IMDb: Most Popular People Born On October 20

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1.		John Krasinski Actor, Away We Go Tall, handsome American film and television star John Krasinski is probably best known for his role as sardonic nice guy "Jim Halpert" on NBC's popular TV series, The Office, for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series...
2.		Viggo Mortensen Actor, A History of Violence Since his screen debut as a young Amish Farmer in Peter Weir's Witness, Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances. Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother was American...
3.		Kenneth Choi Actor, The Wolf of Wall Street Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Choi dreamed of becoming an actor. Against his family's wishes, Choi left college to pursue that dream. He literally ran away from home, cutting all ties with his family for 5 years to train and study before moving to Los Angeles. His dream became a reality as he...
4.		Alona Tal Actress, Broken City
5.		Sam Witwer Actor, The Mist Sam Witwer headlines the SyFy series, Being Human, the U.S. adaptation of the popular British television series. The darkly humorous, provocative drama stars Sam as the heroic, "Aidan", a sensual and brooding vampire. His excellent work was noticed soon after the show's premiere, as Sam received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing...
6.		Danny Boyle Director, Slumdog Millionaire
7.		William Zabka Actor, The Karate Kid
8.		Snoop Dogg Actor, Training Day Snoop Dogg was born in Long Beach, California, to Beverly (Tate) and Vernell Varnado, who was a mail carrier and singer. His parents were both originally from Mississippi. He got his name from his mother, who jokingly remarked that he looked like the Peanuts character Snoopy. Snoop is known primarily for his achievements in the music industry...
9.		Nargis Fakhri Actress, Rockstar Nargis was born to multi-cultural parents in Queens, New York City on 20 October 1979. She started her career as an American model, even appearing in America's Next Top Model Cycles 2 and 3 in 2004. She also posed for the 2009 Kingfisher Swimsuit Calendar. In 2011, she made her Bollywood debut with Imtiaz Ali's Rockstar alongside Ranbir Kapoor...
10.		Galadriel Stineman Actress, Ben 10: Alien Swarm Galadriel Stineman was raised an only child in Northern Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Ohio. As a kid, she was a voracious reader, accomplished horseback rider and active member of 4-H Club. She began acting for fun in kindergarten, taking lots of classes and performing in school and community productions...
11.		Earl Hindman Actor, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
12.		Jerry Orbach Actor, Beauty and the Beast Jerry was born in the Bronx. His father, Leon, was a former vaudevillian actor, and his mother, Emily, was a radio singer. His family moved frequently and eventually settled in Waukegan, Illinois where he went to high school. The constant moving made him the new kid on the block and forced him to become "a chameleon" to blend in his new settings...
13.		Dan Fogler Actor, Kung Fu Panda Cherubic actor and singer Dan Fogler was born October 20, 1976 in Brooklyn, New York, to Shari, a teacher of English, and Richard Fogler, a surgeon. His brother, Jason, is a clinical psychologist. Fogler established himself with his role of William Barfee in the Broadway musical hit "The 25th Annual...
14.		Jennifer Freeman Actress, You Got Served
15.		Barrie Chase Actress, Cape Fear
16.		Katie Featherston Actress, Paranormal Activity Katie Featherston, a native Texan, received her BFA from Southern Methodist University and moved to Los Angeles, where she was cast in the the highly successful and reliably unsettling "Paranormal Activity" horror-film series. The significant box-office returns on the movie led to a steady stream of sequels...
17.		Timothy West Actor, Ever After: A Cinderella Story A versatile British actor noted for his great power and command on the classical stage and in several other mediums including radio, film and television, Timothy West was born on October 20, 1934 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, the son of actors (Harry) Lockwood West and his wife Olive (Carleton-Crowe)...
18.		Bela Lugosi Actor, Dracula It's ironic that Martin Landau won an Oscar for impersonating Bela Lugosi (in Ed Wood) when Lugosi himself never came within a mile of one, but that's just the latest of many sad ironies surrounding Lugosi's career. Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos...
19.		William Christopher Actor, The Fortune Cookie
20.		Melanie Mayron Director, Mean Girls 2
21.		Bill Nunn Actor, Spider-Man Commanding performer Bill Nunn made his feature debut in fellow Morehouse College graduate Spike Lee's School Daze, but really etched himself into moviegoers' minds as a formidable screen presence in his second film with Lee, Do the Right Thing, playing Radio Raheem, whose ever-present boom box is at the center of a fight that leads to his death at the hands of an overzealous police officer...
22.		Sheeri Rappaport Actress, Little Witches Rappaport lived with her parents Edna and Jospeh in Dallas, Texas, until she was 9. She then moved to outside New York City to test her acting. She started acting classes at age 5 and got her first agent at age 6. She got a role on Nickelodeon's "Clarissa Explains It All". She then moved to Los Angeles and landed several guest starring roles. This led to her new role on "NYPD Blue".
