Today's celebrity birthdays: December 21, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Jane Fonda, Samuel L. Jackson, and Kiefer Sutherland! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for December 21, 2025:

Actress Jane Fonda (1937) is known for the glam sci-fi in "Barbarella," then won Academy Awards for "Klute" and "Coming Home." She kept stacking defining roles with films like "The China Syndrome" and "On Golden Pond," and later played Grace Hanson in "Grace and Frankie."

Actor Samuel L. Jackson (1948) built a career that runs from Spike Lee’s "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" to Quentin Tarantino’s "Pulp Fiction." He's become a blockbuster fixture as Mace Windu in "Star Wars" and Nick Fury across Marvel films.

Producer Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950) helped drive Disney’s modern box-office machine and later co-founded DreamWorks with Steven Spielberg and David Geffen.

Actress Jane Kaczmarek (1955) played Lois Wilkerson, the no-nonsense mom on "Malcolm in the Middle." In 2025, she reunited with Frankie Muniz and Bryan Cranston for a four-episode revival set to premiere in 2026.

Actor-comedian Ray Romano (1957) built a dry, suburban-meltdown persona on "Everybody Loves Raymond" and took that same rhythm into voice work as Manny in the "Ice Age" films. In 2024, he teamed with Lisa Kudrow for Netflix’s dark comedy "No Good Deed."

Actor Kiefer Sutherland (1966) broke through in the 1980s playing bully Ace Merrill in "Stand by Me" and vampire gang leader David in "The Lost Boys." He later became a TV fixture as CTU agent Jack Bauer on "24," an Emmy-winning role, and as President Tom Kirkman on "Designated Survivor."

Actress-comedian Quinta Brunson (1989) went from internet comedy to network TV as the creator and star of "Abbott Elementary."

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Actor Larry Bryggman (1938), Singer Carla Thomas (1942), Guitarist Albert Lee (1943), Actor Josh Mostel (1946), Singer Nick Gilder (1951), Actor Dennis Boutsikaris (1952), Tennis player Chris Evert (1954), Singer Lee Roy Parnell (1956), Entertainer Jim Rose of The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow (1956), Actress Lisa Gerritsen (1957), Singer Christy Forester of the Forester Sisters (1962), Drummer Murph of Dinosaur Jr. (1964), Actor-comedian Andy Dick (1965), Actress Michelle Hurd (1966), Actress Karri Turner (1966), Actress Khrystyne Haje (1968), Singer Brad Warren of The Warren Brothers (1968), Actress Julie Delpy (1969), Singer Natalie Grant (1971), Singer-guitarist Brett Scallions of Fuel (1971), Singer Lukas Rossi of Rock Star Supernova (1976), Actress Rutina Wesley (1978), Actor Steven Yeun (1983), Football player Mark Ingram (1989), Actress Kaitlyn Dever (1996), Actress Madelyn Cline (1997)