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Entertainment Today in Birthdays and Deaths by Name for December 24

Last Updated 08-16-2025

🎭Laura Aikman -- is 40 in the year 2025 and 41 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1985 N.S.
Actress, English
TV Shows: Casualty, The Mysti Show (star)
Movie Titles: Keith Lemon: The Film, Freight

🎭Diedrich Bader -- is 59 in the year 2025 and 60 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1966
Actor, Comedian, Cartoon Voice Actor, Producer
TV Shows: Drew Carey Show (as Oswald Harvey), Center of the Universe (as Tommy Pressman), Miles from Tomorrowland, Veep, Outsourced, American Housewife (as Greg Otto)
Movie Titles: The Penguins of Madagascar, Ice Age, Office Space, Napoleon Dynamite

✍🎭Bobby (Actor) Bauer -- b.12/24/???? N.S.
Screenwriter, Actor, Producer/Director
Names/Places: aka Robert Bauer
Misc: b. c. 1950; retired from acting in 2003
TV Shows: Head Case (writer), Flying Blind
Movie Titles: This is Spinal Tap, 54, Father of the Bride

🎭Sofia Black-D'Elia -- is 34 in the year 2025 and 35 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1991 N.S.
Actress
TV Shows: The Messengers, Skins, Your Honor, The Mick (as Sabrina Pemberton)

🎭Soleil Borda -- is 30 in the year 2025 and 31 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1995
Actress
Misc: retired from acting in 2006
TV Shows: Still Standing (as Tina Miller)

🎭Grand L. Bush -- is 70 in the year 2025 and 71 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1955 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: The Visitor
Movie Titles: Die Hard, Demolition Man, Leathal Weapon (series)

🎭Patrice Chanel -- is 75 in the year 2025 and 76 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1950
Actress
Misc: retired from acting in 1998

🎭🎵Ana Brenda Contreras -- is 39 in the year 2025 and 40 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1986 N.S.
Actress, Singer, Mexican

✍🎭Lee Daniels -- is 66 in the year 2025 and 67 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1959 N.S.
Screenwriter, Producer/Director
TV Shows: Empire (creator and writer)
Movie Titles: The Paperboy (writer), Lee Daniels' The Butler (producer / director), Precious (producer / director)

🎭Daniel Durant -- is 36 in the year 2025 and 37 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1989 N.S.
Actor

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🎭Peter Galman -- is 80 in the year 2025 and 81 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1945
Actor

🎭Stephanie Hodge -- is 69 in the year 2025 and 70 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1956
TV Actress, Comedienne
TV Shows: Nurses (as Nurse Sandy Miller), Unhappily Ever After (as Jennie Malloy)
Movie Titles: Yes Man, Evolution

🎭Anil Kapoor -- is 66 in the year 2025 and 67 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1959 N.S.
Actor, Producer, Asia Indian
Names/Places: pron: ah-NEEL' kuh-POOR'
TV Shows: 24: India (as Jai Singh Rathod)
Movie Titles: Race 2, Mission: Impossible -Ghost Protocol; Slumdog Millionaire

🎭John Levene -- is 84 in the year 2025 and 85 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1941
Actor, English
TV Shows: Doctor Who (as Sergeant Benton)
Movie Titles: Wartime, The Death Wheelers, CanniBallistic!

🎭🎵Ricky Martin -- is 54 in the year 2025 and 55 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1971
Actor, Singer, Puerto Rican, Gay
Group Names: Menudo, soloist
Song Titles: Livin' La Vida Loca

✍🎭Nicholas Meyer -- is 80 in the year 2025 and 81 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1945 N.S.
Author, Screenwriter, Producer/Director
Book Titles: The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
TV Shows: The Day After (TV movie)
Movie Titles: Time After Time, Star Trek II

✍🎭Stephanie Meyer -- is 52 in the year 2025 and 53 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1973
Author, Actress, Producer
Book Titles: Twilight (series)

🎭Amaury Nolasco -- is 55 in the year 2025 and 56 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1970 N.S.
Actor, Producer, Puerto Rican
TV Shows: Deception, Prison Break (as Fernando Sucre), Telenovela
Movie Titles: Transformers, 2 Fast 2 Furious, A Good Day to Die Hard

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🎭🏆Burak Özçivit -- is 41 in the year 2025 and 42 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1984 N.S.
Actor, Model, Turkish

🎭Matt Passmore -- is 52 in the year 2025 and 53 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1973 N.S.
Actor, Producer, Australian
TV Shows: The Glades (as Jim Longworth), McLeod's Daughters, Satisfaction (as Neil Truman)
Movie Titles: Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?

