Comedic Actor Will Ferrell Is 55 Today

Actors:

Phoebe Cates is 59 (“Paradise,” “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” “Gremlins,” “Bright Lights, Big City,” “Drop Dead Fred,” “Princess Caraboo”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Kevin Kline since 1989)

Will Ferrell is 55 (“Step Brothers,” “Elf,” “Ron Burgundy”)

Corey Feldman is 51 (“Gremlins,” “The Goonies,” “The Lost Boys,” “The ‘Burbs,” “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!”)

Calum Gittins is 36 (“The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” “The King’s Speech”)

Annalynne McCord is 35 (“Nip/Tuck,” “90210”) (FAST FACT: She was home-schooled and graduated from high school at the age of 15)

Jayma Mays is 43 (“Heroes,” “Ugly Betty,” “Glee,” “The Millers,” “Trial & Error”)

Daniel Pearson is 26 (“The Dumping Ground,” “Emmerdale”)

Rosa Salazar is 37 (“Parenthood,” “American Horror Story: Murder House,” “Divergent Series: Insurgent,” “The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials”)

Alexandra Shipp is 31 (“House of Anubis,” “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel,” “Straight Outta Compton,” “X-Men: Apocalypse”)

The late Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) (“Top Hat,” “The Gay Divorcee”) (FAST FACT: A legendary star of Hollywood’s ‘Golden Age,’ she #14 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list of female stars of classic American cinema.)

The late Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) (“Double Indemnity,” “The Big Valley”) (FAST FACT: She made 85 films over the course of her prolific career)

Musicians:

The Police’s Stewart Copeland is 70 (FAST FACT: In 2016, he was ranked 10th on “Rolling Stone” magazine's "100 Greatest Drummers of All Time”)

5 Seconds of Summer’s Luke Hemmings is 26

Big Time Rush’s James Maslow is 32

Wizkid (born Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun) is 32

Plus:

“Riverdance” creator and “Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley is 64

Hall of Fame coach Jimmy Johnson is 79 (He served as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys from 1989 to 1993 and the Miami Dolphins from 1996 to 1999. As of 2013, he is an analyst for “Fox NFL Sunday,” the Fox network's NFL pregame show.)

S. women’s soccer player Carli Lloyd is 40 (She won Golden Ball honors in the 2015 Women’s World Cup, and became the first woman to score a hat trick in a World Cup final match. She’s also a two-time Olympic gold medalist)

“Jackass stunter” Chris Pontius is 48

Legendary NFL running back Barry Sanders is 54 (He spent his entire professional career with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. A member of both the college and professional football halls of fame, he was ranked by NFL Top 10 as the most elusive runner in NFL history.)

The late “Shoeless” Joe Jackson (1887-1951) (FAST FACT: Known as Shoeless Joe, he hit for an astounding .408 average in 1911, helped the Chicago White Sox win the 1917 World Series, and was banned from the major leagues in 1920 for the notorious Black Sox Scandal.)

The late Orville Redenbacher (1907-1995) (Orville grew up on his family's Indiana farm where he sometimes sold popcorn from the back of his car. He graduated from Brazil High School in 1921 in the top 5% of his class. He attended Purdue University, where he joined the ag-oriented Alpha Gamma Rho. By the mid 1970s, Orville Redenbacher popcorn had captured a third of the unpopped popcorn market.)

The late civil rights leader and women’s rights activist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) (A journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist and sociologist, she was an early leader in the civil rights movement – and a Republican. She documented lynching in the United States, showing that it was often used as a way to control or punish blacks who competed with whites, rather than being based in criminal acts by blacks, as was usually claimed by white mobs. She was opposed to the policy of accommodation advocated by Booker T. Washington and had personal, if not ideological, difficulties with W.E.B. Du Bois.)


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