Birthdays to share this week : 28th September - 4th October.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

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 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!

Check out too the spotlight on this weeks Birthday Girl who celebrates on 4th October, Susan Sarandon, at the end of this feature.

Sunday 28th September

• Naomi Watts - Born 1968, turns 46 - Actress | Producer
• Mira Sorvino - Born 1967, turns 47 - Actress | Producer
• Hilary Duff - Born 1987, turns 27 - Actress | Singer
• Brigitte Bardot - Born 1934, turns 80 - Actress | Singer

Monday 29th September

• Ian McShane - Born 1942, turns 72 - Actor
• Nicolas Winding Refn - Born 1970, turns 44 - Director | Producer | Writer
• Luke Goss - Born 1968, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Singer
• Matt Goss - Born 1968, turns 46 - Singer

Tuesday 30th September

• Marion Cotillard - Born 1975, turns 39 - Actress | Singer
• Monica Bellucci - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actress
• Fran Drescher - Born 1957, turns 57 - Actress | Writer | Producer
• Angie Dickinson - Born 1931, turns 83 - Actress
• Eric Stoltz - Born 1961, turns 53 - Actor | Producer | Director
• Ian Ogilvy - Born 1943, turns 71 - Actor

Wednesday 1st October

• Julie Andrews - Born 1935, turns 79 - Actress | Singer
• Zach Galifianakis - Born 1969, turns 45 - Actor | Writer | Producer
• Randy Quaid - Born 1950, turns 64 - Actor

Thursday 2nd October

• Sting - Born 1951, turns 63 - Singer | Songwriter | Actor

Friday 3rd October 

• Clive Owen - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actor | Producer
• Seann William Scott - Born 1976, turns 38 - Actor | Producer
• Gwen Stefani - Born 1969, turns 45 - Singer | Songwriter | Actress
• Ashley Simpson - Born 1984, turns 30 - Singer | Songwriter | Actress
• Neve Campbell - Born 1973, turns 41- Actress | Producer

Saturday 4th October

• Susan Sarandon - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actress | Producer | Singer
• Alicia Silverstone - Born 1976, turns 38 - Actress
• Liev Schreiber - Born 1967, turns 47 - Actor
• Christoph Waltz - Born 1956, turns 58 - Actor
• Armand Assante - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actor

Susan Abigail Tomalin was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and is the oldest of nine children. She graduated from Edison High School where she was cheerleader and attended the Catholic University of America Drama School in Washington DC. from 1964-68 where she first met her future husband Chris Sarandon. They were married from 1967-1979 and it was with him that she attended a casting call in 1969 in New York for roles in the upcoming film 'Joe'. Husband Chris was unlucky and failed to gain a part in the film, but wife Susan scored a major supporting role in the film that was released in 1970.

Following this Sarandon appeared in a number of TV Soap Opera's in the early 70's including 'A World Apart' and 'Search for Tomorrow'. Concurrently she secured roles in 'The Apprentice', 'Lady Liberty', 'The Front Page' and 'Lovin' Molly'. The latter half of the 70's saw her star in cult-classic 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' as Janet in 1975 and that same year alongside Robert Redford in 'The Great Waldo Pepper'.

In 1980 she received her first Academy Award nomination for 'Atlantic City' and throughout that decade she starred in notable films including 'The Hunger', 'The Witches of Eastwick', 'Bull Durham' and 'A Dry White Season' with David Bowie, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Costner and Marlon Brando respectively.

The first half of the 90's brought more critical acclaim with a further three Academy Award nominations for 'Thelma & Louise', 'Lorenzo's Oil', and 'The Client', finally scoring the win for Best Actress in a Lead Role for 'Dead Man Walking' in 1995 alongside Sean Penn.

Since then there has been many other film appearances amounting to a filmography so far of 124 acting credits including 'Stepmom', 'Cradle Will Rock', 'The Banger Sisters', 'Moonlight Mile', 'Alfie', 'Elizabethtown', 'Romance and Cigarettes', 'Irresistible', 'Mr. Woodcock', 'In the Valley of Elah', 'Speed Racer', 'The Lovely Bones', 'Wall Street : Money Never Sleeps', 'Arbitrage', 'Snitch', 'Cloud Atlas', 'The Company You Keep', 'Robot & Frank' and more recently 'Ping Pong Summer', 'Tammy' and 'The Calling' with 'Hell and Back' in post-production currently and 'Mother's Day' filming for a 2015 release.

Sarandon has appeared also or narrated over 40 documentaries from 1983 to the present day, and appeared in almost 40 TV Shows from 1970 to the present day including 'The Simpsons', 'Friends', 'Malcolm in the Middle', 'Mad TV', 'ER', 'The Good Wife', '30 Rock', 'Mike & Molly' and 'Saturday Night Live'. She has also lent her voice talents to 'James and the Giant Peach', 'The Need to Know', 'For the Love of Julian', 'Cats and Dogs' and the upcoming animated feature 'Hell and Back' amongst others.

Her awards haul takes in 51 wins and another 47 nominations including the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for 'Dead Man Walking' and nominations in the same category for 'The Client', 'Lorenzo's Oil', 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Atlantic City'. She has been nominated eight times for a Golden Globe but has never won, and has a BAFTA Award for Best Actress for 'The Client' and a nomination for 'Thelma & Louise'.

After splitting from her husband of twelve years, Chris, in 1979 she had relationships with Director Louie Malle; then David Bowie with whom she starred in 'The Hunger' and then Italian film maker Franco Amurri with whom she had a daughter Eva Amurri in 1985. From 1989 until 2009 she was with Actor Tim Robbins who Directed her in her Oscar winning 'Dead Man Walking', and with whom she has two sons - Jack Henry Robbins born in 1989, and Miles Robbins born in 1992.

Sarandon is well known for her political, liberal and humanitarian activism supporting such causes as social, environmental and economic justice; anti-racism; anti-2003 Iraq War; and gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individual rights. She was appointed UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and the Food and Agriculture Organisation Goodwill Ambassador in 2010. She was the recipient of the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award; is a spokesperson for Heifer International - a nonprofit organisation seeking to eradicate poverty and hunger; she co-hosted 'Live 8' in Edinburgh; carried the Olympic Flag at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin; co-hosted the 1993 Academy Awards with partner Tim Robbins; and received the 'World Lifetime Achievement Award' at the 2006 Women's World Awards.

Susan Sarandon - ageing gracefully, still very much in demand, politically and morally outspoken, husky voiced and can often play strong willed and at at time sensuous roles - Happy Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-