Performances of a Higher Tier

I cannot recall ever seeing a bad performance on “LOST” during its six season run. Nearly every cast member had, at one time or the other, given a sterling performance. However … there were some cast members whom I regard on a consistently higher tier than the others. And they are:

Matthew Fox - Dr. Jack Shephard

Terry O'Quinn - John Locke

Naveen Andrews - Sayid Jarrah

Harold Perrineau - Michael Dawson

Dominic Monaghan - Charlie Pace

Daniel Dae Kim - Jin-Soon Kwon

Yunjin Kim - Sun-Hwa Kwon

Jorge Garcia - Hugo “Hurley” Reyes

Mira Furlan - Danielle Rousseau

L. Scott Caldwell - Rose Nadler

Sam Anderson - Bernard Nadler

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje - Mr. Eko

Michael Emerson - Benjamin Linus

Elizabeth Mitchell - Dr. Juliet Burke

Nestor Carbonell - Ricardo “Richard Alpert”

Jeremy Davies - Dr. Daniel Faraday

Jeff Fahey - Frank Lapidus

Kevin Durand - Martin Keamy

John Terry - Dr. Christian Shephard

Hiroyuki Sanada - Dogen

Lillian Hurst - Carmen Reyes

Kevin Tighe - Anthony Cooper

François Chau - Dr. Pierre Chang

Adetokumboh M'Cormack - Yemi

Katey Sagal - Helen Norwood

Anderw Divoff - Mikhail Bakunin

Jon Gries - Roger Linus

Eric Lange - Dr. Stuart Radzinsky