1990 in film

Overview of the events of 1990 in filmTemplate:SHORTDESC:Overview of the events of 1990 in film
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The year **1990 in film** involved many significant events as shown below. Universal Pictures celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1990.

## Highest-grossing films

See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 1990
The top 10 films released in 1990 by worldwide gross are as follows:

## Events

* March 2 - *The Hunt for Red October* is released. It is the first film in Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" franchise and is met with critical and blockbuster commercial success.
* March 23 – *Pretty Woman* is released and grosses $463 million, making Julia Roberts a worldwide star.
* March 30 – *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles* is released to massive box office success. At the time, it is the highest-grossing independent film in history.
* May 25 – Universal Pictures unveils a new opening logo with music composed by James Horner, which debuts on *Back to the Future Part III*. It is the first change to the Universal opening logo in 27 years.
* June 1 – CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in *Total Recall*.
* June 15 – Following a massive media and marketing blitz, *Dick Tracy* is released. Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg expressed disappointment in a studio memo that noted that the film had cost about $100 million in total to produce, market and promote and with its disappointing performance claimed "We made demands on our time, talent and treasury that, upon reflection, may not have been worth it".
* June 22 – The use of real-time computer graphics or "digital puppetry" to create a character in a motion picture is performed, in *RoboCop 2*.
* July 4 – The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in *Die Hard 2*.
* July 13 - *Ghost*, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, is released and grosses $506 million, making it the third highest grossing movie at the time.
* November 9 – Kevin Costner's directorial debut, *Dances with Wolves*, is released. It later earns twelve Academy Award nominations and wins seven, including Best Picture and Best Director for Costner.
* November 16
	+ *Home Alone* is released. It spends twelve consecutive weeks at number one on the United States box office, becoming both the highest-grossing film of the year and the highest-grossing comedy of all-time.
	+ *The Rescuers Down Under* is considered as the first fully digital film ever made.
* December 24 – Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman marry.
* *Buchwald v. Paramount* decided, a leading case on the financial rewards due to writers of film treatments.

## 1990 wide-release movies

### A

* *The Adventures of Ford Fairlane*, directed Renny Harlin, by starring Andrew Dice Clay
* *After Dark, My Sweet*, directed by James Foley, starring Jason Patric, Rachel Ward and Bruce Dern
* *Air America*, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr.
* *Alice*, directed by Woody Allen, starring Mia Farrow, Joe Mantegna and William Hurt
* *The Ambulance*, directed by Larry Cohen, starring Eric Roberts, Megan Gallagher, James Earl Jones, Janine Turner and Red Buttons
* *American Ninja 4: The Annihilation*, directed by Cedric Sundstrom, starring Michael Dudikoff, David Bradley and James Booth
* *Angel Town*, directed by Olivier Gruner, starring Olivier Gruner and Theresa Saldana
* *Another 48 Hrs.*, directed by Walter Hill, starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte
* *Arachnophobia*, directed by Frank Marshall, starring Jeff Daniels, John Goodman, Harley Jane Kozak and Julian Sands
* *Avalon*, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins and Kevin Pollak
* *Awakenings*, directed by Penny Marshall, starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro

### B

* *Back to the Future Part III*, directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen
* *Bad Influence*, directed by Curtis Hanson, starring James Spader and Rob Lowe
* *Bad Jim*, directed by Clyde Ware, starring James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, and John Clark Gable
* *Betsy's Wedding*, directed by and starring Alan Alda, with Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy and Madeline Kahn
* *The Big Man* aka *Crossing the Line*, directed by David Leland, starring Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley and Billy Connolly
* *The Big Steal*, directed by Nadia Tass, starring Ben Mendelsohn, Claudia Karvan and Steve Bisley
* *Bird on a Wire*, directed by John Badham, starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn
* *Blind Fury*, directed by Phillip Noyce, starring Rutger Hauer
* *Blue Steel*, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and Clancy Brown
* *Boiling Point*, directed by Takeshi Kitano, starring Takeshi Ono, Masahiko Ono, Yuriko Ishida and Hisashi Igawa
* *The Bonfire of the Vanities*, directed by Brian De Palma, starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis and Melanie Griffith
* *Bride of Re-Animator*, directed by Brian Yuzna, starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones and Fabiana Udenio

