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Actors Born on November 5

  • 1864 Jessie Ralph, American stage, silent and sound screen actress (The Good Earth; San Francisco: The Bank Dick), born in Gloucester, Massachusetts (d. 1944)
  • 1895 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (The Scoundrel), born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
  • 1899 Forrest Lewis, American actor (All That Heaven Allows, Monster of Piedras Blancas), born in Knightstown, Indiana (d. 1977)
  • 1900 Natalie Schafer, American actress (Gilligan's Island, Anastasia), born in New York City (d. 1991)
  • 1905 Joel McCrea, American actor (Foreign Correspondent, Sullivan's Travels), born in South Pasadena, California (d. 1990)
  • 1911 Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer ("Happy Trails"; Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)
  • 1913 John McGiver, American character actor (Patty Duke Show; Jimmy Stewart Show; Fitzwilly), born in New York City (d. 1975)

Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)

English actress (Gone With The Wind; A Streetcar Named Desire), born in Darjeeling, Bengal Presidency, India

  • 1927 Bob Abernethy, American journalist and newscaster (NBC News Encore; PBS - Religion & Ethics Newsweekly), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 2021)
  • 1933 Herb Edelman, American actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
  • 1934 Victor Argo, American actor, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 2004)
  • 1935 Christopher Wood, English screenwriter and novelist (Confessions), born in Lambeth, London (d. 2015)
  • 1935 Dick Davalos, American actor (Jeff-The Americans), born in The Bronx, New York
  • 1937 Harris Yulin, American actor (Scarface), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1938 Chris Robinson, America actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World), born in West Palm Beach, Florida
  • 1940 Elke Sommer [Elke Schletz], German actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar), born in Berlin, Germany
  • 1941 Art Garfunkel, American singer (Simon and Garfunkel - "Bridge Over Troubled Water"), and actor (Carnal Knowledge), born in New York City
  • 1941 Patricia Harty, American actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie), born in Washington, D.C.
  • 1943 Sam Shepard Ill, American actor and playwright (Frances, Crimes of the Heart), born in Fort Sheridan, Illinois (d. 2017)
  • 1949 Armin Shimerman, American actor (Principal Snyder-Buffy the Vampire Slayer), born in Lakewood, New Jersey
  • 1955 Nestor Serrano, American actor (Navi Araz-24), born in The Bronx, New York
  • 1957 Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (Voyagers!, Cover-up), born in Englewood, New Jersey (d. 1984)
  • 1958 Robert Patrick, American actor (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), born in Marietta, Georgia

Tilda Swinton (63 years old)

1960 British actress (We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Chronicles of Narnia), born in London, England

  • 1961 Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (Goodfellas), born in Great Neck, Long Island, New York (d. 2001)
  • 1963 Andrea McArdle, American actress (Annie), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • 1963 Tatum O'Neal, American actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings; ex-wife of John McEnroe), born in Los Angeles, California
  • 1965 Famke Janssen, Dutch model and actress (The Blacklist: Redemption), born in Amstelveen, Netherlands
  • 1967 Judy Reyes, Dominican American actress (Scrubs), born in New York City
  • 1968 Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Spanish actress (A Walk in the Clouds), born in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Sam Rockwell (55 years old)

1968 American actor (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), born in Daly, California

  • 1969 Jennifer Guthrie, American actress (General Hospital, 1990-91; Parker Lewis Can't Lose), born in Willimantic, Connecticut
  • 1970 Tamzin Outhwaite, English actress (Mel-EastEnders), born in Ilford, London
  • 1971 Corin Nemec, American actor (Tucker, Parker Lewis), born in Little Rock, Arkansas
  • 1971 Dana Jacobson, American TV host (ESPN's First Take), born in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
  • 1971 Jonny Greenwood, British guitarist, keyboard player (Radiohead), and film score composer (There Will Be Blood), born in Oxford, England
  • 1973 Daniella Westbrook, English actress (Sam Mitchell-EastEnders), born in Walthamstow, London
  • 1975 Keala Settle, American stage and screen actress and singer (Hands on a Hardbody; The Greatest Showman), born in Laie, Hawaii
  • 1980 Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen, born in Seville, Spain
  • 1983 Alexa Chung, English TV presenter, model and designer, born in Privett, England
  • 1983 Andrew Hayden-Smith, English TV presenter and actor, born in Gateshead, England