TOP 35 ACTORS AND ACTRESSES WITH/UNDER 35: 2019

This is the year we say goodbye to some of the biggest on-screen names of their generation: Emily Blunt, Adam Driver (who has just gotten his first Oscar nomination for his performance in BlacKkKlansman!), Greta Gerwig and Tessa Thompson. Note to the cases of Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Lawrence who keep in some of the top spots in spite of no relevant performance in the last big couple of years: their previous performances are some of the last 10 year's bests and there's no way to deny them a good position here.

1. LUCAS HEDGES

Born: December 12, 1996 in New York City, New York, USA (age 22)

Breakthrough performance: Moonrise Kindgom (2012)

Distinguished performances: Manchester by the Sea (2016); Lady Bird (2017); Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017); Boy Erased (2018); Ben Is Back (2018)

Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination

2. SAOIRSE RONAN

Born: April 12, 1994 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA (age 24)

Breakthrough performance: Atonement (2007)

Distinguished performances: Atonement (2007); The Lovely Bones (2009); Hanna (2011); How I Live Now (2013); Brooklyn (2015); On Chesil Beach (2017); Lady Bird (2017); Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations

3. ROONEY MARA

Born: April 17, 1985 in Bedford, New York, USA (age 33)

Breakthrough performance: The Social Network (2010)

Distinguished performances: Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Side Effects (2013); Carol (2015); A Ghost Story (2017)

Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations

4. EMMA STONE

Born: November 6, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA (age 30)

Breakthrough performance: Superbad (2007)

Distinguished performances: Easy A (2010); The Help (2011); Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014); La La Land (2016); Battle of the Sexes (2017); The Favourite (2018)

Academy Award recognition: 3 nominations | 1 win - Best Actress for La La Land

5. ELLE FANNING

Born: April 9, 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA (age 20)
Breakthrough performance: Babel (2006)
Distinguished performances: Phoebe in Wonderland (2008); Somewhere (2010); Super 8 (2011); Ginger & Rosa (2012); Low Down (2014); The Neon Demon (2016); 20th Century Women (2016); Galveston (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

6. MICHAEL B. JORDAN

Born:  February 9, 1987 in Santa Ana, California, USA (age 31)

Breakthrough performance: Chronicle (2012)

Distinguished performances: Fruitvale Station (2013); Creed (2015); Black Panther (2018); Creed II (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

7. CAREY MULLIGAN

Born: May 28, 1985 in Westminster, London, England, UK (age 33)
Breakthrough performance: Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Distinguished performances: An Education (2009); Never Let Me Go (2010); Shame (2011); Inside Llewyn Davis (2013); Far from the Madding Crowd (2015); Mudbound (2017); Wildlife (2018)
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination

8. SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Born: November 22, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA (age 34)

Breakthrough performance: The Horse Whisperer (1998)

Distinguished performances: Lost In Translation (2003); Girl With a Pearl Earring (2003); A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004); Match Point (2005); Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008); Don Jon (2013); Her (2013); Under the Skin (2014)

Academy Award recognition: none

9. ROBERT PATTINSON

Born: May 13, 1986 in Barnes, London, England, UK (age 32)

Breakthrough performance: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

Distinguished performances: Cosmopolis (2012); The Rover (2014); Maps to the Stars (2014); Life (2015); The Lost City of Z (2017); Good Time (2017); Damsel (2018); High Life (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

10. TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET

Born: December 27, 1995 in Manhattan, New York City, USA (age 23)

Breakthrough performance: Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Distinguished performances: Call Me By Your Name (2017); Lady Bird (2017); Beautiful Boy (2018)

Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination

11. JENNIFER LAWRENCE

Born: August 15, 1990 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA - age 27

Breakthrough performance: The Burning Plain (2009)

Distinguished performances: Winter's Bone (2010); The Hunger Games (2012); Silver Linings Playbook (2012); American Hustle (2013); The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013); Joy (2015)

Academy Award recognition: 4 nominations | 1 win - Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook

12. AMANDLA STENBERG

Born: October 23, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA (age 20)

Breakthrough performance: The Hunger Games (2012)

Distinguished performances: The Hunger Games (2012); Everything, Everything (2017); The Hate U Give (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

13. KEIRA KNIGHTLEY 

Born: March 26, 1985 in Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK (age 33)
Breakthrough performance: Pirates of Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Distinguished performances: Pride & Prejudice (2005); Atonement (2007); The Duchess (2008); A Dangerous Method (2011); Anna Karenina (2012); Begin Again (2013); The Imitation Game (2014); Colette (2018)
Academy Award recognition: 2 nominations

14. ELIZABETH DEBICKI

Born: August 24, 1990 in Paris, France (age 28)
Breakthrough performance: The Great Gatsby (2013)
Distinguished performances: The Great Gatsby (2013); Breath (2017); Widows (2018); The Tale (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

15. JAMIE BELL

Born: March 14, 1986 in Billingham, Stockton on Tees, England, UK (age 32)
Breakthrough performance: Billy Elliot (2000)
Distinguished performances: Billy Elliot (2000); Undertow (2004); Hallam Foe (2007); Retreat (2011); Nymphomaniac (2013); Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017)
Academy Award recognition: none

16. KRISTEN STEWART

Born: April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA (age 28)
Breakthrough performance: Panic Room (2002)
Distinguished performances: The Cake Eaters (2008); The Runaways (2010); On the Road (2012); Camp X-Ray (2014); Clouds of Sils Maria (2015); Café Society (2016); Personal Shopper (2017); Lizzie (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

17. MIA WASIKOWSKA

Born: October 14, 1989 in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (age 29)
Breakthrough performance: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Distinguished performances: That Evening Sun (2009); The Kids Are All Right (2010); Jane Eyre (2011); Restless (2011); Tracks (2014); Maps to the Stars (2014); Crimson Peak (2015); Piercing (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

