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People: Famous People born on 08/24 (August)

August 23 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 25 All fixed commemorations below are observed on September 6 by Eastern Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. For August 24, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on August 11 ()

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Grey DeLisle(50)

Actress | Fort Ord, California (US)

Grey DeLisle (born Erin Grey Van Oosbree; August 24, 1973), sometimes credited as Grey Griffin, is an American voice actress, comedian and singer-songwriter. DeLisle is known for various roles in animated productions and video games. On September 27, 2018, she released her debut comedy act, titled "My First Comedy Special". On November 10, 2019, The Simpsons producers announced that DeLisle would replace Russi Taylor as the voice of Martin Prince and Sherri and Terri, after Taylor's death in July 2019. In 2022, she was nominated for the Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program for her work on The Loud House.

* 08/24/1973

Elizabeth Debicki(33)

Actress | Paris (FR)

Elizabeth Debicki (born 24 August 1990) is an Australian actress. After making her feature film debut in A Few Best Men (2011), she appeared in The Great Gatsby (2013) as Jordan Baker. Other roles are in the limited series The Night Manager (2016) and Widows (2018).

* 08/24/1990

Zhou Yiwei(41)

Actor | Jishou, Hunan (CN)

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* 08/24/1982

Rupert Grint(35)

Actor | Harlow, Essex, England (GB)

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint (born 24 August 1988) is an English actor. Grint rose to fame for his role as Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter film series. He was cast as Weasley at age eleven, having previously acted only in school plays and his local theatre group. Since then, he continued his work on film, television, and theatre.Beginning in 2002, he began to work outside of the Harry Potter franchise, with a co-leading role in Thunderpants. He has had starring roles in Driving Lessons, a dramedy released in 2006, and Cherrybomb, a limited-release drama film in 2010. He co-starred with Bill Nighy and Emily Blunt in the comedy Wild Target. His first film project after the Harry Potter series was a supporting role in the 2012 anti-war film Into the White. In 2013, his film CBGB was released, and he was cast in CBS's new show Super Clyde. He made his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's Mojo in October 2013 at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. In 2014, he voiced the character of Josh in Postman Pat: The Movie; and from 2017 to 2018, he executive-produced and starred in the television series Snatch, based on the film of the same name. Since 2019, he stars in the Apple TV+ psychological horror series Servant.

* 08/24/1988

Chad Michael Murray(42)

Actor | Buffalo, New York (US)

Chad Michael Murray (born August 24, 1981) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, and former fashion model. He is best known for his roles as Lucas Scott on The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill, Edgar Evernever on Riverdale, Mirabeau Lamar on Texas Rising, Jacob Thompson on the ABC series Marvel's Agent Carter, Jacob Orr on Chosen, a recurring role as Tristan Dugray on The WB/CW series Gilmore Girls, and Charlie Todd on The WB series Dawson’s Creek.He also had supporting roles in the films Freaky Friday, A Cinderella Story, House of Wax, and Fruitvale Station.

* 08/24/1981

David Koechner(61)

Actor | Tipton, Missouri (US)

David Michael Koechner ( KEK-nər; born August 24, 1962) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing roles such as Champ Kind in the Anchorman films and Todd Packer on The Office series. Koechner first became involved in performing when he began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at ImprovOlympic, before joining the Second City Northwest. Koechner relocated to New York City in 1995, doing year long stints of sketch comedy as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (1995–1996) and as a sketch regular on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in the mid-1990s. In 1997, Koechner moved to Los Angeles and started working regularly in various film and television comedies, making his first film appearances with small roles in the films such as Wag the Dog, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Man on the Moon. While filming the country mockumentary film Dill Scallion in 1998, Koechner befriended actor/comedian Dave 'Gruber' Allen, and eventually began performing as the comedy duo, The Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show, a live musical comedy act. The act became a hit at Hollywood clubs such as Largo, and Allen and Koechner were invited to open for Tenacious D. In 2007, Koechner and Allen created and starred together in a Naked Trucker & T-Bones Show sketch comedy series that ran for one season on Comedy Central. After his breakout role as Champ Kind in the 2004 comedy Anchorman, Koechner began appearing frequently with larger supporting roles in many high-profile comedic films including Talladega Nights, Thank You for Smoking, Waiting..., Semi-Pro, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, and Extract. His first leading film role, as Coach Lambeau Fields in sports comedy, The Comebacks opened on October 19, 2007. More recently, Koechner reprised his role of Champ Kind for Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, co-starred in the horror-comedy Krampus, and received praise from critics for his dark turn in the 2014 black comedy Cheap Thrills. He co-starred in the sitcoms Bless This Mess and Superior Donuts and recurred on Another Period and on the reboot of Twin Peaks. He makes regular appearances on the sitcom The Goldbergs and provides the voices of Dick Reynolds on American Dad!.

