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1. Cameron Boyce

Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).

In 1999, ...

2. Richard Harris

Actor | Unforgiven

Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout ...

3. Alan Rickman

Actor | Die Hard

Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...

4. Cory Monteith

Actor | Glee

Cory Monteith was born on May 11, 1982 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as Cory Allan Michael Monteith. He was an actor, known for playing the singing jock Finn on the American TV show Glee (2009) and films such as Monte Carlo (2011), and Final Destination 3 (2006). He died on July 13, 2013 in Vancouver...

5. Naya Rivera

Actress | Glee

Naya Rivera was an Afro-Latina American actress, model and singer known for playing Santana Lopez from Glee and Hillary Winston from The Royal Family. She also was in The Master of Disguise, Baywatch, CSI: Miami, American Dad, Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2, Even Stevens and The Bernie ...

6. Kay Purcell

Actress | Emmerdale Farm

Kay Purcell was born on December 6, 1963 in Leyland, Lancashire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Emmerdale Farm (1972), Tracy Beaker Returns (2010) and Messiah: The Harrowing (2005). She died on December 23, 2020 in Lancashire, England, UK.

7. Luke Perry

Actor | Beverly Hills, 90210

Luke Perry was an American actor, primarily remembered as a teen idol throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s. Perry was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1966. Mansfield was known at the time as a center for the home appliances and stove manufacturing industries. The city's largest employer used to be ...

8. Pat Morita

Actor | The Karate Kid

Abundantly busy and much-loved Asian-American actor who became an on-screen hero to millions of adults and kids alike as the wise and wonderful Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid (1984), the sparkling Noriyuki Morita was back again dishing out Eastern philosophy and martial arts lessons for The Karate ...

9. Deezer D

Actor | Romy and Michele's High School Reunion

Deezer D was born in 1965 in Los Angeles, California. He is not only an actor but a popular performer in the Christian and underground hip hop communities. His latest release is titled "Unpredictable". He also briefly hosted a Christian Rap radio show in Los Angeles on station 96.3 KFSG.

10. Ann Reinking

Actress | All That Jazz

Ann Reinking was born on November 10, 1949, in Seattle, Washington. Renowned more for her dancing than acting, Reinking has danced in many Broadway shows. She made her film debut in Movie Movie (1978) and the following year starred opposite Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange in the Bob Fosse biopic All...

11. Albert Finney

Actor | Murder on the Orient Express

The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...

12. Cathy Godbold

Actress | Home and Away

Cathy Godbold is an actress, known for Newlyweds (1993), The Saddle Club (2001), Home and Away (1988) and The King (TV Movie) (2007) where she played her mother. Godbold is the daughter of television personality Rosemary Margan.

Her first appearance was in More Winners: His Master's Ghost (TV Movie)...

13. Jessie Jacobs

Actress | The Saddle Club

Jessie Jacobs was the middle child of Joanna and Brendan Jacobs. After "The Saddle Club" ended Jessie Jacobs pierced her nose and she wore a retainer at the age of 13. When her baby brother Charlie was born Jessie Jacobs helped with his delivery and cut his umbilical cord. Being on "Fergus McPhail"...

14. Jonathan Crombie

Actor | Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel

Jonathan Crombie was born on Wednesday, October 12th, 1966, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the baby of the family (he had two older sisters). His parents are David and Shirley Ann. Jonathan never intended on becoming an actor but he was spotted in a high school production of "The Wizard of Oz"...

15. Colleen Dewhurst

Actress | Anne of Green Gables

Tall, luminous and leonine, the legendary Colleen Dewhurst must go down as one of the theater's finest contemporary tragediennes of the late 1900s. With trademark dusky tones and a majestically careworn appearance, she possessed an inimitable down-to-earth fierceness that not only earned her the ...

16. Richard Farnsworth

Actor | The Straight Story

An American stuntman who, after more than 30 years in the business, moved into acting and became an acclaimed and respected character actor, Richard Farnsworth was a native of Los Angeles. He grew up around horses and as a teenager was offered an opportunity to ride in films. He appeared in ...

17. Edward Herrmann

Actor | Overboard

Edward Herrmann was born on July 21, 1943 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an actor, known for Overboard (1987), The Lost Boys (1987) and Nixon (1995). He was married to Star Herrmann and Leigh Curran. He died on December 31, 2014 in New York City, New York, USA.

18. Carol Ann Susi

Actress | Cats & Dogs

Carol Ann Susi (February 2, 1952 - November 11, 2014) was an American actress best known for her portrayal of the voice of recurring unseen character Mrs. Wolowitz on the television series The Big Bang Theory (2007). Susi was born in Brooklyn and was of Italian descent. She studied acting at HB ...

19. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

20. Richard Griffiths

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The avuncular star character actor Richard Griffiths grew up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. According to an article in the Telegraph newspaper, his father Thomas was a steelworker 'who fought in pubs for ...

21. Dave Legeno

Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

A twin fisted existentialist, whose post-Nietzschian sensibilities reject the lantern of the cynic in a quest for a sun that leaves no shadow. He attended Dr Challoners Grammar School where he achieved 8 'o' levels, he then elected to work on demolition sites rather than continue his education to ...

22. Roger Lloyd Pack

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A superbly versatile character actor of lugubrious countenance and strong physical presence, Roger was the son of Charles Lloyd Pack, a frequent supporting actor in British films of the '50s and '60s. Roger was educated at Bedales, a prestigious co-educational school in Hampshire, noted for a ...

23. Robert Knox

Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Son of Colin and Sally Knox. Brother of Jamie Knox.

Stabbed to death in bar brawl in London on 24 May 2008, while protecting his 16-year-old brother, four days after his last scene on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince was shot. His attacker was convicted of his murder on 4 March 2009.

24. Michael Nyqvist

Actor | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Born Rolf Åke Mikael Nyqvist in Stockholm, Sweden, it wasn't until he was over a year old when he was finally adopted from the orphanage he had been given to. His father was a lawyer and his mother a writer. It wasn't until he had his first child that he decided to seek out his biological parents. ...

25. Adam Alsing

Self | Big Brother

He attended Sundsta/Älvkullegymnasiet (high school) in Karlstad. He's the son of Rolf Alsing, former editor in chief at the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.

He's famous for hosting shows like Adam (1993), "Masterplan," Big Brother (2000), and Tur i kärlek (1991) in Sweden. In 2006 he started as a...

26. Louis Mahoney

Actor | Captain Phillips

Gambian Louis Felix Danner Mahoney was born on Septenber 8, 1938 and came to England ostensibly to train as a doctor. However, he abandoned medicine for the stage, probably his original intention. He enrolled at acting school in the 1970s. He was a tireless campaigner for racial equality in his ...

27. Helen McCrory

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress ...

28. Avicii

Soundtrack | How to Be Single

Tim Bergling, also known as Avicii, was a Swedish DJ and producer who worked on live concerts. In 2011, his single ''Levels'' was on the 100 billboard chart. He was also known for ''Hey Brother''. He sometimes appeared on Radio 1's Pete Tong show. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and died in ...

29. Johnny Lewis

Actor | AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the middle of three siblings, Johnny began performing from the age of 5 at a small performing arts school, making his debut as a Chanukah candle.

Pursuing the acting profession, he appeared with success in many TV and film projects, handling both drama and...

30. Anne Frank

Writer | Anne Frank Remembered

Born in Germany in 1929 and raised and raised in Germany and Amsterdam. In 1942, shortly after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, she and her family were forced to go into hiding to escape Hitler's persecution of the Jews. Hiding with another family and a dentist in an annex behind the ...

31. Lucy Maud Montgomery

Writer | Road to Avonlea

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author with roots in Scotland. She lost her mother at an early age, and was raised by her maternal grandparents. She began to keep a diary and discovered at the age of 10 that she could write poetry. After college she became a teacher but kept writing. In 1908 ...

32. Freddie Mercury

Soundtrack | Flash Gordon

Freddie Mercury was born on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar. His parents, Bomi and Jer Bulsara, sent him off to a private school in India, from 1955 til 1963. In 1964, he and his family flew to England. In 1966 he started his education at the Ealing College of Art, where he graduated in 1969. He ...

33. Christopher Plummer

Actor | Beginners

Legendary actor Christopher Plummer, perhaps Canada's greatest thespian, delivered outstanding performances as Sherlock Holmes in Murder by Decree (1979), the chilling villain in The Silent Partner (1978), the iconoclastic Mike Wallace in The Insider (1999), the empathetic psychiatrist in A ...

34. Charmian Carr

Actress | The Sound of Music

Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 28, 1942. She got her name because, supposedly, her father liked the name after reading William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra". Charmian was the name of one of Cleopatra's maids. She was the second of three daughters. Her mother, Rita Oehmen,...

35. Heather Menzies-Urich

Actress | The Sound of Music

Beautiful, sunny, and engaging blonde actress Heather Menzies was born on December 3, 1949 in Toronto, Canada. Her family moved to the United States when Heather was eleven. She graduated from Hollywood High School and subsequently attended the Falcon Studio's University of the Arts in Hollywood. ...

36. Geoffrey Holder

Actor | Annie

Dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder was born on August 1, 1930, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, into a middle-class family. One of four children, he was taught painting and dancing by his older brother Boscoe Holder, whose dance troupe, the Holder Dance Company, the young Geoffrey joined ...

