IMDb: Most Popular People Born On May 08

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1.		Stephen Amell Actor, The Climb Stephen Amell was born on May 8, 1981 in Toronto Canada. He decided to pursue a career in acting when he was in his teens. His first role was that of "spinning instructor" in Queer as Folk. He also had minor roles in Degrassi: The Next Generation, 1-800-Missing and Tilt. He had recurring roles in Beautiful People and Rent-a-Goalie...
2.		Elyes Gabel Actor, World War Z
3.		Aneurin Barnard Actor, Citadel
4.		Melissa Gilbert Actress, Zoya
5.		Martin Compston Actor, Sweet Sixteen Martin Compston grew up in Greenock, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire. He spent his teen years going to see soccer (football) team Celtic with his brother Barry and dreamed one day he would play for them. He attended St. Columba's High School in Gourock, Inverclyde, where he passed through his Standard Grade Exams and obtained three As and two Bs in his Higher results...
6.		Matthew Davis Actor, Legally Blonde
7.		Nora Arnezeder Actress, Safe House Nora Arnezeder was born in Paris, France, 8 May 1989, to Piera and Wolfgang Arnezeder. Her father is Austrian and Catholic and her mother is an Egyptian Jew. At the age of two, Nora left Paris with her parents, for Aix-en-Provence. When she was age 14, she moved to Bali, Indonesia, for a year and, once back in Paris, studied dancing and singing.
8.		Christina Cole Actress, Casino Royale
9.		Don Rickles Actor, Toy Story After the Golden Era of Hollywood ended, Don Rickles is one man still living to tell his tales. One of the most respected talents in entertainment, Rickles got his start in the night clubs, toiling for over 20 years, until 1958, when Don made his film debut in Run Silent Run Deep. The movie was a big hit...
10.		Ana Mulvoy-Ten Actress, First Time Loser Ana was born in London but she grew up in Spain and England. Her mother is Spanish and her father is English and she was raised bilingually. Ana's first lead role was on a Spanish TV show shot in Madrid. She then went on to star on American boarding school drama House of Anubis. She was nominated for a Kids' Choice award as favorite UK actress alongside Emma Watson in 2012.
11.		Josie Maran Actress, Van Helsing Born and raised in northern California, Josie Maran aspired to become a model at a young age. Her father is of Russian Jewish descent, and her mother has Dutch, French, and German ancestry. At the age of 12, while attending a barbecue, a woman asked her to be in a San Francisco fashion show. A modeling agent at the show saw her and encouraged her to begin modeling...
12.		Jodhi May Actress, The Last of the Mohicans Jodhi was born in 1975. She was born and brought up in London, England, UK. She went to Wadham College, Oxford University 1994-1997. She studied and received a Masters in English. During her time at Wadham she read a lot of literature. She has been acting since she was twelve.
13.		David Keith Actor, An Officer and a Gentleman David Lemuel Keith was born on May 8, 1954 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Lemuel Grady Keith Jr. and Hilda Earle. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech and Theater. Keith had a supporting role in The Rose starring Bette Midler, had a supporting role in Brubaker...
14.		David Attenborough Self, Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life Born 8 May 1926, the younger brother of actor Lord Richard Attenborough. He never expressed a wish to act and, instead, studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, graduating in 1947, the year he began his two years National Service in the Royal Navy. In 1952, he joined BBC Television at Alexandra Palace and...
15.		Stephen Furst Actor, Animal House
16.		Michel Gondry Director, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind He grew up in Versailles with a family who was very influenced by pop music. When he was young, Gondry wanted to be a painter or an inventor. In the 80s he entered in an art school in Paris where he could develop his graphic skills and where he also met friends with whom he created a pop-rock band called Oui-Oui...
17.		Raoul Max Trujillo Actor, Sicario Raoul Max Trujillo, aka Raoul Maximiano Trujillo de Chauvelon was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is a mixed blood descendant of Apache,Comanche, Pueblo, Tlascalan, French-Canadian, Sephardic Jew and Andalusian Moor. After high school, he spent three years serving in the military in Germany. After his discharge...
18.		Ricky Nelson Actor, Rio Bravo Ricky Nelson was born on May 8, 1940 in Teaneck, New Jersey, USA as Eric Hilliard Nelson. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (1952) and Rio Bravo (1959). He was married to Kristin Harmon. He died on December 31, 1985 in De Kalb, Texas, USA.
19.		Sebastian Schipper Actor, Run Lola Run
20.		Enrique Iglesias Soundtrack, Hot Tub Time Machine Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler was born in Madrid, Spain, to Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Spanish-Filipino socialite Isabel Preysler. In 1979, his parents' marriage was annulled. He was eight years old when he moved to the U.S., and at the age of 15, secretly began writing music. He studied...
21.		Cooper Huckabee Actor, Django Unchained
22.		Olivia Culpo Self, Miss Universe 2015
23.		Sidney James Actor, The Lavender Hill Mob The star of the Carry On series of films, Sid James originally came to prominence as sidekick to the ground breaking British comedy actor Tony Hancock, on both radio and then television. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and christened Solomon Joel Cohen, James arrived in England in 1946, second wife in tow...
