Today's celebrity birthdays: August 16, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Julie Newmar, Madonna, and Steve Carell! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for August 16, 2025:

• Actress Julie Newmar (1933) purred into pop culture as the original Catwoman on TV’s “Batman” and won a Tony for “The Marriage-Go-Round.” She revisited Catwoman in the animated “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders” and “Batman vs. Two-Face” in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

• Actor Reginald VelJohnson (1952) is America’s favorite TV cop next door, from “Family Matters” to holiday rewatches of “Die Hard.” He returned to sitcom comfort food as Progressive’s “TV Dad” in 2023 and revisited his “Turner & Hooch” role in the Disney+ series.

• TV Personality Kathie Lee Gifford (1953) brightened mornings on “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” and later on “Today.” She added to her shelf as an author in 2024 with the devotional “I Want to Matter” and continues to champion her music-theater film “The Way.”

• Director James Cameron (1954) keeps chasing the horizon from “The Terminator” to “Avatar: The Way of Water.” He’s now deep in the next sequel, “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” and lately has been candid about A.I. as Hollywood’s biggest issue.

• Actress Angela Bassett (1958) blazed through “What’s Love Got to Do with It” and ruled Wakanda in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” She received an Academy Honorary Award at the Governors Awards in January 2024 and continues to headline “9-1-1,” renewed by ABC for Season 9 in 2025.

• Singer Madonna (1958) has spent four decades rewriting pop’s rulebook with “Like a Prayer,” “Vogue,” and a catalog that never stops shapeshifting. In 2024, she closed the Celebration Tour with a record-setting Rio show before a sea of 1.6 million people.

• Actor Steve Carell (1962) went from “The Office” prankster-in-chief to a versatile leading man on screens big and small. In 2024 he made his Broadway debut in “Uncle Vanya,” and he returned as Gru in the box-office-topping “Despicable Me 4.”

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Actress Ann Blyth (1928), Actor Gary Clarke (1933), Actress-Singer Ketty Lester (1934), Actress Anita Gillette (1936), Actor Bob Balaban (1945), Ballerina Suzanne Farrell (1945), Actress Lesley Ann Warren (1946), Actor Marshall Manesh (1950), Singer J.T. Taylor of Kool & the Gang (1953), Actor Jeff Perry (1955), Guitarist Tim Farriss of INXS (1957), Actress Laura Innes (1957), Actor Timothy Hutton (1960), Football Player Christian Okoye (1961), Actor Andy Milder (1969), Actor Seth Peterson (1970), Country singer Emily Strayer of The Chicks (1972), Actor George Stults (1975), Singer Vanessa Carlton (1980), Actor Cam Gigandet (1982), Singer-Guitarist Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes (1985), Actress Cristin Milioti (1985), Actor Shawn Pyfrom (1986), Country Singer Ashton Shepherd (1986), Singer Dan Smyers of Dan and Shay (1987), Actress Rumer Willis (1988), Rapper Young Thug (1991), Actor Cameron Monaghan (1993), Singer Greyson Chance (1997)