### C

* *Cadence*, directed by Martin Sheen, starring Charlie Sheen and Martin Sheen
* *Cadillac Man*, directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Robin Williams and Tim Robbins
* *Captain America*, directed by Albert Pyun, starring Matt Salinger
* *Childhood Days*, directed by Masahiro Shinoda, starring Tetsuya Fujita and Yuji Horioka
* *Child's Play 2*, directed by John Lafia, starring Jenny Agutter, Alex Vincent, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise and Grace Zabriskie
* *China Cry*. directed by James F. Collier, starring Julia Nickson-Soul, France Nuyen and James Shigeta
* *City Hunter: Bay City Wars*
* *Class of 1999*, directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Bradley Gregg, Traci Lind, Malcolm McDowell and Pam Grier
* *Close-Up*, directed by Abbas Kiarostami, starring Hossain Sabzian and Mohsen Makhmalbaf
* *Come See the Paradise*, directed by Alan Parker, starring Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita
* *The Comfort of Strangers*, directed by Paul Schrader, Natasha Richardson, Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren
* *Crash and Burn*. directed by Charles Band, starring Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Jack McGee and Eva LaRue
* *Cry-Baby*, directed by John Waters, starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Polly Bergen, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Kim McGuire, Darren E. Burrows, Susan Tyrrell and Iggy Pop
* *Cyrano de Bergerac*, directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, starring Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet and Vincent Pérez

### D

* *Dances with Wolves*, directed by and starring Kevin Costner – Academy and Golden Globe (drama) Awards for Best Picture
* *Darkman*, directed by Sam Raimi, starring Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels and Larry Drake
* *Days of Being Wild*, directed by Wong Kar-wai, starring Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Andy Lau
* *Days of Thunder*, starring Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman
* *Death Warrant*, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
* *Dei tau lung* (*Dragon Fighter*)
* *Delta Force 2: The Colombian Connection*, starring Chuck Norris
* *Denial*
* *Desperate Hours*, directed by Michael Cimino, starring Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke
* *Dick Tracy*, directed by and starring Warren Beatty, with Madonna, Glenne Headly, Al Pacino
* *Die Hard 2*, starring Bruce Willis
* *Downtown*, starring Anthony Edwards and Forest Whitaker
* *Dreams*, directed by Akira Kurosawa
* *DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp*

### E

* *Edward Scissorhands*, directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest
* *El Diablo*, starring Anthony Edwards, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Beltran, Jim Beaver, Don Collier
* *The End of Innocence*, directed by and starring Dyan Cannon
* *Ernest Goes to Jail*, starring Jim Varney
* *Europa Europa* – Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film (for 1991)
* *The Exorcist III*, starring George C. Scott

### F

* *Fantasia* (restored version)
* *La Femme Nikita*, directed by Luc Besson
* *The Field*, starring Richard Harris
* *Fire Birds*, starring Nicolas Cage and Tommy Lee Jones
* *The First Power*, starring Lou Diamond Phillips
* *Flashback*, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper
* *Flatliners*, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon
* *The Fourth War*, starring Roy Schneider and Jürgen Prochnow
* *Frankenstein Unbound*, starring John Hurt
* *The Freshman*, starring Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick
* *Funny About Love*, directed by Leonard Nimoy, starring Gene Wilder and Christine Lahti

### G

* *Ghost*, starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
* *The Godfather Part III*, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy García, Joe Mantegna, Sofia Coppola
* *Goodfellas*, directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino
* *Graffiti Bridge*, directed by and starring Prince
* *Green Card*, starring Gérard Depardieu and Andie MacDowell – Golden Globe Award for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy)
* *Gremlins 2: The New Batch*
* *The Grifters*, starring Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
* *The Guardian*, directed by William Friedkin
* *Gunsmoke: The Last Apache*, directed by Charles Correll, starring James Arness, Richard Kiley, Michael Learned, Amy Stock-Poynton, Geoffrey Lewis, Hugh O'Brian, Joe Lara
* *The Guyver*

