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People: Famous People born on 01/20 (January)

January 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - January 21. All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 2 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For January 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 7. ()

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Skeet Ulrich(54)

Actor | Lynchburg, Virginia (US)

Skeet Ulrich (born Bryan Ray Trout on January 20, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in popular 1990s films, including Billy Loomis in Scream (1996), Chris Hooker in The Craft (1996) and Vincent Lopiano in As Good as It Gets (1997). From 2017-2021, he starred as Forsythe Pendleton "F.P." Jones II on The CW's Riverdale. He reprised his Scream role in the sequels Scream (2022) and Scream VI (2023). His other television roles include Johnston Jacob "Jake" Green Jr. in the television series Jericho, and LAPD Detective Rex Winters, a Marine veteran from the Law & Order franchise.

* 01/20/1970

Leo Chiang(48)

Actor | Taipei (TW)

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* 01/20/1976

Leung Kar-yan(75)

Actor | Hong Kong (CN)

Bryan Leung Kar-yan (Chinese: 梁家仁 , born 20 January 1949) is a Hong Kong film and television actor and film director who has played roles in numerous acclaimed martial arts films. He joined Shaw Brothers in 1974 and soon met up with Sammo Hung and the two of them hit it off. Sammo has described Leung as a phenomenon – Sammo could show him any style of kung fu or any intricate choreography and Leung could learn it immediately. In the 70’s and early 80’s Leung was to appear in some terrific kung fu.Like so many other kung fu fighters, once the popularity of those films faded in the mid 80’s he had to switch career gears and become more of a character actor. He had a reasonably successful career though through to the middle of the 1990’s.... credits to the author at hkcinemagic.

* 01/20/1949

Evan Peters(37)

Actor | St. Louis, Missouri (US)

Evan Thomas Peters is an American actor. He is best known for his multiple roles on the FX anthology series American Horror Story, as Stan Bowes in the first season of the FX ballroom drama series Pose, and as Peter Maximoff / Quicksilver in the X-Men film series (2014–2019) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe series WandaVision.In 2021, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his performance in Mare of Easttown. In the same year Peters returned to the American Horror Story universe, playing writer and entertainer Austin Sommers in the first part, Red Tide, of the tenth season.Most recently Peters portrayed infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer in the Ryan Murphy created Netflix miniseries, Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.

* 01/20/1987

Seong Byeong-sook(69)

Actress

Seong Byeong-sook (성병숙) is a South Korean stage, television, film, and voice actress.

* 01/20/1955

Reno Wilson(55)

Actor | USA (US)

Roy "Reno" Wilson (born January 20, 1969) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Howard in the sitcom The Cosby Show, Officer Carl McMillan in Mike & Molly, Stan Hill in Good Girls, Wes in The Chronicle (2001–2002), and Detective Tom Selway in Blind Justice (2005). He is also known for providing character voices in the Transformers film series, Bailey in She Creature (2001), and Louis Armstrong in Bolden (2019).

* 01/20/1969

Masuo Amada(66)

Actor | Hyogo Prefecture (JP)

Masuo Amada (天田 益男, Amada Masuo, born January 20, 1958) is a Japanese actor and voice actor (seiyuu) from Hyogo Prefecture. He is affiliated with the Seinenza Theater Company.

* 01/20/1958

Rainn Wilson(58)

Actor | Seattle, Washington (US)

Rainn Percival Dietrich Wilson (born January 20, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, podcaster, producer, writer, and director best known for his role as Dwight Schrute on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), for which he received three consecutive Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Born in Seattle, Wilson began acting at the University of Washington. Following his 1986 graduation, he worked in theatre in New York City. He made his film debut in Galaxy Quest (1999), followed by supporting parts in Almost Famous (2000), Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal (2002), and House of 1000 Corpses (2003). He also had a recurring part as Arthur Martin in the HBO series Six Feet Under from 2003 to 2005. From 2018 to 2021, he starred as Trevor on the CBS sitcom Mom. Wilson was cast as Dwight Schrute in The Office in 2005, a role which he played until the show's conclusion in 2013. His other film credits include lead roles in the comedies The Rocker (2008) and Super (2010), and supporting roles in the horror films Cooties (2014) and The Boy (2015). In 2009, he was heard in the computer-animated science fiction film Monsters vs. Aliens as the villain Gallaxhar, and voiced Gargamel in Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017). He has had the guest-starring role of Harry Mudd on Star Trek: Discovery (2017) and Star Trek: Short Treks (2018), and a supporting role in The Meg (2018). He is also the voice of Lex Luthor in the DC Animated Movie Universe. Wilson published his autobiography, The Bassoon King, in 2015, and cofounded the digital media company SoulPancake in 2008.

