IMDb: Most Popular People Born On May 26

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1.		Helena Bonham Carter Actress, Fight Club Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful. Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant banker...
2.		Astrid Bergès-Frisbey Actress, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Astrid Berges-Frisbey was born in Barcelona, Spain. Her father is Spanish, and her mother, who is American, is of English and French descent. She is fluent in French, Spanish, and Catalan. Astrid Berges-Frisbey made her acting debut in 2007 on french television. In 2008, she made her feature debut in the french film The Sea Wall and...
3.		John Wayne Actor, The Searchers John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scots-Irish, and Irish ancestry. Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, where they tried ranching in the Mojave Desert...
4.		Pam Grier Actress, Jackie Brown Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem, NC, one of four children of Gwendolyn Sylvia (Samuels), a nurse, and Clarence Ransom Grier Jr., an Air Force mechanic. Pam has been a major African-American star from the early 1970s. Her career started in 1971, when Roger Corman of New World Pictures launched her with The Big Doll House...
5.		Doug Hutchison Actor, The Green Mile Doug grew up in Detroit and Minneapolis, eventually moved to N.Y.C., and attended the Juilliard School for a brief stint. After studying two years with Sanford Meisner and working a plethora of odd-ball jobs (including dressed as a giant Citibank card handing out fliers in Times Square), the actor worked...
6.		Elisabeth Harnois Actress, All My Children Elisabeth was born in Detroit in 1979 and grew up in Los Angeles. An actress since the age of 3, she co-starred at the age of 5 in two movies (One Magic Christmas and Where Are the Children?). She did numerous TV commercials until being chosen by Disney Productions to star as Alice in the Adventures in Wonderland series...
7.		Margaret Colin Actress, Independence Day Margaret Colin was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised on Long Island. She graduated from Baldwin Senior High School in 1976. Margaret began acting in The Edge of Night (her character was a heiress and former terrorist, with seven murder attempts), and was employed next on As the World Turns, portraying character Margo Montgomery...
8.		Bobcat Goldthwait Director, God Bless America Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait, born May 26, 1962, is an American comedian. He is most widely known for his high pitch voice during his comedy acts. He was born in Syracuse, New York in 1962. He decided on a career as a comedian at an early age and was performing professionally while still in high school at the age of 15...
9.		Lenny Kravitz Soundtrack, Precious Four time Grammy Award Winner Leonard "Lenny" Albert Kravitz was born on 26 May 1964 in New York, USA, the only child of actress Roxie Roker and Hollywood Producer Sy Kravitz. The family moved to California when Lenny was 10. His father was of Ashkenazi Jewish descent and his mother was of African-American and Afro-Bahamian ancestry...
10.		Musetta Vander Actress, The Cell A native South African, Musetta Vander was raised without that most basic of modern conveniences--television! Radio programming, childhood books and weekend trips to the drive-in introduced her to the magical world of movies. It was not until the mid-'70s that South Africa finally got television, and the big black box in the family living room "miraculously" sprang to life...
11.		Julianna Rose Mauriello Actress, A Fix Julianna Rose Mauriello was born in Irvington, New York on a glorious spring morning, May 26, 1991. Always singing, she appeared as a child in Party Scene of The Nutcracker at SUNY Purchase, asleep under the Christmas tree. Her fascination with performing continued to grow as she first watched her sisters and brother participate in Pleasantville High School's musical theater productions...
12.		Kerry Ingram Actress, Les Misérables Kerry's first professional stage role was in Oliver! at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. She then went on to play the lead role of Matilda Wormwood in Matilda, a Musical in Stratford Upon Avon's Courtyard Theatre. The show was a success and It then transferred to West End and Kerry was the only original Matilda to transfer...
13.		Nicki Aycox Actress, Jeepers Creepers II Nicki Aycox has lived a full artistic life beginning at the very young age of nine. It was here, that Nicki began playing music and fell in love with the family piano. By the time she had reached her preteens she was introducing Beethoven to audiences all around Oklahoma. The child pianist played her...
14.		Peter Cushing Actor, Star Wars Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was attracted to acting...
15.		Monique Alexander Actress, Crank: High Voltage Lovely and slender blonde stunner Monique Alexander was born Monique Alexandra Rock in Vallejo, California. She began her career in the adult entertainment industry at age 18 as an exotic dancer in Sacramento. She then posed for a handful of mens magazines that include photo shoots for noted adult photographer Earl Miller...
16.		Laurence Fox Actor, Elizabeth: The Golden Age RADA-trained Laurence Fox is the third son of the actor James Fox and his wife Mary. He is a rising British actor who has appeared in several important films, plays, and television programs. He comes from a theatrical family and promises to have an illustrious career ahead of him.
17.		Lauryn Hill Soundtrack, Surf's Up Lauryn Hill, a native of South Orange, New Jersey, first came to attention with the multi-talented Fugees. Their first album, "Blunted On Reality", went virtually unnoticed by the public; their real breakthrough came with the sophomore album, "The Score", which featured "Killing Me Softly"...
18.		Stevie Nicks Soundtrack, School of Rock Stevie Nicks was born in Phoenix, Arizona. From an early age, she showed a love and aptitude for music, singing country and western duets with her grandfather when she was 4 years old. After moving to San Francisco, she began songwriting and performing at Menlo-Atherton High School, where she met her future long-time companion...
19.		James Arness Actor, The Thing from Another World American leading man famed as the star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke. Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness, had formerly been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Rolf and Ruth Duesler Aurness. His father was a traveling salesman of medical supplies and his mother later became a newspaper columnist...
