Birthdays to share this week : 8th - 14th June.

Do you share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer or Singer/Songwriter/Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming week? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with over the coming week. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Check out too the spotlight on this weeks Birthday Boy on 9th June, Johnny Depp, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 8th June

• Jerry Stiller - Born 1927, turns 87 - Actor | Producer
• Kanye West - Born 1977, turns 37 - Singer | Songwriter | Producer | Actor
• Joan Rivers - Born 1933, turns 81 - Actress | Writer | Producer

Monday 9th June

• Johnny Depp - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actor | Producer | Singer
• Natalie Portman - Born 1981, turns 33 - Actress | Producer
• Michael J. Fox - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor | Producer
• David Koepp - Born 1963, turns 51 - Writer | Director
• James Newton Howard - Born 1951, turns 63 - Composer | Songwriter

Tuesday 10th June

• Elizabeth Hurley - Born 1965, turns 49 - Actress
• Jeanne Tripplehorn - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actress
• Leelee Sobieski - Born 1983, turns 31 - Actress
• Gina Gershon - Born 1962, turns 52 - Actress
• Jurgen Prochnow - Born 1941, turns 73 - Actor

Wednesday 11th June

• Peter Dinklage - Born 1969, turns 45 - Actor
• Shia LaBeouf - Born 1986, turns 28 - Actor
• Hugh Laurie - Born 1959, turns 55 - Actor | Writer
• Gene Wilder - Born 1933, turns 81 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director | Singer | Songwriter

Thursday 12th June

• Frances O'Connor - Born 1967, turns 47 - Actress
• Dave Franco - Born 1985, turns 29 - Actor | Writer

Friday 13th June

• Chris Evans - Born 1981, turns 33 - Actor
• Stellan Skarsgard - Born 1951, turns 63 - Actor | Producer
• Ally Sheedy - Born 1962, turns 52 - Actress
• Malcolm McDowell - Born 1943, turns 71 - Actor | Producer
• Tim Allen - Born 1953, turns 61 - Actor | Producer
• Joe Roth - Born 1948, turns 66 - Producer
• Kodi Smit-McPhee - Born 1996, turns 18 - Actor

Saturday 14th June

• Will Patton - Born 1954, turns 60 - Actor
• Jay Roach - Born 1957, turns 57 - Director | Producer
• Boy George - Born 1961, turns 53 - Singer | Songwriter | DJ
• Diablo Cody - Born 1978, turns 36 - Writer | Producer

John Christopher Depp II was born in Owensboro, Kentucky and raised in Florida from age seven. The youngest of four children he dropped out of school at age fifteen with dreams of becoming a rock musician, and his (first) fifteen minutes of fame came when he once opened for Iggy Pop in concert. 

His first movie break came courtesy of Nic Cage whom he met on a trip to Los Angeles, and that meeting led to the young Depp being cast in Wes Craven's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' in 1984. It was few years after that however, in 1987 that real prominence raised its head when Depp was cast to play Tommy Hanson in TV's '21 Jump Street'. In 1990 after playing a number of teen based roles, he first collaborated with Tim Burton on 'Edward Scissorhands' which led to a beautiful friendship that still flourishes to this day with subsequent joint ventures on 'Ed Wood', 'Sleepy Hollow', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Sweeney Todd', 'Alice in Wonderland' and more recently 'Dark Shadows'. 

Depp is usually seen playing the flamboyant, the eccentric, the weird, whacky and wonderful. He is not afraid in dressing the part in often boisterous fashion, donning the greasepaint, and camping it up with all sorts of mannerism and idiosyncrasies to create colourful characters - and often this will be at the hands of Tim Burton's film collaborations (refer previously mentioned film titles). Throughout the last 20 years he has played often diverse characters from real life or fictional works and has easily made the transition across genres and character types. Examples have been with such outings as 'Platoon', 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape', ' Donnie Brasco', 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas', ' Chocolat', 'Blow', 'Finding Neverland', 'Public Enemies', 'The Tourist', 'The Lone Ranger' and earlier this year 'Transcendence' . . . whilst not forgetting four hugely successful 'Pirates of the Caribbean' instalments with a fifth announced for release in 2016 - 'Dead Men Tell No Tales'. He has also lent his voice skills to 'Rango' and 'Corpse Bride'.

Over the years and in various publications Depp has been named 'most talented 

actor', ' sexist man alive' and is an entrant on the Hollywood 'power list'. He has had relationships with Winona Ryder, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis (for fourteen years and with whom he has two children), and since 2012 to model, Amber Heard. He owned 'The Viper Room' with River Phoenix and was accused of selling drugs at his own club, and it was outside this club that Phoenix died so tragically and so prematurely. He has been arrested for trashing a New York hotel suite, and for fighting with paparazzi in London. He owns a restaurant/club in Paris with business partners Sean Penn and John Malkovich, and also a vineyard in France. A few years ago he set up his own production company - 'Infinitum Nihil Productions' with 'The Rum Diary' being their first production, with the screen adaptation of 'Shantaram' slated. 

To his credit he has 51 award wins and a further 74 nominations. He has garnered three Academy Award nominations; three BAFTA nominations; nine Golden Globe nominations and a win for 'Sweeney Todd'. He has five films currently in post-production, and 'Black Mass' currently filming.

Johnny Depp - playboy, playful, charitable, charismatic, charming and character driven - Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-