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People: Famous People born on 08/07 (August)

August 6 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 8 All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 20 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 7, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 25. ()

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Rowoon(27)

Actor | Seoul (KR)

Kim Seok-woo, better known by his stage name Rowoon, is a South Korean singer, actor and model. He is a member of the K-pop boy band SF9 as a lead vocalist. As an actor, he is known for his roles in television series Extraordinary You, She Would Never Know, The King's Affection, and Tomorrow.

 
* 08/07/1996

Charlize Theron(48)

Actress | Benoni, Gauteng (ZA)

Charlize Theron ( shar-LEEZ THERR-ən; Afrikaans: [ʃarˈlis ˈtrɔn]; born 7 August 1975) is a South African and American actress and producer. One of the world's highest-paid actresses, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. In 2016, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Theron came to international prominence in the 1990s by playing the leading lady in the Hollywood films The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She received critical acclaim for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003), for which she won the Silver Bear and Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first South African to win an acting Oscar. She received another Academy Award nomination for playing a sexually abused woman seeking justice in the drama North Country (2005). Theron has starred in several commercially successful action films, including The Italian Job (2003), Hancock (2008), Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Prometheus (2012), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), The Fate of the Furious (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Old Guard (2020), F9 (2021) and Fast X (2023). She received praise for playing troubled women in Jason Reitman's comedy-dramas Young Adult (2011) and Tully (2018), and for portraying Megyn Kelly in the biographical drama Bombshell (2019), for which she received her third Academy Award nomination. Since the early 2000s, Theron has ventured into film production with her company Denver and Delilah Productions. She has produced numerous films, in many of which she had a starring role, including The Burning Plain (2008), Dark Places (2015), and Long Shot (2019). Theron became an American citizen in 2007, while retaining her South African citizenship. She has been honoured with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

* 08/07/1975

Eric Johnson(44)

Actor | Edmonton, Alberta (CA)

Eric Johnson is a Canadian film and television actor and director, best known for playing Whitney Fordman on science-fiction television series "Smallville", Detective Luke Callaghan on the police drama "Rookie Blue", and Dr. Everett Gallinger on the series "The Knick".

* 08/07/1979

Francesca Eastwood(30)

Actress | Redding, California (US)

Francesca Ruth Fisher-Eastwood is an American actress, model, television personality and socialite. She starred with her family in Mrs. Eastwood & Company, a reality series broadcast on E!. Wikipedia.

* 08/07/1993

Wayne Knight(68)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Wayne Elliot Knight (born August 7, 1955) is an American actor. In television, he played Newman on Seinfeld (1992–1998) and Officer Don Orville on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001). He also voiced Igor on Toonsylvania (1998–1999), Mr. Blik on Catscratch (2005–2007) and Baron Von Sheldgoose on Legend of the Three Caballeros (2018).In film, he played Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park (1993), which earned him a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination. He also portrayed Pete "Piccolo" Dugan in Dead Again (1991), John Correli in Basic Instinct (1992), Stan Podolak in Space Jam (1996) and Zach Mallozzi in Rat Race (2001) and provided the voices of Tantor in Tarzan (1999), Al McWhiggin in Toy Story 2 (1999) and The Elf Elder in Tom and Jerry: The Lost Dragon (2014).

* 08/07/1955

David Rasche(79)

Actor | St. Louis, Missouri

David Rasche ( RASH-ee; born August 7, 1944) is an American theater, film, and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer! Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical turns. In television he is known for his main role as Karl Muller in the HBO drama series Succession and his role as Alden Schmidt in the TV Land comedy series Impastor, as well as recurring and guest performances in numerous programs including L.A. Law, Monk, The West Wing, Veep, Bored to Death, and Ugly Betty.

* 08/07/1944

Brit Marling(40)

Actress | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1983) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian.Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas.It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Ellen Page and Alexander Skarsgård.

* 08/07/1983

Simon Kassianides(44)

Actor | London, England (GB)

Simon Kassianides (born 7 August 1979) is an English actor, film director, producer and screenwriter.

