THE BEST ACTRESSES - Born 1980s and 1990s
by Prodanovic7 | created - 06 Feb 2017 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public
1. Natalie Portman
Actress | Black Swan
Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).
Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...
19: Léon, Heat, Mars Attacks!, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Cold Mountain, Closer, Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, V for Vendetta, Paris, je t'aime, Goya's Ghosts, The Darjeeling Limited, Brothers, Black Swan, Thor, Thor: The Dark World, Annihilation, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder
2. Jennifer Lawrence
Actress | The Hunger Games
As the highest-paid actress in the world in 2015 and 2016, and with her films grossing over $5.5 billion worldwide, Jennifer Lawrence is often cited as the most successful actress of her generation. She is also the first person born in the 1990s to have won an acting Oscar.
Jennifer Shrader Lawrence...
17: Winter's Bone, The Beaver, X: First Class, The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, American Hustle, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Joy, X-Men: Apocalypse, Passengers, Mother!, Red Sparrow, Dark Phoenix, Don't Look Up
3. Scarlett Johansson
Actress | Lost in Translation
Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...
20: Lost in Translation, The Prestige, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Don Jon, Her, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Lucy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War, Sing, Avengers: Infinity War, Isle of Dogs, Avengers: Endgame, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit, Black Widow, Asteroid City
4. Margot Robbie
Actress | Suicide Squad
Margot Elise Robbie was born on July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. She graduated from Somerset College in ...
10: The Wolf of Wall Street, Focus, The Legend of Tarzan, Suicide Squad, Goodbye Christopher Robin, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Bombshell, Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, The Suicide Squad, Asteroid City
5. Emma Stone
Actress | La La Land
Emily Jean "Emma" Stone was born on November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona to Krista Jean Stone (née Yeager), a homemaker & Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" Stone, a contracting company founder and CEO. She is of Swedish, German & British Isles descent. Stone began acting as a child as a member of the ...
13: Superbad, Zombieland, Friends with Benefits, The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man, Gangster Squad, The Croods, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Favourite, Maniac (TV Mini-Series), Zombieland: Double Tap, Poor Things
6. Anne Hathaway
Actress | Les Misérables
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...
12: Brokeback Mountain, The Devil Wears Prada, Alice in Wonderland, Rio, The Dark Knight Rises, Les Misérables, Don Jon, Rio 2, Interstellar, The Intern, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ocean's Eight
7. Lupita Nyong'o
Actress | 12 Years a Slave
Lupita Amondi Nyong'o was born March 1, 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico, to Kenyan parents, Dorothy Ogada Buyu and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science. She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to...
8: 12 Years a Slave, Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, The Jungle Book, Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi, Black Panther, Us, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
8. Brie Larson
Actress | Room
Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...
6: 21 Jump Street, Don Jon, Community (TV Series), Room, Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame
9. Alicia Vikander
Actress | Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved...
4: Ex Machina, Seventh Son, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Jason Bourne
10. Anna Paquin
Actress | The Piano
Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.
She was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved ...
7: The Piano, X-Men, X2, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Good Dinosaur, The Irishman
11. Michelle Williams
Actress | Blue Valentine
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
6: Brokeback Mountain, I'm Not There, Shutter Island, Manchester by the Sea, Venom, Venom: Let There Be Carnage
12. Saoirse Ronan
Actress | Hanna
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
6: Atonement, The Lovely Bones, The Way Back, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Little Women, The French Dispatch
13. Carey Mulligan
Actress | Never Let Me Go
Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.
Her first major appearance was ...
6: Pride & Prejudice, Public Enemies, Brothers, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, Drive, The Great Gatsby
14. Keira Knightley
Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...
9: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Love Actually, Pride & Prejudice, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Atonement, The Imitation Game, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
15. Rooney Mara
Actress | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Actress and philanthropist Rooney Mara was born on April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York. She made her screen debut in the slasher film Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005), went on to have a supporting role in the independent coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009), and has since starred in the horror ...
6: The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Her, Kubo and the Two Strings, Lion, Nightmare Alley
16. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
7: Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles, Spider-Man, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, Fargo (TV Series), The Power of the Dog
17. Emily Blunt
Actress | Edge of Tomorrow
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and The Girl on the Train (2016), among many others.
Blunt was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of ...
