The River Wild 1994 premiere

1. Kevin Bacon

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

2. Marlee Matlin

Actress | CODA

Marlee Beth Matlin was born on August 24, 1965 in Morton Grove, Illinois, to Libby (Hammer) and Donald Matlin, an automobile dealer. She has two older brothers. Her family is of Russian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent.

Marlee lost much of her hearing at the age of eighteen months. That did not stop...

3. Kyra Sedgwick

Actress | The Closer

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick was born on August 19, 1965 in New York City to Patricia (Rosenwald), a family and speech therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. Her mother was from an upper-class German Jewish family, and her father was from a wealthy Massachusetts clan of English ...

4. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

5. Curtis Hanson

Director | L.A. Confidential

After small films like The Bedroom Window (1987) and Sweet Kill (1972), Curtis Hanson went on to direct major features including The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The River Wild (1994) and the Academy Award-winning L.A. Confidential (1997). Setting his sights on another city, Hanson was ...

6. Gary Sinise

Actor | Forrest Gump

Gary Alan Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, to Mylles S. (Alsip) and Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E., a film editor. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. ...

7. Moira Sinise

Actress | Breakdown

Moira Harris was born on April 19, 1954 in Pontiac, Illinois. She attended and graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois, (also where John Malkovich attended) and met Gary Sinise during her college years. They have three children: Sophie Sinise, McCanna Anthony Sinise and Ella ...

8. BD Wong

Actor | Jurassic Park

BD Wong was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He made his Broadway debut in "M. Butterfly." He is the only actor to be honored with the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarence Derwent Award, and Theater World Award for the same performance. He starred in the ...

9. Margaret Cho

Producer | Margaret Cho: PsyCHO

Margaret Cho was born on December 5, 1968 in San Francisco. Her grandfather was a Methodist minister who ran an orphanage in Seoul during the Korean War. Ignoring the traditions of her patriarchal culture, her mother bravely resisted an arranged marriage in Korea & married Margaret's father, who ...

10. Yasmine Bleeth

Actress | BASEketball

Yasmine Bleeth was born on June 14, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for BASEketball (1998), Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding (2003) and Nash Bridges (1996). She has been married to Paul Cerrito since August 25, 2002.

11. Michael Tucker

Actor | L.A. Law

Baltimore-born actor Michael Tucker developed an interest in performing as a teen, when he made a chorus appearance as a "Lost Boy" in an amateur theater presentation of "Peter Pan". Following high school, he studied drama at Carnegie Tech., then found work in stock shows and in such repertory ...

12. Jill Eikenberry

Actress | L.A. Law

The couple who plays together stays together. While this old and familiar adage probably would not work for a number of the happily married, high-profiled Hollywood star couples still thriving around town, it certainly has done wonders for one of Hollywood's more popular pairs -- actress Jill ...

13. Max Tucker

Production_manager | Model Behaviour

Max Tucker was born in 1982. He is a production manager and actor, known for Model Behaviour (2013), Revenge of the Gweilo (2020) and Alien Love.

14. Tracy Scoggins

Actress | Babylon 5: The Lost Tales

Tracy Dawn Scoggins was born and raised in Dickinson, Texas. At age 16, she enrolled in Southwest Texas State, where she studied speech communications and physical education. After leaving college, she was hired by the Elite Modeling Agency and sent to New York City. After one year, she continued ...

15. Matt McCoy

Actor | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Matt McCoy was born on May 20, 1956 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), Jack Ryan (2018) and Silicon Valley (2014). He has been married to Mary McCoy since 1985. They have three children.

16. Stephanie Sawyer

Actress | The River Wild

Stephanie Sawyer is known for The River Wild (1994), The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Tarzan (1999).

17. Emily Lloyd

Actress | Wish You Were Here

Emily Lloyd was born on September 29, 1970 in Islington, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wish You Were Here (1987), A River Runs Through It (1992) and Riverworld (2003).

18. Don Diamont

Actor | Anger Management

Born Donald Feinberg in New York City in 1962, Don Diamont grew up in Los Angeles. He came from a close-knit family and is the youngest of four children. He excelled academically in high school and was a star athlete. When Don attended college, he studied with renowned acting coach Nina Foch, and ...

19. Jaason Simmons

Actor | Sharknado

Jason was first introduced to worldwide audiences as Logan Fowler in the hit TV series Baywatch, a Show viewed by a billion people across 142 countries. After 3 years on the show he walked away from Hollywood, and returned to stage school to study theatre, to complete his training with renowned ...

