IMDb: Most Popular People Born On August 18

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1.		Patrick Swayze Actor, Dirty Dancing Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952 in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (née Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. His father passed away in 1982...
2.		Edward Norton Actor, Fight Club American actor, filmmaker and activist Edward Harrison Norton was born on August 18, 1969, in Boston, Massachusetts, and was raised in Columbia, Maryland. His mother, Lydia Robinson "Robin" (Rouse), was a foundation executive and teacher of English, and a daughter of famed real estate developer James Rouse...
3.		Andy Samberg Actor, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Andy Samberg was born in Berkeley, California, to Marjorie (Marrow), a teacher, and Joe Samberg, a photographer. With Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer, Samberg is one of three Los Angeles, California-based writer-performer-filmmakers--all childhood friends--dubbed the Lonely Island, whose short films were showcased on the popular untelevised television network show and Web site Channel 101.com...
4.		Robert Redford Actor, The Sting Charles Robert Redford, Jr. was born on August 18, 1936, in Santa Monica, California, to Martha (Hart), from Texas, and Charles Robert Redford, an accountant for Standard Oil, who was originally from Connecticut. He is of English, Scottish, Cornish, and Irish ancestry. Robert's mother died in 1955, the year after he graduated from high school...
5.		Christian Slater Actor, Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Christian Michael Leonard Slater was born on August 18, 1969 in New York City, to Michael Hawkins, a well-known soap actor, and Mary Jo Slater (née Lawton), a casting agent. Christian started in show business early, appearing on the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1976 at the age of 7. He went on to star in many Broadway shows in the early-1980s...
6.		Madeleine Stowe Actress, Revenge Madeleine Stowe was born in Los Angeles, California, to Mireya Maria (Mora Steinvorth) and Robert Alfred Stowe, a civil engineer. Her mother was a from a prominent political family in Costa Rica. Stowe grew up in Eagle Rock, a working-class neighborhood of Los Angeles. At age ten she started practicing for a career as a concert pianist and trained every day for hours...
7.		Kaitlin Olson Actress, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Born in Portland, Oregon, Kaitlin cultivated her passion for acting at the University of Oregon, where she got her Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts. After her stint on stage, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting professionally. She began at The Groundlings Theatre in Hollywood, training ground to comic greats such as Will Ferrell and Phil Hartman...
8.		Mika Boorem Actress, Hollywood Hustle: LA Player Mika Boorem is a actress, director, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles. Boorem began directing and producing plays in 2010. Boorem is best known for her acting career that began in 1994. Her feature film credits include Smile, Sleepover, Blue Crush, The Patriot, Along Came a Spider, Hearts in Atlantis...
9.		Roman Polanski Director, The Pianist Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933. His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years before World War II began...
10.		Shelley Winters Actress, Lolita Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose (Winter), was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. Her father moved the family to Brooklyn when she was still young so that he...
11.		Maia Mitchell Actress, The Fosters Maia Mitchell is an Australian singer/song writer and actress from Lismore, New South Wales. She learned to play the guitar at a very young age and her talent has been included on The Fosters - an ABC Family show that aired in June 2013, where Maia plays one of the main roles of "Callie Jacob". Also...
12.		Elizabeth Chambers Actress, The Game Plan
13.		Richard Harmon Actor, The 100
14.		Denis Leary Writer, Two If by Sea Denis Leary was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of Nora (Sullivan) and John Leary, Irish immigrants who had grown up together. His mother was a maid and his father was an auto mechanic. After a childhood in the 1960s, Leary went to Emerson College in Boston, where he tried his hand at acting and writing...
15.		Max Charles Actor, The Strain At just 13 years of age, Max Charles is already an industry veteran, landing coveted roles on and off the big screen and working with some of Hollywood's most respected and acclaimed actors, writers and directors. Most recently, this charismatic and endearing young talent was nominated as "Best Young...
16.		Carole Bouquet Actress, For Your Eyes Only
17.		Malcolm-Jamal Warner Actor, The Cosby Show Emmy-nominated actor and director Malcolm-Jamal Warner was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He was named after Malcolm X and legendary jazz pianist Ahmad Jamal. Warner first rose to national prominence by starring on the celebrated and long-running classic television series "The Cosby Show."...
18.		Sarita Choudhury Actress, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 After her debut film Mississippi Masala became an art house hit, Sarita Choudhury was determined not to "go Hollywood," focusing her acting energies on independent film instead. Raised in Jamaica, Mexico, and Italy, the half-Indian, half-English Choudhury studied economics at Queens University in Ontario before switching to acting...
19.		Martin Mull Self, Hollywood Squares Offbeat funnyman Martin Mull was born in Chicago, Illinois, the oldest of three children of Betty, an actress and director, and Harold Mull, a carpenter. He was raised in Ohio. The blond-maned, blue-eyed comedian with the sad, droopy mustache first came in contact with the arts by honing in on his innate talents as a painter...