* 08/07/1979

Yohei Azakami(32)

Actor | Gunma Prefecture (JP)

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* 08/07/1991

Abbie Cornish(41)

Actress | Lochinvar, New South Wales (AU)

Abbie Cornish, born on 7th August 1982, is an Australian actress. She is well known in Australia for a number of film and television roles, including Penne in the comedy/lifestyle parody Life Support, her award-winning lead performance in 2004's Somersault and her role as Fannie Brawne in Bright Star.Her career began at the age of thirteen, when she began taking jobs as a model after reaching the finals of a Dolly Magazine competition. By the time she was sixteen, Cornish was juggling television acting roles with studying for her Higher School Certificate, with the intention of pursuing a career as a veterinarian. In 1999, Cornish was awarded the Australian Film Institute Young Actor's Award for her role in the ABC's television show Wildside and was soon offered her first role in a feature film, The Monkey's Mask. In 2001, Abbie landed the role of Reggie McDowell, a character on the Australian tv show "Outriders". In 2004, Cornish appeared in the award-winning short film Everything Goes with Hugo Weaving.She received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Actress at the FCCA and IF Awards and Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2005 Miami International Film Festival for her role in 2004's Somersault, the film which raised her to international prominence. Cornish received widespread critical acclaim for her role in 2006's Candy, which she starred in opposite Heath Ledger. She has also starred in A Good Year, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Kimberly Peirce's latest movie, Stop-Loss. She narrated her film Sucker Punch on the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International.

* 08/07/1982

Carl Switzer(† 31)

Actor | Paris, Illinois (US)

Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer was born on August 7, 1927 in Paris, Illinois, USA as Carl Dean Switzer. He was an actor, known forThe Defiant Ones(1958),Our Gang Follies of 1938(1937) andI Love You Again(1940). He was married to Dian Collingwood. He died on January 21, 1959 in Mission Hills, California, USA.

* 08/07/1927

Aju Makita(21)

Actress | Kanagawa (JP)

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* 08/07/2002
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Fahri Yardım(43)

Actor | Hamburg (DE)

Fahri Yardim was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of an academic family of Turkish extraction. Performing on stage in school productions he developed his love of acting. He trained at the Hamburger Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste (Hamburg Stage Studio of the Performing Arts) and appeared in theatre productions in Berlin and Hamburg. Fahri represents a generation that focuses on character rather than nationality. He is a naturalist who avoids ethnic stereotype, and his versatility is mirrored in his choice of roles: He portrayed an Anatolian inAlmanya - Willkommen in Deutschland(2011), a Greek inKebab Connection(2004), a German Sinte inChiko(2008), a German inMogadischu(2008), and a woman inUnter Frauen(2012). His most memorable roles include the Brunswick-set film66/67 - Fairplay war gestern(2009). 2012 proved to be a peak year allowing him to demonstrate the range of his talent and his powerful, committed, discursive and nuanced personality. He played a priest in Marcus H. Rosenmüller'sWer's glaubt, wird selig(2012), an artist in Marc Rothemund'sMann tut was Mann kann(2012), a paramedic in Lars Becker's ZDF thrillerDie Geisterfahrer(2012), a doctor in the ProSieben crime dramaKreutzer kommt ... ins Krankenhaus(2012) and a detective in the Sat.1 thriller dramaHannah Mangold & Lucy Palm(2011). In 2013 he will appear with Ben Kingsley in the international movie version ofDer Medicus(2013). In Austria he is a regular in the ORF police drama CopStories. And in March of 2013 he wasTil Schweiger's partner in the first of several projectedTatort(1970) episodes.

* 08/07/1980

Kristen Stadtlander(28)

Actress | West Islip, New York (US)

Kris Stadtlander is an American female professional wrestler. She is the first female graduate from Create A Pro Wrestling Academy. Championships and accomplishmentsNew York Wrestling ConnectionNYWC Starlet Championship (1 time)Victory Pro WrestlingVPW Women's Championship (2 times)Women Superstars UncensoredWSU Spirit Championship (1 time) TrainerCreate A Pro Wrestling AcademyDebutJune 14, 2017.

* 08/07/1995

Michael Shannon(49)

Actor | Lexington, Kentucky (US)

Michael Corbett Shannon (born August 7, 1974) is an American actor, producer, musician, and theatre director. He has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in the Sam Mendes period drama Revolutionary Road (2008) and the Tom Ford psychological thriller Nocturnal Animals (2016). He earned Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for his role in 99 Homes (2014), and a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (2016).Shannon made his film debut in 1993 with Groundhog Day and received widespread attention for his performance in 8 Mile (2002). He is known for his on-screen versatility, performing in both comedies and dramas such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Bad Boys II (2003), Bug (2006), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009), The Iceman (2012), Premium Rush (2012), The Night Before (2015), The Shape of Water (2017) and Knives Out (2019). He played Superman's Kryptonian adversary General Zod in Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and is set to reprise the role in The Flash (2022). Shannon is a frequent collaborator of Jeff Nichols, appearing in all of his films: Shotgun Stories (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Mud (2012), Midnight Special, and Loving (both 2016). He is also known for his role as Nelson Van Alden in the HBO period drama series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014), for which he was nominated for three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2021, he had a main role in the Hulu drama miniseries Nine Perfect Strangers.

