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.