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People: Famous People born on 08/12 (August)

August 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 13 All fixed commemorations below are observed on August 25 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 12, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 30. ()
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Bruce Greenwood(67)

Actor | Noranda, Québec (CA)

Stuart Bruce Greenwood(born August 12, 1956) is a Canadian actor and producer. He is known for his role as the American presidentJohn F. KennedyinThirteen Days,for which he won theSatellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture, and asCaptain Christopher PikeinJ.J. Abrams'sStar Trek moviereboot series. He has been nominated for threeCanadian Screen Awards, once forBest Actor (for Elephant Song) and twice forBest Supporting Actor(forThe Sweet Hereafter and Being Julia).He is known for his roles as Nick Parsons inDouble Jeopardy, Stuart Ramsey in Passenger 57, Bob Andrews in Father's Day, Earl Cavanaugh in Here on Earth, National Security Advisor Bill Sokal in Rules of Engagement, JFK in ThirteenDays, Anthony 'Tony' Leighton in Swept Away, Cmdr. Robert Iverson in The Core; Lt. Bennie Macko in HollywoodHomicide, Lawrence Robertson in I, Robot, Lord Charles in Being Julia, Nolan Walsh in Racing Stripes, Jack Dunphy (Truman Capote's lover) in Capote; Hugh Sullivan in The Mermaid Chair, Professor Davis McClaren in Eight Below, Jack McCready in Deja Vu, Keenan Jones / Garrett in I'm Not There, the President in National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Christopher Pike in Star Trek and its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, George McCray in A Dog Named Christmas, Lance Fender in Dinner for Schmucks, Stephen Meek in Meek's Cutoff, Cooper in Super 8, Bill Kill Cullen in The Place Beyond the Pines, Charlie Anderson in Flight, Hugh Butterfield in Endless Love, Vince in The Captive, Andrew Heyward in Truth (2015), Dr. Jake Houseman in the TV movie version of Dirty Dancing (2017), Uncle Dean in Kodachrome, the US President in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Gerald in Gerald's Game, Robert McNamara in The Post, and Dr. John Dalton in Doctor Sleep.His best known TV roles are as Dr. Randolph Bell on The Resident, Gil Garcetti on American Crime Story, Emmet Cole on The River, Mitch Yost on John from Cincinnati, Dr. Nathan Bradford on Sleepwalkers, Thomas Veil on Nowhere Man, Jack Gage on Legmen, Pierce Lawton on Knot's Landing, and Dr. Seth Griffin on St. Elsewhere.He has voiced Bruce Wayne / Batman in the animated series Young Justice and in several Batman cartoon videos, and voiced Chiron in the animated series Class Titans.

Known for: Star Trek, Thirteen Days, I, Robot, Star Trek Into Darkness
* 08/12/1956

Casey Affleck(48)

Actor | Falmouth, Massachusetts (US)

Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award. He began his career as a child actor, appearing in the PBS television film Lemon Sky (1988) and the miniseries The Kennedys of Massachusetts (1990). He later appeared in three Gus Van Sant films: To Die For (1995), Good Will Hunting (1997), and Gerry (2002), and in Steven Soderbergh's comedy heist trilogy Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). His first leading role was in Steve Buscemi's independent comedy-drama Lonesome Jim (2006).Affleck's breakthrough came in 2007, when he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the Western drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and starred in the crime drama Gone Baby Gone, directed by his brother Ben Affleck. In 2010, he directed the mockumentary I'm Still Here. He then had a string of successful films in the early 2010s, including Tower Heist (2011), ParaNorman (2012) and Interstellar (2014), and received particular praise for his performance as an outlaw in the indie film Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013).In 2016, Affleck starred in the drama film Manchester by the Sea. For his performance as Lee Chandler, a man grieving the loss of his children and his brother, he received universal acclaim and won the Critics' Choice Movie Award, Golden Globe Award, British Academy Film Award and Academy Award for Best Actor, and received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2017, Affleck received critical acclaim for his leading role in the supernatural drama film A Ghost Story.