37. Rob Garrison

Actor | The Karate Kid

Rob Garrison was born on January 23, 1960 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for The Karate Kid (1984), The Karate Kid Part II (1986) and Iron Eagle (1986). He died on September 27, 2019 in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.

38. Rosa Parks

Self | Touched by an Angel

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 - October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom ...

39. Robin Trocki

Actress | Glee

Robin Trocki, born June 30, 1956 in Bayonne, NJ moved to LA in 1991 and became an active member of both ARC and LA Goal, with both programs providing exceptional services for developmentally disabled adults. Robin worked in the bakery dept. at Ralph's for 17 years, but will be most remembered for ...

40. Clara Cannucciari

Writer | Great Depression Cooking with Clara

Clara Cannucciari was born on August 18, 1915 in Melrose Park, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for Great Depression Cooking with Clara (2007), An Afternoon with Clara (2011) and The Daily Show (1996). She was married to Dino Cannucciari. She died on November 29, 2013 in Skaneateles, New York...

41. Monica Nordquist

Actress | Madicken

Monica Nordquist was born on February 3, 1941 in Bromma, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. She was an actress and writer, known for Madicken (1979), Carmilla (1968) and Meg of June Hill (1980). She was married to Göran Graffman. She died on June 24, 2017 in Nacka, Stockholms län, Sweden.

42. Olivia Newton-John

Soundtrack | Grease

Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest...

43. Robbie Coltrane

Actor | Cracker

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...

44. Björn Granath

Actor | Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Björn Granath was born on April 5, 1946 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) and Evil (2003). He was married to Annmargret Fyregård. He died on February 5, 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden.

45. Allan Edwall

Actor | Jungfrukällan

Allan Edwall was born in a working class home in Jämtland, Sweden in 1924. His father was a trade-union man and a communist. 1949-52 he attended Stockholm's Royal Daramatic Theatre School. Through the years he made more than 400 parts in theater, film, television and radio. He was also a director, ...

46. John Aylward

Actor | Armageddon

John Aylward was born on November 7, 1946 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Armageddon (1998), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) and Instinct (1999). He was married to Mary L Fields. He died on May 16, 2022 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

47. Börje Salming

Writer | Börje - The Journey of a Legend

Börje Salming is a Swedish retired professional ice hockey defenceman. He played for Brynäs IF, the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Detroit Red Wings, and AIK. Salming was one of the first European players to make an impact in the National Hockey League (NHL), paving the way for future generations of ...

48. Princess Diana

Self | Charles & Diana: Never Meant to Be

Princess Diana was a member of the British royal family. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, and the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Diana's activism and glamour made her an international icon and earned her an enduring popularity.

Diana was born into the British nobility ...

49. James Herriot

Writer | All Creatures Great & Small

Alf Wight ("James Herriot") was born on 3 October 1916 in Sunderland, near Newcastle. However the family moved to Yoker, a suburb of Glasgow, when Alf was three weeks old. He attended Glasgow Veterinary School. He moved to Thirsk, North Yorkshire, in 1940, to work for Donald Sinclair ("Siegfried ...

50. Patrick Grimlund

Self | Lyxfällan

Patrick Grimlund was born on May 29, 1972 in Lidingö, Sweden. He was married to Sara Grimlund. He died on January 8, 2023 in Sweden.

51. Michael Gambon

Actor | Gosford Park

Sir Michael Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland, to Mary (Hoare), a seamstress, and Edward Gambon, an engineer. After joining the National Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of Sir Laurence Olivier, Gambon went on to appear in a number of leading roles in plays written by Alan Ayckbourn...

52. Barbro Svensson

Actress | Pang i bygget

Barbro Svensson was born on March 9, 1938 in Järvsö, Gävleborgs län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Pang i bygget (1965), Svenska Floyd (1961) and Das Studium der Weiber ist schwer (1960). She was married to Kjell Kaspersen, Lasse Berghagen and Börje Landar. She died on April 3, 2018 in ...

53. Lasse Berghagen

Soundtrack | Dante - Akta're för hajen!

Lasse Berghagen was born on May 13, 1945 in Enskede, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Dante - Akta're för hajen! (1978), Winter Bay (1996) and Hjälten (1990). He was married to Eva Strand and Barbro Svensson. He died on October 19, 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden.

54. Alan Hopgood

Actor | Knowing

Alan Hopgood was born on September 29, 1934 in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor and writer, known for Knowing (2009), The Blue Lagoon (1980) and Prisoner (1979). He was married to Gay Hopgood. He died on March 19, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia.

55. Per Oscarsson

Actor | Sult

Per Oscarsson was born on January 28, 1927 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for Hunger (1966), The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) and Ronia: The Robber's Daughter (1984). He was married to Gerd Hegnell and Kia Östling. He died on December 31, 2010 in Skara, ...

