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1. Enrique Rosas

Enrique Rosas was born on April 8, 1875 in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. He was a director and producer, known for The Grey Automobile (1919), La soñadora (1917) and La tigresa (1917). He was married to Guadalupe Priego Durán. He died on August 9, 1920 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

2. Mario Peixoto

Director | Limite

With just one film Mario Peixoto left a mark on cinema with his acclaimed masterpiece Limit (1931). The surrealistic and artistic film launched his film career but unfortunately due to several circumstances he never managed to release another film and outdo himself. Many Brazilian filmmakers were ...

3. Humberto Mauro

Director | Braza Dormida

Pioneer of Brazilian cinema. Humberto Mauro began his career in the provinces in 1926 and was brought to Rio de Janeiro by producer-director Adhemar Gonzaga in 1930. He went on to direct several features which were praised for their uniquely Brazilian style - notably Ganga Bruta (1933) - as well as...

4. Fernando de Fuentes

Writer | Allá en el Rancho Grande

Director of two classic films of Mexican Cinema, Compadre Mendoza, El (1933) and ¡Vámonos con Pancho Villa! (1935), De Fuentes began his career as second assistant director in Santa (1931), the first "talkie" produced in Mexico. His technical abilities promoted him to direct Anónimo, El (1932). De ...

5. Juan Bustillo Oro

Writer | El hombre sin rostro

Juan Bustillo Oro was born on June 2, 1904 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for El hombre sin rostro (1950), Vino el remolino y nos alevantó (1950) and Las tandas del principal (1949). He died on June 10, 1989 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, ...

6. Raphael J. Sevilla

Director | Irma la mala

Raphael J. Sevilla was born on September 3, 1902 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Irma la mala (1936), Heart of a Bandit (1934) and At the Edge of a Palm Grove (1937). He was married to Asunción Catelazo Glennie. He died on January 2, 1975 in Mexico ...

7. Alberto Cavalcanti

Director | O Canto do Mar

Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...

8. Emilio Fernández

Writer | La perla

Emilio "El Indio" Fernandez Romo is the most famous person in the history of Mexican movies. For an era he symbolized Mexico due to his violent machismo, rooted in the Revolution of 1910-17, and because of his staunch commitment to Mexican cultural nationalism. Born to a Mexican (Mestizo) father ...

9. Tom Payne

Actor | Sinhá Moça

Tom Payne was born on October 4, 1914 in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Sinhá Moça (1953), Ângela (1951) and Sai da Frente (1952). He was married to Eliane Lage. He died on September 15, 1996 in Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

10. Alberto Gout

Writer | Adán y Eva

Alberto Gout was born on March 14, 1907 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for Adam and Eve (1956), La sospechosa (1955) and The Rape of the Sabines (1962). He died on July 7, 1966 in Mexico, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

11. Manolo Alonso

Director | Siete muertes a plazo fijo

Manolo Alonso is known for Siete muertes a plazo fijo (1950) and Casta de roble (1954).

12. Lima Barreto

Writer | O Cangaceiro

Lima Barreto was born on June 23, 1906 in Casa Branca, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a writer and director, known for The Bandit (1953), A Primeira Missa (1961) and Quelé do Pajeú (1970). He was married to Arassary de Oliveira. He died on November 23, 1982 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

13. Anselmo Duarte

Writer | O Pagador de Promessas

Duarte left his hometown, at 14, and moved to São Paulo where he started working as a typist in an accounting office. In the early 1940s, after graduating in Economics, he went to Rio de Janeiro, where he had a bit-part on It's All True (1943). He then made some appearances in radio soap operas and...

14. Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Director | Memórias do Cárcere

Nelson Pereira dos Santos was born on October 22, 1928 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Memórias do Cárcere (1984), O Amuleto de Ogum (1974) and Tenda dos Milagres (1977). He was married to Ivelise Ferreira. He died on April 21, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, ...

