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December 31 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 2 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 14 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For January 1 (New Style), Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 19. ()

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Saori Hara(36)

Actress | Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture (JP)

Saori Hara is a former Japanese AV idol, model and actress who has also used the name Mai Nanami and most recently Miyabi Matsunoi or Miyavi Matsunoi.Saori Hara was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to a Japanese mother and a father of mixed German-Japanese parentage.Hara started her career as a junior idol under the name Mai Nanami. As a teenager, she sang the theme song Spicy Days for the animated TV show The Marshmallow Times on TV Osaka in 2004. She also had parts in two movies in 2005, the March TV drama The Dream of Delinquent Boys for TBS, and the April theatrical release, horse-racing melodrama Haru Urara, which was later released as a DVD.She had also made a bikini-model photobook, Mai Nanami First Photobook, in May 2005 and a non-nude DVD titled Mai Nanami: Yamagishi Shin Digital Movie Museum which was released in August 2005. As Nanami, she also played the female lead in another mainstream movie that was due to be released in Japan in 2006 but had its debut at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California in November 2005 as Deep Sea Monster Reigo. The film was eventually released in Japan as Reigo: The Deep Sea Monster vs the Battleship Yamato.After a long hiatus, she re-emerged as Saori Hara in August 2008 and appeared in a non-nude gravure video titled Clear Water. The next month, in September, she posed nude for the first time in the Japanese men's magazine Sabra, and it was announced that she was contracted to the Soft On Demand adult video studio. She became the face of the SOD group in its anti-STD campaign in November 2008, a role formerly played by long-time SOD AV actress Nana Natsume. Hara's first adult video was released by SOD in January 2009 with the title Real Celebrity Saori Hara: Miraculous AV Debut and was reported to have sold 100,000 copies.About the same time as her AV debut, Hara posed for a set of nude photos set in Tokyo public places by photographer Kishin Shinoyama which was published January 28, 2009, by Asahi Press as NO NUDE by KISHIN 1 20XX TOKYO. Shinoyama has said that he likes working with porn stars because they have no problems with nudity. However, both Shinoyama and Hara were charged by Tokyo authorities with public indecency.Also in early 2009, Hara was in the TV Asahi movie Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano: Season 4 Special, a tie-in to the fourth season of the manga-based TV show.Her May 2009 hamedori adult video for SOD, Real Celebrity Saori Hara: Brown Eyes, directed by Company Matsuo, had the quarter-German Hara traveling to Germany for six days to explore her roots. The SOD studio celebrated the end of Hara's first year with the company with the four-hour cosplay video, Real Celebrity Saori Hara: 8 Changes and Sweet Sex, where she plays eight different characters.Not long after her AV debut, Hara had a role in the Nikkatsu sex comedy about the porn industry, Lala Pipo, written by Tetsuya Nakashima, which reached theatres in February 2009. In April of that same year, Hara had a featured part in the disaster-parody comedy Saikin-rettō and also sang the theme song for the movie. July 2009 saw her play the protagonist in kunoichi sexploitation V-Cinema film Female Ninja Spy that was also released in an AV version.

* 01/01/1988

Molly Kunz(30)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Molly Kunz is an American actress, known for Widows (2018), The Wolf and the Lion (2021) and The Wise Kids (2011).

* 01/01/1994

Maria Sten(34)

Actress | Denmark (DK)

Maria Sten is an actress, writer and filmmaker from Copenhagen, Denmark. Of Danish, Swedish, Congolese ethnicity, Maria started her career as a professional dancer and model. She also holds the title of Miss Denmark 2008.

* 01/01/1990

Koji Yakusho(68)

Actor | Isahaya, Nagasaki Prefecture (JP)

Kōji Hashimoto (橋本 広司, Hashimoto Kōji, born 1 January 1956), known professionally as Kōji Yakusho (役所 広司, Yakusho Kōji), is a Japanese actor. He is known internationally for his starring roles in Shall We Dance? (1996), 13 Assassins (2010), The Third Murder (2017), The Blood of Wolves (2018), Under the Open Sky (2020) and The Days (2023). For his performance in Perfect Days (2023), he was awarded the Best Actor award in the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

* 01/01/1956

Sam Spruell(47)

Actor | Southwark, London, England (GB)

Sam Spruell (born 1 January 1977, in Southwark, London, UK) is a British character actor, known for playing mostly villain roles.

* 01/01/1977

Angourie Rice(23)

Actress | Sydney (AU)

Angourie Isabel Teresa Rice ( ang-GOW-ree; born 1 January 2001) is an Australian actress. She began her career as a child actress, coming to attention for her roles in These Final Hours (2013) and The Nice Guys (2016). She played Betty Brant in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). For her starring role in Ladies in Black (2018), she won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In 2024, she starred as Cady Heron in the musical film Mean Girls. Rice's television credits include the Black Mirror episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019), the HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown (2021) and the Apple TV+ miniseries The Last Thing He Told Me (2023).