🎭Taylor Zakhar Perez -- is 34 in the year 2025 and 35 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1991 N.S.
Actor

🎭Wendee Pratt -- is 64 in the year 2025 and 65 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1961
Actress
Misc: retired from acting in 2000
Movie Titles: 28 Days, True Colours, Animal Factory

🎭Michael Raymond-James -- is 48 in the year 2025 and 49 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1977
Actor, Director
TV Shows: Once Upon a Time, True Blood
Movie Titles: Jack Reacher, Black Snake Moan, The Finest Hours

🎭Gregory Scott -- is 40 in the year 2025 and 41 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1985
Director

🎭🎵Ryan Seacrest -- is 51 in the year 2025 and 52 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1974
TV Host, Radio Disc Jock
Misc: radio: American Top 40 (host), On Air with Ryan Seacrest (host)
TV Shows: American Idol: The Search for a Superstar (host), Dick Clark's Rockin' New Years Eve with Ryan Seacrest, Live with Kelly and Ryan

🎭Austin Stowell -- is 41 in the year 2025 and 42 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1984 N.S.
Actor
Movie Titles: Whiplash, Bridge of Spies, Love and Honor, Dolphin Tale (series), 12 Strong

🎭Eva Tamargo -- is 65 in the year 2025 and 66 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1960
Actress
Names/Places: LN:Lemus
TV Shows: Passions (as Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald), The Haves and the Have Nots (as Celine Gonzales)
Movie Titles: American Bred, Any Given Sunday

🎭Mark Valley -- is 61 in the year 2025 and 62 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1964
Actor, Producer/Director
TV Shows: Boston Legal (as Brad Chase), Human Target, Famous in Love
Movie Titles: The Siege, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

🎭Carol Vorderman -- is 65 in the year 2025 and 66 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1960 N.S.
Game Show Hostess, English
TV Shows: Countdown, Loose Women

🎭Wade Williams -- is 64 in the year 2025 and 65 in the year 2026; b.12/24/1961 N.S.
Actor
TV Shows: The Bernie Mac Show, Prison Break (as Captain Brad Belick)
Movie Titles: Gangster Squad, The Dark Knight Rises, Collateral

🎭Finn Wolfhard -- is 23 in the year 2025 and 24 in the year 2026; b.12/24/2002 N.S.
Actor

🎭John Barron -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1920 d.7/3/2004 (83)
Actor, English

🎭Jill Bennett -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1931 d.10/4/1990 (58)
Movie Actress
Movie Titles: For Your Eyes Only

🎭Michael Billington -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1941 d.6/3/2005 (63)
Actor, English
TV Shows: UFO, Edward The Seventh, The Collectors
Movie Titles: The Spy Who Loved Me, Alfred the Great, KGB: The Secret War

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🎭🎵Karla Burns -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1954 N.S. d.6/4/2021 N.S. (66)
Actress, Opera Mezzo-Soprano

🎭Janet Carroll -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1940 d.5/22/2012 (71)
Actress
TV Shows: Bonnie Hunt Show (as Diane Fulton)
Movie Titles: Risky Business

✍🎭Ruth Chatterton -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1893 d.11/24/1961 (67)
Novelist, Movie Actress

🎭Barry Chuckle -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1944 N.S. d.8/5/2018 N.S. (73)
Comedian, English
Misc: of The Chuckle Brothers team with his brother Paul
TV Shows: ChuckleVision (children's comedy show)

🎭Josephine Cohan -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1876 N.S. d.7/12/1916 N.S. (39)
Dancer
Names/Places: George M.'s sister

📰🎭Elizabeth "May" Craig -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1889 d.7/15/1975 (85)
Newscaster, Correspondent, Journalist, Panelist

🎭Michael Curtiz -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1898 d.4/11/1962 (63)
Movie Director, Hungarian
Names/Places: RN:Mihaly Kertesz
Misc: over 100 more films for Warner Bros.; b. 1888?
Movie Titles: Casablanca

🎭David H. DePatie -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1929 N.S. d.9/23/2021 N.S. (91)
TV/Movie Producer
Misc: DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, Marvel Productions

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📰🎭Nola Dolberg -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1901 d.10/10/1994 (92)
Newscaster, Movie Actress

🎭Sharon Farrell -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1940 N.S. d.5/15/2023 N.S. (82)
Actress, Dancer
Names/Places: b. in Sioux City Iowa; RN: Sharon Lee Forsmoe
Misc: some say b. in 1948
TV Shows: Saints & Sinners, Rituals, Hawaii Five-O (as Cherry Lane or Lori Wilson)
Movie Titles: Can't Buy Me Love, It's Alive, Night of the Comet, Lone Wolf McQuade

🎭Ava Gardner -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1922 d.1/25/1990 (67)
TV/Movie Actress
Names/Places: b. in Smithfield, NC; MN:Lavinia; Mickey Rooney's, then Artie Shaw's, then Frank Sinatra's ex-
Misc: Movie beauty of 1940s-50s
TV Shows: Knots Landing (as Ruth Galveston)

