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Saturday, November 7th, 2020 3:17 PM

Live Poll: Favorite Left Handed Actors

Left-handedness is determined by a dominant use of a left hand typically for writing or eating habits. Left-handed people makes up only 10% of the world population.

There have been numerous superstitions about left-handed people's intellect, lifespan, etc. The bias against left-handed people is believed to be apparent in the world die to a lot of people being right-handers.

Which of these famous left-handed male or female actors is your favorite?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls086663372/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/fCeay-VF-a4/

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4 years ago

It is funny, I never realized that De Niro was left-handed. He almost always uses his right hand in films and in interviews.

Example:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/mediaviewer/rm3812594433?context=default

You can see that he is using his right hand to shake Mickey Rourke's hands.

or here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000134/mediaviewer/rm891198977?context=default

He is using his right hand to hold the revolver.

or in this image

Is he ambidextrous?

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He used left hand rifle here:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0077416/mediaviewer/rm2668343808

Now, either of this could be his acting or he could be ambidextrous as you mentioned. I have derived this list based on a lot of media articles, wikipedia and ranker, all of them lists him as left-handed.

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Nonetheless, I have removed Robert De Niro, Jim Carrey and Sylvester Stallone because of too many images denying sole left-handedness. I have added 3 others instead. Thanks.

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That doesn't mean anything. I got a colleague who is left handed. When he was a child, they trained him to be right-handed, which is ridicolous. But there was a time, a wide part of people thought that it would be unormal or a disabillity to be left-handed. So today he can sign with left and right. It's symptomatic for not enlightened people to try to make all people equal, because they can't cope with differences. Today there are still camps to turn around young gay people, which is ridicolous in the same kind. Some "lefties" just behave like "righthands", because they were teached so at kids age.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_are_left-handed

This list says the deNiro is a left handed person.

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@Breumaster 

I doubt that a left-handed would sign with his right hand even if he was trained in his childhood.

PS: Wikipedia is not really a trustworthy source and the article that you linked is not protected against vandalism.

This is a great and precise article concerning the issue: https://celebanswers.com/is-robert-de-niro-right-or-left-handed/

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I agree with Cinephile here about different sources. Though I would differ about determining handedness just based on sign or writing, that is one of the major aspect though.

If there is conflicting information, I would rather err on the side where there isn't obvious doubt.

This is one of the sites that I looked at and I think it is good.

https://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/famous_list.html

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I doubt that a left-handed would sign with his right hand even if he was trained in his childhood.

It's true though. My father is naturally left-handed but was forced to write with his right hand in school. It stuck.

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@albstein 

On  the 101 sources provided by Wikipedia, only 2 mentions Robert De Niro:

Eonline: https://www.eonline.com/photos/16834/left-handed-celebrities/page/2 (not citing sources, nor author)

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/aug/13/2

The Guardian cites https://www.lefthandersday.com 

and Lefthandersday says that Robert De Niro's Twitter account is @TheRobertDeNiro (which isn't true). That account was suspended by Twitter (probably an impersonation).

https://www.lefthandersday.com/left-handers-day/hashtag#.X6tL92hKg2w

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@cinephile my comment was not about De Niro, only about what you said in the quote.

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Well, people sign their names with the hand with which they've designed the signature and practiced signing.

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4 years ago

Please correct:

... due to a lot of people being right-handers.

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Corrected. Thanks!

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4 years ago

May I suggest a few other edits?

Left-handed people make up only 10% of the world population.

There have been numerous superstitions about left-handed people's intellect, lifespan, etc. The bias against left-handed people is believed to exist in the world due to a lot of people being right-handers.

Which of these famous left-handed actors is your favorite?

(No need to specify male and female.)

: )  Good idea; it's interesting that no one's ever thought to do this before.

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Corrected, thanks. I thought this would have been suggested, but wasn't!!

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3 years ago

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Thank you. :)

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3 years ago

Is there an age qualification or something? Where is Sophia Lillis?

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There are max 35 choices for a poll and she seems to be less popular than the others on the list.

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Thanks.  I'm a newbie on this site, and I have a lot to learn.

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3 years ago

Thanks for accepting me I am also NewBie and wanted to learn more .....
Keeps learning... awesome.  You can visit Megastarsbio for more interesting stories about Melissa McCarthy Weight loss. How she managed She also a left-hander supposed to be. 

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11 months ago

Vincent D'Onofrio is my favorite left handed actor.