Editing 1979 in film (section)

==Births==
* January 1 – [[Vidya Balan]], Indian actress
* January 6 – [[Cristela Alonzo]], American comedian, actress, writer and producer
* January 8
**[[Ashraf Barhom]], Israeli-Arab actor
**[[Sarah Polley]], Canadian actress
* January 10 - [[Maximilian Brückner]], German actor
* January 13 - [[Katy Brand]], English actress, comedian and writer
* January 16 – [[Aaliyah]], American actress and singer (d. [[2001 in film|2001]])
* January 24 – [[Tatyana Ali]], American actress and singer
* January 26 – [[Sara Rue]], American actress
* January 28 - [[Angelique Cabral]], American actress
* January 29 – [[Andrew Keegan]], American actor
* February 1 – [[Rachelle Lefevre]], Canadian actress
* February 2 – [[Shamita Shetty]], Indian actress
* February 3 – [[Costa Ronin]], Australian actor and cinematographer
* February 7 - [[Cerina Vincent]], American actress
* February 8 - [[Josh Keaton]], American actor and musician
* February 9 – [[Zhang Ziyi]], Chinese actress and dancer
* February 11 – [[Brandy Norwood]], American actress and singer
* February 12 - [[Angus Sampson]], Australian actor and filmmaker
* February 13 – [[Mena Suvari]], American actress
* February 19 - [[Andrew Buchan]], English actor and writer
* February 21
**[[Tituss Burgess]], American actor and singer
**[[Maryke Hendrikse]], Bahamian-born Canadian voice actress
**[[Jennifer Love Hewitt]], American actress and singer
**[[Jordan Peele]], American actor, comedian, writer, director and producer
* March 3 – [[Patrick Renna]], American actor
* March 5 – [[Riki Lindhome]], American actress, comedian and musician
* March 9 – [[Oscar Isaac]], Guatemalan-American actor
* March 10
**[[Edi Gathegi]], Kenyan-American actor
**[[Danny Pudi]], American actor
* March 12 - [[Rhys Coiro]], American actor
* March 14 - [[Chris Klein (actor)|Chris Klein]], American actor
* March 17 – [[Stephen Kramer Glickman]], Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian
* March 18 – [[Adam Levine]], American singer, songwriter, musician and actor
* March 19 - [[Abby Brammell]], American actress
* March 20
**[[Freema Agyeman]], British actress
**[[Bianca Lawson]], American actress
* March 24 – [[Lake Bell]], American actress, director and screenwriter
* March 25 – [[Lee Pace]], American actor
* March 28 – [[Shakib Khan]], Bangladeshi film actor, producer, singer, film organiser and media personalities<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daily-sun.com/post/298191/Happy-birthday-Shakib-Khan|title=Happy birthday, Shakib Khan|date=27 March 2018|website=Daily Sun|language=en|access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref>
* March 29 – [[De'Angelo Wilson]], American actor and rapper (d. [[2008 in film|2008]])
* March 30
**[[Jose Pablo Cantillo]], American actor
**[[Pete Holmes]], American comedian, actor, writer, producer and podcaster
* April 4
** [[Bunko Kanazawa]], Japanese actress
** [[Heath Ledger]], Australian actor (d. [[2008 in film|2008]])
** [[Natasha Lyonne]], American actress
* April 5 – [[Josh Boone (director)|Josh Boone]], American filmmaker
* April 7 - [[Nico Santos (actor)|Nico Santos]], Filipino-American actor
* April 9 - [[Edward Bennett (actor)|Edward Bennett]], English actor
* April 11 – [[Josh Server]], American actor
* April 12
**[[Claire Danes]], American actress
**[[Jennifer Morrison]], American actress, director and producer
**[[Paul Nicholls (actor)|Paul Nicholls]], English actor
* April 15
**[[Karen David]], Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
**[[Luke Evans]], Welsh actor and singer
* April 17
**[[Mylene Dinh-Robic]], Canadian actress
**[[Ken Duken]], German actor and director
**[[Tate Ellington]], American actor
* April 19 – [[Kate Hudson]], American actress
* April 21 – [[James McAvoy]], Scottish actor<ref>{{cite web |title=James McAvoy · BIFA · British Independent Film Awards |url=https://www.bifa.film/people/james-mcavoy/ |website=BIFA · British Independent Film Awards |access-date=8 September 2022 |date=12 October 2018}}</ref>
