THE BEST ACTORS - Born 1980s and 1990s
by Prodanovic7 | created - 12 Dec 2021 | updated - 3 days ago | Public
1. Daniel Kaluuya
Actor | Get Out
Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He is best known for Get Out (2017), Black Panther (2018) and for portraying Fred Hampton in Judas & The Black Messiah (2021).
He had a supporting role in Sicario (2015).
He also starred in the Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits".
For his work in...
5: Kick-Ass 2, Sicario, Get Out, Black Panther, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
5: Les Misérables, The Theory of Everything, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, The Trial of the Chicago 7
3. Rami Malek
Actor | Bohemian Rhapsody
Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors ...
9: Night at the Museum, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, The Pacific (TV Mini-Series), The Legend of Korra (TV Series), The Master, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb, Mr. Robot (TV Series), BoJack Horseman (TV Series), Oppenheimer
4. Ryan Gosling
Actor | Blue Valentine
Born Ryan Thomas Gosling on November 12, 1980, in London, Ontario, Canada, he is the son of Donna (Wilson), a secretary, and Thomas Ray Gosling, a traveling salesman. Ryan was the second of their two children, with an older sister, Mandi. His ancestry is French-Canadian, as well as English, ...
7: Murder by Numbers, The Notebook, Fracture, Drive, Gangster Squad, The Big Short, Blade Runner 2049
5. Adam Driver
Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens
Adam Douglas Driver was born in San Diego, California. His mother, Nancy (Needham) Wright, is a paralegal from Mishawaka, Indiana, and his father, Joe Douglas Driver, who has deep roots in the American South, is from Little Rock, Arkansas. His stepfather is a Baptist minister. His ancestry includes...
9: J. Edgar, Lincoln, This Is Where I Leave You, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, Logan Lucky, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Marriage Story, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, The Last Duel
6. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
6: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Hacksaw Ridge, Spider-Man: No Way Home
7. Jonah Hill
Actor | 21 Jump Street
Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from ...
16: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, How to Train Your Dragon, Megamind, Moneyball, 21 Jump Street, Django Unchained, This Is the End, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Lego Movie, How to Train Your Dragon 2, 22 Jump Street, War Dogs, Maniac (TV Mini-Series), How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Don't Look Up
8. Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor | Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
10: Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, Zodiac, Brothers, Source Code, Prisoners, Nightcrawler, Nocturnal Animals, Okja, Spider-Man: Far From Home
9. Timothée Chalamet
Actor | Call Me by Your Name
Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...
7: Interstellar, Hostiles, Little Women, The French Dispatch, Dune: Part One, Don't Look Up, Dune: Part Two
10. Riz Ahmed
Actor | Sound of Metal
Riz Ahmed (born 1 December 1982), also known by his stage name Riz MC and birth name Rizwan Ahmed, is a British Pakistani actor, rapper, and activist. As an actor, he has won one Emmy Award, out of two Emmy nominations, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and three...
7: Nightcrawler, The Night Of (TV Mini-Series), Jason Bourne, Rogue One, Venom, The OA (TV Series), Sound of Metal
11. Lucas Hedges
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
Lucas Hedges is an American actor, known for playing Patrick Chandler in Manchester by the Sea (2016), which earned him an Academy Award nomination.
Hedges was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York, the second child of poet and actress Susan Bruce and Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Peter ...
4: Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Manchester by the Sea, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
12. Jesse Eisenberg
Actor | The Social Network
Curly haired and with a fast-talking voice, Jesse Eisenberg is a movie actor, known for his Academy Award nominated role as Mark Zuckerberg in the 2010 film The Social Network. He has also starred in the films The Squid and the Whale, Adventureland, The Education of Charlie Banks, 30 Minutes or ...
11: The Village, Zombieland, The Social Network, Rio, To Rome with Love, Now You See Me, Rio 2, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Now You See Me 2, Zombieland: Double Tap, Zack Snyder's Justice League
13. Barry Keoghan
Actor | The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Barry came to prominence in the 2017 film 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' with his truly terrifying portrayal of Martin, an American teenager exacting a grisly revenge on drunken surgeon Colin Farrell, but he was neither an American nor a teenager. Born in Dublin on 17th October 1992, he has a ...
4: Dunkirk, Chernobyl (TV Mini Series), Eternals, The Batman
14. Brian Tyree Henry
Actor | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Academy Award, Emmy and Tony Award nominee Brian Tyree Henry is a versatile actor whose career spans film, television and theater. Earlier this year, Henry starred opposite Jennifer Lawrence in A24's "Causeway," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is streaming globally on...
6: Atlanta (TV Series), Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Joker, Eternals, Bullet Train, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
15. LaKeith Stanfield
Actor | Sorry to Bother You
LaKeith Lee Stanfield is an actor and rapper from Victorville, California. At the age of fifteen, LaKeith began attending the John Casablancas Modeling & Career Center in Orange County. A few years later, he auditioned for Destin Cretton's then college thesis film Short Term 12 (2008). Later, the ...
5: Atlanta (TV Series), Snowden, Get Out, BoJack Horseman (TV Series), Knives Out
16. Jesse Plemons
Actor | Game Night
Jesse Lon Plemons is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a career breakthrough with his major role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006-2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad...
12: The Master, Breaking Bad (TV Series), Black Mass, Bridge of Spies, Fargo (TV Series), Hostiles, The Post, Vice, The Irishman, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, The Power of the Dog, Killers of the Flower Moon
17. Donald Glover
Actor | Solo: A Star Wars Story
The multi-talented Donald Glover is a writer, actor, musician, comedian, producer and director, who performs under the stage names Childish Gambino and mcDJ. He was born Donald McKinley Glover at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was raised in Stone Mountain, Georgia. His mother, Beverly (...
