Birth Month Day of 05-23 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Richard Ayoade
Writer | Submarine
Richard Ellef Ayoade was born in Hammersmith, and grew up in Suffolk, in England, the son of a Norwegian mother, Dagny Amalie (Baassuik), and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. He studied Law at Cambridge university, and followed in the footsteps of British Comedy legends like Monty ...
2. Linden Ashby
Actor | Mortal Kombat
Born in Florida, blonde and handsome actor, after graduating from Bolles High School in Jacksonville, Florida, Ashby took a degree in psychology and business administration at Fort Lewis College in Durango in Colorado, and then moved to New York where he studied acting at Neighborhood Playhouse. ...
3. Joan Collins
Actress | Dynasty
Joan Collins is an English actress from Paddington, London. She is most famous for playing the role of vengeful schemer Alexis Carrington Colby in the soap opera "Dynasty" (1981-1989). In 1997, Collins was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to drama. In 2015,...
4. Melissa McBride
Actress | The Walking Dead
Melissa Suzanne McBride (born May 23, 1965) is an American actress and former casting director, best known for her role as Carol Peletier on the AMC series The Walking Dead. McBride has garnered critical acclaim and received multiple awards and nominations for her role on the show.
McBride was born ...
5. H. Jon Benjamin
Actor | Archer
H. Jon Benjamin was born on May 23, 1966 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Archer (2009), Wet Hot American Summer (2001) and Not Another Teen Movie (2001).
6. Ryan Coogler
Director | Black Panther
Ryan Coogler was born on May 23, 1986 in Oakland, California, USA as Ryan Kyle Coogler. He has been married to Zinzi Coogler since 2016.
7. Jewel Kilcher
Soundtrack | Ride with the Devil
Jewel Kilcher was born on May 23, 1974 in Payson, Utah, USA. She was previously married to Ty Murray.
8. John Ortiz
Actor | Silver Linings Playbook
John Ortiz was born on May 23, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Silver Linings Playbook (2012), Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and American Gangster (2007). He is married to Jennifer Ortiz. They have one child.
9. LaMonica Garrett
Actor | Designated Survivor
LaMonica Garrett was born on May 23, 1975 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Designated Survivor (2016), Clemency (2019) and Sons of Anarchy (2008). He has been married to Mina Ivanova since April 27, 2017.
10. Karen Duffy
Actress | Dumb and Dumber
Karen Duffy was born on May 23, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Dumb and Dumber (1994), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Blank Check (1994). She has been married to John Lambros since February 28, 1997. They have one child.
11. Lea DeLaria
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Lea DeLaria was born on May 23, 1958 in Belleville, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Cars 3 (2017) and The Oblongs (2001).
12. Scatman Crothers
Actor | The Shining
Scatman Crothers was born Benjamin Sherman Crothers on May 23, 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Songwriter ("Dearest One"), actor, composer, singer, comedian and guitarist who, after high school, appeared in nightclubs, hotels, films and on television. He made many records, including his own ...
13. Drew Carey
Producer | The Drew Carey Show
Drew Carey was born on May 23, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Drew Allison Carey. He is a producer and actor, known for The Drew Carey Show (1995), Robots (2005) and Jack and Jill (2011).
14. Alberto Frezza
Actor | Station 19
Alberto Frezza was born on May 23, 1989 in Milan, Lombardia, Italy. He is an actor and director, known for Station 19 (2018), Dead of Summer (2016) and Charlie's Angels (2011).
15. D.J. Cotrona
Actor | G.I. Joe: Retaliation
D.J. Cotrona was born on May 23, 1980 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA as Donald Joseph Cotrona. He is an actor and writer, known for G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013), Shazam! (2019) and Dear John (2010).
16. Felissa Rose
Actress | Sleepaway Camp
Felissa Rose Esposito grew up in New York always wanting to perform. At the age of 13, she landed the role of Angela in the cult film Sleepaway Camp (1983). At the age of 17, she applied for early admission to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and was admitted that fall. Attending The ...
17. O-Lan Jones
Actress | Edward Scissorhands
O-Lan Jones is an award winning composer, sound designer, writer, and actress who has been consistently involved in experimental theater, music, and opera since the age of 16. The press has referred to her as an "uncategorizable legend." She is the Artistic Director for Overtone Industries, ...
18. Rosemary Clooney
Actress | White Christmas
Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, to Marie Frances (Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. She was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent, and her mother was of Irish and English ancestry. She grew up in Maysville, where she and her sister Betty Clooney used...
