Birthdays to share this week : 1st - 7th June.

Do you share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer or Singer/Songwriter/Composer 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 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 over the coming week. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Check out too the spotlight on this weeks Birthday Girl on 4th June, Angelina Jolie, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 1st June

• Morgan Freeman - Born 1937, turns 77 - Actor | Producer
• Brian Cox - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actor
• Jonathan Pryce - Born 1947, turns 67 - Actor
• Powers Boothe - Born 1948, turns 66 - Actor
• Robert Powell - Born 1944, turns 70 - Actor
• Alanis Morissette - Born 1974, turns 40 - Singer | Songwriter | Actress
• Jason Donovan - Born 1968, turns 46 - Singer | Songwriter | Actor

Monday 2nd June

• Zachary Quinto - Born 1977, turns 37 - Actor | Producer
• Liam Cunningham - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor
• Dennis Haysbert - Born 1954, turns 60 - Actor | Producer
• Stacy Keach - Born 1941, turns 73 - Actor | Producer
• Wentworth Miller - Born 1972, turns 42 - Actor

Tuesday 3rd June

• Imogen Poots - Born 1989, turns 25 - Actress

Wednesday 4th June

• Angelina Jolie - Born 1975, turns 39 - Actress | Producer | Director | Humanitarian
• Russell Brand - Born 1975, turns 39 - Writer | Producer | Actor | Singer | Songwriter
• Sean Pertwee - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actor
• Bruce Dern - Born 1936, turns 78 - Actor
• Geoffrey Palmer - Born 1927, turns 87 - Actor

Thursday 5th June

• Mark Wahlberg - Born 1971, turns 43 - Actor | Producer | Singer | Songwriter
• Kathleen Kennedy - Born 1953, turns 61 - Producer
• Kenny G - Born 1956, turns 58 - Singer | Songwriter | Composer

Friday 6th June

• Paul Giamatti - Born 1967, turns 47 - Actor
• Jason Isaacs - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actor | Producer
• Robert Englund - Born 1947, turns 67 - Actor
• Sandra Bernhard - Born 1955, turns 59 - Actress
• Billie Whitelaw - Born 1932, turns 82 - Actress

Saturday 7th June

• Liam Neeson - Born 1952, turns 62 - Actor
• Karl Urban - Born 1972, turns 42 - Actor
• Michael Cera - Born 1988, turns 26 - Actor
• Ronald Pickup - Born 1940, turns 74 - Actor
• William Forsythe - Born 1955, turns 59 - Actor | Producer
• Virginia McKenna - Born 1931, turns 83 - Actress
• James Ivory - Born 1928, turns 86 - Director | Writer
• Tom Jones - Born 1940, turns 74 - Singer | Songwriter
• Prince - Born 1958, turns 56 - Singer | Songwriter 

Angelina Jolie Voight was born to renowned acting father Jon Voight and mother Marcheline Bertrand in Los Angeles. She is an accomplished Actress, Producer, Director, Writer, and Humanitarian in her spare time whilst also playing the other part of Hollywood power couple Mr. and Mrs. Brad Pitt . . . and oh by the way, she has been cited numerous times and in assorted publications over the last ten years or so as the world's most beautiful woman, and, in 2009, 2011 and 2013 was the highest paid Actress in Hollywood. Not bad credentials really!

Her acting career kicked off at age seven starring alongside her father Jon Voight in 'Lookin' to Get Out', with a bigger break coming in 1995 in 'Cyborg 2', but it was 1995's 'Hackers' that propelled her more into the mainstream playing alongside future husband Jonny Lee Miller. From there she moved to 'Pushing Tin' with John Cusack and future husband Billy Bob Thornton. Now firmly on the Hollywood map she went on to 'The Bone Collector' and then her Academy Award winning 'Girl, Interrupted', followed by 'Gone in Sixty Seconds', 'Lara Croft, Tomb Raider' and its follow up 'Lara Croft, The Cradle of Life', 'Taking Lives', 'Alexander',  and 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' with future life partner, one Mr. Brad Pitt. Other notable outings have included 'The Good Shepherd', 'Changeling' 'Wanted', 'Salt', 'The Tourist' and 'Maleficent' out this week and previewed in Post #97. She has also lent her voice to the role of 'Tigress' in the 'Kung Fu Panda' series with the third instalment due for release in 2015. Earlier this year Jolie has been resident in Sydney Directing 'Unbroken' due for release later in 2014, and the reprisal of her role as Evelynn Salt has just been announced for 'Salt 2'.

Outside of starring in and making movies Jolie is the Special Envoy and former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for which she has won much acclaim for her work undertaken to highlight such issues on the global stage and in ultimately trying to make a difference through her celebrity status and ability to influence change.

In early 2013 at age 37, she underwent a double preventative mastectomy having learnt that there was an 87% chance of her developing breast cancer. Again, using her celebrity status and the privileges this affords she went public to raise awareness on a global scale of the choices women have to beat breast cancer. 

Jolie and Pitt have six children - three biological and three adopted. In 2008 she and Pitt sold the first pictures of Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline to 'People' and 'Hello' magazines for a reported US$14M - the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken, with the proceeds going to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

The recipient of 33 award wins and a further 62 nominations so far to date, Jolie has picked up two Academy Awards - a win for Best Supporting Actress in 'Girl, Interrupted' and the 'Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award'. She was nominated for Best Actress in 'Changeling'. Added to this she has a BAFTA Nominations also for 'Changeling' and has won three Golden Globes for 'George Wallace', 'Gia' and 'Girl, Interrupted' with four other nominations.

Not doing things by halves Jolie was married from 1996-99 to actor Jonny Lee Miller, and from 2000-03 to actor Billy Bob Thornton. Since 2005 she has been with Brad Pitt with whom she seems most settled - six children, numerous awards & accolades, in demand in front and behind the camera, the Hollywood power couple, supporters of Humanitarian causes . . . it's a wonder they ever see each other! Let's hope that Brad makes time for Angelina on her birthday this week!

Angelina Jolie - beautiful woman, Actress, Director, Mother, inspiration, crusader of worthy causes - Happy Birthday to you from all at Odeon Online!

-Steve, at Odeon Online-