Today's celebrity birthdays: October 19, 2026

Happy birthday to entertainers like John Lithgow, Jennifer Holliday, and Trey Parker! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for October 19, 2025:

Actor John Lithgow (1945) picked up back-to-back Oscar nominations for playing a transgender ex-football player in "The World According to Garp" and for "Terms of Endearment," then won three Emmys on "3rd Rock from the Sun." He took home his third Tony this year for "Giant" and becomes Dumbledore on Christmas Day in HBO's "Harry Potter."

Actress Annie Golden (1951) headlined CBGB with the Shirts and jumped to the big screen in "Hair." She played a nearly mute inmate on "Orange Is the New Black" and took on three roles in Broadway's "Into the Woods."

Singer-actress Jennifer Holliday (1960) was one of Broadway's first Dreamgirls as Effie White and took home a Tony for the role plus a Grammy for "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going." She played Shug Avery in the Broadway revival of "The Color Purple" and dropped "Love Songs: Live at the Catalina Jazz Club" last year.