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People: Famous People born on 01/12 (January)

January 11 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 13 All fixed commemorations below are observed on January 25 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For January 12th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on December 30. ()

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Rachael Harris(56)

Actress | Worthington, Ohio (US)

Rachael Harris (born January 12, 1968) is an American actress and comedian. She is known for her numerous acting roles, such as starring as Dr. Linda Martin in the Fox/Netflix series Lucifer, as Nora Parker in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps (2023), her role in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid film series, and as a guest star on numerous TV shows.

* 01/12/1968

Cynthia Addai-Robinson(39)

Actress | London (GB)

Cynthia Addai-Robinson (born January 12, 1985) is an English-born American actress. She is best known for her roles as Naevia in the Starz television series Spartacus and DC Comics character Amanda Waller in The CW TV series Arrow. Since November 2016, she plays the role of Nadine Memphis on the USA Network series Shooter.

* 01/12/1985

Oliver Platt(64)

Actor | Windsor, Ontario (CA)

Oliver Platt (born January 12, 1960) is a Canadian-born American actor. He is known for his starring roles in many films such as Flatliners (1990), Beethoven (1992), Indecent Proposal, The Three Musketeers (both 1993), Executive Decision, A Time to Kill (both 1996), Dangerous Beauty, Bulworth, The Impostors, Dr. Dolittle (all 1998), Ready to Rumble, Gun Shy (both 2000), Don't Say a Word (2001), Zig Zag (2002), Pieces of April (2003), The Ice Harvest (2005), Martian Child (2007), Frost/Nixon (2008), Year One, 2012 (both 2009), Please Give, Love & Other Drugs (both 2010), X-Men: First Class, The Oranges (both 2011), Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2013), Frank and Cindy and One More Time (both 2015).

* 01/12/1960

Rob Zombie(59)

Actor | Haverhill, Massachusetts (US)

Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, filmmaker, and actor. His music and lyrics are notable for their horror and sci-fi themes, and his live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. He has sold an estimated 15 million albums worldwide. Zombie initially rose to fame as a founding member and the frontman of heavy metal band White Zombie, with whom he released four albums. His first solo effort, the 1996 song "Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)", was written and performed with Alice Cooper and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. His debut solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe, was released in 1998; White Zombie disbanded a month later. Hellbilly Deluxe sold over 3 million copies worldwide and spawned three singles. His second studio album, The Sinister Urge, was released in 2001 and became his second platinum album in the U.S. His third studio album, Educated Horses, was released in 2006 and marked a departure from his earlier style. It became his third album to enter the top 10 of the Billboard 200, but saw a decrease in sales compared to his previous releases. His fourth studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe 2, released in 2010 and peaked at no. 8 in the U.S. A remix album, Mondo Sex Head, released in 2012 and was followed by his fifth album Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor in 2013. In 2016, Zombie released his sixth album, The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser, and his seventh studio album, The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy, was released in 2021. Zombie directed the horror film House of 1000 Corpses in 2000, though the controversial project was not released until 2003, and has since been described as a cult classic. Zombie followed the film with two sequels in his Firefly trilogy: The Devil's Rejects (2005) and 3 from Hell (2019). After the success of his first two films he directed Halloween (2007), a remake of the classic 1978 horror film. The film became his highest-grossing to date, though was generally received negatively by critics. He later directed Halloween II (2009), which failed to match the commercial success of its predecessor. Zombie has also directed the films The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009), The Lords of Salem (2012), 31 (2016), and The Munsters (2022).

* 01/12/1965

Andrew Lawrence(36)

Actor | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

Andrew James Lawrence(born January 12, 1988) is an American actor, singer and filmmaker. He is the youngest brother of actors Joey Lawrence and Matthew Lawrence. He is known for his roles as Andy Roman onBrotherly Love(starring with his real life brothersJoeyandMatthew) and Ted Beene on the sitcom Oliver Beene, as well as voicing T.J. Detweiler onthe cartoon Recess, and Vinnie Nasta on the cartoon The Kids from Room 402. Outside of his acting and music career, Lawrence made his directorial debut with the 2020 filmThe Office Mix-Up.

* 01/12/1988

Kirstie Alley(† 71)

Actress | Wichita, Kansas (US)

Kirstie Louise Alley (January 12, 1951 – December 5, 2022) was an American actress. Her breakthrough role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987–1993), for which she received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991. From 1997 to 2000, she starred as the lead in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations. On film, she played Mollie Jensen in Look Who's Talking (1989) and its two sequels, Look Who's Talking Too (1990) and Look Who's Talking Now (1993). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Alley appeared in various films, including Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Summer School (1987), Shoot to Kill (1988), Madhouse (1990), Sibling Rivalry (1990), Village of the Damned (1995), It Takes Two (1995), Deconstructing Harry (1997), For Richer or Poorer (1997), and Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999). Alley won her second Emmy Award in 1994 for the television film David's Mother. In 1997, Alley received another Emmy nomination for her work in the crime drama series The Last Don. In 2005, she played a fictionalized version of herself on Showtime's Fat Actress, something she would also do on episodes of King of Queens and Hot in Cleveland, as well as in Syrup (2013). In 2013, Alley returned to acting with the title role on the sitcom Kirstie. In 2016, she appeared on the Fox comedy horror series Scream Queens. She also appeared in reality television including Kirstie Alley's Big Life (2010) and served as a contestant on the 12th season of Dancing with the Stars (2011–2012), where she finished in second place, behind Hines Ward, and the 22nd series of the British reality show Celebrity Big Brother (2018), in which she finished as runner-up. In early 2022, she appeared on The Masked Singer.

