People: Famous People born on 06/25 (June)

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611 people found (page 1/21):

Mckenna Grace(17)

Actress | Dallas, Texas (US)

Mckenna Grace (born June 25, 2006) is an American actress and singer. Born in Grapevine, Texas, she began acting professionally at age five and relocated to Los Angeles, California, as a child. Her earliest roles included Jasmine Bernstein in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein (2012–2014) and Faith Newman in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2013–2015). After several small roles, she starred as a child prodigy in Gifted (2017), a breakthrough for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Young Performer. Grace subsequently appeared in the films I, Tonya (2017), Troop Zero (2019), and Captain Marvel (2019). During this time, she appeared in several horror projects, including The Bad Seed (2018), The Haunting of Hill House (2018), and Annabelle Comes Home (2019). For playing an abused teenager in The Handmaid's Tale (2021–2022), Grace was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series, making her the first child recognized for a guest acting Emmy. She appeared in the supernatural comedy films Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), receiving critical praise and a Critics' Choice Super Award nomination. In 2022, Grace wrote, executive produced, and starred in The Bad Seed Returns, and portrayed Jan Broberg in A Friend of the Family. After signing with Photo Finish Records in 2020, Grace released her debut single, "Haunted House", in 2021, as part of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife soundtrack. She released two extended plays in 2023: Bittersweet 16 and Autumn Leaves, which explored pop rock and folk sounds, respectively.

Known for: Gifted, I, Tonya, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, The Handmaid's Tale

* 06/25/2006

Linda Cardellini(48)

Actress | Redwood City, California (US)

Linda Edna Cardellini (born June 25, 1975) is an American actress. In television, she is known for her starring roles on Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), ER (2003–2009) and Bloodline (2015–2017), as well as her portrayal of Judy Hale on Netflix's Dead to Me (2019–2022), for which she earned a nomination for the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She also appeared as Sylvia Rosen on AMC's Mad Men between 2013–2015, receiving an Emmy nomination in the category of Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. In film, Cardellini is known for her portrayal of Velma Dinkley in Scooby-Doo (2002) and its 2004 sequel. Her other credits include Legally Blonde (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Return (2011), Daddy's Home (2015), The Founder (2016), Green Book (2018), A Simple Favor (2018), and The Curse of La Llorona (2019). She also played Laura Barton in Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021), as well as voicing and performing motion capture for Lylla in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), making her one of the few actresses to appear as two different characters in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Known for: Scooby-Doo, Brokeback Mountain, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Curse of La Llorona

* 06/25/1975

June Lockhart(98)

Actress | New York City, New York (US)

June Lockhart (born June 25, 1925) is an American retired actress, beginning a film career in the 1930s and 1940s in such films as A Christmas Carol and Meet Me in St. Louis. She primarily acted in 1950s and 1960s television, and with performances on stage and in film. On two television series, Lassie and Lost in Space, she played mother roles. She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70). She is a two-time Emmy Award nominee and a Tony Award winner. With a career spanning nearly 90 years, she is one of the last surviving actors from the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Known for: She-Wolf of London, Bury Me Dead, Lost in Space, Lost in Space

* 06/25/1925

Ricky Gervais(62)

Actor | Whitley, Reading, Berkshire, England (GB)

Ricky Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician and writer.Gervais achieved mainstream fame with his television series The Office and the subsequent series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and frequent collaborator Stephen Merchant. In addition to writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. Gervais has also starred in a number of Hollywood films, assuming leading roles in Ghost Town and The Invention of Lying. He has performed on four sell-out stand-up comedy tours, written the best-selling Flanimals book series and starred with Merchant and Karl Pilkington in the most downloaded podcast in the world as of March 2009, The Ricky Gervais Show.He has won a multitude of awards and honours, including seven BAFTA Awards, five British Comedy Awards, two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and the 2006 Rose d'Or, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. In 2007 he was voted the 11th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups and again in the updated 2010 list as the 3rd greatest stand-up comic. In 2010 he was named on the TIME 100 list of the world's most influential people. Gervais hosted both the 2010 and 2011 Golden Globe Awards.

