Today's celebrity birthdays: September 27, 2025

Happy birthday to entertainers like Shaun Cassidy, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Avril Lavigne! Keep on reading to see who else is celebrating their birthday and some career highlights!

Celebrity birthday highlights for September 27, 2025:

• Actress Liz Torres (1947) earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations as Mahalia Sanchez on "The John Larroquette Show" and was Miss Patty on "Gilmore Girls."

• Singer-actor-director Shaun Cassidy (1958) rose to fame as a teen idol on "The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries" and on the pop charts. He later reinvented himself as a successful television writer and producer behind shows like "American Gothic" and "New Amsterdam."

• Actress Gwyneth Paltrow (1972) won an Academy Award for "Shakespeare in Love" before helping reshape superhero movies through Marvel’s "Iron Man." She founded the wellness-lifestyle company Goop in 2008 and continues to serve as its CEO.

• Rapper Lil Wayne (1982) broke out with the Hot Boys before ruling hip-hop with the "Tha Carter" series and Grammy-winning hits like "Lollipop." He founded Young Money Entertainment and helped launch the careers of Drake and Nicki Minaj.

• Singer Avril Lavigne (1984) burst onto the early 2000s scene with pop-punk anthems like "Complicated" and "Sk8er Boi." She still tours globally and recently headlined a greatest-hits run celebrating her career.

• Actress Jenna Ortega (2002) grew from Disney’s "Stuck in the Middle" to breakout roles in "You" and the slasher hits "Scream" and "Scream VI." She'll continue starring as Wednesday Addams in Netflix's hit series when season three starts production later this year.

Other celebs celebrating birthdays today:

Actress Kathleen Nolan (1933), Singer-guitarist Randy Bachman of Bachman-Turner Overdrive (1943), Actor A Martinez (1948), Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt (1949), Actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Actor-opera singer Anthony Laciura (1951), Speed skater Beth Heiden (1959), Comedian and podcaster Marc Maron (1963), Singer-guitarist Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind (1964), Actor Patrick Muldoon (1968), Singer Mark Calderon of Color Me Badd (1970), Actress Indira Varma (1973), Singer Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down (1978), Bassist Grant Brandell of Underoath (1981), Actress Anna Camp (1982), Bluegrass musician Sierra Hull (1991), Actor Sam Lerner (1992)