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People: Famous People born on 08/23 (August)

August 22 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 24 All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 5 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 23, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 10. ()

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Andrew Rannells(45)

Actor | Omaha, Nebraska (US)

Andrew Scott Rannells was born on August 23, 1978 in the city of Omaha (Nebraska), in the United States. He studied in the Creighton Preparatory School in his hometown, and after finishing secondary, briefly attended Marymount Manhattan College. Throughout his career, Rannells won a Grammy Award and was nominated for the Tony Awards. He is known for his portrayal as Elder Price in the 2011 Broadway musical "The Book of Mormon", for which he received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. He won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album as a featured soloist on the musical's original Broadway cast recording. His other credits on Broadway include the works of "Jersey Boys" as Bob Gaudio and "Hairspray", as Link Larkin. Andrew began his career in film and television in the mid-90's, developed primarily as a voice artist. Between the numerous animated series in which he has worked, titles are counted as "Street Sharks", "One Piece", "Yugio: Duel Monsters", "Yu-Gi-Oh!", "Liberty's Kids: Est. 1776", "Shaman Kingu," Kakutou ryouri densetsu bistro recipe", " Cubix, "Sonic X", Robots for Everyone", "Pokémon" and" Shukan Pok mon hosokyoku ". Rannells played the role of Elijah Krantz on the HBO series "Girls" and had the leading role of Bryan Buckley in the NBC series "The New Normal". Andrew also filmed some feature films - he had a brief participation in "Sex and the City 2" (2010), and a role of starring in the comedy starring Kirsten Dunst, "Bachelorette" (2012). In 2014, Rannells filled in as a replacement for Hedwig in the rock musical "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". A year later, Rannells briefly played the role of King George III in the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton". He soon secured the role of Whizzer Brown in the Broadway revival of "Falsettos", directed by James Lapine. In 2018, Rannells portrayed the role of Larry in the Broadway musical "The Boys in the Band", alongside other notable actors. He is currently playing the role of Blair Pfaff in the American comedy series "Black Monday" on Showtime.

* 08/23/1978

Scott Caan(47)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Scott Andrew Caan (born August 23, 1976) is an American actor, director, photographer, writer, and former rapper. He received his breakthrough role in Ocean’s Eleven as Turk Malloy, who he played in the Ocean's trilogy, and starred as Detective Danny "Danno" Williams in the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Caan had a recurring role as manager Scott Lavin in the HBO television series Entourage (2009–2011). In the 1990s, he was a rapper and was a part of hip hop group The Whooliganz with The Alchemist, under the pseudonym Mad Skillz.

* 08/23/1976

Alexandra Roach(36)

Actress | Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales (GB)

Alexandra Elizabeth Roach (born 20 August 1987) is a Welsh actress best known for her roles as Becky in Utopia and DS Joy Freers in No Offence. She has also made appearances in series including Being Human, Inside No. 9, Black Mirror and Killing Eve.

* 08/23/1987

Shelley Long(74)

Actress | Fort Wayne, Indiana (US)

Shelley Long is an American stage, film and television actress, best known for playing series regular Diane Chambers on the television sitcom "Cheers", for which she won one Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress and two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress.

* 08/23/1949

Hiroshi Ohnogi(64)

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Hiroshi Ohnogi was born August 23, 1959 in Japan. He is a screenwriter and novelist focusing on anime productions.Ohnogi graduated from the Department of Literature at Keio University, he attended Keio University in the same years as Macross character designer Mikimoto Haruhiko and creator Kawamori Shouji, both of whom he would first collaborate with in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which marked the start of his screenwriter career.

* 08/23/1959

Bobby Diamond(† 75)

Actor | Los Angeles (US)

Robert LeRoy Diamond (August 23, 1943 – May 15, 2019) was an American actor active in the 1950s and 1960s before retiring from the profession and becoming a lawyer. He is best known as the child lead in the television series Fury.

* 08/23/1943

Rick Springfield(74)

Actor | South Wentworthville, New South Wales (AU)

Richard Lewis Springthorpe is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and actor. As a musician, he is known for the 1981 No.1 single "Jessie's Girl", which became a blockbuster of 1980s pop rock music and helped establish the emerging music video age. As an actor, Springfield is known for playing Dr. Noah Drake on the daytime drama General Hospital. He originated the character from 1981–1983 and then returned to play him again from 2005–2008.

