Celebrity Birthdays: October 29 – November 11

Happy 30th birthday to Ben Foster. He often plays eerie roles, like in Hostage or in 30 Days of Night. Foster is a great screen presence and he's best known for his roles in 3:10 to Yuma, Pandorum, The Messenger, and The Mechanic. My favourite films with Foster in a leading or supporting role: Hostage (2005) -- Alpha Dog (2006) -- 30 Days of Night (2007).   The late …

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A note regarding my Celeb Birthdays feature

I forgot to write my article for this week's birthdays, as I seem to be quite busy. So, to make things easier, I'm just going to turn it into a bi-monthly feature (reviewing two weeks of Celeb Birthdays in one post). Thanks for understanding!

Celebrity Birthdays: October 22 – 28

Christopher Lloyd (October 22). Happy 74th birthday to the great Christopher Lloyd, who is best known for his role as Dr. Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy. I still have to see that series... He is also well known for his role as the main antagonist, Judge Doom, in the 1989 animation/live action …

Celebrity Birthdays: October 15 – 21

Sorry for the delay, I got my days mixed up. Bailee Madison (October 15) Happy 13th birthday to Bailee Madison. She is a great young actress. At only the age of 13, she has worked with Robert Patrick (in Bridge to Terabithia); Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Tobey Maguire (all in Brothers); Hilary Swank (in Conviction); …

Celebrity Birthdays: October 8 – 14

Chevy Chase (October 8) Happy 69th birthday to Chevy Chase who is probably best known for his role in National Lampoon’s Vacation films as Clark Griswold. He’s also well known for his improvisational role of Ty Webb in 1980’s Caddyshack. Nowadays he appears on the NBC comedy TV Series Community, as the racist, clueless, offensive, …

August 28 Birthdays

There's a few celebrity birthdays today: Jack Black (43), David Fincher (50), Sarah Roemer (28), Jennifer Coolidge (51) and Daniel Stern (55). Jack Black This comedy actor just turned 43 today. He's been in School of Rock, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, Tropic Thunder, Nacho Libre, and he's been the voice talents for Shark Tale, Kung Fu Panda, and …

A late post for today’s birthdays!

Happy birthday to Sean Connery (82); Blake Lively (25). Sean Connery Sean Connery has played great characters: James Bond (often coined the first actor to portray him), but I've only seen him in Finding Forrester, Marnie and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I'll have to see the J.B. films before I die, but for now that's all I've …

Happy would-be birthday River Phoenix

River Phoenix (August 23, 1970 - October 31, 1993) Phoenix was born in Madras, Oregon and died in Hollywood, L.A., California. It's his would-be 42nd birthday.  A young actor that was taken from the world too soon. He was perfect in his role in Stand by Me; played Young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; and was …

Happy birthday funny lady, Kristen Wiig (39)

  Kristen Wiig Wiig has been voice talents for the films Despicable Me as Miss Hattie and How to Train Your Dragon; and she also showed a decent dramatic side in her small role in the romance/crime film based on true events, All Good Things alongside Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. She was in the comedy/action British comedy Paul (the poorest …

(August 21) Happy birthday Hayden Panettiere (23), Peter Weir (68) and Carrie-Anne Moss (45)

                                           Hayden Panettiere The sexy New York native just turned 23 today. Hayden has a pretty impressive résumé. She was on the soap opera One Life to Live at the age of four and a half; and later …