Birthday's to share this week : 11th - 17th May.

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 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 Girl on 14th May, Cate Blanchett, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 11th May

• Frances Fisher - Born 1952, turns 62 - Actress
• Holly Valance - Born 1983, turns 31 - Actress

Monday 12th May

• Emily VanCamp - Born 1986, turns 28 - Actress
• Emilio Estevez - Born 1962, turns 52 - Actor | Writer | Director
• Gabriel Byrne - Born 1950, turns 64 - Actor | Producer
• Ving Rhames - Born 1959, turns 55 - Actor | Producer
• Vanessa Williams - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actress
• Susan Hampshire - Born 1937, turns 77 - Actress

Tuesday 13th May

• Robert Pattinson - Born 1986, turns 28 - Actor
• Harvey Keitel - Born 1939, turns 75 - Actor | Producer
• Joe Johnston - Born 1950, turns 64 - Director
• Stevie Wonder - Born 1950, turns 64 - Singer | Songwriter
• Tim Pigott-Smith - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actor
• Zoe Wanamaker - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actress

Wednesday 14th May

• Cate Blanchett - Born 1969, turns 45 - Actress
• Sofia Copola - Born 1971, turns 43 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actress
• Tim Roth - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor | Producer
• George Lucas - Born 1944, turns 70 - Director | Producer | Writer | Editor | Actor
• Robert Zemeckis - Born 1951, turns 63 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Danny Huston - Born 1962, turns 52 - Actor | Director

Thursday 15th May

• Chazz Palminteri - Born 1952, turns 62 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Grant Heslov - Born 1963, turns 51 - Producer | Writer | Actor | Director
• Brian Eno - Born 1948, turns 66 - Singer | Songwriter

Friday 16th May

• Pierce Brosnan - Born 1953, turns 61 - Actor | Producer
• Danny Trejo - Born 1944, turns 70 - Actor | Producer
• Jim Sturgess - Born 1978, turns 36 - Actor | Singer
• Janet Jackson - Born 1966, turns 48 - Singer | Songwriter | Actress
• Debra Winger - Born 1955, turns 59 - Actress
• Megan Fox - Born 1986, turns 28 - Actress

Saturday 17th May

• Bill Paxton - Born 1955, turns 59 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Enya - Born 1961, turns 53 - Singer | Songwriter

Catherine Elise Blanchett was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe to an Australian mother and American father. She has an older brother and younger sister, and is married to Theatre impresario, Andrew Upton.

She first came to real prominence in 1998 in her lead role as Queen Elizabeth I in 'Elizabeth' which won her amongst other things a BAFTA and a Golden Globe. Before this breakout role she did star in a number of other films - most notably Gillian Armstrong's 'Oscar and Lucinda' alongside Ralph Fiennes in 1997, and Bruce Beresford's 'Paradise Road' that same year with Glenn Close and Frances McDormand. 

Since then she has carved out a career between time on screen and time on stage and starred with the best in both Acting and Directing talent that the big studio's and the small independent's can throw at her. She is equally comfortable playing the biographical roles  - Katherine Hepburn in 'The Aviator', and then 'Charlotte Gray' and 'Veronica Guerin'; or the historical as in 'Elizabeth' and 'Elizabeth - The Golden Age'; or the fantasy piece as in Galadriel in three 'Lord of the Rings' instalments, and the three successive 'The Hobbit' big screen adaptations. Then let's not forget 'Babel', 'Hanna', 'Robin Hood', 'Notes on a Scandal', 'The talented Mr. Ripley', 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button', and most recently 'The Monuments Men' and the much awarded 'Blue Jasmine' amongst many others.

Aside from her impressive filmography, Cate Blanchett has many acclaimed Theatre productions to her name also including 'A Streetcar named Desire', 'Hedda Gabler', 'The Seagull', 'The Tempest', 'Hamlet' and 'Oleanna'.

She has 98 films awards to her credit and a further 72 nominations. Her Oscar Academy Award wins are for 'The Aviator' as Best Supporting Actress, and this years 'Blue Jasmine' for Best Actress, and she has been nominated four other times. She is the only Australian Actor/Actress to win two Oscar's, and only one of six Actresses ever to win both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress Awards.

Additionally, she has four AACTA wins to her name for 'Thank God he met Lizzie', 'Little Fish', 'Elizabeth - The Golden Age' and 'Blue Jasmine' and one other nomination. She has three BAFTA wins and three other nominations; three Golden Globe wins and a further five nominations and for her Theatre work she has garnered nine wins and another six nominations.

Cate Blanchett - beautiful, talented, multi-awarded, much lauded, sought after and in demand - Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-