IMDb: Most Popular People Born On May 05

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1.		Henry Cavill Actor, Man of Steel Henry Cavill is a British actor. Cavill began his career starring as Albert Mondego in the 2002 film adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. He star in minor and supporting roles in television shows such as BBC's The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Midsomer Murders and The Tudors before transitioning to more mainstream Hollywood films such as Tristan & Isolde, Stardust and Immortals...
2.		Vincent Kartheiser Actor, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Known to audiences worldwide as spitfire advertising executive Pete Campbell on Mat Weiner's Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award-winning drama series Mad Men, Vincent Kartheiser has actually been acting since a teen. Starting with Untamed Heart alongside Marisa Tomei, Kartheiser accumulated an impressive number of credits during his youth inclusive of Little Big League...
3.		Danielle Fishel Actress, Dorm Daze Danielle Christine Fishel was born on May 5, 1981, in Mesa, Arizona. She began acting professionally at the age of ten, during which she made many TV guest appearances and commercials. She was originally a guest star on the show Boy Meets World, but Danielle added a spark that the show needed and she became a regular cast member shortly afterward...
4.		John Rhys-Davies Actor, Raiders of the Lost Ark Acclaimed Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the blockbuster hits Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade...
5.		Kurt Sutter Writer, Sons of Anarchy Raised in the shadow of Rahway prison, Sutter spent most of his New Jersey childhood indoors, away from people, three feet from a TV screen. That's where he learned the essentials of storytelling and the comic significance of anvils. After graduating from Rutgers University with a BA in Film, Kurt spent several years as an actor in NYC...
6.		Santiago Cabrera Actor, Chapter One 'Genesis' Santiago grew up in London, Romania, Toronto and Madrid. Although he considers Santiago, Chile, his hometown, he splits his time between London and Los Angeles. Cabrera trained at London's prestigious Drama Centre under renowned instructors Yat Malgrem and Christopher Fettes, whose students include many great actors...
7.		Lance Henriksen Actor, Aliens An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch his talents just about as far as an actor could possibly hope...
8.		Lisa Eilbacher Actress, Beverly Hills Cop Lisa Eilbacher was born in Saudi Arabia, the daughter of an oil company executive. She spent her most formative years in Paris. After moving to Beverly Hills, California with her family, she soon appeared on television on episodes of Wagon Train, Laredo, My Three Sons, Gunsmoke and Combat!...
9.		Sage Stallone Actor, Rocky V
10.		Richard E. Grant Actor, Dracula
11.		Clark Duke Actor, Hot Tub Time Machine Clark Duke was born in Glenwood, Arkansas. His parents are Angela and Ronnie Duke. Along with best friend Michael Cera, Duke created, wrote, directed, and produced the web series Clark and Michael in which he plays a fictional version of himself. The pilot episode was directed by Duke as his college thesis film at Loyola Marymount University...
12.		Chris Brown Soundtrack, Ted
13.		Adele Soundtrack, Skyfall
14.		Roger Rees Actor, The Prestige Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees originally trained for the visual arts. He was born on May 5 1944 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and acted in church and Boy Scouts stage productions while growing up in South London, but studied painting and lithography at the Slade School of Art...
15.		Tina Yothers Actress, Shoot the Moon Green-eyed Tina Yothers began doing commercials when she was just three years old. The daughter of TV film producer Robert Yothers, she was born on May 5, 1973 in Whittier, California. Her three brothers (Jeff, Randy Poindexter Yothers and Cory 'Bumper' Yothers) had all acted in commercials. She also has a foster sister whose name is also Tina...
16.		Tyrone Power Actor, Witness for the Prosecution Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known to historians as Tyrone Power Sr....
17.		Pat Carroll Actress, The Little Mermaid She has played everything from chatterbox wives to wicked stepsisters on TV, and from Gertrude Stein to Shakespeare's Falstaff on stage. At age 80 plus, the plucky comedienne shows no signs of stopping any time soon. The riotous Pat Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1927, the daughter of Kathryn Angela Meagher and Maurice Clifton Carroll...
18.		Michael Palin Actor, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
19.		Marc Alaimo Actor, Total Recall
20.		Ann B. Davis Actress, Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult Ann B. Davis made her debut in show business at age 6 earning $2.00 in a puppet show. At the University of Michigan, Anne planned to study medicine but got the acting bug from her brother who was the lead dancer in the national company of "Oklahoma" for over a year. Anne then spent six years in little theaters...
21.		Brooke Hogan Self, Hulk's Surgery
22.		Melinda Culea Actress, The Fisher King Melinda Culea was born in a suburb of Chicago on May 5, 1955. At the age of 20, she moved to New York to join a prestigious modeling agency; her first marriage broke up in the process. After four years in New York, she moved to California to break into the TV industry. After doing a number of commercials...