8: The Devil Wears Prada, Charlie Wilson's War, Looper, Edge of Tomorrow, Sicario, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place Part II, Oppenheimer
18. Florence Pugh
Actress | The Falling
Florence Pugh is an English actress. She is known for Midsommar (2019), Little Women (2019), her MCU debut Black Widow (2021), and Fighting with My Family (2019).
Pugh made her film debut in The Falling (2014). She also appears in Lady Macbeth (2016), Outlaw King (2018), Malevolent (2018), and the ...
6: Little Women, Black Widow, Hawkeye (TV Mini-Series), Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Oppenheimer, Dune: Part Two
19. Hailee Steinfeld
Actress | True Grit
Hailee Steinfeld was born on December 11, 1996 in Tarzana, California, to Cheri (Domasin), an interior designer, and Peter Steinfeld, a personal fitness trainer. She has a brother, Griffin. Her uncle is Jake Steinfeld, a fitness trainer, and her great-uncle is actor Larry Domasin. Her father is of ...
4: True Grit, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Hawkeye (TV Mini Series), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
20. Kerry Condon
Actress | The Banshees of Inisherin
Kerry Condon is an Irish television and film actress, best known for her role as Octavia of the Julii in the HBO/BBC series Rome, as Stacey Ehrmantraut in AMC's Better Call Saul, and as the voice of F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is also the youngest actress ...
9: Rome (TV Series), The Walking Dead (TV Series), Better Call Saul (TV Series), Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame
21. Felicity Jones
Actress | Rogue One
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. ...
4: The Amazing Spider-Man 2, The Theory of Everything, Inferno, Rogue One
22. Ana de Armas
Actress | Blade Runner 2049
Ana de Armas was born in Cuba on April 30, 1988. At the age of 14 (2002) she began her studies at the National Theatre School of Havana, where she graduated after 4 years. At the age of 16 (2004) she made her first film, Virgin Rose (2006), directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón. A few titles came ...
4: El internado (TV Series), War Dogs, Blade Runner 2049, Knives Out
23. Elisabeth Moss
Actress | The Invisible Man
Elisabeth Moss is an American actress. She is best known for the AMC series Mad Men (2007), Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale (2017) and the films The One I Love (2014) and The Invisible Man (2020).
Initially, Moss had aspirations of becoming a professional dancer. In her adolescence, she traveled to ...
5: Girl, Interrupted, Mad Men (TV Series), Us, The Invisible Man, The French Dispatch
24. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
11: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, This Is the End, Beauty and the Beast, Little Women
25. Zendaya
Actress | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Zendaya (which means "to give thanks" in the language of Shona) is an American actress and singer born in Oakland, California. She began her career appearing as a child model working for Macy's, Mervyns and Old Navy. She was a backup dancer before gaining prominence for her role as Rocky Blue on ...
6: Spider-Man: Homecoming, The OA (TV Series), Spider-Man: Far from Home, Dune: Part One, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Dune: Part Two
26. Mila Kunis
Actress | Black Swan
Milena Markovna "Mila" Kunis is a Ukrainian-American actress born to a Jewish family in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father, Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named Michael. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991. ...
4: The Book of Eli, Black Swan, Friends with Benefits, Ted
27. Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Actress | Solo: A Star Wars Story
Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge is an English actress, producer, and writer. She created, wrote, and starred in the Channel 4 sitcom Crashing (2016) and the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016-2019). She was also the show-runner and executive producer for the first series of the BBC America thriller ...
4: The Iron Lady, Fleabag (TV Series), Goodbye Christopher Robin, Solo: A Star Wars Story
28. Tessa Thompson
Actress | Creed
The actress Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on October 3, 1983 in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson and the granddaughter of actor-musician Bobby Ramos. She was raised in Los Angeles before moving to Brooklyn, New York. Her father is of ...
7: Westworld (TV Series), Creed, Thor: Ragnarok, Annihilation, Creed II, Avengers: Endgame, Thor: Love and Thunder
29. Jessica Alba
Actress | Fantastic Four
Jessica Marie Alba was born on April 28, 1981, in Pomona, CA, to Catherine (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who served in the US Air Force. Her father is of Mexican descent (including Spanish and Indigenous Mexican roots), and her mother has Danish, Welsh, English, and French ancestry. Her family ...
5: Sin City, Fantastic Four, 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Little Fockers, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
30. Gal Gadot
Actress | Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia who Hebraized their name from 'Greenstein' to sound less European). She served in the IDF for two years, and won the Miss Israel title in ...