🎭Clarence Gilyard Jr. -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1955 N.S. d.11/28/2022 N.S. (66)
Actor, Producer/Director
Misc: AP and USA says b. in 1955
TV Shows: CHiPs (as Off. Webster), The Duck Factory, Matlock (as Conrad McMasters), Walker Texas Ranger (as James Trivette)
Movie Titles: Die Hard, Top Gun

🎭Hartford Gunn -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1926 d.1/2/1986 N.S. (59)
TV Executive
Misc: founded PBS

🎭Carol Haney -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1924 d.5/10/1964 (39)
Movie/Stage Actress, Panelist, Choreographer, Dancer
TV Shows: Pantotime Quiz

⚛💰🎭🏆🏁Howard Robard Hughes -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1905 N.S. d.4/5/1976 N.S. (72)
Hall of Famer, Aviator, Industrialist, Multimillionaire, Movie Producer, Racing Figure
Names/Places: b. in Houston, TX; d. in Houston
Misc: Pilot Of The Spruce Goose, reclusive billionaire, moviemaker, plane builder; in the Motorsports Hall of Fame

🎭Dorothy Hyson -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1914 d.5/23/1996 (81)
Actress

🎭Robert Joffrey -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1930 d.3/25/1988 (57)
Choreographer, Ballet Dancer
Names/Places: RN:Abdullah Jaffa Bey Khan

🎭Moose the Dog -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1990 d.6/22/2006 (15)
Animal Star
Misc: a Dog; AP says Dec 25, 1989; IMDB says Dec 24, 1990, Wikipedia says Dec 24, 1990; Eddie the character born either May 7 or 15, 1990 according to Wikipedia.
TV Shows: Frasier (as Eddie)

🎭Moses J. Moseley -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1990 N.S. d.1/26/2022 N.S. (31)
Actor

🎭Thelma Pelish -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1926 d.3/6/1983 (56)
Actress

🎭Robert Ridgely -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1931 d.2/8/1997 (65)
Actor
Misc: known for both on-camera roles and extensive voice-over work.

🎭Norman Rossington -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1928 d.5/21/1999 (70)
Actor

✍🎭Bob (Comedian) Smith -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1958 N.S. d.1/20/2018 N.S. (59)
Author, Comedian, Gay
Book Titles: Growing Up Gay: From Left Out to Coming Out

✍🎭🎵Brandon Thomas -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1848 N.S. d.6/19/1914 N.S. (65)
Author, Playwright, Actor, Songwriter, English
Misc: sources give b. 1850, 1857, 1826, 1856 and 1848
Book Titles: Charley's Aunt (a farce)

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🎭Charles D. Waldron -- Birth Anniversary -- b.12/24/1874 d.3/4/1946 (71)
Movie/Stage Actor

🎭🎵Rossano Brazzi -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/18/1916 N.S. d.12/24/1994 N.S. (78)
Actor, Singer, Italian
Misc: some say b. 1915
TV Shows: The Survivors
Movie Titles: South Pacific

🎭Nana Bryant -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/23/1888 d.12/24/1955 (67)
Actress
TV Shows: Our Miss Brooks (as Mrs. Nestor)

🎭Cheetah The Chimp -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/9/1931 d.12/24/2011 N.S. (80)
Animal Star
Movie Titles: Tarzan (as comic sidekick 1932-1934)

🎭Charles Durning -- Death Anniversary -- b.2/28/1923 d.12/24/2012 (89)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor
Names/Places: b. in Highland Falls, N.Y.
Misc: stage: Cat on a Hot Tin roof, That Championship Season, The Gin Game
TV Shows: Cop & the Kid, Captains & the Kings, Studs Lonigan (miniseries as Mr. Lonigan), Evening Shade (as Harlan Elldridge)
Movie Titles: The Greek Tycoon, Starting Over, North Dallas Forty, The Muppet Movie, Die Laughing, Scarface, The Sting, Dog Day Afternoon, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Tootsie, To Be or Not To Be, Home For The Holidays, The Hudsucker Proxy

🎭Harvey Evans -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/7/1941 N.S. d.12/24/2021 N.S. (80)
Actor, Dancer
Movie Titles: West Side Story (two different roles in the 1961 and 2021 versions)

🎭Edmund Goulding -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/20/1891 d.12/24/1959 (68)
Movie Director, British

🎭🎵Tito Guizar -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/8/1908 d.12/24/1999 (91)
Movie Actor, Singer, Mexican

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🎭Julie Haydon -- Death Anniversary -- b.6/10/1910 d.12/24/1994 (84)
Movie/Stage Actress