* 08/07/1974

Hiroaki Hirata(60)

Actor | Tokyo (JP)

Hiroaki Hirata (平田 広明, Hirata Hiroaki, born August 7, 1963) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He is the founder of Hirata Production Japan. He is best known for voicing Vinsmoke Sanji in One Piece. His other known roles include Sha Gojyo in Saiyuki, Kotetsu T. Kaburagi in Tiger & Bunny, Klein in Sword Art Online, Vergil in the Devil May Cry series, Mutta Nanba in Space Brothers, Leomon in Digimon Adventure, George Kodama in Kaze no Yojimbo and Mr. Kondo in After the Rain. He is also the official Japanese dub-over artist for Johnny Depp, Matt Damon, Noah Wyle and Matt LeBlanc. In addition, he dubbed many roles of Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, and Josh Hartnett.

* 08/07/1963

Andrew Lin(54)

Actor | Taipei (TW)

Andrew Lin Hoi (Chinese: 連凱; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân Khái) is a Hong Kong-based Taiwanese actor and visual artist. Originally working as a special effects makeup artist in the United States, he went to Hong Kong in 1996 where he started his acting career.

* 08/07/1969

Tasuku Hatanaka(29)

Actor | Kanagawa Prefecture (JP)

Tasuku Hatanaka is a Japanese actor and voice actor affiliated with Ken Production.

* 08/07/1994

Youji Ueda(52)

Actor | Hyōgo Prefecture (JP)

Youji Ueda (上田 燿司, Ueda Yōji) is a Japanese voice actor formerly affiliated with Mausu Promotion and currently affiliated with Amuleto. His name was Youji Ueda (上田 陽司, Ueda Yōji) until April 1, 2008.

* 08/07/1971

Maggie Wheeler(62)

Actress | New York City, New York (US)

Margaret Emily Wheeler (née Jakobson) is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring role as Janice on the sitcom Friends (1994–2004).

* 08/07/1961

Leticia Perdigón(67)

Actress | Mexico City, Distrito Federal (MX)

Guadalupe Leticia Perdigón Labrador (born August 7, 1956), better known as Leticia Perdigón is a Mexican film and television actress who has appeared in more than forty TV shows and fifty films since 1973.

* 08/07/1956

Ramon Estevez(60)

Actor | New York City, New York

Ramon Luis Estevez (born August 7, 1963), sometimes billed as Ramon Sheen, is an American actor and director who runs Estevez Sheen Productions.

 
* 08/07/1963

Jang Ki-yong(31)

Actor | Ulsan (KR)

Jang Ki-yong (Korean: 장기용; born August 7, 1992) is a South Korean actor and model. He began his career in the modelling industry and debuted as an actor through a guest appearance on It's Okay, That's Love (2014). He gained popularity with Confession Couple (2017) and was cast in Come and Hug Me (2018), his first-ever lead role. Jang rose to prominence with Search: WWW (2019) and continued his streak with My Roommate Is a Gumiho (2021) and Now, We Are Breaking Up (2021–2022). Jang is also known for his roles in My Mister (2018), Born Again (2020). As an established model, Jang earned several awards including the "Fashion Model Award" at the 2014 Asia Model Awards and "Best Dressed Model" at the 2015 Korea's Best Dresser Swan Awards. His transition to acting earned him the accolades "Best New Actor (TV)" at the 2019 Baeksang Arts Awards, the "Excellence Award" at the 2018 MBC Drama Awards and more. Jang is also known for his endorsements with brands Estée Lauder, Lancôme, and Nivea Men.

* 08/07/1992

Sydney Penny(52)

Actress | Nashville, Tennessee (US)

Sydney Margaret Penny (born August 7, 1971) is an American actress. She began her career as a child performer appearing in made-for-television movies. She made her big screen debut in the Western film Pale Rider directed by Clint Eastwood. She received total six Young Artist Awards nominations, winning two for playing Young Meggie Cleary in the miniseries The Thorn Birds (1984), and for Pale Rider. Penny also starred in the sitcom The New Gidget (1986–1988), and played Bernadette Soubirous in the French drama film Bernadette (1988) and its sequel The Passion of Bernadette (1990) both directed by Jean Delannoy. Penny starred as B.J. Walker during the final season of NBC soap opera Santa Barbara (1992–1993), receiving Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series nomination. She later joined the cast of ABC soap opera All My Children (1993–1997, 2002-05, 2008) playing the role of Julia Santos Keefer receiving Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series nomination in 1995. She also starred in the drama series Hyperion Bay (1998–1999) and Largo Winch (2001–2003).

