Nick Frost does on 28th March - check out my tribute to this Birthday Boy turning 44, 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 March
- Quentin Tarantino - Born 1963, turns 53 - Writer | Producer | Director | Actor
- Michael York - Born 1942, turns 74 - Actor
- Julian Glover - Born 1935, turns 81 - Actor
- Holiday Grainger - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actress
Monday 28th March
- Julia Stiles - Born 1981, turns 35 - Actress | Writer | Director
- Dianne Wiest - Born 1948, turns 68 - Actress
- Vince Vaughn - Born 1970, turns 46 - Actor | Producer | Writer
- Nick Frost - Born 1972, turns 44 - Actor | Producer | Writer
- Brett Ratner - Born 1969, turns 47 - Director | Producer
- Richard Kelly - Born 1975, turns 41 - Director | Producer | Writer
- Mike Newell - Born 1942, turns74 - Director | Producer
Tuesday 29th March
- Ed Skrein - Born 1983, turns 33 - Actor
- Christopher Lambert - Born 1937, turns 59 - Actor | Producer
- Brendan Gleeson - Born 1955, turns 61 - Actor
- Eric Idle - Born 1943, turns 73 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer | Songwriter
- Michael Winterbottom - Born 1961, turns 55 - Writer | Producer | Director | Editor
- Lucy Lawless - Born 1968, turns 48 - Actress
Wednesday 30th March
- Robbie Coltrane - Born 1950, turns 66 - Actor
- Warren Beatty - Born 1937, turns 79 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Paul Reiser - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actor | Producer | Writer
Thursday 31st March
- Ewan McGregor - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director
- Christopher Walken - Born 1943, turns 73 - Actor
- Richard Chamberlain - Born 1934, turns 82 - Actor
- Paul Mercurio - Born 1963, turns 53 - Actor
Friday 1st April
- Asa Butterfield - Born 1997, turns 19 - Actor
- David Oyelowo - Born 1976, turns 40 - Actor | Producer
- Barry Sonnenfield - Born 1953, turns 63 - Director | Producer | Actor | Cinematographer
- Ali MacGraw - Born 1939, turns 77 - Actress
- Debbie Reynolds - Born 1932, turns 83 - Actress | Singer
Saturday 2nd April
- Michael Fassbender - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Producer
- Jesse Plemons - Born 1988, turns 28 - Actor
- Christopher Meloni - Born 1961, turns 55 - Actor | Director
Nicholas John Frost was born in Dagenham, East London, England and is the son of office furniture designers. His older sister died at age eighteen, when he was ten, of an asthma attack. Five years later his parents business failed and as a consequence the Frost family had to move out of their home and in with their neighbours, where due to the stress of it all, the 15 year old Nicholas witnessed his mother having a stroke. He attended Beal High School - a co-ed secondary school in Redbridge, Greater London but left early to start work at a shipping company to help support his family. From there he spent almost two years at a kibbutz in Israel, and upon returning worked in a North London Mexican Restaurant where he first met up with Simon Pegg. Following this the two became close friends and flatmates . . . and the rest as they say is history!
In the late 90's after appearing in several corporate training video's, Simon Pegg and Actress/Writer Jessica Hynes wrote a role for Frost in the comedy series 'Spaced' based partly on Pegg's/Frost's slacker lifestyle at the time. The two series ran over seven episodes each in 1999 and 2001. What followed were a number of television series appearances on 'Black Books', Acorn Antiques' and as Host of 'Danger! 50,000 Volts!' and its follow up 'Danger' Incoming Attack'.
2004 brought his break out film debut in the ZomRomCom 'Shaun of the Dead' Written by Simon Pegg and Directed by Edgar Wright. Hailed a critical and commercial success, the film made US$30M from its US$6M production budget. More television shows followed including 'Twisted Tales' 'Look Around You', 'Supernanny' and 'Man Stroke Woman' before his next film appearance in 2005's 'Kinky Boots' with Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor. A bit part followed in the Tarantino and Rodriguez 'Grindhouse' horror double feature, before 'Hot Fuzz' with Simon Pegg again and also Directed by Edgar Wright. This film made US$81M from its US$12M outlay.
'The Boat That Rocked' sailed along in 2009 as Directed by Richard Curtis and also starring Kenneth Branagh, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy, Chris O'Dowd, Gemma Arterton and Emma Thompson. Seeing out the decade there were other television shows that included 'Green Wing', 'Hyperdrive' and 'Money'.
2011 was a busy year with 'Paul' first off Written by Frost and Pegg and starring them both too in this Sci-Fi comedy road movie also with Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman and Kristen Wiig. Sticking with Sci-Fi comedy of the horror kind came 'Attack The Block' with John Boyega and as Directed by Joe Cornish. Closing out that year and Directed by Steven Spielberg was 'The Adventures of Tintin' in which he plays the mo-capped identical brother to Simon Pegg as Thompson and Thompson.
The year following saw 'Snow White and the Huntsman' in which Frost plays one of the seven dwarves alongside an all star cast from dwarfdom comprising Ian McShane, Bob Hoskins, Ray Winstone, Eddie Marsan, and Toby Jones with Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin. Frost reprises his role in the imminent follow-up 'The Huntsman : Winter's War' with Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron and Sam Claflin also reprising with Emily Blunt and Jessica Chastain joining the cast.
All up Frost has 43 Acting credits to his name, five Writer credits and three as Producer. He has two award wins and two nominations. Frost was raised a Catholic but is now atheist. He was married to half-Swedish wife Christina from 2008 until 2013 with whom he has a son born in mid-2011.
Nick Frost - bestest buddies with long term friend and collaborator Simon Pegg; at his funniest and probably most successful when appearing with him given the chemistry that obviously exists between them; able to play it straight or funny, and across genres and almost always tongue in cheek; and has seen much hardship and triumph to last a lifetime already which you can read about in his recently published memoir 'Truths, Half Truths and Little White Lies' which recounts his first thirty years on this mortal coil. Happy Birthday to you Nick, from Odeon Online.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