6: Triple 9, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Wonder Woman, Justice League, Wonder Woman 1984, Zack Snyder's Justice League
31. Olivia Wilde
Actress | Tron: Legacy
Actress and activist Olivia Wilde is a modern day renaissance woman, starring in many acclaimed film productions, while simultaneously giving back to the community.
She was born on March 10, 1984 in New York City. Her parents are Leslie Cockburn (née Leslie Corkill Redlich) and Andrew Cockburn. Her ...
5: House M.D. (TV Series), Tron: Legacy, Rush, Her, BoJack Horseman (TV Series)
32. Aubrey Plaza
Actress | Safety Not Guaranteed
Aubrey Christina Plaza (born June 26, 1984) is an American actress and comedian known for her deadpan style. She portrayed April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation (2009), and after appearing in supporting roles in several films, had her first leading role in the 2012 comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (...
6: Parks and Recreation (TV Series), The Legend of Korra (TV Series), Monsters University, Dirty Grandpa, Legion (TV Series), Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre
33. Carrie Coon
Actress | Gone Girl
Originally from Copley, OH, Carrie Coon is a Chicago-based theatre, television and film actress. She received a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Mount Union, followed by her MFA in Acting at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Coon was nominated for a Tony Award in the Best ...
5: Gone Girl, The Leftovers (TV Series), Fargo (TV Series), The Post, Avengers: Infinity War
34. Bryce Dallas Howard
Actress | Jurassic World Dominion
Bryce Dallas Howard was born on March 2, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. She was conceived in Dallas, Texas (the reason for her middle name). Her father, Ron Howard, is a former actor turned Oscar-winning director. Her mother is actress and writer Cheryl Howard (née Alley). Her famous relatives ...
7: The Village, Spider-Man 3, The Help, 50/50, Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic World: Dominion
35. Elizabeth Debicki
Actress | The Great Gatsby
Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent who were both dancers. When she was five, the family moved to Melbourne, where she grew up with two younger siblings. She became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to ...
7: The Great Gatsby, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Night Manager (TV Mini-Series), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Tenet, The Crown (TV Series), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
36. Alison Brie
Actress | GLOW
Alison Brie was born in Hollywood, California, to Joanne (Brenner), who worked at a non-profit child care agency, and Charles Terry Schermerhorn, a musician and entertainment reporter. Her mother is Jewish and her father has Scottish, Dutch, English, German, and Norwegian ancestry. Brie grew up in ...
5: Mad Men (TV Series), Community (TV Series), The Lego Movie, BoJack Horseman (TV Series), The Post
37. Blake Lively
Actress | Gossip Girl
Blake Ellender Lively was born Blake Ellender Brown on August 25, 1987 in Los Angeles, California to Elaine Lively & Ernie Lively. Her brother is actor Eric Lively, and her half-siblings are actors Lori Lively, Robyn Lively and Jason Lively. She followed her parents' and siblings' steps. Her first ...
4: Gossip Girl (TV Series), The Town, Green Lantern, The Shallows
38. Zoë Kravitz
Actress | The Batman
Zoë Kravitz has stood out in blockbuster big screen franchises such as The Batman, Mad Max and Fantastic Beasts and the celebrated EMMY Award-winning series Big Little Lies. She has captivated audiences in diverse group of acclaimed major motion picture films and notable independent releases.
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8: Californication (TV Series), X: First Class, Mad Max: Fury Road, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Big Little Lies (TV Series), The Batman
39. Merritt Wever
Actress | Signs
Merritt Wever is an American actress, who earned an Emmy Award for playing the character Zoey on the Showtime series Nurse Jackie. She appeared in the films Birdman, Into the Wild, Neal Cassady, Michael Clayton, Series 7: The Contenders, Signs, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Bringing Rain, All I...
7: Signs, Into the Wild, Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), The Walking Dead (TV Series), Godless (TV Mini-Series), Marriage Story, Unbelievable (TV Mini-Series)
40. Zazie Beetz
Actress | Atlanta
Zazie Beetz (born c. 1991) is a German-American actress known for the role of Vanessa on Atlanta (2016), as well as for starring in Deadpool 2 (2018), Joker (2019), and Nine Days (2020).
Born in Berlin to a German father and an African-American mother, Beetz was raised in New York speaking both ...
5: Atlanta (TV Series), Deadpool 2, Joker, Invincible (TV Series), Bullet Train
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