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People: Famous People born on 04/17 (April)

April 16 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - April 18 All fixed commemorations below are observed on April 30 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For April 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 4. ()

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Seung Ha(24)

Actress | South Korea (KR)

Seungha is a famous South Korean singer and ex-member of the K-pop girl group BaBa. Her birth name is Chae Seung-ha. She was both born and resides in Seoul. In 2020 she turned her life around, moving to the big screen with softcore films that are quite strong for a country like South Korea. Seungha's birth flower is Actinotus - Flannel Flower. She debuted in the group BaBa on July 03, 2018, at the age of 18.

* 04/17/2000

Jennifer Garner(52)

Actress | Houston, Texas (US)

Jennifer Anne Garner (born April 17, 1972) is an American actress. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Charleston, West Virginia, Garner studied theater at Denison University and began acting as an understudy for the Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City. She made her screen debut in the television adaptation of Danielle Steel's romance novel Zoya in 1995. She had guest television appearances and supporting film roles, as well as a featured role on the teen drama television series Time of Your Life (1999–2000) and a supporting role in the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001).Garner gained recognition for her leading performance as CIA officer Sydney Bristow in the ABC spy-action thriller television series Alias (2001–2006). For her work on the series, she won the Golden Globe for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress in a Television Drama, in addition to four consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She received additional praise for her performance in the romantic comedy 13 Going on 30 (2004), and went on to portray Elektra in the superhero films Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005). She continued to achieve commercial success with performances in the comedy-drama Juno (2007), and the romantic comedies Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) and Valentine's Day (2010).Garner had starring film roles in the fantasy-comedy The Invention of Lying (2009), the fantasy drama The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012), and the biographic drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), the latter of which earned her a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. She went on to star in the family comedy Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), the drama Miracles from Heaven (2016), the romantic comedy-drama Love, Simon (2018), the HBO comedy series Camping (2018), the action thriller Peppermint (2018) and action-comedy The Adam Project (2022). Garner has also produced and starred in the comedy Butter (2011) and the family adventure Yes Day (2021).Garner works as an activist for early childhood education and is a board member of Save the Children USA. She is the co-founder and chief brand officer of the organic baby food company Once Upon a Farm. She is also an advocate for anti-paparazzi campaigns among children of celebrities.

* 04/17/1972

Olivia Hussey(73)

Actress | Buenos Aires (AR)

Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is an English-Argentine film, stage, and television actress. Her awards include a Golden Globe Award and a David di Donatello Award. The daughter of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna, Hussey was born in Buenos Aires but spent most of her early life in her mother's native England. She aspired to become an actress at a young age and studied drama for five years at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Hussey began acting professionally as an adolescent. She appeared in a 1966 London production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, opposite Vanessa Redgrave; this led to her being scouted for the role of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Hussey received widespread acclaim and international recognition for her performance. In 1974, she appeared as the lead character Jess Bradford in the cult slasher film Black Christmas. This and subsequent horror films earned her the label of scream queen. She reunited with Zeffirelli in the miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) as Mary and appeared in John Guillermin's Agatha Christie adaptation Death on the Nile (1978). She appeared in several international productions throughout the 1980s, including the Japanese production Virus (1980) and the Australian dystopian action film Turkey Shoot (1982). She appeared in two made-for-television horror productions: Psycho IV: The Beginning and Stephen King's It, both first screened in 1990. In addition to screen acting, Hussey has worked as a voice actress, providing voice roles in Star Wars video games including Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, Star Wars: Force Commander, and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

* 04/17/1951

Sean Bean(65)

Actor | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (GB)