* 08/24/1962

Anne Archer(76)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Anne Archer is an American actress. She starred as Beth in the psychological thriller film Fatal Attraction (1987), which earned her nominations for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.Archer was named Miss Golden Globe in 1971, and in the year following, appeared in her feature film debut The Honkers.Archer's other film appearances include Paradise Alley (1978), Raise the Titanic (1980), Patriot Games (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Clear and Present Danger (1994), and Lullaby (2014). On stage, she starred as Mrs Robinson in the West End production of The Graduate in 2001, and in the title role of The Trial of Jane Fonda at the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

* 08/24/1947

Jared Harris(62)

Actor | London, England (GB)

Jared Francis Harris (born 24 August 1961) is a British actor. His roles include Lane Pryce in the drama series Mad Men (2009–2012), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series; King George VI in the historical drama series The Crown (2016–2017); and Valery Legasov in the miniseries Chernobyl (2019), for which he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Harris also had roles as David Robert Jones in the science fiction series Fringe (2008–2012), Anderson Dawes on the science fiction series The Expanse (2015–2017) and Captain Francis Crozier in the series The Terror (2018). He is also known for his significant supporting roles in films such as Mr. Deeds (2002), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Lincoln (2012), Allied (2016), Hari Seldon, a leading character in the science fiction series Foundation (2021), and as john in Reawakening (2024).

* 08/24/1961

Hal Smith(† 77)

Actor | Petoskey, Michigan (US)

Harold John Smith (August 24, 1916 – January 28, 1994) was an American actor. He is credited in over 300 film and television productions, and was best known for his role as Otis Campbell, the town drunk on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show and for voicing Owl and Winnie the Pooh (replacing Sterling Holloway) in the first four original Winnie the Pooh shorts (the first three of which were combined into the feature film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh) and later Winnie the Pooh Discovers the Seasons, Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore and in the television series, Welcome to Pooh Corner and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He also did a cameo in The Apartment as a drunken Santa Claus.

* 08/24/1916

Griffin Gluck(23)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Griffin Alexander Gluck (born August 24, 2000) is an American actor. Born in Los Angeles, Gluck began his career as a child actor in comedy films such as Just Go with It (2011) and Why Him? (2016). He had his first leading role as a comatosed teenager in the drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015) and gained acclaim for playing a young film prodigy in the Netflix mockumentary series American Vandal (2017–2018) and the main antagonist Gabe / Dodge in the Netflix horror series Locke & Key (2020–2022). He also had further leading roles in comedy films Big Time Adolescence (2019), Tall Girl (2019) and its 2022 sequel, and North Hollywood (2021), and appeared in the second and final season of the Freeform thriller anthology Cruel Summer (2023).

* 08/24/2000

Alex O'Loughlin(47)

Actor | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory (AU)

Alex O'Loughlin is an Australian actor, writer and director, who plays Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett on CBS' remake of the TV series Hawaii Five-0. He had starring roles in the films Oyster Farmer (2004) and The Back-up Plan (2010), as well as on such television series as Moonlight (2008) and Three Rivers (2009).O'Loughlin was born on 24 August 1976, in Canberra, Australia, of Irish and Scottish descent.His father is a physics and astronomy teacher in Sydney and his mother is a nurse.O'Loughlin suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder when he was a child. He enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney in 1999 and graduated in June 2002 after completing a three-year, full-time Bachelor of Dramatic Art program.O'Loughlin began working in short films and fringe theatre as a teenager in Sydney. One of his first acting jobs was an extra in a commercial, playing a Marine. After graduating from NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), he began his career in Australian television and film productions. Some of his TV credits include roles in BlackJack: Sweet Science, Love Bytes and White Collar Blue.