56. Matthew Perry

Actor | Friends

Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, to Suzanne Marie (Langford), a Canadian journalist, and John Bennett Perry, an American actor. His ancestry includes English, Irish, German, Swiss-German, and French-Canadian.

Perry was raised in Ottawa, Ontario, where he became a top-ranked ...

57. Anton Yelchin

Actor | Star Trek

Anton Yelchin was an American actor, known for playing Bobby in Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Chekov in the Star Trek (2009) reboot, Charlie Brewster in the Fright Night (2011) remake, and Jacob in Like Crazy (2011).

He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia, USSR, to a Jewish family. His ...

58. Whitney Houston

Soundtrack | The Bodyguard

Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born into a musical family on 9 August 1963, in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of gospel star Cissy Houston (née Emily Lee Drinkard) and John Russell Houston, Jr., and cousin of singing star Dionne Warwick.

She began singing in the choir at her church, The New Hope ...

59. Bob the Cat

Actor | A Street Cat Named Bob

Bob the Cat was born in 2006. He was an actor, known for A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), The Adventures of Scribbles & Pearl (2020) and A Christmas Gift from Bob (2020). He died on June 13, 2020 in Surrey, England, UK.

60. Hans Mosesson

Actor | S:t Mikael: Traumaenheten

Hans Mosesson was born on August 1, 1944 in Enskede, Stockholm, Sweden. He was an actor, known for S:t Mikael: Traumaenheten (1998), Som man ropar (1988) and Noll tolerans (1999). He was married to Carola Pfeiffer . He died on October 25, 2023 in Stockholm, Sweden.

61. Frances Sternhagen

Actress | Outland

Raised in Washington, D.C., the great-granddaughter (on her father's side) of German immigrants, Frances Hussey Sternhagen taught acting, singing and dancing to young schoolchildren before first performing herself with the Arena Stage Group.

Since then, she was seen in numerous Broadway and ...

62. Tomas Norström

Actor | A Cure for Wellness

Tomas Norström was born on May 23, 1956 in Södertälje, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was an actor and writer, known for A Cure for Wellness (2016), Ping Pong for Singles (2010) and The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (1980). He died on October 3, 2021 in Stockholm, Sweden.

63. Amy Winehouse

Soundtrack | Amy

Amy Jade Winehouse was born on September 14, 1983 in Enfield, London, England and raised in Southgate, London, England to Janis Holly Collins (née Seaton), a pharmacist & Mitchell "Mitch" Winehouse, a window panel installer and taxi driver. Her family shared her love of theater and music. Amy was ...

64. Torsten Wahlund

Actor | Storstad

Torsten Wahlund was born on February 10, 1938 in Engelbrekt, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Storstad (1990), Varuhuset (1987) and Slagskämpen (1984). He was married to Lena Madsén. He died on January 16, 2024 in Gustav Vasa, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden.

65. Red Buttons

Actor | Pete's Dragon

Although Red Buttons is best known as a stand-up comic, he is also a successful songwriter, an Academy Award-winning actor (and has been nominated for two Golden Globe awards) and an accomplished singer. Born Aaron Chwatt in New York City's Lower East Side, Buttons (who got his name from a uniform ...

66. Kenneth Mitchell

Actor | Jericho

Kenneth Mitchell was born on November 25, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Jericho (2006), Miracle (2004) and The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). He was married to Susan May Pratt. He died on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

67. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

68. Conchata Ferrell

Actress | Two and a Half Men

It took 30 years since it was first predicted, but Conchata Ferrell finally achieved television stardom, albeit of the supporting variety, as the housekeeper "Berta" in the situation-comedy Two and a Half Men (2003). Ferrell originally had been tipped for stardom with her turn as the prostitute "...

69. Torsten Lilliecrona

Actor | Vi på Saltkråkan

Torsten Lilliecrona was born on January 4, 1921 in Jönköping, Jönköpings län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Life on Seacrow Island (1964), Den långa julmiddagen (1956) and Någonstans i Sverige (1973). He was married to Gun Malmhed. He died on October 15, 1999 in Höganäs, Skåne län,...

70. Vanessa Marquez

Actress | Stand and Deliver

Sweet-voiced California native Vanessa Marquez had a passion for acting from an early age and wanted to be a child actress like young starlets she admired, such as Judy Garland, Shirley Temple, and Bessie Love. She sent letters to producers and agents hoping to be noticed, and as they went ...

71. Mandisa

Soundtrack | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

Mandisa was born on October 2, 1976 in Sacramento, California, USA. She was a composer, known for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016), Unplanned (2019) and War Room (2015). She died on April 18, 2024 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

72. Maggie King

Actress | The Big Steal

Maggie King was born on April 10, 1940 in the United Kingdom. She was an actress, known for The Big Steal (1990), Neighbours (1985) and The Saddle Club (2001). She died on March 5, 2020 in Australia.