
Happy birthday to entertainers like Joe Perry, Colin Firth, and Misty Copeland! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!
Celebrity birthday highlights for September 10, 2025:

- Guitarist Joe Perry (1950) co-founded Aerosmith, tore into the signature riffs of "Walk This Way," "Dream On," and "Sweet Emotion," and is enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2025, he reunited on live TV with Steven Tyler to honor Ozzy Osbourne at the MTV VMAs and kept his chops sharp on Joe Perry Project dates.

- Actor Colin Firth (1960) balances light touch and gravitas from "Bridget Jones’s Diary" to his Oscar-winning turn in "The King’s Speech." He recently headlined the Sky and Peacock limited series "Lockerbie: A Search for Truth."

- Actor Ryan Phillippe (1974) became a late-’90s touchstone with "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Cruel Intentions," then helped power the ensembles of "Gosford Park" and "Crash." Recent credits include "Prey" and "Saint Clare."

- Ballerina Misty Copeland (1982) became the first Black woman elevated to principal at American Ballet Theatre. Her name now sits alongside the canonical roles she reimagined, including "Swan Lake," "Giselle," and "Don Quixote."
Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:
Actor Greg Mullavey (1939), Actor Tom Ligon (1940), Singer Danny Hutton of Three Dog Night (1942), Singer Jose Feliciano (1945), Actress Judy Geeson (1948), Actress Amy Irving (1953), Actor Clark Johnson (1954), Actress Kate Burton (1957), Director Chris Columbus (1958), Singer Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama (1958), Singer-guitarist David Lowery of Cracker (1960), Actor Sean O'Bryan (1963), Businessman Jack Ma (1964), Drummer Robin Goodridge of Bush (1966), Guitarist Stevie D. of Buckcherry (1966), Singer-guitarist Miles Zuniga of Fastball (1966), Rapper Big Daddy Kane (1968), Director Guy Ritchie (1968), Actor Johnathon Schaech (1969), Actor Jacob Young (1979), Bassist Mikey Way of My Chemical Romance (1980), Guitarist Matthew Followill of Kings of Leon (1984), Singer Ashley Monroe of Pistol Annies (1986), Actress Hannah Hodson (1991)
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