Jimbo’s Birthday Wishes (06/22/26)

Joe Dempsie is 39.  Gendry on “Game of Thrones”.

Alicia Goranson is 52.  Becky Conner on “Roseanne”.

Donald Faison is 52.  Chris Turk on “Scrubs”.

Carson Daly is 53.  Host of “The Voice”, and “Last Call with Carson Daly”.

Mary Lynn Rajskub is 55.  Chloe on “24”.

Kurt Warner is 55.  Retired quarterback who led the St. Louis Rams to their Super Bowl 34 victory against the Tennessee Titans (23-16).  Warner was the MVP.

Steven Page is 56.  Former Barenaked Ladies singer.  His second cousin is Canadian superstar Snow.

Michael Trucco is 56.  Sam Anders, the cylon who married Starbuck on “Battlestar Galactica”.

Dan Brown is 62.  Author of “Angels & Demons”, “The Da Vinci Code”, “The Lost Symbol”, “Inferno”, and the fifth book in the series, “Origin“.

Amy Brenneman is 62.  Dr. Violet Turner on “Private Practice”.

Erin Brockovich-Ellis is 66.  Underestimated legal clerk who led a legendary lawsuit against an electric company that was dumping chemicals into ponds near their facility.  Julia Roberts won an Oscar for playing her on screen.

Tracy Pollan is 66.  Michael J. Fox’s wife.  And his girlfriend on “Family Ties”.

Bruce Campbell is 68.  Acting god from the “Evil Dead” movies and the Starz series “Ash vs Evil Dead”, Elvis in the severely underrated cult flick “Bubba Ho-Tep”, and Sam Axe on “Burn Notice”.

Cyndi Lauper is 73.  “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun“, “Time After Time“, “She Bop“, “All Through the Night“, and the original version of “True Colors“.

Meryl Streep is 77.  She’s received 21 Oscar nominations . . . and won three:

1)  “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980.  2)  “Sophie’s Choice” in 1983.  3)  “The Iron Lady” in 2012.

Lindsay Wagner is 77.  “The Bionic Woman”.

Kris Kristofferson  (1936 – 2024)

David l. Lander  (1947 – 2020)  Squiggy on “Laverne & Shirley”.

Freddie Prinze  (1954 – 1977)  “Chico & The Man“.  Freddie Prinze Junior’s dad.

Ed Bradley  (1941 – 2006)  “60 Minutes” stud.

Billy Wilder  (1906 – 2002)  Writer-director of “Sunset Boulevard” and “Some Like It Hot” among others.  But his greatest achievement:  Telling Billy Bob Thornton that he was TOO UGLY to be an actor.

Wilder suggested that Billy Bob write his own screenplay to exploit his homeliness.  Billy Bob did . . . and won an Oscar for “Sling Blade” in 1996.

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