Today's celebrity birthdays: July 18, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Wendy Williams, Vin Diesel, and Kristen Bell! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for July 18, 2025:

Actress Margo Martindale (1951) racked up roles in "Million Dollar Baby" and "Paris, je t'aime" plus three Emmy wins for "Justified" and "The Americans." She swiped scenes as a maple syrup bandit in "The Sticky" and voiced Mrs. Twit in "The Twits."

Actress Anne-Marie Johnson (1960) broke out on "What's Happening Now!!" and settled in as Althea Tibbs on "In the Heat of the Night." She jumped over to "In Living Color" for its final season and later turned up as Dr. Patel on "Days of Our Lives."

TV host Wendy Williams (1964) turned her shock-jock radio roots and her "How you doin'?" catchphrase into daytime stardom on "The Wendy Williams Show." Lifetime dug into her health struggles in "Where Is Wendy Williams?," and she's still under a court-ordered guardianship she's fighting to shake.