Birth Month Day of 05-05 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Henry Cavill
Actor | Man of Steel
Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill was born on the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands. His mother, Marianne (Dalgliesh), a housewife, was also born on Jersey, and is of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Henry's father, Colin Richard Cavill, a stockbroker, is of ...
2. Jenna Davis
Actress | M3GAN
Jenna Davis was born on May 5, 2004 in Plano, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for M3GAN (2022), Lisa Frankenstein and Raven's Home (2017).
3. John Rhys-Davies
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the...
4. Lance Henriksen
Actor | Aliens
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch...
5. Zach McGowan
Actor | Dracula Untold
Zach McGowan was born and raised in New York City, where he started acting at an early age in school productions. His passion for the stage followed him through his high school and college years and landed him on the New York City stage in 2003 where he honed his craft in numerous off Broadway ...
6. Lisa Eilbacher
Actress | Beverly Hills Cop
Lisa Eilbacher was born in Saudi Arabia, the daughter of an oil company executive. She spent her most formative years in Paris. After moving to Beverly Hills, California with her family, she soon appeared on television on episodes of Wagon Train (1957), Laredo (1965), My Three Sons (1960), and ...
7. Santiago Cabrera
Actor | Big Little Lies
Santiago Cabrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Chilean parents, and grew up in London, Romania, Toronto, and Madrid. Although he considers Santiago, Chile, his hometown, he splits his time between London and Los Angeles.
Cabrera trained at London's prestigious Drama Centre under renowned ...
8. Chelsea Clark
Actress | Ginny & Georgia
Chelsea was born in Toronto, Ontario where she took an interest in music at a young age (singing and then piano). While taking lessons she ventured into musical theatre and performed in Legally Blonde, A Christmas Carol, Aladdin and more. Chelsea was also in local operas such as: Carmen, Tosca and ...
9. Richard E. Grant
Actor | Gosford Park
Richard E. Grant is an actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), winning various awards including the Independent Spirit ...
10. Danielle Fishel
Actress | Boy Meets World
Danielle Christine Fishel was born on May 5, 1981, in Mesa, Arizona. She began acting professionally at the age of ten, during which she made many TV guest appearances and commercials. She was originally a guest star on the show Boy Meets World (1993), but Danielle added a spark that the show ...
11. Tyrone Power
Actor | Witness for the Prosecution
Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century. His great-grandfather was the first Tyrone Power (1795-1841), a famed Irish comedian. His father, known ...
12. Vincent Kartheiser
Actor | Mad Men
Known to audiences worldwide as spitfire advertising executive "Pete Campbell" on Matthew Weiner's Golden Globe, Emmy, and SAG Award-winning drama series Mad Men (2007), Vincent Kartheiser has actually been acting since he was a teen. Starting with Untamed Heart (1993), alongside Marisa Tomei, ...
13. Clark Duke
Actor | Hot Tub Time Machine
Clark Duke is an actor, writer, and director best known for Clark and Michael, The Office, Kickass, and Hot Tub Time Machine.
Originally from Arkansas, Clark attended film school at Loyola Marymount University. His thesis film was the pilot for Clark and Michael.
Clark was most recently seen ...
14. Sage Stallone
Actor | Rocky V
Sage Stallone was an American actor and film director from Los Angeles. His best known role was Robert Balboa, Jr. (Rocky Balboa's son) in the sports drama film "Rocky V" (1990).
Stallone was the eldest son of actor Sylvester Stallone (1946-) and his first wife Sasha Czack. His parents married in ...
15. Roger Rees
Actor | Frida
Like a number of British actors of the same generation (John Hurt and Alan Rickman, to name two), Roger Rees originally trained for the visual arts. He was born on May 5 1944 in Aberystwyth, Wales, and acted in church and Boy Scouts stage productions while growing up in South London, but studied ...
16. Virginie Efira
Actress | Elle
Virginie Efira was born on May 5, 1977 in Brussels, Belgium. She is an actress and writer, known for Elle (2016), Victoria (2016) and Benedetta (2021). She was previously married to Patrick Ridremont.
17. Jessie Cave
Actress | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Jessie Cave studied Illustration and Animation at Kingston University, London, and worked backstage in various theatres before deciding to pursue acting.
She got a place at RADA to study Stage Management, but after watching some actors in rehearsal rooms she changed her mind and applied to drama ...
