Birth Month Day of 04-21 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
2. Sophie Rundle
Actress | Peaky Blinders
Sophie Rundle is an English actress. Born on 21 April 1988 to Fiona and Michael Rundle, she has two brothers James and Henry. She attended the Bournemouth School for Girls before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in 2011 with a BA in Acting.
Upon graduation, she ...
3. Andie MacDowell
Actress | Groundhog Day
Andie MacDowell was born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell on April 21, 1958 in Gaffney, South Carolina, to Pauline Johnston (Oswald), a music teacher, and Marion St. Pierre MacDowell, a lumber executive. She was enrolled at Winthrop College located in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Initially discovered by a ...
4. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Actress | Belle
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. Her father, Patrick Mbatha, is a Black South African doctor, and her mother, Anne Raw, is a Caucasian English nurse. Her parents separated when she was a year old, and she was brought up by her mother ...
5. Robbie Amell
Actor | Upload
Along with his sister, Robbie Amell started acting when he was just six years old. At sixteen, he started to land theater roles at Lawrence Park Stage in plays such as Louis and Dave, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and The Importance of Being Earnest. The experience brought Robbie to realize that he ...
6. Toby Stephens
Actor | Die Another Day
Toby Stephens began his acting career while a stagehand at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in end-of-season productions mounted by the crew. In his brief professional career, he has already won the Sir John Gielgud Prize for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award for his performance in the title ...
7. Thomas Doherty
Actor | The Lodge
Doherty was born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. He has an older brother and younger sister, and his parents were both in the banking business. Doherty began acting at the age of 5 and also played football. Doherty joined Lothian Youth Arts and Musicals Company and played a variety of roles, ...
8. Christoph Sanders
Actor | Last Man Standing
Christoph Sanders grew up in western NC, before moving to Los Angeles in 2007, he is currently (2016) playing the character Kyle Anderson on the TV series Last Man Standing. Before Last Man Standing, Christoph Sanders was on the TV series Ghost Whisperer starting midway through season three until ...
9. Jennifer Blanc-Biehn
Actress | Dark Angel
Jennifer Blanc, also known as Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, was born and raised in New York City, by her mom, Jenise Blanc. At the tender age of 10, Jennifer was on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs", working alongside Jonathan Silverman, Fisher Stevens and Robert Sean Leonard. Jennifer's ...
10. Maimie McCoy
Actress | The Libertine
Maimie McCoy was born on April 21, 1979 in Staddlebridge, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Libertine (2004), Virgin Territory (2007) and Early Days (2018).
11. Frank Dillane
Actor | In the Heart of the Sea
Frank trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (R.A.D.A.), graduating in 2013.
As a child he played Christopher Henderson in 'Welcome to Sarajevo' (Channel 4/Miramax/Dragon Pictures) directed by Michael Winterbottom. Aged sixteen Frank played Tom Riddle in 'Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince...
12. Nicole Sullivan
Actress | Meet the Robinsons
-Grew up doing theater in NYC -Studied at Northwestern University. -Her career started in 1995, when she was cast on Mad TV (1995) for 6 seasons. -Cast member of The King of Queens (1998) for 5 seasons, playing opposite Jerry Stiller.
- Enjoys working in TV.
13. Tony Danza
Actor | Don Jon
Tony Danza is an American actor, perhaps best known for starring on some of television's most beloved and long-running series, including Taxi (1978-1983) and Who's the Boss? (1984-1992).
Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (Cammisa), a bookkeeper, and Matty Iadanza, a garbageman. His mother...
14. Anthony Quinn
Actor | Alexis Zorbas
Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...
15. Rob Riggle
Actor | The Daily Show
Comedian, actor and United States Marine Corps Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Robert Allen Riggle, Jr. was born April 21, 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky, to Sandra (Shrout) and Robert Allen Riggle, who worked in insurance. Riggle has amassed notable television credits and has also earned roles in many ...
16. Kate Vernon
Actress | Malcolm X
Kate Vernon was born to the celebrated actor John Vernon. As her father's career began to take off in the USA, the family moved from their home in Canada to Hollywood when Kate was 7 years old.
With the ever growing career success of the late John Vernon (Dirty Harry (1971), National Lampoon's ...
