Birthday: March 22

1. Lena Olin

Actress | The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Swedish-born Lena Olin already had a successful career as an actress before she came to Hollywood. She acted at the Royal Theatre in Stockholm and was directed by Ingmar Bergman. She was born in Stockholm, to actors Britta Holmberg and Stig Olin, who appeared in six of Bergman's films. Lena also ...

2. Bruno Ganz

Actor | Der Untergang

Bruno Ganz was an acclaimed Swiss actor who was a prominent figure in German language film and television for over fifty years. He is internationally renowned for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004).

Ganz was born in Zürich, to a Swiss mechanic father and a ...

3. Matthew Modine

Actor | Full Metal Jacket

The youngest of seven, Matthew was born in Loma Linda, Ca, to Dolores (Warner), a bookkeeper, and Mark Alexander Modine, a drive-in theater manager. After graduating high school in Imperial Beach, Ca. Modine moved to NYC (1979). Matthew studied with Stella Adler at her Conservatory of Acting. While...

4. Katarzyna Figura

Actress | Zemsta

Katarzyna Figura was born on March 22, 1962 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She is an actress, known for The Revenge (2002), Ubu król (2003) and The Player (1992). She was previously married to Kai Schoenhals and Jan Chmielewski.

5. Francesco Quinn

Actor | Platoon

Perhaps best known for his portrayal of underground drug king Rhah in Oliver Stone's Academy Award-winning Platoon (1986), Francesco Quinn is one of the film industry's most versatile young actors. Intent on following in the footsteps of his father, Oscar winner Anthony Quinn, who had appeared in ...

6. Constance Wu

Actress | Crazy Rich Asians

Constance Wu was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Her mother is a computer programmer and her father is a college professor. Both are immigrants from Taiwan. Constance grew up in Richmond performing in the local community theater scene. At 16, she moved to New York City to study at the famed ...

7. Fanny Ardant

Actress | 8 femmes

Fanny Ardant was the youngest of five children born to a cavalry officer and his wife. She was raised in Monte Carlo where she was educated at a convent school. A voracious reader, she discovered Proust when she was 15, and felt as though his writings were for her.

When she was 17 her father died, ...

8. Haing S. Ngor

Actor | The Killing Fields

Haing S. Ngor was a native of Cambodia. Before the war, he was a physician & medical officer in the Cambodian army. He became a captive of the Khmer Rouge. He was imprisoned & tortured. In order to escape execution, he denied being a doctor or having an education. He moved to the U.S. as a refugee ...

9. Lizzie Brocheré

Actress | Rings

Lizzie Brocheré was born on March 22, 1985 in Paris, France. She is an actress and director, known for Rings (2017), Full Contact (2015) and American Horror Story (2011).

10. Will Yun Lee

Actor | Altered Carbon

Will Yun Lee was born in Arlington, Virginia, to Jung Ja Lee and Soo Won Lee, who had recently emigrated from Korea. He was raised by both immediate and extended family and moved often, exposed to life on the tough Bronx streets and idyllic Hawaiian beaches. By his teens he was living in the San ...

11. James Wolk

Actor | Mad Men

James Wolk was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan, to Edie (Elson), an art teacher, and Robert Wolk, a shoe store owner. His family is Jewish. James graduated from North Farmington High School, and worked in his father's store as a teenager. He graduated from the University of Michigan drama school...

12. Anne Dudek

Actress | White Chicks

Anne was raised in Newton, Massachusetts. She got the role of Iphigenia in "The Iphigenia Cycle" in Chicago while still in theater school at Northwestern University. She was a resident artist at The Court Theatre in Chicago. The production moved off-Broadway to New York City, where she won the ...

13. Reese Witherspoon

Producer | Wild

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...

14. Wilfrid Brambell

Actor | A Hard Day's Night

Wilfrid Brambell was born on 22 March 1912, in Dublin, Ireland. His first acting experience was when he was aged just two, entertaining wounded soldiers returning from action during the First World War. On leaving school he worked part-time as a reporter for The Irish Times and part-time as an ...