18. SHAILENE WOODLEY

Born: November 15, 1991 in Simi Valley, California, USA (age 27)
Breakthrough performance: The Descendants (2011)
Distinguished performances: The Descendants (2011); The Spectacular Now (2013); The Fault in Our Stars (2014); Divergent (2014); Adrift (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

19. JOHN BOYEGA

Born: March 17, 1992 in Peckham, London, England, UK (age 26)

Breakthrough performance: Attack the Block (2011)

Distinguished performances: Attack the Block (2011); Imperial Dreams (2014); Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015); Detroit (2017)
Academy Award recognition: none

20. LILY JAMES

Born: April 5, 1989 in Esher, Surrey, England, UK (age 29)

Breakthrough performance: Cinderella (2015)

Distinguished performances: Cinderella (2015); Baby Driver (2017); Darkest Hour (2017); Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

21. AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON

Born: June 13, 1990 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK (age 28)

Breakthrough performance: Nowhere Boy (2009)

Distinguished performances: Nowhere Boy (2009); Kick-Ass (2010); Savages (2012);  Anna Karenina (2012); Nocturnal Animals (2016); The Wall (2017)

Academy Award recognition: none

22. ARMIE HAMMER

Born: August 28, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA (age 32)

Breakthrough performance: The Social Network (2010)

Distinguished performances: The Social Network (2010); J. Edgar (2011); The Birth of a Nation (2016); Call Me By Your Name (2017); Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

23. ELIZABETH OLSEN

Born: February 16, 1989 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA - age 30

Breakthrough performance: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)

Distinguished performances: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011); In Secret (2013); Wind River (2017); Ingrid Goes West (2017); Kodachrome (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

24. LAKEITH STANFIELD

Born: August 12, 1991 in San Bernardino, California, U.S (age 27)

Breakthrough performance: Short Term 12 (2013)

Distinguished performances: Short Term 12 (2013); Selma (2014); Straight Outta Compton (2015); Crown Heights (2017); Sorry to Bother You (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

25. GASPARD ULLIEL

Born: November 25, 1984 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France (age 34)

Breakthrough performance: Summer Things (2002)

Distinguished performances: Summer Things (2002); Strayed (2003); A Very Long Engagement (2004); Saint Laurent (2014); It's Only the End of the World (2016); To the Ends of the World (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

26. PAUL DANO

Born: June 19, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA (age 34)

Breakthrough performance: L.I.E. (2002)

Distinguished performances: L.I.E. (2002); Little Miss Sunshine (2006); There Will Be Blood (2007); 12 Years a Slave (2013); Prisoners (2013); Love & Mercy (2015); Swiss Army Man (2016)

Academy Award recognition: none

27. LÉA SEYDOUX

Born: July 1, 1985 in Paris, France (age 33)
Breakthrough performance: The Beautiful Person (2008)
Distinguished performances: The Beautiful Person (2008); Farewell, My Queen (2012); Sister (2012); Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013); Diary of a Chambermaid (2015); It's Only the End of the World (2016)
Academy Award recognition: none

28. JACOB TREMBLAY

Born: October 5, 2006 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (age 12)

Breakthrough performance: Room (2015)

Distinguished performances: Room (2015); Wonder (2017); Before I Wake (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

29. EMMA WATSON

Born: April 15, 1990 in Paris, France (age 28)

Breakthrough performance: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

Distinguished performances: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004); Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010); The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012); The Bling Ring (2013); Noah (2014); Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Academy Award recognition: none

30. STEPHAN JAMES

Born: December 16, 1993 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (age 25)

Breakthrough performance: Home Again (2012)

Distinguished performances: Selma (2014); Race (2016); If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Academy Award recognition: none

31. FLORENCE PUGH

Born: January 3, 1996 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK (age 23)

Breakthrough performance: The Falling (2014)

Distinguished performances: The Falling (2014); Lady Macbeth (2017)

Academy Award recognition: none

32. MARGOT ROBBIE

Born: July 2, 1990 in Dalby, Queensland, Australia (age 28)
Breakthrough performance: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Distinguished performances: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013); Suicide Squad (2016); I, Tonya (2017); Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Academy Award recognition: 1 nomination

33. TYE SHERIDAN

Born: November 11, 1996 IN Elkhart, Texas, USA (age 22)
Breakthrough performance: The Tree of Life (2011)
Distinguished performances: Mud (2012); Joe (2013); The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015); The Yellow Birds (2017); Detour (2017)
Academy Award recognition: none

34. SHIA LABEOUF

Born: June 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA (age 32)
Breakthrough performance: Constantine (2005)
Distinguished performances: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006); Disturbia (2007); Transformers (2007); Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010); The Company You Keep (2012); Nymphomaniac (2013); American Honey (2016); Borg vs McEnroe (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

35. JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON

Born: July 28, 1984 in Toluca Lake, Los Angeles, California, USA (age 34)
Breakthrough performance: BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Distinguished performances: BlacKkKlansman (2018); Monsters and Men (2018)
Academy Award recognition: none

FEMALE HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Adèle Exarchopoulos for Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)
• Thomasin McKenzie for Leave No Trace (2018)
• Lupita Nyong'O for 12 Years a Slave (2013)
• Hailee Steinfeld for True Grit (2010)
• Shailene Woodley for The Descendants (2011)
• Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl (2015)

MALE HONORABLE MENTIONS

• Joe Cole for A Prayer Before Dawn (2018)
• Alden Ehrenreich for Hail, Caesar! (2016)
• Emile Hirsch for Into the Wild (2007)
• Ezra Miller for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
• Jack O'Connell for Starred Up (2013)
• Trevante Rhodes for Moonlight (2016)