In Hollywood, there is no greater accomplishment than making it to your 30s. It means that you have longevity in the industry, and you are considered a veteran. Here are 10 top Hollywood actors who have reached this impressive milestone. Despite their advancing years, these stars continue to entertain us with their unforgettable performances.
1. Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio, Actor: Inception. Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, sharing the screen with Robert De Niro in This Boy's Life (1993), to mega-stardom, headlining such films as Titanic (1997), The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and The Beach (2000).
2. Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day and age in Hollywood. He was born John Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer.
3. Brad Pitt
An actor and producer knew as much for his versatility as he is for his handsome face, Golden Globe-winner Brad Pitt's most widely recognized role may be Tyler Durden in Fight Club (1999). But his portrayals of Billy Beane in Moneyball (2011), and Rusty Ryan in the remake of Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, also loom large in his filmography.
4. George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also George's uncle). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry.
5. Tom Cruise
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood.
6. Will Smith
Will Smith was born on September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Willard Christopher Smith Jr. He is an actor, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him the most powerful actor in Hollywood.
7. Matt Damon
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor, and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother named Kyle who is now a sculptor. His father is of English and Scottish descent, and his mother is of Finnish and Swedish ancestry.
8. Ben Affleck
American actor and filmmaker Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California, and was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and his father, Timothy Byers Affleck, is a social worker; the two are divorced. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck.
9. Jude Law
David Jude Heyworth Law (born 29 December 1972), known professionally as Jude Law, is an English actor. He has received nominations for two Academy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two British Academy Awards, winning one. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in recognition of his contributions to World Cinema.
10. Clive Owen
Clive Owen was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England, to Pamela (Atherton) and Jess Owen, a country and western singers. His parents divorced when he was three, and his mother subsequently married actor Michael Loughnan.
He took his stepfather's surname and began to be known as Clive Loughnan. He attended Holy Trinity Primary School before going on to King Henry VIII Senior School in Coventry. He was a member of the National Youth Theatre.
He then studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he became friends with Ewan McGregor and Kenneth Branagh. He joined Otto Bathurst's experimental theatre company "The Passion" (later known as "The People Show") while still a student in order to gain practical experience.
It was during this time that he began making short films on Super 8mm, including a 15-minute war film called The Bunker (1991) which won him a place at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1993 with a BA (Hons) in filmmaking.
He has been married to actress Sarah-Jane Fenton since August 2, 1997. They have two daughters: Eve (born 1999) and Willow (born 2003). He also has a son named Joe (born in 2015) with his former partner, actress Claudia Schiffer.
Clive Owen is one of the most respected and well-liked actors working today. He first came to prominence in the UK with his role as MI6 agent Tom Quinn in the hit TV series "Sharpe" (1993), which led to him being cast as the lead in the film "Croupier" (1998), for which he won critical acclaim.
Since then, he has gone on to star in such films as "Gosford Park" (2001), "The Bourne Identity" (2002), "Closer" (2004), "Sin City" (2005), "Children of Men" (2006), and "Inside Man" (2006). He has also starred in several blockbuster Hollywood films, such as "The Italian Job" (2003), "King Arthur" (2004), and "Shoot 'Em Up" (2007).
In addition to his work on a film, Owen has also appeared in several stage productions, most notably in the play "Nine" in 2003. He was awarded an Honorary César in 2007 for his contributions to World Cinema and was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2014.
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