Today's celebrity birthdays: August 11, 2026
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, 2026:
Engineer Steve Wozniak (1950) built illegal blue boxes for free long-distance calls before he ever built a computer, then co-founded Apple and designed the Apple I and Apple II himself. He left to start CL 9 and build the first programmable universal remote, and he's since co-founded Privateer.
Actress Viola Davis (1965) picked up her first Tony nomination for "Seven Guitars" and won Tonys for "King Hedley II" and "Fences," then took Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars when "Fences" became a movie. She insisted on taking the wig off as Annalise Keating on "How to Get Away with Murder," became the first Black woman to win the lead drama actress Emmy, and closed out her EGOT with the "Finding Me" audiobook.
Actress-director Embeth Davidtz (1965) turned up in "Army of Darkness" and "Schindler's List," but to a generation of kids she's Miss Honey from "Matilda." She's since appeared on "Mad Men" and "The Morning Show," and she wrote, directed, and starred in "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight."
