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1. Jackie Chan

Actor | Ngo si seoi

Hong Kong's cheeky, lovable and best-known film star, Jackie Chan endured many years of long, hard work and multiple injuries to establish international success after his start in Hong Kong's manic martial arts cinema industry.

Jackie was born Kong-sang Chan on April 7, 1954, on Hong Kong's famous ...

2. Javier Bardem

Actor | Skyfall

Javier Bardem belongs to a family of actors that have been working on films since the early days of Spanish cinema.

He was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, to actress Pilar Bardem (María del Pilar Bardem Muñoz) and businessman José Carlos Encinas Doussinague. His maternal grandparents were...

3. Travis Fimmel

Actor | Warcraft

Travis Fimmel was born near Echuca, Victoria, Australia, to Jennie, a recreation officer for the disabled, and Chris, a cattle farmer. He was raised on a 5500-acre farm located between Melbourne and Sydney. Until the age of seventeen, his life was spent at school and working on the family farm, ...

4. Billie Piper

Actress | Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Billie Piper studied at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. She caught the eyes of record producers who were interested in signing a young vocalist when she was the poster girl for the ad campaign of a British pop music magazine, "Smash Hits". She released her first single, "Because We ...

5. Vanessa Hudgens

Actress | High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born in Salinas, California. Her family moved to San Diego, California, while she was still a toddler. She has a younger sister, Stella Hudgens, who is also an actress. Her mother, Gina Hudgens (née Guangco), an office worker, is from the Philippines. Her father, Greg ...

6. Lance Pekus

Self | American Ninja Warrior

7. Guy Ritchie

Director | Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...

8. Pierce Brosnan

Actor | The World Is Not Enough

Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May (Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left...

9. Sammy Hagar

Soundtrack | Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar was born on October 13, 1947 in Monterey, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Rock & Roll Road Trip with Sammy Hagar (2016), Footloose (1984) and Over the Top (1987). He has been married to Kari Hagar since November 29, 1995. They have two children. He was ...

10. Sam Elliott

Actor | A Star Is Born

Tall, thin, wiry Sam Elliott is the classic picture of the American cowboy. Elliott began his acting career on the stage and his film debut was in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Although his future wife, Katharine Ross co-starred in the film, the two did not meet until they filmed The ...

11. Charlie Wilson

Soundtrack | Boss Level

Charlie Wilson was born on January 29, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Boss Level (2020), Ghosted (2023) and Boomerang (1992). He is married to Mahin.

12. David Beckham

Actor | Only Fools and Horses: Beckham in Peckham

David Beckham is one of Britain's most iconic athletes whose name is also an elite global advertising brand. He was captain of the English national team from 2000 to 2009, scored in three different FIFA World Cups, and played midfield for clubs in Manchester, England, Madrid, Spain, and Milan, ...

13. Victoria Beckham

Actress | Spice World

Victoria Beckham was born Victoria Caroline Adams on 17 April 1974 in Harlow, Essex, England, to Jacqueline Doreen (Cannon), an insurance clerk and hairdresser, and Anthony William Adams, an electronics engineer. She does not like being called Vicky. Instead, call her Posh, which stands for the ...

14. Johnny Flynn

Actor | Emma.

Joe Flynn, A.K.A. Johnny Flynn, is an English poet, musician, and actor. He is the son of Eric Flynn, who was an actor who specialized in musicals. As a child, Johnny sang in the Winchester College chapel choir. He knew that he wanted to be a musician after listening to the Bob Dylan record, "...

15. Mia Goth

Actress | Pearl

Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth, also known by her nickname Brush Cut, was born October 25, 1993 in Southwark, London, England to a Brazilian mother and a Canadian father.

Aged 14, she was discovered at the Underage Festival in London by fashion photographer Gemma Booth, who signed her to Storm Model ...

16. Milla Jovovich

Actress | Le Cinquième Élément

Milla Jovovich is a Ukrainian-American actress, supermodel, fashion designer, singer and public figure, who was on the cover of more than a hundred magazines, and starred in such films as The Fifth Element (1997), Ultraviolet (2006), and the Resident Evil (2002) franchise.

Milica Bogdanovna Jovovich...

17. Won Jin-ah

Actress | Geunyang Saranghaneun Sai

Won Jin-ah was born on March 29, 1991 in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea. She is an actress, known for Just Between Lovers (2017), Long Live the King (2019) and The Age of Shadows (2016).

18. Danny McBride

Actor | Pineapple Express

Daniel Richard McBride is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He starred in the HBO television series Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, and The Righteous Gemstones, also co-creating the former two with frequent collaborator Jody Hill while creating the latter himself. He has ...