### H

* *Hamlet*, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Helena Bonham Carter
* *The Handmaid's Tale*, directed by Volker Schlöndorff, starring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall
* *Happily Ever After*, featuring the voices of Irene Cara, Edward Asner, Carol Channing, Dom DeLuise
* *Hard to Kill*, starring Steven Seagal
* *Havana*, directed by Sydney Pollack, starring Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raúl Juliá
* *Heart Condition*, starring Bob Hoskins, and Denzel Washington
* *Heaven and Earth*
* *Henry & June*, starring Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Maria de Medeiros and Richard E. Grant
* *Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer*
* *Hidden Agenda*, directed by Ken Loach, starring Frances McDormand
* *Home Alone*, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
* *The Hot Spot*, directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Don Johnson, Jennifer Connelly, Virginia Madsen
* *House Party*
* *The Hunt for Red October*, starring Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin, directed by John McTiernan

### I

* *I Come in Peace*, starring Dolph Lundgren
* *I Love You to Death*, starring Kevin Kline and Tracey Ullman
* *Internal Affairs*, directed by Mike Figgis, starring Richard Gere and Andy García

### J

* *Jacob's Ladder*, starring Tim Robbins, directed by Adrian Lyne
* *Jetsons: The Movie*
* *Joe Versus the Volcano*, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan
* *Journey of Hope* (*Reise der Hoffnung*) – Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
* *Ju Dou*, directed by Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang, starring Gong Li

### K

* *Kindergarten Cop*, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
* *King of New York*, directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Laurence Fishburne
* *The Krays*, directed by Peter Medak, starring Martin Kemp, Gary Kemp, Billie Whitelaw

### L

* *Larks on a String* (*Skrivánci na niti*) – Golden Bear award
* *Last of the Finest*
* *Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III*
* *The Lemon Sisters*, starring Diane Keaton
* *Life Is Sweet*, directed by Mike Leigh, starring Jim Broadbent
* *Lionheart*, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme
* *Longtime Companion*, starring Bruce Davison
* *The Long Walk Home*, starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg
* *Look Who's Talking Too*, starring John Travolta and Kirstie Alley
* *Loose Cannons*, starring Gene Hackman and Dan Aykroyd
* *Lord of the Flies*, starring Balthazar Getty
* *Love at Large*, starring Tom Berenger

### M

* *Mack the Knife*, starring Raúl Juliá and Richard Harris
* *A Man Called Sarge*, starring Gary Kroeger and Marc Singer
* *Marked for Death*, starring Steven Seagal
* *The Match Factory Girl*, directed by Aki Kaurismäki, starring Kati Outinen
* *Memories of a River*
* *Memphis Belle*, directed by Michael Caton-Jones, starring Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, John Lithgow
* *Men at Work*, starring Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen
* *Mermaids*, directed by Richard Benjamin, starring Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Christina Ricci
* *Metropolitan*
* *Miami Blues*, starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin
* *Midnight Ride*, starring Mark Hamill
* *Miller's Crossing*, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden
* *Milou in May*
* *Misery*, directed by Rob Reiner, starring James Caan and Kathy Bates
* *Mo' Better Blues*, directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson
* *Mountains of the Moon*, directed by Bob Rafelson, starring Patrick Bergin
* *Movie... In Your Face*
* *Mr. and Mrs. Bridge*, starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
* *Mr. Destiny*, starring James Belushi
* *My Blue Heaven*, starring Steve Martin and Rick Moranis
* *My Mother's Castle* (*Le Château de ma mère*), directed by Yves Robert, Golden Space Needle award (for 1991) – see novel *Le Château de ma mère*

### N

* *Narrow Margin*, directed by Peter Hyams, starring Gene Hackman and Anne Archer
* *The Nasty Girl* (*Das schreckliche Mädchen*), directed by Michael Verhoeven, starring Lena Stolze
* *Navy SEALs*, directed by Lewis Teague, starring Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn and Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
* *The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter*, directed by George T. Miller, starring Jonathan Brandis
* *Nightbreed*, directed by Clive Barker, starring Craig Sheffer, Anne Bobby, David Cronenberg and Charles Haid
* *Nuns on the Run*, directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane
* *The Nutcracker Prince*, directed by Paul Schibli, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Megan Follows, Mike MacDonald, Peter Boretski, Phyllis Diller and Peter O'Toole
* *Nobody's Perfect*, directed by Robert Kaylor, starring Chad Lowe and Gail O'Grady

