Jimbo’s Birthday Wishes (07/30/26)

Joey King is 27.  Sandra Bullock’s daughter in the upcoming “Practical Magic 2”.  And Selena Gomez’s kid sister in “Ramona and Beezus”.

Finneas O’Connell is 29.  Billie Eilish’s older brother.

Gina Rodriguez is 42.  She IS “Jane the Virgin”.  Now she’s the Assistant District Attorney dating Will on “Will Trent”.

Yvonne Strahovski is 44.  Serena Joy on “The Handmaid’s Tale”.  Before that you just knew her as Hannah McKay on “Dexter”, Kate Morgan on “24:  Live Another Day”, and CIA agent Sarah Walker on NBC’s spy comedy “Chuck”.

Hope Solo is 45.  Olympic and World Cup hero who was one of the greatest female goalkeepers in the world.

Diva Zappa is 47.  Frank’s youngest daughter . . . sister of Moon Unit, Dweezil and Ahmet Zappa.

Jaime Pressly is 49.  Jill Kendall on “Mom” and Joy on “My Name is Earl”.

Hilary Swank is 52.  She won the Best Actress Oscars for “Million Dollar Baby” AND for “Boys Don’t Cry”.  You may also remember her as Mr. Miyagi’s student, Julie Pierce, in “The Next Karate Kid”.  She survived that movie.  Thus, no Oscar.

Tom Green is 55.  Writer, director, and star of “Freddy Got Fingered”.

Christine Taylor is 55.  Sally Sitwell on “Arrested Development”. She was also in “Zoolander”, “Zoolander 2” and “Dodgeball” with her now-ex-husband Ben Stiller. Before that, she was Marsha in “The Brady Bunch” movies.

Christopher Nolan is 56.  Director of “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Dunkirk”, “Memento” and “Inception”.

Simon Baker is 57.  Patrick Jane on “The Mentalist”.

Terry Crews is 58.  #MeToo Silence Breaker.  Better known as Hale Caesar in “The Expendables” movies, and star of those weird Old Spice commercials.

Vivica A. Fox is 62.  Cookie’s older sister Candace on “Empire”, Vernita Green in the “Kill Bill” movies, Lucinda in “Ella Enchanted”, and Will Smith’s wife in the “Independence Day” movies.

Lisa Kudrow is 63.  Phoebe on “Friends”.

Laurence Fishburne is 65.  Morpheus in “The Matrix” . . . and Anthony Anderson’s Pops on “Black-ish”.

Richard Linklater is 66.  “Boyhood” director.  He also did “School of Rock”, and “Dazed and Confused”.

Kate Bush is 68.  “Wuthering Heights“ and “Running Up That Hill“.

Delta Burke is 70.  Suzanne Sugarbaker on “Designing Women”.

Anita Hill is 70.  Not a fan of Clarence Thomas.

Frank Stallone is 76.  Sylvester’s brother.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is 79 . . . and still making “Terminator” movies.  2019’s “Terminator: Dark Fate“ was the sixth movie in the series.

William Atherton is 79.  Character actor known for playing EPA inspector Walter Peck in “Ghostbusters”, and reporter Richard Thornburg in “Die Hard”.

Paul Anka is 85.  “(You’re) Having My Baby“, “Put Your Head on My Shoulder“, and “Lonely Boy“.  He’s also Jason Bateman’s father-in-law.  Jason is married to Paul’s daughter, Amanda.

Dick Wilson, a.k.a. “Mr. Whipple”.  (1916 – 2007)  Classic Charmin TP spokesman.

Henry Ford  (1863 – 1947)

Emily Bronte  (1818 – 1848)  British author who wrote “Wuthering Heights” . . . the classic novel that inspired the song by Kate Bush . . . who turns 66 today.

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