Known for: The Breakfast Club
Net worth: $18 million
This “Brat Packer” grew up in the midst of wild success. N.Y.C.-born Emilio Estevez went to the Philippines as a kid because his dad, Martin Sheen, was filming Apocalypse Now . His brother, Charlie Sheen, grew up on movie sets too. And Sean Penn and Rob Lowe were always around, like brothers. Estevez and Lowe were part of The Outsiders ensemble, with Emilio playing “Two-Bit” and Lowe as “Sodapop.” His career was preordained.
In The Breakfast Club , he played “the jock.” He was a law student and the waiter at St. Elmo’s Bar in the prominent coming-of-age St. Elmo’s Fire movie. It wasn’t the only movie he starred in with Demi Moore to whom he was once engaged. They met up again in Wisdom (1986) and Bobby (2006). Both of which he directed. Later he directed, wrote and starred in Men at Work (1990) with Charlie Sheen. In 2018 he released The Public . He starred in the film with Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater. Estevez is less willing to jump into TV or Netflix projects than some of his ilks. He doesn’t want the attention.
Jane Fonda
Known for: Antiwar activist, Feminist, Klute and On Golden Pond
Net worth: $200 million
Born into a Hollywood family dynasty, Jane Fonda was destined to cinematic greatness. Her father was Henry Fonda, and her mother was socialite Frances Ford Seymour. Jane’s marriages were equally influential. She married politician Tom Hayden and billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, in that order, but then divorced them both. Her first husband was French film director Roger Vadim. In the 1980s, Ms. Fonda added: “fitness expert” to her curriculum vitae. She released Jane Fonda’s Workout video in 1982. You may be asking yourself: Did it sell well? Yes. Resoundingly. It was the best-selling VHS video—ever. It sold something like seventeen million copies.
As a serious anti-war activist during the Vietnam War era, she traveled to Vietnam to support P.O.W.s. Photographed sitting on top of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, she came back with the nickname “Hanoi Jane.” Other unflattering epithets greeted her as well. "Hippie scum" comes to mind, for one. Her efforts landed her on the Hollywood blacklist. The 1972 image in Vietnam was as ubiquitous as the iconic "victory" image of the man she was protesting, President Richard Nixon. Besides being a 1970s counterculture renegade, a fitness guru, and a fixture in Hollywood, the Academy Award-winning actress is also a long-time feminist, active with causes such as V-Day.
Robert De Niro
Known for: The Godfather Part II , Raging BullI and “You Talkin’ to me?”
Net worth: $300 million
Cinematic “tough-guy” titan Robert De Niro is known for working closely with legendary director Martin Scorcese. His lucrative career revved for takeoff with Copolla’s The Godfather Part II where he played a younger version of Marlon Brando’s Vito Corleone. It secured him a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar. It was then he hooked up with Scorsese for Mean Streets , Good Fellas , Raging Bull , and, of course, Taxi Driver . The latter gave us De Niro’s mostly improvised Travis Bickle monologue with the classic, “You talkin’ to me?” line. He was nominated for Best Actor in Taxi Driver , but he won the Oscar in 1981 for Scorsese’s Raging Bull . He was also nominated for Scorsese’s Cape Fear . Suffice it to say the pair is a legendary team. A 2019 Netflix project, The Irishman , is their latest collaboration.
He’s also known for extreme conditioning for roles. He spent four months perfecting his Sicilian dialect for Vito Corleone’s dialogue, he learned to play the saxophone, for Cape Fear he paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look terrible, and he worked as a cabbie to prepare for Taxi Driver . De Niro is a long-time liberal. So, what does he think of Trump? Here goes: “He’s a punk, he’s a dog, he’s a pig, he’s a con, he’s a mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about, he doesn’t do his homework, doesn’t care, . . . doesn’t pay his taxes, he’s an idiot.”
Ronee Blakley
Known for: Nashville
Net worth: $1 million
Ronee Blakley rose to Hollywood’s attention playing a fictional country music superstar in the 1975 movie Nashville . The truth is, Blakley’s a Juilliard-trained musician who won the affections of the one and only Bob Dylan. He cast her in his movie Renaldo and Clara as “Mrs. Dylan,” and they recorded songs together. She sings background vocals in songs like Hurricane .
For the role of Barbara Jean, Blakley won Best Supporting Actress nominations across the board—an Academy, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Blakley starred in the legendary slasher horror flick A Nightmare on Elm Street. Most recently, we can find her in Scorsese’s Netflix film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese.
Lance Kerwin
Known for: James at 15
Net worth: $1 million
Popular 1970s child actor, Lance Kerwin grew up the youngest of five brothers in sunny Newport Beach, California. The ’70s heartthrob came in number 82 on VH1’s 2005, The Greatest: 100 Greatest Kid Stars.
James at 15 was once a wildly popular teen TV drama series. The made-for-TV pilot movie starred with well-liked child actress, Melissa Sue Anderson from Little House on the Prairie. The series was renamed James at 16, accordingly. He also starred in the TV movies The Loneliest Runner and Salem’s Lot. Currently sober, he’s a Christian pastor living on the Hawaii rehab ranch called U-Turn For Christ. He’s also a timeshare salesman for Wyndham Resorts on Kauai.