20.		Anna Akana Actress, Riley Rewind
21.		Craig Bierko Actor, Cinderella Man
22.		Jacob Vargas Actor, Luke Cage Jacob Vargas began his acting career when he was discovered breakdancing in a schoolyard at age 12. His introduction to acting came with a bit part as a breakdancer on the hit TV show Diff'rent Strokes. In 1995 he won the very first ALMA Award (for Emerging Artist of the Year) for his work in both Allison Anders' Mi vida loca and Gregory Nava's My Family...
23.		Carmen Serano Actress, Next Friday
24.		Parker McKenna Posey Actress, My Wife and Kids Born at Cedar Sinai hospital in Los Angeles, on August 18th 1995, Parker McKenna Posey was destined to be a star. With the face of an angel, and hair to go with it, she appeared in a Kodak commercial at the tender age of 2, before going on to model for Disney catalogs and star in ad campaigns for Old Navy and to play a young Macy Gray in her "Sweet Sweet Baby" music video...
25.		Dar Salim Actor, Kapringen
26.		Reg E. Cathey Actor, Se7en
27.		Glenn Plummer Actor, Speed On a foundation of talent, unbridled dedication and a passionate mindset, Glenn Plummer has enjoyed a successful acting career that spans almost two decades. He has starred in such feature films as: Saw II, co-starring Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Dina Meyer and Beverley Mitchell; Dennis Hopper's Colors...
28.		Rebecca Brown Actress, School of Rock She started playing classical guitar at age 4. Appeared on the national public radio show "From the Top" when she was 9 years. Studies guitar at Music Institute of Chicago.
29.		Adam Storke Actor, Death Becomes Her
30.		Mizuo Peck Actress, Night at the Museum
31.		Joan Taylor Actress, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers Joan Taylor's mother, Amelia Berky, was a vaudeville singing-dancing star in the 1920s. Her father was a prop man in Hollywood during that same period, but, after Joan's birth, the family moved to Lake Forest, Illinois, where her father managed a movie theater. She developed a love of movies from watching so many at her father's theater...
32.		Frances Bean Cobain Miscellaneous Crew, Cobain: Montage of Heck
33.		Eniko Parrish Self, E! Live from the Red Carpet Born in Baltimore, Maryland and who became engaged to Kevin Hart after a long-term relationship and on her 30th birthday, Eniko Parrish is of mixed Afro-Carribean heritage. Often seen on popular social media platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook along with her celebrity comedian actor husband-to-be, their wedding is scheduled for 2016.
34.		Darren Pettie Actor, Ghost Town Born in Alabama, Darren trained at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts and graduated in 1996. Since then, he has worked extensively on the New York stage. He lives in New York City. He achieved his first nationwide notoriety with the recurring role of slick, bisexual tobacco heir Lee Garner, Jr. in the Hit TV series "Mad Men".
35.		Teri McMinn Actress, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Born in Houston, Texas. After graduating from high school, Teri studied and worked at The Dallas Theatre Center, in Dallas, Texas. Moving to Austin, Texas, in 1971, the young actress attended the University of Texas and St. Edwards University. It was in Austin, where she was discovered by director Tobe Hooper and producer Kim Henkel...
36.		Max Winkler Director, Ceremony
37.		Christopher Jones Actor, Ryan's Daughter Christopher Jones was a brief cult star of the late 60s counterculture era and a would-be successor to James Dean had he wanted it. Born Billy Frank Jones amid rather impoverished surroundings to a grocery clerk in Jackson, Tennessee in 1941, his artist mother had to be institutionalized when Chris was 4...
38.		Gail Fisher Actress, Mannix A classy, smart-looking, spectacularly beautiful African-American actress who broke racial barriers in 1970s Hollywood but suffered greatly in her private life years after her TV glory days, award-winning actress Gail Fisher was born on August 18, 1935, in Orange, New Jersey, the youngest of five children...
39.		Kieran Bew Actor, Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
40.		Don Keefer Actor, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
41.		Katie Lyons Actress, Bluestone 42 Katie is an actor and writer, originally from Southampton. She attended the Gantry Youth Theatre where she was cast in two Peter Kosminsky films and went on to study Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, where she began writing and performing in shows for the Edinburgh Festival with her company Trippplicate...
42.		Brian Stack Writer, Late Night with Conan O'Brien
43.		Daphne Duplaix Actress, One Life to Live
44.		Elayne Boosler Self, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes: America's Greatest Quips, Comebacks and Catchphrases
45.		Griffin Drew Actress, Masseuse
46.		Steven Zirnkilton Actor, Faith Rewarded: The Historic Season of the 2004 Boston Red Sox
47.		Max Wasa Actress, Dream On About Me Max Wasa is a long-time industry professional. Max is a classically-trained musician; LA Music Award winner for Life time achievement record producer; nationally-recognized children's writer; green product developer; the creative force behind Hopey The Hound Dog, The Delicate Dragonfly, Kid...
48.		Brian Presley Actor, Touchback
49.		Andrew Shim Actor, This Is England
50.		Grant Williams Actor, The Incredible Shrinking Man As a child, Williams acted in summer stock productions. After graduation from high school he joined the Air Force for a four-year stint. Then, returning to New York, he took acting classes with Lee Strasberg. A few minor Broadway roles followed as did parts on some live TV dramas. One of these parts caught the eye of a talent agent and Williams signed with Universal in 1956...