Birthday's to share this week : 28th June - 4th July 2015.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Margot Robbie does on 2nd July - check out the tribute to this Birthday Girl turning 25, 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, 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 28th June

• John Cusack - Born 1966, turns 49 - Actor | Producer | Writer
• Mel Brooks - Born 1926, turns 89 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Singer | Songwriter
• Bruce Davidson - Born 1946, turns 69 - Actor | Director
• Kathy Bates - Born 1948, turns 67 - Actress | Director
• Mary Stuart Masterson - Born 1966, turns 49 - Actress | Producer | Director

Monday 29th June

• Nicole Scherzinger - Born 1978, turns 37 - Actress | Singer
• Gary Busey - Born 1944, turns 71 - Actor

Tuesday 30th June

• Vincent D'Onofrio - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer

Wednesday 1st July

• David Gulpilil - Born 1953, turns 62 - Actor | Writer
• Dan Aykroyd - Born 1952, turns 63 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Singer
• David Prowse - Born 1935, turns 80 - Actor
• Trevor Eve - Born 1951, turns 64 - Actor | Producer
• Liv Tyler - Born 1977, turns 38 - Actress
• Pamela Anderson - Born 1967, turns 48 - Actress | Producer
• Genevieve Bujold - Born 1942, turns 73 - Actress | Writer

Thursday 2nd July

• Margot Robbie - Born 1990, turns 25 - Actress
• Lindsay Lohan - Born 1986, turns 29 - Actress | Producer

Friday 3rd July 

• Connie Nielsen - Born 1965, turns 50 - Actress
• Tom Cruise - Born 1962, turns 53 - Actor | Producer

Saturday 4th July

• Gina Lollobrigida - Born 1927, turns 88 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Director
• Eva Marie Saint - Born 1924, turns 91 - Actress

Margot Elise Robbie was born in Dalby, Queensland, Australia to mother Sarie Kessler, a physiotherapist, and her father a former farm owner. She was raised by her single mother on Queensland's Gold Coast with her sister and two brothers, spending her childhood between the beach on the Gold Coast and her grandparents farm in Dalby. She attended the private Somerset College in Mudgeeraba on the Gold Coast where she studied drama, and after graduating in 2007 she moved to Melbourne to begin her professional acting career.

Within a year the young Robbie has starred in two Aash Aaron Directed films - 'Vigilante' and 'I.C.U.' From here her attentions and opportunities were drawn to television work with the initial episode of the ABC's 'Review, with Myles Barlow', and then two episodes on 'The Elephant Princess', and one on 'City Homicide' before the role that really set her on a career path with over 300 episodes of 'Neighbours' between 2008 and 2011. During this time too she appeared in various Channel Ten programmes including 'Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation'.

Leaving 'Neighbours' behind in 2011 she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career Stateside where she auditioned for the new TV Series of 'Charlie's Angels' but missed out, instead clinching ABC's 60's drama 'PanAm' with Christina Ricci. The series ran for just 14 episodes and was cancelled after its first season due to declining ratings despite its positive reviews.

From here Robbie returned to the big screen securing a role in the Richard Curtis Directed romantic comedy drama 'About Time' with Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson and Rachael McAdams. The film was generally a critical success and fared well commercially bringing in US$87M off US$12M to make. In turn this led to Martin Scorsese casting her as the wife to Leonardo DiCaprio's Jordan Belfort in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' in 2013. Her role as Naomi Lapaglia was highly praised and garnered her an MTV Movie Award nomination and an Empire Award win. The film became Scorsese's biggest commercial success to date.

'Focus' came next earlier this year with co-star Will Smith playing a rookie grifter, and although the film received mixed reviews, her performance was again praised. Although released at the Sundance Film Festival in January this year 'Z for Zachariah' has yet to be released in Australia. This Sci-Fi thriller filmed in New Zealand is Directed by Craig Zobel and also stars Chris Pine and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Due this year too is 'Suite Francaise', a WWII drama romance Directed by Saul Dibb and co-starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams. Coming up too is the David Yeats big screen adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burrows 'Tarzan' with Robbie starring as Jane Porter alongside Alexander Skarsgard in the title role with Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou and John Hurt and due for a mid-2016 release. 

'The Taliban Shuffle' (aka 'The Fun House') is a comedy set within the backdrop of a war stricken Afghanistan and Pakistan and co-stars Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Tina Fey and Alfred Molina and is also due in mid-2016. Filming right now too is the DC Comics adaptation of Supervillain offering 'The Suicide Squad' as Directed by David Ayer with Robbie playing Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn - the first live action outing for this character. The film will also star Will Smith, Jared Leto, Joel Kinsman, Jai Courtney and Viola Davis and is set for August 2016. Also confirmed are her roles in 'Dangerous Odds' and 'Violent Talent' due further down the track. 

To date Robbie has 15 acting credits and a Producer credit on her early 'I.C.U.' offering. She has one award win for the 'Wolf of Wall Street' and eight other nominations including the BAFTA Rising Star Award this year.

Robbie lives in London with a bunch of mates and is romantically linked to Tom Ackerley - a British Assistant Director.

Margot Robbie - blond, blue eyed, beautiful - a star on the rise and increasingly in demand - as a little girl from country Queensland you done good! Happy Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-