Today's celebrity birthdays: October 23, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like "Weird Al" Yankovic, Ryan Reynolds, and Emilia Clarke! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for October 23, 2025:

• Director Sam Raimi (1959) pioneered cult horror with "The Evil Dead" before revitalizing superhero cinema with the original "Spider-Man" trilogy. He returned to the Marvel universe in 2022 with "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness."

• Singer "Weird Al" Yankovic (1959) has sold over 12 million albums and recorded more than 150 parodies across five Grammy-winning decades, from "Eat It" to "White & Nerdy." His biographical satire "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" won two Emmy Awards in 2024.

• Actor Ryan Reynolds (1976) spent years in sitcom purgatory before "Van Wilder" launched him into romantic comedies like "The Proposal," but his transformation into "Deadpool" created the highest-grossing R-rated franchise in history. His "Deadpool & Wolverine" became the second-highest-grossing film of 2024.