Birth Month Day of 10-28 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Julia Roberts
Actress | Pretty Woman
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...
2. Gwendoline Christie
Actress | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
London-based Gwendoline Christie is one of the most exciting and unique British actresses working today, having caught the industry's attention with her Emmy and Critics' Choice nominated role in the global hit HBO series "Game of Thrones." During her time on the show, she was also nominated ...
3. Joaquin Phoenix
Actor | Her
Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...
4. Annie Potts
Actress | Ghostbusters
Annie Potts is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her roles in popular 1980s films such as Ghostbusters (1984) and Pretty in Pink (1986). She made her debut on the big screen in 1978 in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comedy film Corvette Summer (1978), with Mark Hamill, for ...
5. Jami Gertz
Actress | Twister
Jami Gertz was born on October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Twister (1996), The Lost Boys (1987) and Still Standing (2002). She has been married to Antony Ressler since June 16, 1989. They have three children.
6. Matt Smith
Actor | Doctor Who
Matt Smith is an English actor who shot to fame in the UK aged 26 when he was cast by producer Steven Moffat as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC's iconic science-fiction adventure series Doctor Who (2005).
Matthew Robert Smith was born and raised in Northampton, the son of Lynne (Fidler) and David ...
7. Lauren Holly
Actress | Dumb and Dumber
Born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two college professors, Lauren Michael Holly grew up in the upstate New York town of Geneva. Her childhood was split between experiences that contrasted. She was privy to the shelter of growing up in a rural town and also exposed due to the erudite ...
8. Daphne Zuniga
Actress | One Tree Hill
Zuniga was born in San Francisco, California to Agnes A. Zuniga (née Janawicz) and Joaquin Alberto Zuniga Mazariegos. Her mother is a Unitarian minister, of Polish and Finnish descent, and her father, originally from Guatemala, was an emeritus professor of philosophy at California State University,...
9. Nolan Gould
Actor | Modern Family
Nolan Gould was born on October 28, 1998 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Modern Family (2009), The To Do List (2013) and Friends with Benefits (2011).
10. Chris Bauer
Actor | The Wire
Chris Bauer was born on October 28, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Mark Christopher Bauer. He is an actor, known for The Wire (2002), True Blood (2008), Third Watch (1999) and The Deuce (2017). He has been married to Laura Bauer since May 12, 1997. They have two children.
11. Troian Bellisario
Actress | Pretty Little Liars
Troian Bellisario, daughter of producers Donald P. Bellisario and Deborah Pratt, made her film debut at the age of 3 in Last Rites (1988). She made several TV and movie appearances in her teens (most of the TV appearances were in shows produced by her father) before attending the University of ...
12. Finn Wittrock
Actor | American Horror Story
Finn Wittrock was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. Finn grew up near the stage of Shakespeare and Company, where his father worked. He moved to Los Angeles at 12 years old and attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA). After high school he took a year off and pounded the ...
13. Elsa Lanchester
Actress | Witness for the Prosecution
Elsa Sullivan Lanchester was born into an unconventional a family at the turn of the 20th century. Her parents, James "Shamus" Sullivan and Edith "Biddy" Lanchester, were socialists - very active members of the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) in a rather broad sense - and did not believe in the ...
14. May Calamawy
Actress | Ramy
May Calamawy (born October 28, 1986) is a Bahraini born, Egyptian-Palestinian actress. She completed her undergrad in Acting at Emerson College and continued her studies at William Esper. She is known for the Hulu series Ramy, Marvel's Moon Knight for Disney+, National Geographic's The Long Road ...
15. Jason Watkins
Actor | The Crown
Jason Watkins was born on October 28, 1966 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Crown (2016), Des (2020) and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014). He has been married to Clara Francis since January 2014. They have three children. He was previously married...
16. Eliana Jones
Actress | Night Hunter
Eliana Jones is most known for Acapulco (2021), Night Hunter (2018), Shoresy (2022), Northern Rescue (2018). Eliana Jones began acting at the age of 11 and the first role she booked was playing young Alexandra Udinov in Nikita (2010-2012). She then went on to play Alexa Sworn in Hemlock Grove (2013...
17. Dennis Franz
Actor | NYPD Blue
Dennis Franz was born Dennis Franz Schlacta in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and is the son of Eleanor (Mueller) and Franz Ferdinand Schlachta, who were postal workers. He has two sisters, Marlene (born 1938) and Heidi (born 1935). He graduated from Southern Illinois University and was ...
18. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
19. Sierra McCormick
Actress | The Vast of Night
Sierra Mccormick was born in Asheville, NC and grew up in Palm Springs, CA. She began performing in film and television at a young age, and had a number of roles on different network TV shows throughout the late 2000s, including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, Criminal Minds, Supernatural, Monk,...
20. Joe Thomas
Actor | The Inbetweeners Movie
Joe Thomas was born on October 28, 1983 in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Inbetweeners (2011), The Inbetweeners 2 (2014) and White Gold (2017).
21. Joe Spinell
Actor | Taxi Driver
Joseph J. Spagnuolo was born on October 28, 1936 in Manhattan, New York City at his family's apartment on 2nd Avenue. Spinell was a tough guy on and off the screen all his life. During his teen years, while still in high school, he acted in various plays on the New York stage, on and off Broadway, ...
22. Caitlyn Jenner
Actress | Can't Stop the Music
Caitlyn Marie Jenner was born William Bruce Jenner on October 28, 1949 in Mount Kisco, New York and raised in Sleepy Hollow, New York to Esther Jenner & William Jenner. Jenner played college football for the Graceland Yellowjackets before incurring a knee injury that required surgery. Convinced by ...
23. Telma Hopkins
Actress | Family Matters
Telma Hopkins was born on October 28, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Family Matters (1989), Half & Half (2002) and The Love Guru (2008). She was previously married to Donald B. Alen.
24. Nicholas Podany
Actor | Hello Tomorrow!
Nicholas Podany was born in Los Angeles, California, and attended school at Juilliard in New York, graduating with a degree in Drama in 2018. He then starred in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child as Albus Potter on Broadway from 2019-2020. He is best known for Dave in Summertime Dropouts, Max in ...
25. Lola Tung
Actress | The Summer I Turned Pretty
Lola Tung stars in the Amazon Prime series, 'The Summer I Turned Pretty', based on the New York Times bestselling trilogy by Jenny Han ('To All The Boys..'). She plays the lead role of Isabel "Belly" Conklin, an ordinary teenage girl who spends the summer in Cousin's Beach with her mother and older...
26. Romy Rosemont
Actress | An American Crime
Romy Rosemont was born in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for An American Crime (2007), Congo (1995) and Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). She has been married to Stephen Root since December 14, 2008.
27. Lennon Parham
Actress | Playing House
Lennon co-created and starred in her own half-hour USA series, Playing House, which just concluded after 3 critically acclaimed seasons. She also recurred as Julia Louis-Dreyfus' hilarious Senior Advisor, "Karen Collins," whose specialized field was "common sense" on HBO's Veep. Additionally, ...
28. Aditi Rao Hydari
Actress | Padmaavat
Aditi Rao Hydari was born in 1986 in Hyderabad, from two royal lineages, that of Sir Akbar Hydari and J. Rameshwar Rao the erstwhile Raja of Wanaparthy.
A classical Bharatanatyam dancer, she made her acting debut with Sharada Ramanathan's acclaimed film Sringaram and rose to fame after her ...
29. Katherine Justice
Actress | Prescription: Murder
Katherine Justice was born on October 28, 1942 in Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Prescription: Murder (1968), 5 Card Stud (1968) and Simon & Simon (1981).
30. Paige McGarvin
Actress | All Roads to Pearla
Paige McGarvin is an actress, writer, and producer. She was born in Dallas, Texas where she grew up playing soccer, volleyball, and acting. She later attended the University of Oklahoma where she completed her bachelors degree in Business Marketing before moving to Los Angeles to pursue acting in ...
31. Jane Alexander
Actress | Kramer vs. Kramer
Angular in features, reserved in demeanor and more-or-less plaintive in appearance, actress Jane Alexander has played down the glamour card for the most part. Her true brilliance has come from the remarkable range and depth of her talent. Heralded as one of the finest 70s actresses to arrive in ...
32. Tracy Reed
Actress | Running Scared
Tracy Reed was born on October 28, 1949 in Fort Benning, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for Running Scared (1986), McCloud (1970) and Trouble Man (1972).
33. Elvira Lind
Director | The Letter Room
Elvira Lind was born on October 28, 1981 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a director and producer, known for The Letter Room (2020), Bobbi Jene (2017) and Songs for Alexis (2014). She has been married to Oscar Isaac since March 2017. They have two children.