Sean Bean (born Shaun Mark Bean; 17 April 1959) is an English actor. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Bean made his professional debut in a production of Romeo and Juliet in 1983 at The Watermill Theatre. Retaining his Yorkshire accent, he first found mainstream success for his portrayal of Richard Sharpe in the ITV series Sharpe, which originally ran from 1993 to 1997. Bean's film roles include Patriot Games (1992), GoldenEye (1995), Ronin (1998), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003), Equilibrium (2002), National Treasure (2004), Troy (2004), Flightplan (2005), North Country (2005), The Island (2005), Silent Hill (2006), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Black Death (2010), Jupiter Ascending (2015), and The Martian (2015). His television roles include the BBC anthology series Accused, Broken, Game of Thrones, and the ITV historical drama series Henry VIII and Legends. As a voice actor, Bean has been featured in the video games The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Sid Meier's Civilization VI, and the feature films Wolfwalkers and Mummies among others. Since 2002, Bean has been the main voice over for O2 adverts, with the most recent advert released in April 2024. In 2022, Bean won the British Academy Television Award as Leading Actor in Time, a BBC One drama.

* 04/17/1959

Rooney Mara(39)

Actress | Bedford, New York (US)

Rooney Mara ( MAIR-ə; born April 17, 1985) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including nominations for two Academy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Born into the Rooney and Mara families, Mara began her career acting in television and independent films, such as the coming-of-age drama Tanner Hall (2009). She first gained recognition for her supporting role in David Fincher's drama film The Social Network (2010). Mara had a career breakthrough when she starred as Lisbeth Salander in Fincher's thriller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her career progressed with leading roles in the thriller Side Effects (2013), the science fiction romance Her (2013), and the romantic drama Carol (2015), all of which were critical and commercial successes. For the latter, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has since appeared in the biographical drama Lion (2016), the supernatural drama A Ghost Story (2017), and portrayed Mary Magdalene in the biblical drama Mary Magdalene (2018). Following a brief hiatus, Mara starred in the psychological thriller Nightmare Alley (2021) and the drama Women Talking (2022). Mara is known for her charity work and oversees the Uweza Foundation, which supports empowerment programs for children and families in the Kibera slum of Nairobi. She is also the founder of the vegan clothing line Hiraeth Collective. Mara is in a relationship with actor Joaquin Phoenix, with whom she has a son.

* 04/17/1985

Kim Sun-young(44)

Actress

Kim Sun-young is a South Korean actress and singer best known for her roles in the Korean films The Chaser, Love Lesson, Cutie, and Female War: A Nasty Deal.

* 04/17/1980

Kimberly Elise(57)

Actress | Minneapolis, Minnesota (US)

Kimberly Elise Trammel (born April 17, 1967) is an American actress. Elise studied film and acting at the University of Minnesota and earned a BA in Mass Communications. She made her feature film debut in Set It Off, and later received critical acclaim for her performance in Beloved.During her career, Elise has appeared in films such asJohn Q(2002),The Manchurian Candidate(2004),Diary of a Mad Black Woman(2005),The Great Debaters(2007),For Colored Girls (2010), Dope (2015), Almost Christmas(2016),Death Wish(2018), andAd Astra(2019).She received a nomination forIndependent Spirit Award for Best Female Leadfor her performance in the 2004 drama film,Woman Thou Art Loosed, and played the leading roles in a number of made for television movies. Elise also starred in the CBScrime drama seriesClose to Home(2005–07), and in 2013 starred in the VH1 comedy-drama series,Hit the Floor.

* 04/17/1967

David Bradley(82)

Actor | York, North Yorkshire, England (GB)

David Bradley is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the Harry Potter series of films.Bradley was born in York, England. He became an actor in 1971, first appearing on television that year in the successful comedy Nearest and Dearest playing a police officer. He was awarded a Olivier Award in 1991 for his supporting actor role in King Lear at the Royal National Theatre.Bradley appeared in Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and had a small role in the 2007 comedy film Hot Fuzz as a farmer who illegally hoarded weapons, including a sea mine which later proves important to the story.

