Birthday's to share this week : 13th - 19th April 2014.

Do you share your birthday with a rich & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Writer, Director, Producer, Editor or Songwriter of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming week? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this little but not insignificant 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 over the coming week. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Check out too the spotlight on this weeks Birthday Boy on 18th April, James Woods, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 13th April

• Ron Perlman - Actor | Director | Producer - Born 1950 : turns 64
• Paul Sorvino - Actor | Director - Born 1939 : turns 74
• Edward Fox - Actor | Producer - Born 1937 : turns 77.

Monday 14th April

• Robert Carlyle - Actor | Director - Born 1961 : turns 53
• Julie Christie - Actress - Born 1941 : turns 73
• Sarah Michelle Gellar - Actress | Producer - Born 1977 : turns 37.

Tuesday 15th April

• Emma Watson - Actress - Born 1990 : turns 24
• Emma Thompson - Actress | Writer - Born 1959 : turns 55
• Seth Rogen - Actor | Writer | Producer - Born 1982 : turns 32
• Claudia Cardinale - Actress - Born 1938 : turns 76.

Wednesday 16th April

• Ellen Barkin - Actress | Producer - Born 1954 : turns 60
• Martin Lawrence - Actor | Writer | Producer - Born 1965 : turns 49.

Thursday 17th April

• Rooney Mara - Actress | Producer - Born 1985 : turns 29
• Sean Bean - Actor - Born 1959 : turns 55
• Jennifer Garner - Actress | Producer - Born 1972 : turns 42
• Victoria Beckham - Singer | Songwriter | Actress - Born 1974 : turns 40.

Friday 18th April

• David Tennant - Actor | Director - Born 1971 : turns 43
• James Woods - Actor | Producer | Director - Born 1947 : turns 67
• Eric Roberts - Actor | Producer - Born 1956 : turns 58
• Eli Roth - Producer | Actor | Writer | Director - Born 1972 : turns 42
• Rick Moranis - Actor | Writer - Born 1953 : turns 61.

Saturday 19th April

• James Franco - Actor | Director | Writer | Producer - Born 1978 : turns 36
• Ashley Judd - Actress | Producer | Director - Born 1968 : turns 46
• Kate Hudson - Actress | Producer - Born 1979 : turns 35
• Tim Curry - Actor | Producer - Born 1946 : turns 68.

James Woods turns 67 on 18th April and is still the epitome of 'cool'! He has been in the acting business since the 60's having appeared in numerous stage performances before making his Broadway debut in 1970. This was followed quickly by his first television appearance in 1971 and his first movie role in 'The Visitors' in 1972. He starred in episodes of those many American Police dramas of the mid-70's including 'Kojak', 'The Rockford Files', 'The Streets of San Francisco' and 'Welcome Back, Kotter'. Since then he has 135+ film credits to his name including 'Videodrome', 'Salvador', 'Casino', 'Nixon', 'Contact', 'Once Upon A Time In America', 'The Virgin Suicides', 'Any Given Sunday', the recent remake of 'Straw Dogs' and the recent actioner 'White House Down'.

Nominated for two Academy Awards for 'Salvador' and 'Ghosts of Mississippi'; nominated nine times for a Golden Globe and won it once for TV film 'Promise', and nominated eight times for an Emmy Award and won three.

James Woods - a much acclaimed, still in demand, character actor who can inhibit any persona with conviction and realism and is at ease in almost any genre - a very Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-