Birthday's to share this week : 25th-31st October 2015.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Gale Anne Hurd does on 25th October - check out the tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 60 at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? 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 in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 25th October

• Gale Anne Hurd - Born 1955, turns 60 - Producer | Writer 

Monday 26th October

• Emilia Clarke - Born 1986, turns 29 - Actress
• Rosemarie DeWitt - Born 1971, turns 44 - Actress
• Jaclyn Smith - Born 1945, turns 70 - Actress
• Cary Elwes - Born 1962, turns 53 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Dylan McDermott - Born 1961, turns 54 - Actor
• Seth MacFarlane - Born 1973, turns 42 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer | Songwriter

Tuesday 27th October

• John Cleese - Born 1939, turns 76 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Roberto Benigni - Born 1952, turns 63 - Director | Producer | Actor
• Ivan Reitman - Born 1946, turns 69 - Director | Producer | Writer  

Wednesday 28th October

• Joaquin Phoenix - Born 1974, turns 41 - Actor | Producer 
• Dennis Franz - Born 1944, turns 71 -   Actor | Writer
• Kevin Macdonald - Born 1967, turns 48 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Julia Roberts - Born 1967, turns 48 - Actress | Producer 

Thursday 29th October

• Winona Ryder - Born 1971, turns 44 - Actress | Producer
• Kate Jackson - Born  1948, turns 67 - Actress | Producer 
• Robert Hardy - Born 1925, turns 90 - Actor 
• Ben Foster - Born 1980, turns 35 - Actor | Producer
• Rufus Sewell - Born 1967, turns 48 - Actor
• Richard Dreyfus - Born 1947, turns 68 - Actor | Producer

Friday 30th October

• Kevin Pollak - Born 1957, turns 58 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer  
• Henry Winkler - Born 1945, turns 70 -  Actor | Producer | Director | Writer

Saturday 31st October 

• Peter Jackson - Born 1961, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
• Stephen Rea - Born 1946, turns 69 - Actor  
• Rob Schneider - Born 1963, turns 52 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
• Dermot Mulroney - Born 1963, turns 52 - Actor | Director
• Piper Perabo - Born 1976, turns 39 - Actress | Producer

Gale Anne Hurd was born in Los Angeles, California to mother Lolita Espiau and father Frank Hurd, an investor. Growing up in Palm Springs, she graduated from Stanford University with a BA Degree in economics and communications in 1977. She joined New World Pictures which later came to be owned by 20th Century Fox and although now effectively defunct it exists in the dim & distant recesses of 21st Century Fox. That said, back in the day she joined as an Executive Assistant to Producer. Director and Actor Roger Corman who was also President of the Company. Progressing through various administrative roles, eventually she became involved in Production.

Resulting from this she created Pacific Western Productions from which she Produced a number of Box Office classics including 'The Terminator' in 1984 which she also co-wrote with James Cameron, then 'Aliens' in 1986 and 'The Abyss' in 1989. The common denominator here was James Cameron who Directed all three films, and who she was married to from 1985 to 1989.

From there she went on to Produce the likes of 'Tremors' in 1990, 'Terminator 2 : Judgement Day' in 1991, 'The Ghost and the Darkness' in 1996, 'The Relic' and 'Dante's Peak' in 1997 and 'Armageddon' in 1998 to largely see out the decade.

The new decade brought more Sci-Fi and action fare including 'Clockstoppers' in 2002, 'Hulk' and 'Terminator 3 : Rise of the Machines' in 2003, 'Punisher' in 2004, 'Aeon Flux' in 2005, 'Welcome to the Jungle' in 2007, 'The Incredible Hulk' in 2008 before the first season of the positively excellent landmark series commencement of 'The Walking Dead' in 2010.








With first husband James Cameron she is responsible for bringing us one of the most recognised film characters in popular culture and cinema history, as well as launching the career of one Arnold Schwarzenegger into the stratosphere  - and for this alone Hurd deserves recognition. 'The Terminator' franchise which she wrote the original screenplay for with Cameron has endured for over 30 years and lives on after five successful films already and a television series, with two further 'Terminator' films announced for release in 2017 and 2018 to follow up this years 'Terminator : Genisys'. The first five films have raked in a global Box Office haul of a combined US$1.84B with 'T2' being the most successful to date, followed by this years 'Genisys'.

As well as acting as Executive Producer on so far 70+ episodes of 'The Walking Dead' and this years spin off series 'Fear The Walking Dead', there has been 'The Wronged Man', 'Last Man Standing', 'Very Good Girls' and 'Horizon' before her latest television offering 'Hunters' currently filming for its 2016 release. Hurd has 45 Producer credits to her name and nine Writer credits with twelve award wins and two other nominations. She has had an esteemed career which includes accolades for the 'Women in Film Crystal Award' for helping to advance the role of women in the entertainment industry 'The Telluride Tech Festival Award for Technology', she is a governor of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She is described as the 'First Lady of Sci-Fi' and her company Valhalla Entertainment is very active in both big and small screen production with 'The Walking Dead' topping many ratings worldwide and has received critical acclaim. After divorcing James Cameron in 1989, she was married to Brian De Palma from 1991 to 1993 with whom she has a daughter Lolita born in 1991, and she is presently married to Director and Screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh and has been since 1995.

Gale Anne Hurd - successful, influential and respected movie and television business woman; responsible for creating a huge film, and, television franchise; entrenched in the Sci-Fi and horror action world and shows no sign of letting up, and, we love you for it - Happy 60th Birthday to you - from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-