* 08/23/1949

Vera Miles(94)

Actress | Boise City, Oklahoma (US)

Vera June Miles (born August 23, 1929) is an American actress. Born in Boise City, Oklahoma, Vera Miles attended school in Pratt, Kansas and Wichita, Kansas. The patrician beauty of Miss Miles won her the title of "Miss Kansas" in 1948, leading soon to small roles in Hollywood films and television series. Fame came to the forthright, spirited Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his "new Grace Kelly", paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast Miles in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960), as did Ford when he cast her opposite John Wayne and James Stewart in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), She also starred in such films as Beau James (1957) opposite Bob Hope, The FBI Story (1959) opposite Stewart, Back Street (1961) opposite Susan Hayward and John Gavin and Sergeant Ryker (1968) opposite Lee Marvin, as well as showing her consistently remarkable and versatile talent on dozens of popular television movies and series including The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962), Twilight Zone (1959), The Outer Limits (1963), The Fugitive (1963), My Three Sons (1960), Bonanza (1959), "Columbo" and Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1983, she reprised her role as "Lila Crane" in the film sequel Psycho II (1983), starring Anthony Perkins. Although, too often, the stunningly beautiful Miles' gifts were underutilized, before her retirement in 1995, hers was a most intriguing and enduring Hollywood career.

* 08/23/1929

Kenta Miyake(46)

Actor | Okinawa Prefecture (JP)

Kenta Miyake is a Japanese voice actor affiliated with 81 Produce.

* 08/23/1977

Kim Matula(35)

Actress | Fort Worth, Texas (US)

Kim Matula (born August 23, 1988) is an American actress. She made her television debut playing Tara Conner in the teen comedy film Queen Sized (2008) and later starred as Hope Logan in the CBS daytime soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2010 to 2016, receiving a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series nomination. Matula later starred in the second season of Lifetime comedy-drama series, Unreal, and played the leading role in the Fox comedy series LA to Vegas (2018).

* 08/23/1988

Vineeth Radhakrishnan(54)

Actor | Kannur, Kerala (IN)

Vineeth is an Indian film actor and classical dancer who has acted in several well received films in his nativeMalayalam,Tamil,TeluguandKannadafilms.Vineeth entered the film industry with the I. V. Sasi film Edanilagal in 1985. It was, however, with his second film Nakhakshathangal in 1986 that he caught the public eye in films. His dancing skills were prominently displayed in several films as well.He learned bharathanatyam at the age of 6. He caught the public eye by winning several prizes in the Bharatanatyam dance form while studying in school including winning the first prize at the Kerala State Youth festival for four years in a row and winning the top prize of 'Kalaprathibha' in 1986.He has acted in several well received films, since, in all the South Indian languages. In spite of his success in films, he still considers dance as his first love and is undergoing advanced training in Bharatanatyam and participates in several dance programs all over the world as well as the Surya Dance Festival.

* 08/23/1969

Matthew Géczy(59)

Actor | Georgia (US)

Matthew Géczy is an American movie and television actor, voice actor and voice director based in Paris, France.

* 08/23/1964
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Jake Manley(32)

Actor | Canada (CA)

Jake Manley is a Canadian actor, best known for his roles as Jack Morton in the Netflix series The Order, Brad in the NBC series Heroes Reborn, Fisher Webb in the CW series iZombie, Shane in A Dog’s Journey (2019) and George Waller in Brotherhood (2019) and Dean Taylor in Infamous (2020).

* 08/23/1991

Bob Crosby(† 79)

Actor | Washington / Evergreen State (US)

George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats were a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. He was the younger brother of famed singer and actor Bing Crosby. On TV, Bob Crosby guest-starred in The Gisele MacKenzie Show. He was also a regular cast member of The Jack Benny Program, on both radio and television, taking over the role of bandleader after Phil Harris' departure. Crosby hosted his own afternoon TV variety show on CBS, The Bob Crosby Show (1953–1957). Crosby received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for television and radio.

* 08/23/1913

Kobna Holdbrook-Smith(46)

Actor | Accra (GH)

Kobna Kuttah Holdbrook-Smith (born 23 August 1977) is a Ghanaian-British actor. He has played roles in films, including Father Richard Emery in Ghost Stories (2017), Oliver in The Commuter, Templeton Frye in Mary Poppins Returns and Doctor Wren in Gwen (all 2018). He has portrayed Crispus Allen in the superhero film Justice League (2017), part of the DC Extended Universe. For his performance in Tina in the West End, he won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical.

