IMDb: Most Popular People Born On April 17

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1.		Rooney Mara Actress, The Social Network Rooney Mara was born in Bedford, New York in 1985. Christened Patricia Rooney Mara when she made her debut on the world stage, she is one of four children of Kathleen McNulty (Rooney) and NFL football team New York Giants executive Timothy Christopher Mara. Her grandfathers were Wellington Mara, co-owner of the Giants...
2.		Jennifer Garner Actress, Juno Jennifer Garner, who catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the television series Alias, has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother, Patricia Ann (English), a retired teacher of English, and her father, William John Garner...
3.		Luke Mitchell Actor, Pilot Originally wanting to be a professional tennis player, Luke began his acting career in Melbourne, Australia. He trained at the Film & Television Studio International and traveled around Australia with international entertainment company, Sudden Impact Entertainment. In his first professional acting role he played the part of Chris Knight in the long running soap...
4.		Sean Bean Actor, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Sean Bean, England's most versatile actor, holds a stellar career spanning every medium for approximately 20 years, in theater, radio, television and movies. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. He worked for his father's welding firm before he decided to become an actor...
5.		Olivia Hussey Actress, Romeo and Juliet At age 15, when most young women are nurturing dreams of romance, Olivia Hussey was giving life to Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet. Her performance in one of the most celebrated roles ever written in the English language won her the Golden Globe and two successive Best Actor Donatello Awards (Italy's Oscar equivalent), an incredible achievement for an actress in only her third film...
6.		Gia Mantegna Actress, The Frozen Ground
7.		Henry Ian Cusick Actor, Hitman
8.		Nicholas D'Agosto Actor, Final Destination 5 Nicholas D'Agosto was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. He is the son of Deanna Rae (Vellinga) and Alan D'Agosto, who franchises Arby's restaurants. His ancestry includes Italian (from his father) and Dutch (his maternal grandfather). Nicholas was a student when he was cast in Election, which filmed in Omaha...
9.		David Bradley Actor, Captain America: The First Avenger
10.		Monet Mazur Actress, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Monet Mazur has been in the entertainment industry and acting professionally since 1993. Mazur grew up in Malibu and New York, the daughter of a record industry artist and her mother was a fashion model in the late 60's and 70's. After small roles in TV and film, Mazur finally earned a spate of "actress...
11.		William Holden Actor, The Bridge on the River Kwai William Holden was born William Franklin Beedle, Jr. in O'Fallon, Illinois, to Mary Blanche (Ball), a schoolteacher, and William Franklin Beedle, Sr., an industrial chemist. He came from a wealthy family (the Beedles) that moved to Pasadena, California, when he was three. In 1937, while studying chemistry at Pasadena Junior College...
12.		Jacqueline MacInnes Wood Actress, Final Destination 5
13.		Alaina Huffman Actress, As Time Goes By
14.		Adam McKay Writer, Step Brothers Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through their production company Gary Sanchez Productions...
15.		Maïwenn Actress, Léon: The Professional
16.		William Mapother Actor, Another Earth
17.		Joel Murray Actor, The Artist
18.		Victoria Beckham Self, Victoria's Secrets 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 best of everything (an old luxury liner term...
19.		Lindsay Hartley Actress, Perfect on Paper Lindsay Nicole Hartley is an American actress and singer. Born in Palm Springs, California, Hartley is of Jewish, Greek, and Italian origin. Singing since age 11, Hartley was a national pre-teen talent winner of the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant. At the age of 14 she landed her first professional role playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz...
20.		Kristine Sutherland Actress, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Kristine Sutherland's first love was theater. She went to an audition in high school as moral support for a friend but ended up auditioning herself. She worked as an actress on stage through the 80s, landing a few pilot roles as well as her small secretary part in Legal Eagles and her big-screen debut in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids...
21.		Veronica Ricci Actress, Bloody Mary 3D Veronica Ricci is a native of Sacremento, California. She was born on April 17, 1988 and describes herself as a "latebloomer" in how she developed during her teenage years as socially awkward and shy. Veronica eventually broke away from her strongly-shy nature, during her freshman year of college. The wild...
22.		Mylène Dinh-Robic Actress, Far Cry 3 Mylène was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. The first time she ever set foot on a stage was at age 13 in a high school production of Shaw's 'Pygmalion'. She survived, and fell in love with acting. She trained in Montreal with actor and mentor Gilles Plouffe and later in Vancouver with Nancy Sivak...
23.		Paul Thomas Director, Debbie Does Dallas Again
24.		Kimberly Elise Actress, John Q
25.		Lela Rochon Actress, Any Given Sunday
26.		Leslie Bega Actress, Long Term Parking Veteran film and television actress Leslie Bega can now be seen co-starring as Valentina La Paz on the HBO Emmy Award winning television series The Sopranos, Tony Soprano's girlfriend. In addition, Leslie also can be seen as a diametrically opposite character to Valentina named Leah on CBS's Emmy Award winning show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation...