24.		Rafael Edholm Actor, Den eneste ene Started out as a figurant at 17 in Ingmar Bergmans production of King Lear at the Royal Swedish Dramaten Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to that he had no acting experience at all. He grew up thinking ice hockey would be the game of his life. Moved to New York, USA to take acting lessons and lived abroad for ten years...
25.		Phyllida Law Actress, The Time Machine
26.		Jasen Fisher Actor, Hook
27.		Salome Jens Actress, Green Lantern
28.		Roberto Rossellini Writer, Rome, Open City The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American directors, including Martin Scorsese...
29.		Stella Gonet Actress, Nicholas Nickleby
30.		James Mitchum Actor, Monster James Mitchum is the oldest son of legendary actor Robert Mitchum and the spitting image of his famous father. By inheriting his dad's sexy, sleepy eyes and taciturn good looks, it was obvious from the start that Jim would lean towards an acting career with so much going for him. The comparison helped him as well as hurt him...
31.		Kam Heskin Actress, Catch Me If You Can Kam went to Concordia College in Minnesota where she graduated with a degree in Communications and Political Science. The day after graduation, she moved to Chicago and modeled for the next couple of months before moving to New York. Her first role came when directer John Woo selected her as the lead in his pilot "Blackjack". Kam now lives near UCLA in Los Angeles. ((Anonymous))
32.		Jeff Wincott Actor, Unstoppable Jeff was born in Toronto, Canada and attended Ryerson University for Theatre. He worked on stage in Anne Of A Thousand Days, Play It Again Sam, Romeo and Juliet and in the Toronto Premier of Martin Sherman's play Bent. He moved to New York to study with Stella Adler, Michael Kahn, and Eli Rill. Director Paul Lynch cast him in the horror film classic Prom Night (1980)...
33.		Mark Blankfield Actor, Robin Hood: Men in Tights
34.		Bree Seanna Wall Actress, A Lie Agreed Upon: Part I
35.		Elizabeth Whitmere Actress, Clown
36.		Krista Errickson Actress, Little Darlings Krista Errickson was an American actress from 1978-1992, and is a life time member of the Actors Studio. She appeared in films and television productions in the 1980s and 1990s. She is perhaps best known for her breakout role in the 1980 movie Little Darlings, and the 1992 film, Mortal Passions, for which she won numerous acting awards for...
37.		Lex Barker Actor, La Dolce Vita Barker was a direct descendant of the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and of Sir 'William Henry Crichlow', historical governor general of Barbados. He excelled in football and track at Fessenden School and Phillips-Exeter Academy. He went to Princeton but left to become an actor. A year later he was spotted in summer stock and received a contract offer from 20th Century Fox...
38.		Patrick McKenna Actor, Stuck
39.		Betsy Baker Actress, The Evil Dead Betsy Baker was born in May of 1955 in Iowa. She had graduated with a combined degree in theater and classical voice from Michigan State University and embarked upon headline engagements throughout the south, including The Eden Roc in Miami Beach and other venues, with a group called Musicana. Betsy eventually found herself in Detroit...
40.		Charles Scorsese Actor, Goodfellas
41.		Dreya Weber Actress, The Gymnast
42.		Julia Whelan Actress, Fifteen and Pregnant Julia comes from Oregon. She caught the acting bug, at age 6, after traveling to Ashland for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her film debut was in Fifteen and Pregnant with Kirsten Dunst. She has since appeared in Once and Again and, most notably, The Secret Life of Zoey. Recently, Julia has had guest roles on Dr. Vegas and Clubhouse.
43.		Trisha Paytas Self, Episode #2.1
44.		Wilmer Calderon Actor, Fast & Furious Wilmer Calderon was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico and moved to Brandon, Florida near Tampa at the age of two. He learned to speak Spanish at home from his parents and English from watching "Sesame Street." At the age of five he started playing baseball, a year round sport in Florida, and it quickly became his major preoccupation throughout his school years...
45.		Fernandel Actor, The Little World of Don Camillo The apocryphal biography of Fernand Contadin tells the invention of his artistic name Fernandel by his sister-in-law ("Voici le Fernand d'elles"). At the beginning of the thirties he became a typical actor of the comedy genre: popular, common, likable and with a concealed grain of drama. Marc Allégret was the director of his first successful film La meilleure bobonne...
46.		Mehmet Günsür Actor, Love Loves Coincidences
47.		Jaid Barrymore Actress, The Last Days of Disco
48.		Chuck Huber Actor, Dragon Ball Z
49.		Miyoshi Umeki Actress, Sayonara Although she projected the typical Japanese female stereotype of humbleness, delicacy and subservience in most of her prime film and stage roles, beguiling, tiny-framed Miyoshi Umeki was nevertheless an assertive scene-stealer. This docile and deceptive-looking talent with the cropped hair and heart-shaped face radiated charm and innocence so effortlessly...
50.		Kimberlee Peterson Actress, Homecoming Kimberlee Peterson was raised most of her life in Colorado. From the time she was born, life was pretty much her stage. Whether she was trying out new moves in dance class or exploring the dangers of gymnastics, the one constant is that she did it with passion and determination. Her family was always amazed and entertained by her "presentation." As a child Kimberlee was slight in stature...