* 08/23/1977

Amy Pemberton(35)

Actress | East Anglia, England (GB)

Amy Louise Pemberton is a British actress. She portrayed Gideon in the television series Legends of Tomorrow and voiced Elaena Glenmore in the Game of Thrones video game. She voiced Slone from Titanfall 2 (2016), and played Private Sally Morgan—a companion of the Seventh Doctor—in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio plays.

* 08/23/1988

Alexandre Desplat(62)

Crew | Paris (FR)

Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has won two Academy Awards, for his musical scores to the films The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water, and received nine additional Academy Award nominations, ten César nominations (winning three), ten BAFTA nominations (winning three), eleven Golden Globe Award nominations (winning two), and ten Grammy nominations (winning two).Desplat has composed scores for a wide range of films, including low-budget independent productions and large-scale blockbusters, such as The Queen, The Golden Compass, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Harry Potter, and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 & Part 2, The King's Speech, The Danish Girl, Moonrise Kingdom, Argo, Rise of the Guardians, Zero Dark Thirty, Godzilla, The Imitation Game, Unbroken, Little Women, The Secret Life of Pets, and Isle of Dogs.

* 08/23/1961

Lil Yachty(26)

Actor | Mableton, Georgia (US)

Miles Parks McCollum known professionally as Lil Yachty, is an American rapper and singer.

* 08/23/1997

Barbara Eden(92)

Actress | Tucson, Arizona (US)

Barbara Eden (born August 23, 1931, height 5' 3¾" (1,62 m)) is an American film, stage, and television actress and singer. She is best known for her starring role of "Jeannie" in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie. Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead in Tucson, Arizona, the daughter of Alice Mary (née Franklin) and Hubert Henry Morehead. Her parents divorced when she was three; she and her mother, Alice, moved to San Francisco, where later her mother married Harrison Connor Huffman, a telephone lineman. The Great Depression deeply affected the Huffman family, and as they were unable to afford many luxuries, Barbara's mother entertained the children by singing songs. This musical background left a lasting impression on the actress, who began taking acting classes because she felt it might help her improve her singing.Her first public performance was singing in the church choir, where she sang the solos. When she was 14 she sang in local bands for $10 a night in night clubs. At age 16, she became a member of Actor's Equity. She studied singing at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and acting with the Elizabeth Holloway School of Theatre. She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco in the Spring Class of 1949 and studied theater for one year at City College of San Francisco. She was then elected Miss San Francisco, as Barbara Huffman, in 1951. Barbara also entered the Miss California pageant, but did not win.

* 08/23/1931

Jaime Lee Kirchner(42)

Actress | Germany / FRG (DE)

Jaime Lee Kirchner (born August 23, 1981) is an American actress, dancer and singer, known for her roles on television.

* 08/23/1981

Gene Kelly(† 83)

Actor | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor, singer, director and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style and sought to create a new form of American dance accessible to the general public, which he called "dance for the common man". He starred in, choreographed, and co-directed with Stanley Donen some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s. Kelly is best known for his performances in An American in Paris (1951), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Singin' in the Rain (1952), which he and Donen directed and choreographed, and other musical films of that era such as Cover Girl (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1945), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. On the Town (1949), which he co-directed with Donen, was his directorial debut. Later in the 1950s, as musicals waned in popularity, he starred in Brigadoon (1954) and It's Always Fair Weather (1955), the last film he directed with Donen. His solo directorial debut was Invitation to the Dance (1956), one of the last MGM musicals, which was a commercial failure. Kelly made his film debut in For Me and My Gal (1942) with Judy Garland, with whom he also appeared in The Pirate (1948) and Summer Stock (1950). He also appeared in the dramas Black Hand (1950) and Inherit the Wind (1960), for which he received critical praise. He continued as a director in the 1960s, with his credits including A Guide for the Married Man (1967) and Hello, Dolly! (1969), which received an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. He co-hosted and appeared in Ziegfeld Follies (1946), That's Entertainment! (1974), That's Entertainment, Part II (1976), That's Dancing! (1985), and That's Entertainment, Part III (1994). His many innovations transformed the Hollywood musical, and he is credited with almost single-handedly making the ballet form commercially acceptable to film audiences. According to dance and art historian Beth Genné, working with his co-director Donen in Singin' in the Rain and in films with director Vincent Minnelli, "Kelly ... fundamentally affected the way movies are made and the way we look at them. And he did it with a dancer's eye and from a dancer's perspective." Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award in 1952 for his career achievements; the same year, An American in Paris won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors (1982) and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute. In 1999, the American Film Institute also ranked him as the 15th greatest male screen legend of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

* 08/23/1912

Jürgen Tonkel(61)

Actor | Wolfratshausen (DE)

Jürgen Tonkel (born 23 August 1962) is a German actor.