18. Kurt Sutter
Producer | Sons of Anarchy
Raised in the shadow of Rahway prison, Sutter spent most of his New Jersey childhood indoors, away from people, three feet from a TV screen. That's where he learned the essentials of storytelling and the comic significance of anvils.
After graduating from Rutgers University with a BA in Film, Kurt ...
19. Jerzy Skolimowski
Actor | The Avengers
Born in Lódz, Poland, in 1938. Director, playwright, scriptwriter, and actor. Graduated in ethnology, literature and history from Warsaw University in 1959. Graduated from Lódz Film Academy in directing in 1962. Feature debut: _Identification Marks - None_ (Rysopis, 1964, scr., dir, act.), awarded ...
20. Dylan Tays
Actress | Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Dylan Tays was born on May 5, 1971 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996), Waist Deep (2006) and CSI: NY (2004).
21. Tina Yothers
Actress | Family Ties
Green-eyed Tina Yothers began doing commercials when she was just three years old. The daughter of TV film producer Robert Yothers, she was born on May 5, 1973 in Whittier, California. Her three brothers (Jeff, Randy Poindexter Yothers and Cory 'Bumper' Yothers) had all acted in commercials. She ...
22. Marc Alaimo
Actor | Total Recall
Marc Alaimo was born on May 5, 1942 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor, known for Total Recall (1990), Tango & Cash (1989) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
23. Melinda Culea
Actress | Brotherly Love
Melinda Culea was born in a suburb of Chicago on May 5, 1955. At the age of 20, she moved to New York to join a prestigious modeling agency; her first marriage broke up in the process. After four years in New York, she moved to California to break into the TV industry. After doing a number of ...
24. Michael Palin
Actor | Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Michael Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python.
After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin/Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over ...
25. Pat Carroll
Actress | The Little Mermaid
Actress and entertainer Pat Carroll played everything from chatterbox wives to wicked stepsisters on TV, and from Gertrude Stein to Shakespeare's Falstaff on stage. Even at 80 plus, the plucky comedienne showed no sign of stopping any time The riotous Pat Carroll was born in Shreveport, Louisiana ...
26. Samantha Cope
Actress | Frankie Meets Jack
Samantha Cope was born on May 5, 1987 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Frankie Meets Jack (2023), A Deadly Deed (2021) and Insecure (2016). She has been married to Joey Lawrence since May 1, 2022. They have one child.
27. Bing Russell
Actor | The Magnificent Seven
Although best known as the deputy on Bonanza (1959) and Robert in The Magnificent Seven (1960), Russell was also well-known on a national level as the owner of the Portland Mavericks Baseball Club. Helming the only independent team in the Class-A Northwest League, Russell was an innovator. Before ...
28. Anton Pampushnyy
Actor | Balkanskiy rubezh
Anton Pampushnyy was born on May 5, 1982 in Tselinograd, Tselinogradskaya oblast, Kazakhskaya SSR, USSR [now Astana, Kazakhstan]. Anton is an actor, known for The Balkan Line (2019), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018) and Coma (2019). Anton is married to Monika Gossmann.
29. Charles Chaplin Jr.
Actor | Fangs of the Wild
Charles Chaplin Jr. was born on May 5, 1925 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Fangs of the Wild (1954), The Beat Generation (1959) and Matinee Theatre (1955). He was previously married to Martha Brown (nurse) and Susan Magness. He died on March 20, 1968 in ...
30. Brooke Hogan
Actress | Sand Sharks
Brooke Hogan was born on May 5, 1988 in Tampa, Florida, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Sand Sharks (2012), School of the Dead and Little Hercules in 3-D (2009).
31. Marion Bailey
Actress | Vera Drake
Marion Bailey was born on May 5, 1951 in Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Vera Drake (2004), Mr. Turner (2014) and Allied (2016).
32. Nicholas Guest
Actor | Trading Places
Nicholas Guest was born on May 5, 1951 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Trading Places (1983), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). He has been married to Pamela Guest since November 26, 1989. They have one child. He was ...
33. Michael Murphy
Actor | Manhattan
Michael Murphy was born in Los Angeles, California, to Georgia Arlyn (née Money), a teacher, and Bearl Branton Murphy, a salesman. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, Murphy attended the University of Arizona, Tucson, and then went to U.C.L.A. for his California teaching credential. From 1962 to ...