23.		Larissa Wilson Actress, Jal
24.		Bobby Coleman Actor, The Last Song
25.		Virginie Efira Actress, It Boy
26.		Darrin Dewitt Henson Actor, The Express
27.		Bing Russell Actor, The Magnificent Seven Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza and Robert in The Magnificent Seven, Russell's notoriety on a national level was as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the class A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before Bull Durham, there were the Mavericks...
28.		Michael Murphy Actor, Manhattan Michael Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California, to Georgia Arlyn (née Money), a teacher, and Bearl Branton Murphy, a salesman. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, Murphy attended the University of Arizona, Tuscon, and then went to U.C.L.A. to get his teaching credential. From 1962 to 1964, he taught high school English and drama in Los Angeles...
29.		Jim Kelly Actor, Enter the Dragon With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. After appearing in a minor film role, Kelly's second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's Island in Enter the Dragon...
30.		Nicholas Guest Actor, Frozen
31.		Eisa Davis Actress, Welcome to the Rileys
32.		Peter Howitt Actor, Sliding Doors
33.		Jerzy Skolimowski Writer, Knife in the Water Born in Lódz, Poland, in 1938. Director, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959. Graduated from Lódz Film Academy in directing in 1962. Feature debut: _Identification Marks - None_ (Rysopis, 1964, scr., dir, act.), awarded in Warsaw 1964 and Arnhem 1965...
34.		Alice Faye Soundtrack, Yes Man As A&E;'s Biography put it, "She rose from the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen to become the most famous singing actress in the world. When the pressures of fame became too much, she had the courage to leave Hollywood on her own terms". Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on May 5...
35.		Ian Virgo Actor, Black Hawk Down Ian was born in Glendale, California, but moved to Wales at the age of six. This gives him the advantage of having Dual Nationality. His first feature film appearance was in Black Hawk Down, directed by Ridley Scott, Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer where Ian plays the role of 'Specialist John Waddell'...
36.		Devon Gearhart Actor, Funny Games
37.		Gary Dubin Actor, The AristoCats
38.		Lisa Jane Persky Actress, When Harry Met Sally... Growing up in New York City's Greenwich Village, Lisa Jane Persky (aka Eljay Persky) began an acting career at La Mama E.T.C. in H.M. Koutoukas' "Grandmother Is In The Strawberry Patch" as the "World's Most Perfect Teenager". She next crossed East 4th St. to co-star with Divine in Tom Eyen's "Women Behind Bars"...
39.		Brian Williams Self, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt
40.		Ilene Woods Actress, Cinderella Ilene Woods was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the daughter of "a backstage mom" who was responsible for Ilene getting her show biz start on the stage--at age two! At 14, during a vacation in New York City, she received an offer to top-line her own radio show once she became available at the end of that school year...
41.		Jessica Schwarz Actress, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
42.		Pauline Egan Actress, Unforgiven Pauline Egan was born in Benowa, Qld, Australia. She trained with Tom McSweeney and The Australian Film and Television Academy, Sydney. In 2010 she relocated to Vancouver, Canada began training with sought after acting coach Ben Ratner. She is most recognizable for her role as 'Dr Erika Myers' in the popular Syfy/Space channel series 'Sanctuary'...
43.		Alana Curry Actress, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Alana Curry was born in Redwood City, California, but she was raised in Hawaii and then Arizona. She started out her career by doing ballet and tap dance. After studying ballet for 12 years, she decided to pursue acting. During high school, she appeared in several commercials and films. After graduation from high school...
44.		Ben Wright Actor, 101 Dalmatians Ben Wright was born May 15, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out...
45.		Ian Michael Smith Actor, Simon Birch
46.		Marion Bailey Actress, Mr. Turner
47.		Vanessa Laine Bryant Art Department, Man on Fire
48.		Don E. FauntLeRoy Cinematographer, Jeepers Creepers Don E. FauntLeRoy was accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, with only 7 years experience as a Director of Photography. His rise has been swift, and his reputation as one of the most talented young cinematographers, rapid. Don's major break came in 1994, when he was given the opportunity of shooting David L. Wolper' epic mini-series...
49.		Robert Foulk Actor, Rebel Without a Cause
50.		Todd Newton Self, Hasbro Family Game Night 4: The Game Show Daytime Emmy Award winner Todd Newton truly is The Host with the Most®. Recognized and respected worldwide as one of the most amiable personalities on the air today, Todd Newton became a fixture in American homes while ruling the red carpet on E! Entertainment Television. For over a decade Newton brought...