* 04/17/1942

Joel Murray(61)

Actor | Wilmette, Illinois (US)

Joel is a versatile writer-director-actor. The youngest of the nine Murrays is a veteran of over 250 sit-com episodes. He has been a series regular on the comedies Grand, Pacific Station, Love and War, Dharma and Greg and Still Standing. He has also recurred on the series Mike and Molly, My Boys and Two and a Half Men. Brother of Bill Murray, John Murray and Brian Doyle-Murray.

* 04/17/1963

Phoebe Dynevor(29)

Actress | Manchester, England (GB)

Phoebe Harriet Dynevor (born 17 April 1995) is an English actress. On television, she is best known for her role in the Netflix period drama Bridgerton (2020–2022). Her films include The Colour Room (2021), Bank of Dave (2023), and Fair Play (2023). She earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination in 2024. Dynevor began her career as a child actress in the BBC One school drama Waterloo Road (2009–2010). She went on to have recurring roles in the BBC series Prisoners' Wives (2012–2013) and Dickensian (2015–2016), and the TV Land comedy-drama Younger (2017–2021), as well as a main role in the Crackle crime series Snatch (2017–2018).

* 04/17/1995

William Mapother(59)

Actor | Louisville, Kentucky (US)

William Reibert Mapother Jr. (born April 17, 1965) is an American actor, known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series Lost and starring in the film In the Bedroom. He is also known for the film Another Earth.

* 04/17/1965

Maïwenn(48)

Actress | Les Lilas, Seine-Saint-Denis (FR)

Maïwenn Le Besco is a French actress and film director, sometimes credited as Maïwenn.

* 04/17/1976
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William Holden(† 63)

Actor | O'Fallon, Illinois (US)

William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s. Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976). He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.

* 04/17/1918

Henry Ian Cusick(57)

Actor | Trujillo (PE)

Henry Ian Cusick (born 17 April 1967) is a Peruvian-Scottish actor of television, film, and theatre and a television director. He is best known for his role as Desmond Hume in the ABC television series Lost, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He also starred as Jesus in The Gospel of John, as Stephen Finch in the ABC political thriller series Scandal, as Marcus Kane in The CW science fiction series The 100, as Dr. Jonas Lear in The Passage on Fox, and as Russell "Russ" Taylor in the CBS action drama MacGyver.

Known for: Hitman, Lost, The 100, MacGyver
* 04/17/1967

Michael Forest(95)

Actor | Harvey, North Dakota (US)

Michael Forest is an American stage, film, television and voice over actor. He holds a BA in English and Drama from San Jose State University, California, USA.

* 04/17/1929

Beau Knapp(36)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Beau Knapp is an actor.

* 04/17/1988

Carlo Rota(63)

Actor | London, England (GB)

Carlo Dante Rota (born April 17, 1961) is a British-Canadian-American actor, best known for his roles as construction contractor Yasir Hamoudi on Little Mosque on the Prairie, systems analyst Morris O'Brian on the FOX series 24, Emilio Solano on Jane the Virgin, informant Mick Schtoppel on La Femme Nikita(1997-2001) He has guest starred on TV series including AMC's Breaking Bad,NCIS: LA, CSI: NY, Castle, The Mentalist,Bones,Grimm, 24,White Collar, Queer as Folk(US),Human Target,Relic Hunter, Adventure Inc,A Nero Wolfe Mystery,The Gospel of John, and Traders. Because of his experience prior to acting, he also hosted theGreat Canadian Food Showfor CBC television in Canada.In 2008, Rota portrayed Charles, who was a journalist forThe Herald, inSaw V.