15. Paulo César Saraceni

Director | A Casa Assassinada

Paulo César Saraceni was born on November 5, 1933 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for The Murdered House (1971), O Viajante (1998) and Capitu (1968). He was married to Ana Maria Nascimento e Silva. He died on April 14, 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

16. Walter Hugo Khouri

Director | O Último Êxtase

Walter Hugo Khouri was born on October 21, 1929 in São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for O Último Êxtase (1973), O Anjo da Noite (1974) and Iguassu: The Devil's Throat (1960). He died on June 27, 2003 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

17. Roberto Santos

Writer | A Hora e Vez de Augusto Matraga

Roberto Santos was born in a working-class suburb of São Paulo in 1928. Started his cinema activities around 1952, in the first big studio built in Brazil, the Vera Cruz Studio. In 1956 makes his first movie, "O Grande Momento" ("The Great Momment"), the first neo- realistic movie made in Brazil. ...

18. Octavio Cortázar

Director | El brigadista

Octavio Cortázar was born on January 19, 1935 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for The Teacher (1978), Guardafronteras (1981) and For the First Time (1967). He died on February 27, 2008 in Madrid, Spain.

19. Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias

Cinematographer | A Herança

Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias was born on November 5, 1922 in Cajubi, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a cinematographer and director, known for A Herança (1970), O Vigilante (1992) and A Opção (1981). He died on February 8, 2007 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

20. Humberto Solás

Director | Barrio Cuba

One of the great filmmakers of revolutionary Cuba, Humberto Solás entered the film industry as a teenager, and made his first short at 18. After taking a film course at Centro Sperimentale de Cinema in Rome, he made a big impression with his 1966 medium-length fiction "Manuela", the first of many ...

21. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

Director | Macunaíma

Joaquim Pedro de Andrade was born on May 25, 1932 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Macunaima (1969), Guerra Conjugal (1974) and The Brazilwood Man (1982). He was married to Cristina Aché, Sarah de Castro Barbosa and Ana Maria Galano. He died on September 10, 1988 ...

22. Santiago Álvarez

Director | 79 primaveras

Santiago Álvarez was born on March 18, 1919 in Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for 79 primaveras (1969), Hanoi, martes 13 (1968) and El sueño del pongo (1970). He died on May 20, 1998 in Havana, Cuba.

23. Andrea Tonacci

Director | Blablablá

Andrea Tonacci was born in 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and producer, known for Blablablá (1968), Serras da desordem (2006) and Bang Bang (1971). He died on December 16, 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

24. Perry Henzell

Director | The Harder They Come

Perry Henzell was born on March 7, 1936 in Port Maria, St. Mary, Jamaica. He was a director and writer, known for The Harder They Come (1972), No Place Like Home (2006) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Sally Densham. He died on November 30, 2006 in Treasure Beach, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.

25. Raymundo Gleyzer

Director | México, la revolución congelada

Raymundo Gleyzer's parents were Jews who were involved with theater, but after they separated the boy got work as a cameraman to support himself and his mother, who he stayed with.Which led to a short involvement at the La Plata film school.Gleyzer soon realized he wanted to get right out into the ...

26. Patricio Guzmán

Director | Nostalgia de la luz

Patricio Guzmán was born on August 11, 1941 in Santiago, Chile. He is a director and writer, known for Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975) and The Southern Cross (1991).

27. Arnaldo Jabor

Writer | Toda Nudez Será Castigada

Arnaldo Jabor was born on December 12, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a writer and director, known for All Nudity Shall Be Punished (1973), Tudo Bem (1978) and I Love You (1981). He was married to Suzana Villas Boas. He died on February 15, 2022 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

28. Sergio Giral

Director | El otro Francisco

Sergio Giral is an American citizen born in Havana, Cuba out of a Cuban father and American mother. He was raised in New York until returned to Cuba at the times of the Revolution in 1960. He began working for The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry, in 1961. He went on to make a ...

29. Helvio Soto

Director | Erase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo...

Helvio Soto was born on February 21, 1930 in Santiago, Chile. He was a director and writer, known for Erase un niño, un guerrillero, un caballo... (1967), El ABC del amor (1967) and Mundo mágico (1967). He died on November 29, 2001 in Santiago, Chile.

30. Jorge Bodanzky

Cinematographer | Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica

Jorge Bodanzky was born in 1942 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (1975), Jakobine (1978) and O Terceiro Milênio (1982).