### P

* *Pacific Heights*, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith and Matthew Modine
* *Postcards from the Edge*, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine and Dennis Quaid
* *Predator 2*, directed by Stephen Hopkins, starring Danny Glover, Ruben Blades, Gary Busey, María Conchita Alonso and Bill Paxton
* *Presumed Innocent*, directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Harrison Ford
* *Pretty Woman*, directed by Garry Marshall, starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere
* *Problem Child*, directed by Dennis Dugan, starring John Ritter and Amy Yasbeck
* *Pump Up the Volume*, directed by Allan Moyle, starring Christian Slater

### Q

* *Q&A*, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Nick Nolte, Timothy Hutton and Armand Assante
* *Quick Change*, directed by Howard Franklin and Bill Murray, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid
* *Quigley Down Under*, directed by Simon Wincer, starring Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman

### R

* *The Reflecting Skin*, directed by Philip Ridley, starring Jeremy Cooper, Viggo Mortensen and Lindsay Duncan
* *Repossessed*, directed by Bob Logan, starring Linda Blair Leslie Nielsen, Ned Beatty and Anthony Starke
* *The Rescuers Down Under*, directed by Hendel Butoy and Mike Gabriel, starring Bob Newhart, Eva Gabor, John Candy and George C. Scott
* *Revenge*, directed by Tony Scott, starring Kevin Costner, Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe
* *Reversal of Fortune*, directed by Barbet Schroeder, starring Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Ron Silver
* *RoboCop 2*, directed by Irvin Kershner, starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen
* *Robot Jox*, directed by Stuart Gordon, starring Gary Graham, Anne-Marie Johnson and Paul Koslo
* *Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever*, directed by Deborah Brock, starring Corey Feldman
* *Rockula*, directed by Luca Bercovici, starring Dean Cameron, Toni Basil and Thomas Dolby
* *Rocky V*, directed by John G. Avildsen, starring Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Tommy Morrison
* *Romeo.Juliet*, directed by Armondo Linus Acosta, starring John Hurt, Maggie Smith, Ben Kingsley, Robert Powell and Vanessa Redgrave
* *The Rookie*, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood and Charlie Sheen
* *Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead*, directed by Tom Stoppard, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Tim Roth and Gary Oldman
* *The Russia House*, directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer

### S

* *The Sheltering Sky*, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, starring Debra Winger and John Malkovich
* *Shipwrecked*, directed by Nils Gaup, starring Gabriel Byrne and Stian Smestad
* *Short Time*, directed by Gregg Champion, starring Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer and Teri Garr
* *A Show of Force*, directed by Bruno Barreto, starring Amy Irving, Andy García, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robert Duvall and Kevin Spacey
* *Sibling Rivalry*, directed by Carl Reiner, starring Kirstie Alley
* *Side Out*, directed by Peter Israelson, starring Courtney Thorne-Smith and C. Thomas Howell
* *Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation*, directed by Brian Yuzna, starring Clint Howard and Neith Hunter
* *Silent Scream*, directed by David Hayman, starring Robert Carlyle and Iain Glen
* *Singapore Sling*, directed by Nikos Nikolaidis
* *Spaced Invaders*, directed by Patrick Read Johnson, starring Douglas Barr, Royal Dano, Ariana Richards and J. J. Anderson
* *Stanley & Iris*, directed by Martin Ritt, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
* *State of Grace*, directed by Phil Joanou, starring Sean Penn, Ed Harris and Gary Oldman
* *Stella*, directed by John Erman, starring Bette Midler, John Goodman and Trini Alvarado

### T

* *Taking Care of Business*, directed by Arthur Hiller, starring James Belushi and Charles Grodin
* *Tales from the Darkside: The Movie*, directed by John Harrison, starring Debbie Harry, Christian Slater, David Johansen, William Hickey, James Remar and Rae Dawn Chong
* *Tatie Danielle*, directed by Étienne Chatiliez, starring Tsilla Chelton
* *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*, directed by Steve Barron, starring Judith Hoag and Elias Koteas
* *Tekken*, directed by Junji Sakamoto
* *Texasville*, directed by Peter Bogdanovich, starring Jeff Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd
* *Three Men and a Little Lady*, directed by Emile Ardolino, starring Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg and Ted Danson
* *Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!*, directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Victoria Abril and Antonio Banderas
* *Tilaï*, directed by Idrissa Ouédraogo
* *Too Much Sun*, directed by Robert Downey Sr., starring Robert Downey Jr. and Eric Idle
* *Total Recall*, directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone
* *Treasure Island*, directed by Fraser Clarke Heston, starring Charlton Heston and Christian Bale
* *Tremors*, directed by Ron Underwood, starring Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward
* *Truly, Madly, Deeply*, directed by Anthony Minghella, starring Alan Rickman and Juliet Stevenson
* *The Two Jakes*, directed by and starring Jack Nicholson, with Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly and Eli Wallach

