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.
Actress Lea Thompson (1961) charmed audiences as Lorraine, the 1950s teen who awkwardly falls for her own time-traveling son, across the "Back to the Future" trilogy. She carried the sitcom "Caroline in the City" and later played Kathryn Kennish on the Freeform drama "Switched at Birth."
Actress Brooke Shields (1965) shot to fame as a child star in "Pretty Baby" and "The Blue Lagoon," then turned teen sensation with the Calvin Klein jeans ad where "nothing" came between her and her Calvins. She headlined the sitcom "Suddenly Susan," recently starred in the comedy "Mother of the Bride," and was the subject of the documentary "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields."
Actor Colin Farrell (1976) broke through in "Tigerland" and the thriller "Phone Booth" before snagging a Golden Globe for the hitman comedy "In Bruges." He scored an Oscar nomination for "The Banshees of Inisherin" and vanished under prosthetics as mob boss Oz Cobb on "The Penguin."
Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:
Actor Tom Berenger (1949), Actress-comedian Susie Essman (1955), Actor-comedian Chris Elliott (1960), Singer Corey Hart (1962), Politician Viktor Orbán (1963), Rapper Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC (1964), TV host Phil Keoghan (1967), Baseball player Kenny Lofton (1967), Musician Christian McBride (1972), Actress Archie Panjabi (1972), Baseball player Dave Roberts (1972), Actress Merle Dandridge (1975), Actor Eric Christian Olsen (1977), Drummer Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy (1980), Baseball player Jake Peavy (1981), Basketball player Nate Robinson (1984), Football player Jordy Nelson (1985), Rapper Waka Flocka Flame (1986), Soccer player Marco Reus (1989), Actress Justine Lupe (1989), Hockey player Erik Karlsson (1990), Actress Phillipa Soo (1990), Rapper Azealia Banks (1991), Baseball player Shane Bieber (1995), Singer Normani (1996), Wrestler Gable Steveson (2000), Football player Breece Hall (2001), Tennis player Iga Świątek (2001)
