Six Degrees of Jesus

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...

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