31. Orlando Senna

Writer | Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica

Orlando Senna was born in 1940 in Afrânio Peixoto, Bahia, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for Iracema - Uma Transa Amazônica (1975), Diamante bruto (1978) and Longe do Paraíso (2020). He is married to Conceição Senna.

32. Sara Gómez

Director | De cierta manera

Sara Gómez was born in 1943 in Cuba. She was a director and writer, known for One Way or Another (1977), En la otra isla (1968) and Iré a Santiago (1964). She was married to Germinal Hernández and Héctor Veitia. She died in 1974.

33. Carlos Diegues

Director | Xica da Silva

Carlos Diegues was born on May 19, 1940 in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil. He is a producer and director, known for Xica (1976), O Maior Amor do Mundo (2006) and Better Days Ahead (1989). He has been married to Renata Maria de Almeida Magalhães since 1982. They have one child. He was previously married to ...

34. Hector Babenco

Director | Carandiru

Hector Babenco was born on February 7, 1946 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Carandiru (2003), Pixote (1980) and Foolish Heart (1998). He was married to Bárbara Paz, Xuxa Lopes and Raquel Arnaud. He died on July 13, 2016 in São Paulo, São Paulo, ...

35. Leon Hirszman

Director | Eles Não Usam Black-Tie

One of the most important Brazilian directors of all time, Leon Hirszman is best remembered for the realistic manner of dealing with social and political themes in his works, from documentaries to feature films. His career started with a segment filmed for Cinco vezes Favela (1962) and The Deceased...

36. Paul Leduc

Director | Frida, naturaleza viva

Paul Leduc was born on March 11, 1942 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Frida (1983), Cobrador: In God We Trust (2006) and Reed: Insurgent Mexico (1972). He was married to Bertha Navarro. He died on October 21, 2020 in Mexico.

37. Francisco Norden

Director | Cóndores no entierran todos los días

Son of an Austrian father and a Colombian mother, Francisco Norden was born in Belgium. He studied architecture at the National University in Bogotá. He finished architecture in Paris at L'Ecole National des Beaux Arts, and then in London at the Polytechnic School of Architecture. In 1955 he ...

38. Eduardo Coutinho

Director | Edifício Master

Eduardo Coutinho was born on May 11, 1933 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a director and writer, known for Edifício Master (2002), Santo Forte (1999) and Babilônia 2000 (1999). He was married to Maria das Dores de Oliveira. He died on February 2, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

39. Pim de la Parra

Writer | Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie

Pim de la Parra was born on January 4, 1940 in Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana [now Suriname]. He is a writer and director, known for Paul Chevrolet en de ultieme hallucinatie (1985), Lost in Amsterdam (1989) and Obsessions (1969).

40. Juan Padrón

Director | Más ¡vampiros en La Habana!

Juan Padrón was born on January 29, 1947 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for Más ¡vampiros en La Habana! (2003), Quinoscopio 1 (1986) and Elpidio Valdés contra dólar y cañón (1983). He died on March 24, 2020 in Havana, Cuba.

41. Martin Donovan

Writer | Apartment Zero

Martin Donovan was born on January 21, 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and producer, known for Apartment Zero (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992) and The Legs of Infamy.

42. Euzhan Palcy

Writer | Siméon

Euzhan Palcy was born in Saint-Joseph, Martinique, France. Euzhan is a writer and director, known for Siméon (1992), Sugar Cane Alley (1983) and A Dry White Season (1989).

43. Luis Mandoki

Director | Voces inocentes

Luis Mandoki was born on August 17, 1954 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a director and producer, known for Innocent Voices (2004), Angel Eyes (2001) and Trapped (2002).

44. Leon Ichaso

Director | El Super

Leon Ichaso was born on August 3, 1948 in Havana, Cuba. He was a director and writer, known for El Super (1979), Piñero (2001) and Bitter Sugar (1996). He was married to Karen Willinger and Amanda Barber . He died on May 21, 2023 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

45. Arturo Ripstein

Director | Principio y fin

Arturo Ripstein began his career as assistant director (unbilled) of Luis Buñuel in Ángel exterminador, El (1962). His father, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. produced his first film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir (1965). Ripstein filmography is very praised in Mexico and...