* 01/20/1966

Joyce Tang(48)

Actress | Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]

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* 01/20/1976

Chad Allegra(44)

Actor | Asheville, North Carolina (US)

Chad Allegra is an Americanprofessional wrestlerbetter known by his ring name"The Machine Gun" Karl Anderson. He is currently signed toWWE and is best known for his work as a tag team wrestler, particularly in Japanese promotions likePro Wrestling NoahandNew Japan Pro Wrestling, where he is a formerfour-timeIWGP Tag Team Champion.

* 01/20/1980

Omar Sy(46)

Actor | Trappes (FR)

Omar Sy (born 20 January 1978) is a French film actor, best known for his duo with Fred Testot, Omar et Fred, and for his role in The Intouchables, written and directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, which became the second highest grossing French film of all time in the French box office. He received the César Award for Best Actor on 24 February 2012 for his role in The Intouchables and in doing so also became the first black actor to win the honorary French award. The role also earned him a nomination for a Satellite Award for Best Actor.

* 01/20/1978

DeForest Kelley(† 79)

Actor | Atlanta, Georgia (US)

Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999), known to colleagues as "Dee", was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer. He was known for his roles in Westerns and achieved international fame as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television and film series Star Trek (1966–1991).

* 01/20/1920
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Dave Fennoy(72)

Actor | Silver Spring, Maryland (US)

Dave Fennoy is an American voice actor. His video game roles have included Lee Everett in The Walking Dead, Bluebeard in The Wolf Among Us, Finch in Tales from the Borderlands, Gabriel the Warrior in Minecraft: Story Mode, and Lucius Fox in Batman: Arkham Knight and Batman: The Telltale Series. He also voiced "JP Dumund" in the Vendettas mode in The Darkness 2, as well as Satan in Afterparty.

* 01/20/1952

Roberto Enríquez(56)

Actor | Fabero, Castile and León (ES)

Roberto Enríquez Asenjo (born 20 January 1968) is a Spanish actor. He is known for his performances in television series such as Locked Up, Hispania, la leyenda and La señora or in films such as Fat People.

* 01/20/1968

Liza Goddard(74)

Actress | Smethwick, England (GB)

Louise E. Goddard professionally known as Liza Goddard, is an English television and stage actress, best known for her work in the 1970s and 1980s.

* 01/20/1950

David Lynch(78)

Crew | Missoula, Montana (US)

David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, and writer. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound design. Indeed, the surreal and in many cases violent elements to his films have earned them the reputation that they "disturb, offend or mystify" their audiences.Moving around various parts of the United States as a child within his middle class family, Lynch went on to study painting in Philadelphia, where he first made the transition to producing short films. Deciding to devote himself more fully to this medium, he moved to Los Angeles, where he produced his first motion picture, the surrealist horror Eraserhead (1977). After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man (1980), from which he gained mainstream success. Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films. First, the science-fiction epic Dune (1984), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet (1986), which was highly critically acclaimed.Proceeding to create his own television series with Mark Frost, the highly popular murder mystery Twin Peaks (1990–1992), he also created a cinematic prequel, Fire Walk With Me (1992), a road movie, Wild at Heart (1990), and a family film, The Straight Story (1999) in the same period. Turning further towards surrealist filmmaking, three of his following films worked on "dream logic" non-linear narrative structures, Lost Highway (1997), Mulholland Drive (2001) and Inland Empire (2006).Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for his films The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, and also received a screenplay Academy Award nomination for The Elephant Man. Lynch has twice won France's César Award for Best Foreign Film, as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as "the most important director of this era". Allmovie called him "the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking", whilst the success of his films have led to him being labelled "the first popular Surrealist".

* 01/20/1946

Kenichi Kanemaki(60)

Crew | Tokyo Prefecture (JP)

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* 01/20/1964

Ei Aoki(51)

Crew | Tokyo (JP)

Ei Aoki (あおき えい, Aoki Ei, born 1973) is a Japanese storyboard artist and director. He credits the anime Megazone 23 as his inspiration to have a career in animation. In 2013, he created the animation studio Troyca with Toshiyuki Nagano and Tomonobu Kato, which began animation production on its first work in the fall of 2014. Aoki is the director behind Girls Bravo, The Garden of Sinners: Overlooking View, Ga-Rei: Zero, Wandering Son, Fate/Zero, Aldnoah.Zero, Re:Creators, and Id:Invaded.

* 01/20/1973

Olivia Hallinan(40)

Actress | Hounslow (GB)

Olivia Hallinan (born 20 January 1986) is a British actress best known for her role as Laura Timmins in the BBC TV series Lark Rise to Candleford and also as Kim in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She also starred as Ellie in Girls in Love.

* 01/20/1984

Ciara Hanna(33)

Actress | Orange (US)

Ciara Hanna is an American actress and model. She is known for playing the roles of Gia Moran in Power Rangers Megaforce and Nicole Parker in Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys.