20.		Genie Francis Actress, General Hospital Genie Francis was born on May 26, 1962 in Englewood, New Jersey to actors Ivor Francis and Rosemary Daley. She grew up in Long Island, New York and California. She has an older brother, Ivor Francis, and a younger brother, Kenneth Francis, and a half-sister, Shelley Francis. The attractive, blonde Ms...
21.		Matt Stone Writer, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
22.		Tarsem Singh Director, The Fall Indian director Tarsem Singh is the son of an aircraft engineer. He was educated at Bishop Cotton Boy's School in Shimla and relocated to the USA to study business at Harvard and, significantly, film studies at the Art Center College of Design in California. Upon graduating he embarked on a career as a director of music videos...
23.		Kevin Gage Actor, Heat
24.		Philip Michael Thomas Actor, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Philip Michael Thomas - the multi-talented performer best known as Detective Rico Tubbs in the iconic 1980s TV series Miami Vice - made his Broadway debut in 1971 in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play No Place to Be Somebody...and hasn't looked back since. In a remarkable career that spans nearly four decades...
25.		Ashley Bell Actress, The Last Exorcism Ashley Bell made her feature film debut in Lionsgate and Strike Entertainment's thriller, The Last Exorcism. Her performance garnered her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an MTV Movie Award nomination, while the film grossed nearly $70 million, worldwide. The New...
26.		Selenis Leyva Actress, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
27.		Scott Disick Self, Royal Flush
28.		Roy Dotrice Actor, Amadeus The ever-impressive, chameleon-like British character actor Roy Dotrice was born on the Island of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands off the coast of France, which is part of the United Kingdom. He was the first-born child of Louis and Neva Dotrice who prospered as bakers. The Germans occupied the island in 1940 and he and his mother and brother escaped to England...
29.		Levon Helm Actor, Coal Miner's Daughter Levon Helm was in the right place at the right time. He saw the birth of rock and roll and though he was too much of a gentleman to say it, his role in helping to keep that rebellious child healthy was more than just instrumental. On May 26, 1940, Mark Lavon Helm was the second of four children born to Nell and Diamond Helm in Elaine...
30.		Jay Silverheels Actor, The Lone Ranger Jay Silverheels was born on Canada's Six Nation's Reserve and was one of 10 children. He was a star lacrosse player and a boxer before he entered films as a stuntman in 1938. He worked in a number of films through the 1940s before gaining notice as the Osceola brother in a Humphrey Bogart film Key Largo...
31.		Lisa Niemi Actress, Steel Dawn
32.		Paul Wallace Actor, Gypsy
33.		Rachael Blake Actress, Sleeping Beauty
34.		Robert Morley Actor, The African Queen Bushy-browed, triple-chinned and plummy-voiced English actor and raconteur of wide girth and larger-than-life personality. The son of a career army officer, Morley was expected to join the diplomatic corps. As a 'compromise', he tried his hand as a beer salesman. However, bitten by the acting bug since first performing in a kindergarten play...
35.		Brandi Cyrus Actress, Been Here All Along
36.		Tamara Clatterbuck Actress, General Hospital
37.		Peggy Lee Soundtrack, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, sultry song stylist Peggy Lee was the product of a troubled, abusive childhood, who used singing as an escape. She found work on a radio station as a teenager in Fargo and quickly changed her name to Peggy Lee. An early move to Hollywood at age 17 proved disappointing...
38.		Fernando León de Aranoa Writer, Mondays in the Sun
39.		Benji Gregory Actor, Once Upon a Forest Blue-eyed Benji Gregory was born in Encino, California, USA on May 26, 1978. His parents are Manny and Patti, and he has an older sister, Becky, and a younger brother, Matthew. His father, uncle and sister were all actors; his grandmother is his agent. As a veteran of dozens of commercials, Benji literally grew up before the camera...
40.		Alexander Karim Actor, Zero Dark Thirty
41.		Jean Sullivan Actress, Squirm
42.		Dayle Haddon Actress, Cyborg Dayle was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. As a child she was enrolled in dancing classes to develop her physique. It worked well enough that she became a member of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens at 13 and Miss Montreal at 18. Her elfin good looks provided an easy entree to modeling and she quickly became a highly successful fashion model...
43.		John Hamburg Writer, I Love You, Man
44.		Hrach Titizian Actor, The Men Who Stare at Goats
45.		Ty Hodges Actor, Material Girls
46.		Barbara Stock Actress, Trade Winds
47.		Alison Stern Self, U.S. Open Sores
48.		T.J. Ramini Actor, Batman Begins TJ is a British actor, writer and producer who was born and raised in London. He has enjoyed a fruitful career in multiple platforms from television and film, theatre and several voice overs in numerous video games. TV fans will most likely recognize TJ from his recurring roles on 24, NCIS and Twisted and from his comedic turn on Desperate Housewives as Gabby's maniacal personal trainer...
49.		Adam Robitel Editor, The Taking of Deborah Logan Emmy-nominated producer, writer and director, Adam graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, a double major in film production and acting. Robitel recently co-wrote, produced, edited and directed, The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014) a found-footage horror thriller for Bad Hat Harry Productions and Millenium Entertainment...
50.		John Dall Actor, Rope John Dall was born John Dall Thompson (some sources state John Jenner Thompson) on May 26, 1918. He made his Broadway debut in Norman Krasna's comedy "Dear Ruth," directed by Moss Hart, in 1944. The show was a hit, running for over a year and a half and 680 performances. He next appeared on Broadway in Jean-Paul Sartre's "Red Gloves" in 1948...