Six Degrees of Jesus

By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Lina Lofaro, Desa Philadelphia, Alain L. Sanders, Flora Tartakovsky and Josh Tyrangiel

Charlton Heston cornered the market on Moses long ago in The Ten Commandments, but as another Easter approaches, we're still without a definitive Hollywood Jesus. More than 100 actors have taken a shot at the role--so many, in fact, that you can connect some of the more recent ones Kevin Bacon-style.

Ralph Fiennes (1) was the voice of Jesus in the 1999 animated TV movie The Miracle Maker. He also starred in The English Patient with...

Willem Dafoe, (2) Jesus in 1988's The Last Temptation of Christ. Dafoe is in American Psycho with...

Christian Bale, (3) who played Mary's Child in the 1999 NBC movie Mary, Mother of Jesus. Bale was in All the Little Animals with...

John Hurt, (4) who showed the lighter side of the Lord in Mel Brooks' 1981 History of the World: Part I. Hurt was also in The Osterman Weekend with...

Chris Sarandon, (5) Jesus in the 1980 TV movie The Day Christ Died. Sarandon shared screen time in Just Cause with...

Blair Underwood, (6) who played a modern dreadlocked Jesus in 1992's The Second Coming, which was narrated by James Earl Jones (O.K., we're cheating), who was in Conan the Barbarian with...

Max von Sydow, (7) Jesus in 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told. Von Sydow has been in 120 movies; you can take it from here.