Romantic comedies have a special place in everyone’s heart. A good romcom can make you laugh, cry and can even restore your faith in love. While everyone has their own favourite romcom and their own fantasy of a leading man or lady, we conducted a study to find out who are the best leading actors and actresses in romcoms.
Using 13 data points, we have analysed the films of biggest names in Hollywood known for playing romantic leads during the 90’s and 00’s. This study counts every kiss, every broken heart, every “I love you” and much more.
| Actor |  No. of love interests |
 No. of romantic gestures |
 No. of love triangles |
 No. of kisses |
 No. of kisses in the rain |
 No. of proposals |
 No. of dates |
 No. of “I love you”s |
 No. of break-ups |
 No. of Betrayals |
 Rotten Tomatoes critic’s score |
 Rotten Tomatoes audience score |
 Box office revenue |
 Total score(out of 100) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hugh Grant |
4 | 11 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 68 | 81 | 891.6m | 66.00 |
Sanaa Lathan |
5 | 9 | 4 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 70 | 86 | 67.4m | 59.93 |
Adam Sandler |
6 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 4 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 68 | 536.8m | 59.22 |
Jason Segel |
5 | 12 | 3 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 54 | 53 | 285.8m | 56.34 |
Drew Barrymore |
6 | 10 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 56 | 71 | 406.4m | 55.42 |
Kate Hudson |
5 | 11 | 9 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 41 | 57 | 219.9m | 51.96 |
Reese Witherspoon |
5 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 75 | 425.2m | 51.52 |
Patrick Dempsey |
3 | 15 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 66 | 498.9m | 50.06 |
Julia Roberts |
4 | 10 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 73 | 1.1bn | 49.97 |
Meg Ryan |
7 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 79 | 79 | 571.4m | 49.97 |
Renée Zellweger |
4 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 75 | 74 | 595.1m | 48.37 |
Sandra Bullock |
4 | 13 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 56 | 68 | 698.4m | 46.27 |
Cameron Diaz |
5 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 53 | 69 | 643.7m | 45.21 |
Richard Gere |
5 | 15 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 53 | 59 | 943.0m | 43.97 |
Colin Firth |
4 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 75 | 546.0m | 39.17 |
Sarah Jessica Parker |
3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 52 | 634.2m | 37.20 |
Jennifer Aniston |
3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 27 | 51 | 598.7m | 35.56 |
Matthew McConaughey |
4 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 28 | 63 | 402.7m | 32.63 |
Jennifer Lopez |
4 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 52 | 413.5m | 32.07 |
Morris Chesnut |
4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 44 | 73 | 117.2m | 31.90 |