Today's celebrity birthdays: June 11, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Joe Montana, Peter Dinklage, and Shia LaBeouf! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for June 11, 2025:

• Race-car driver Jackie Stewart (1939), nicknamed “The Flying Scot,” won three Formula One World Championships and 27 grands prix during the 1960s-70s. After retiring he became a TV commentator and a leading advocate for motorsport safety and dementia research.

• Quarterback Joe Montana (1956), dubbed “Joe Cool,” guided the San Francisco 49ers to four Super Bowl titles and earned three MVP awards. Since his 2000 induction into the Hall of Fame, he has worked as a broadcaster and tech-sector investor.

• Actor Hugh Laurie (1959), an Oxford-educated performer, rose from British comedy (“Blackadder,” “A Bit of Fry & Laurie”) to global fame as the acerbic title doctor in “House.” He has since won two Golden Globes, toured with his blues band and starred in prestige dramas like “The Night Manager.”

• Actor Peter Dinklage (1969), a New Jersey native, broke through with “The Station Agent” and became a worldwide icon as Tyrion Lannister on “Game of Thrones.” His four Emmy wins cemented him as one of television’s most acclaimed actors and he continues to mix blockbuster, stage and voice roles.

• Basketball player Diana Taurasi (1982) is the WNBA’s all-time scoring leader, powering the Phoenix Mercury to three championships and claiming five Olympic gold medals with Team USA. Renowned for clutch shooting, she surpassed 10,000 points in 2023.

• Actor Shia LaBeouf (1986), a Los Angeles-born performer, jumped from Disney’s “Even Stevens” to leads in the “Transformers” franchise and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Later indie projects like “Honey Boy” and multimedia performance art showcase his provocative, method-driven career.

• Actress Claire Holt (1988) is an Australian native who broke out as Rebekah Mikaelson on “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Originals,” and “Legacies” after first starring in “H2O: Just Add Water.” She led the thriller “47 Meters Down,” appeared in NBC’s “Aquarius,” and now juggles acting, producing and a brand.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Drummer Bernard “Pretty” Purdie (1939), Singer Joey Dee of Joey Dee and the Starliters (1940), Actor Roscoe Orman (1944), Actress Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Author Robert Munsch (1945), Drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top (1949), Singer Graham Russell of Air Supply (1950), Singer Donnie Van Zant of .38 Special (1952), Actor Peter Bergman (1953), Talk-show host Dr. Mehmet Oz (1960), Singer Gioia Bruno of Exposé (1963), Country singer Bruce Robison (1966), Actress Clare Carey (1967), Bassist Dan Lavery of Tonic (1969), Actor Lenny Jacobson (1974), Actor Joshua Jackson (1978), Rapper Kodak Black (1997)