* April 23 – [[Jaime King]], American actress
* April 26 – [[Klára Issová]], Czech actress
* April 27 - [[Tom Davis (actor)|Tom Davis]], English actor and comedian
* May 5 – [[Vincent Kartheiser]], American actor
* May 6 - [[Kerry Ellis]], English actress and singer
* May 7 – [[Yōsuke Kubozuka]], Japanese actor
* May 9 – [[Rosario Dawson]], American actress
* May 11 - [[Mary Elizabeth Ellis]], American actress
* May 12 – [[Aaron Yoo]], Korean-American actor
* May 19 – [[Bérénice Marlohe]], French actress
* May 20 - [[Jana Pallaske]], German actress and singer
* May 22 – [[Maggie Q]], American actress
* May 23 – [[Josh Cooley]], American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor
* May 24 - [[Panos Mouzourakis]], Greek singer-songwriter and actor
* May 25 - [[Corbin Allred]], American actor
* May 28
**[[Jesse Bradford]], American actor
**[[Monica Keena]], American actress
* May 30
**[[Jenny Mollen]], American actress and writer
**[[Tadhg Murphy (actor)|Tadhg Murphy]], Irish actor
* June 2 - [[Morena Baccarin]], Brazilian actress
* June 7 – [[Anna Torv]], Australian actress
* June 12 - [[Wil Horneff]], American former child actor
* June 17 – [[Young Maylay]], American rapper, producer and voice actor
* June 20 - [[Sarah Stiles]], American singer and actress
* June 21 – [[Chris Pratt]], American actor
* June 24 – [[Mindy Kaling]], American writer and actress
* June 25 - [[Busy Philipps]], American actress
* June 27
**[[Martin Bourboulon]], French film director and screenwriter<ref name="bio">{{Cite web |title=Martin Bourboulon |url=https://www.allocine.fr/personne/fichepersonne_gen_cpersonne=682356.html |access-date=17 December 2023 |website=[[Allociné]] |language=fr}}</ref>
**[[Benjamin Speed]], Australian film composer
* June 30 - [[Rick Gonzalez]], American actor and musician
* July 3 – [[Ludivine Sagnier]], French actress
* July 5 – [[Eva Maria Daniels]], Icelandic film producer (d. [[2023 in film|2023]])
* July 6
**[[Kevin Hart]], American actor
**[[Abdul Salis]], British actor
* July 7 - [[Benjamin Mitchell (actor)|Benjamin Mitchell]], New Zealand actor
* July 10 – [[Gong Yoo]], South Korean actor
* July 12 – [[Omid Abtahi]], Iranian-American actor
* July 14 – [[Scott Porter]], American actor
* July 16
**[[Jayma Mays]], American actress
**[[Gerard Monaco]], British actor
* July 17 – [[Mike Vogel]], American actor and former model
* July 19 – [[David Sakurai]], Danish-Japanese actor, director and scriptwriter
* July 25 - [[Juan Pablo Di Pace]], Argentine actor, director, singer and musician
* July 26 - [[Mageina Tovah]], American actress
* July 30 - [[Lucas Babin]], American actor
* July 31
**[[Dana Gourrier]], American actress
**[[B. J. Novak]], American writer and actor
* August 1 – [[Jason Momoa]], American actor and filmmaker
* August 3 – [[Evangeline Lilly]], Canadian actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Evangeline Lilly |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bd0fbf6ac |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107145106/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bd0fbf6ac |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 7, 2019 |website=BFI |access-date=8 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* August 6 – [[Dayahang Rai]], Nepalese actor
* August 10 – [[JoAnna Garcia Swisher]], American actress
* August 12 - [[Keith Powell]], American actor, writer and director
* August 13 - [[Kasia Smutniak]], Polish-Italian actress and model
* August 14 - [[Jamie Parker]], English actor and singer
* August 21 - [[Kevin Janssens (actor)|Kevin Janssens]], Belgian actor
* August 22 – [[Brandon Adams (actor)|Brandon Adams]], American actor
* August 23 – [[Claire Grant]], American actress, model and producer
* August 24 – [[Fabienne Carat]], French actress and singer
* August 25 – [[Şebnem Bozoklu]], Turkish actress 