19. Danny Glover

Actor | Lethal Weapon

Actor, producer and humanitarian Danny Glover has been a commanding presence on screen, stage and television for more than 35 years.

Glover was born in San Francisco, California, to Carrie (Hunley) and James Glover, postal workers who were also active in civil rights. Glover trained at the Black ...

20. Oprah Winfrey

Producer | The Oprah Winfrey Show

Oprah Gail Winfrey , often known simply as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ...

21. Jessie J

Soundtrack | Ice Age: Collision Course

Jessie J (Jessica Ellen Cornish) was born in Redbridge, London on March 27, 1988. She went to Colins Performing Arts School as a child and when she was 11 she was cast in Andrew Lloyd Weber's musica "Whistle Down the Wind". When she was 17 she joined a girl group and soon after was signed as a solo...

22. Alice Eve

Actress | Before We Go

Alice Sophia Eve was born in London, England. Her father is Trevor Eve and her mother is Sharon Maughan, both fellow actors. She is the eldest of three children. Eve has English, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young as her father tried to crack ...

23. David Lynch

Writer | Twin Peaks

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...

24. Chynna Phillips

Actress | Bridesmaids

Chynna Phillips was born on February 12, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Gilliam Chynna Phillips. She is an actress, known for Bridesmaids (2011), Striptease (1996) and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004). She has been married to William Baldwin since September 9, 1995. They have ...

25. Olivia Valli

Self | Broadway.com #LiveatFive

26. Sharon Osbourne

Actress | It's a Boy Girl Thing

Sharon Osbourne was born on October 9, 1952 in Brixton, London, England, UK. She is a producer and actress, known for It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006). She has been married to Ozzy Osbourne since July 4, 1982. They have ...

27. Grant Gustin

Actor | The Flash

Thomas Grant Gustin, better known as Grant Gustin, is an American actor and singer. He is known for his roles as Barry Allen / Flash on the CW series The Flash and as Sebastian Smythe on the Fox series Glee.

Gustin was born on January 14, 1990 in Norfolk, Virginia. He is the son of Dr. Tina Lynne (...

28. Antony Starr

Actor | Outrageous Fortune

Antony Starr is a New Zealand actor best known for his starring role as Homelander in Amazon Prime Video's original series The Boys, which is based on the comic book series of the same name. In New Zealand, he is best known for his dual role as twins Jethro and Van West in Outrageous Fortune and ...

29. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

30. Veronica St. Clair

Actress | Unbelievable

Veronica St. Clair is known for Unbelievable (2019), 13 Reasons Why (2017) and La Brea (2021).

31. St. Vincent

Soundtrack | The Nowhere Inn

St. Vincent was born on September 28, 1982 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for The Nowhere Inn (2020), XX (2017) and Greta (2018).

32. R.A. Dickey

Self | Knuckleball!

R.A. Dickey was born on October 29, 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

33. Will Poulter

Actor | We're the Millers

Will Poulter is an English actor, recognized for his performances as Lee Carter in Son of Rambow (2007), Eustace Scrubb in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010), and Kenny Rossmore in We're the Millers (2013). Will was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of Caroline (...

34. Emily Alyn Lind

Actress | Revenge

Emily Alyn Lind's body of work would be impressive for any Hollywood actress, but for a rising star of such a young age, it is quite remarkable. Emily will next star alongside Ewan McGregor and Rebecca Ferguson in the Warner Bros. film Doctor Sleep (2019). Based on the popular Stephen King novel, ...

35. Grace VanderWaal

Soundtrack | Stargirl

Grace VanderWaal was born on January 15, 2004 in Lenexa, Kansas, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Stargirl (2020), Megalopolis (2024) and Next Gen (2018).

36. Sterling Knight

Actor | 17 Again

Sterling Knight was born and raised in Houston, Texas, who discovered his passion for acting at an early age of 10. He appeared on various plays through out his school years and had his big film break as a supporting role on 17 Again (2009) as Alex O'Donnell. In his first leading television role, ...

37. Zoey Deutch

Actress | Not Okay

Zoey Deutch was born in Los Angeles, California. She is steadily and boldly building her body of work with dynamic roles as both actor and producer.

Most recently, Deutch can be seen in Not Okay (2022) for Searchlight/Hulu, as well as Something from Tiffany's (2022) for Amazon/Hello Sunshine. She ...

38. Zac Efron

Actor | High School Musical 3: Senior Year

Zachary David Alexander Efron was born October 18, 1987 in San Luis Obispo, California, to Starla Baskett, a secretary, and David Efron, an electrical engineer. He has a younger brother, Dylan. The surname "Efron", which is Hebrew and a Biblical place name, comes from Zac's Polish Jewish paternal ...

