IMDb: Most Popular People Born On May 22

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1.		Ginnifer Goodwin Actress, Walk the Line Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin was born on 22nd May 1978, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Linda (Kantor), who worked at FedEx and Apple, and Tim Goodwin, who had a recording studio. Bright and talented, Ginnifer carried her love for theater and acting through her high school years. She graduated from Lausanne...
2.		Maggie Q Actress, Live Free or Die Hard Maggie Denise Quigley was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a father of Polish and Irish descent (originally based in New York) and a Vietnamese mother. Her parents met during the Vietnam War. Maggie has two older half-siblings from her mother's previous marriage, and two older sisters. The family moved to Hawaii and settled in Mililani...
3.		Michael Kelly Actor, Changeling Michael was born in Philadelphia but raised in Lawrenceville, Georgia by parents Michael and Maureen Kelly. He has two sisters, Shannon and Casey, and one brother, Andrew. He went to college at Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina with the original intention to study law, but changed his mind after taking an acting elective...
4.		Laurence Olivier Actor, Rebecca Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High Anglican priest. His surname came from a great-great-grandfather who was of French Huguenot origin...
5.		Alison Eastwood Actress, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
6.		Sean Gunn Actor, Guardians of the Galaxy
7.		Molly Ephraim Actress, Paranormal Activity 2
8.		Brooke Smith Actress, The Silence of the Lambs Brooke Smith grew up in New York in the shadow of show business owing to the fact that she is the daughter of powerful publicist Lois Smith. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her "first big thing" was playing Catherine Martin, the abducted young girl in The Silence of the Lambs. She...
9.		Naomi Campbell Self, Ali G Indahouse
10.		Ann Cusack Actress, Nightcrawler
11.		Tao Okamoto Actress, The Wolverine
12.		Karoline Herfurth Actress, Suck Me Shakespeer
13.		Noa Tishby Actress, The Island In her homeland, Israel, Noa Tishby's name is synonymous with stardom. An actress and a producer, Tishby got her first big break at 16 playing the lead in the hit original musical "King David", for which she won national recognition. She got a full scholarship with The National Museum of Arts and went on to play the lead in the nation's highest-rated prime-time drama...
14.		A.J. Langer Actress, The People Under the Stairs A.J. Langer was born in Columbus, Ohio. At age 5, her family moved to the San Fernando Valley, just outside of Los Angeles. She first began using her initials to join an all-boys baseball team, and the nickname stuck. She was introduced to Ernie Lively, who became her acting coach. After regular and recurring roles on several television shows...
15.		J.D. Williams Actor, The Second Line
16.		Richard Benjamin Actor, Westworld Although his actress wife Paula Prentiss became a star by the early 1960s, it took Richard Benjamin almost fifteen years to establish his screen persona, but the wait was rewarding. After extensive work in theatre as actor and director, and his participation in the cult TV series He & She, in which he co-starred with Prentiss...
17.		Nikolaj Lie Kaas Actor, Angels & Demons "There are those who miss being in-depth with the world," explains Nikolaj Lie Kaas in an interview with Politiken on April 29th 2001, "but for me superficiality means a lot - that's where I get my drive." This is an interesting comment from an actor, whose acting always strikes a deeply personal cord...
18.		Paul Winfield Actor, The Terminator Signifying intelligence, eloquence, versatility and quiet intensity, one of the more important, critically-acclaimed black actors to gain a Hollywood foothold in the 1970s was Paul Winfield. Born in 1939 in Portland, Oregon, he lived there in his early years before moving with his family to Los Angeles' Watts district...
19.		Lucy Gordon Actress, Spider-Man 3
20.		Anna Belknap Actress, Snow Day
21.		Frank Converse Actor, Anne of Avonlea A brawny, firm-jawed, sandy-haired player of 60s and 70s primetime TV, Frank Converse seemed to be one of those handsome tough-guy action figures that could go by the wayside after the demise of their famous series. Instead, this stage-trained actor persevered as a well-respected, all-purpose character actor in a career that has now passed its fourth decade...
22.		John Nolan Actor, Batman Begins
23.		Michael Constantine Actor, My Big Fat Greek Wedding Award-winning Greek-American actor Michael Constantine (born 22 May 1927) is best known for his portrayal of the Windex bottle-toting family patriarch "Gus Portokalos" in the sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Before his appearance in that movie and the subsequent TV series based on it, he was primarily known for his portrayal of principal "Seymour Kaufman" in the series Room 222...
