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Actors Born on February 11

  • 1903 Rex Lease, American actor (Fast Bullets, Sunny Skies, Custer's Last Stand), born in Central City, West Virginia (d. 1966)
  • 1907 Anita Garvin, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (Sailors Beware; Laurel and Hardy - Swiss Miss; Blotto; The Charlatan; Hats Off), born in New York City (d. 1994)
  • 1909 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and film director (Sleuth), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1993)
  • 1911 Ben Carter, American actor (Crash Dive, Dark Alibi, Maryland), born in Fairfield, Iowa (d. 1946)

Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)

American novelist and playwright (Master of the Game, Bloodline, The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer), born in Chicago, Illinois

  • 1919 Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born American actress (Green Acres - "Lisa Douglas"; Gigi), comedian, singer, and socialite, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 1995)
  • 1920 Billy Halop [William Halop Cohen], American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, All in the Family), born in New York City (d. 1976)
  • 1925 Kim Stanley [Patricia Reid], American actress (Séance on a Wet Afternoon, The Chase, Right Stuff), born in Tularosa, New Mexico (d. 2001)
  • 1926 Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (Spy Hard, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun), born in Regina, Saskatchewan (d. 2010)
  • 1928 Conrad Janis, American actor (Mork & Mindy - "Frederick"; Quark; Bonino), and traditional jazz trombonist (Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazz Band), born in New York City (d. 2022)
  • 1931 Larry Merchant, American boxing author and analyst (International Boxing Hall of Fame; HBO, Showtime), born in Brooklyn, New York
  • 1934 Tina Louise, American actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas), born in New York City

Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)

American actor (Deliverance, Evening Shade, Strip Tease, Cannonball), born in Lansing, Michigan

  • 1937 Bill Lawry AM, Australian cricket batsman and captain (67 Tests, 5,234 runs @ 47.15, 13 x 100s) and broadcaster (9 Network), born in Melbourne, Australia
  • 1937 Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violist, librettist, actor, and playwright (The Family), born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 2004)
  • 1938 Simone de Oliveira, Portuguese actress
  • 1943 Alan Rubin, American jazz and session trumpeter and flugelhorn player (SNL; Blues Brothers) known as "Mr Fabulous", born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2011)
  • 1947 Joselito [José Jiménez], Spanish singer and actor, born in Beas de Segura, Andalucia, Spain
  • 1947 Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan
  • 1948 Lynn Goldsmith, American photographer, filmmaker, recording artist, and album cover designer (Grand Funk Railroad; Patti Smith; Frank Zappa; Paul Simon), born in Detroit Michigan
  • 1948 Susan Bernard, American author, actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) Playboy playmate (Dec, 1966), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1953 Philip Anglim, American actor (Dane-Thorn Birds), born in San Francisco, California
  • 1954 Wesley Strick, American screenwriter, born in New York
  • 1956 Catherine Hickland, American actress (One Life to Live), born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
  • 1958 Michael Jackson, British television producer and executive (BBC2), born in Cheshire, England
  • 1961 Carey Lowell, American actress (Me & Him, Guardian, Dangerously Close), born in New York City
  • 1962 Scott Kolden, American actor (Scott-Me & the Champ), born in Torrance, California
  • 1966 Stephen Gregory, American actor (Chase-Young & Restless), born in New York City
  • 1968 Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter (Sesame Street), born in Des Plaines, Illinois

Jennifer Aniston (55 years old)

1969 American actress (Rachel-Friends), born in Los Angeles, California

  • 1969 Mary Stoker Smith, Miss Wisconsin & TV news reporter, born in La Crosse, Wisconsin
  • 1969 Shannon Long, Australian actor and model (Oct, 1988), born in Gladstone, Australia
  • 1971 Damian Lewis, British actor, born in St John's Wood, London
  • 1973 Jeon Do-yeon, Korean actress, born in Seoul, South Korea

Alex Jones (50 years old)

1974 American radio host & conspiracy theorist (InfoWars, PrisonPlanet), born in Dallas, Texas

  • 1976 André Wickström, Finland-Swedish comedian and actor, born in Sipoo, Finland
  • 1976 Brice Beckham, American actor (Wesley-Mr Belvedare), born in Long Beach, California

Brandy Norwood (45 years old)

1979 American R&B singer-songwriter ("The Boy Is Mine"; "Have You Ever") and stage and film actress ("Moesha"), born in McComb, Mississippi

  • 1980 Matthew Lawrence, American actor (Boy Meets World. Matthew-Brotherly Love), born in Albington Township, Pennsylvania
  • 1980 Natasha Bobo, American actress (Sally in Together We Stand), born in Watsonville, California
  • 1981 (Kelendria) "Kelly" Rowland, American pop and R&B singer (Destiny's Child - "Say My Name"), and television personality (The X Factor; The Voice Australia), born in Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1982 Natalie Dormer, British actress (Game of Thrones; The Hunger Games: Mockingjay), born in Reading, Berkshire, England
  • 1983 Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress, born in Shanghai, China
  • 1983 Nicki Clyne, Canadian actress, born in Vancouver, British Columbia
  • 1987 Julio Torres, Salvadoran writer and comedian (Saturday Night Live, Los Espookys), born in San Salvador, El Salvador
  • 1990 Q'orianka Kilcher, American actress (The New World), singer, and human rights activist, born in Schweigmatt, West Germany
  • 1992 Blair Dunlop, English actor, born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom
  • 1992 Taylor Lautner, American actor, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 1994 Dominic Janes, American actor, born in Tucson, Arizona