* August 26 – [[Erik Valdez]], American actor
* August 27 – [[Aaron Paul]], American actor
* August 29 – [[Dan Harris (screenwriter)|Dan Harris]], American screenwriter and director
* August 31 – [[Yuvan Shankar Raja]], Indian film composer
* September 1 - [[Camille Chen]], American actress
* September 4 - [[Max Greenfield]], American actor
* September 8 – [[Pink (singer)|Pink]], American singer and actress
* September 11
**[[Ariana Richards]], American actress
**[[Cameron Richardson]], American actress and producer
**[[Hu Ting-ting]], English-born Taiwanese actress
* September 17
**[[Neill Blomkamp]], South African and Canadian director and screenwriter
**[[Kat Coiro]], American director
**[[Billy Miller (actor)|Billy Miller]], American actor (d. 2023)
* September 18 – [[Alison Lohman]], American former actress
* September 19 – [[Noémie Lenoir]], French model and actress
* September 20 – [[Chris Tardio]], American actor
* September 22 – [[MyAnna Buring]], Swedish-born British actress
* September 23 – [[Lisa Loven Kongsli]], Norwegian actress
* September 25 - [[Stephen Rider]], American actor
* September 26 - [[Mark Famiglietti]], American actor, screenwriter and producer
* September 27 – [[Jad Saxton]], American voice actress
** [[Alicyn Packard]], American actress, singer, and writer
* September 30 – [[Jonathan Kasdan]], American screenwriter, director, producer and actor
* October 1 – [[Marielle Heller]], American film director
* October 4
**[[Caitríona Balfe]], Irish actress
**[[Rachael Leigh Cook]], American actress
* October 6 – [[Sareh Bayat]], Iranian actress
* October 7
**[[Tang Wei]], Chinese actress
**[[Aaron Ashmore]] and [[Shawn Ashmore]], Canadian actors
* October 8 – [[Kristanna Loken]], American actress
* October 9
**[[Alex Greenwald]], American musician and actor
**[[Chris O'Dowd]], Irish actor and comedian 
**[[Brandon Routh]], American actor
* October 20 – [[John Krasinski]], American actor and filmmaker
* October 22 - [[Tony Denman]], American actor
* October 28 – [[Natina Reed]], American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress (d. 2012)
* October 29 – [[Maya Karin]], Malaysian actress
* October 30 - [[James A. Woods]], Canadian actor
* October 31 – [[Erica Cerra]], Canadian actress
* November 5 - [[Leonardo Nam]], Australian actor
* November 8 – [[Dania Ramirez]], Dominican actress
* November 9
**[[Cory Hardrict]], American actor
**[[Matt McCarthy (comedian)|Matt McCarthy]], American comedian, actor and writer
* November 13 – [[Riccardo Scamarcio]], Italian actor and producer
* November 14 – [[Olga Kurylenko]], Ukrainian-French actress
* November 19 – [[Barry Jenkins]], American film director
* November 20 - [[Jacob Pitts]], American actor
* November 22
**[[Andrew Knott]], British actor
**[[Leeanna Walsman]], Australian actress
* November 23 – [[Jonathan Sadowski]], American actor
* November 25
**[[Jerry Ferrara]], American actor
**[[Joel Kinnaman]], Swedish-American actor
* November 28 – [[Daniel Henney]], American actor and model
* November 29 - [[Timo Vuorensola]], Finnish director, singer and actor
* December 3 – [[Tiffany Haddish]], American comedian and actress
* December 5 – [[Nick Stahl]], American actor
* December 7
** [[Eric Bauza]], Canadian-born American voice actor, stand-up comedian and animation artist
** [[Sara Bareilles]], American actress and singer
* December 11 – [[Rider Strong]], American actor
* December 15 – [[Adam Brody]], American actor, writer, musician and producer
* December 17 - [[Lil Rel Howery]], American actor and comedian
* December 20 - [[Ramón Rodríguez (actor)|Ramón Rodríguez]], Puerto Rican actor
* December 21 - [[Daniel Brocklebank]], British actor
* December 23 – [[Summer Altice]], American model and actress
* December 26 – [[Chris Daughtry]], American actor and singer
* December 28
**[[André Holland]], American actor
**[[Noomi Rapace]], Swedish actress
* December 29 – [[Diego Luna]], Mexican actor, director and producer