15. Alejandra Gutiérrez

Writer | El Senador

Alejandra Gutiérrez was born on March 22, 1975 in Concepción, Bio Bio, Chile to Marilinda Cártes (housewife) and Raúl Gutiérrez (bank employee). Attended the Universidad del Desarrollo where she studied journalism. After leaving the university spent some time drifting across Europe writing about ...

16. J.J. Watt

Actor | Bad Moms

J.J. Watt was born on March 22, 1989 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Bad Moms (2016), New Girl (2011) and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016). He has been married to Keaila Watt since February 15, 2020. They have one child.

17. Babak Karimi

Actor | Forooshande

Babak Karimi was born on March 22, 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He is an actor and editor, known for The Salesman (2016), The Past (2013) and A Separation (2011).

18. Jackson Lou

Actor | Ging chaat goo si 4: Gaan dan yam mo

Jackson Lou was born on March 22, 1962 in Taiwan. He is an actor, known for First Strike (1996), Adventurous Treasure Island (1996) and Vanguard (2020).

19. Irina Kuberskaya

Actress | Napló szerelmeimnek

Irina Kuberskaya was born on March 22, 1946 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR. She is an actress and director, known for Diary for My Lovers (1987), Don Juan Tallinnas (1972) and La mujer del ministro (1981).

20. Jeremy Clyde

Soundtrack | Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood

Jeremy Clyde was born on March 22, 1941 in Dorney, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), The Musketeer (2001) and North Sea Hijack (1980).

21. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

22. Ross Martin

Actor | The Great Race

Born in Grodek, Poland, Ross Martin grew up on New York City's Lower East Side. He spoke Yiddish, Polish, and Russian before even learning English and later added French, Spanish, and Italian to his amazing repertoire.

Despite academic training (and receiving honors in) business, instruction, and ...

23. Kandyse McClure

Actress | Battlestar Galactica

Kandyse McClure is a Canadian actress born on March 22, 1980 in Durban in South Africa. She graduated from West Vancouver Secondary School in 1998. She is an actress, known for main roles in TV series Battlestar Galactica (2004), Hemlock Grove (2013), and from the movies Carrie (2002) and Seventh ...

24. William Shatner

Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

Shatner was born ...

25. Nino Manfredi

Actor | Per grazia ricevuta

Nino Manfredi was born on March 22, 1921 in Castro dei Volsci, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Between Miracles (1971), Bread and Chocolate (1974) and Café Express (1980). He was married to Erminia Ferrari Manfredi. He died on June 4, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

26. Virginia Grey

Actress | Airport

Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927). After a few more films as a child actress, she left the business to finish her schooling. Returning to films as an adult in ...

27. Cole Hauser

Actor | 2 Fast 2 Furious

Cole Hauser was born in Santa Barbara, California. He is the son of Cass Warner, who founded a film production company (Warner Sisters), and Wings Hauser, an actor. His grandfathers were screenwriters Dwight Hauser and Milton Sperling, and his maternal great-grandfather was film mogul Harry M. ...

28. James Brown

Actor | Going My Way

James Brown was born March 22, 1920 in the small town of Desdemona, Eastland County, Texas. He graduated from The Desdemona School (grades 1-12), which was built in 1922 (it closed in 1969). Very athletic, Brown became a tennis pro before there was any money in it. He entered films in 1941. Clearly...

29. Lucy Cominetti

Actress | Qué pena tu vida

Lucy Cominetti was born on March 22, 1982 in Santiago, Chile. She is an actress, known for Qué pena tu vida (2010), Primera Dama (2010) and No Filter (2016).

30. Wolf Blitzer

Actor | Skyfall

Wolf Blitzer was born on March 22, 1948 in Augsburg, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for Skyfall (2012), The Campaign (2012) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018). He has been married to Lynn Greenfield since November 18, 1973. They have one child.

31. Andrew Lloyd Webber

Soundtrack | The Phantom of the Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time. He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Cats (1994), Evita (1996), and The Phantom of the Opera (2004).

He was born on March 22, 1948, in South Kensington in London, ...

32. Bob Costas

Actor | BASEketball

TV sportscaster Bob Costas is known as a smart interviewer with encyclopedic knowledge and a devilish sense of humor.

