Today's celebrity birthdays: August 11, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, and Alyson Stoner! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for August 11, 2025:

• Entrepreneur Steve Wozniak (1950) co-founded Apple and engineered the Apple I and Apple II, machines that helped launch the personal computer era. He later co-founded Privateer, which in 2024 raised $56.5 million and acquired Orbital Insight.

• Actress Viola Davis (1965) is an EGOT winner whose work ranges from “Fences” to “The Woman King.” She became the first Black woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for “How to Get Away with Murder,” and received the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2025 Golden Globes.

• Actress Embeth Davidtz (1965) has appeared in acclaimed films like “Schindler’s List,” “Matilda,” and “The Amazing Spider-Man.” She made her feature directorial debut with “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight,” which premiered at the Telluride film festival in 2024.

• Actor Chris Hemsworth (1983) became a global star as Thor in Marvel's Cinematic Universe and has appeared in films like “Extraction” and “Snow White and the Huntsman.” In 2024, he drew praise as the warlord Dementus in “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” and voiced Optimus Prime in the animated prequel “Transformers One.”

• Actor Alyson Stoner (1993) grew up on screen in “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” “Camp Rock,” and “Phineas and Ferb.” They host the Shorty Award-winning “Dear Hollywood” podcast and will publish their memoir “Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything” later this month.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Songwriter Kenny Gamble (1943), Bassist Jim Kale of The Guess Who (1943), Country singer John Conlee (1946), Author Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Singer Joe Jackson (1954), Podcaster Joe Rogan (1967), Actress Anna Gunn (1968), Actress Ashley Jensen (1969), Actress Sophie Okonedo (1968), Guitarist Charlie Sexton (1968), Hip-hop artist Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest (1970), Actor Nigel Harman (1973), Actor Chris Messina (1974), Actor Will Friedle (1976), Singer Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie (1976), Actor Rob Kerkovich (1979), Actress Merritt Wever (1980), Singer J-Boog of B2K (1985), Rapper Asher Roth (1985), Political commentator Tomi Lahren (1992)