IMDb: Most Popular People Born On January 17

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1.		Zooey Deschanel Actress, Elf Zooey Deschanel was born in 1980 into a showbiz family. Her father, Caleb Deschanel, is an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer (perhaps most notably for The Passion of the Christ) and her mother, Mary Jo Deschanel (née Weir), is an actress who appeared in Twin Peaks. Her paternal grandfather was French, and her other roots include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Dutch...
2.		Jim Carrey Actor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color but leading roles in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Dumb & Dumber and The Mask established him as a bankable comedy actor...
3.		James Earl Jones Actor, The Lion King James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. He is...
4.		Betty White Actress, Bringing Down the House Betty White was born in Oak Park, Illinois, to Christine Tess (Cachikis), a homemaker, and Horace Logan White, a lighting company executive. She is of Danish, Greek, English, and Welsh descent. Although best known as the devious Sue Ann Nivens on the classic sitcom Mary Tyler Moore and the ditzy Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls...
5.		Denis O'Hare Actor, Dallas Buyers Club
6.		Naveen Andrews Actor, The English Patient Naveen William Sidney Andrews was born on the 17th of January, 1969, in London, England. Naveen is the elder of two brothers, and has had an interest in acting since an early age. At the age of five, a teacher mentioned to Naveen's parents that he had expressed interest in being an actor. At the age of 16...
7.		Eartha Kitt Actress, The Emperor's New Groove An out-of-wedlock child, Eartha Kitt was born in the cotton fields of South Carolina. Kitt's mother was a sharecropper of African-American and Cherokee Native American descent who became pregnant after being raped by a white plantation owner. Given away by her mother, she arrived in Harlem at age nine...
8.		Kirsty Hill Actress, Theatre of the Deranged Born in Llanelli, South Wales, Sophie Dee moved to England to attend. school. Later she moved back to Wales to finish secondary school. Upon graduation she held a variety of jobs, ranging from working in a café to door-to-door saleswoman. She eventually became a dancer, specializing in lap dances. This led to her being offered a job as a nude model for the UK newspaper Daily Sport...
9.		Freddy Rodríguez Actor, Planet Terror
10.		Brian Helgeland Writer, Robin Hood
11.		Leigh Whannell Actor, Saw Leigh Whannell grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where, at the age of four, he developed an obsession with telling stories. Whether it be through acting, writing or filmmaking, his primary love was getting a reaction from an audience. In 1995, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's prestigious Media Arts course...
12.		Joshua Malina Actor, A Few Good Men
13.		Scott Mechlowicz Actor, EuroTrip Scott David Mechlowicz was born in New York City, to Susan (Lehrman) and Morris Mechlowicz. He was raised in Plano, Texas. He graduated from Plano Senior High School and after one semester of university in Texas, he studied at and graduated from UCLA in 2003. His career began with Neverland, a short film...
14.		Steve Harvey Self, The Original Kings of Comedy
15.		Diogo Morgado Actor, The Forest Diogo Morgado has been in several American television series and movies since his groundbreaking portrayal of "Jesus" in 20th Century Fox's feature film "Son of God" and in The History Channel's highly rated, Emmy nominated miniseries "The Bible," which first made him known in the United States. Currently...
16.		Jonathan Keltz Actor, 21 & Over Jonathan Lippert Keltz was born in New York City, to Karin Lippert, who worked in public relations, and Martin Keltz, the co-founder and President of Scholastic Productions. He remained in the city through pre-school before moving upstate to Woodstock, New York, where he attended Poughkeepsie Day School through 8th grade...
17.		D.J. Caruso Director, Disturbia Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Caruso came west to play tennis and study Television Production at Pepperdine University. Interned at Disney Studios in the Product Placement department and later hooked up with Director John Badham, who mentored him into a second-unit director, after Badham lost his 2nd-unit director Rob Cohen to a first-unit directing career...
18.		Adriana Ugarte Actress, Mala espina
19.		David Blue Actor, Sunset Overdrive The youngest of three boys, David Blue grew up as the comedian of the family. A lifelong actor, singer and dancer, Blue spent years performing onstage. He eventually graduated from the conservatory at the University of Central Florida with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in both Acting and Musical Theatre Performance...
20.		Kang-ho Song Actor, Snowpiercer Song Kang-ho never professionally trained as an actor, beginning his career in social theater groups after graduating from Kimhae High School. Later, he joined Kee Kuk-seo's influential theater company with its emphasis on instinctive acting and improvisation, which proved to be Song's training ground...
21.		Ryuichi Sakamoto Soundtrack, The Revenant
22.		Andy Kaufman Actor, Heartbeeps Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and blurred the dividing line between reality and imagination. Born in New York City on January 17, 1949, the first son of Stanley and Janice Kaufman, Andy grew up on New York in the town of Great Neck...
23.		Kevin Reynolds Director, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Describing his childhood as that of a typical Air Force brat and the oldest of 2 brothers and a sister, Kevin Reynolds graduated from Baylor University in Waco, Texas with a B.A. and then a J.D. (law degree) in the early 1970s. His father was a tenured psychology professor and University vice-president...