Known for: Manchester by the Sea, Light of My Life, A Ghost Story, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
* 08/12/1975

Peter Krause(58)

Actor | Alexandria, Minnesota (US)

Peter William Krause (born August 12, 1965) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has played lead roles in multiple television series, portraying Casey McCall on Sports Night (1998–2000), Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under (2001–2005), Nick George on Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Adam Braverman on Parenthood (2010–2015), Benjamin Jones on The Catch (2016–2017), and Bobby Nash on 9-1-1 (2018-present). For his work on Six Feet Under, Krause was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and seven Screen Actors Guild Awards, winning twice for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Known for: The Truman Show, Beastly, Six Feet Under, Sports Night
* 08/12/1965

George Hamilton(84)

Actor | Memphis, Tennessee (US)

George Stevens Hamilton (born August 12, 1939) is an American actor. His notable films include Home from the Hill (1960), Where the Boys Are (1960), Angel Baby (1961), By Love Possessed (1961), A Thunder of Drums (1961), Light in the Piazza (1962), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), The Victors (1963), Looking for Love (1964), Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), Viva Maria! (1965), Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding! (1967), Jack of Diamonds (1967), The Power (1968), Evel Knievel (1971), The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973), Once Is Not Enough (1975), Love at First Bite (1979), Zorro, The Gay Blade (1981), The Godfather Part III (1990), Doc Hollywood (1991), Once Upon a Crime (1992), 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997), Hollywood Ending (2002), and The Congressman (2016). For his debut performance in Crime and Punishment U.S.A. (1959), Hamilton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a BAFTA Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two Golden Globe nominations. Hamilton began his film career in 1958, and although he has a substantial body of work in film and television, he is perhaps most famous for his debonair style, perpetual suntan, and commercials for Ritz Crackers. Bo Derek wrote in her autobiography that "there was an ongoing contest between John Derek and George Hamilton as to who had the most tan!".

Known for: Zorro, The Gay Blade, Love at First Bite, The Godfather Part III, Hollywood Ending
* 08/12/1939

Amanda Redman(66)

Actress | Brighton (GB)

Amanda Jacqueline Redman, MBE (born 12 August 1957) is an English actress, known for her role as Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman in the BBC One series New Tricks (2003–2013) and as Dr. Lydia Fonseca in The Good Karma Hospital (2017–2020). She gained BAFTA TV Award nominations for At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003) and Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (2014). Her film roles include For Queen and Country (1988), Sexy Beast (2000) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2001).

Known for: Sexy Beast, Mike Bassett: England Manager, New Tricks, At Home with the Braithwaites
* 08/12/1957

Yvette Nicole Brown(52)

Actress | East Cleveland, Ohio (US)

Yvette Nicole Brown (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress and comedian best known for her role as Shirley Bennett on the NBC comedy series Community (2009-2015).

Known for: Avengers: Endgame, Repo Men, Community, Pound Puppies
* 08/12/1971

Jim Beaver(73)

Actor | Laramie, Wyoming (US)

James Norman Beaver Jr. (born August 12, 1950) is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He is most familiar to worldwide audiences as Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which brought him acclaim and a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for Ensemble Acting, and Sheriff Shelby Parlow on the FX series Justified. His memoir Life's That Way was published in April 2009.

Known for: Crimson Peak, Deadwood, Supernatural, Breaking Bad, The Boys
* 08/12/1950

Cara Delevingne(31)

Actress | Hammersmith, London, England (GB)

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne (born 12 August 1992) is an English model, actress, and singer. She signed with Storm Management after leaving school in 2009. Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2012 and 2014.Delevingne started her acting career with a minor role in the 2012 film adaptation of Anna Karenina by Joe Wright. Her most notable roles include Margo Roth Spiegelman in the romantic mystery film Paper Towns (2015), the Enchantress in the comic book film Suicide Squad (2016), and Laureline in Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017).