46. Luis Estrada

Writer | El infierno

Luis Estrada was born on January 17, 1962 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a writer and director, known for his films that openly criticize the Mexican political system and the controversial issues that revolve around it, like El Infierno (2010), La Ley de Herodes (1999) and La ...

47. Miguel Arteta

Director | Beatriz at Dinner

Miguel Arteta was born in 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He is a director and producer, known for Beatriz at Dinner (2017), Succession (2018) and Enlightened (2011). He is married to Justine Arteta.

48. Carlos Carrera

Director | De la infancia

With only three feature films, Carlos Carrera is considered one of the best young directors of the new Mexican cinema. He began as an animator at 12 years old and wrote, produced and directed a number of animated-shorts before filming his first live-action movie, a docummentary short titled ...

49. Francisco Vargas

Director | El violín

Francisco Vargas is known for The Violin (2005), Tierra caliente... Se mueren los que la mueven (2004) and Casa Caracol (2017).

50. José Padilha

Producer | Tropa de Elite

He is best known for directing the Brazilian critical and financial successes Elite Squad and Elite Squad: The Enemy Within and the 2014 remake of RoboCop. He has won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival for Elite Squad in 2008. He is also the producer and director of the ...

51. Spiros Stathoulopoulos

Director | PVC-1

Known as one of Colombia's most prominent and original auteurs, Greek-Colombian film director and screenwriter Spiros Stathoulopoulos gained international recognition with his debut PVC-1 (2007). The uncut cult film, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and ...

52. Esteban Sapir

Director | La antena

Esteban Sapir was born on June 6, 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a cinematographer and director, known for The Aerial (2007), Picado fino (1996) and Life According to Muriel (1997).

53. Marco Bechis

Writer | La terra degli uomini rossi - Birdwatchers

The son of a Chilean woman of Swiss-French origins and an Italian father, he grew up in Sao Paolo and Buenos Aires. At the age of twenty he was expelled from Argentina for political reasons: he landed in Milan and there he lived throughout the 1980s, while also spending lots of time in New York, ...

A Chilean-Italian director.

54. Rodrigo García

Writer | Nine Lives

Rodrigo García was born on August 24, 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a producer and writer, known for Nine Lives (2005), Mother and Child (2009) and In Treatment (2008).

A Colombian who grew up and started his career in Mexico.

55. Claudia Llosa

Director | La teta asustada

Claudia Llosa was born on November 15, 1976 in Lima, Peru. She is a director and writer, known for The Milk of Sorrow (2009), Madeinusa (2006) and Loxoro (2012).

56. Santiago Mitre

Writer | Argentina, 1985

Santiago Mitre was born on December 4, 1980 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Argentina, 1985 (2022), Paulina (2015) and The Student (2011).

57. Pablo Giorgelli

Director | Las acacias

Pablo Giorgelli was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Las Acacias (2011), Invisible (2017) and La Encomienda (2021).

58. Gustavo Taretto

Writer | Medianeras

Gustavo Taretto was born in 1965 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Sidewalls (2011), Side Walls (2005) and Hoy no estoy (2007).

59. Carlos Reygadas

Producer | Stellet Licht

Carlos Reygadas was born on October 10, 1971 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and director, known for Silent Light (2007), Japan (2002) and Post Tenebras Lux (2012). He is married to Natalia López.

60. Michel Franco

Producer | Nuevo orden

Michel Franco was born on August 28, 1979 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is a producer and writer, known for New Order (2020), Chronic (2015) and After Lucia (2012).

61. Sebastián Lelio

Director | Una mujer fantástica

Born in 1974, Sebastián Lelio is one of the leading figures (along with Pablo Larraín, Andrés Wood and a few others) of the post-dictatorship Chilean cinema. After graduating from the "Escuela de Cine de Chile" in Santiago, Lelio started by making shorts (he made five from 1995 to 2003, as well as ...

62. Pablo Trapero

Producer | El Clan

Pablo Trapero was born in San justo, Argentina in 1971. In 1999 he directed his first feature, Mundo Grua, which won the Critics Prize at Venice. In 2002, he opened his production company, Matanza Cine, that produces films for fellow filmmakers, as well as his own. His second feature, El Bonaerense...

