Young, beautiful, and obscenely sexy. Men took an example from them, girls dreamed of a date with them. In the 90s they were the idols, style icons and objects of desire of the generation. Yes, we are talking about the hottest men in Hollywood of the last decade of the last century. They became famous thanks to their numerous roles in films and fell in love with the audience not only for their talent and charisma, but also for their appearance.
Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic, Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, and Jude Law in The Talented Mr. Ripley are some of the reasons we love ’90s movies so much. After watching these movies, I want to cry at least and go back to the past at most.
Now 20-year-old sex symbols are already over 40. We still love, appreciate and respect them, but as you know, time does not stand still. Johnny Depp is already 59, Brad Pitt is 58, and Leonardo DiCaprio is 48 today. On this occasion, we show how the sexiest actors have changed in two decades.
Johnny Depp
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Johnny Depp (Photo: Stefania M. D’Alessandro/Getty Images)
Age: 58
Starting with Johnny Depp’s “Nightmare on Elm Street” starring a sexy man in a crop top and “Crybaby” where everyone started to have tears in their eyes, the world has a new sex symbol. For ten years, she has surprised her fans with dramatically different images in movies and scandalous oddities in real life.
Brad Pitt
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Brad Pitt (Photo: Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty Images)
Age: 58
“Fight Club” and “Meet Joe Black” are Brad Pitt’s most brilliant works of the ’90s. It was they who gave him a place of success, fame and honor in the Hollywood arena. Despite his age, the actor is still one of the sexiest men in the movie industry.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Leonardo DiCaprio (photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
Age: 48
The girls of the 90s were divided into two types: the first fans in the role of Leo in The Basketball Diary, and the second fell in love with him after Titanic. Now DiCaprio is almost 50 years old, but this does not prevent the actor from dating the most beautiful girls.
Jude’s Law
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Jude Law (photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Age: 49
“The Talented Mr. Ripley” was released in 1999 and brought worldwide popularity to British actor Jude Law. After this movie, offers from directors and letters from fans who dreamed of meeting him rained down on him. Jude Law still hasn’t lost ground, a role in The New Pope is worth something.
Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise (photo: Leon Bennett/Getty Images)
Age: 60
Tom Cruise’s path in cinema began in the early 80s, but success and recognition came to him only in the 90s. “Mission Impossible”, “Far Away”, “Eyes Wide Closed” – movies after watching which it is impossible not to fall in love with Tom Cruise. Now the actor is almost 60 years old, and it seems that even 30-year-olds will be envious.
Hugh grant
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Hugh Grant (Photo: Getty Images)
Age: 62
In the last decade of the last century, the British actor managed to star in 17 films, many of which later became cult. These include “Notting Hill,” a duet with Julia Roberts, and “Sense and Sensibility,” based on Jane Austen’s novel.
Matt Leblanc
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Matt LeBlanc (Photo: Getty Images)
Age: 55
Everyone who watched the show seemed to be in love with Friends’ Joey, and the turntable drama “How you doin'” has firmly entered our lives. After the cult sitcom, the actor did not have high-profile roles, and the release of the special “Friends” series for many fans in 2021 was a reason to be upset that youth is not eternal.
Richard Gere
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Richard Gere (photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
Age: 73
For Richard Gere, the 1990s began with the release of Pretty Woman, which immediately won a cult following. We still revisit it from time to time, falling in love again with the main characters and imagining the same man as Richard Gere’s screen character. It’s hard to believe, but now one of the main sex symbols of the 90s is already 72 years old.
Matt Damon
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Matt Damon (photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)
Age: 52
In the late 90s, another actor joined the platoon of Hollywood handsome men – Matt Damon. In 1997, he played a man of extraordinary abilities in Good Will Hunting, and two years later, Dogma and The Talented Mr. Appeared on Ripley. It seems that everyone who watched a movie with his participation fell in love with a simple guy with a beautiful smile.
Antonio Banderas
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Antonio Banderas (photo: Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
Age: 62
We finish our list of ’90s sex symbols with the most “desperate” actor. This, of course, is about the hot Spaniard Antonio Banderas. His filmography began in 1982, but the real success came only in the 90s, when he played a charismatic killer musician in Robert Rodriguez’s action movie.
Source: People Talk

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