🎭Ian Hendry -- Death Anniversary -- b.1/13/1931 d.12/24/1984 (53)
Actor

⛪🎭Jack Klugman -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/27/1922 d.12/24/2012 (90)
Jewish, TV/Movie/Stage Actor
Names/Places: b. in Philadelphia
TV Shows: Harris Against the Wind (star), The Odd Couple (as Oscar Madison), Quincy M.E. (as Dr. R. Quincy), You Again? (as Henry Willows)

✍🎭James Komack -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/3/1924 N.S. d.12/24/1997 N.S. (73)
Comedy Writer, Actor, Comedian, Producer/Director
Misc: Damn Yankees
TV Shows: Hennesey (as Harvey Spencer Blair III), Courtship of Eddie's Father (as Norman Tinker and creator), Chico and the Man (creator), Welcome Back Kotter (creator)

🎭Peter Lawford -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/7/1923 d.12/24/1984 (61)
TV/Movie Actor, English
Names/Places: b. in London; Patricia Kennedy's hubby
TV Shows: The Thin Man (as Nick Charles)

✍🎭David Leland -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/20/1941 N.S. d.12/24/2023 N.S. (82)
Screenwriter, Actor, Director, English
Movie Titles: Virgin Territory, Wish You Were Here, Mona Lisa, Time Bandits

🎭Alexander Mackendrick -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/8/1912 d.12/24/1993 (81)
Director, British

🎭Heather Menzies -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/3/1949 d.12/24/2017 N.S. (68)
Actress, Canadian
Names/Places: Robert Urich's wife
Misc: retired from acting in 1990
TV Shows: Logan's Run (as Jessica)
Movie Titles: Tall Gunner Joe, The Sound of Music, Piranha, Sssssss

🎭Toshiro Mifune -- Death Anniversary -- b.4/1/1920 N.S. d.12/24/1997 N.S. (77)
TV/Movie Actor, Japanese
Misc: Japan's biggest international star (like John Wayne)
TV Shows: Shogun's Lord Toranaga

🎭Dick Orkin -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/9/1933 d.12/24/2017 N.S. (84)
Hall of Famer, Actor, Radio Actor, Comedian, Cartoon Voice Actor
Misc: of Dick & Bert (Berdis) in commercials 1970-80s; Chicago's voice and genius behind Chickenman and the Tooth Fairy; some say b. 1934
TV Shows: The Tim Conway Show

✍💰🎭John Osborne -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/12/1929 N.S. d.12/24/1994 N.S. (65)
Diarist, Screenwriter, Playwright, Entrepreneur, Actor, English
Names/Places: b. in London; wed 5x's
Misc: a critic of the Establishment
Book Titles: Look Back in Anger, Tom Jones

✍🎭Virgilia Peterson -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/16/1904 N.S. d.12/24/1966 N.S. (62)
Lecturer, Author, TV Hostess
TV Shows: Author Meets the Critics

✍🎭Harold Pinter -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/10/1930 N.S. d.12/24/2008 N.S. (78)
Screenwriter, Playwright, Actor, Director, English
Names/Places: b. in London

🎭Edward Power -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/25/1936 N.S. d.12/24/2021 N.S. (85)
Actor
TV Shows: Melrose Place (as Phil Ross)

🎭🎵Walter B. Rogers -- Death Anniversary -- b.10/14/1865 d.12/24/1939 (74)
Director, Musician, Cornetist, Conductor

🎭Melville Ruick -- Death Anniversary -- b.7/8/1898 d.12/24/1972 (74)
Actor, Announcer
Names/Places: Barbara's dad

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🎭Liz (Actress) Smith -- Death Anniversary -- b.12/11/1921 N.S. d.12/24/2016 N.S. (95)
Actress, Cartoon Voice Actress, English
TV Shows: The Royle Family (as Norma Speakman)
Movie Titles: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Keeping Mum, "The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover"

🎭Frank Stanton -- Death Anniversary -- b.3/20/1908 d.12/24/2006 (98)
Hall of Famer, TV Executive
Misc: of CBS

🎭Norma Talmadge -- Death Anniversary -- b.5/26/1895 d.12/24/1957 (62)
Movie Actress

🎭Viper -- Death Anniversary -- b.9/12/1959 d.12/24/2010 (51)
XXX-rated Actress

🎭Noel Willman -- Death Anniversary -- b.8/4/1918 N.S. d.12/24/1988 N.S. (70)
Actor, Stage Director, Irish
Movie Titles: Doctor Zhivago, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Warriors

🎭Kamar de los Reyes -- Death Anniversary -- b.11/8/1967 N.S. d.12/24/2023 N.S. (56)
Actor, Puerto Rican
TV Shows: One Life to Live
Movie Titles: Sleepy Hollow
Video Games: Call of Duty: Black Ops II

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