These stars of the 1980s are also stars of the 2020s who are still going strong after all these years.<\/p>\n
Winona Ryder<\/h2>\n
Winona Ryder returns to one of her most iconic roles later this year in Beetlejuice\u00a0Beetlejuice\u00a0, the sequel to the original Beetlejuice that made her the dark princess of the stars of the 1980s \u2014 a reputation she secured with Heathers before moving on to grown-up roles like one in Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula.<\/p>\n Her other standout roles have included 1990\u2019s\u00a0Edward Scissorhands (above), directed by Beetlejuice helmer Tim Burton, as well as Little Women and The Age of Innocence. <\/p>\n Her recent roles have included a turn on the megahit Stranger Things and the recent Haunted Mansion reboot, and she\u2019s back at the end of the summer in Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.<\/p>\n Michelle Pfeiffer has been a star since 1982\u2019s Grease 2, but really popped in 1983\u2019s Scarface, playing Elvira, the wife of Al Pacino\u2019s Tony Montana. The three-time Oscar nominee is almost always the best part of any film she\u2019s in \u2014 from Batman Returns to Married to the Mob to the Fabulous Baker Boys.<\/p>\n She continues to show off her acting chops with meaty roles in recent films like The Wizard of Lies and French Exit. And she was the highlight of last year\u2019s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. <\/p>\n Kevin Costner was mostly left on the cutting-room floor of The Big Chill, but recovered nicely by becoming one of the biggest stars of the 1980s with an astonishing 1980s run that included The Untouchables, No Way Out, Bull Durham and Field of Dreams. <\/p>\n In the following years, he remained a giant, starring in The Bodyguard and Oliver Stone\u2019s JFK , as well as winning Best Picture and Best Director for 1990\u2019s Dances With Wolves. <\/p>\n After a highly publicized exit from Yellowstone, the biggest show on television, he again goes West this summer with Horizon: An American Saga.<\/p>\n Talk about peaking late in your career: Curtis won her first Oscar last year for Everything Everywhere All at Once, and hasn\u2019t slowed down. She was excellent in the second season of The Bear, and will soon executive produce and appear in The Sticky, about a Canadian maple-syrup heist.<\/p>\n Though a child of Hollywood, Curtis paid her dues in a run of scream-queen roles starting with her 1978 debut in Halloween. She became one of the greatest stars of the 1980s with a remarkable run included Trading Places, Perfect and A Fish Called Wanda. <\/p>\n Of course she also had a massive hit opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1994 James Cameron blockbuster True Lies. <\/p>\n A star of bodybuilding and a successful entrepreneur before he even starred in a movie, Ahhhhnold broke out with Conan the Barbarian and became a superstar with The Terminator (above) \u2014 not the biggest movie of 1984, the year it was released, but a massive VHS hit the year after. He then continued as one of the biggest (and strongest) stars of the 1980s with hits like Commando, The Running Man, and Predator. <\/p>\n His \u201990s were even bigger: He starred in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies, among other hits. In the next decade, And the next decade, he got elected governor of California and earned pretty high marks.<\/p>\n Last year he told his life story for the captivating Netflix docuseries Arnold and released the inspirational book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life.<\/p>\n Sly was chronically underestimated, and has never stopped punching: Let\u2019s not forget that he didn\u2019t just star in Rocky \u2014 he wrote it, thereby creating one of the most beloved screen underdogs.<\/p>\n Arnold\u2019s old rival KO\u2019d the 80s box office with both the Rocky and Rambo franchises, calling his own shots and doing a lot of painting on the side. He was cool in Cobra (above), too. He eventually joined forces with his Austrian-born rival for the Planet Hollywood franchise, and brought new life to Rocky with his role in the Creed franchise.<\/p>\n Last year he returned to yet another franchise, The Expendables 4, and he starred in the soon-to-return series Tulsa King. He\u2019s such an icon that Barbie made fun of that period in the 1980s when he was known for wearing a lot of fur. And he\u2019s the focus of the recent Netflix documentary Sly.<\/p>\n Eddie Murphy returns this summer to the Beverly Hills Cop franchise for Netflix, but still looks young because he started so young. Maybe the flat-out funniest actor of all time, Murphy was still in his teens when he joined Saturday Night Live, and basically saved the show after the departure of the original cast.