* 01/12/1951

Howard Stern(70)

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

Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954)[1] is an American radio and television personality, comedian, and author. He is best known for his radio show, The Howard Stern Show, which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005. Stern has broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio since 2006.

* 01/12/1954

John Lasseter(67)

Crew | Hollywood, California (US)

John Alan Lasseter is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.Lasseter's first job was with The Walt Disney Company, where he became an animator. Next, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on the then-groundbreaking use of CGI animation. After Lucasfilm became Pixar in 1986, Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects as executive producer and he directed Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Cars, "Toy Story 3" and "Cars 2".He has won two Academy Awards, for Animated Short Film (Tin Toy), as well as a Special Achievement Award (Toy Story).

* 01/12/1957

Marie Dubois(† 77)

Actress | Paris (FR)

Marie Dubois (born Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé; 12 January 1937 – 15 October 2014) was a Parisian-born French actress.

* 01/12/1937

Chris Gartin(56)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Christopher Gartin is an American actor. He was previously married to Joanne Gartin, an event planner in Los Angeles who has organized weddings for Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Berkley and Greg Lauren, Molly Shannon, Taye Diggs, Kate Walsh and Tori Spelling.

* 01/12/1968

Matt Malloy(61)

Actor | Hamilton, New York (US)

Matt Malloy (born December 6, 1963) is an American actor and producer who has appeared extensively on television, film, and radio. Malloy's break-out performance was his co-starring role alongside Aaron Eckhart and Stacy Edwards in the 1997 black comedy movie In the Company of Men, which he co-executive produced. He also co-starred in the Amazon Prime Video comedy series Alpha House as Mormon GOP Senator Louis Laffer from Nevada.

* 01/12/1963

Sam Richardson(40)

Actor | Detroit (US)

Sam Richardson is an actor and writer, known for Veep (2012), Detroiters (2017) and Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016).

* 01/12/1984
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Will Rothhaar(37)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

William Edward Lamar "Will" Rothhaar (born January 12, 1987) is an American actor.

* 01/12/1987

Ralf Moeller(65)

Actor | Recklinghausen (DE)

Ralf Rudolf Moeller (born Möller; German: [ˈmœlɐ]; 12 January 1959) is a German actor and former competitive bodybuilder. He is known for his roles of Brick Bardo in Cyborg, Kjartan in The Viking Sagas, the title character in the television show Conan the Adventurer, Hagen in Gladiator, Thorak in The Scorpion King, and Ulfar in Pathfinder.

* 01/12/1959

Jakob Oftebro(38)

Actor | Oslo (NO)

Jakob Hoff Oftebro (born 12 January 1986) is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and Kon-Tiki, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards. In 2014, he was cast as a lead in the Danish television production of 1864, a war epic. The series made headlines in Scandinavia due to its massive budget, one of the largest in Danish television history. Jakob's half-brother is actor Jonas Hoff Oftebro (born 7 May 1996, Oslo), the son of Nils Ole Oftebro and Anette Hoff.

* 01/12/1986

Randy Sklar(52)

Actor | Saint Louis, Missouri (US)

Randy Sklar was born on January 12, 1972 in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer.

* 01/12/1972

Nathan Gamble(26)

Actor | Tacoma, Washington (US)

Nathan Lee Gamble (born January 12, 1998) is an American actor who made his feature film debut in Babel (2006), for which he was nominated for a 2007 Young Artist Award. He is best known for his role as Sawyer Nelson in Dolphin Tale and the sequel Dolphin Tale 2.

* 01/12/1998

Blanchard Ryan(57)

Actress | Boston, Massachusetts (US)

Susan Blanchard Ryan is an American actress. After working in MTV and taking other minor parts on television and independent film, she starred in the 2003 film Open Water, for which she won the 2004 Saturn Award for Best Actress. She has since starred in the films The Brooklyn Heist and It's Complicated.

* 01/12/1967

Zayn Malik(31)

Actor | Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (GB)

Zain Javadd Malik (born 12 January 1993), who records mononymously as Zayn, is an English singer and songwriter. In 2010, Malik auditioned as a solo artist for the British reality television music competition, "The X Factor". After being eliminated as a solo performer, Malik was brought back into the competition, along with Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson, to form the boy band 'One Direction'. During his time in the group, Malik and his bandmates released the albums Up All Night (2011), Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), and Four (2014). In March 2015, Malik's representative announced the singer's departure from the band.Description above is from the Wikipedia article Zayn Malik, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

* 01/12/1993

Issa Rae(39)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Jo-Issa Rae Diop, known as Issa Rae, is an American actress, writer, director, producer, and web series creator. She first garnered attention for her work on the YouTube web series Awkward Black Girl.

