Today's celebrity birthdays: May 25, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Ian McKellen, Mike Myers, and Cillian Murphy! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for May 25 2026:

Actor Ian McKellen (1939) picked up a Tony for playing Antonio Salieri in "Amadeus" on Broadway and his first Oscar nomination for portraying horror director James Whale in "Gods and Monsters." He's the guy yelling "YOU SHALL NOT PASS" as Gandalf across "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies, plus Magneto in the "X-Men" films.

Puppeteer-director Frank Oz (1944) is the man behind Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear on "The Muppet Show" and Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover on "Sesame Street." He's voiced Yoda ever since "The Empire Strikes Back" and directed "Little Shop of Horrors," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," and "What About Bob?"

Actor-comedian Mike Myers (1963) broke big on "Saturday Night Live" and turned his Wayne Campbell sketches into "Wayne's World." He carried the "Austin Powers" trilogy, voiced Shrek across the Oscar-winning DreamWorks franchise, and played eight different characters on Netflix's "The Pentaverate."