Nicholas Hoult does on 7th December - check out my tribute to this Birthday Lad turning 27, at the end of this feature, and, deserving of an Honorary Mention is screen legend Kirk Douglas turning 100 years young on 9th December.
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 4th December
- Marisa Tomei - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actress | Producer
- Jeff Bridges - Born 1949, turns 67 - Actor | Producer | Singer
Monday 5th December
- Nick Stahl - Born 1979, turns 37 - Actor | Producer
- Frankie Muniz - Born 1985, turns 31 - Actor | Producer
Tuesday 6th December
- Tom Hulce - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actor | Producer
- Nick Park - Born 1958, turns 58 - Writer | Producer | Director | Animator
- Judd Apatow - Born 1967, turns 49 - Writer | Producer | Director | Actor
- JoBeth Williams - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actress | Producer | Director
Wednesday 7th December
- Ellen Burstyn - Born 1932, turns 84 - Actress | Producer
- Emily Browning - Born 1988, turns 26 - Actress | Singer
- Jeffrey Wright - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor | Producer | Singer
- Jeff Nichols - Born 1978, turns 38 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Jack Huston - Born 1982, turns 34 - Actor | Singer
- Nicholas Hoult - Born 1989, turns 27 - Actor
Thursday 8th December
- Rick Baker - Born 1950, turns 66 - Make-Up Artist | SFX Artist | Actor
- Dominic Monaghan - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor | Producer | Singer
- Matthias Schoenaerts - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director
- Kim Basinger - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actress
- Teri Hatcher - Born 1964, turns 51 - Actress
Friday 9th December
- Kirk Douglas - Born 1916, turns 100 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Singer
- Beau Bridges - Born 1941, turns 75 - Actor | Producer | Director
- John Malkovich - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
- Judi Dench - Born 1934, turns 82 - Actress | Singer
Saturday 10th December
- Kenneth Branagh - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Singer
- Xavier Samuel - Born 1983, turns 33 - Actor
Nicholas Caradoc Hoult was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, England to mother Glenis Brown, a piano teacher, and father Roger Hoult, a former pilot for British Airways. He is the third of four children - younger to brother James born in 1977 and sister Rosanna born in 1984, but older than Clarista born in 1992. Both James and Rosanna took an active interest in acting and dancing early on, and young Nicholas' interest was sparked by their interest. He also practiced ballet with his two sisters to the point where he was involved with 'Swan Lake' and 'The Nutcracker' productions with The National Ballet. He attended the Combes Nursery School in Arborfield close to the family home and then Arborfield Church of England Junior School. From there, and with a number of acting credits to his name already he went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London - a specialist performing arts school. At fourteen he joined the Ranelagh School in Bracknell, Berkshire to concentrate on his education free of the pressures of film and television and because he wasn't yet ready to make a life out of acting, despite the success he had enjoyed up to that point. He went onto the Sixth Form College, in Farnborough, Hampshire in 2006, and quit in 2008 to pursue a career in acting to which he had now made up his mind.
Hoult's acting life began at age five in the English London drama film set in the 1950's - 'Intimate Relations' in 1996 with Julie Walters and Rupert Graves, and from there he landed roles in television series including 'Casualty', 'Silent Witness', 'The Ruth Rendell Mysteries' and the made for television film 'Mr. White Goes to Westminster'. These appearances saw out the '90's by which time he was still only ten ten years of age. The new decade launched with episodes on 'The Bill', 'Holby City, 'Doctors', 'Waking the Dead' and 'Murder in Mind' before his breakout role at age just eleven in 2002 in 'About A Boy' with Hugh Grant and Toni Collette. The film was a critical and commercial success gaining numerous accolades, and importantly, Hollywood exposure for the young Actor.
His next big screen role came in the Richard E. Grant Written and Directed 'Wah-Wah' with Gabriel Byrne and Emily Watson. This was followed up quickly also in 2005 with the American drama film 'The Weather Man' Directed by Gore Verbinski and starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. 'Kidulthood' came next in 2006, and BBC television film 'Coming Down the Mountain' a year later, before being cast by Tom Ford in his highly acclaimed multi-award winning Directorial debut 'A Single Man' with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore. For his role, Hoult earned a BAFTA Rising Star Award nomination, and Tom Ford made him the face of his eyewear collection in 2010. 
In between time, Hoult scored one of the defining roles of his early career in the much acclaimed 'Skins' television series in the role of Tony Stonem across the first nineteen episodes of the first two seasons. The show ran for seven seasons from 2007 through to 2013. He followed this up with an episode on 'Wallander'.
'Clash of the Titans' opened in 2010 with Hoult playing Eusebios alongside an all star cast as Directed by Louis Leterrier. Although the film was poorly received critically, it performed well at the Box Office picking up close to US$500M. 'X-Men : First Class' as Directed by Matthew Vaughn saw Hoult's first outing in the re-booted 'X-Men' franchise as Dr. Hank McCoy/Beast - a genius scientist with mutant abilities similar to that of the great apes. Hoult reprised his role in 2014's 'X-Men : Days of Future Past' and in this years 'X-Men : Apocalypse'. The three films took a combined worldwide Box Office haul of US$1.65B.
The ZomRomCom 'Warm Bodies' and 'Jack the Giant Slayer' came next in 2013, 'Young Ones' in 2014, 'Dark Places' in 2015 and then the critically lauded George Miller re-boot of his Max Rockatansky creation made famous by Mel Gibson back in the day with 'Mad Max : Fury Road'. 'Kill Your Friends' closed out 2015. This year has seen 'Equals' with Kristen Stewart, and the as yet to be released 'Collide' with Ben Kinglsey, Anthony Hopkins and Felicity Jones.
Next up is Iraq War drama 'Sand Castle' with Henry Cavill currently in post-production; historical biopic 'The Current War' with Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon and Tom Holland; and 'Rebel in the Rye' with Kevin Spacey and Hoult playing J.D. Salinger the author of acclaimed 1951 novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' - both are in pre-production for a 2017 release. Currently filming is the animated television mini-series 'Watership Down' for BBC Television and Netflix to which Hoult is lending his voice talents in the voice of 'Fiver' alongside Ben Kingsley, James McAvoy, John Boyega and Gemma Arterton. 
So far Hoult has 43 acting credits to his name, and he has picked up three award wins and another eleven nominations. He has worked with several charities over the years including the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children), The Teenage Cancer Trust, The Save the Children Fund, The Small Steps Project and the Jeans for Refugees Project.
Nicholas Hoult - former choirboy, former basketball player, avid motorsports fan particularly the F1, and partakes in go-karting and both on and off track motorcycling. His middle name means 'The Beloved One' in Welsh, and his great aunt was acclaimed English Actress of the '30's, '40's and '50's Dame Anna Neagle. A star very much on the rise and one to watch out for having achieved so much already in his 27 years - Happy Birthday to you Nicholas, from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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