* 01/01/2001

Zoe Perry(40)

Actress | Chicago (US)

An American actress. She has appeared as the young Mary Cooper in the CBS sitcom Young Sheldon, a role originated by her mother Laurie Metcalf in the show's predecessor The Big Bang Theory, and in recurring roles on The Family and Scandal.Perry was born in Chicago to actors Laurie Metcalf and Jeff Perry. Her first television roles were two appearances as Jackie Harris (as seen in flashback) on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, the character portrayed by her mother. Her parents, however, did not want her to pursue acting until she became an adult, fearing the effect of stress. Perry said that she was too shy to act in high school, but began performing at Northwestern University, as a way to make friends after transferring from Boston University.After graduating, Perry moved to New York to search for television work, landing small roles on series such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, but homesickness brought her back to California, where she found theater work. In 2013, she performed in The Other Place on Broadway alongside her mother. In 2015, she performed alongside her father and Kevin McKidd in Eugene O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Anna Christie at the Odyssey Theatre Ensemble in West Los Angeles.Perry appeared in nine episodes of the ABC thriller The Family in 2016. In 2017, she had a recurring role on the ABC political thriller Scandal, starring her father. The same year, she was cast as a younger version of Mary Cooper (Sheldon Cooper's mother) on Young Sheldon, a spin-off of the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, again portraying a younger version of her mother's role. Despite her family link to the character, she received the role through an audition.

* 01/01/1984

Clare Dunne(36)

Actress | Dublin (IE)

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* 01/01/1988

Inbar Lavi(36)

Actress | Ramat Gan (IL)

Inbar Lavi (Hebrew: ענבר לביא‎, born October 27, 1986) is an Israeli actress.

* 01/01/1988

Lee Eun-mi(43)

Actress | South Korea (KR)

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* 01/01/1981

Jose Pellissery(† 54)

Actor

Jose Pellissery is an actor in Malayalam cinema. He played supporting roles in about 100 films. His 15-year film career included roles in movies such as Aadhaaram, Akashadoothu, Naadody, and Ghazal.

* 01/01/1950

Sophia Ali(30)

Actress | San Diego, California (US)

Sophia Taylor Ramseyer Ali (born November 7, 1995) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in the MTV romantic comedy series, Faking It, the ABC medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, and The Wilds.

* 01/01/1994
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Jonas Armstrong(43)

Actor | Dublin (IE)

Jonas Armstrong (born 1 January 1981) is an Irish-English actor known for playing the title role in the BBC One drama series Robin Hood.

* 01/01/1981

Claudie Blakley(50)

Actress | Great Britain

Claudie Blakley (born 4 January 1974) is an English actress.

* 01/01/1974

Pedro Alonso(52)

Actor | Vigo, Pontevedra, Galicia (ES)

Pedro Alonso is a Spanish film and television actor and painter.

* 01/01/1972

Christian Convery(14)

Actor | Canada / Dominion of Canada (CA)

Christian Convery (born November 10, 2009) is a Canadian child actor known for his roles in the Netflix fantasy series Sweet Tooth (2021–present) and the comedy horror film Cocaine Bear (2023).

* 01/01/2010

Itziar Ituño(49)

Actress | Basauri, Vizcaya (ES)

Itziar Ituño is a Spanish stage, film and television actress and singer, best known for playing Inspector Raquel Murillo in the television series Money Heist.

* 01/01/1975

Jonathan M. Goldstein(55)

Crew | New York City, New York (US)

Jonathan M. Goldstein was born in 1969 in. He is a producer and writer.

* 01/01/1969

Zoe Boyle(35)

Actress | England (GB)

Zoe Boyle (born 1 January 1989) is an English actress known for her roles as Lavinia Swire on the series Downton Abbey and Trinity Ashby on Sons of Anarchy.

* 01/01/1989

Mr. Lawrence(55)

Actor | East Brunswick, New Jersey (US)

Douglas Lawrence Osowski, known professionally as Mr. Lawrence, is an American animator, writer, and voice actor. He is most known for his work as a writer and voice actor for the Nickelodeon shows Rocko's Modern Life and SpongeBob SquarePants, the latter of which he has provided the voice of Plankton, Larry the Lobster and other various characters since 1999.

* 01/01/1969

David Midthunder(62)

Actor | Fort Peck, Montana (US)

David Midthunder is an American film and television actor and stunt performer of Native American descent. He's a graduate from the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada, and went on to pursue a degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

* 01/01/1962

Noah Harpster(48)