* 04/17/1961

Adam McKay(56)

Crew | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and comedian. McKay began his career in the 1990s as a head writer for the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live for two seasons and is the co-founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade. He rose to fame in the 2000s for his collaborations with comedian Will Ferrell and co-wrote his comedy films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay later co-wrote and co-produced numerous television series and films, and produced their comedy website Funny or Die through their company Gary Sanchez Productions.Venturing into more dramatic territory in the 2010s, McKay's The Big Short was the first film he directed without Ferrell in the cast. For this film, he was nominated for several awards including two Academy Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay (with co-writer Charles Randolph), and two British Academy Film Awards, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He and Randolph won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards, the BAFTA Film Awards, and the WGA Awards. For his work on the Dick Cheney biographical film Vice, McKay received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. In 2019, McKay founded Hyperobject Industries.

* 04/17/1968

Lindsay Hartley(46)

Crew | Rancho Mirage, Palm Springs, California (US)

Lindsay Hartley is an American actress and singer. She was born Lindsay Nicole Korman in Palm Springs, California, and is of Ashkenazi Jewish (father) and Greek and Italian (mother) origin. Singing since age eleven, Hartley was a national pre-teen talent winner of the Young Miss America Beauty Pageant. At the age of 14 she landed her first professional role playing Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, at the Mc Callum Theatre in Palm Desert, California. At 16, Hartley and her family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, where she graduated a year early from high school and headlined as the lead vocalist in the Las Vegas Sands Hotel afternoon show Viva Las Vegas. Shortly after attending the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Hartley had the great honor to move to New York City and perform on Broadway, in the hit musical Grease!. Hartley has won several national vocal competitions, including The Los Angeles Philharmonic's Award-Vocal/Opera, Hartley is most notably know for portraying the hopeless romantic Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC soap opera Passions, from 1999-2008. In 2000, she was not only nominated for the Soap Opera Digest Award for Outstanding Female Newcomer, she wrote the song Kiss Me for her character, which she performed that year on the show. In 2009, Soap Opera Digest announced that Hartley would join the cast of Days of Our Lives, another NBC soap opera, The following year, Hartley signed on to play the new character of Cara Castillo on All My Children. She was also cast as DC Comics character Mad Harriet during Smallville's tenth and final season. In 2013, Hartley once again played the role of Dr. Cara Castillo on the new All My Children being revived by Prospect Park. After landing her first lead in a movie entitled, Perfect on Paper, Hartley has joined the cast of Queens of Drama and couldn't be happier! Lindsay lives in Los Angeles with her daughter, Isabella Justice Hartley, who was born on July 3, 2004.

* 04/17/1978

Leslie Bega(57)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Leslie Rae Bega (born April 17, 1967) is an American theater, film and television actress. Bega was born in Los Angeles to a Sephardi Jewish father and Russian Jewish mother. Her paternal grandparents came to the United States from Spain. In addition to English, Bega speaks Spanish and French fluently. After graduating as valedictorian from Lycée Français de Los Angeles, Bega attended the University of Southern California. Bega is known for her performances in Head of the Class as Maria Borges, David Lynch's Lost Highway, as a recurring cast member in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, C-16: FBI and The Sopranos as Valentina La Paz. She is also featured as a dancer in the break dancing films Breakin and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. She played the role of Anna Lansky in 1991's Mobsters. She has appeared as a guest star in the television shows 21 Jump Street, Beverly Hills, 90210, The New Twilight Zone, and Highway To Heaven. Her theater work includes King Lear, at the Electric Theatre, The Merchant of Venice, Gypsy, Grease, The Sound of Music, and Maria in West Side Story at the Westchester Theatre.(Source: Wikipedia)

* 04/17/1967

Kim Yoo-yeon(30)

Actress | Seoul (KR)

Kim Yoo Yeon is a former racing model and is currently an actress.

* 04/17/1994

Joe Alaskey(† 63)

Actor | Troy, New York (US)

Joseph Francis Alaskey III (April 17, 1952 – February 3, 2016) was an American actor and comedian. He was one of Mel Blanc's successors at the Warner Bros. Animation studio until his death. He alternated with Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Jim Cummings, Bob Bergen, Maurice LaMarche, and Billy West in voicing Warner Bros. cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Foghorn Leghorn, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Speedy Gonzales, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and Taz, among many others. He also voiced Plucky Duck on Tiny Toon Adventures from 1990 to 1995. Alaskey was the second actor to voice Grandpa Lou Pickles on the Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats (taking over after David Doyle's death in 1997). He voiced Lou again in the Rugrats spin-off series All Grown Up!.