34. Andy Richter
Actor | Madagascar
Andy Richter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the second of four children of Glenda (Palmer), a kitchen cabinet designer, and Laurence R. Richter, who taught Russian at Indiana University. He was raised in Yorkville, Illinois. His parents divorced when he was four. Richter attended the ...
35. Simone Kirby
Actress | Notes on Blindness
Simone plays Mary Malone in the BBC/HBO series, 'His Dark Materials', and Bibi in the RTE/Acorn series, 'Hidden Assets' .
Simone's film credits include BAFTA nominated feature 'Notes On Blindness' (Archers Mark), playing the female lead, Marilyn, and Ken Loach's feature Jimmy's Hall, playing the ...
36. Jack Soo
Actor | Barney Miller
A genial, laid back, slumber-eyed character player especially adept at the relaxed wisecrack or dry comment, Japanese-American actor Jack Soo was born in Oakland, California, in 1917, his real name being Goro Suzuki. In the post-WWII years, he entertained as a stand-up performer in nightclubs and ...
37. Michael Stahl-David
Actor | Cloverfield
Michael Stahl-David was born on October 28, 1982 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Cloverfield (2008), In Your Eyes (2014) and We Win (2018). He is married to Camila Diaz Samper.
38. Lexi Ainsworth
Actress | A Girl Like Her
Born in Oklahoma City, Lexi began her career dancing on stage at an early age. This later lead to her acquiring the lead role of Scout in an Actors Equity production of To Kill a Mockingbird. But it was after attending a film camp in New York that she developed an interest in film and television. ...
39. Devon Murray
Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Devon Murray was born in County Kildare, Ireland in October 1988. His parents Michael and Fidelma Murray sent him to the Billie Barry when he was six, and within two weeks he landed a Tesco television ad. Within six months he was in his first movie, acting alongside Aidan Quinn in This Is My Father...
40. Jake Kasdan
Producer | Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Jake Kasdan was born on October 28, 1974 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) and Zero Effect (1998).
41. Jermaine Crawford
Actor | The Wire
Jermaine Crawford was born on October 28, 1992 in Maryland, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Wire (2002), Roxanne Roxanne (2017) and Person of Interest (2011).
42. Oliver Dimsdale
Actor | Downton Abbey
Oliver Dimsdale was born on October 28, 1972 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Downton Abbey (2010), Grantchester (2014) and The Last Czars (2019). He has been married to Zoë Tapper since December 30, 2008. They have one child.
43. Kevin Macdonald
Director | The Mauritanian
Kevin Macdonald was born on October 28, 1967 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a director and producer, known for The Mauritanian (2021), The Last King of Scotland (2006) and How I Live Now (2013). He has been married to Tatiana Macdonald since July 2, 1999. They have three children.
44. Edith Head
Costume Department | Sabrina
Edith Head was born on October 28, 1897 in San Bernardino, California, USA. She was a costume designer and actress, known for Sabrina (1954), All About Eve (1950) and The Sting (1973). She was previously married to Wiard Ihnen and Charles Head. She died on October 24, 1981 in Los Angeles, ...
45. Wes Ball
Director | Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Wes Ball was born on October 28, 1980 in the USA. He is a director, known for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), The Maze Runner (2014) and Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018).
46. Mark Derwin
Actor | Accepted
Mark James Derwin was born in Park Forest, Illinois. Mark Derwin is an actor, best known for roles in Accepted (2006), Guiding Light (1952) The Secret Life of an American Teenager (2008) How I Met Your Mother (2005) and One Life to Live (1968). Mark Derwin was previously married to Alecia Derwin ...
47. Neta Riskin
Actress | Shtisel
Neta Riskin was born on October 28, 1976 in Tel Aviv, Israel. She is an actress, known for Shtisel (2013), The Gordin Cell (2012) and Shelter (2017).
48. Griffin O'Neal
Actor | The Wraith
Griffin O'Neal was born on October 28, 1964 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Wraith (1986), April Fool's Day (1986) and Hadley's Rebellion (1983). He is married to JoAnne Berry. They have three children. He was previously married to Rima Belinda Uranga.
49. Laine MacNeil
Actress | Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Laine MacNeil was born on October 28, 1996 in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010), Horns (2013) and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012).
50. Dody Goodman
Actress | Grease
Her quivery, high-pitched, Southern-cracked tones were once described as sounding like "a Tweetie Pie cartoon bird strangling on peanut butter." Just the absurdity of that description fits comedienne Dody Goodman to a tee. One did not know what to make of her, but she could certainly induce ...