Jon Bernthal does on 20th September - check out my tribute to this Birthday Lad turning 40, 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 18th September
- Jada Pinkett Smith - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actress | Producer | Writer | Director
- Jason Sudeikis - Born 1975, turns 41 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Singer
- Mark Romanek - Born 1959, turns 57 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Tim McInnerny - Born 1956, turns 60 - Actor
Monday 19th September
- Adam West - Born 1928, turns 88 - Actor
- David McCallum - Born 1933, turns 83 - Actor
- Jeremy Irons - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actor
- Paul McGuigan - Born 1963, turns 53 - Director | Producer
- Jimmy Fallon - Born 1974, turns 42 - Television Personality | Writer | Producer | Actor | Singer
Tuesday 20th September
- Jon Bernthal - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor
- Gary Cole - Born 1956, turns 60 - Actor
- George R.R. Martin - Born 1948, turns 68 - Writer | Producer | Actor
- Sophia Loren - Born 1934, turns 82 - Actress | Singer
Wednesday 21st September
- Jerry Bruckheimer - Born 1943, turns 73 - Producer
- Stephen King - Born 1947, turns 69 - Writer | Producer | Actor
- Bill Murray - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Singer
- Ethan Coen - Born 1957, turns 59 - Director | Producer | Writer | Editor
- David Wenham - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor | Producer
- Luke Wilson - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
Thursday 22nd September
- Nick Cave - Born 1957, turns 59 - Writer | Singer | Songwriter | Composer | Actor
- Scott Baio - Born 1960, turns 56 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Tom Felton - Born 1987, turns 29 - Actor | Director
- Billie Piper - Born 1982, turns 34 - Actress | Producer
Friday 23rd September
- John Woo - Born 1946, turns 70 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor | Editor
- Jason Alexander - Born 1959, turns 57 - Actor | Producer | Director | Singer
- Alex Proyas - Born 1963, turns 53 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Anthony Mackie - Born 1978, turns 38 - Actor | Producer
Saturday 24th September
- Brad Bird - Born 1957, turns 59 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
Jonathan Edward Bernthal was born in Washington D.C., USA, to mother Joan Marx and father Eric Lawrence Bernthal - a lawyer with Latham & Watkins - the world's highest grossing and one of the most prestigious law firms. He has two brothers - Thomas and Nicholas. After High School, he attended Skidmore College - a private independent arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1999, before relocating himself to the Moscow Arts Theatre School in Russia, during which time he played semi-professional baseball as a catcher while studying his chosen craft. After this he attended the American Repertory Theatre at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University where he graduated from in 2002 with a Masters of Fine Arts Degree.
Since 2002 Bernthal has performed in over thirty Off-Broadway Plays, many with his own Theatre Company - Fovea Floods. He gained his first small screen role in 2002 in a single episode of 'Law and Order : Criminal Intent' with the next few years bringing further television series work on the likes of 'Without a Trace', 'Dr. Vegas', 'Boston Legal', 'Jonny Zero', 'C.S.I. : Miami' and 'How I Met Your Mother'. His first film role came in 2002 with 'Mary/Mary' and then in 2004 with 'Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding' with Mila Kunis and then television movie 'Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman' with Bryan Brown. 
2006 brought Oliver Stone's 'World Trade Centre' with Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena and Michael Shannon, and then 'The Air I Breathe' and 'Day Zero' in 2007, 'Coutrroom K', 'Bar Starz', 'A Line in the Sand' and 'Night at the Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian' closed out the decade. From 2006 to 2007 running for just one season over nineteen episodes was 'The Class', and then rom 2009 to 2010 for one season over thirteen episodes was 'Eastwick' based on 'The Witches of Eastwick' book and film of the same name.
The new decade saw Roman Polanski's 'The Ghost Writer' with Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan and Tom Wilkinson, 'Date Night' with Steve Carell and Tina Fey, 'Rampart' with Woody Harrelson and Sigourney Weaver, 'Snitch' with Dwayne Johnson and Susan Sarandon, and then Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street' with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill, and 'Grudge Match' with Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro.
During this period of escalating film roles there were also further television appearances on 'Numb3rs', 'The Pacific', 'Harry's Law' and 'Robot Chicken', plus the role that almost certainly put Bernthal on the map, as Shane Walsh on the first twenty episodes across the first two seasons of AMC's groundbreaking 'The Walking Dead' from 2010-2012. The show's seventh season is soon to go to air in the US.
David Ayer's 'Fury' in 2014 with Brad Pitt, Michael Pena and Shia LaBeouf came next with 'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl', 'Sicario' with Josh Brolin, Benicio del Toro and Emily Blunt, and then 'We Are Your Friends' with Zac Efron. Further television series followed including the mini-series 'Show Me a Hero' with Oscar Isaac and Alfred Molina, the animated series 'SuperMansion' to which Bernthal lends his voice talents with Bryan Cranston amongst others, and then as Frank Carter/Punisher on 'Daredevil' based on the Marvel Comics character for which Bernthal is to get his own spin-off series of 'Punisher' in 2017.
Up next are several film appearances in 'Viena and the Fantomes', and 'The Accountant' with Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick both due later this year. Currently filming is 'Sweet Virginia' for a 2017 release with Imogen Poots, 'Pilgrimage' with Tom Hollander and Richard Armitage in post-production, as is 'Shot Caller', Edgar Wright's 'Baby Driver' with Kevin Spacey, John Hamm and Jamie Foxx, and 'Wind River' with Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olson.
Including these, all up Bernthal has 51 Acting credits to date, and he has three award nominations including Best Male Breakout Performance for 'The Walking Dead'. He married Erin Angle in September 2010 with whom he has three children - Henry (born in 2011), Billy (born in 2013) and Adeline (born in 2015). His brother Nicholas is an orthopaedic surgeon at UCLA with whom he also runs a not-for-profit company 'Drops Fill Buckets' which describes its credo as an 'impact driven, entrepreneurial approach to making a difference'. His other brother Tom is a three time Emmy Award winning Producer for NBC, and CEO of a business consulting company.
Jon Bernthal - plays tough, physical muscular roles because he's a tough, physical muscular looking kinda guy; he has had his nose broken thirteen times at the last count; is immensely talented and will turn his hand to any genre and because of it is increasingly in demand and his star very much on the rise. We'll keep watching Jon, if you keep doing what your best at - keeping us entertained with gritty realism! Happy 40th Birthday to you, from Odeon Online.-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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