### U

* *Uchū no hōsoku*, directed by Kazuyuki Izutsu, starring Masato Furuoya
* *Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars*, directed by Akio Jissoji

### V

* *Vincent & Theo*, directed by Robert Altman, starring Tim Roth and Paul Rhys
* *Vincent and Me*, directed by Michael Rubbo, starring Nina Petronzio

### W

* *Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael*, directed by Jim Abrahams, starring Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels
* *Where the Heart Is*, directed by John Boorman, starring Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman and Joanna Cassidy
* *White Hunter Black Heart*, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood
* *White Palace*, directed by Luis Mandoki, starring Susan Sarandon and James Spader
* *Wild at Heart*, directed by David Lynch, starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern and Diane Ladd
* *Wild Orchid*, directed by Zalman King, starring Mickey Rourke, Carré Otis and Jacqueline Bisset
* *The Witches*, directed by Nicolas Roeg, starring Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Rowan Atkinson and Jasen Fisher

### Y

* *Young Guns II*, directed by Geoff Murphy, starring Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater and William Petersen

## Births

* January 7 – Liam Aiken, American actor
* January 13 – Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
* January 15 - Chris Warren (actor), Irish actor
* January 18 - Zeeko Zaki, Egyptian-born American actor
* January 19 - Shaunette Renée Wilson, Guyanese-born American actress
* January 21 - Jacob Smith, American actor
* January 26 – Christopher Massey, American actor, comedian and rapper
* January 30 – Jake Thomas, American actor and voice actor
* February 4 - Will Denton, American actor
* February 8 - Christian Madsen, American actor
* February 9 - Tyson Houseman, Canadian actor
* February 15 - Callum Turner, British actor and model
* February 21 – Flavio Aquilone, Italian voice actor
* February 28 - Georgina Leonidas, British actress
* March 1 – Harry Eden, British actor
* March 11 - Reiley McClendon, American actor
* March 12 – Jörgen Liik, Estonian actor
* March 24 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
* March 25 - Kiowa Gordon, American actor of Hualapai descent
* March 26 - Choi Woo-shik, Korean-Canadian actor
* March 28 – Laura Harrier, American actress
* March 30 - Chelsea Harris, American actress
* April 9 – Kristen Stewart, American actress
* April 10 – Alex Pettyfer, English actor, model
* April 15 – Emma Watson, English actress
* April 16 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
* April 17 – Gia Mantegna, American actress
* April 18 - Britt Robertson, American actress
* April 23 – Dev Patel, British actor
* May 1 - Caitlin Stasey, Australian actress and singer
* May 2 - Kay Panabaker, American retired actress
* May 6 - Moses Storm, American writer, actor and comedian
* May 14
	+ Rea Lest-Liik, Estonia actress
	+ Sasha Spielberg, American actress, daughter of producer/director Steven Spielberg and actress Kate Capshaw
* May 16
	+ Deniz Akdeniz, Australian actor
	+ Thomas Brodie-Sangster, British actor
	+ Marc John Jefferies, American actor
* May 17
	+ Ross Butler (actor), American actor
	+ Leven Rambin, American actress
* May 20 - Josh O'Connor, British actor
* May 27 - Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
* June 2 – Jack Lowden, British actor
* June 13
	+ Tom Ackerley, British producer and former assistant director
	+ Aaron Taylor-Johnson, British actor
* June 15 - Denzel Whitaker, American actor
* June 17 - Monica Barbaro, American actress
* June 20 - Jacob Wysocki, American actor and comedian
* July 2 – Margot Robbie, Australian actress
* July 4 - Melissa Barrera, Mexican actress and singer
* July 6 – Jeremy Suarez, American actor
* July 12 – Rachel Brosnahan, American-British actress
* July 15 - Olly Alexander, British musician, actor and screenwriter
* July 16 – James Maslow, American actor
* July 19 - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
* July 24 – Daveigh Chase, American actress
* July 27 – Indiana Evans, Australian actress and singer-songwriter
* July 29 – Matt Prokop, American actor
* July 31 - Ruby Modine, American actress, model and singer
* August 1 - Jack O'Connell (actor), English actor
* August 4 - Chet Hanks, American actor and musician
* August 9
	+ Bill Skarsgård, Swedish actor
	+ Emily Tennant, Canadian actress
* August 10 – Lucas Till, American actor
* August 15 – Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
* August 17 – Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
* August 23 – Wesley Singerman, American record producer, songwriter and guitarist, and voice actor
* August 24 – Elizabeth Debicki, Australian actress
* August 29 – Nicole Gale Anderson, American actress
	+ Erika Harlacher, American voice actress
* September 1 - Aisling Loftus, English actress
* September 9 – Klaudia Tiitsmaa, Estonian actress
* September 15 – Matt Shively, American actor
* September 20 – Saara Pius, Estonian actress
* September 21
	+ Christian Serratos, American actress
	+ Allison Scagliotti, American actress and director
* October 5
	+ Wesley Morgan (actor), Canadian actor and model
	+ Taylour Paige, American actress and dancer
* October 6 - Scarlett Byrne, English actress and model
* October 13
	+ Florian Munteanu, German-Romanian actor and model
	+ Himesh Patel, British actor
* October 18 - Carly Schroeder, American actress
* October 22 – Jonathan Lipnicki, American actor
* November 2 – Kendall Schmidt, American actor
* November 4 – Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Canadian actor
* November 9 – Chris Di Staulo, Canadian filmmaker
* November 14 - Jessica Jacobs, Australian actress and singer (died 2008)
* November 16 - Milo Gibson, American actor
* December 20 – JoJo, American singer-songwriter and actress
* December 23
	+ Moses J. Moseley, American actor, writer and model (died 2022)
	+ Anna Maria Perez de Tagle, American actress and singer