17. Patti LuPone
Actress | Witness
A fireball of talent and a musical force to be reckoned with, singer/actress Patti LuPone was born on April 21, 1949 in Northport on Long Island, New York, of Italian heritage. Her parents, Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school administrator, and mother Angela Louise (Patti), a librarian, eventually ...
18. Charles Grodin
Actor | Midnight Run
Deadpan comedian Charles Sydney Grodin (originally Grodinsky) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania of Russian/Polish ancestry and raised in a Jewish orthodox home. He attended the University of Miami but dropped out, opting instead for the life of a struggling actor. The movie A Place in the Sun (...
19. Bridget Everett
Actress | Patti Cake$
Bridget Everett was born on April 21, 1972 in Manhattan, Kansas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Patti Cake$ (2017), Little Evil (2017) and Somebody Somewhere (2022).
20. Glen Hansard
Soundtrack | Once
Glen Hansard is an Irish singer-songwriter. Since 1990, he has been the frontman of the Irish rock band The Frames, with whom he has released six studio albums, four of which have charted in the top ten of the Irish Album Charts. In the 2000s, he was one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season ...
21. Jeff Anderson
Actor | Clerks
Jeff Anderson was born on April 21, 1970 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Clerks (1994), Clerks II (2006) and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008). He has been married to Barbara Jacques since 2009. He was previously married to Lisa Spoonauer.
22. John Cameron Mitchell
Actor | Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell was born on April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Shortbus (2006) and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017).
23. Reni Santoni
Actor | Cobra
Born Reinaldo Santoni in New York City on April 21, 1938 of French and Spanish heritage, Reni (aka Reni Sands) started his career off in entertainment as a comedy writer. He moved in front of the camera in the early 60s and was performing episodic TV drama ("East Side/West Side," "The Trials of ...
24. Elaine May
Actress | Small Time Crooks
Elaine May (born under the name Elaine Iva Berlin) is an American actress, comedian, film director, playwright, and screenwriter from Philadelphia. Her professional career started in the 1950s and is still ongoing. She has twice been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. She ...
25. Brian White
Actor | Ambitions
Brian White was born on April 21, 1975 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Ambitions (2019), Stomp the Yard (2007) and The Family Stone (2005). He has been married to Paula Da Silva since August 28, 2010. They have one child.
26. Dylan Bruce
Actor | Orphan Black
A talented actor on the rise, Dylan Bruce continues to build on an expansive resume. Dylan most recently starred in NBC's supernatural thriller "Midnight Texas" for two seasons. Immediately after that Bruce starred as Detective Nolan Wells in the first season of "The Murders" on CityTV.
Previously, ...
27. Claire Denis
Director | High Life
The films of Claire Denis frequently explore the fragile connections between people and the ways in which the most seemingly inconsequential relationship can have life-changing effects. At the heart of Denis' cinema is a fascination with the delights and difficulties of belonging and otherness, the...
28. Brianne Davis
Actress | Six
Whether lighting up the big screen, or calling the shots behind the scene, actor, director, and producer Brianne Davis is one of the most electric talents to storm Hollywood by force. Starring in one of the most highly-anticipated new dramas with History Channel's military series; Six (2017), is an...
29. Edoardo Leo
Actor | Diciotto anni dopo
Edoardo Leo was born on April 21, 1972 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for 18 Years Later (2010), The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015) and Perfect Strangers (2016).
30. Valerie Tian
Actress | Juno
Valerie Tian was born on April 21, 1989 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Juno (2007), Jennifer's Body (2009) and Drillbit Taylor (2008).
31. Tavi Gevinson
Actress | Enough Said
Tavi Gevinson was born on April 21, 1996 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Enough Said (2013), Person to Person (2017) and Scream Queens (2015).
32. Eva De Dominici
Actress | La fragilidad de los cuerpos
Eva De Dominici was born on April 21, 1995 in Avellaneda, Argentína. She is an actress, known for The Fragility of Bodies (2017), Tiger, Blood in the Mouth (2016) and Cosmic Sin (2021).
33. Leslie Silva
Actress | Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Born in Schenectady, New York, Leslie Silva was raised primarily in Saratoga, New York, but also lived in Connecticut, Iowa and Georgia, moving frequently because her father worked as a nuclear engineer. She attended the University of Connecticut at Storrs, and received a BFA from the School of ...
34. Emma Tremblay
Actress | Elysium
Emma Tremblay was born on April 21, 2004 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress, known for Elysium (2013), The Giver (2014) and The Judge (2014).
