Celebrity Birthdays - December 26

December 26, 1:22 AMNY Music ExaminerSherrill Fulghum

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In many English countries today is Boxing Day, it is also St. Stephen's Day.  This also the day that these famous personalities were born.

Alan King - actor, comedian, musician born Irwin Alan Kniberg
Chris Daughtry - musician, tried out for "Rock Star: INXS" but he didn't make make auditioned for "American Idol" where he finished sixth in season 5; he has since gone on to a successful career as a rock musician with his band Daughtry
Colleen Dion - daytime soap opera actress
Donald Moffat - English born actor who attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA); has played the role of a US President twice, one real one fictional
Elsa De Giorgi - Italian born actress
Fred Schepisi - Australian born actor
Gerald Hopkins - actor (General Hospital)
Lonne Elder, III - writer, the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for a screen play - Sounder
Iris Ashley - Irish born actress
James Kottak - member of the rock band the Scorpions, is married to rock drummer Tommy Lee's sister
Jared Leto - actor and musician, is a member of the band 30 Seconds to Mars
Jessica Hergert - actress
John Lynch - Irish born actor
John Walsh - host of "America's Most Wanted", a show that helps hunt criminals; it was started after the kidnapping and death of his then six year old son Adam
Jose Luis Alcaine - award winning Moroccan born cinematographer
Kazuhisa Kawahara - Japanese born actor
Kathy McCarthy - actress
Lars Ulrich - Danish born musician and drummer for the heavy metal band Metallica; came to the US as a teen
Mieko Harada - Japanese born actress
Phile Spector - Songwriters and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician and producer; the title to his most famous song "To Know Him is to Love Him" was taken from the words written on his father's gravestone.
Rene L. Moreno - actor (CSI, NCIS)
Richard Widmark - radio host, voice over artist, and Gold Globe winning actor
Rob de Nijs - Dutch born actorRobert F. Metzler - television writer
Rolf Botvid - Swedish born actor
Ron Rauch - television and movie editor
Stephen Morahan - English born TV and movie director; photo was used in "The World is Not Enough" as a dead agent whose death Bond was investigating
Steve Allen - writer, composer, and game show panelist born Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen; as a wrestling commentator he used to make up names for the holds to make things sound more interesting, he was a prolific writer and composer
Tahnee Welch - actress born Latanne Rene Welch, daughter of Raquel Welch
Tiffany Brissette - actress, appeared in many television commercials when she was very young in the seventies
Tom Kouchalakos - actor (Wiseguy, Miami Vice)
Tricia Leigh Fisher - actress and daughter of Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens, half sister of Carrie "Princess Leia" Fisher
Valerie White - South African born actress
Yuri Nakae - Japanese born actress