'Ted's' Mark Wahlberg Celebrates 52nd Birthday Today

Actors:

Chad Allen is 49 (“My Two Dads,” “Battle for Terra”)

Amanda Crew is 37 (“Final Destination 3,” “Charlie St. Cloud,” “Whistler,” “Silicon Valley”)

Jeff Garlin is 61 (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Goldbergs”)

Hank Greenspan is 13 (“The Neighborhood”)

Nick Kroll is 45 (“Date Night,” “Kroll Show”)

Ron Livingston is 56 (“Sex and the City,” “Band of Brothers”)

Sophie Lowe is 33 (“Once Upon a Time in Wonderland”)

Mark Wahlberg is 52 ( “Entourage,” “Ted”)

Liza Weil is 46 (“Gilmore Girls,” “How To Get Away With Murder")

The late Spaulding Gray (1941-2004) …he would have been 82 (“Monster in a Box,” “Gray's Anatomy”) (FAST FACT: Gray died in New York City of an apparent suicide in 2004 – he went missing in January that year and was pulled from the city’s East River the following March. Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh made the 2010 documentary, “And Everything Is Going Fine,” about Gray's life.) 

Musicians:

Laurie Anderson is 76

Psychedelic Furs frontman Richard Butler is 67

Kenny G is 67 (his full name Kenneth Bruce Gorelick)

Simple Plan’s Sebastian Lefebvre is 42 (FUN FACT: He learned to play guitar by watching Green Day videos.)

Iron Maiden drummer Nicko McBrain is 71

Brian McKnight is 54

Odesza musician Harrison Mills is 34

Sly and the Family Stone’s Freddie Stone is 76

Don Reid of The Statler Brothers is 78

Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz is 44 

Plus:

TV personality Sterling “Steelo” Brim is 35 (“Fear Factory,” “Ridiculousness”)

Entrepreneur/ owner of the New England Patriots Robert Kraft is 81

Nashville Predators’ center Mike Fisher is 43 (FUN FACT: He’s been with Carrie Underwood since 2008 – and married to her since 2010.)

Author Ken Follett is 74 (“Eye of the Needle,” “The Key to Rebecca,” “Pillars of the Earth,” “World Without End,” “Whiteout”)

TV journalist Bill Moyers is 89 (FAST FACT: He also served White House Press Secretary in the Johnson administration from 1965 to 1967)

Financial advisor, motivational speaker and TV personality Suze Orman is 71

Author Rick Riordan is 59 (His best-known works include “Percy Jackson & the Olympians,” “The Kane Chronicles,” the Tres Navarre books, and “The Maze of Bones”) (FAST FACTS: He is a two-time Mark Twain Award winner - 2008 and 2009 - as well as winner of the Children's Choice Books Awards for Author of the Year in 2011)

The late children’s author Richard Scarry (1919-1994) (“Busytown,” “Best Word Book Ever”) (FAST FACTS: After high school, Scarry enrolled in a business college but soon dropped out. He then studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he remained until being drafted into the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, Scarry worked for the art departments of various magazines before making a career breakthrough in 1949 with Little Golden Books.)

The late Mexican war hero Pancho Villa (1878-1923) (FAST FACTS: Villa and his supporters seized hacienda land for distribution to peasants and soldiers. He robbed and commandeered trains and, like the other revolutionary generals, printed fiat money to pay for his cause. Villa's men and supporters became known as Villistas during the revolution from 1910 to roughly 1920.)


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