The world of movies has always lain on the foundation of stars.

Actors and actresses of all genres and styles defined the star system of the ’90s.

From there, it was only upward for who became one of the biggest comedic stars of the ’90s.

Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt on a motorcycle in Mission: Impossible II

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Carrey was the star of some ofthe ’90s biggest comedy blockbusters, fromThe Maskto the iconicDumb and Dumber.

Indeed, the actress went on to star in many more of the ’90s biggest sensationsparticularly rom-coms.

Willis collaborated with some of the biggest filmmakers of the ’90s.

Jim Carrey, as Truman Burbank, smiling against a blue sky in The Truman Show.

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Her role in the generation-definingReality Bitesfurther cemented her as a cultural icon.

Indeed, by 1995, she becamethe highest-paid actress in the world.

During this decade, there was nothing that Moore wouldn’t do.

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The world might be entering a Deminaissance that makes her as huge as she was thirty years ago.

Williams did it all in the ’90s.

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Captain Steven Hiller looking to his left in Independence Day

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Richard Gere and Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman looking at a necklace.

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Dr. Malcolm talking to Cole in The Sixth Sense

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Winona Ryder looking out a window in ‘Edward Scissorhands’

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Tom Cruise as Frank T.J. Mackey looking intently ahead in Magnolia

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Robin Williams on a bench talking to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting

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Jules eating a burger in Pulp Fiction

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