20. David Strathairn

Actor | Good Night, and Good Luck.

David Russell Strathairn was born on January 26, 1949 in San Francisco, California. He is the son of Mary Frances (Frazier), a nurse, and Thomas Scott Strathairn, Jr., a physician. He has two siblings, Tom and Anne. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, Irish, Portuguese, Hawaiian, and one ...

21. Joseph Mazzello

Actor | Jurassic Park

Born in Rhinebeck, New York, he got into acting when he was 5 years old, after his sister had appeared in 30-odd commercials. Since then he has acted opposite some of the best actors in Hollywood as a bright, expressive actor with complexity, sensitivity, and emotion. He attended film school at USC...

22. John C. Reilly

Actor | Chicago

Character actor, dramatic leading man, or hilarious comic foil? With an astonishing range of roles already under his belt, John C. Reilly has played an eclectic host of rich characters to great effect over the years, from seedy ne'er-do-wells, to lovable, good-natured schlepps.

The fifth of six ...

23. Benjamin Bratt

Actor | Miss Congeniality

The middle of five children, Bratt hails from a close-knit family. His mother, an indigenous Quechua Peruvian from Lima, moved to the U.S. at age 14. He grew up in San Francisco. He is known for his roles in the films Traffic (2000), Miss Congeniality (2000), and Despicable Me 2 (2013). He is ...

24. Elizabeth Hoffman

Actress | Dante's Peak

Elizabeth Hoffman was born on February 8, 1926 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for Dante's Peak (1997), The River Wild (1994) and Stargate SG-1 (1997). She died on August 21, 2023 in Malibu, California, USA.

25. Victor Galloway

Actor | The River Wild

Victor Galloway was born on July 29, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was an actor, known for The River Wild (1994). He died in 2013 in the USA.

26. Diane Delano

Actress | The Wicker Man

Diane Delano was born on January 29, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for The Wicker Man (2006), Miracle Mile (1988) and The Ladykillers (2004).

27. Thomas F. Duffy

Actor | The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Thomas F. Duffy was born on November 9, 1955 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Varsity Blues (1999) and Super 8 (2011).

28. William Lucking

Actor | Red Dragon

William Lucking was born on June 17, 1941 in Vicksburg, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Red Dragon (2002), The World's Fastest Indian (2005) and Contraband (2012). He was married to Sigrid Insull and Marycarolyn Linda Elizabeth "MiMi" Hawkins. He died on October 18, 2021 in ...

29. Paul Cantelon

Composer | Le scaphandre et le papillon

Paul Cantelon was born in 1965 in Glendale, California, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), The Visit (2015) and New York, I Love You (2008). He was previously married to Angela McCluskey.

30. Glenn Morshower

Actor | The Resident

Glenn Morshower was born on April 24, 1959 in Dallas, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Resident (2018), Bloodline (2015) and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). He has been married to Carolyn Elizabeth Lindsley since December 30, 1978. They have two children.

31. Lawrence Turman

Producer | The Graduate

Lawrence Turman was born on November 28, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Graduate (1967), The Thing (1982) and The River Wild (1994). He was married to Margaret Buckley, Suzanne Rita Trieb and Lorie Berger. He died on July 1, 2023 in Woodland ...

32. David Foster

Producer | House M.D.

David Foster is known for House M.D. (2004), New Amsterdam (2018) and Scorpion (2014).

33. Denis O'Neill

Writer | The River Wild

Denis O'Neill is known for The River Wild (1994), River Wild (2023) and A Shot at Glory (2000).

34. Jerry Goldsmith

Composer | L.A. Confidential

Born on February 10, 1929, Jerry Goldsmith studied piano with Jakob Gimpel and composition, theory, and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He also attended classes in film composition given by Miklós Rózsa at the Univeristy of Southern California. In 1950, he was employed as a clerk ...

35. Robert Elswit

Cinematographer | There Will Be Blood

Robert Elswit is an American cinematographer. He is best known for Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), There Will Be Blood (2007), Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011), Inherent Vice (2014), and Nightcrawler (2014).

Elswit frequently works with director ...

36. David Brenner

Editor | Independence Day

David Brenner was born on November 3, 1962 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an editor, known for Independence Day (1996), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). He was married to Amber Brenner. He died on February 17, 2022 in West Hollywood, California, USA.

37. Joe Hutshing

Editor | JFK

Joe Hutshing can definitely be included among the greatest film editors of all time due not only to his impressive resume with works from directors like Oliver Stone, Cameron Crowe and Nancy Meyers but also due to his innovative techniques and amazing eye for details in order to compose a great ...