Happy Birthday

Turning 53 Today: Jared Leto. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 26, 1971 · Bossier City, Louisiana, USA

Birth name
Jared Joseph Bryant

QUOTES:

“I don’t think Requiem for a Dream (2000) is for children, but I think if you went home and looked at the video games that your kids are playing, you’d be much more shocked.” – Mr. Showbiz, November 2000.

All those reports that I sleep in my closet. I don’t know how people get that. People are so obsessed with what you do at home.

I could care less about anybody knowing who I am, but I realize this is part of the game. Maybe if I really hated this whole public thing, I would go do plays in Hoboken.

I was never interested in ‘Teen Beat’ like roles. I just wanted to work.

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn’t a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn’t try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

Turning 29 Today: Lola Petticrew. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 26, 1995 · Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

QUOTES:

I just feel like I don’t really buy into the way the world is gendered and I don’t think that I ever really felt like a woman. I sort of saw womanhood as a set of rules that were imposed on me that I had no say in. I think it’s just something that you know. And I always knew. After I came out as queer, it still felt like there was something that wasn’t quite right. And after coming out as non-binary and coming to terms with that, you just feel like yourself.

I think that what your sexuality and your gender is, is ultimately yours. People don’t have to understand every bit and nuance of my sexuality or gender, that’s fine – all they have to do is respect it.

Turning 39 Today: Beth Behrs. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 26, 1985 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Birth name
Elizabeth Ann Behrs

Spouse
Michael Gladis (July 21, 2018 – present) (1 child)

QUOTES:

In today’s world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.

I like diner coffee.

Comedy always pushes some buttons, because it wouldn’t be comedy if it didn’t.

Turning 33 Today: Eden Sher. Happy Birthday

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EDEN SHER at 40th Anniversary American Music Awards in Los Angeles

Born
December 26, 1991 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth name
Eden Rebecca Sher

Spouse
Nick Cron-DeVico (July 12, 2020 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.

I have had just an excess of energy. That’s why I’ve always been active.

I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

I don’t realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

Turning 46 Today: Jeremy Strong. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 25, 1978 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Spouse
Emma Wall (August 1, 2016 – present) (3 children)

[on transitioning from stage to television] Most of my heroes had started out in the theater, so I was always doing plays, and I think initially it was just an escape and also a transcendent freedom that I discovered on the stage that I didn’t feel anywhere else in my life. The transition into film took longer than I wanted, but I am grateful for the years of hardship that I went through because they allowed me to connect with characters, in terms of adversity, in a way that I wouldn’t have otherwise if things had happened more easily for me.

Turning 39 Today: Perdita Weeks. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 25, 1985 · Cardiff, Wales, UK

Birth name
Perdita Rose Annunziata Weeks

QUOTES:

I like my name, but I do share it with a lot of dogs and cats.

Basically, less is more when it comes to film.

I don’t think acting’s difficult. It’s not like learning to walk on your hands.

It takes one heck of a lot of energy to be an actor-director – a rather terrifying prospect but a challenge I would definitely relish in the future, given the chance.

People on sets can be unbearably wasteful in general.

My name is synonymous with corsets and ringlets.

It’s good for an actor to have, well, a big gob.

Following America’s lead, I think British TV is fantastic.

Turning 75 Today: Sissy Spacek. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 25, 1949 · Quitman, Texas, USA

Birth name
Mary Elizabeth Spacek

Spouse
Jack Fisk (April 12, 1974 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

[on her daughter Schuyler Fisk becoming an actress] The business has been good to me. I would be a hypocrite if I tried to convince her not to do this.

[Parade magazine, April 1, 2001] I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

[on why she did not want to appear in The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)] I asked if they could use some backflashes instead. I enjoyed the sequel, but hated my role in the first film. I was awful.

My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn’t change what you are in the search for success.

Turning 50 Today: Ryan Seacrest. Happy Birthday

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QUOTES:

  • [on Paula Abdul]: The rumors? They’re not true. She’s part of our family. And we love her.
  • [on the departure of Paula Abdul, who was one of the judges]: So the news that Paula Abdul is leaving “American Idol” stunned me last night. She’s a dear friend, I love her to death, and it’s really sad that it’s come to fruition. I’m just bummed and I think if you were to talk to Randy or Simon they’d say the same thing. It’s just sad. It bums us out.
  • [on his romance with Teri Hatcher]: I think we can assume that we’ve been together. If I wanted to have my picture taken I would have gone to a popular celebrity restaurant. The Ivy, [the restaurant where he was photographed with Hatcher] was far out of town. That was a surprise to me.

Turning 58 Today: Diedrich Bader. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 24, 1966 · Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Birth name
Karl Diedrich Bader

Spouse
Dulcy Rogers(May 25, 1997 – present) (2 children)

QUOTES:

I like playing a guy who wears pants as opposed to shorts.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It’s much more like when you’re a kid putting on a character.

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.

When you’re in Hollywood, you get sort of jaded about what you think the sense of humor of Hollywood is supposed to be, so you can’t think outside the box.