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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!
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."
Actor Chris Hemsworth (1983) got his start on "Home and Away" and captained the USS Kelvin for all of twelve minutes in "Star Trek" before landing Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He raced as James Hunt in "Rush," carried the "Extraction" films, and went full villain in "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga."
Actor-dancer Alyson Stoner (1993) beat out more than 400 kids for the pigtails-and-pink-tracksuit spot in the "Work It" video at age 9, and they turned that into "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Step Up." They've voiced Isabella Garcia-Shapiro on "Phineas and Ferb" since it started, and they wrote about the whole ride in "Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything."
Songwriter Kenny Gamble (1943), Musician Jim Kale of The Guess Who (1943), Actor Ian McDiarmid (1944), Singer John Conlee (1946), Author Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Singer Joe Jackson (1954), Director Rob Minkoff (1962), Comic book artist Jim Lee (1964), Actor Duane Martin (1965), Podcaster-comedian Joe Rogan (1967), Actress Anna Gunn (1968), Actress Sophie Okonedo (1968), Musician Charlie Sexton (1968), Actress Ashley Jensen (1969), Musician Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest (1970), Actor Nigel Harman (1973), Actor Chris Messina (1974), Voice actor Roger Craig Smith (1975), 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), Baseball player Pablo Sandoval (1986), Basketball player Patty Mills (1988), Actress Úrsula Corberó (1989), Political commentator Tomi Lahren (1992), Rapper Changbin of Stray Kids (1999), Football player Marvin Harrison Jr. (2002)
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