24.		Daniel Louis Rivas Actor, Never Been Kissed Daniel Louis Rivas was born and raised in New York City. A multi media performer since he was a child. Daniel had his first speaking role opposite Gary Oldman in "Sid and Nancy" He decided to pursue it as a career. After fronting the short lived punk rock band 57-Blankness at eighteen. He soon relocated to Los Angeles...
25.		Hale Appleman Actor, Teeth Graduate of famed LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts. Studied at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. Starred in the Roundabout Theater Company's revival production of David Rabe's Streamers, directed by Scott Ellis. ('08/'09 Season) Played Jesus in the New York Premiere of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, spring/summer 2010
26.		Max Adler Actor, Love and Honor Born in Queens, New York and raised in Scottsdale Arizona, Adler knew from an early age that he wanted to become an actor. Upon graduating from Horizon High School in AZ, he made the move to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of working in the entertainment industry. After landing a few guest-star roles on "Ghost Whisperer" and "Cold Case" for CBS...
27.		Genndy Tartakovsky Director, Hotel Transylvania Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him to study animation at Cal Arts in Los Angeles. While he was there he produced two student films...
28.		Bart Freundlich Director, The Rebound
29.		Connor Cruise Actor, Seven Pounds
30.		François Damiens Actor, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
31.		Sheree North Actress, The Shootist
32.		Nate Hartley Actor, Drillbit Taylor Hartley was born in Ravenna, Ohio, the son of Michele and Rei Hartley. He has an older sister, Danielle. He attended Rootstown Elementary School in Portage County, Ohio. He began his career in 1997 at the age of five by performing magic for his family and friends. He performed as a clown with his parents who were professional clowns and co-owned a video store in the early 90s...
33.		Yûki Kudô Actress, Rush Hour 3
34.		Jeff Chase Actor, Looper
35.		Muhammad Ali Self, When We Were Kings Muhammad Ali beat more champions and top contenders than any heavyweight champion in history. He defeated heavyweight kings Sonny Liston (twice), Floyd Patterson (twice), Ernie Terrell, Jimmy Ellis, Ken Norton (twice), Joe Frazier (twice), George Foreman and Leon Spinks. He defeated light-heavyweight champs Archie Moore and Bob Foster...
36.		Kid Rock Soundtrack, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
37.		Joanna David Actress, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
38.		Keith Robinson Actor, Dreamgirls Keith Robinson was born in Kentucky and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He later moved to Augusta and graduated from Lakeside High School. He attended the University of Georgia and, while there, signed a recording contract with Motown Records, but that label never issued any of his material. Robinson moved to Los Angeles and earned a starring role as Joel Rawlings...
39.		Susanna Hoffs Soundtrack, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
40.		Randy Boone Actor, The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
41.		James Waterston Actor, Dead Poets Society James Waterston is an actor and a pianist with a great love of New Orleans music. He comes from family of actors and artists and he counts himself privileged to do what he does. He has traveled and performed around the world doing television, stage and film. He has lived in New Orleans, Paris, Los Angeles, and all over the east coast. He is currently based in New York.
42.		Sofia Shinas Actress, The Crow
43.		Benno Fürmann Actor, North Face Benno Fürmann was born on 17 January 1972 in Berlin, Germany and worked as a waiter, bouncer and drifter before attending acting lessons at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York. After returning to Germany, he played several minor parts in movie and television projects until his breakthrough performance in Die Bubi Scholz Story...
44.		Mitch Vogel Actor, The Reivers Lanky, freckle faced, unassuming and a spitting image of how you would envision Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer" character if he came alive, juvenile actor Mitch Vogel was one of Hollywood's top performers during the late 1960s and early 1970s. His career fell away, however, by the following decade and has been little seen...
45.		Nancy Parsons Actress, Porky's Nancy Parsons, was born in Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to Mary and Charles Parson. She had two siblings -- Mary Parsons and Theresa Macrae. When she was 17, her father remarried Genevieve Stack and moved with the three girls to South Pasadena, California. It was here that the acting bug first bit, when...
46.		Laura Surrich Actress, Diagnosis: Death Laura Surrich was born on January 17, 1988 in Auckland, New Zealand. She is an actress, known for The Cure, Diagnosis: Death, Separation City and King Kong. Laura graduated from the New Zealand College of Performing Arts in 2007 and went on to obtain another degree in Film & Television Production in 2013.
47.		Michelle Obama Self, Senator Obama Goes to Africa
48.		Ray J Actor, Mars Attacks!
49.		Steve Earle Soundtrack, Brokeback Mountain
50.		Maksim Chmerkovskiy Self, Natasha Leggero/Maksim Chmerkovskiy/Serena Ryder Maksim "Maks" Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian Latin Ballroom dance champion, choreographer, Broadway performer, and actor . He is widely known as one of the professional dancers on the American television series Dancing with the Stars, on which he first appeared in season two. In 14 appearances on the show...