Birthday's to share this week : 20th - 26th April.

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 22nd April, Jack Nicholson, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 20th April

• Jessica Lange - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actress | Producer
• Andy Serkis - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actor | Producer
• Ryan O'Neal - Born 1941, turns 73 - Actor | Producer
• George Takei - Born 1937, turns 77 - Actor | Writer | Producer

Monday 21st April

• James McAvoy - Born 1979, turns 35 - Actor | Producer
• Andie MacDowell - Born 1958, turns 56 - Actress | Producer
• Charles Grodin - Born 1935, turns 79 - Actor | Writer

Tuesday 22nd April

• Jack Nicholson - Born 1937, turns 77 - Actor | Director | Producer
• Lee Tamahori - Born 1950, turns 64 - Director
• George Cole - Born 1925, turns 89 - Actor

Wednesday 23rd April

• Lee Majors - Born 1939, turns 75 - Actor | Producer
• John Hannah - Born 1962, turns 52 - Actor | Producer
• Michael Moore - Born 1954, turns 60 - Producer | Director | Writer
• Judy Davis - Born 1955, turns 59 - Actress

Thursday 24th April

• Richard Donner - Born 1930, turns 84 - Director | Producer | Actor
• Barbra Streisand - Born 1942, turns 72 - Singer | Songwriter | Producer | Actress | Director
• Shirley MacLaine - Born 1943, turns 80 - Actress | Writer
• Djimon Hounsou - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actor | Producer

Friday 25th April

• Al Pacino - Born 1940, turns 74 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Renee Zellweger - Born 1969, turns 45 - Actress | Producer
• Hank Azaria - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actor | Producer
• Talia Shire - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actress | Producer | Director

Saturday 26th April

• Channing Tatum - Born 1980, turns 34 - Actor | Producer
• Jet Li - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actor | Producer
• Joan Chen - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor | Writer | Producer

John Joseph 'Jack' Nicholson turns 77 mid-week this week. Arriving in Hollywood in the mid-50's he started his career fetching & carrying for animation legends Hanna Barbera. Having a desire to act, he made his first film in 1958 'The Cry Baby Killer' and later went on to work with the legendary Roger Corman (featured in this article a few weeks ago) on a number of his low budget 'B' grade horror flicks of the time including 'The Raven', 'Little Shop of Horrors', and 'The Terror'. With a string of largely forgettable movies behind him his first big break came with 'Easy Rider' starring alongside Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. That was 1969 and since then Jack Nicholson has won the Oscar three times for 'One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Terms of Endearment' and 'As good as it gets' and he has been nominated a further nine times  - this makes him the most Academy Award nominated actor of all time! In addition he has won seven Golden Globes and been nominated another ten times, and he has won three BAFTA's and been nominated another four times. 

His filmography is as long as it is distinguished and includes 'Five Easy Pieces', 'Chinatown', 'Tommy', 'The Shining', 'Reds', 'Prizzi's Honor', 'The Witches of Eastwick', 'Wolf', 'The Departed', 'Batman', 'Mars Attacks', 'The Bucket List', 'About Schmidt', 'A few good men' and 'Hoffa'. He often plays deranged, psychotic, deeply troubled characters, but can easily take the romantic lead, turn his hand to comedy and seems at ease in almost any genre - horror, comic book fantasy, sci-fi, drama, thriller, and the rom-com.

Cigar chewing, womanising, sunglass wearing playboy and screen legend - happy birthday Jack!

 -Steve, at Odeon Online-