Known for: Suicide Squad, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Paper Towns, Anna Karenina
* 08/12/1992

Lakeith Stanfield(32)

Actor | San Bernardino, California (US)

LaKeith Lee Stanfield (born August 12, 1991) is an American actor and musician. He made his feature film debut in Short Term 12 (2013), for which he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He received further recognition for his roles in the films Get Out (2017), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Uncut Gems (2019), Knives Out (2019), and Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), the lattermost of which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Stanfield has also appeared in the films Selma (2014), Dope (2015), Straight Outta Compton (2015), Crown Heights (2017), The Photograph (2020), The Harder They Fall (2021), Haunted Mansion (2023) and The Book of Clarence (2023). On television, he played Darius Epps in the series Atlanta (2016–2022), for which he won a Black Reel Award for Television, and starred in the horror series The Changeling (2023–present). He has also been nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, a Gotham Award, two Satellite Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and five Black Reel Awards.

Known for: Sorry to Bother You, Short Term 12, Knives Out, Selma
* 08/12/1991

Maggie Lawson(43)

Actress | Louisville, Kentucky (US)

Margaret Cassidy Lawson (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress who is best known for her role as Detective Juliet "Jules" O'Hara in the TV show Psych.From 2018 to 2019, she held the recurring role of Natalie Flynn on Fox's Lethal Weapon's third and final season.

Known for: Gamer, Cleaner, Pleasantville, Psych
* 08/12/1980

Steve Talley(42)

Actor | Indianapolis, Indiana (US)

Steve Talley is an actor and producer.

Known for: American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile, Peaceful Warrior, American Pie Presents: Beta House, Van Wilder: Freshman Year, Pretty Little Liars
* 08/12/1981

Rudy Pankow(25)

Actor | Ketchikan, Alaska (US)

Rudy Pankow was born on August 12, 1998 in Ketchikan, Alaska, USA. He is an actor, known for Outer Banks (2020), The Politician (2019) and Muse: Thought Contagion (2018).

Known for: Uncharted, Accidental Texan, 5lbs of Pressure, Outer Banks
* 08/12/1998
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Dominique Swain(43)

Actress | Malibu, California (US)

Dominique Swain (born August 12, 1980) is an American actress. She first came to attention as the title character in Adrian Lyne's 1997 adaptation of Lolita, alongside a supporting role in John Woo's Face/Off that same year. She worked predominantly in independent cinema throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, with credits including Girl (1998), Intern (2000), Tart (2001), and Pumpkin (2002). Subsequent credits include Alpha Dog (2006), Road to Nowhere (2010), and a succession of films in the action, thriller, and horror genres.

Known for: Lolita, Face/Off, Alpha Dog, Tart
* 08/12/1980

Leah Pipes(35)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Leah Marie Pipes (born August 12, 1988) is an American actress. She starred in the television series Life Is Wild, the slasher film Sorority Row and The CW series The Originals.

Known for: Sorority Row, Musical Chairs, Fingerprints, The Originals
* 08/12/1988

Sam J. Jones(69)

Actor | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Sam J. Jones is the stage name of Samuel Gerald Jones (born August 12, 1954), an American actor also credited as Sam Jones.

Known for: Flash Gordon, Ted, Ted 2, Jane and the Lost City, Code Red
* 08/12/1954

Iris Berben(73)

Actress | Detmold (DE)

Iris Renate Dorothea Berben (pronounced [ˈiːʁɪs ˈbɛʁbm̩], born 12 August 1950) is a German actress.

Known for: Triangle of Sadness, Krupp - Eine deutsche Familie, Eddie the Eagle, Rosa Roth
* 08/12/1950

Kana Asumi(40)

Actress | Fukuoka Prefecture (JP)

Kana Asumi is a Japanese voice actress and singer affiliated with 81Produce.

Known for: Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion, Grand Blue, Gurren Lagann
* 08/12/1983

Miki Komori(41)

Actress | Tokyo / Tōkyō (JP)

Miki Komori is a Japanese AV actress . Born in Tokyo, Japan . She debuted in the AV adult film industry in 2003 and has shot many AV works.