Known for: The Invention of Lying, Ghost Town, The Office, Extras

* 06/25/1961

Shannon Lucio(43)

Actress | Denver, Colorado (US)

Shannon Lucio (born June 25, 1980) is an American actress. Born in Denver, Colorado, Lucio grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and graduated from John Marshall High School. Her family is of Italian descent. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California. She is well known for the acting role of Lindsay Gardner on The O.C.. Lucio was later cast in the lead female role of the CBS television drama Moonlight (2007), but was replaced by Sophia Myles in April 2007. Lucio also played Miriam Hultz/Trishanne in the series Prison Break.

Known for: Starkweather, Graduation, The O.C., Prison Break, Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., True Blood

* 06/25/1980

Busy Philipps(44)

Actress | Oak Park, Illinois (US)

Elizabeth Jean "Busy" Philipps (born June 25, 1979) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), Dawson's Creek (2001–2003), and ER (2006–2007), and for her portrayal of Laurie Keller on the ABC series Cougar Town (2009–2015), for which she received the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She has also appeared in supporting roles in numerous films, such as The Smokers (2000), Home Room (2002), White Chicks (2004), Made of Honor (2008), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), The Gift (2015), and I Feel Pretty (2018). From 2018 to 2019, Philipps hosted her own television talk show Busy Tonight, on E!. She currently stars in the Peacock / Netflix original series Girls5eva.

Known for: He's Just Not That Into You, White Chicks, Made of Honor, Cougar Town

* 06/25/1979

Hong Chau(44)

Actress | Thailand (TH)

Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is a Vietnamese-American actress who gained recognition for her supporting role in the 2017 film Downsizing, in which she played the character Ngoc Lan Tran. For her performance, she was nominated for several supporting-actress awards. Variety wrote in 2022 that Chau had "been prolific in recent years" and that she had "an acclaimed turn" in the TV series Watchmen (2019) and Homecoming (2018–2020).Before Downsizing, she appeared in the television series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). In 2018, she had guest star roles in several TV series. In 2019, she played a supporting role in the limited series Watchmen, and had leading roles in the films American Woman and Driveways. In 2020, she had a starring role in the second season of the TV series Homecoming, having had a supporting role in its first season in 2018. In 2022, she appeared in supporting roles in the films Showing Up, The Menu, and The Whale with the latter earning her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans, Louisiana sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and studied film at Boston University before pursuing an acting career.

Known for: The Whale, Downsizing, The Menu, Watchmen

* 06/25/1979

Mason Vale Cotton(21)

Actor | San Diego, California (US)

Mason Vale Cotton in a young actor best known for his role as M.J. Delfino on the TV series Desperate Housewives.

Known for: Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie, Radio Free Albemuth, Mad Men, Desperate Housewives

* 06/25/2002

Erica Gimpel(59)

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

Erica Fawn Gimpel (born June 25, 1964) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and composer. She is best known for her roles on television shows Fame as Coco Hernandez and on Profiler as Angel Brown. She is also known for her recurring roles on the television shows ER as Adele Newman and on Veronica Mars as Alicia Fennel. From 2018 to 2020, Gimpel had a series regular role as Trish on the series God Friended Me. Gimpel was a judge on RTÉ One's Fame: The Musical, an Irish TV talent show seeking a boy and a girl to play Nick and Serena respectively in the Irish touring production of Fame. In January 2010, Gimpel released her first CD, Spread your Wings and Fly.

Known for: Sylvie's Love, Smoke, God Friended Me, Fame

* 06/25/1964

Michael Lembeck(75)

Crew | Brooklyn, New York (US)

Michael Lembeck (born June 25, 1948) is an American actor and television and film director. He is best known as Max Horvath in One Day at a Time (1979–1984).