35. James Morrison
Actor | 24
A filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, singer/songwriter and yoga teacher, James Morrison was born in Utah and is a product of Alaska. He served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre in the late '70s and spent a year studying in New York before settling on the West Coast in...
36. Charlie O'Connell
Actor | Dude, Where's My Car?
Charlie O'Connell was born on April 21, 1975 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Cruel Intentions (1999) and Crossing Jordan (2001). He has been married to Anna Sophia Berglund since May 12, 2018.
37. Sarah Catherine Hook
Actress | The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Sarah Catherine Hook is an American actress and singer. Born and raised in Montgomery, AL, she went on to SUNY Purchase College to pursue a degree in Vocal Performance: Opera where she received her Bachelor of Music. During her time at Purchase, she began to pique her interest in acting and ...
38. Silvana Mangano
Actress | Dune
Silvana Mangano was born on April 21, 1930 in Rome, Italy and was raised in poverty during World War II. She trained as a dancer for seven years and supported herself as a model. In 1946, at age 16, she won the Miss Rome beauty pageant and through this, she obtained role in a Maria Della Costa film...
39. Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Producer | Deux jours, une nuit
After studying drama in the arts institute, Jean Pierre Dardenne and his brother Luc made some videos about the rough life in blue-collar small towns in the Wallonie. After their meeting with filmmaker Armad Gatti and cinematographer Ned Burgess, they decided to enter in the movie business.
In 1978 ...
40. Dee Hartford
Actress | The Time Tunnel
A tall, photogenic brunette, Dee was born in Salt Lake City as Donna Lee Higgins to Edgar Higgins and Beatrice Thomas. She started out in the late 1940s as a model for Vogue magazine in New York. Her sister Eden Hartford (Eden Marie Higgins) (Groucho Marx's wife from 1954 to 1969) followed a ...
41. Hadley Fraser
Actor | The Legend of Tarzan
Hadley Fraser (born Robert Hugh Fraser) is the son of Jack and Carol Fraser, and brother of Ed Fraser, an officer in the British Army. He holds a BA from Birmingham University and a Postgraduate Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music. In 2011 he was made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music,...
42. Joel de la Fuente
Actor | The Man in the High Castle
Joel de la Fuente received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the New York University Graduate Acting Program in 1994, having received his Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. He has appeared in films such as Personal Velocity (2002), Return to Paradise (1998), and Roommates (1995). On ...
43. Roy Dupuis
Actor | Nikita
Roy Dupuis was born on April 21, 1963, in New Liskeard, Ontario. He spent a significant portion of his childhood (from early infancy until he was eleven years old) in Amos, which is in a region of Québec called Abitibi. For the next three years, he lived in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where he learned to...
44. Lisa Darr
Actress | Popular
Lisa Darr was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 21, 1963. She wanted to be an actress for a long time and went to Stanford University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Biology. From there she went to UCLA and got a master's degree in acting. Her first big break came when she won the role of ...
45. Nadeshda Brennicke
Actress | Banklady
Nadeshda Brennicke was born on April 21, 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Banklady (2013), Case 39 (2009) and Tattoo (2002).
46. Desmin Borges
Actor | You're the Worst
Desmin Borges was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for You're the Worst (2014), Utopia (2020) and Private Life (2018).
47. Iggy Pop
Soundtrack | Coffee and Cigarettes
Iggy Pop was born on April 21, 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Cry-Baby (1990) and Dead Man (1995). He has been married to Nina Alu since November 22, 2008. He was previously married to Suchi Asano and Wendy Weissberg.
48. George DiCenzo
Actor | Back to the Future
George DiCenzo was an American character actor, voice actor, and acting teacher from New Haven, Connecticut. His acting career lasted for about 30 years, and he had previously served as an associate producer for the gothic soap opera "Dark Shadows" (1966-1971). His best-remembered live-action role ...
49. Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II was Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
Elizabeth was born in London, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and she was educated privately at home. Her father ascended the throne on the abdication of his ...
50. Dominic Zamprogna
Actor | Tin Star
Dominic Zamprogna was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Dominic is an actor and producer, known for Tin Star (2017), Battlestar Galactica (2004) and General Hospital (1963). Dominic has been married to Linda Leslie since November 1, 2009. They have three children.