* 08/24/1976

Zhang Xincheng(28)

Actor | Jingzhou, Hubei (CN)

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* 08/24/1995
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Steve Guttenberg(65)

Actor | Brooklyn, New York City, New York (US)

Steven Robert Guttenberg(born August 24, 1958) is an American actor, author, businessman, producer, and director. He is known for his lead roles in Hollywood films of the 1980s and 1990s, includingCocoon,Police Academy,Three Men and a Baby,Diner,The Bedroom Window,Three Men and a Little Lady,The Big Green, andShort Circuit.

* 08/24/1958

Stephen Fry(66)

Actor | Hampstead, London, England (GB)

Stephen John Fry is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter and film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club. He first came to attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and the duo also played the title roles in Jeeves and Wooster.As a solo actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, and is the host of the quiz show QI. He also presented a 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 U.S. states in six episodes. Fry has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones.Apart from his work in television, Fry has contributed columns and articles for newspapers and magazines, and has written four novels and two volumes of autobiography, Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles. He also appears frequently on BBC Radio 4, starring in the comedy series Absolute Power, being a frequent guest on panel games such as Just a Minute, and acting as chairman for I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, where he was one of a trio of hosts who succeeded the late Humphrey Lyttelton. Fry is also known in the UK for his audiobook recordings, including as reader for all seven Harry Potter novels.

* 08/24/1957

Seo Ji-hye(39)

Actress | Seoul (KR)

Seo Ji-hye (Korean: 서지혜; born August 24, 1984) is a South Korean actress. After first attracting attention in the horror film Voice (2005), Seo has since starred in numerous television dramas, notably 49 Days (2011), Punch (2014), Don't Dare to Dream (2016), Crash Landing on You (2019), and Red Balloon (2022–2023).

* 08/24/1984

Dave Chappelle(50)

Actor | Washington, D.C. (US)

David Khari Webber "Dave" Chappelle was born on August 24, 1973 in Washington, D.C. He is a comedian, screenwriter, television/film producer and actor. Chappelle began his film career in the film Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993 and continued to star in minor roles in the films The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His first lead role in a film was in Half Baked in 1998. In 2003, he became widely known for his popular sketch comedy television series, Chappelle's Show, which ran until 2006. Comedy Central ranked him forty-third in its list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians.

* 08/24/1973

Joe Regalbuto(74)

Actor | New York City, New York (US)

Joe Regalbuto (born August 24, 1949) is an American actor and director. He is known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television sitcom Murphy Brown, which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination in 1989.

* 08/24/1949

James D'Arcy(48)

Actor | London, England (GB)

James D'Arcy (born Simon Richard D'Arcy; 24 August 1975) is an English actor and film director. He is known for his portrayals of Howard Stark's butler, Edwin Jarvis, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television series Agent Carter and the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and murder suspect Lee Ashworth in the second season of the ITV series Broadchurch. D'Arcy also co-starred in Christopher Nolan's war movies Dunkirk (2017) and Oppenheimer (2023). He wrote and directed Made in Italy (2020).

* 08/24/1975

Wenwen Han(28)

Actress | Xi'an (CN)

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* 08/24/1995

Ronee Blakley(78)

Actress | Caldwell, Idaho (US)

Ronee Sue Blakley is an American actress, singer-songwriter, composer, producer and director. She is perhaps best known for her role as the fictional country superstar Barbara Jean in Robert Altman's 1975 film Nashville, for which she won a National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award. She also performed roles in Walter Hill's The Driver (1978) and Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984).

* 08/24/1945

Marlee Matlin(58)

Actress | Morton Grove, Illinois (US)

Marlee Bethany Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. She is the youngest woman and the only deaf actress to date to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which she won at age 21 for Children of a Lesser God. Her work in film and television has resulted in a Golden Globe award, with two additional nominations, and four Emmy nominations. Deaf since she was 2 years old, she is also a prominent member of the National Association of the Deaf.

* 08/24/1965

Martha Higareda(40)

Actress | Villa Hermosa, Tabasco (MX)

Martha Elba Guadalupe Higareda Cervantes (Spanish pronunciation: (born August 24, 1983) is a Mexican actress, producer and screenwriter.