Known for: The In-Laws, Tooth Fairy, The Krofft Supershow, Friends

* 06/25/1948

Eve Gordon(63)

Actress | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US)

Eve Gordon (also known as Eve Bennett-Gordon) is an American actress. Her television roles include playing Marilyn Monroe in the Emmy Award-winning miniseries A Woman Named Jackie, Congressional aide Jordan Miller in the short-lived sitcom The Powers That Be, the mother of the title character in the drama series Felicity, and Monica Klain, the wife of Ron Klain (played by Kevin Spacey) in the 2008 Emmy Award-winning HBO film Recount. She also starred in the 1997 film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, starring opposite Rick Moranis.

Known for: The Circle, The Grudge 2, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves, The World According to Garp

* 06/25/1960

Kylie Cantrall(18)

Actress | Los Angeles, California (US)

Kylie Cantrall (born June 25, 2005) is an American actress.

Known for: Ron's Gone Wrong, Descendants: The Rise Of Red, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

* 06/25/2005

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Angela Kinsey(52)

Actress | Lafayette, Louisiana (US)

Angela Faye Kinsey(born June 25, 1971) is an American actress, bestknown for her role as Angela Martinin the sitcomThe Office(2005–2013), and she appeared in the sitcomsYour Family or Mine(2015) andHaters Back Off(2016–2017). SinceThe Office, Kinsey has appeared in Netflix'sTall Girl, Disney+'sBe Our Chef,and A.P. Bio.She was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. When she was two years old, her family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, where her father worked as a drilling engineer. They lived there for 12 years, and she attended the Jakarta Intercultural School. During this time, she learned Indonesian, a language she still occasionally speaks. Her family returned to the United States and settled in Archer City, Texas.

Known for: Tall Girl, License to Wed, The Office

* 06/25/1971

Chloe Webb(67)

Actress | Greenwich Village, New York (US)

Chloe Webb (born June 25, 1956) is an American actress, best known for her roles in the films Sid and Nancy (1986), The Belly of an Architect (1987), Twins (1988), and Heart Condition (1990). She also was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role as Laurette Barber in the ABC drama series China Beach, and had a recurring role as Monica Gallagher on the Showtime comedy-drama Shameless.

Known for: Sid and Nancy, Practical Magic, Twins, Tales of the City

* 06/25/1956

Sidney Lumet(† 86)

Crew | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US)

Sidney Arthur Lumet ( loo-MET; June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American film director. Lumet started his career in theatre before moving to film where he gained a reputation for making realistic and gritty New York dramas which focused on the working class, tackled social injustices, and often questioned authority. He was nominated five times for Academy Awards: four for Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982) and one for Best Adapted Screenplay for Prince of the City (1981). Other films include A View from the Bridge (1962), Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), The Pawnbroker (1964), Fail Safe (1964), The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Equus (1977), The Wiz (1978), The Morning After (1986), Running on Empty (1988), and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007). He received the Academy Honorary Award in 2004. A member of the inaugural class at New York's Actors Studio, Lumet started acting off-Broadway and made his Broadway acting debut in the 1935 play Dead End. He later went on to direct the Broadway plays Night of the Auk (1956), Caligula (1960), and Nowhere to Go But Up (1962). Lumet is also known for his work on television. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series nomination for NBC Sunday Showcase (1961). He also directed for Goodyear Television Playhouse, Kraft Television Theatre, and Playhouse 90.

Known for: 12 Angry Men, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon

* 06/25/1924

George Murdock(† 81)

Actor | Salina, Kansas (US)

George Murdock (born George Sawaya Jr.; June 25, 1930 – April 30, 2012) was an American character actor, especially prolific on television.

Known for: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Orange County, Breaker! Breaker!, The X Files

* 06/25/1930

Jason Lewis(52)

Actor | Newport Beach, California (US)

Jason Lewis (born c. 1970/1971) is an American actor and former fashion model. He is known for his role as Jerry "Smith" Jerrod on the HBO series Sex and the City.

