Curated playlist

1990 births

Kristen StewartKristen Stewart is an American actress and filmmaker who says she was never the child who dreamed of fame. She was not, in her words, the "I want to be famous, I want to be an actor" kid. Still, one small habit of celebrity came to her…
Josh O'ConnorJosh O'Connor is an English actor, born on the 20th of May 1990, who once delivered more than 150 lambs while preparing for a single film role. He was not chasing a stunt. He was learning how a Yorkshire sheep farmer works, moves and…
Jennifer LawrenceJennifer Lawrence was 14 years old and on a family vacation in New York City when a talent scout spotted her on the street. The scout arranged for her to audition for talent agents, and that detour set the course of her life. Today she is…
Dmitry BivolDmitry Bivol is the only boxer to defeat two reigning undisputed world champions in boxing's so-called four-belt era. The Russian light-heavyweight, born on the 18th of December 1990, did it against Canelo Álvarez and then Artur Beterbiev.…
Emma WatsonEmma Watson was nine years old when she attended the first of eight auditions for the role of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. Her only acting experience came from school plays, and she had no experience in front of a film…
Margot RobbieMargot Robbie, born in Queensland on the 2nd of July 1990, owes the start of her career to a switchboard mistake. As a teenager she phoned the production company FremantleMedia every day. Then, as she told the story on The Graham Norton…
Klay ThompsonKlay Thompson scored 37 points in one quarter against the Kings in 2015, an NBA record.
The WeekndThe Weeknd is the stage name of Abel Tesfaye, a Canadian singer-songwriter born on the 16th of February 1990. The spelling is deliberate. Tesfaye chose the name because he had left home on a weekend, then dropped the last 'e' to avoid…
Rita OraRita Ora broke a 30-year-old record in 2018, when her single "Let You Love Me" became her thirteenth top-ten song in the UK. No British female solo artist had reached that number before her. Shirley Bassey and Petula Clark had jointly held…
Iggy AzaleaIggy Azalea, born Amethyst Amelia Kelly on the 7th of June 1990, told her parents in 2006 that she was going to the United States on a holiday with a friend. She was shortly before her sixteenth birthday. The holiday never ended. She…
MGKMGK, born Colson Baker and known for years as Machine Gun Kelly, took his original stage name from a gangster. The nickname belonged to George Kelly Barnes, a criminal of the Prohibition era. The man who borrowed it became a rapper,…