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* 01/12/1985

Erinn Westbrook(33)

Actress | Long Island (US)

Erinn Westbrook is an American actress, singer, dancer and model. She is known for portraying Bree in Glee, Gabby Richards in the MTV series Awkward, and Magnolia Barnard in the Netflix series Insatiable. From 2021-2023, she starred as Tabitha Tate in The CW series Riverdale.

* 01/12/1991

Ray Teal(† 74)

Actor | Grand Rapids, Michigan (US)

Ray Elgin Teal (January 12, 1902 – April 2, 1976) was an American actor. His most famous role was as Sheriff Roy Coffee on the television series Bonanza (1959–1972), which was only one of dozens of sheriffs on television and in movies that he played during his long and prolific career stretching from 1937 to 1970. He appeared in pictures such as Western Jamboree (1938) with Gene Autry, The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with Fredric March and Myrna Loy, The Black Arrow (1948), Billy Wilder's Ace in the Hole (1951) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy and Burt Lancaster.

* 01/12/1902

Jack Fulton(18)

Actor | Canada (CA)

Jack Fulton is a Canadian film and television child actor.

* 01/12/2006

Lisa Rieffel(49)

Actress | Denville Township (US)

Lisa Rieffel (born January 12, 1975) is an American actress, singer, and musician. She is a founding member and lead singer of the Los Angeles-based alternative rock band Killola. Her film credits include Forget Paris (1995), Drowning Mona (2000) and Girltrash: All Night Long (2014).

* 01/12/1975

Melanie Chisholm(50)

Actress | Whiston, Merseyside, England (GB)

Melanie Jayne Chisholm, professionally known as Melanie C, is an English singer, songwriter, entrepreneur, actress and television personality. She is one of the five members of the Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Sporty Spice. Chisholm began her solo career in late 1998 by singing with Canadian rock singer Bryan Adams on the worldwide hit "When You're Gone". Melanie was born in Whiston, Merseyside, as the only child in the family. She later moved to Widnes, Cheshire, at a young age. Her parents married on 12 January 1971 and separated in 1978, when young Chisholm was four-and-a-half years old. Her father, Alan Chisholm, worked as a fitter at the Otis Elevator Company. Her mother, Joan O'Neill, worked as a secretary and PA and has been singing in music bands since she was 14. Chisholm was raised at Widnes, Cheshire, where she attended Brookvale Junior School and Fairfield High School. Following school, she studied for a diploma course in dance, singing, drama, and musical theatre at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup, Southeast London. During college, she replied to an advert in The Stage by Chris and Bob Herbert, who were looking to form a new girl group, later to become the Spice Girls. She left college just short of completing her three-year course and gained teaching qualifications in tap and modern theatre dance with the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.

* 01/12/1974

Charles Perrault(† 75)

Crew | Paris (FR)

French author wholaid the foundations for thefairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existingfolk tales. Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during theQuarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.-Wikipedia.

* 01/12/1628

Robert Noble(† 5)

Actor | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

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* 01/12/1950

Ahn Seo-hyun(20)

Actress | Suwon, Gyeonggi (KR)

Ahn Seo-hyun (안서현) is a South Korean actress.

* 01/12/2004

Ai Hashimoto(28)

Actress | Kumamoto Prefecture (JP)

Kumamoto-native Hashimoto Ai debuted in 2008 via an audition at Sony's Newcome that her mother pushed her to attend. Her mother loves celebrities. She has two sisters with her being the middle one. Her mother believed she is the one daughter who could make it in the audition. Immediately after the audition Ai disbelieved she would win. She began modelling in Seventeen magazine in 2010 and also made her acting debut in that year in Give And Go where she was the main character. She continued with roles in Confessions and Sadako 3D. Ai was awarded the prize as Rookie of The Year at the 36th Japan Academy Program in 2013. She ceased modelling in 2014. Hashimoto likes manga, karaoke and bicycling. She states that while she memorizes her scripts she avoids trying to understand the character from the lines and instead understand the spirit and motivation. Hashimoto is obsessed with eating tomatoes and cites the number three as her favourite.

* 01/12/1996

Jeff Bezos(60)

Actor | Albuquerque, New Mexico (US)

Jeffrey Preston Bezos ( BAY-zohss; né Jorgensen; born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, media proprietor and investor. He is the founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company. He is the second wealthiest person in the world, with a net worth of about US$205 billion as of April 5, 2024. He was also the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021, according to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes. Bezos was born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami. He graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in mid 1994 on a road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth; he flew into space on Blue Origin NS-16 in 2021. He also purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner. The first centibillionaire on the Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index and the second ever to have eclipsed the feat since Bill Gates in 1999, Bezos was named the "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth exceeding $200 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as the CEO and president of Amazon and took over the role of executive chairman. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy succeeded Bezos as the CEO and president of Amazon. In October 2023, he was ranked second on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans, with a net worth of $161 billion.

* 01/12/1964
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