* 08/07/1971

Tobin Bell(81)

Actor | Queens, New York City, New York (US)

Tobin Bell (born Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.; August 7, 1942) is an American actor. He has appeared in a number of television shows and films but is most recognized for his role as John Kramer / Jigsaw in the Saw franchise. He started his acting career in the late 1970s and early 1980s doing stand-ins and background work on feature films. He had his first feature film role in Mississippi Burning (1988). Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bell appeared in supporting roles in a number of films and television shows, including The Firm (1993), Unabomber: The True Story (1996), Walker, Texas Ranger (1998), The Sopranos (2001), and 24 (2003). His breakout role came in 2004 when he was cast as the serial killer Jigsaw in Saw (2004). The film was a box office success, and Bell went on to portray the character in eight of the nine sequels: Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009), Saw 3D (2010), Jigsaw (2017), and Saw X (2023). The series has become one of the highest-grossing horror franchises of all time and earned Bell recognition as a horror icon.

* 08/07/1942

Paula Echevarría(46)

Actress | Candás, Asturias (ES)

Paula Echevarría is a Spanish actress born in Asturias. Among her firsts works as an actress stand out roles in shows like 'Al salir de clase', 'Compañeros' and 'Policías'. In 2004 she became really popular because of her part on 'El comisario'. Between her main projects hightlight her performs as Lucía in 'Gran Reserva' and Ana in 'Velvet'. She has also participated in movies like 'Sangre de mayo' and 'Vulnerables'.She is one of the most influental Spanish it-girls at this moment. She run a blog in Elle Spain website called 'Tras la pista de Paula Echevaría'. On a personal level, she is married with Spanish singer David Bustamante whom she has a daughter called Daniela who born in 2008.

* 08/07/1977

Brian Conley(62)

Actor | Paddington, London, England (GB)

Brian Conley is one of the UK's most versatile and popular performers. He has become a household name thanks to such diverse characters as Dangerous Brian, Nick Frisby "It's a puppet", Doug Digby and the legendary Al Jolson. He was born and raised in West London and studied Performing Arts at The Barbara Speake Stage School and then at the age of 16 hit the road and made a living performing cabaret in nightclubs. He began his TV career as a warm up man for Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds and Kenny Everett, but soon started appearing in front of the cameras with regular appearances in Five Alive and Live from the Palladium. He was soon snapped up by ITV and given his own starring vehicle to demonstrate his unique and versatile talents, this was Brian Conley - This Way Up which was followed by The Brian Conley Show. Taken from www.brianconley.com.

* 08/07/1961

Jin Aketagawa(51)

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Jin Aketagawa is a Japanese sound director. He is the son of fellow sound director Susumu Aketagawa. He is part of Magic Capsule.

* 08/07/1972

William Stanford Davis(72)

Actor | St. Louis, Missouri (US)

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* 08/07/1951

David Duchovny(63)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is best known for playing Fox Mulder on The X-Files and Hank Moody on Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards Duchovny was born in New York City, New York in 1960. He is the son of Margaret "Meg" (née Miller), a school administrator and teacher, and Amram "Ami" Ducovny (1927–2003), a writer and publicist who worked for the American Jewish Committee. His father was Jewish, from a family that immigrated from the Russian Empire and Poland. His mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army.Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with a B.A. in English Literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels. Duchovny played a season of junior varsity basketball as a shooting guard and centerfield for the varsity baseball team.He received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished. The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. At Yale, he was a student of popular literary critic Harold Bloom.Duchovny married actress Téa Leoni on May 6, 1997. In April 1999, Leoni gave birth to a daughter, Madelaine West Duchovny. Their second child, a son, Kyd Miller Duchovny, was born in June 2002. Duchovny is a former vegetarian and, as of 2007, is a pescetarian.On August 28, 2008, Duchovny announced that he had checked himself into a rehabilitation facility for treating sex addiction. On October 15, 2008, Duchovny's and Leoni's representatives issued a statement revealing they had separated several months earlier.A week later, Duchovny's lawyer said that he planned to sue the Daily Mail over an article it ran that claimed he had an affair with Hungarian tennis instructor Edit Pakay while still married to Leoni, a claim that Duchovny has denied. On November 15, 2008, the Daily Mail retracted their claims. After getting back together, Duchovny and Leoni once again split on June 29, 2011.

* 08/07/1960
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