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Actors Born on August 22

  • 1888 Violet Farebrother, English actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), born in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England (d. 1969)
  • 1890 Cecil Kellaway, South African-American stage and screen character actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; The Luck of the Irish), born in Cape Town, Cape Colony (now South Africa) (d. 1973)
  • 1891 Francis McDonald, American actor (Will-Adv of Champion), born in Bowling Green, Kentucky (d. 1968)
  • 1897 Elizabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (Catherine the Great), born in Drohobycz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1986)
  • 1898 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), born in Verdun, France (d. 1975)

Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003)

German film director (Triumph of the Will) and actress (Tiefland), born in Berlin, Germany

  • 1905 Wade Crosby, American actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (d. 1975)
  • 1907 Oliver McGowan, American actor (Banning, Stagecoach), born in Kipling, Alabama (d. 1971)
  • 1909 Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Casablanca), born in New York City (d. 2000)
  • 1911 Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1986)
  • 1915 Hugh Paddick, English actor (Round the Horne), born in Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, England (d. 2000)
  • 1916 John Slater, British actor (Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass), born in London, England (d. 1975)
  • 1922 Micheline Presle [Chassagne], French actress (Nea, Donkey Skin), born in Paris, France
  • 1924 James Kirkwood, American actor, author and playwright (A Chorus Line, P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1989)
  • 1925 Honor Blackman, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers), born in Plaistow, London (d. 2020)
  • 1928 John Lupton, American actor (Tom-Broken Arrow), born in Highland Park, Illinois (d. 1993)
  • 1933 Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (Jessica, Hercules), born in Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia (d. 1994)
  • 1934 Diana Sands, American actress (Raisin in the Sun, Doctor's Wife), born in New York City
  • 1934 Margaret Douglas, chief political adviser (BBC), born in London (d. 2008)
  • 1934 Ralph Mellanby, Canadian sportscaster / television producer (EP Hockey Night in Canada 1966-85; 5 x Emmy Awards various Olympic Games), born in Hamilton, Ontario (d. 2022)
  • 1935 Morton Dean [Dubitsky], American TV news correspondent, anchor (CBS, ABC), and author, born in Fall River, Massachusetts
  • 1939 Valerie Harper, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Rhoda), born in Suffern, New York (d. 2019)
  • 1940 George Reinholt, American actor (Steve-Another World, One Life to Live), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)
  • 1945 James G Richardson, actor (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), born in Gainesville, Florida
  • 1945 Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana
  • 1947 Cindy Williams, American actress (Laverne & Shirley - "Shirley; American Graffiti), born in Van Nuys, California (d. 2023) [1]
  • 1948 Eleonora Brown, Italian actress (The Sailor from Gibraltar), born in Naples, Italy
  • 1948 Rob Buckman, British broadcaster and actor (Pink Medicine Show), born in London
  • 1951 Gordon Liu [Chia-Hui Liu or Jin-Hsi Shin], Chinese actor (Kill Bill, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), born in Guangdong, China
  • 1953 Paul Ellering, American wrestling manager, born in Melrose, Minnesota
  • 1955 Chiranjeevi [Konidela Siva Sankara Vara Prasad], Telugu film actor, dancer and producer, born in Mogalthur, India
  • 1958 Colm Feore, American actor (The Chronicles of Riddick), born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1958 Stevie Ray [Lane Huffman], American professional wrestler, born in Houston, Texas
  • 1965 Tom Gibis, American voice actor (Shikamaru Nara-Naruto), born in West St. Paul, Minnesota
  • 1967 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, English-American actor (The Mummy Returns), born in Islington, London
  • 1967 Alfred Gough, American screenwriter and producer, born in Leonardtown, Maryland
  • 1967 Ant [Anthony Steven Kalloniatis], American comedian, born in Boston, Massachusetts
  • 1967 Ty Burrell, American actor (Modern Family, Evolution), born in Grants Pass, Oregon
  • 1968 Casper Christensen, Danish comedian (Hvaffor en hånd), born in Kerteminde, Denmark
  • 1970 Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American chef and television host, born in Rome, Italy
  • 1971 Richard Armitage, British actor (The Hobbit; Robin Hood), born in Leicester, Leicestershire, England
  • 1971 Rick Yune, American actor (Snow Falling on Cedars), born in Washington, D.C.
  • 1972 Marliece Andrada, American actress (Baywatch) and Playboy playmate (March 1998), born in Manteca, California
  • 1973 Kristen Wiig, American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York
  • 1974 Brimstone, American professional wrestler, born in Mineola, New York
  • 1975 Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor (Love Actually), born in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1975 Sheree Murphy, English actress (Emmerdale), born in Stoke Newington, London

James Corden (45 years old)

1978 British actor, comedian and television host (The Late Late Show with James Corden), born in Hillingdon, London

  • 1979 Brandon Quintin Adams, American actor (The People Under the Stairs), born in Topeka, Kansas
  • 1979 Jennifer Finnigan, Canadian actress (The Bold and the Beautiful), born in Montreal, Quebec
  • 1979 Steve Kornacki, American political journalist, writer and TV presenter (NBC), born in Groton, Massachusetts
  • 1980 Christi Shake, American model and actress, born in Baltimore, Maryland
  • 1983 Laura Breckenridge, American actress (Rose Sorelli-Related), born in Flourtown, Pennsylvania
  • 1985 Jey Uso [Joshua Samuel Fatu], American professional wrestler (Raw Tag Team champion with twin brother Jimmy), born in San Francisco, California
  • 1985 Jimmy Uso [Jonathan Solofa Fatu ], American professional wrestler (Raw Tag Team champion with twin brother Jey), born in San Francisco, California
  • 1986 Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress, born in Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
  • 1992 Naomi Ackie, English actress (The End of the F***ing World), born in London, England