Today's celebrity birthdays: January 2, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Gabrielle Carteris, Taye Diggs, and Dax Shepard! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for January 2, 2026:

Actress Gabrielle Carteris (1961) played journalist Andrea Zuckerman on "Beverly Hills, 90210" and had her own talk daytime talk show "Gabrielle." She moved into labor leadership as SAG-AFTRA's national president from 2016 to 2021, and has been president of the International Federation of Actors since 2021.

Model Christy Turlington (1969) became one of the supermodel era’s defining faces, fronting Calvin Klein’s "Eternity" campaigns and dominating runways in the ’90s. In 2024, she joined Donna Karan New York’s Fall campaign "Reflections on Women."

Actor Taye Diggs (1971) jumped from the original Broadway cast of "Rent" to the big screen adaption, and he shared a Screen Actors Guild Award with the cast of "Chicago." In 2025, he starred in the psychological thriller "Both Eyes Open."