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Today's celebrity birthdays: August 21, 2025

Last updated: August 21, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Kim Cattrall, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Kacey Musgraves! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for August 21, 2025:

LOS ANGELES - SEP 21:  Loretta Devine at the Premiere Of Apple TV +'s "Sidney" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on September 21, 2022 in Los Angeles, CA
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  • Actress Loretta Devine (1949) brought warmth and steel to "Waiting to Exhale," "The Preacher's Wife," and a parade of scene-stealing TV roles. Lately viewers have caught her running the household as M'Dear in "Family Reunion," and dispensing tough love as Ernestine on "P-Valley."
DUBLIN, IRELAND - MARCH 2015: Actress Kim Cattrall attends the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival to promote her latest television series, Sensitive Skin.
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  • Actress Kim Cattrall (1956) lit up movies like "Mannequin," "Big Trouble in Little China," and made Samantha Jones in "Sex and the City" a pop-culture icon and won a Golden Globe for the role. In 2023, she fronted Netflix's "Glamorous."
Carrie-Anne Moss at the Los Angeles premiere of 'Wonder' held at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, USA on November 14, 2017.
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  • Actress Carrie-Anne Moss (1967) made Trinity in "The Matrix" a sci-fi archetype and earned acclaim with "Memento." In 2024 she joined the Star Wars galaxy as Jedi Master Indara in "The Acolyte," showing the same precision she brought to bullet time.
Santa Monica, CA. 02MAR2025: Sergey Brin at the 11th Breakthrough Prize Awards at Barker Hangar.
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  • Businessman Sergey Brin (1973) co-founded Google and took it from a Stanford project to a world-spanning company and remains on Alphabet’s board. Since 2023, he's been reengaging directly with researchers to push Google’s next-gen AI, including work around Gemini.
Kacey Musgraves at the 91st Annual Academy Awards held at the Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles, USA on February 24, 2019.
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  • Musician Kacey Musgraves (1988) keeps genre lines soft, floating from twang to folk with ease across albums and collaborations. She scored a 2024 Grammy with Zach Bryan for "I Remember Everything," and followed with a Deeper Well world tour supporting her new album.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Guitarist James Burton (1939), Singer Jackie DeShannon (1941), Actress Patty McCormack (1945), Singer Carl Giammarese of The Buckinghams (1947), Newsman Harry Smith (1951), Singer Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple (1951), Football player Jim McMahon (1959), Actress Cleo King (1962), Singer Serj Tankian of System of a Down (1967), Musician Liam Howlett of Prodigy (1971), Actress Alicia Witt (1975), Singer-chef Kelis (1979), TV personality Brody Jenner (1983), Singer Melissa Schuman of Dream (1984), Runner Usain Bolt (1986), Comedian Brooks Wheelan (1986), Actor Cody Kasch (1987), Actor Hayden Panettiere (1989), Comedian Bo Burnham (1990), Actor RJ Mitte (1992), Actor Maxim Knight (1999)

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