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Top 5 Greatest Screen Characters

Cartoon character Homer Simpson from The Simpsons has been named the greatest character created for TV and film in the past 20 years.

Harry Potter

In the survey, conducted by US magazine, people ranked the boy wizard Harry Potter, played by Daniel Radcliffe in the second position.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer landed the third spot, reports the Sun.

Buffy Summers played by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the popular TV series slays vampires, demons, and other forces of darkness.

Tony Soprano

At number four is Tony Soprano whose full name is Anthony John 'Tony' Soprano, Sr.

James Gandolfini played the fictional character on the HBO television drama series The Sopranos, about an Italian crime family.

The Joker

The Joker rounded off the top five.

The comic book supervillain and arch enemy of Batman has been portrayed by Cesar Romero in the Batman television series, Jack Nicholson in Tim Burton's Batman, Andrew Koenig in Sandy Collora's Batman: Dead End, and Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight.