IMDb: Most Popular People Born On August 31

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1.		Richard Gere Actor, Pretty Woman Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Ann (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions...
2.		Chris Tucker Actor, Silver Linings Playbook At one point in time, Chris Tucker was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Mary Louise (Bryant) and Norris Tucker, who owned a janitorial service. After graduating from high school, Tucker made a change to move to Hollywood from Georgia to pursue a career in show business...
3.		Debbie Gibson Self, American Juniors For more than 20 years, Deborah Gibson has proven she's an entertainer of immeasurable talent. From singer, songwriter and musician to actor and dancer, she embodies what it truly means to be an entertainer. Gibson exploded on the pop music scene at the tender age of 16. A music prodigy, she quickly became the youngest person ever to write...
4.		James Coburn Actor, Monsters, Inc. Lanky, charismatic and versatile actor with an amazing grin that put everyone at ease, James Coburn studied acting at UCLA, and then moved to New York to study under noted acting coach Stella Adler. After being noticed in several stage productions, Coburn appeared in a handful of minor westerns before being cast as the knife-throwing...
5.		Sara Ramirez Actress, Grey's Anatomy
6.		Jonathan LaPaglia Actor, Seven Days Jonathan is the youngest of three brothers. Older brother, Anthony LaPaglia, is also an actor. Middle brother, Michael, is a car wholesaler in Los Angeles. His parents are, Eddie LaPaglia, an Australian auto dealership owner, and Maria, a secretary. He initially wanted to pursue fine arts as a career...
7.		Zack Ward Actor, Transformers Zack Ward was born in 1970. He wanted to act, but his mom, an actress herself, wanted her son to be normal, and would not let him. Finally, his brother intervened, allowing Zack the chance to act. After a year of the small stuff, he got his first big audition for the '80s classic A Christmas Story. About 300 kids showed up for the part (originally he was the sidekick...
8.		Ryan Kelley Actor, Mean Creek
9.		Jonathan Cake Actor, First Knight
10.		Dee Bradley Baker Actor, American Dad!
11.		Holly Earl Actress, The Greatest Store in the World
12.		Larry Hankin Actor, Home Alone
13.		Marc Webb Director, (500) Days of Summer
14.		Richard Basehart Actor, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Richard Basehart came to Hollywood in 1947, after beginning an acting career on Broadway. He made his mark in the gritty film-noir classic He Walked by Night, among others, and proved his versatility in several international productions, most notably in Federico Fellini's poignant masterpiece La Strada.
15.		Joe Swanberg Actor, Drinking Buddies Joe Swanberg was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1981. He moved around quite a bit growing up, even spending two years on an island in the Pacific Ocean named Kwajalein. He studied film production at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he developed an interest in emerging video technology and the creative possibilities of the Internet...
16.		Julie Brown Actress, Earth Girls Are Easy
17.		Chad Hartigan Director, This Is Martin Bonner
18.		Daniel Bernhardt Actor, The Matrix Reloaded Daniel Bernhardt was born on the 31st August 1965 in Warblaufen, Bern in Switzerland. After finishing high school, he studied architectural design for four years and graduated in Bern. At the same time he opened a martial arts school with his brother. After completing his studies, Daniel moved to Paris and started to work as model...
19.		Melissa Prophet Actress, Casino You may know Melissa Prophet as an actress in Goodfellas and Casino . Growing up in the music business Father, Singer Johnny Prophet. She was a natural. She launched her career working for three years on Kojak with actor Telly Savalas. The former Miss California , Miss Hollywood and runner up in Miss...
20.		Buddy Hackett Actor, The Little Mermaid Brooklyn-born Buddy Hackett was known mainly as a nightclub comic, especially in Las Vegas, where he first performed in 1952 and wound up being one of the biggest headliners in that city's history. Hackett always referred to himself as a "saloon comic" and preferred the intimacy of his stage act--where he would often bring members of the audience up on stage with him--to films and television...
21.		Mike Erwin Actor, Hulk
22.		Leo Bill Actor, 28 Days Later...
23.		Noble Willingham Actor, Walker, Texas Ranger Noble Willingham has appeared in more than 30 feature films, including Up Close & Personal, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Chinatown, Good Morning, Vietnam, City Slickers, City Slickers II, and The Distinguished Gentleman. He was born in the small town of Mineola, Texas, east of Dallas. After graduating from North Texas State College...