19. Adam Wylie
Actor | Picket Fences
Adam Wylie was born on May 23, 1984 in San Dimas, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Picket Fences (1992), The King and I (1999) and Under Wraps (1997).
20. Lane Garrison
Actor | Shooter
Lane Garrison is an American actor,writer from Dallas, Texas. After he graduated from J.J. Pearce High School, where Jessica Simpson also attended, he moved to Los Angeles. He was 18 and only had 400$ to his name, but his love and passion for making movies paid off after years of perseverance when ...
21. Betty Garrett
Actress | On the Town
A sunny singer, dancer and comic actress, Betty Garrett starred in several Hollywood musicals and stage roles. She was at the top of her game when the Communist scare in the 1950s brought her career to a screeching, ugly halt. She and her husband Larry Parks, an Oscar-nominated actor, were summoned...
22. Linda Watkins
Actress | The Parent Trap
Linda Watkins was born on May 23, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Linda Mathews Watkins. She was an actress, known for The Parent Trap (1961), From Hell It Came (1957) and Good Neighbor Sam (1964). She was married to Gabriel Hess. She died on October 31, 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
23. Guinevere Turner
Actress | American Psycho
Guinevere Turner was born on May 23, 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Guinevere Jane Turner. She is an actress and writer, known for American Psycho (2000), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005) and Go Fish (1994).
24. Jesse Heiman
Actor | Old School
Jesse Heiman was born in Boston on May 23, 1978 and lived in Boston until 1989.
He lived in Austin, Texas from 1989 and attended West Ridge Middle School, Westlake High School, and Texas State University of San Marcos for education. Graduated college in May of 2000 with a BA in English.
Moved to Los ...
25. Lauren Chapin
Actress | Father Knows Best
Lauren Ann Chapin (born May 23, 1945, Los Angeles, California) is an American former child actress, most remembered for her role as the youngest child "Kathy Anderson" (nicknamed "Kitten") in the television show Father Knows Best which was produced between 1954 and 1960. She appeared in 203 ...
26. Barbara Barrie
Actress | Breaking Away
After endless stage and television work, Barrie received a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress for her performance in the ground-breaking racial drama One Potato, Two Potato (1964), as Julie, a young, white mother who marries a black man after she and her daughter are abandoned by her ...
27. Tom Tykwer
Writer | Lola rennt
Director, writer, producer and composer Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany. He showed an interest in film-making from childhood, making super 8 films from the age of 11. Among his first jobs was working at a local art-house cinema. Tykwer eventually relocated to Berlin, first working...
28. Kelly Monaco
Actress | General Hospital
An active athlete, Kelly Marie Monaco grew up on the East Coast, where she participated in soccer, swimming, track and softball, among other sports. After the last of five girls was born, her family decided to move from the bustling city of Philadelphia to the more peaceful environment of the ...
29. Herbert Marshall
Actor | Murder!
Herbert Marshall had trained to become a certified accountant, but his interest turned to the stage. He lost a leg while serving in World War I and was rehabilitated with a wooden leg. This did not stop him from making good his decision to make the stage his vocation. He used a very deliberate ...
30. Alexander De Jordy
Director | Cheese
Alexander De Jordy is a Toronto born actor, director and producer, known for 19-2 (2014), Letterkenny (2016), and Between (2015).
He has also appeared on Rookie Blue (2010), Saving Hope (2012), and starred in the Gemini nominated Sticks and Stones (2008), winner of "Best Foreign Drama Feature" at ...
31. Laurel Holloman
Actress | The L Word
Laurel Holloman was born on May 23, 1971 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA as Laurel Lisa Holloman. She is an actress, known for The L Word (2004), The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995) and Boogie Nights (1997). She was previously married to Paul Macherey.
32. Linda Thompson
Soundtrack | The Bodyguard
Linda Thompson was born in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended Kingsbury High School where she was Homecoming Queen, and after graduation, she attended Memphis State University for 4 years, majoring in English and Drama. Linda was named Miss Tennessee Universe 1972, Miss Liberty Bowl, Miss Shelby ...
33. Douglas Fairbanks
Actor | Robin Hood
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, ...
34. Frank McHugh
Actor | All Through the Night
The parents of Frank McHugh ran their own stock company and he was on the stage as a child. When he was 10 he was part of an act that include his brother Matt McHugh and sister Kitty McHugh. After vaudeville and other stock companies, Frank debuted on Broadway "The Fall Guy" (1925). In 1930 he was ...
35. Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
Actress | Undskyld jeg forstyrrer
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen is a Danish actress, writer and director. She grew up in Birkerød, Denmark, and partly in the US with her parents and siblings. Sara graduated from the Danish National School of Acting in 2016. She was part of a children's theatre in her hometown from the age of ten and began ...
36. Nigel Davenport
Actor | A Man for All Seasons
Nigel Davenport was born on May 23, 1928 in Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England as Arthur Nigel Davenport. He was an actor and assistant director, known for A Man for All Seasons (1966), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Phase IV (1974). He was married to Maria Aitken and Helena Margaret White. ...
37. Ken Jennings
Actor | The Simpsons
Ken Jennings was born on May 23, 1974 in Edmonds, Washington, USA as Kenneth Wayne Jennings III. He is a producer and actor, known for The Simpsons (1989), Red Dead Redemption II (2018) and Murphy Brown (1988). He has been married to Mindy Boam Jennings since September 16, 2000. They have two ...
38. Beverly Leech
Actress | Blood Work
Beverly Leech was born on May 23 in Paris, Texas, USA as Beverly Ann Leech. She is an actress, whose craft was directly shaped and deeply inspired by Stella Adler. Known for Blood Work (2002), First Kill (2018) and Square One Television (1987). She is member of Academy Award Winner, Robert ...
39. Zalman King
Producer | Nine 1/2 Weeks
Zalman King was born on May 23, 1942 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA as Zalman King Lefkowitz. He was a producer and director, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Galaxy of Terror (1981) and In God's Hands (1998). He was married to Patricia Louisianna Knop. He died on February 3, 2012 in Santa Monica, ...
40. Myko Olivier
Actor | Menendez: Blood Brothers
Myko Olivier is an actor and producer, known for Menendez: Blood Brothers (2017), Glee (2009) and Castle (2009). He was born in Palm Springs, Ca. He studied at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts at the conservatory acting studio Playwrights Horizons Theater School. He has been married to Rae Olivier ...
41. Mark Arnold
Actor | Blade Runner 2049
Mark Arnold was born on May 23, 1957 in Broomall, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Teen Wolf (1985) and Angel Has Fallen (2019). He has been married to Alina Florea since September 1, 2011. He was previously married to Anneliza Scott.
42. Kristin Rudrüd
Actress | Fargo
Kristin Rudrüd was born on May 23, 1955 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. She is an actress, known for Fargo (1996), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) and Pleasantville (1998).
43. Jeanette Brox
Actress | Wilderness Survival for Girls
Jeanette Brox was born on May 23, 1981 in Orange County, California, USA as Jeanette Carolyn Brox. She is an actress, known for Wilderness Survival for Girls (2004), Jack & Bobby (2004) and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000). She is married to Neil McCarthy.
44. Colleen Flynn
Actress | Pay It Forward
Colleen Flynn was born on May 23, 1962 in New Jersey, USA. She is an actress, known for Pay It Forward (2000), Clear and Present Danger (1994) and The X-Files (1993). She has been married to Stephen Hornyak since October 6, 1990.
45. Bob Mortimer
Actor | Catterick
Bob Mortimer was born on May 23, 1959 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England as Robert Renwick Mortimer. He is an actor and writer, known for Catterick (2004), House of Fools (2014) and Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer (1999). He has been married to Lisa Matthews since October 2015. They ...
46. Charlie Yeung
Actress | Do lok tin si
Charlie Yeung was first cast to star in a jewelry commercial with pop idol Aaron Kwok in 1993, and thus began her versatile career. Within a year, she appeared in various movies including acclaimed director Kar-Wai Wong's Ashes of Time, and released her first album which won her The Most Promising ...
47. James Gleason
Actor | Here Comes Mr. Jordan
James Gleason was born in New York City to William Gleason and Mina Crolius, who were both in the theatre. He was married to Lucile Gleason (born Lucile Webster), and had a son, Russell Gleason. As a young man James fought in the Spanish-American War. After the war he joined the stock company at ...
48. Hal Landon Jr.
Actor | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Hal Landon Jr. was born on May 23, 1941 in Long Beach, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Eraserhead (1977) and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey (1991).
49. Marius Goring
Actor | The Red Shoes
The son of Dr. Charles Buckman Goring M.D. and Kate Winifred (nee MacDonald). Marius Goring was educated at Perse School, Cambridge, England and at the Universities of Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris. He studied for the stage under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school, London. His ...
50. Paul Spurrier
Writer | Eullenia
Paul Spurrier was born on May 23, 1967 in Suffolk, England. He is an actor and writer, known for Eullenia (2018), The Forest (2016) and P (2005).