Anne Hathaway does on 12th November - check out my tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 34, 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 6th November
- Sally Field - Born 1946, turns 70 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Singer
- Lori Singer - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actress | Singer | Musician
- Thandie Newton - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actress
- Rebecca Romijn - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actress
- Emma Stone - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actress | Producer | Singer
- Vince Colosimo - Born 1966, turns 50 - Actor
- Ethan Hawke - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actor | Producer
Monday 7th November
- Barry Newman - Born 1938, turns 78 - Actor
- Morgan Spurlock - Born 1970, turns 46 - Producer | Writer | Director | Actor
Tuesday 8th November
- Richard Curtis - Born 1956, turns 60 - Writer | Producer | Director
- Michael Nyqvist - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actor | Producer
- Parker Posey - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actress | Singer
Wednesday 9th November
- Lou Ferrigno - Born 1951, turns 65 - Actor
- Tony Slattery - Born 1959, turns 57 - Actor | Writer | Television Personality
Thursday 10th November
- Ennio Moricone - Born 1928, turns 88 - Composer | Songwriter | Conductor | Orchestrator
- Roland Emmerich - Born 1955, turns 61 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Hugh Bonneville - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor
- Walton Goggins - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor | Producer
- Aaron Egerton - Born 1989, turns 27 - Actor
Friday 11th November
- Stanley Tucci - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
- Leonardo DiCaprio - Born 1974, turns 42 - Actor | Producer | Writer
- Scoot McNairy - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Producer
- Tye Sheridan - Born 1996, turns 20 - Actor
- Demi Moore - Born 1962, turns 54 - Actress | Producer
- Calista Flockhart - Born 1964, turns 52 - Actress
Saturday 12th November
- Radha Mitchell - Born 1973, turns 43 - Actress | Producer
- Anne Hathaway - Born 1982, turns 34 - Actress | Producer | Singer
- Ryan Gosling - Born 1980, turns 36 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director | Singer | Songwriter
Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, USA, to mother Kathleen Ann McCauley, a former Actress who inspired her daughter to follow in her footsteps, and father Gerald Thomas Hathaway, a lawyer. At age six, the family moved to Milburn, New Jersey with her older brother Michael and younger brother Thomas. She attended the Brooklyn Heights Montessori School, the Wyoming Elementary School in Milburn and then Milburn High School where she took part in numerous school plays. She appeared in several productions at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse and went on to study at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualised Study. She then went on to The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was the first teenager admitted to the acting programme of the Off-Broadway Theatre Company 'The Barrow Group'. Towards the end of the '90's she sang soprano at Carnegie Hall with the All-Eastern US High School Honors Chorus. She was raised a Roman Catholic and in her early childhood years had designs on becoming a nun, but by fifteen and upon learning that her brother Michael was gay, she changed her mind on the basis that she could not support a religion that could not support her brother.
At sixteen Hathaway scored her first television role in 'Get Real' which ran over just 22 episodes and for one season only in this Fox Television comedy drama series with Jesse Eisenberg. In 2001 she gained her first big screen role in the Garry Marshall Directed 'The Princess Diaries' opposite Julie Andrews. The film was a commercial success and was well received by critics too. Playing the lead role of Mia Thermopolis, Hathaway reprised her role in 2004 in 'The Princess Diaries 2 : Royal Engagement' again Directed by Garry Marshall and once more with Julie Andrews. Garry Marshall announced in March this year that a third film in the series would be made starring Hathaway again, after she had given birth to her first child expected around that time. Those plans were scuppered when Marshall died in July this year.
'The other side of Heaven' followed in 2001 with Hathaway winning the role over 500 other hopefuls. She followed this up with comedy-drama 'Nicholas Nickleby' in 2002 with Jamie Bell, Charlie Hunnam, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall and Nathan Lane. Whilst not a commercial success due to its limited release, Hathaway's performance was praised. 'Ella Enchanted' followed in 2004 leading up to 'The Princess Diaries 2'. By now she had appeared in family oriented film fare only and was seen as a role model to young kids, girls especially, and was in danger of being forever typecast. Hathaway was ready by now, for more adult fare.
In 2005 she appeared in 'Havoc' - a teenage hip-hop crime drama film with Bijou Phillips, Michael Biehn and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. That same years she starred opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Ang Lee's critically acclaimed drama 'Brokeback Mountain', and then equally acclaimed and commercially successful 'The Devil Wears Prada' with Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Simon Barker and Stanley Tucci.
Biographical romantic drama 'Becoming Jane' came next with James McAvoy, with Hathaway in the lead role as Jane Austen. The big screen rendition of the classic Mel Brooks secret agent satirical television series of the late 60's 'Get Smart' was released in 2008 with Hathaway playing Agent 99 to Steve Carell's Maxwell Smart. Jonathan Demme's 'Rachel Getting Married' garnered Hathaway a Best Actress Academy Award nomination. 'Passengers' followed, and then 'Bride Wars' and Garry Marshall's 'Valentine's Day' with a huge ensemble cast and a big commercial success despite its largely negative Reviews, saw out the decade.
In 2010 Hathaway starred as the White Queen in Tim Burton's 'Alice in Wonderland' - a role she would reprise in 2016's 'Alice Through the Looking Glass'. Burton's earlier film made US$1.025B at the Box Office and picked up a slew of award wins and nominations. 'Love and other Drugs' for Director Edward Zwick was also released in 2010 with Jake Gyllenhaal, then 'One Day' with Jim Sturgess, and then her role in Christopher Nolan's closing film in the Batman trilogy as Selina Kyle/Cat Woman in the hugely successful 'The Dark Knight Rises' opposite Christian Bale. 
Next up came her Academy Award winning turn as Fantine in Tom Hooper's 'Les Miserables' alongside Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham carter. The film won three Academy Awards and another eighty wins and a further 170 nominations, and returned US$442M from its US$61M budget outlay.
Cameo appearances in 'Don Jon' and 'Don Peyote' came next, before 'Song One', and then a return to Christopher Nolan in his epic Sci-Fi adventure drama film 'Interstellar' with Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain. Again a huge commercial and critical success earning US$675M from its US$165M budget and picking up forty award wins and 134 nominations along the way. 2015 brought 'The Intern' with Robert De Niro and then 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' this year and 'Colossal' still awaiting a general release bringing us up to date. In the meantime Hathaway has lent her voice talents to 'Hoodwinked' in 2005, the voice of Jewel on 'Rio' in 2011 and its sequel 'Rio 2' in 2014, and various episodes of 'Family Guy' and 'The Simpsons' over the years. She has hosted too three episodes of 'Saturday Night Live' and the '83rd Academy Awards' in 2011 with James Franco.
Coming up is the aforementioned 'Colossal' and 'Ocean's Eight' - an all girl spin off to the successful 'Ocean's Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen' franchise currently filming for a 2018 release, and co-starring Cate Blanchett, Sandra Bullock, Helena Bonham Carter, Rhianna and Damian Lewis for Director, Gary Ross. 'Live Fast Die Hot' has recently been announced and in development is 'The Modern Ocean' for Shane Carruth with Keanu Reeves, Daniel Radcliffe, Jeff Goldblum, Tom Holland, Asa Butterfield and Chloe Grace Moritz all attached.
She married Adam Shulman in late 2011 and together they have a son - Jonathan Rosebanks born in March this year. Hathaway supports several charitable causes including those associated with Human Rights, Children's Research and Same Sex Marriage.
Anne Hathaway - has grown up on the big screen from teen family fare to serious adult oriented films; has been voted on more 'Top Lists' in the last decade than you care to count; she acts, she sings, she hosts; is a reformed smoker, vegetarian and vegan; has appeared in small independent films and epic blockbusters and is already at the top of her game with the world it seems at her feet! Happy Birthday to you Anne, from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