Known for: Nagai Go World: Maboroshi Panty VS Henchin Pokoider, Otakus in Love, Concrete
* 08/12/1982

Rebecca Gayheart(52)

Actress | Hazard, Kentucky (US)

Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971) is an American actress and model. She began her career as a teen model in the 1980s and subsequently appeared in a student short film by Brett Ratner, with whom she had an extensive relationship. In the early 1990s, Gayheart signed a contract with Noxzema and became a spokesperson for the company. On television, she had a starring role on the series Earth 2 (1994–1995) and was a recurring guest star on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1995). She made her feature film debut in the comedy Nothing to Lose (1997) and then had a lead role in the slasher film Urban Legend (1998). She subsequently starred in the black comedy film Jawbreaker (1999), followed by supporting roles in the thriller Shadow Hours (2000) and the independent comedy Harvard Man (2001). In June 2001, Gayheart struck and killed a young boy with her vehicle in Los Angeles, an event that was widely publicized, and was ultimately sentenced to probation and community service. She returned to acting several years later, appearing in recurring guest roles on the television series Dead Like Me (2003), Nip/Tuck (2004–2006), and Vanished (2006). In 2005, Gayheart made her Broadway debut in a production of Steel Magnolias. She returned to Broadway again in a 2008 production of Boeing-Boeing, opposite Mark Rylance and Christine Baranski. In 2019, Gayheart appeared in a minor supporting role in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Known for: Jawbreaker, Nothing to Lose, Urban Legend, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
* 08/12/1971

Cantinflas(† 81)

Actor | Santa María La Redonda, Mexico City, Distrito Federal (MX)

Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (Spanish pronunciation: [kanˈtiɱflas]), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is celebrated throughout Latin America and in Spain as a popular icon. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain and has given rise to a range of expressions including cantinflear, cantinflada, cantinflesco, and cantinflero. He often portrayed impoverished farmers or a peasant of pelado origin. The character allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive, and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". To audiences in most of the world, he is best remembered as co-starring with David Niven in the Oscar-winning film Around the World in 80 Days, for which Moreno won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. As a pioneer of the cinema of Mexico, Moreno helped usher in its golden era. In addition to being a business leader, he also became involved in Mexico's tangled and often dangerous labor politics. His reputation as a spokesperson for the downtrodden gave his actions authenticity and became important in the early struggle against charrismo, the one-party government's practice of co-opting and controlling unions. Moreover, his character Cantinflas, whose identity became enmeshed with his own, was examined by media critics, philosophers, and linguists, who saw him variously as a danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog.

Known for: Around the World in Eighty Days, Pepe, El señor fotógrafo, The Three Musketeers
* 08/12/1911

Charlotte Salt(38)

Actress | Newcastle Under Lyme, Staffordshire, England (GB)

Charlotte Salt was born on August 12, 1985 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England as Charlotte Leah Salt. She is an actress, known for Beowulf (2007), Casualty (1986) and The Chamber (2016). She has been married to Oliver Coleman since July 31, 2014.

Known for: Beowulf, The TV Set, The Tudors, The Musketeers
* 08/12/1985

Michael Ian Black(52)

Actor | Chicago, Illinois (US)

Michael Ian Black (born Michael Ian Schwartz; August 12, 1971) is an American actor, writer, and comedian. He has starred in several TV comedy series, including The State, Viva Variety, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Michael & Michael Have Issues, and Another Period. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, he was the puppeteer and voice actor for the Pets.com sock puppet dog, and played a supporting character on the TV series Ed. Since 2008 he has written a number of books, including several for children.

Known for: Wet Hot American Summer, Take Me Home Tonight, Stella, The State
* 08/12/1971

Meryem Uzerli(40)

Actress | Kassel, Hesse, West Germany

Meryem Sarah Uzerli (Turkish pronunciation: [mæɾˈjæm uzæɾˈli]; born 12 August 1983) is a German Turkish model and former actress best known for Muhteşem Yüzyıl (2011-2013) and Kovan (2018). She is the recipient of two Golden Butterfly Awards. She has been named as one of the most beautiful actresses of all time by the World of Statistics.

Known for: Cingöz Recai, Keeping the Bees, Magnificent Century, Eşkıya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz
* 08/12/1983

Steven Hartley(63)

Actor | Shipley, West Yorkshire, England (GB)

Steven Hartley (born 12 August 1960) is an English actor who has appeared in television, film, and theatre.

Known for: The Walker, Brassic, Happy Valley
* 08/12/1960

Ronald Guttman(71)

Actor | Uccle (BE)

Ronald Guttman is an actor and producer.

