Turning 27 Today: Celeste Dalla Porta. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 24, 1997 · Monza, Lombardy, Italy

Turning 33 Today: Sofia Black-D’Elia. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 24, 1991 · Clifton, New Jersey, USA

Birth name
Sofia Joelle Black-D’Elia

Spouse
Henry Joost(October 9, 2021 – present)

QUOTES:

My [North New Jersey] accent’s coming out now, so I’m gonna stop talking.

[The Skins audition] was just another one of the auditions that my agency had sent me on. But, being a fan of the original show, I definitely went into it with a different mind-set because I was so thrilled to just be able to audition. I really tried to give it my all because it would be such an amazing opportunity.

When I hear Carmela talk about food, I feel a warmth in my stomach that I can’t really describe.

My favorite characters to play are women with something to lose. She drives the plot, and I thought that was awesome.
Yeah [I bonded quickly with my fellow cast]. It was a very strange experience. We were all probably nervous about how the bonding and the cast chemistry would develop, but immediately, when we met each other, something clicked and we were instantly friends. And then, over the course of these past five months, between filming and the aftermath, we’ve become a family and we are each other’s support system and so much more. I couldn’t be luckier and happier to have them with me, throughout all of this. We all feel the same way. None of this would be the same without each other.

Happy Birthday: Dec. 24th. Ava Gardner(1922-1990)

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Born December 24, 1922 · Grabtown, North Carolina, USA Died January 25, 1990 · Westminster, London, England, UK (bronchial pneumonia) Birth name Ava Lavinia Gardner Spouses Frank Sinatra(November 7, 1951 – July 5, 1957) (divorced) Artie Shaw(October 17, 1945 – October 25, 1946) (divorced) Mickey Rooney(January 10, 1942 – May 21, 1943) (divorced) QUOTES: All I ever got out of any of my marriages was the two years Artie Shaw financed on an analyst’s couch. I have only one rule in acting–trust the director and give him heart and soul. When I lose my temper, honey, you can’t find it any place. I don’t understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

Turning 22 Today: Finn Wolfhard. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 23, 2002 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Birth name
Finn Michael Wolfhard

QUOTES:

[on his name] It’s my given, full name. Finn’s not short for anything; it’s just Finn Wolfhard. And then Wolfhard means, I think, heart of the wolf in German. What’s funny is I’m German, but then I’m like French – I’m French and German and then Jewish. It’s really weird. I have really weird blood. And then I go to Catholic school, which is really weird.

I will be covering three songs with my band Calpurnia at the Sweet Relief event in May. The band includes my friends Malcolm, who was in the PUP videos with me and is an amazing drummer and actor, and Ayla, who shreds on guitar and has already had multiple Berklee School scholarships (and took the dog in the last PUP video), and Jack, a bass-master. We don’t get to jam very often because of my schedule, but I love when we do. Other bands and producers have reached out and I try to post about the bands who work so hard and sound so good, and I also sat down with a Yoda-type dude in L.A. It is unbelievable to be taken seriously by someone at that level. Over the next few months I will have a better idea about where this is all going to go

Happy Birthday Corey Haim (1971-2010)

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Born December 23, 1971 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada Died March 10, 2010 · Burbank, California, USA (pneumonia) QUOTES: I was working on The Lost Boys (1987) when I smoked my first joint. But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986). I lived in Los Angeles in the ’80s, which was not the best place to be. I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack. I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck. But one led to two, two led to four, four led to eight, until at the end it was about 85 a day – the doctors could not believe I was taking that much. And that was just the valium – I’m not talking about the other pills I went through. I want to be the guy they talk about when they talk about comebacks. I want people to learn from me, see I’m human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn’t have to consume you. You’ve got to walk through the raindrops, and that’s totally what I am trying to do. This is where you make new friends and you start living and learning. So I’m a late bloomer, I’m 36, but hey, I’m learning. Every day’s a learning experience, right? [on effects of molestation] It’s something that will be addressed in my inner soul for the rest of my life, and it’s something that truly affects me, and I opened up a can of worms, so to speak. Every day I opened up, like, a can of sardines. It’s something I’ve addressed. Psychiatrists can be helpful. They have the medications and blah-blah-blah. But I don’t want any of that, man. I’ve dealt with this, and I’m dealing with this-second by second, minute by minute, day by day. Everything’s cool. It’s just like, It happened, it’s over, and move on. Let’s move on to the next subject.