Known for: Sex and the City, Mr. Brooks, Sex and the City 2, The Jacket

* 06/25/1971

Josh Braaten(46)

Actor | Austin, Minnesota (US)

Josh Braaten (born June 25, 1977) is an American actor.

Known for: Semi-Pro, This Is Us, American Horror Story, Mad Men

* 06/25/1977

Jeff Cohen(47)

Actor | Los Angeles, California (US)

Jeffrey Bertan Cohen (born Jeffrey Bertan McMahon; June 25, 1974) is an American attorney and retired child actor best remembered for appearing as Chunk in the 1985 Steven Spielberg production The Goonies. He is a founding partner of law firm Cohen & Gardner.

Known for: The Goonies, The Living Century, Family Ties, Amazing Stories

* 06/25/1976

Scott Terra(36)

Actor | Connecticut (US)

Scott Terra (born June 25, 1987) is an American actor perhaps most recognized for his role as young Matthew Murdock in Daredevil. Terra also played Sam Finney in Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.

Known for: Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, Eight Legged Freaks, Daredevil, Motocrossed

* 06/25/1987

Kene Holliday(74)

Actor | Copiague (US)

Kenneth Earl Holliday (born June 25, 1949) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. He is known for his role as Ben Matlock's original private investigator, Tyler Hudson, on Matlock, and as Sgt. Curtis Baker on Carter Country from 1977 until 1979. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film Great World of Sound.

Known for: The Philadelphia Experiment, Bulworth, Everybody's Fine, G.I. Joe

* 06/25/1949

Michael Vejar(80)

Crew | Los Angeles (US)

Michael "Mike" Laurence Vejar (born June 25, 1943, in Los Angeles, California) is an American television director, with directing credits on four Star Trek series, as well as directing other notable series, such as Zorro, Babylon 5, MacGyver, The Dead Zone, The X-Files and Jeremiah. He directed the episode "Ultra Woman" in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Known for: Fantasy Island, Quantum Leap, The Sentinel, Babylon 5

* 06/25/1943

George Michael(† 53)

Actor | East Finchley, North London, England (GB)

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 1963 – 25 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter, record producer and philanthropist. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he is one of the best-selling musicians of all time, with his sales estimated at between 100 million to 125 million records worldwide. Michael was known as a creative force in songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He achieved 10 number-one songs on the US Billboard Hot 100 and 13 number-one songs on the UK Singles Chart. Michael won numerous music awards, including two Grammy Awards, three Brit Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards. He was listed among Billboard's the "Greatest Hot 100 Artists of All Time" and Rolling Stone's the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time". The Radio Academy named him the most played artist on British radio during the period 1984–2004. Michael was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023. Born in East Finchley, Middlesex, Michael rose to fame after forming the pop duo Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley in 1981. Their first two albums, Fantastic (1983) and Make It Big (1984), reached number one on the US Billboard 200 and UK Albums Chart. They had commercial success with singles "Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)", "Young Guns (Go for It)", "Bad Boys", "Club Tropicana", "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go", "Last Christmas", "Everything She Wants", "Freedom", and "I'm Your Man". Their 1985 tour in China was the first by a Western popular music act, and generated worldwide media coverage. Michael took part in Band Aid's UK number-one single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984 and performed at the following year's Live Aid concert. Michael's first solo single, "Careless Whisper" (1984), reached number one in over 20 countries, including the UK and US. The second solo single, "A Different Corner", also reached number one in 1986. After Wham! disbanded that year, Michael released the number-one duet with Aretha Franklin, "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)". His debut solo album, Faith (1987), stayed at number one on the Billboard 200 for 12 weeks and topped the UK Albums Chart. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, having sold over 25 million copies worldwide. The singles "Faith", "Father Figure", "One More Try", and "Monkey" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Michael became the best-selling music artist of 1988, and Faith was awarded Album of the Year at the 1989 Grammy Awards. Michael's second solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990), was also a number one in the UK and yielded the Billboard Hot 100 number one "Praying for Time" and the worldwide hit "Freedom! '90". Michael went on to release a series of multimillion-selling albums, including Older (1996), Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael (1998), Songs from the Last Century (1999), Patience (2004), and Twenty Five (2006). The albums earned him multiple hits such as "Jesus to a Child", "Fastlove", "Outside", "Amazing", and "An Easier Affair". Michael came out as gay in 1998, and was an active LGBT rights campaigner and HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser. His personal life, drug use, and legal troubles made headlines following an arrest for public lewdness in 1998 and multiple drug-related offences. The 2005 documentary A Different Story covered his career and personal life. Michael's 25 Live tour spanned three tours from 2006 to 2008. Michael fell into a coma in 2011 during a bout with pneumonia, but later recovered. He performed his final concert at London's Earls Court in 2012. Michael died of heart disease on Christmas Day in 2016, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