<\/p>\n He went on to a a phenomenal film career that stared with 48 Hrs. (above), and continued with Trading Places, the Beverly Hills Cop movies and Coming to America. <\/p>\n He can still score massive laughs, as you know if you saw 2019\u2019s Dolemite Is My Name, and was charming in the Christmas movie Candy Kane Lane. He\u2019s back this month in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. He\u2019s one of the most still prolific stars of the 1980s.<\/p>\n Streep is widely considered the greatest actress of all time, and it\u2019s easy to see why. She won the second of her three Best Actress Oscars for Sophie\u2019s Choice in 1983, years after breaking out in 1978\u2019s The Deer Hunter, which she followed with 1979\u2019s Kramer vs. Kramer (for which she won her first Oscar). <\/p>\n Her chameleonic \u201980s run saw her bouncing from Out of Africa to Ironweed to Heartburn (above)to She-Devil. <\/p>\n After comical work as a heartless president of the United States in 2021\u2019s Don\u2019t Look Up, she turned to streaming in the Amazon series Extrapolations and Hulu\u2019s Only Murders in the Building, with the next star on our list. Oh, and did we mention she\u2019s good at accents?<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to believe it, but Steve Martin had some lean years as a writer, offbeat standup and banjo player before his explosive popularity following a Saturday Night Live hosting gig in October 1976. From there he packed arenas and made his first film, 1979\u2019s The Jerk, a huge hit despite many critics\u2019 failure to recognize its brilliance.<\/p>\n He struggled a while for another film hit as Pennies From Heaven, The Man With Two Brains and All of Me were box office disappointments, but then he hit a groove that still continues. His \u201980s run included Three Amigos (1986), Roxanne (pictured) and Planes, Trains and Automobiles (both 1987), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), and Parenthood (1989), and since then he\u2019s starred in Bowfinger (1999) the Father of the Bride films, the Pink Panther films, and It\u2019s Complicated (2009). <\/p>\n Now 78, he\u2019s doing some of the funniest work of his career in Only Murders in the Building opposite his old Three Amigos pal Martin Short.<\/p>\n The two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for 1988\u2019s The Accused and 1991\u2019s The Silence of the Lambs is fresh off another Oscar nomination for her latest film, Nyad, and just finished the latest season of True Detective: Night Country, for which she received near-unanimous praise. <\/p>\n Jodie Foster broke into show business with a Coppertone ad at age three in the mid-1960s, then proved herself a young master of her craft when she starred in both Freaky Friday and Taxi Driver in 1976, when she was barely a teenager.<\/p>\n After conquering acting, she became a director known for films including Little Man Tate and Money Monster, as well as one of the most provocative episodes of Black Mirror. She has nothing to prove but keeps going strong.<\/p>\n Harrison Ford has carried as many blockbusters as anyone, but always does it with understated cool. After kicking off the \u201980s with The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Blade Runner, he earned critical acclaim for the drama Witness and the romantic comedy Working Girl, proving himself as a leading man who can do pretty much anything.<\/p>\n In 2023 year he not only starred in the fifth and final Indiana Jones film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but also on the Yellowstone spinoff 1923. And he\u2019s joining the Marvel universe in the next Captain America sequel.<\/p>\n That\u2019s him above with Kate Capshaw in the underrated Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, one of our must-see movies of 1984.<\/a><\/p>\n Jennifer Jason Leigh broke through as Stacy in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a film that made Roger Ebert wonder, \u201cDon\u2019t they know they have a star on their hands?\u201d given her empathetic handling of a complex character in crisis.<\/p>\n Leigh proved herself one of the most versatile film actors in movies ranging from Last Exit to Brooklyn to Backdraft to Single White Female to Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle to The Anniversary Party, which she co-wrote, co-directed, co-produced and acted in. She was stood out in Quentin Tarantino\u2019s The Hateful Eight.<\/p>\n She devoured the scenery in the latest season of Fargo, and was by far the highlight of the show, her old-time transatlantic accent standing out from all the Minnesota and North Dakota accents around her. She\u2019s a star of the 1980s who still impresses us as much as ever.