39. Zach Cherry

Actor | Severance

Zach Cherry was born on November 1, 1987 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Severance (2022), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) and Succession (2018).

40. Swizz Beatz

Soundtrack | Godfather of Harlem

Swizz Beatz was born Kasseem Dean in The Bronx area of New York City. He relocated to Atlanta as a teenager, where he started to DJ parties. When his relatives became involved with the Ruff Ryders label, he began to produce tracks at the tender age of 16. Forgoing the practice of using samples, he ...

41. Jason Mraz

Soundtrack | 50 First Dates

Jason Mraz was born on June 23, 1977 in Mechanicsville, Virginia, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for 50 First Dates (2004), Chasing Liberty (2004) and The Big Fix (2012). He was previously married to Christina Carano and Sheridan Edley.

42. Dev Patel

Actor | Slumdog Millionaire

Dev Patel was born in Harrow, London, to Anita, a caregiver, and Raj Patel, who works in IT. His parents, originally from Nairobi, Kenya, are both of Gujarati Indian descent. His first role was in the UK TV series Skins (2007). His breakout role was in the Oscar winning film Slumdog Millionaire (...

43. Bella Thorne

Actress | The Duff

Actress and singer Annabella Avery "Bella" Thorne, known for Shake It Up (2010), The DUFF (2015), Blended (2014), and Midnight Sun (2018), was born in Pembroke Pines, Florida, to Tamara (Beckett) and Delancey Reinaldo "Rey" Thorne. She has three siblings, Remy Thorne, Dani Thorne and Kaili Thorne, ...

44. Rupert Grint

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, England, the elder son of Joanne (Parsons) and Nigel Grint, who dealt in memorabilia. The first of 5 children, Rupert has one brother and three sisters.

Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, ...

45. Nicole Scherzinger

Soundtrack | Moana

Nicole Scherzinger was born on June 29, 1978 in Honolulu & raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest & performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She then furthered her studies, majoring in theater ...

46. The Chicks

Soundtrack | Runaway Bride

The Dixie Chicks are a popular trio of women country-and-western musicians who hail from Texas. Their public comments have increasingly made them controversial, even among their own fans.

The group began in 1989 singing on a Dallas street corner. Their music initially stayed largely within the ...

47. Lindsey Stirling

Soundtrack | Pete's Dragon

Lindsey Stirling is a modern-day "Dancing Violinist", who got her start on America's Got Talent (2006) in 2010. Since then, she has over 2 million subscribers on YouTube, and over 100,000 sales on her self-titled album. Stirling has been called "The Hip Hop Violinist", due to her twist on songs ...

48. Nell Tiger Free

Actress | Game of Thrones

Nell Tiger Free was born in October 1999. She lives in Britain with her parents and older sister. She is a singer/actress. She has been in Mr Stink (2012) and has recently filmed Endeavour, an ITV television series.

49. Jeremy Pope

Actor | The Inspection

Jeremy Pope was born on July 9, 1992 in Orlando, Florida, USA. He is an actor, known for The Inspection (2022), Hollywood (2020) and Pose (2018).

50. Pope Francis

Self | Francesco

Pope Francis was born on December 17, 1936 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He is a writer, known for Francesco (2020), In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis (2022) and The Private Lives of Jordi Molla' & Domingo Zapata.

51. Billy Zane

Actor | Titanic

William George Zane, better known as Billy Zane, was born on February 24, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, to Thalia (Colovos) and William Zane, both of Greek ancestry. His parents were amateur actors and managed a medical technical school. Billy has an older sister, actress and singer Lisa Zane. Billy ...

52. Bill Nighy

Actor | Love Actually

Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. He was born William Francis Nighy on December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, to Catherine Josephine (Whittaker), a psychiatric nurse from Glasgow, and Alfred Martin Nighy, who was English-born and managed a garage in Croydon.

At school,...

53. Daniel Tosh

Actor | The Love Guru

Daniel Tosh was born on May 29, 1975 in Germany. He is a producer and writer, known for The Love Guru (2008), Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts (2011) and Tosh.0 (2009). He has been married to Carly Hallam since April 15, 2016.

54. Mike Myers

Actor | Austin Powers in Goldmember

Michael John Myers was born in 1963 in Scarborough, Ontario, to Alice E. (Hind), an officer supervisor, and Eric Myers, an insurance agent. His parents were both English, and had served in the Royal Air Force and British Army, respectively.

Myers' television career really started in 1988, when he ...

55. John Travolta

Actor | Pulp Fiction

John Joseph Travolta was born in Englewood, New Jersey, one of six children of Helen Travolta (née Helen Cecilia Burke) and Salvatore/Samuel J. Travolta. His father was of Italian descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. His father owned a tire repair shop called Travolta Tires in Hillsdale, ...

