Today's celebrity birthdays: October 21, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Judy Sheindlin, Ken Watanabe, and Glen Powell! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for October 21, 2025:

• TV judge Judy Sheindlin (1942) led "Judge Judy" through 25 seasons of dominant ratings that made her a daytime institution. She holds a Guinness World Record for longest TV-judge career and once topped Forbes’ highest-paid TV host list.

• Actor Ken Watanabe (1959) earned global acclaim for "The Last Samurai," "Letters from Iwo Jima," and "Inception." In 2024, he starred in FX’s "Shōgun," which swept top awards, and returned in season two of "Tokyo Vice"on Max.

• Actress Melora Walters (1959) became a Paul Thomas Anderson favorite with "Boogie Nights," and "Magnolia" before starring on "Pen15."

• Reality TV star Kim Kardashian (1980) built a pop-culture empire on reality TV while scaling SKIMS and SKKN into global businesses. This year, she headlined the ensemble of "All’s Fair," extending the pivot toward scripted roles that followed "American Horror Story: Delicate."

• Actor Glen Powell (1988) flew high as Hangman in "Top Gun: Maverick," helped revive big screen rom-coms with "Anyone but You," and co-wrote and starred in "Hit Man." In 2024, he led "Twisters," and is currently starring on Hulu's "Chad Powers."

• Singer Doja Cat (1995) delivered a run of streaming-dominant hits from "Say So" and "Woman" to the Grammy-winning "Kiss Me More." In 2025, she launched a new era with the '80s-leaning single "Jealous Type" off her new album, "Vie."

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Keyboardist Manfred Mann (1940), Guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG’s (1941), Singer Elvin Bishop (1942), Actor Everett McGill (1945), Trumpeter Lee Loughnane of Chicago (1946), Actor Dick Christie (1948), Actor LaTanya Richardson Jackson (1949), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), Actress Patti Davis (1952), Guitarist Charlotte Caffey of The Go-Go’s (1953), Director Catherine Hardwicke (1955), Singer Julian Cope (1957), Guitarist Steve Lukather of Toto (1957), Singer-bassist Nick Oliveri (1971), Keyboardist Charlie Lowell of Jars of Clay (1973), Actor Jeremy Miller (1976), Singer Matthew Ramsey of Old Dominion (1977), Actor Will Estes (1978), Actor Michael McMillian (1978), Actor Matt Dallas (1982), Baseball pitcher Zack Greinke (1983), Actor Charlotte Sullivan (1983), Country singer Kane Brown (1993)