6: Community (TV Series), The Martian, Atlanta (TV Series), Spider-Man: Homecoming, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
18. Michael B. Jordan
Actor | Black Panther
Michael B. Jordan, the middle of three children, was born in Santa Ana, California and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the son of Donna (Davis), a high school counselor, and Michael A. Jordan. His middle name, Bakari, means "noble promise" in Swahili. (He is not related to, or named after, ...
5: The Wire (TV Series), That Awkward Moment, Creed, Black Panther, Creed II
19. Paul Dano
Actor | There Will Be Blood
An actor for all seasons and all kinds of roles (from dark, difficult characters to more loving ones) Paul Dano has an extensive body work that includes working with directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve McQueen, Dayton & Ferris, Ang Lee, Denis Villenueve and Paolo Sorrentino; acting with ...
8: There Will Be Blood, Looper, Prisoners, 12 Years a Slave, Youth, Okja, Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini Series), The Batman
20. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor | Inception
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles, California, to Jane Gordon and Dennis Levitt. Joseph was raised in a Jewish family with his late older brother, Dan Gordon-Levitt, who passed away in October 2010. His parents worked for the Pacifica Radio station KPFK-FM and ...
13: 10 Things I Hate About You, Inception, 50/50, The Dark Knight Rises, Looper, Lincoln, Don Jon, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, Snowden, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Knives Out, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Glass Onion
21. Elijah Wood
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Elijah Wood is an American actor best known for portraying Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's blockbuster Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In addition to reprising the role in The Hobbit series, Wood also played Ryan in the FX television comedy Wilfred (2011) and voiced Beck in the Disney XD animated ...
12: Back to the Future Part II, The Ice Storm, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Paris, je t'aime, Bobby, Happy Feet, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Over the Garden Wall (TV Mini-Series)
22. Seth Rogen
Producer | This Is the End
An actor, comedian and writer, Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Sandy (Belogus), a social worker, and Mark Rogen, who worked for non-profits. His father is American-born and his mother is Canadian. He is of Russian...
11: Freaks and Geeks (TV Series), Donnie Darko, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Superbad, Kung Fu Panda, Monsters vs. Aliens, Kung Fu Panda 2, 50/50, Arrested Development (TV Series), This Is the End, Kung Fu Panda 3
23. Chris Evans
Actor | The Avengers
Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. ...
13: Cellular, Fantastic Four, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Captain America: The First Avenger, The Avengers, Snowpiercer, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Knives Out
24. Chris Hemsworth
Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman
Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth & Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...
10: Thor, The Avengers, Rush, Thor: The Dark World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Bad Times at the El Royale, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder
25. Tom Holland
Actor | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and ...
7: Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Onward, Spider-Man: No Way Home
26. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
9: Thor, Midnight in Paris, The Avengers, Thor: The Dark World, The Night Manager (TV Series), Thor: Ragnarok, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Loki (TV Series)
27. Evan Peters
Actor | X-Men: Apocalypse
Evan Peters was born in 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri to Phil and Julie Peters. When his father's job was transferred, the family moved to Grand Blanc, Michigan. There, Evan began taking acting classes and at age 15, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing a career in the ...
6: Kick-Ass, X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Dark Phoenix, WandaVision (TV Mini Series), Mare of Easttown (TV Series)
28. Nicholas Hoult
Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road
Nicholas Hoult was born on December 7, 1989 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK as Nicholas Caradoc Hoult. His parents are Glenis Hoult, a piano teacher and Roger Hoult, a pilot. He has three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, ...
7: X: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men: Apocalypse, The Favourite, Dark Phoenix, The Menu
29. Jason Schwartzman
Actor | Rushmore
Jason Francesco Schwartzman is an American actor and musician. Schwartzman made his film debut in Wes Anderson's 1998 film Rushmore, and has gone on to appear in seven other Anderson films: The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (...
9: The Darjeeling Limited, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Klaus, Fargo (TV Series), The French Dispatch, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Asteroid City
30. Miles Teller
Actor | Whiplash
Miles Alexander Teller is an American actor and musician. For his performance in the film The Spectacular Now (2013), he won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He has appeared in the films Rabbit Hole (2010), Footloose (2011), Project X (2012), That ...
5: Whiplash, That Awkward Moment, War Dogs, Top Gun: Maverick, The Offer (TV Mini-Series)
31. Ezra Miller
Actor | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Ezra Matthew Miller was born in Wyckoff, New Jersey, to Marta (Koch), a modern dancer, and Robert S. Miller, who has worked at Workman Publishing and as former senior V.P. for Hyperion Books. Ezra has two older sisters and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and German-Dutch (mother) ancestry. Ezra has...
8: Californication (TV Series), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Justice League, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Zack Snyder's Justice League, The Flash
32. Charlie Cox
Actor | The Theory of Everything
Charlie Thomas Cox was born in London, England, to Patricia C. A. (Harley) and Andrew Frederick Seaforth Cox, a publisher. He has English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and descends from several prominent forebears (Baronets of Agnew and Carnegie, an Earl of Findlater, and a Colonial Governor of ...
5: Boardwalk Empire (TV Series), The Theory of Everything, Daredevil (TV Series), The Defenders (TV Mini-Series), Spider-Man: No Way Home
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