63. Pablo Agüero

Director | Eva no duerme

Pablo Agüero was born in 1977 in Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for Eva Doesn't Sleep (2015), Primera nieve (2006) and 77 Doronship (2009).

64. Anna Muylaert

Writer | Que Horas Ela Volta?

Ana Luiza Machado da Silva Muylaert (born 21 April 1964), known professionally as Anna Muylaert, is a Brazilian film and television director, producer and screenwriter. Anna studied filmmaking at the School of Communications and Arts at University of São Paulo (USP) from 1980 to 1984. She became a ...

65. Sebastián Borensztein

Writer | Un cuento chino

Sebastián Borensztein was born on April 22, 1963 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a writer and director, known for Chinese Take-Away (2011), Heroic Losers (2019) and Collateral Man (1997).

66. Fede Alvarez

Writer | Don't Breathe

Fede Alvarez was born on February 9, 1978 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is a writer and producer, known for Don't Breathe (2016), Evil Dead (2013) and The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018).

67. Andy Muschietti

Director | Mama

Andy Muschietti was born on August 26, 1973 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a producer and director, known for Mama (2013), It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019).

68. Ciro Guerra

Director | El abrazo de la serpiente

Ciro Guerra was born on February 6, 1981 in Río de Oro, Cesar, Colombia. He is a director and writer, known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and Los viajes del viento (2009). He is married to Cristina Gallego.

69. Cristina Gallego

Producer | El abrazo de la serpiente

Cristina Gallego is known for Embrace of the Serpent (2015), Birds of Passage (2018) and Memoria (2021). She is married to Ciro Guerra.

70. Gastón Duprat

Director | El ciudadano ilustre

Gastón Duprat is a director, screenwriter and film producer. He started his career in video art, experimental cinema and television. He has made a dozen films, with which he obtained more than thirty international awards, among which stand out The Man Next Door (2009), The Distinguished Citizen (...

71. Fernanda Valadez

Producer | Sin señas particulares

Fernanda Valadez is known for Identifying Features (2020), Sujo (2024) and 400 Maletas (2014).

72. Ariel Winograd

Director | El robo del siglo

Ariel Winograd was born on August 23, 1977 in Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a director and writer, known for The Heist of the Century (2020), ¿Y cómo es él? (2020) and Inside Man (2006).

73. Rodrigo Sepúlveda

Director | Aurora

Rodrigo Sepúlveda is known for Aurora (2014), My Tender Matador (2020) and Así es esta historia (1998).

74. Duncan Jones

Director | Moon

Duncan Jones was born on May 30, 1971 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Moon (2009), Source Code (2011) and Mute (2018). He has been married to Rodene Ronquillo since November 6, 2012. They have two children.

75. Michaël R. Roskam

Director | The Drop

Michaël R. Roskam was born on October 9, 1972 in Sint-Truiden, Flanders, Belgium. He is a producer and director, known for The Drop (2014), Bullhead (2011) and Racer and the Jailbird (2017). He has been married to Eline De Munck since January 9, 2021.

76. Scott Cooper

Director | Crazy Heart

Scott Cooper was born on April 20, 1970 in Abingdon, Virginia, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Crazy Heart (2009), Hostiles (2017) and Out of the Furnace (2013).

77. Alex Garland

Writer | Ex Machina

Alex Garland is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for the films Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).

Garland's others works as a writer includes The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2011) and Dredd (2012).

He is ...

78. John Wells

Producer | The Company Men

John Wells is one of the most prolific writers, directors and producers for television, film and the stage. Over the past two decades, Wells has been a creative force behind some of primetime's biggest hit series, including ER, The West Wing, Third Watch and China Beach. He is currently Executive ...

79. Tom Ford

Director | A Single Man

Tom Ford is an American fashion designer, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He gained fame as the creative director at Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent. In 2006, Ford launched his own "Tom Ford" label.

Ford directed the films A Single Man (2009) and Nocturnal Animals (2016), both films were...