24.		Olek Krupa Actor, Home Alone 3
25.		Fredric March Actor, The Best Years of Our Lives Fredric March began a career in banking but in 1920 found himself cast as an extra in films being produced in New York. He starred on the Broadway stage first in 1926 and would return there between screen appearances later on. He won plaudits (and an Academy Award nomination) for his send-up of John Barrymore in The Royal Family of Broadway...
26.		Joshua Close Actor, The Exorcism of Emily Rose Attended Ryerson University for Sociology. Attended Circle In The Square. Grew up outside Toronto, Canada. Kathryn Bigelow cast him months after High School graduation in "K19: The Widowmaker". Played "Oliver" in Jacob Tierneys screen adaptation of "Oliver Twist". Has since been in numerous films and television shows...
27.		Shar Jackson Actress, Moesha Sharisse Jackson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 31, 1976. Jackson is of African American and Cherokee descent on her mother's side, and of Puerto Rican and Mexican descent on her father's side. Shar Jackson has been acting since the age of three when she enrolled in the Al Fann Theatrical Ensemble...
28.		Jack Thompson Actor, Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones Australian actor Jack Thompson was born John Hadley Payne on August 31, 1940 in Manly, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Outside of Oz, he is best known for his appearances in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Breaker Morant, The Man from Snowy River, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. 'Breaker' Morant in which he played a military defense attorney defending three soldiers accused of murder during the Boer War...
29.		Brent Morin Actor, Undateable
30.		G.D. Spradlin Actor, The Godfather: Part II G.D. Spradlin started his career as a lawyer, then became an Independent Oil producer. He was active in local politics before turning to acting. He joined the Oklahoma Repertory Theatre in 1964.
31.		Jeff Russo Composer, Fargo
32.		Lisa Waltz Actress, The Odd Couple II
33.		Jaime Gomez Actor, Nash Bridges Jaime Gomez was born and raised in the Southern California sunshine. College was for the studying of art history and literature as well the history of the world and his personal favorite, philosophy. Jaime has had a successful acting career spanning 20 years. He's best known for his role in the hit CBS series Nash Bridges playing young super cop Evan Cortez...
34.		Carole Wells Actress, National Velvet Carole started working in television and motion pictures at the age of 12. Her first commercial was Dial Soap, then cast on the "Eddie Fisher Coke Time". She played a young "Lizzy" in her first film by the same name. She continued to co-star in most of the television shows in the late fifties, sixties and seventies...
35.		Jasmine Jae Actress, City of Vices
36.		Warren Berlinger Actor, The Long Goodbye
37.		Jason Presson Actor, Gremlins 2: The New Batch
38.		Phina Oruche Actress, The Forsaken In 2012 she made a return to TV on BBC1 drama Doctors, after taking time off to raise her son. In 2012 she featured as the celebrity bedtime story reader reading a story a day for children the week of the Queens Diamond jubilee. Also featured as a special correspondent on North West tonight reporting on the 30 year anniversary of the Toxteth riots...
39.		Hilary Farr Self, Love It or List It
40.		Charles Kay Actor, Amadeus
41.		Mona Marshall Actress, South Park
42.		Cheryl Pollak Actress, Pump Up the Volume
43.		Lee Bryant Actress, Airplane!
44.		Jeff Hardy Actor, WWE Raw
45.		Stephen Henderson Actor, Tower Heist
46.		Anthony D. Call Self, The F.B.I. Files Graduate of Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut, 1958, where Tony not only acted on the school's stage, but was, also, the star quarterback on the football team. Among his fellow classmates was Jeffrey Paul Hopkins, who went on to learn the Tibetan language while following severe Buddhist monastic training. He later became a translator for the Dalai Lama.
47.		Mickie James Actress, WWE Raw
48.		Rosenda Monteros Actress, The Magnificent Seven
49.		Espen Klouman Høiner Actor, Reprise
50.		Claire Du Brey Actress, Cinderella Lovely brown-eyed, brunette Claire Du Brey enjoyed a rich, four-decade film career in all. Born Clara Violet Dubrey on August 31, 1892, in Bonner's Ferry Idaho, her family traveled the rugged Sierra Madre terrain by covered wagon in their move to California when she was 13. Educated in a convent setting and once trained to be a nurse...