24.		Chris Salvatore Actor, Eating Out: The Open Weekend Chris Salvatore grew up in Richboro, Pennsylvania, a small town outside Philadelphia. He started his career in entertainment as a singer/songwriter. In 2005 he studied vocal performance at Berklee College of Music in Boston. His music has been featured on MTV and is available in online music stores including iTunes...
25.		Barbara Parkins Actress, Valley of the Dolls Barbara Parkins is best remembered as an icon of the Sixties who had starring roles in two of the era's more notorious productions, Peyton Place and Valley of the Dolls. After arriving in Hollywood as a teenager, Parkins soon began appearing on episodic television programs such as Wagon Train and Perry Mason...
26.		Tom Chambers Actor, The Owl of Minerva Tom was born in Darley Dale in Derbyshire, England. He went to Repton School and in between school and holidays was in the National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT), where Jude Law and Jonny Lee Miller also had early training. He was approached by the Austrian Olympic skiing team but continued to pursue acting. He did a three year musical theatre course at Guildford School of Acting.
27.		Michael Kostroff Actor, General Hospital
28.		Cheryl Campbell Actress, Chariots of Fire Cheryl Campbell is an English actress of notable accomplishment, probably best known in the United States for her turn as Eileen in Dennis Potter's Pennies from Heaven, for which she received a BAFTA nomination as Best Television Actress. The following year, she won the award for her roles in three shows: Testament of Youth...
29.		Michael Sarrazin Actor, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Owning a pair of the most incredibly soulful and searching eyes you'll ever find, Michael Sarrazin's poetic drifters crept into Hollywood unobtrusively on little cat's feet, but it didn't take long for him to make his mark. Quiet yet uninhibited, the lean, laconic, fleshy-lipped actor with the intriguingly...
30.		Mark Christopher Lawrence Actor, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
31.		Sharon Hinnendael Actress, Embrace of the Vampire
32.		Susan Strasberg Actress, Picnic Susan Strasberg was born in New York City on May 22, 1938. From the time of her birth, she was destined to be an actress. Her father was Lee Strasberg, acting coach at the famed Actors Studio in New York. In 1953, Susan made her acting debut in the episode, Catch a Falling Star, of the Goodyear Playhouse...
33.		Sid Melton Actor, Lady Sings the Blues
34.		Max Brooks Writer, World War Z
35.		Jack Kehler Actor, The Big Lebowski
36.		Gary Sweet Actor, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
37.		Linda Emond Actress, Julie & Julia Linda Emond received a 2014 Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical for her performance as Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret, also starring Alan Cumming and Michelle Williams. Her "Partner" in the musical is played by Danny Burstein, who has also received a Tony nomination for his role.
38.		Al Corley Actor, Don Juan DeMarco
39.		Katie Price Self, Episode #1.5
40.		Arthur Conan Doyle Writer, Sherlock Holmes
41.		Thomas Schlamme Director, So I Married an Axe Murderer
42.		Hideaki Anno Director, Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
43.		John Ward Actor, Heart of the Country John Ward was lured into show business at the age of 12 when his younger sister, Jennifer, was named the photo double and stand-in for Drew Barrymore in Stephen King's Firestarter, which was shot in his native Wilmington, NC. This gave him the acting bug, leading to several small acting roles over the years...
44.		Charles Aznavour Soundtrack, Seven Pounds Beloved French chanson entertainer Charles Aznavour, who wrote more than 800 songs, recorded more than 1,000 of them in French, English, German and Spanish and sold over 100 million records in all, was born Chahnour Varinag Aznavourian on May 22, 1924, in Paris, the younger of two children born to Armenian immigrants who fled to France...
45.		Apolo Ohno Self, Unite for Japan
46.		David Schneider Actor, 28 Days Later...
47.		Bryan Danielson Actor, Journey to WrestleMania: Daniel Bryan
48.		Chris Pedersen Actor, Platoon
49.		Jeremy Gelbwaks Actor, What? and Get Out of Show Business?
50.		Michael Lockwood Self, Episode dated 28 March 2005