80. Taylor Sheridan

Writer | Hell or High Water

Taylor Sheridan is an American actor, screenwriter and director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for 'Sicario' (2015) and 'Hell or high water' (2016), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.

He also starred in the FX television series 'Sons of ...

81. Stephen Chbosky

Writer | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky was born on January 25, 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), Wonder (2017) and Rent (2005). He has been married to Liz Maccie since September 18, 2010. They have two children.

82. Darius Marder

Writer | Sound of Metal

Darius Marder is known for Sound of Metal (2019), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) and Loot (2008). He is married to Liza Cassidy. They have two children.

83. Ruben Östlund

Director | Triangle of Sadness

Ruben Östlund was born on April 13, 1974 in Styrsö, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He is a director and editor, known for Triangle of Sadness (2022), Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017). He was previously married to Andrea Östlund.

84. Gianni Amelio

Director | Il ladro di bambini

After school, Amelio studied philosophy. He graduated with a doctorate. Amelio developed a keen interest in film at a young age. In 1970 he began working as a cameraman for the Italian state television RAI. A little later, Amelio worked as an assistant director for RAI. In 1970 he directed his ...

85. Tom Hanks

Producer | Cast Away

Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...

86. Gael García Bernal

Actor | Mozart in the Jungle

Gael García Bernal was born in Guadalajara to Patricia Bernal, an actress/model & José Ángel García, an actor/director. His stepfather's cinematographer Sergio Yazbek. He began his acting career as a child, working w/ his parents in a variety of plays. At 14, he starred in a soap opera called El ...

87. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

88. Jim Carrey

Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...

89. Katt Williams

Actor | Norbit

Multi-talented actor/comedian Katt Williams was born in Cincinnati and raised in Dayton, Ohio. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he is simultaneously working on several projects on camera and behind the scenes for your viewing pleasure in the near future. Throughout his journey...

90. Dave Chappelle

Writer | Chappelle's Show

Dave Chappelle's career started while he was in high school at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC where he studied theatre arts. At the age of 14, he began performing stand-up comedy in nightclubs. Shortly after graduation, he moved to New York City where he quickly established ...

91. Ralphie May

Actor | For da Love of Money

Ralphie May was born on February 17, 1972 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for For da Love of Money (2002), Cubed (2009) and Whoopi (2003). He was married to Lahna Turner. He died on October 6, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

92. Adam Sandler

Actor | The Waterboy

Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...

93. Johnny Depp

Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...

94. Anthony Quinn

Actor | Alexis Zorbas

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...

95. Rita Moreno

Actress | West Side Story

Rita Moreno is one of the very few performers to win an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, thus becoming an EGOT. She was born Rosita Dolores Alverío in the hospital in Humacao, Puerto Rico on December 11, 1931 (but raised in nearby, smaller Juncos, which had no hospital), to seamstress Rosa ...

96. Brad Pitt

Actor | Fight Club

William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...

97. Penélope Cruz

Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Known outside her native country as the "Spanish enchantress," Penélope Cruz Sánchez was born in Madrid to Eduardo Cruz, a retailer, and Encarna Sánchez, a hairdresser. As a toddler, she was already a compulsive performer, re-enacting TV commercials for her family's amusement, but she decided to ...

98. Antonio Banderas

Actor | The Mask of Zorro

Antonio Banderas, one of Spain's most famous faces, was a soccer player until breaking his foot at the age of fourteen; he is now an international movie star known for playing Zorro in the eponymous movie series.

He was born José Antonio Domínguez Banderas on August 10, 1960, in Málaga, Andalusia, ...

99. Imanol Arias

Actor | Cuéntame cómo pasó

Imanol Arias began his career with a traveling theatre group in Spain performing in Euskadi (Basque Country). After minor roles on stage, he travels to Cuba to shoot Cecilia (1982) directed by Humberto Solás. In 1987 he won the Concha de Plata of the San Sebastian Film Festival for the biography of ...

100. Leonardo Sbaraglia

Actor | Dolor y gloria

Leonardo Sbaraglia was born on June 30, 1970 in Sáenz Peña, Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an actor, known for Pain and Glory (2019), The Silence of the Sky (2016) and Intacto (2001).