* 08/24/1983

Vince McMahon(78)

Crew | Pinehurst, North Carolina (US)

Vincent Kennedy "Vince" McMahon is an American professional wrestling promoter, announcer, commentator, film producer, actor and former occasional professional wrestler, and is often referred to as the archetypal wrestling magnate. McMahon currently serves as the Chairman, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the professional wrestling promotion WWE and is the majority shareholder of the company, holding approximately 88% of the total voting power and 59% of the outstanding shares within WWE. Upon acquiring World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), McMahon's WWE became the sole remaining major American professional wrestling promotion until the national expansion of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and Ring of Honor. As an on-camera character, he can appear on all WWE brands (though the majority of the time, he appears on Raw). McMahon plays a character known by the ring name Mr. McMahon, based on himself. In the world of WWE, he is a two-time world champion, having won the WWF Championship and ECW World Championship. He was also the winner of the 1999 Royal Rumble. Vince is the husband of Linda McMahon, with whom he ran WWE from its establishment in 1980 until she resigned as CEO in September 2009.

* 08/24/1945

Pierfrancesco Favino(54)

Actor | Rome (IT)

Favino was born in Rome, Italy. He has appeared in more than forty Europeanfilmsandtelevision series' since the early 1990s, includingGabriele Muccino'sThe Last Kiss,Gianni Amelio'sThe Keys to the House,Giuseppe Tornatore'sThe Unknown WomanandFerzan Özpetek'sSaturn in Opposition. In1999he starred in theHBOfilmExcellent Cadavers, adaptation ofAlexander Stille'snovel of the same name. He received theDavid di Donatelloaward - Italian equivalent of the Oscar - in 2006 for his role in the crime filmRomanzo Criminale, directed byMichele Placido.

* 08/24/1969

Erin Cottrell(48)

Actress | Yardley, Pennsylvania (US)

Erin Cottrell (born August 24, 1975) is an American actress who has appeared in the role of Missie LaHaye in five of the eight films in the Love Comes Softly series. She was born in Yardley, Pennsylvania. She acted in Love's Long Journey, Love's Abiding Joy, Love's Unending Legacy, Love's Unfolding Dream, and Love Takes Wing. She acted with Logan Bartholomew in Love's Long Journey and Love's Abiding Joy. In all of the films, she portrays the adult Missie Davis-LaHaye-Tyler except in the second film of the series. Erin had a major role in an episode of Cold Case season five, episode 11, where she plays an art teacher in one of America's internment camps for people of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. Her character plays a small part in the destruction of a Japanese family, as she is seen kissing a married man, but he tells her that his wife is the only one he loves, and he goes on to be killed. The episode is based on finding this man's real killer. She has also had a role on NCIS Season 9, episode 11, playing a United States Marine lieutenant who is pregnant with the child of a deceased Afghan man (who is the leader of a prominent tribe). She delivers her baby with Leroy Jethro Gibbs at her side during a shootout with the men hired by her baby's father's family to kidnap the baby at a gas station in the middle of a Christmas Eve snowstorm. She also voiced Delilah Copperspoon for the video game Dishonored, specifically Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall and Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches. She reprised her role in the sequel Dishonored 2.

* 08/24/1975

Eric Edwards(57)

Actor | Topeka, Kansas (US)

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* 08/24/1966

Carlo Marks(41)

Actor | Tofino, British Columbia (CA)

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* 08/24/1982

William Morgan Sheppard(† 86)

Actor | London, England (GB)

William Morgan Sheppard (24 August 1932 – 6 January 2019) was an English actor who appeared in over 100 films and television programmes, in a career that spanned over 50 years.

* 08/24/1932

Saverio Guerra(59)

Actor | Brooklyn, New York (US)

Saverio Guerra (born August 25, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Bob in the sitcom Becker and Mocha Joe in Curb Your Enthusiasm, along with numerous other roles in films and television series.

* 08/24/1964

Rachael Carpani(43)

Actress | Sydney, New South Wales (AU)

Rachael Carpani is an Australian film and television actress, best known for playing Jodie Fountain McLeod, one of the leading roles in the television series "McLeod's Daughters".

* 08/24/1980
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