kumar | |
| Jim Caviezel | The Passion of the Christ | 2004 | Mel Gibson | |
| Jonathan Scarfe | Judas | 2004 | Charles Robert Carner | |
| Krishna | Shanti Sandesham | 2004 | P. Chandrasekhar Reddy | |
| D'Arcy Browning | Cross and Bones | 2005 | Paul Carrière | |
| Robert Torti | Reefer Madness | 2005 | Andy Fickman | |
| Matthew Modine | Mary | 2005 | Abel Ferrara | |
| Suman | Mulla Kireetam | 2005 | N.S. Raja Reddy | |
| 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 | |
| Diogo Morgado | Son of God | 2014 | Christopher Spencer | |
| Selva Rasalingam | The Gospel of John | 2014 | David Batty | |
| Selva Rasalingam | The Gospel of Matthew | 2014 | David Batty | |
| Selva Rasalingam | The Gospel of Mark | 2015 | David Batty | |
| Selva Rasalingam | The Gospel of Luke | 2015 | David Batty | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Shayan Ardalan | 40: The Temptation of Christ | 2020 | Douglas James Vail | |
| Juan Pablo Di Pace | Resurrection | 2021 | Ciaran Donnelly | |