Celebrity Birthdays
Goldie Hawn (64)
Goldie Hawn began training as a dancer from age three and began her career in the chorus of a production of "The Nutcracker" by age 10. She abandoned her drama studies at American University at age 18 and headed for NYC to pursue a career as a professiona
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Cynthia Rhodes (53)
This Nashville native began her professional career as a singer and dancer at Opryland, U.S.A. in the early 1970s. An attractive blonde, Rhodes began to branch out into TV while still at Opryland. She segued to features as an ensemble dancer in the overbl
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Jena Malone (25)
This rising young child actress made a big splash on the big screen in 1997 playing Jodie Foster's character as a young girl in "Contact". Jena Malone had already garnered raves and a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her debut performance in Anjel
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Cherry Jones (53)
Tennesee-born actress Cherry Jones spent 15 years in professional theater before her performance as Catherine Sloper in the Broadway revival of "The Heiress" (1995) brought her long overdue and very much deserved recognition. Vincent Canby in his rave NEW
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Harold Ramis (65)
This versatile comic talent wrote for Chicago's renowned Second City troupe and the National Lampoon radio show before co-scripting the antic fraternity house romp, "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978). Harold Ramis worked as a mental ward orderly and
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Christine Vachon (48)
A prime mover in the increasingly established "new wave" of gay independent filmmaking, Vachon gained notice by producing two highly stylized and ambitious features: Todd Haynes' "Poison" (1990) and Tom Kalin's "Swoon" (1992). She has built a reputation f
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Marlo Thomas (72)
A perky brunette actress largely identified with her 1960s TV reincarnation of June Allyson, Gloria De Haven, Debbie Reynolds and Sandra Dee on the ABC sitcom "That Girl", Marlo Thomas acted intermittently on stage and TV thereafter and spent a fair amoun
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Juliet Mills (68)
With her blonde British sweetness, Juliet Mills has had a less widespread profile in the US than her Oscar-winning father Sir John Mills or her more famous child actress sister, Hayley. But found some fame as Phoebe Figalilly, the Mary Poppins-esque caret
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Bjork (44)
A quirky chanteuse and songwriter who segued successfully from punk rock bands to a post-modern electronica solo career, dark-haired pixiesh Bjork emerged as Iceland's best known export beginning with the sweeping underground success of her band Sugarcube
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Michael Chapman (74)
Former camera operator and assistant to cinematographer Gordon Willis who has worked several times with Philip Kaufman and whose crisp, powerful images proved integral to several Martin Scorsese pictures, most notably the gritty black-and-white of "Raging
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Laurence Luckinbill (75)
A character lead and supporting player who has had more endurance on the stage than in TV or films, Laurence Luckinbill first came to attention playing Hank, the "bisexual with a preference" member of "The Boys in the Band". He reprised the role in Mart C
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Alexander Siddig (44)
An actor of English-Pakistani parentage who first made an appearance on the big screen in Stephen Frears' "Sammie and Rosie Get Laid" (1987). He subsequently recreated Alec Guinness' role as Emir Feisal from the 1962 film "Lawrence of Arabia" for the "Gre
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Jeannot Szwarc (72)
The French-born Jeannot Szwarc honed his craft on TV, helming episodes of numerous series before segueing to the big screen. His features have often been overshadowed by similarly-themed movies, but his "Somewhere in Time" (1980) has developed a cult foll
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Marcel Ophuls (82)
Like his father, director Max Ophuls ("Letter From an Unknown Woman", "Lola Montes"), Marcel Ophuls explores the nature of oppression and prejudice in his work. Rather than making fiction films, Marcel has concentrated on using the medium to document hist
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Leos Carax (50)
Gifted enfant terrible of the contemporary French cinema whose stylistic and thematic derivations from the original New Wave (particularly the work of Jean-Luc Godard) have made him the self-appointed heir to that tradition.
After writing film criticis
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Paul Bogart (90)
An award-winning director whose roots date to the days of live TV, Paul Bogart went on to direct the bulk of the episodes of the CBS sitcom "All in the Family" as well as numerous TV dramas and several feature films. After becoming established on the smal
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Marcy Carsey (65)
The female half of the TV wonder-sitcom-producing company, Carsey-Werner, Marcy Carsey began in story editing and eventually made it to the senior executive level at ABC before teaming up with Tom Werner in the early 1980s. Although most of the duo's seri
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Bo Derek (53)
Tall, glamorous protege and fourth wife of Svengali-like writer-director John Derek who gained fame as the perfect fantasy woman with the trend-setting corn-row hairstyle in the Blake Edwards comedy "10" (1979). Daughter of a hairstylist for a number of H
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Sean Young (50)
This dark-haired, smokey-voiced former model has ornamented a number of feature films since the early 1980s, notably "Blade Runner" (1982), as Harrison Ford's android lover, and "No Way Out" (1987), as a beautiful seductress caught up in Washington politi
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Callie Thorne (40)
An experienced stage performer, Callie Thorne has worked frequently with the NYC acting troupe Naked Angels and at the now-defunct Malaparte., a theater company where actor Ethan Hawke directed her in Jonathan Marc Sherman's play "Veins and Thumbtacks". I
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