* 01/20/1991

Pete Ploszek(37)

Actor | Hinsdale, Illinois (US)

Peter Daniel Ploszek (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor best known for his role as Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films. He is also known for his role as Garrett Douglas on the MTV supernatural drama series Teen Wolf.

* 01/20/1987

Joey Bada$$(29)

Actor | Brooklyn, New York

Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott (born January 20, 1995), better known by his stage name Joey Badass (stylized as Joey Bada$$), is an American rapper, singer, and actor. A native of Brooklyn, New York City, he is a founding member of the hip-hop collective Pro Era, with whom he has released three mixtapes, as well as his numerous solo projects.On March 4, 2016, Joey Badass made his television debut in the second season of the hit TV series Mr. Robot, where he was cast in the recurring role of Leon, who is an associate of Elliot (played by Rami Malek).

* 01/20/1995

Gérard Hernandez(91)

Actor | Valladolid, Castilla y León (ES)

Julio Gerardo "Gérard" Hernandez (born 20 January 1933) is a Spanish-born French actor.

* 01/20/1933

Dorothy Provine(† 73)

Actress | Deadwood, South Dakota (US)

Dorothy Provine (1935–2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne.

* 01/20/1937

Stacey Dash(58)

Actress | The Bronx, New York City, New York (US)

Stacey Dash was born in the Bronx, New York. Stacy knew that she wanted to act, and from an early age began to act professionally. She made regular appearances on The Cosby Show (1984), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), and also St. Elsewhere (1982). At 21 she made her feature film debut in Enemy Territory (1987), which was quickly followed by Moving (1988), in which she played Richard Pryor's teenage daughter. Four years later she was in Mo' Money (1992), with Damon Wayans. In 1994 she starred with Mark Wahlberg in Renaissance Man (1994). In 1995 she did the provocative erotic thriller Illegal in Blue (1995) and later that year got her big break when was cast as Dionne in the hit comedy Clueless (1995). She went on to star in the UPN sitcom Clueless (1996) that was based on the movie, and which lasted for two years. During that time she completed Oliver Stone's Cold Around the Heart (1997) and also the independent film Personals (1999). After leaving "Clueless" in 1999, Stacey seems to be moving along nicely. She has recently appeared in The Painting (2001) and Paper Soldiers (2002).

* 01/20/1966

Margaret Avery(80)

Actress | Mangum, Oklahoma (US)

Margaret Avery is an American actress and singer. She began her career appearing on stage and later had starring roles in films including Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977), and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). Avery is best known for her performance as Shug Avery in the 1985 period drama film The Color Purple for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. She continued appearing in films including Blueberry Hill (1988), White Man's Burden (1995), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Meet the Browns (2008), and Proud Mary (2018). From 2013 to 2019, Avery starred as Helen Patterson, lead character's mother, in the BET drama series Being Mary Jane.

* 01/20/1944

Sophie Thompson(62)

Actress | London, England (GB)

Sophie Thompson (born 20 January 1962) is a British actress. She has worked in film, television and theatre and she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the London revival of Into the Woods. She has been nominated for the Olivier Award five other times for Wildest Dreams (1994), Company (1996), Clybourne Park (2011) Guys and Dolls (2016) and Present Laughter (2019). Thompson's film appearances include Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Persuasion (1995), Emma (1996), Dancing at Lughnasa (1998), Gosford Park (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010). Her television roles include playing Stella Crawford in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2006–2007) and Rosemary Piper in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street (2018).

* 01/20/1962

Choo Ja-hyun(45)

Actress | Daegu (KR)

Choo Ja-hyeon (추자현), born Choo Eun-joo (추은주), is a South Korean actress.

* 01/20/1979

Indica Watson(14)

Actress | London (GB)

Indica Elizabeth Watson was born in London, England. Her father is a music producer and her mother is a doctor. She is a member of a children's choir and plays the violin.

* 01/20/2010

Gary Barlow(53)

Actor | Frodsham, Cheshire

Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971) is an English singer, songwriter, record producer, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the British pop group Take That. Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most successful songwriters, having written thirteen number-one singles (ten with Take That, two solo, one with the Robbie Williams song "Candy") and twenty-four top-ten hits. As a solo artist, he has had three number-one singles, six top-ten singles and three number-one albums, and has additionally had seventeen top-five hits, twelve number-one singles and eight number-one albums with Take That. Barlow has also established himself as a talent show judge and television personality. He has judged on The X Factor UK (2011–2013), as well as Let It Shine (2017) and Walk the Line (2021), the latter two of which were cancelled after only one series. Barlow has received six Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the award for Outstanding Services to British Music. He has sold over 50 million records worldwide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) at the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to the entertainment industry and charity. According to the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), Barlow as a solo artist has been certified for 1.1 million albums and 1.8 million singles in the UK.

* 01/20/1971
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