## Debuts

* Hank Azaria – *Pretty Woman*
* Scott Bakula – *Sibling Rivalry*
* Javier Bardem – *The Ages of Lulu*
* Monica Bellucci – *Vita coi figli*
* Julie Benz – *Two Evil Eyes*
* Benjamin Bratt – *Bright Angel*
* Robert Carlyle – *Silent Scream*
* Nick Chinlund – *The Ambulance*
* Harry Connick Jr. – *Memphis Belle*
* Kevin Connolly – *Rocky V*
* Russell Crowe – *Blood Oath*
* Hope Davis – *Flatliners*
* Vin Diesel – *Awakenings*
* Chris Ellis – *Days of Thunder*
* Brad Garrett – *Jetsons: The Movie*
* Balthazar Getty – *Lord of the Flies*
* Brendan Gleeson – *The Field*
* Marcia Gay Harden – *Miller's Crossing*
* Djimon Hounsou – *Without You I'm Nothing*
* Lisa Kudrow – *Impulse*
* Nia Long – *Buried Alive*
* George Lopez – *Ski Patrol*
* Aasif Mandvi – *No Retreat, No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers*
* Margo Martindale – *Days of Thunder*
* Samantha Mathis – *Pump Up the Volume*
* Debi Mazar – *Goodfellas*
* Joseph Mazzello – *Presumed Innocent*
* John McConnell – *Miller's Crossing*
* Neal McDonough – *Darkman*
* Kristin Minter – *Home Alone*
* Julianne Moore – *Tales from the Darkside: The Movie*
* Chris O'Donnell – *Men Don't Leave*
* Robert Patrick – *Die Hard 2*
* Guy Pearce – *Heaven Tonight*
* Christina Ricci – *Mermaids*
* Rob Schneider – *Martians Go Home*
* Jeffrey Wright – *Presumed Innocent*
* Catherine Zeta-Jones – *Les 1001 Nuits*

## References

1. ↑ "1990 Worldwide Box Office". *Box Office Mojo*. IMDb. Retrieved March 7, 2020.
2. ↑ "Emma Watson | Biography, Movie, Harry Potter, & Facts | Britannica". *www.britannica.com*. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
3. ↑ "Margot Robbie | Biography, Movies, Wolf of Wall Street, & Facts | Britannica". *www.britannica.com*. Retrieved 2 July 2022.

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