Known for: Beverly Hills Cop II, Last Christmas, Ready Player One, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

* 06/25/1963

Ernest R. Dickerson(72)

Crew | Newark, New Jersey (US)

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos. As a cinematographer, Dickerson is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee ever since they were classmates at the Tisch School of the Arts and worked together on Lee's 1983 master's degree thesis student film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, which ultimately won a Student Academy Award. Dickerson went on to shoot the Lee-directed films She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), and Malcolm X (1992). As a director, Dickerson is known for crime thriller and horror films such as Juice (1992), Demon Knight (1995), Bulletproof (1996), Bones (2001) and Never Die Alone (2004). He has also directed several episodes of acclaimed television series, including Once Upon a Time, The Wire, Dexter, The Walking Dead, and Godfather of Harlem.

Known for: Juice, Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, The Walking Dead

* 06/25/1951

Sheridan Smith(42)

Actress | Epworth, North Lincolnshire, England (GB)

Sheridan Smith, OBE (born 25 June 1981) is an English actress, singer and dancer. Smith came to prominence on television for her roles in comedy shows Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Love Soup, Gavin & Stacey, Grownups and Benidorm before starring in television dramas like Mrs Biggs, for which she won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for playing Ronnie Biggs' wife, The 7.39 and Cilla, where she played Cilla Black. Her film credits include Tower Block, Quartet, Powder Room and The Harry Hill Movie.Smith made her West End debut in a National Youth Music Theatre production of Bugsy Malone and has performed in musicals Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors and Legally Blonde. She won two Laurence Olivier Awards in consecutive years, for Best Actress in a Musical as Elle Woods in Legally Blonde in 2011 and Best Performance in a Supporting Role as Doris in a revival of the play Flare Path in 2012.Smith was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to drama.

Known for: Hysteria, Cilla, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, Love Soup

* 06/25/1981

Shunichi Maki(33)

Actor | Saitama (JP)

Shunichi Maki (真木駿一, Maki Shun'ichi, born June 25, 1990) is a Japanese voice actor from Saitama Prefecture. He is an associate member of Axel One. His blood type is A and a he is 175 cm tall. His hobbies are sports, mahjong and reading. His special skills are rugby, baseball and soccer.

Known for: Ultraman Trigger: New Generation Tiga, Ultraman Taiga, Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger

* 06/25/1990

Charlie Carrick(37)

Actor | United Kingdom / ???????? (GB)

Charles Ben D. Carrick (born 1986) is an English actor. He made his feature film debut in Molly Maxwell (2013). In 2016, he won a Leo Award for his performance in the film The Devout (2015).

Known for: Angelique's Isle, Molly Maxwell, Deep Water, COBRA, Hidden Assets, Departure

* 06/25/1986

Lee Wilkof(72)

Actor | Canton, Ohio (US)

Lee Wilkof, born in Canton, Ohio, has acted in films, TV, Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theater since 1975.

Known for: No Pay, Nudity, School of Rock, Private Parts, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead