Maybe Tom Selleck. (end/sarcasm) Self made men? Reagan, as much as I liked him, was a movie star. I have a hard time calling a movie star a "self made man."
You may have a hard time calling him that but his background wasn't as a pampered rich man's son. Reagan actually worked for a living and succeeded on his own merit not on his father's dime.
Ronald Reagan was much more than a movie star. He was a sports announcer, he toured the country giving speeches as a spokesman for GE, and he served in the Army. He was indeed a self-made man, not an elite.
http://www.reaganlibrary.com/reagan/biography/
if you're pushing an actor.. why not gary senise?