Known for: The Hunt for Red October, 27 Dresses, Welcome to the Punch, The Beast
* 08/12/1952

Rosanna Huffman(† 77)

Actress | Timblane, Pennysylvania (US)

Rosanna Huffman (August 12, 1938 – May 20, 2016) was an American actress and voice-over artist. Huffman's film credits as a voice actress included Oliver & Company in 1988, The Fabulous Baker Boys in 1989, FernGully: The Last Rainforest in 1992, and Babe in 1995. She also appeared in recurring roles in Murder, She Wrote, Hill Street Blues, and Murder One. Huffman was the widow of Richard Levinson, the co-creator of Columbo and Murder, She Wrote, who died of a heart attack in 1987. Huffman was born to Doras and Christine Huffman on August 12, 1938, in Timblin, Pennsylvania, a small coal mining town. She moved to New York in the 1960s and was quickly cast in a lead role in the 1965 Broadway production of Half a Sixpence. She met Richard Levinson while attending a party. The couple married in 1969 and moved to Los Angeles, where Huffman soon won a lead role in a musical comedy, Jane Heights. Later, during the 1970s, she guest-starred in two episodes of Columbo, including the episode "Suitable for Framing" (1971) in which she was cast as the partner of a murderous art critic portrayed by Ross Martin. Huffman also appeared in seven episodes of Murder, She Wrote, another series created by Levinson over the course of a decade. Additionally, she was cast in a recurring role on Hill Street Blues, playing the former wife of Joe Spano's character, Lt. Henry Goldblume. Her other television credits, spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s, include the series The Big Valley, Mission: Impossible, Ellery Queen, The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, The Golden Girls, Family Ties, Cagney & Lacey, Tucker's Witch, and ER. Rosanna Huffman died from pancreatic cancer at her home in Santa Monica, California, on May 20, 2016, at the age of 77. She was survived by her daughter Chrissy and two grandchildren.

Known for: Babe, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Columbo, Murder One
* 08/12/1938

Dana Ivey(82)

Actress | Atlanta, Georgia (US)

Dana Ivey (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress. She is a five-time Tony Award nominee for her work on Broadway, and won the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play for her work in both Sex and Longing and The Last Night of Ballyhoo. She originated the title role in Driving Miss Daisy and was nominated for a Drama Desk award for Best Actress in a Play. Her film appearances include The Color Purple (1985), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988), The Addams Family (1991), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Addams Family Values (1993), Two Weeks Notice (2002), Rush Hour 3 (2007), and The Help (2011).

Known for: Sabrina, Rush Hour 3, The Color Purple, Two Weeks Notice
* 08/12/1941

William Goldman(† 87)

Crew | Chicago, Illinois (US)

William Goldman (August 12, 1931 – November 15, 2018) was an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon for the Washington Post. Both films starred Robert Redford.His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film.Author Sean Egan has described Goldman as "one of the late twentieth century’s most popular storytellers.".

Known for: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, The Princess Bride, Marathon Man
* 08/12/1931

Isaach De Bankolé(66)

Actor | Abidjan (CI)

Isaach orIsaac de Bankolé (born 12 August 1957; Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) is an Ivorian actor.De Bankolé was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to Yoruba parents from Benin. His grandparents are from Nigeria.[6] He moved to Paris in 1975 for his last year of lycée and pursued a master's degree in physics and mathematics. He then attended an aviation school and earned a private pilot licence, before a chance encounter with French director Gérard Vergez led him to enroll in the Cours Simon, a Parisian drama school.

Known for: Casino Royale, Night on Earth, Black Panther, The Skeleton Key
* 08/12/1957

Damien Leake(71)

Actor | The Bronx (US)

Damien Leake(born August 12, 1952) is an American actor and record-holding masterstrack and fieldathlete.Starting with a role in 1973'sSerpico, he has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980s he wastypecastas a "a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer" including roles inDeath WishandApocalypse Now.He has branched out to other jobs related to the entertainment industry. He claims to having been a singer, dancer, director, musician, composer, musical director, vocal arranger, playwright, stage fight choreographer and ventriloquist.

Known for: The Great Debaters, Apocalypse Now, Sea of Love, The Devil's Own
* 08/12/1952
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