56. Patrick Stewart

Actor | Logan

Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...

57. Mackenzie Davis

Actress | Terminator: Dark Fate

Mackenzie Davis was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress and producer, known for Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), Black Mirror (2011) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017).

58. Apple Martin

Self | VH1: All Access

Apple Martin was born on May 14, 2004 in London, England, UK.

59. Chris Martin

Soundtrack | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

One of the UK's most distinctive and popular singers and songwriters, Chris Martin was educated at the prestigious Sherborne School in Dorset. As a child he was musically inspired by artists such as a-ha, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Smiths, U2 and Peter Gabriel, who achieved commercial success in the ...

60. Chris Parnell

Actor | Rick and Morty

Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Chris Parnell enrolled at Germantown High School where he took drama and auditioned for every play. In 1985, when he was a senior at Germantown, he was voted "Most Talented" by his classmates. Right after graduating high school, Chris attended North Carolina ...

61. George Stephanopoulos

Actor | House of Cards

George Stephanopoulos was born on February 10, 1961 in Fall River, Massachusetts, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for House of Cards (2013), Spin City (1996) and This Week (1996). He has been married to Alexandra Wentworth since November 20, 2001. They have two children.

62. Jodie Foster

Actress | The Silence of the Lambs

Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...

63. Montana Jordan

Actor | Young Sheldon

Montana Jordan is an American actor. He made his acting debut with his role as Jaden in the film The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018), which starred Josh Brolin and Danny McBride.

Though Montana had no previous acting experience, his funny, outgoing personality prompted many in his small, ...

64. Tim Lincecum

Actor | The Official 2010 World Series Film

Tim Lincecum was born on June 15, 1984 in Bellevue, Washington, USA. He is an actor, known for The Official 2010 World Series Film (2010), Sunday Night Baseball (1990) and 2010 World Series (2010). He was previously married to Cristin Coleman.

65. Gary Oldman

Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...

66. Gary Thorne

Self | 1994 Stanley Cup Finals

Gary Thorne was born on June 9, 1948 in Bangor, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for 1994 Stanley Cup Finals (1994), NHL 14 (2013) and 1999 Stanley Cup Finals (1999).

67. Andy Richter

Actor | Madagascar

Andy Richter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the second of four children of Glenda (Palmer), a kitchen cabinet designer, and Laurence R. Richter, who taught Russian at Indiana University. He was raised in Yorkville, Illinois. His parents divorced when he was four. Richter attended the ...

68. Chris Rock

Actor | Top Five

Christopher Julius Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie (Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped, and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own father was a preacher.

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69. Billy Magnussen

Actor | Game Night

William Gregory Magnussen is an American actor. He has been featured in the films Into the Woods (2014), Birth of the Dragon (2016), Game Night (2018), and Aladdin (2019), and has had supporting television roles in Get Shorty (2017) and Maniac (2018). In 2021, Magnussen starred in the sci-fi series...

70. Cissy Houston

Soundtrack | A Time to Kill

Cissy Houston was born on September 30, 1933 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for A Time to Kill (1996), The Preacher's Wife (1996) and God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018). She was previously married to John Russell Houston Jr. and Frederick Garland.

71. Shirma Rouse

Self | Anouk Live at Gelredome

72. Tyler Perry

Writer | Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Perry was born and raised in New Orleans, to Willie Maxine (Campbell) and Emmitt Perry, Sr. His mother was a church-goer and took Perry along with her once a week. His father was a carpenter and they had a very strained and abusive relationship, which led Perry to suffer from depression as a ...

73. Faith Hill

Actress | The Stepford Wives

Audrey Faith McGraw known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer, actress and record producer. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Hill's first two albums, Take Me as I Am (1993) and It Matters to Me (...

74. Al Sharpton

Actor | Mr. Deeds

Al Sharpton was born on October 3, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Mr. Deeds (2002), Malcolm X (1992) and Get on Up (2014). He was previously married to Kathy Jordan and Marsha Tinsley.

75. Arianna Huffington

Actress | John Q

Arianna Huffington was born on July 15, 1950 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and writer, known for John Q (2002), The Siege (1998) and Edtv (1999). She was previously married to Michael Huffington.

76. Brett Cooper

Actress | Heathers

Brett Cooper is an American Conservative Political Commentator and Actress. Brett hosts her own show called The Comments Section with Brett Cooper (2022) produced by The Daily Wire. Brett has also appeared in various acting roles in her career. Brett Cooper was born in Bellingham, Washington. Brett...

77. Charlize Theron

Producer | Monster

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...

78. Jared Leto

Actor | Dallas Buyers Club

Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...

79. James Earl Jones

Actor | Rogue One

Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...