Brad Pitt does, on 18th December - check out the tribute to this Birthday Boy at the end of this feature.
Do you also 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!
Sunday 14th December
- Sophie Monk - Born 1979, turns 35 - Actress
- Rebecca Gibney - Born 1964, turns 50 - Actress
Monday 15th December
- Don Johnson - Born 1949, turns 65 - Actor | Producer
- Alex Cox - Born 1954, turns 60 - Actor | Director | Writer
Tuesday 16th December
- James Mangold - Born 1963, turns 51 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Ben Cross - Born 1947, turns 67 - Actor
- Shane Black - Born 1953, turns 53 - Producer | Writer | Director | Actor
- Benjamin Bratt - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actor | Producer
- Miranda Otta - Born 1967, turns 47 - Actress
Wednesday 17th December
- Milla Jojovich - Born 1975, turns 39 - Actress | Singer
- Giovanni Ribisi - Born 1974, turns 40 - Actor
- Bill Pullman - Born 1953, turns 61 - Actor
- Eugene Levy - Born 1946, turns 68 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director | Singer | Songwriter
- Bernard Hill - Born 1944, turns 780 - Actor
- Peter Farrelly - Born 1956, turns 58 - Writer | Producer | Director
Thursday 18th December
- Brad Pitt - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actor | Producer
- Steven Spielberg - Born 1946, turns 68 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Ray Liotta - Born 1954, turns 60 - Actor | Producer
- Casper Van Dien - Born 1968, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Steve Austin - Born 1964m turns 50 - actor | Producer | WWF Wrestler
- Keith Richards - Born 1943, turns 71 - Singer | Songwriter | Producer | Actor
- Robson Green - 1964, turns 50 - Actor | Television Personality | Extreme Fisherman
- Rachel Griffith - Born 1968, turns 46 - Actress
- Katie Holmes - Born 1978, turns 36 - Actress | Producer
Friday 19th December
- Jennifer Beals - Born 1963, turns 51 - Actress
- Jake Gyllenhaal - Born 1980, turns 34 - Actor | Producer
Saturday 20th December
- Jonah Hill - Born 1983, turns 31 - Actor | Producer | Writer
- Todd Phillips - Born 1970, turns 44 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer
- Jenny Agutter - Born 1952, turns 62 - Actress
William Bradley Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri and is the eldest of brother Douglass and sister Julie. His mother, Jane Etta Hillhouse was a school counsellor, and father William Alvin Pitt was a trucking company manager. He attended Kickapoo High School where he was an active participant in golf, swimming, tennis and the school debating society. After graduating from school he attended the University of Missouri majoring in journalism and advertising. Two weeks before graduating he left to relocate to California, to Los Angeles where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs to sustain himself. 
During his early career in Los Angeles toward the end of the 80's Pitt struggled to establish himself. In 1987 he had uncredited roles in 'No Way Out', 'No Mans Land' and 'Less Than Zero' as well as TV appearances in 'Another World', 'Growing Pains', 'Dallas' and '21 Jump Street'. His first leading film role came in 1988 in 'The Dark Side of the Sun' although the film was not released for another ten years - as being a Yugoslavian/US co-production it was mothballed due to the war in Croatia. In 1989 he had support roles in 'Happy Together' and 'Cutting Class', and a handful of other television appearances.
The early 90's brought TV Movie 'Too Young To Die' which gave him some acclaim followed by 'The Image' and 'Across The Tracks' in 1991 and six episodes of the short-lived 'Glory Days'. His breakout role though was in Ridley Scott's 'Thelma & Louise' opposite Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in 1991 and charted him on a course as a bonafide sex symbol. That year came too 'Johnny Suede' and 'Cool World' the year after. Robert Redford cast him in 'A River Runs Through It' that was described by one critic as 'career defining'.
'Kalifornia' followed in 1993 and a small part in 'True Romance'. As the mid-90's approached so Pitt's career notched up to top gear with 'Interview with the Vampire' in 1994 and then 'Legends of the Fall' for which he garnered his first Golden Globe nomination. 1995 saw him team up with Morgan Freeman and Gwyneth Paltrow in David Fincher's 'Seven' which brought much critical and Box Office acclaim. That same year Terry Gilliam cast him with Bruce Willis in the SciFi '12 Monkeys' where he was lauded for his performance which in turn won him his first Golden Globe Award and his first Academy Award nomination.
In the latter half of the 90's there was 'Sleepers' with Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman; then 'The Devil's Own' with Harrison Ford; then 'Seven Years in Tibet' with David Thewlis, and 'Meet Joe Black' with Anthony Hopkins. Closing out the decade he worked with David Fincher again on the now cult-classic 'Fight Club' with Edward Norton.
'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' with future wife Angelina Jolie came along in 2005, with 'Babel' in 2006 opposite Cate Blanchett gaining a Golden Globe nomination for Pitt and a swag of other Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. What followed were more noteworthy roles too in the likes of 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford'; 'Burn After Reading' Directed by the Coen Brothers; 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' Directed by David Fincher again and starring Cate Blanchett with whom he had worked before too. This film received thirteen Academy Award nominations with Pitt receiving Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Quentin Tarrantino cast him next up in 2009's 'Inglorious Basterds' which received eight Academy Award nominations.
'The Tree of Life' with Sean Penn won Director Terrence Malick the Palme D'or at Cannes, and 'Moneyball' received six Academy Award nominations including a Best Actor nod for Pitt. 'Killing Them Softly' followed, as did zombie apocalypse 'World War Z' grossing US$540M and giving Pitt his biggest commercial Box Office success to date off a US$190M budget. A sequel has been announced with Pitt's Production Company 'Plan B Productions' involved. '12 Years a Slave' and 'The Counsellor' saw him reunite with Ridley Scott in the latter film, and World War II actioneer 'Fury' is his most recent release so far earning US$181M off US$68M. He has lent his voice talents to 'Megamind', 'Happy Feet 2' and an episode of 'King of the Hill'.
Pitt has 71 acting credits to his name so far, thirty Producer credits, 54 Award wins and another 93 nominations. He shared the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture as Producer for '12 Years a Slave' and has four other nominations to his name; he won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for '12 Monkeys' and has four other nominations; and won the BAFTA for Best Film again as Producer for '12 Years a Slave' and has four other nominations.
He had a relationship with Gwyneth Paltrow and was married to 'Friends' star Jennifer Aniston from 2000 - 2005, and has been in a long term relationship with Angelina Jolie eventually marrying earlier this year. They have six children - Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
Pitt is active in humanitarian, charitable and political causes including the support for 'Proposition 71' into stem-cell research; the 'ONE Campaign' combating AIDS and poverty; he has personally with Jolie donated US$1M to those effected by the crisis in Darfur; he founded the 'Make It Right' Foundation to build sustainable housing in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; he and Jolie founded the 'Jolie-Pitt Foundation' to aid humanitarian causes around the world donating to 'Global Action for Children', 'Doctors Without Borders', 'The Daniel Pearl Foundation', the Haiti Earthquake fund and a U.N. Refugee agency supporting Pakistanis displaced by the Taliban. He also supports same sex marriage.
Brad Pitt - bonafide movie mega star, Actor, Producer, supporter of worthy causes, married to one of the world's most beautiful women, family man, diverse, daring and outspoken - Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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