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, her Fast Times co-star Phoebe Cates (right), is a great example of a star who quit acting on their own terms.<\/p>\n Speaking of actors with nothing to prove, will someone tell Tom Cruise he can stop doing his own stunts? It wouldn\u2019t matter \u2014 he wouldn\u2019t listen. The ageless dynamo is still flying planes and jumping off cliffs on motorcycles in his 60s. <\/p>\n Breaking out in the \u201980s with films like All the Right Moves and Risky Business, then becoming a superstar with Top Gun, he matured into dramatic roles like Born on the Fourth of July and A Few Good Men, while also knocking out classics like Jerry Maguire and Eyes Wide Shut.<\/p>\n Amazingly, he had his biggest success to date with 2022\u2019s Top Gun: Maverick, in which he co-starred with Jennifer Connelly \u2014 another star of the 1980s who is still going strong. And he\u2019s still going strong with the Mission: Impossible franchise.<\/p>\n That\u2019s him with Kelly McGillis in 1986\u2019s Top Gun, above. <\/p>\n One of the standout actors of the 1970s, Pacino had a lighter film schedule in the 1980s \u2014 but popped off the screen as crime lord Tony Montana in Scarface, a gangster movie classic. Though his 1985 film Revolution was a critical and box office disappointment, he was very good in 1989\u2019s detective story Sea of Love.<\/p>\n His career came roaring back in the \u201990s, when he won a Best Actor Oscar for Scent of a Woman.<\/p>\n Now 84, he\u2019s still going strong: He was excellent in Michael Keaton\u2019s recent Knox Goes Away, and will soon star in Modi alongside his Donnie Brasco co-star Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n Pacino\u2019s old pal similarly rose to stardom in the 1970s, thanks in large part to an astonishing role in The Godfather Part II. He kicked off the \u201980s with Raging Bull (above), which won him the Best Actor Oscar. Other strong \u201980s roles included Midnight Run and The Untouchables.<\/p>\n His list of achievements in every decade is too long to list, but he\u2019s working as hard as ever. He just earned a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for his longtime collaborator Martin Scorsese\u2019s Killers of the Flower Moon, and his upcoming roles include playing two different roles in the gangster movie Alto Knights.<\/p>\n He\u2019ll also be the subject of De Niro Con at the Tribeca Festival this month. He\u2019s one of the biggest stars of the 1980s\u2026 and \u201970s, \u201990s, 2000s\u2026 you get the idea.<\/p>\n You might also like these 11 Behind the Scenes Stories of Scarface<\/a> \u2013 featuring two of the biggest stars of the 1980s \u2014 or this list of the 15 Funniest TV Shows We\u2019ve Ever Seen.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.moviemaker.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These stars of the 1980s are also stars of the 2020s who are still going strong after all these years. 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Credit: 20th Century Fox<\/span><\/p>\nMichelle Pfeiffer<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nKevin Costner<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nJamie Lee Curtis<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Paramount Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nArnold Schwarzenegger<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Orion Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nSylvester Stallone<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Warner Bros.<\/span><\/p>\nEddie Murphy<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Paramount Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nMeryl Streep<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Paramount Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nSteve Martin<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Columbia Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nJodie Foster<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Main image: Jodie Foster at 61st Academy Awards Governor\u2019s Ball on March 29, 1989. Photo by Alan Light, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.<\/span><\/p>\nHarrison Ford<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Paramount Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nJennifer Jason Leigh<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nTom Cruise<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nAl Pacino<\/h2>\n
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Credit: Al Pacino with Scarface director Brian De Palma. Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\nRobert De Niro<\/h2>\n
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Credit: United Artists<\/span><\/p>\nLiked This List of Stars of the 1980s Who Are Still Going Strong?<\/h2>\n
Credit: Universal Pictures<\/span><\/p>\n