![]() Look no further than Buffy‘s Season 4 episode “Wild at Heart” (aka, the one where Oz left Sunnydale, totally devastating poor Willow in the process) for proof of that. When Hannigan turns on the waterworks, you can guarantee your heart will be shattered to pieces. Image Credit: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox Television But Alona Tal’s ability to depict Stella’s distress upon learning of Clay’s near-death and leg amputation, and then later drum up the indescribable anguish of a new mom who has been so randomly widowed, delivered the season’s hardest-hitting gut punches. ![]() On paper, everything that happened to SEAL Team‘s Clay in Season 6 was tragic. Lucky for us, he can keep getting away with it. He’s since carried that skill for sobbing with him to The Path and Westworld. (C’mon, you’ve seen it.) Paul has a distinct knack for channeling the pent-up emotions of angry young men, most notably as Breaking Bad‘s recovering junkie Jesse Pinkman, his eyes turning red and veins popping out of his forehead as the waterworks flow. His anguished weeping at the hands of Walter White on Breaking Bad (“He can’t keep getting away with it!”) was so iconic, it became a meme. ![]() Review our picks for TV’s Best Criers, then hit the comments to let us know who you think shines when it comes to delivering the tears. Plus, we’re basking in the waterworks of One Tree Hill‘s Sophia Bush, Buffy and How I Met Your Mother alumna Alyson Hannigan, Breaking Bad‘s meme-worthy Aaron Paul and multiple Grey’s Anatomy vets.Īll in all, the 26 performers highlighted below do their fair share to keep Kleenex in business. Brown, both of whom were required to do plenty of crying on the tearjerker series Parenthood and This Is Us, respectively. And of course, this list wouldn’t be complete without Mae Whitman and Sterling K. Our roundup of TV’s Best Criers includes all-stars like Claire Danes, who’s been wowing us with her trademark chin quiver for three decades, and Jane the Virgin‘s emotional MVP Gina Rodriguez. It’s a performer’s job to emote and make viewers feel their character’s heartache, but some stars just excel at unleashing the waterworks in ways that are heart-wrenching (extreme sobbing) or impressively executed (see: Jensen Ackles’ marvelous Single Perfect Man Tear). We hope you have some tissues handy, because TVLine is celebrating the most tear-proficient actors and actresses on the small screen.
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