Birthday's to share this week : 24th - 30th December 2017.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Timothee Chalamet does on 27th December - check out my tribute to this Actor Birthday Lad turning 22, 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 24th December

• Gavin O'Connor - Born 1963, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer  

Monday 25th December

• Nicholas Hope - Born 1958, turns 59 - Actor 
• Sissy Spacek - Born 1949, turns 68 - Actress   

Tuesday 26th December

• Steve Bisley - Born 1951, turns 66 - Actor
• Temuera Morrison - Born 1960, turns 57 - Actor | Director
• Jared Leto - Born 1971, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Songwriter | Composer
• Shane Meadows - Born 1972, turns 45 - Director | Writer | 
• Kit Harrington - Born 1986, turns 31 - Actor | Writer | Producer 

Wednesday 27th December

• Gerard Depardieu - Born 1948, turns 69 - Actor | Producer | Director | Singer
• Timothee Chalamet - Born 1995, turns 22 - Actor  
• Maryam d'Abo - Born 1960, turns 57 - Actress | Producer | Writer 
• Elizabeth Rodriguez - Born 1980, turns 37 - Actress

Thursday 28th December

• Maggie Smith - Born 1934, turns 83 - Actress 
• Noomi Rapace - Born 1979, turns 38 - Actress | Producer
• Sienna Miller - Born 1981, turns 36 - Actress 
• Stan Lee - Born 1922, turns 95 - Writer | Producer | Actor | Consultant
• James Foley - Born 1953, turns 64 - Director | Writer 
• Denzel Washington - Born 1954, turns 63 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Alex Dimitriades - Born 1973, turns 44 - Actor   

Friday 29th December

• Bernard Cribbins - Born 1928, turns 89 - Actor 
• Jon Voight - Born 1938, turns 79 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director 
• Ted Danson - Born 1947, turns 70 - Actor | Producer | Singer
• Jude Law - Born 1972, turns 45 - Actor | Producer
• Danny McBride - Born 1976, turns 41 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director | Singer
• Diego Luna - Born 1979, turns 38 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
• Patricia Clarkson - Born 1959, turns 58 - Actress 
• Lilly Wachowski - Born 1967, turns 50 - Writer | Producer | Director
• Alison Brie - Born 1982, turns 35 - Actress | Producer | Singer  

Saturday 30th December

• Tracey Ullman - Born 1959, turns 58 - Actress | Writer | Producer | Singer | Director 
• Eliza Dushku - Born 1980, turns 37 - Actress | Producer
• Bennett Miller - Born 1966, turns 51 - Director | Producer
• Tyrese Gibson - Born 1978, turns 39 - Actor | Producer | Singer | Songwriter | Writer 

Timothee Hal Chalamet was born in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City, USA to American mother Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and former Broadway dancer and French father Marc Chalamet, an editor working for UNICEF. He spent his Summers as a child in France, where he learned to speak French fluently. His dream was to become a professional soccer player, and in his early teens he would coach younger players at soccer camp. Growing up in New York, he was given several roles in television commercials which he did not particularly enjoy. He graduated from these to the New York theatre environment, and from there to television work and eventually feature films. He was accepted into the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in Manhattan, and it was this experience that really gelled his appreciation for acting. He graduated from there in 2013. At the advice of Actress Claire Danes, Chalamet enrolled at Columbia University immediately following High School, and after a year of studying he briefly attended the New York University Gallatin School of Individualised Study to more actively pursue his career as an Actor. 

In 2008 Chalamet appeared in two short films - both horror offerings - the ten minute 'Sweet Tooth' and the six minute 'Clown' with Norman Reedus. 2009 saw a single episode on the television crime series 'Law & Order' and the made for television movie 'Loving Leah'. After a break from his chosen craft, four episodes on the long running comedy drama series 'Royal Pains' came next in 2012 and later that same year eight episodes on the highly acclaimed 'Homeland' with Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin and Damian Lewis playing the role of Finn Walden - the rebel son of the Vice President. 