23.		Thomas Newman Music Department, WALL·E
24.		John Anderson Actor, Psycho A tall, sinewy, austere-looking character actor with silver hair, rugged features and a distinctive voice, John Robert Anderson left an impressive legacy of literally hundreds of film and TV credits. Immensely versatile, he was at his best submerging himself in the role of historical figures (he impersonated Abraham Lincoln three times and twice baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis...
25.		Candice Swanepoel Self, Victoria's Secret Fashion Show
26.		Dolores Hart Actress, Where the Boys Are
27.		Adam Butcher Actor, Saint Ralph Adam was born October 20, 1988 in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. Adam's big sister Mandy Butcher is also an actor. Adam started acting at the age of 9 when his Aunt (a talent agent) and Uncle, Randy Butcher (a stuntman/coordinator), suggested that Adam and his sister Mandy get their head-shots taken...
28.		Katharina Schüttler Actress, A Coffee in Berlin Katharina Schuettler has appeared in many films for cinema and television such as Golden Globe winning production "Carlos" by Olivier Assayas, "Simon and the Oaks" by Lisa Ohlin, "The White Noise" by Hans Weingartner, "Die Innere Sicherheit" by Christian Petzold. She is best known to English-language...
29.		William Russ Actor, American History X Son of a naval officer; born in Portsmouth, VA. Father of one daughter. Enjoys thrill sports, is an avid downhill skier.
30.		Niall Matter Actor, Watchmen
31.		Yvette Nipar Actress, General Hospital
32.		Alan Ackles Actor, Serving Sara
33.		Robert Costanzo Actor, Total Recall
34.		George Wyner Actor, The Devil's Advocate A native of Boston and graduate of Syracuse University, George has worked extensively in TV and film since 1972. Notable film work includes the Coen Brothers' best-picture nominee "A Serious Man," (Rabbi Nachtner) and Mel Brooks' "Spaceballs," (Colonel Sandurz) and "To Be or Not To Be." Among other...
35.		Sal Guerrero Self, WWE Tough Enough Chavo Guerrero is a 20-year third generation veteran of the professional wrestling industry who first debuted back in 1994 after having been trained by legendary family members Chavo Guerrero Sr., Eddie Guerrero, Hector Guerrero and Mando Guerrero. He started his career working in both Mexico and Japan...
36.		George Harris Actor, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
37.		Michael Dunn Actor, Ship of Fools Michael Dunn was born Gary Neil Miller in Oklahoma. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller. They moved to Detroit, Michigan, in 1938. Dunn was 5 years old when he knew he'd be a dwarf but was determined not to let it stop him or make him dependent. He graduated from Detroit's Redford High School in 1951...
38.		Jennifer Hall Actress, Legally Blonde
39.		Niamh Cusack Actress, Five Minutes of Heaven
40.		Tom Petty Soundtrack, The Silence of the Lambs
41.		Jean-Pierre Melville Writer, Le Samouraï The name "Melville" is not immediately associated with film. It conjures up images of white whales and crackbrained captains, of naysaying notaries and soup-spilling sailors. It is the countersign to a realm of men and their deeds, both heroic and villainous. It is the American novel, with its Ishmaels and its Claggarts a challenge to the European canon...
42.		Alberto Ammann Actor, Cell 211 In 2009, Alberto Ammann went from being an unknown drama student to becoming one of Spain's best known actors with just one movie. The previous year, Ammann joined the ranks of Penelope Cruz, Jordi Molla and Elena Anaya when he won a coveted spot on the list of Caras Nuevas, a discovery initiative of Spanish talent agency...
43.		Anton Diffring Actor, Fahrenheit 451 Anton Diffring was a character actor who worked continuously in motion pictures due to his aristocratic, German face and cool, clipped diction, making him ideal for typecasting in British and later American motion pictures as Nazis and other vile, despicable characters. What was ironic about his typecasting as a Nazi is that Diffring...
44.		Anna Neagle Actress, Odette Dame Anna Neagle, the endearingly popular British star during WWII, was born Florence Marjorie Robertson and began dancing as a professional in chorus lines at age 14. She starred with actor Jack Buchanan in the musical "Stand Up and Sing" in the West End and earned her big break when producer/director Herbert Wilcox...
45.		Zhenwei Wang Actor, The Karate Kid Zhenwei Wang is a Chinese born movie actor, known for The Karate Kid (2010) and Movie Martial Arts vs. Reality (2012) and a black belt martial arts expert who made his film debut as Cheng in the 2010 remake of The Karate Kid. Born on October 20, 1995 in Handan, Hebei, China, an industrial city in southern Hebei province in eastern China...
46.		Barney Phillips Actor, The Sand Pebbles
47.		Thor Freudenthal Director, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
48.		Eric Scott Actor, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
49.		Courtney Baxter Actress, Reco Courtney Baxter is from West Chester PA and joined both SAG and AFTRA at age 11 working around the country from that point forward. As a seasoned performer, those experiences helped develop her interest in all parts of film production. At 16, Courtney became an Executive Producer and lead in the drama "Reco" which did well on the festival circuit...
50.		Colin Jeavons Actor, The French Lieutenant's Woman