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1. The ICONIC Cher was 39 at the time:
4. Eddie Murphy was fresh off of SNL, a box-office king, and just 24 years old:
5. Madonna was 27 and at her peak ’80s Madonna:
6. George Clooney was 24 and starring on The Facts of Life:
8. Drew Barrymore was 10 years old and was celebrating the re-release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial:
9. Rob Lowe was 21 and part of the “Brat Pack”:
10. Dolly Parton was a well-cemented iconic legend and just 39! While Reba McEntire was nearly a decade into her career and 30 years old:
11. Janet Jackson was 19 years old:
12. Tom Hanks was 29 years old:
13. Steven Spielberg was 38 and had already directed some of the biggest and most influential films of all time. While Ke Huy Quan was 14 and a Goonie:
15. Diana Ross was 41 years old:
16. Catherine O’Hara was 31:
17. Arnold Schwarzenegger was 38 and an up-and-coming action star in the middle of his rivalry with Sylvester Stallone:
18. Whoppi was 29 years old and had just starred in her breakthrough role as Celie in The Color Purple:
19. Demi Moore was 22 and also part of the “Brat Pack”:
21. Vanessa Williams was 22 years old:
22. Woody Harrelson was 24 and just started appearing as Woody Boyd on Cheers:
23. Isabella Rossellini was 33, and Laura Dern was 18:
24. Denzel Washington was 30 and starring on the TV show St. Elsewhere:
25. Robert Redford was 49:
26. The legendary Stevie Nicks was 37:
27. Anjelica Huston was 34 and appeared in Prizzi’s Honor — the film would lead her to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress:
28. Jessica Lange was 36:
30. Meryl Streep was 36 and had already been nominated five times for an Oscar — winning two of them for Best Supporting and Best Actress:
31. Jim Carrey was a 23-year-old up-and-coming stand-up comedian and actor:
32. Cindy Crawford was a 19-year-old model:
33. Jamie Lee Curtis was 26:
34. John Travolta was 31:
36. Kyle MacLachlan was 26 and had just made his film debut the year before in Dune:
37. Alec Baldwin was 27 and was probably best known for his role as Joshua Rush on Knots Landing:
38. Jason Bateman was a 16-year-old kid actor:
41. Sheryl Lee Ralph was 28 and probably still best known for playing Deena Jones in the Broadway production of Dreamgirls:
42. Jeff Goldblum was 33:
43. Glenn Close was 38 and had already been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress:
44. Willem Defoe was 30 and starred in the critically acclaimed film To Live and Die in L.A.:
45. Michelle Pfeiffer was 27 and, at the time, was probably best known for playing Elvira Hancock in Scarface:
46. Julie Andrews turned 50 that year:
47. Bono was 25 and was busy touring with U2 for their The Unforgettable Fire Tour and performing in Wembley Stadium as part of Live Aid:
48. Anthony Hopkins was 47:
49. Regina King was 14 and made her acting debut as Brenda Jenkins on 227:
50. The legendary EGOT-winning Rita Moreno was 53:
52. Courteney Cox was 21 and starring in her first primetime TV show, Misfits of Science:
53. Harrison Ford was 43 and starred in the film Witness, which would earn him the only Academy Award nomination he has (I know wild!):
54. Stanley Tucci was 24 and made his film debut in Prizzi’s Honor, as well as starring in a Levi’s 501 commercial (as seen below):
55. And lastly, the queen herself, Jane Fonda, was 47, and building an empire with Jane Fonda’s Workout videos and books:
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