2013 saw another made for television drama film - 'Trooper' alongside Mira Sorvino, and then in 2014 Chalamet gained this feature film debut in the Jason Reitman Co-Written and Directed comedy drama offering 'Men, Women and Children' with Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie Dewitt, Ansel Elgort and Emma Thompson. The thirteen minute short drama film 'Spinners' followed also in 2014 before Christoper Nolan's Co-Written and Directed adventure Sci-Fi drama 'Interstellar' alongside Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Anne Hathaway, Ellen Burstyn, Jessica Chastain and John Lithgow. The film recovered US$675M from its US$165M budget outlay, won an Academy Award and a BAFTA amongst its total haul of forty-four award wins and a further 143 nominations. 'Worst Friends' closed out a somewhat busy 2014 for the young Actor. 

The fantasy drama thriller 'One & Two' opened up 2015, and later that year came the crime drama 'The Adderall Diaries' with James Franco, Ed Harris, Christian Slater, Amber Heard and Cynthia Nixon and then closing out that year came the Christmas themed comedy fantasy romance offering 'Love the Coopers' featuring Steve Martin, John Goodman, Ed Helms, Alan Arkin, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, and Marisa Tomei. 2016 brought High School comedy drama 'Miss Stevens'. 

Bringing us up to date and due for release on 26th December, is Chalamet's highly acclaimed turn as seventeen year old Elio who begins a relationship with the visiting research assistant Oliver during the Northern Italy Summer of 1983. 'Call Me By Your Name' stars Chalamet in the lead role alongside Armie Hammer's Oliver, whom he bonds with over his emerging sexuality, their shared Jewish heritage and the beautiful Italian landscape. The film has already picked up 25 award wins and another 68 nominations including 23 award wins and nominations for Chalamet as Best Actor. 

Due out in 2018 is the coming of age story set one Summer in Cape Cod back in 1991 - 'Hot Summer Nights' with William Fichtner and Thomas Jane, and due for release in Australia in February is the Greta Gerwig Written and Directed comedy drama 'Lady Bird' with Saoirse Ronan in the lead role in this early 2000's coming of age story set in Sacramento, California. This film too has received much Critical praise and is nominated for four Golden Globes and three SAG Awards amongst its tally so far of 26 award wins and a further 88 nominations. 

Also due for release in early 2018 is the Western adventure drama set in 1892 - 'Hostiles' Written and Directed by Scott Cooper and also starring Christian Bale, Stephen Lang, Jesse Plemmons, and Rosamund Pike in this story of a legendary Army Captain who reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne Chief and his family across dangerous territory. 

Currently in Post-Production for a release later in 2018 is the true life telling 'Beautiful Boy' in which Chalamet plays Nic Sheff, the son of David Sheff played by Steve Carell and Vicki Sheff played by Amy Ryan chronicling meth addiction and subsequent recovery through the eyes of a father who must watch his son as he struggles with his addiction and the disease. And then also in Post-Production for next year is the next Woody Allen project 'A Rainy Day in New York' opposite Selena Gomez, Elle Fanning, Jude Law, Diego Luna, Liev Schreiber and Rebecca Hall. In the meantime, Chalamet also has two stage appearances under his belt too - the first in 2011 in 'The Talls' and in 2016 in 'Prodigal Son' - both productions were in New York. 

All up Chalamet has twenty-one Acting credits to his name, and he has already garnered twelve award wins all for 'Call Me By Your Name' and another seventeen nominations so far mostly for the same film but also for the ensemble cast in 'Lady Bird', 'Homeland' and 'Love the Coopers'. For a short period of time Chalamet was dating Madonna's daughter Lourdes Leon.

Timothee Chalamet - you may not yet have heard of him, but watch this space for this young lad is clearly going places; speaks fluent French and learned Italian on the set of 'Call Me By Your Name'; plays the piano and the guitar; is the brother to Actress, Writer and Director Pauline Chalamet; and this year was the youngest Actor to ever be awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for 'Call Me By Your Name'. We will watch your career take off with much interest Timothee, and may your star shine brightly. In the meantime, Happy Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-