* 08/23/1962

Aaron Douglas(52)

Actor | New Westminster, British Columbia (CA)

Aaron Douglas (born August 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica. He headlined on the CTV drama The Bridge, which was also picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas played Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, which began production in May 2009 but the series was dropped after just three episodes had been aired. Douglas starred alongside fellow Battlestar Galactica actor Paul Campbell in a Syfy original movie, Killer Mountain, which premiered August 27, 2011.

* 08/23/1971

Annie Ilonzeh(40)

Actress | Grapevine, Texas (US)

Annette Ngozi Ilonzeh is a Nigerian-American actress, known for her starring role as Emily Foster on NBC's Chicago Fire. From 2010 to 2011, she played Maya Ward on the ABC daytime soap opera General Hospital, and starred as Kate Prince in the short-lived ABC reboot of Charlie's Angels. She later had a recurring roles on shows such as Arrow, Drop Dead Diva and Empire.

* 08/23/1983

Jo Hee-bong(52)

Actor | South Korea (KR)

Jo Hee-bong (born August 23, 1971) is a South Korean actor. Hee-bong began his acting career in 1997 as part of the theatre troupe Bipa (비파). He later became known as a supporting actor onscreen, in films such as Blind (2011) and Incomplete Life: Prequel (2013), and the television dramas Hong Gil-dong (2008), Unsolved (2010), and Good Doctor (2013). In a collaboration with director Kim Tae-yong, Jo is also the live narrator (or byeonsa) for Crossroads of Youth (1934), Korea's oldest surviving silent film. Aside from local performances in 2008 and 2012, Jo has performed at the 2009 New York Film Festival, the 2011 Guwahati International Film Festival in Mexico, the 2011 Thames Festival in London, and the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival.

* 08/23/1971

Chris Potter(63)

Actor | Toronto, Ontario (CA)

Christopher Jay Potter (born August 23, 1960) is a Canadian actor, director, musician, and pitchman. He is primarily known for his roles on soap operas and prime-time television. Potter is known for his roles as Peter Caine, the son of Kwai Chang Caine (played by David Carradine) on the 1990s crime drama Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Dr. David Cameron on the first season of Queer as Folk, as the voice of Gambit in the animated X-Men series, and for his recurring role as con-artist Evan Owen on The Young and the Restless. He plays Tim Fleming on the drama Heartland.

* 08/23/1960

Sam Horrigan(42)

Actor | Sacramento County, California (US)

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* 08/23/1981

Kristine Cofsky(40)

Actress | Vancouver, British Columbia (CA)

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* 08/23/1983

Ant(56)

Actor | Boston, Massachusetts (US)

Anthony Steven Kalloniatis(born August 23, 1967), known by his stage nameAnt, is an Americanstand-up comedian, actor, and TV show host.Ant performed at comedy clubs across the US beginning in 1991. In 1995, he was a semi-regular cast member on theWBseriesUnhappily Ever After, spending four seasons on the sitcom. He appeared as a contestant onLast Comic Standing, competing in seasons two and three.He hostedVH1’sreality seriesCelebrity Fit Club,and was a regular judge of talent onSteve Harvey's Big Time. His television seriesU.S. of Antpremiered on MTV's gay-targetedLogocable channel in the summer of 2006. He frequently appeared as a commentator on shows such as VH1'sBest Week Everand CNBC's Dennis Miller, and was a regular guest onThe Tyra Banks Show,The Tonight Show with Jay Lenoas well asThe Howard Stern Show.In 2007, he appeared along withSnoop Doggas a guest star onMTV's sketch comedy showShort Circuit. He also appeared as a regular celebrity guest on the game showTo Tell the Truth, alongsideJackée Harry,Meshach TaylorandJohn O'Hurley.In 2008, he was a contestant on VH1's reality competitionCelebracadabra, where celebrities trained with established magicians, and competed in an elimination-format contest.He is a former host of theSecond Chancespodcast with comedian Greg Baldwin.

* 08/23/1967

Matthew Alan(44)

Actor | Evansville (US)

Matthew Alan is an actor and producer.

* 08/23/1979
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