Liam Hemsworth does on 13h January - check out my tribute to this Birthday Boy, turning 26, 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 10th January
- Walter Hill - Born 1942, turns 74 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Fran Walsh - Born 1959, turns 57 - Producer | Writer | Songwriter
Monday 11th January
- Amanda Peet - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actress
- John Sessions - Born 1953, turns 63 - Actor | Writer | Producer
- Jason Connery - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor | Producer | Director
Tuesday 12th January
- Rob Zombie - Born 1965, turns 51 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Singer | Songwriter | Composer
- Oliver Platt - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actor
- Anthony Andrews - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actor
- Kirstie Alley - Born 1951, turns 64 - Actress | Producer | Writer
Wednesday 13th January
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actress | Producer
- Orlando Bloom - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Producer
- Patrick Dempsey - Born 1966, turns 50 - Actor | Producer
- Michael Pena - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor | Producer
- Liam Hemsworth - Born 1990, turns 26 - Actor
- Bill Bailey - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor | Writer | Composer | Television Personality
Thursday 14th January
- Lawrence Kasdan - Born 1949, turns 67 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Carl Weathers - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actor | Director
- Jason Bateman - Born 1969, turns 47 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Steven Soderbergh - Born 1963, turns 53 - Director | Producer | Writer | Cinematographer | Editor
- Faye Dunaway - Born 1941, turns 75 - Actress
- Emily Watson - Born 1967, turns 49 - Actress
Friday 15th January
- James Nesbitt - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor
- Ryan Corr - Born 1989, turns 27 - Actor
- Mario Van Peebles - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actor | Director | Producer | Writer | Singer | Songwriter
Saturday 16th January
- John Carpenter - Born 1948, turns 68 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Composer
- Debbie Allen - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actress | Director | Producer | Singer | Choreographer
- Kate Moss - Born 1974, turns 42 - Actress | Supermodel
Liam Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to mother Leonie van Os, an English teacher, and father Craig Hemsworth, a social services counsellor. He has two older brothers Chris, aged 32, and Luke aged 35 - also both very active on the acting circuit domestically and internationally. While in Year 8 at school (aged 13-14) the family moved to Phillip Island - a small island just south of Melbourne. There he spent time surfing and hanging out with his two older brothers, and in high school began to consider a career in acting and following his two older siblings down that same path. He started to act in school plays, and after finding an Agent to represent him he started to audition for roles from the age of sixteen onwards.
At seventeen he secured a number of guest appearances on Aussie soaps 'Home and Away' and 'McLeod's Daughters' and that same year in 2007 he began regular work on 'Neighbours' which gave him 25 episodes into 2008. That year he scored more regular work on the children's TV show 'The Elephant Princess' which ran for 26 episodes for him, and then two episodes on 'Satisfaction'. In 2009 Liam moved to Los Angeles with his brother Chris to pursue his acting career prospects there.
He picked up a small part in the Alex Proyas 2009 film 'Knowing' with Nicolas Cage, Ben Mendelssohn and Rose Byrne and filmed in his native Melbourne which doubled for Boston. This was his big screen debut. That same year came British psychological horror thriller 'Triangle' with Melissa George, and later on he was due to star with Sylvester Stallone in the first 'The Expendables' instalment but his role was cut at the last minute, although he did make it into 'The Expendables 2' a couple of years later. Immediately following this news, he was asked to test for the lead role in 'Thor' at the behest of Director Kenneth Branagh, but Liam lost out to brother Chris. Instead he scored 'The Last Song' with Miley Cyrus, Greg Kinnear and Kelly Preston. Liam and Miley had an on-screen love interest which spilled over into a real life love interest over the next three years as they were 'on', then 'off' and then back 'on' again eventually getting engaged in mid-2012 only to call it all off in mid-2013.
In 2012 Liam appeared in the role that would really put him on the map, playing Gale Hawthorne in the first of 'The Hunger Games' series through three successive films culminating with 'Mockingjay - Part 2' in November 2015. After 'The Expendables 2' in 2012 also, there was 'Love and Honor', 'Paranoia' with Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Amber Heard as Directed by Australian Robert Luketic which bombed at the Box Office, before straight to DVD 'Empire State' with Dwayne Johnson. 
Next up is 'By Way of Helena' with Woody Harrelson and William Hurt due out later this year and 'Independence Day : Resurgence' in post-production for a mid-year release this year - released 20 years and set 20 years after the first offering and starring Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
All up Liam has 21 acting credits for his 26 years, has five award wins and another fourteen nominations. He is an ambassador for the Australian Childhood Foundation and actively supports and advocates that every child has the right to be brought up in a secure safe home.
Liam Hemsworth - steadily carving out an acting career away from the shadows cast by Chris and Luke; a vegan and loving it; already has a major film franchise under his belt and is about to star in a US$200M Roland Emmerich blockbuster sequel - only good can come of it! Happy Birthday to you Liam, from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
