Today's celebrity birthdays: May 31, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like Clint Eastwood, Brooke Shields, and Colin Farrell! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for May 31 2026:

Actor-director Clint Eastwood (1930) squinted his way to stardom as the Man with No Name in the spaghetti-Western trilogy that kicked off with "A Fistful of Dollars" and as trigger-happy cop Harry Callahan in "Dirty Harry." He took home Oscars for directing and producing both "Unforgiven" and "Million Dollar Baby," and recently got behind the camera for the courtroom drama "Juror #2."

Actress Sharon Gless (1943) nabbed back-to-back Emmys as no-nonsense detective Christine Cagney on the groundbreaking cop drama "Cagney & Lacey." She later played outspoken mom Debbie Novotny on "Queer as Folk" and spy matriarch Madeline Westen on "Burn Notice."

Football player Joe Namath (1943) became "Broadway Joe" as the brash New York Jets quarterback who flat-out guaranteed a win, then backed it up by stunning the heavily favored Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. He became the first pro quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards in a season and later landed in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.