He was born in the borough of Queens, New York. He is the son of Jayne (Quinlan) and John George Costas, an electrical engineer. His father's roots are Greek, from the island of ...

33. Chico Marx

Actor | Duck Soup

As a kid trying to negotiate his way through various gang territories to a floating crap game or a new pool hall where he was not yet known as a hustler, Leonard (Chico) Marx learned to fake several accents. Because he later employed an Italian accent in the Marx Brothers' act, people assumed his ...

34. Marcel Marceau

Actor | Barbarella

Marcel Marceau was the legendary mime, who survived the Nazi occupation, and saved many children in WWII. He was regarded for his peerless style pantomime, moving audiences without uttering a single word, and was known to the World as a "master of silence."

He was born Marcel Mangel on March 22, ...

35. Will Yun Lee

Actor | Altered Carbon

Will Yun Lee was born in Arlington, Virginia, to Jung Ja Lee and Soo Won Lee, who had recently emigrated from Korea. He was raised by both immediate and extended family and moved often, exposed to life on the tough Bronx streets and idyllic Hawaiian beaches. By his teens he was living in the San ...

36. Tiffany Dupont

Actress | American Horror Stories

Italian/South American-Dutch Actress, Tiffany Dupont is a modern-day renaissance woman, transitioning effortlessly between film and television. Dupont was recently seen starring opposite Greg Kinnear and Aldis Hodge in the Tom Shadyac directed drama, "Brian Banks," which had its world premiere at ...

37. Karina Jelinek

Actress | Bañeros 4: Los rompeolas

Karina Jelinek was born on March 22, 1981 in Villa María, Córdoba Province, Argentina. She is an actress, known for Bañeros 4: Los rompeolas (2014), El vagoneta en el mundo del cine (2012) and Only You (2013). She was previously married to Leonardo Fariña.

38. Linden Chiles

Actor | The Green Hornet

Linden Chiles was born on March 22, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Green Hornet (1966), Old Friends (2010) and Fly Away Home (1996). He was married to Cynthia Jean Coles, Mona Lee Schussman and Rosemary Kelly. He died on May 15, 2013 in Topanga, California, USA.

39. Roberto Ballesteros

Actor | El Pantera

Roberto Ballesteros was born on March 22, 1952 in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico. He is an actor, known for El Pantera (2007), Sorceress (1982) and Código postal (2006).

40. Nino Manfredi

Actor | Per grazia ricevuta

Nino Manfredi was born on March 22, 1921 in Castro dei Volsci, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Between Miracles (1971), Bread and Chocolate (1974) and Café Express (1980). He was married to Erminia Ferrari Manfredi. He died on June 4, 2004 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

41. May Britt

Actress | The Hunters

She was only 18 years old and working as a photographer's assistant in Stockholm when two Italians showed up. Producer Carlo Ponti and director Mario Soldati were there to see pictures of beautiful models, searching for a blonde girl for a movie. They picked her instead and soon she found herself ...

42. Mark Barragar

Actor | The Bounty Hunter

The only child of Wallace and Loree Barragar, Mark Barragar attended Capital Hill High School in Oklahoma City, where he learned to love acting. His first taste of television was on a local late-night Horror Show, "Sleepwalkers Matinee", as the Frankenstein monster at the age of 16. His first film ...

43. Herbert Rudley

Actor | The Court Jester

A former Philadelphian, Herbert Rudley left Temple University at the end of his second year, journeyed to New York and won a scholarship with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre. He made his first stage appearance in 1928 and went on to appear in many more plays, including the Judith ...

44. Christina Bennett Lind

Actress | Fireworkers

Christina Bennett Lind was born in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Fireworkers (2017), Grown (2009) and The Talk Man (2011).

45. Hugo Catalán

Actor | El juego de las llaves

Hugo Catalán was born on March 22, 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He is an actor and director, known for El juego de las llaves (2019), Love Spells (2021) and P#t@s Redes Sociales (2023).

46. Stephanie Mills

Soundtrack | Cop Out

Stephanie Mills was born on March 22, 1957 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Cop Out (2010), Fletch (1985) and The Wiz Live! (2015). She was previously married to Micheal Saunders, Dino Meminger and Jeffrey Daniel.