Noomi Rapace does on 28th December - check out my tribute to this Birthday Girl, turning 36, 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 27th December
- Gerard Depardieu - Born 1948, turns 67 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Maryam d'Abo - Born 1960, turns 55 - Actress | Producer | Writer
Monday 28th December
- Sienna Miller - Born 1981, turns 34 - Actress
- Noomi Rapace - Born 1979, turns 36 - Actress
- Maggie Smith - Born 1934, turns 81 - Actress
- Denzel Washington - Born 1954, turns 1954 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Stan Lee - Born 1922, turns 93 - Writer | Producer | Actor
- Alex Dimitriades - Born 1973, turns 42 - Actor
Tuesday 29th December
- Jude Law - Born 1972, turns 43 - Actor | Producer
- Ted Danson - Born 1947, turns 68 - Actor | Producer
- Jon Voight - Born 1938, turns 77 - Actor | Producer | Writer
- Andy Wachowski - Born 1967, turns 48 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Bernard Cribbins - Born 1928, turns 87 - Actor
- Patricia Clarkson - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actress | Writer
Wednesday 30th December
- Bennett Miller - Born 1966, turns 49 - Director | Producer
- Tyrese Gibson - Born 1978, turns 37 - Actor | Producer
- Tracey Ullman - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Television Personality
Thursday 31st December
- Val Kilmer - Born 1959, turns 56 - Actor | Producer | Director
- Anthony Hopkins -Born 1937, turns 78 - Actor | Producer | Director | Writer | Composer
- Ben Kingsley - Born 1943, turns 72 - Actor | Producer
- Taylor Hackford - Born 1944, turns 71 - Director | Producer | Writer
Friday 1st January
- Frank Langella - Born 1938, turns 77 - Actor
- Verne Troyer - Born 1969, turns 46 - Actor | Stuntman
Saturday 2nd January
- Cuba Gooding Jnr. - Born 1968, turns 47 - Actor | Producer
- Todd Haynes - Born 1961, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Tia Carrere - Born 1967, turns 48 - Actress | Producer
- Paz Vega - Born 1976, turns 39 - Actress
- Kate Bosworth - Born 1983, turns 32 - Actress | Producer
Noomi Noren was born in Hudiksvall, Sweden to mother Nina Noren, a Swedish Actress, and father Rogelio Duran a Spanish Flamenco Singer from Badajoz close to the border with Portugal on the River Guadiana. Her father died in late 2006 just before his 53rd birthday. She has a sister Saerun Noren, a photographer. Her mother and father separated when she was young, and at age five she moved from her home in Sweden with her mother and stepfather to Iceland. Two years later in 1988 she made her big screen debut in a non-speaking part in 'In the Shadow of the Raven' - an Icelandic Viking film. It was this film experience that even at such a young age made her want to be an Actress. At 15, she left home and took up Acting at a Stockholm theatre school.
In 1996 she won her small screen debut in the long running soap series 'Tre kronor' for twelve episodes. The next, her second film was released with the Swedish movie 'Sanning eller konsekvens' with the balance of the decade spent as a jobbing actor and at acting school. The new decade brought a number of theatre productions in the first half and all staged throughout Stockholm's theatre land. During this time too more film roles and television series were to follow with fairly regular work coming in year on year too through until 2007 when she gained critical acclaim in the Danish film 'Daisy Diamond' for which she won two major awards for Best Actress and the film was up for competition at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.
2009 was however, the year that changed her life forever, starring as Lisbeth Salander in the highly acclaimed trilogy of the films based on the Steig Larsson hugely successful novels in the 'Millennium' series - 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo', and then 'The Girl Who Played With Fire' and finally 'The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest'. For her role in the first film she won Sweden's highest Guldbagge Award, and was nominated for a BAFTA and a European Film Award.
'Beyond' came next in 2010 and then 'The Monitor' - Swedish and Norwegian films respectively, before her English language film debut in 2011 for Director Guy Ritchie in 'Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows' opposite Robert Downey Jnr. and Jude Law. 2012 saw 'Prometheus' for Ridley Scott with Michael Fassbender and Idris Elba.
Next up is 'Rupture' due in 2016 and currently in post-production, as is 'Unlocked' with Michael Douglas, John Malkovich and Orlando Bloom, and then 'What Happened to Monday' with Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close. After this will be 'Amy Winehouse' currently in pre-production with Rapace playing the title role as the tragic eclectic English singer/songstress. For 2017 there will be 'Enzo Ferrari' Directed by Michael Mann and starring Christian Bale in the title role as the Italian sports car entrepreneur, and then 'Alien : Covenant' with Rapace reprising her role from 'Prometheus' for Director Ridley Scott again.
All up Rapace has 36 acting credits to her name so far and has garnered thirteen award wins and another seventeen nominations including a 2011 BAFTA.
In 2001 Rapace married Swedish Actor Ola Norell, with whom she adopted the surname 'Rapace' meaning 'bird of prey' in both French and Italian. They filed for divorce in 2011, and have a son together born in 2003 - Lev.
Noomi Rapace - fluent in Swedish (her native tongue), Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic and English; a reformed teenage punk rocker who had designs in her youth to emulate Nancy Spungen; insists on performing her own stunts no matter how dangerous; and judging by her current workload is very much in demand and destined for bigger things since starting out on her acting career aged less than ten! Happy Birthday Noomi, from all at Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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