27.		Roddy Piper Actor, They Live Roddy Piper has been a longtime mainstay in the WWF. He was one of the biggest "bad guys" in the WWF during the early 80s, before becoming a fan favorite in the late 80's. He continued to wrestle into the 90's, but spent much of his time doing color commentary for WWF TV In January 1992, he won the WWF Intercontinental Title from "The Mountie"...
28.		Charlie Hofheimer Actor, Black Hawk Down
29.		Carlo Rota Actor, Saw V Carlo Rota recently made the move from Canada to Los Angeles to advance his acting career in the United States. He is best known to American audiences for his five seasons as Mick Schtoppel on the USA Network's smash hit La Femme Nikita. Joel Surnow, executive producer of the show, created this role specifically for him...
30.		Byron Cherry Actor, The New Dukes Byron was raised in Atlanta, GA, and graduated from North Side High School in the 70's. After winning a scholarship to East Tennessee State University he played football as a running back with his big brother, Nat. Byron also received his Black Belt in Karate soon after college. After three years of college football...
31.		Ken Duken Actor, Inglourious Basterds Ken Duken was born on the 17th of April 1979 as a son of an actress and a doctor in Heidelberg / Germany. He started to learn acting from his stage actress mother Christina Loeb. Later he took courses by James Reynolds and Bruce McDonald but he never attended drama school. Before starting his career on television in 1997 Ken acted throughout different stage plays...
32.		Agnes-Nicole Winter Actress, The Gold & the Beautiful Agnes-Nicole Winter was raised in Sweden, graduated Stockholm School of Optometry. She started her career in the entertainment industry as a model and actress. After she co-produced her first movie she was appointed Vice President in charge of production at Hux Enterprises, in Beverly Hills, where she developed...
33.		L. Scott Caldwell Actress, The Fugitive L. Scott Caldwell was born in Chicago and now lives in New York City. She has an extensive background in feature films, television and theater. Her film credits include "Mystery Alaska," "Waiting to Exhale," "The Net," "The Fugitive," "Dutch" and "Without a Trace." Caldwell had a recurring role in Judging Amy...
34.		Nick Hornby Writer, About a Boy
35.		Michael Forest Actor, Cast Away Six-foot-three and weighing in at a lean, mean 215, Michael Forest was a rugged-looking addition to the Roger Corman and Gene Corman's list of leading men during their 1950s heyday. Between Corman films, he was a stage actor who worked in Shakespearean plays and other legitimate productions as classy as his real name (Gerald Michael Charlebois)...
36.		Jazy Berlin Actress, Baby Dolls Behind Bars Jazy Berlin (pronounced "Jazzie") has always had an interest in the entertainment business. From age 10 she had theatrical training and starred in numerous plays. She attended college to study acting, and later decided to move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to pursue her dreams. Things quickly fell into place for this beauty, and her professional career began in 2009.
37.		William Snape Actor, The Full Monty
38.		Michael Treanor Actor, 3 Ninjas
39.		Paulie Litt Actor, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
40.		Joe Alaskey Actor, Forrest Gump Joe Alaskey, among the most talented voice actors in the business, impeccably recreates many of the original characters which the late cartoon pioneer Mel Blanc invented. A natural mimic and gifted actor, his amazing "ear" for voices enables him to imitate almost anything; including some of the most obscure show business personalities...
41.		Redman Soundtrack, The Fast and the Furious
42.		Fuschia Sumner Actress, Saving Mr. Banks
43.		Maynard James Keenan Soundtrack, Underworld
44.		Don Michael Paul Actor, The Island Don Michael Paul grew up in Laguna Beach, California. He attended California State University, Fullerton where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Theatre Arts. He juggled his time acting on stage while working as a bellman at the Sheraton Newport Beach Hotel. During this time, he starred in over...
45.		Timothy Gibbs Actor, One Life to Live
46.		Theodoros Angelopoulos Director, Landscape in the Mist Theo Angelopoulos began to study law in Athens but broke up his studies to go to the Sorbonne in Paris in order to study literature. When he had finished his studies, he wanted to attend the School of Cinema at Paris but decided instead to go back to Greece. There he worked as a journalist and critic for the newspaper "Demokratiki Allaghi" until it was banned by the military after a coup d'état...
47.		Dee Dee Davis Actress, Pilot
48.		Lucila Solá Actress, Pride and Prejudice
49.		Susie Amy Actress, Vampire Killers Susie Amy was born in London in 1981, and brought up in Surrey. Although she always studied drama, she went to academic schools all her life. An agent spotted her in 1999 when she was doing a play at the National Theatre in London - 'After Juliet' by Sharman McDonald. Over the next two years she got parts in _"Sirens" (2002) (mini)_, the sitcom 'Sam's Game', 'The Swap' and 'My Family'...
50.		Anne Shirley Actress, Murder, My Sweet They didn't come packaged any sweeter and lovelier than Anne Shirley, a gentle and gracious 1930s teen film actress who didn't quite reach the zenith of front-rank stardom and retired all too soon at age 26. On film as a toddler, she went through a small revolving door of marquee names before legally settling (at age 16) on the name Anne Shirley...