Today's celebrity birthdays: April 22, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Jack Nicholson, John Waters, and Sherri Shepherd! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for April 22 2026:

Actor Jack Nicholson (1937) earned his first Oscar nomination for "Easy Rider" and followed with career-defining turns in "Chinatown" and as Jack Torrance in "The Shining." He won three Academy Awards for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Terms of Endearment," and "As Good as It Gets," and stepped away from acting after "How Do You Know."

Filmmaker John Waters (1946) cemented his Pope of Trash reputation with "Pink Flamingos" and followed with "Female Trouble" and "Desperate Living." He crossed over to the mainstream with "Hairspray," which inspired a Tony-winning Broadway musical and a film remake, and is touring his "Going to Extremes" show.

Musician Peter Frampton (1950) rose through British rock bands The Herd and Humble Pie before scoring his mainstream breakthrough with the live double album "Frampton Comes Alive!" featuring "Show Me the Way" and "Do You Feel Like We Do." He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2024 and has released the "Vinylphyle" 50th anniversary reissue of "Frampton Comes Alive!" this year.

Comedian-producer Byron Allen (1961) broke in on network TV as a teenage stand-up and co-hosted "Real People" through the early 1980s. He founded Allen Media Group to syndicate shows including "Comics Unleashed" and "America's Court with Judge Ross" and later acquired The Weather Channel.

Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan (1966) made his breakthrough as heart patient Denny Duquette on "Grey's Anatomy" and played John Winchester on "Supernatural." He has wielded a barbed-wire bat as Negan across "The Walking Dead" and its spinoff "Dead City" since 2016, and is expected to return for the fifth and final season of "The Boys."

Comedian-actress Sherri Shepherd (1967) played Ramona Platt on "Less than Perfect" and recurred as Angie Jordan on "30 Rock." She won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Show Host as co-host of "The View" and currently hosts her daytime talk show "Sherri."

Actress Amber Heard (1986) turned heads in "Pineapple Express" and "Drive Angry" before being cast as Mera in "Aquaman." She reprised the role in the sequel "Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom," returned to the stage last year in "Spirit of the People," and appears in the Sundance documentary "Silenced."

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Basketball Player Spencer Haywood (1949), Actor Ryan Stiles (1959), Actor Eric Mabius (1971), Musician Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down (1974), Musician Daniel Johns of Silverchair (1979), Soccer Player Kaká (1982), Actress Cassidy Freeman (1982), Entrepreneur Sam Altman (1985), Football Player Marshawn Lynch (1986), Rapper Machine Gun Kelly (1990)