34. Tammy Wynette
Soundtrack | Cold Pursuit
Tammy once said: "I spent 15 minutes writing ["Stand by Your Man"], and a lifetime defending it". She was born Virginia Wynette Pugh on May 5, 1942, on her grandfather's cotton farm in Itawamba County, Mississippi. Tammy picked cotton as a child, and as a young woman worked as a waitress, a ...
35. Alice Faye
Soundtrack | Hello Frisco, Hello
As A&E's Biography put it, "She rose from the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen to become the most famous singing actress in the world. When the pressures of fame became too much, she had the courage to leave Hollywood on her own terms". Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on ...
36. Bobby Coleman
Actor | The Last Song
Bobby Coleman is an actor and contemporary artist born and raised in Pasadena, California. Following in the footsteps of his older sister, Holliston, Bobby began his acting career at the age of six. He quickly developed a passion for acting and began taking on a variety of roles in both television ...
37. Chris Brown
Actor | Takers
Christopher Maurice Brown is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. According to Billboard, Brown is one of the most successful R&B singers of his generation, having often been referred to by many contemporaries as the "King of R&B". His musical style has been defined as polyhedral, ...
38. Hannah Jeter
Actress | Vacation
Hannah Jeter was born on May 5, 1990 in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She is an actress, known for Vacation (2015), Rush (2008) and Hollywood Game Night (2013). She has been married to Derek Jeter since July 9, 2016. They have three children.
39. Will Hutchins
Actor | Shangani Patrol
Lanky and likable Will Hutchins was born in 1930 in Los Angeles, California, as Marshall Hutchason. He attended Pomona College and UCLA after spending two years as a cryptographer in the U.S. Army. Out of nowhere, he was discovered by a Warner Bros. TV talent scout and signed, despite having no ...
40. Ben Wright
Actor | The Sound of Music
Ben Wright was born May 5, 1915, to an English mother and an American father in London, England, UK. At 16, he entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where classmates included such future stars as Ida Lupino. Upon graduating, he acted in several West End stage productions. When WWII broke out, ...
41. Daisy Beaumont
Actress | The World Is Not Enough
Daisy Beaumont was born on May 5, 1974 in Kensington, London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for The World Is Not Enough (1999), A Touch of Cloth (2012) and Shanghai Knights (2003).
42. Ian Michael Smith
Actor | Simon Birch
Ian Michael Smith was born on May 5, 1987 in Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Simon Birch (1998).
43. Adele
Soundtrack | Skyfall
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is a British singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums worldwide and won a total of 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar. Adele's first two albums, 19 and 21, earned her critical praise and a level of commercial success unsurpassed among her peers. ...
44. Lisa Jane Persky
Actress | When Harry Met Sally...
Lisa Jane Persky (aka Eljay Persky) grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village and began her acting career at La Mama E.T.C. in H.M. Koutoukas' "Grandmother Is In The Strawberry Patch" as the "World's Most Perfect Teenager". She next crossed East 4th St. to co-star with Divine in Tom Eyen's "...
45. Sandy Baron
Actor | The Grifters
Sandy Baron was born Sanford Beresofsky in Brooklyn, New York on May 5, 1936. Raised in Brooklyn's Brownsville neighborhood, the young Sandy attended public schools and participated in accelerated classes. A graduate of Brooklyn College, he spent his early years working summers in the Catskill ...
46. Brian Williams
Editorial Department | NBC Nightly News
Brian Williams was born on May 5, 1959 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970), 30 Rock (2006) and Family Guy (1999). He has been married to Jane Gillian Stoddard since June 7, 1986. They have two children.
47. Jim Kelly
Actor | Enter the Dragon
With his funky Afro hairstyle, super cool attitude and superb karate skills, Jim Kelly was instantly identifiable, and one of the top martial arts film stars of the early 1970s. After appearing in a minor film role, Kelly's second screen effort was as one of the invited guests to the deadly Han's ...
48. Farhad Samji
Writer | Chennai Express
Farhad Samji was born on May 5, 1974 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He is a writer and director, known for Chennai Express (2013), Laxmii (2020) and Dilwale (2015).
49. Kalama Epstein
Actor | No Good Nick
Kalama Epstein was born and raised on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, and is the youngest of three children. His first name means "flaming torch" in Hawaiian. Performing runs in his genes, and he has been modeling and performing since he was a baby, with a lifelong passion for film and film-making. He ...
50. Heather Chadwell
Actress | Dog Eat Dog
Heather Chadwell was born on May 5, 1975 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She is an actress, known for Dog Eat Dog (2016), The Country Singer and Californication (2007).