Turning 62 Today: Ralph Fiennes. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1962 · Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK

Birth name
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes

Spouse
Alex Kingston(September 5, 1993 – October 28, 1997) (divorced)

QUOTES:

My parents were very financially-challenged. All of us children have the memory of being told that there was no money, we have to sell this, there’s no presents for Christmas. Of being in the front line of that constant worry; the atmosphere in the home always charged with anxiety. ‘What do we do? What do we do?’

[on directing himself in The Invisible Woman (2013)] I’ve loved being able to be, as it were, the puppet master of my own performance. I love that. But you need people to give you good, constructive, critical feedback. It’s crazy. It’s very, very hard. I don’t know how people do it consistently and do it well – like Orson Welles did, or Laurence Olivier did, Clint Eastwood does. Kevin Costner’s done it. There’s no question that you’ve got two often opposing headspaces which you have to balance.

[on doing full frontal nudity in A Bigger Splash (2015)] I liked [the nudity] because it was in the service of illustrating extreme spontaneity in Harry’s character. All my nude scenes are extremely spontaneous and appropriate for the situations in which my character is. My nudity is a function of the film’s plot. I knew I’d run around naked, so I had to physically prepare, to tighten the muscles.

[on A Bigger Splash (2015)] I’d never been asked to play a guy who dances and gets naked and sings karaoke! I don’t believe I ever played a part like Harry… It was a very special kind of film.

When you meet women, don’t pretend to be anything that you’re not.

Turning 46 Today: Joanne Kelly. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22 · Bay d’Espoir, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

QUOTES:

I’m a troglodyte. I think that’s the word for it. Like an old school weird person who throws bricks at their computers.

I’m a child of the literary bent. I don’t want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

I watch ‘House of Cards,’ which was great. I don’t watch a lot. I spend so much time doing it.

It’s a fine line we walk on ‘Warehouse 13.’ We really earn our dramatic moments, but our tongues are always firmly in our cheeks. If we take ourselves too seriously, we get into trouble.

I try to stay away from all the blogs and messages boards.

Happy Birthday: Peggie Castle(1927-1973)

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Born
December 22, 1927 · Appalachia, Virginia, USA

Died
August 11, 1973 · Hollywood, California, USA (cirrhosis of the liver)

Birth name
Peggy Thomas Blair

Spouses
Arthur Sylvan Morgenstern Sr.(October 17, 1970 – April 30, 1973) (his death)
William McGarry(July 24, 1955 – January 1970) (divorced, 1 child)
Robert Hilton Rains(January 4, 1951 – April 29, 1954) (divorced)
Revis T. Call(August 19, 1945 – 1951) (divorced)

Turning 42 Today: Shioli Kutsuna. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1992 · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Shioli won the 11th Japan Bishojo Contest in 2006. This award honors the most beautiful young girl in Japan. Her first role came the following year when she was a member of the cast of 3 Nen B Gumi Kinpachi Sensei 8, which was a TBD TV school drama. Two years later she achieved a main character role for the serial Tsugumi Nitobe in 7 Mannin Tantei Nitobe. In that year she also appeared in her first movie, Guardian Angel. Her appearance in Back Pages garnered her the 85th Kinema Junpo Award for Best Actress in 2010.

Turning 42 Today: Brooke Nevin. Happy Birthday

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Born
December 22, 1982 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Birth name
Brooke Candice Nevin

QUOTES:

Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There’s a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.

I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it’s definitely an escapist form of entertainment.

I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a full-on psychological thriller. That would be really interesting. A period piece would also be fantastic.

I remember, as a child, loving it when my mom laughed, but I was definitely not a class clown.