Actor

Noah Harpster is an American actor, writer, producer and director. He is best known for his role of Remy on Tig Notaro's One Mississippi, and writing, producing and acting on Transparent, for which he won a Peabody Award, and was nominated for an Emmy Award, Writers Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, and GLAAD Award. Since 2019 he has played NASA Mission Controller Bill Strausser in the Apple TV+ alternate history series For All Mankind, created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi. He and his writing partner Micah Fitzerman-Blue wrote the script for A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood about Fred Rogers which landed on the Black List in 2013. After a nearly 10-year process, it was released in 2019, starring Tom Hanks, Chris Cooper, Matthew Rhys, and Harpster himself in a small role. For their screenplay, Fitzerman-Blue and Harpster were nominated for also winners of the prestigious PEN Award and the Humanities Prize. He and Fitzerman-Blue also co-wrote Maleficent: Mistress of Evil alongside Linda Woolverton. In 2017, they opened their production company, Blue Harp., and in 2018, he and Fitzerman-Blue were listed on Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch. In 2021, Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue created the limited series Painkiller for Netflix. Painkiller is a dramatization of the birth of the opioid crisis and stars Matthew Broderick, Uzo Aduba, Taylor Kitsch, Dina Shihabi, and West Duchovony. It is based on the reporting work done by Barry Meier for the New York Times and Patrick Radden Keefe for the New Yorker. Harpster also has an acting role in the limited series. It was released August 10th, 2023. Along with Fitzerman-Blue, he will be co-directing the film adaptation of Dash Shaw's Bottomless Belly Button in 2024.

* 01/01/1976

Sean McGinley(† 53)

Actor | Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal (IE)

Seán McGinley (born c. 1956) is an Irish actor. He has appeared in about 80 films and television series.

* 01/01/1956

Fumihiko Shimo(62)

Crew | Sendai (JP)

Fumihiko Shimo (志茂 文彦, Shimo Fumihiko, born 1962) a Japanese anime screenwriter, best known for writing the scripts for Kyoto Animation's anime adaptations of Key visual novels.

* 01/01/1962

Kyle Soller(61)

Actor | Bridgeport, Connecticut (US)

A pharmacological lecturer and a former concert pianist. He was brought up in Alexandria, Virginia and studied History of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. However he abandoned his studies to come to England and enroll at RADA, where he met his wife, actress Phoebe Fox, whom he married in 2010. Since graduating Kyle has garnered excellent reviews for his stage work in 'The Government Inspector' at the Young Vic, 'The Faith Machine' at the Royal Court and 'Long Day's Journey into Night' at the Apollo, as well as playing Gaveston in the National's controversial 'Edward II'. On television he contributed an excellent cameo in the sitcom 'Bad Education' as an all-American boy who was actually from Dudley in the Midlands and played sympathetic but troubled Francis in the BBC remake of 'Poldark'.

* 01/01/1963

Sam Keeley(35)

Actor | Tullamore (IE)

An Irish actor who began his acting career in the role of "Killen" in the Irish film "The Other Side of Sleep" directed by Rebecca Daly. He was chosen for this role after attending an open casting in his home town of Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Ireland in 2010. Since then he won a role in the Bafta award winning series "Misfits" appearing in Series 2, Episode 2, as Jamie, Nathan's brother. Shortly after this Sam was cast as Desmond in Paulo Sorrentino's "This Must Be The Place" starring "Sean Penn" and "Frances Mcdormand" which was shot predominantly in Ireland. Both "The Other Side of Sleep" and "This Must Be The Place" premièred at the 2011 "Cannes Film Festival". Since then Sam has appeared in the TV3 Magma Productions series of "Jack Taylor" films starring alongside Iain Glen in The Pikemen.He worked on a post production project for 'Dream House' with Jim Sheridan, and Season 4 of "Raw", an Irish original TV Series where he had a leading role. He played the part of Conor Harris in the feature film "What Richard Did" directed by Lenny Abrahamson which was released to great acclaim in 2012. Sam was cast in his first lead role of Michael in the Si Fi Sequel "Monsters Dark Continent", which is due for release later this year. From there Sam was cast as "Charles Ramsdell" in the "Ron Howard" epic "In the heart of the sea" along side "Chris Hemsworth", "Cillian Murphy", and "Brendan Gleeson". This movie is due for release on March 15th next year (2015). Summer 2014, sees Sam in London playing the role of "David" opposite "Bradley Cooper","Uma Thurman" "Sienna Miller" "Jamie Dornan" "Emma Thompson" "Omar Sy" and Daniel Bruhl" In the "Weinstein Company" production "John Wells" directed "Adam Jones".

* 01/01/1989

Carol Mendelsohn(73)

Crew | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Carol Mendelsohn is a producer and writer.

* 01/01/1951

Christina Chong(41)

Actress | London Borough of Enfield (GB)

Christina Chong (born 18th September 1988) is an English actress.

* 01/01/1983

Nicholas Farrell(69)

Actor | Essex, England (GB)

Nicholas C. Frost (born 1955), known professionally as Nicholas Farrell, is an English stage, film and television actor.

* 01/01/1955

Nancy Carroll(50)

Actress | Bristol, England (GB)

Nancy Carroll (born 29 September 1973) is a British actress. She has worked extensively in theatre productions, particularly with the Royal Shakespeare Company. She also has numerous film and television credits, including a long-running feature role as Lady Felicia in the BBC series Father Brown.

* 01/01/1974
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