Today, April 26th
Actors:
- Jordana Brewster is 41 (“Fast & Furious” series, “Dallas”)
- Carol Burnett is 88 (“The Carol Burnett Show,” “The Four Seasons,” “Annie,” “Noises Off”)
- Joan Chen is 60 (“The Last Emperor,” “Twin Peaks,” “Saving Face”)
- Michael Damian is 59 (“The Facts of Life,” “The Young and the Restless,” “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”)
- Giancarlo Esposito is 63 (“Do the Right Thing,” “School Daze,” “Mo' Better Blues,” “The Usual Suspects,” “Once Upon a Time,” “Revolution.,” “Breaking Bad,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Get Down”)
- Kevin James is 56 (“Paul Blart: Mall Cop,” “Zookeeper,” “Grown Ups,” “King of Queens,” “Kevin Can Wait”)
- Stana Katic is 43 (“Quantum of Solace,” “Castle,” “Absentia”) (FAST FACT: She speaks English, Serbian, Croatian, French, Italian, and Slovenian fluently.)
- Jet Li is 58 (“Shaolin Temple,” “Hero, Fist of Legend,” “The Forbidden Kingdom,” “The Expendables” films, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, “Lethal Weapon 4,” “Romeo Must Die”)
- Channing Tatum is 41 (“Coach Carter,” “21 Jump Street,” “She's the Man,” “Magic Mike” series, “Foxcatcher,” “ The Hateful Eight,” “Hail, Caesar!,” “Logan Lucky”) (FAST FACT: As most people now know, before fame he brieflyworked as a stripper,which was inspiration for his character in “Magic Mike” – but he’s now broughtthe ‘Magic Mike Live’ experience to Las Vegas.)
- Tom Welling is 44 (“Judging Amy,” “Smallville,” “The Fog,” “The Choice,” “Draft Day”)
- Debra Wilson is 59 (“MAD TV,” “Family Guy,” “CSI” “GSN Live!”)
Musicians:
- Slipknot’s Joey Jordison is 46 (FAST FACTS: He started playing drums at age eight, when he received his first drum set. He helped his mother run a funeral home after his parents divorced.)
- Rascal Flatts’ Jay DeMarcus is 50
- Jose Pasillas of Incubus is 45
- Bobby Rydell is 79
- Duran Duran’s Roger Taylor is 61
- Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins is 51
- The late Ma Rainey(1886 – 1939)(The “Mother of the Blues” who was among the first singers to infuse folk blues music into her performances and was known for took the songs of hardship and struggle of African Americans and re-telling them. She recorded more than one hundred songs over the course of her career, including "See See Rider.")
Plus:
- Model (and former FLOTUS) Melania Trump is 51
- Reality TV star Jacqueline Laurita is 51 (“Real Housewives of New Jersey”)
- Iraqi War heroJessica Lynchis 38 (Lynch’s was the first successful rescue of an American POW since World War II and the first-ever female POW)
- Producer Giorgio Moroder is 81 (“Flashdance,” “Top Gun”) (FAST FACT: His song, “Flashdance (What a Feeling),” from 1983’s “Flashdance” won an Oscar and a GRAMMY for Best Original Song)
- The late emperor Marcus Aurelius (Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 who was called 'The Philosopher King.' He is one of the most important Stoic philosopher and he wrote an important treatise on the subject of leadership) (FAST FACT: The movie “Gladiator” was partly based on his life)(121 – 180 AD)