* 04/17/1952

Nicholas D'Agosto(44)

Actor | Omaha, Nebraska (US)

Nicholas D'Agosto is an American television and film actor.

* 04/17/1980

Redman(54)

Actor | Newark, New Jersey (US)

Reginald Noble (Born April 17, 1970) better known by his stage name, Redman is an American rapper, record producer, DJ, and actor. He is most well known for being one half of the rap duo Method Man & Redman. As an actor, he’s most well known for his roles in Seed of Chucky (2004) and How High (2001)

* 04/17/1970

Monet Mazur(48)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Monet Happy Mazur (born April 17, 1976) is an American actress.

* 04/17/1976

Bill Kopp(62)

Crew | Rockford, Illinois

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* 04/17/1962

Ahn Hyo-Seop(29)

Actor | Seoul (KR)

Ahn Hyo Seop (also known as Paul Ahn) is a Canadian actor based in South Korea under Starhaus Entertainment. He was born in Seoul, South Korea. When he was seven years old, his family emigrated to Toronto, Canada. He later moved back to South Korea when he was 17, while his family stayed in Canada. He graduated from Kookmin University, in the Department of International Business. He plays the piano and violin.After moving back to South Korea, Ahn was scouted by JYP Entertainment and became a trainee. He was given an opportunity to debut as a member of the K-pop boy band GOT7. However, he ultimately turned down the offer to pursue other endeavors. He was later put into the project group “101 (One O One)”, which released digital singles "Love You" in October 2015, followed by "Stunning" in November 2015.Ahn made his acting debut in the MBC drama, Splash Splash Love. He won his Rookie award in 2017 for his role in the drama 'My Father is Strange'. He received Excellence Award, Actor in a Miniseries Genre/Fantasy Drama, and won the Best Couple Award with Kim Yoo-Jung at the 2021 SBS Drama Awards for his drama 'Lovers of the Red Sky'.On May 2, 2022 he announced a new start with his agency The present co. The new agency has been jointly established by Ahn Hyo Seop and his longtime manager who worked with the actor from before his debut.(Source: Wikipedia)

* 04/17/1995

Luke Mitchell(39)

Actor | Gold Coast (AU)

Luke Mitchell (born 17 April 1985) is an Australian actor and model. He attended the Film and Television Studio International, and won the role of Chris Knight in Neighbours in 2008. Mitchell appeared as Will in the third season of H2O: Just Add Water in 2009. He starred as Romeo Smith in Home and Away from 2009 to 2013. The role saw Mitchell win the Most Popular New Male Talent Logie Award in 2010. In 2013 he starred as John Young in the CW's The Tomorrow People. In 2015, he joined the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for the series' second season, playing the recurring character of Inhuman Lincoln Campbell, before being promoted to series regular for its third season. He joined NBC's Blindspot as a series regular during its second season in 2016, playing Roman.

* 04/17/1985

Lee Joon-gi(42)

Actor | Busan (KR)

Lee Joon-gi (이준기) is a South Korean actor and singer.He was born on April 17th, 1982. He rose to fame as Gong-gil in "The King and the Clown". In August 2009, Lee was appointed an ambassador for Korea tourism by the Korea Tourism Organization.

* 04/17/1982

L. Scott Caldwell(74)

Actress | Chicago, Illinois (US)

L. Scott Caldwell (born Laverne Scott, 1950) is an American actress perhaps best known for her roles as Deputy U.S. Marshall Erin Poole in The Fugitive (1993) and Rose on the television series Lost.

* 04/17/1950
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