Birthdays: July 24

Mateo was born in Puerto Rico, relocating in 2001 to Orlando, Florida, where he worked as a dancer and performer at Disney World.

He began his drag career in 2006, eventually wining several gay pageants as well as performing at venues and events both locally and throughout the United States.

In addition to his drag career, he is a fashion designer, winning the 2001 'Inter Fashion Award' for Best Fashion Designer, and an AIDS awareness activist, being featured in a biopharmaceutical company's ad titled "Red Ribbon Runway".

Attractive Hollywood leading man (and sometime villain) from the late 30s until his death following surgery, Alan Curtis (Harry Ueberroth) was born 24 July 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in that area and in the early 1930s became a model, appearing in many magazine and newspaper advertisements. His looks did not go unnoticed in Hollywood, and he soon found himself in the movie business. He became a leading man, and was very popular in the 1940s, appearing in at least 26 movies. He died of complications of surgery on 2 February 1953 in New York City and is buried in the Ueberroth family plot in Evanston, Illinois.

Aldo Braga was born on 24 July 1931 in San Lorenzo, Santa Fe, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Por el nombre de Dios (1999), La maestra enamorada (1961) and Lo que vendrá (1988). He died on 14 January 2005 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Alexandra Hay was born on 24 July 1947 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), Model Shop (1969) and Skidoo (1968). She died on 11 October 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

His paternal grandparents were Marie Cessete Dumas (a Haitian slave) and Marquis Antoine Davy de la Pailleterie. Antoine disapproved of their son, Thomas-Alexandre, joining the French army under the "Davy de la Pailleterie" name, so Thomas-Alexandre used his mother's surname instead. He became a valued general of Napoleon, and after he married the daughter of a local tavern owner, Thomas-Alexandre had a son of his own. This son was Alexandre Dumas, who became world-famous as the author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo".

Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, USA. She was a writer, known for Xavier Riddle and the Secret Movie: I Am Madam President! (2020). She was married to George Palmer Putnam. She died on 5 January 1939 in Pacific Ocean.

Born in Minneapolis Minnesota, Amy Buchwald began her training, as an actress at the age of eleven at the nationally renowned Minneapolis Children's Theater Company. She was the first to initiate a program consisting of a half a day of academia and a half a day training in the theater arts, an idea that went on to become known as the Urban Arts Program. Such training included acting; mime; comedia del arte; dance, jazz and ballet; singing and clown training. In addition to appearing in main stage productions Amy also toured around the country with the Children's Theater Company. By age sixteen she was a professional, an equity member and resident ingénue at the famous Cricket and Guthrie Theaters. During this time she received critical acclaim for her performances in such plays as: Blues, The Trip Back Down, Fifth of July, Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Member of the Wedding, King Lear, The Tempest, Getting Out, The House of Bernarda Alba. As a a playwright Ms. Buchwald's one-woman show Glenda from the Heart was excerpted on PBS. Also, in the theater world, Amy has written the book and lyrics for the musical play Touch.

She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with degrees in English and Art History, with focus in theater, dance, playwriting, and directing. Her work and training goes on to include such prestigious theatrical facilities as The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Circle In The Square NYC, and Shakespeare LA.

Ana Cristina de Oliveira was born on 24 July 1973 in Lisbon, Portugal. She is an actress, known for Taxi (2004), Miami Vice (2006) and Carga (2018).

Andrew Ellis was born in Wythenshawe, Manchester. He first found a passion for acting in high school, Where he was spotted by casting director Michelle Smith. Michelle auditioned Andrew for several projects one of which was 2006's Shane Meadows BAFTA winning film 'This is England'. Andrew has since gone on to star in a number of film and television productions, reprising his role as the lovable 'Gadget' in 'This is England' Television series.

As well as success in front of the camera Andrew is a keen writer and director, Andrew was one of the founding members of the award winning UNILAD original video team where he was head of fictional video until 2018 after leaving Andrew has since set up his own production company 'Odd Drawer Digital'.

Anna Paquin is the first millennial to have received an Academy Award nomination for acting, and the first to win.

She was born on July 24, 1982 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Mary (Brophy), an English teacher from Wellington, New Zealand, and Brian Paquin, a Canadian phys-ed teacher. Anna moved to her mother's native country when she was four years old. Her first acting job ever was at age nine in the movie The Piano (1993), which was shot in New Zealand. At age 16, she relocated to Los Angeles where she completed her last two years of high school (graduating in 2000). She then moved to New York where she attended Columbia University for one year. Between 2001 and 2004, she worked almost exclusively on stage in both New York and London. In 2007, Anna was cast in HBO's True Blood (2008), which concluded shooting its seventh and final season in 2014.

Barry Bonds was born on July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California. He is known for his outstanding abilities on the baseball diamond, where he has won the National League Most Valuable Player Award three times. While playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates he received a cameo appearance in the baseball film "Rookie of the Year". He played for the Pittsburgh Pirates 1986 to 1992 and San Francisco Giants, 1993 to 2007. He was one of the highest paid players in Major League Baseball.

Basil Ruysdael was born on 24 July 1878 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Pinky (1949), Broken Arrow (1950) and Colorado Territory (1949). He was married to Kathleen Dobbyn, Rose Swettenham and Eleanor Mason Manierre. He died on 10 October 1960 in Hollywood, California, USA.

A popular labor, civil rights, and feminist activist, Abzug became the first Jewish woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1970. She was a 1947 graduate of Columbia Law School and the counsel for several of Sen. Josephy McCarthy's targets in the 1950s.

Billy Taylor was born on 24 July 1921 in Greenville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Mr. Church (2016), Film '72 (1971) and The World Unseen (2007). He was married to Theodora Taylor. He died on 28 December 2010 in New York City, New York, USA.

Bindi Irwin was born on 24 July 1998 in Buderim, Queensland, Australia. She is an actress, known for Return to Nim's Island (2013), Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove (2010) and Bindi, the Jungle Girl (2007). She has been married to Chandler Powell since 25 March 2020. They have one child.

Carley McCord was a producer, known for NFLVR Live! (2012) and Beyond the Pom Poms (2014). She was married to Steve Ensminger. She died on 28 December 2019 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.

Carlos Scazziotta was born in 1937 in Argentina. He was an actor, known for Los chiflados del batallón (1975), Te necesito tanto, amor (1976) and Estoy hecho un demonio (1972). He died on 6 June 2001 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Chad Christ was born on 24 July 1974 in Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Jawbreaker (1999), Gattaca (1997) and Ricky 6 (2000).

Actor, author, and musician Chief Dan George was born in present-day North Vancouver as Geswanouth Slahoot (later anglicized as 'Dan Slaholt'), the son of a tribal chief on Burrard Indian Reserve Nº. 3. He is the only Aboriginal actor in Canadian history to date with the right to use the title "Chief", serving as leader of the Squamish First Nation of Burrard Inlet from 1951-63, and retained the honorary title after his term ended. His last name was changed to George when at age 5 he entered a mission boarding school where the use of his native language was discouraged, if not forbidden.

Until 1959, he had worked as a longshoreman, logger, bus driver, and itinerant musician. After spending much of his early life as a longshoreman, a construction worker, and a school-bus driver, Chief Dan George auditioned for the role of Ol' Antoine on Cariboo Country (1960), a CBC series, and won the part. He made his screen debut at age 65. On the strength of his performance in the series, and after playing the same part in Smith! (1969), a Disney adaptation of one of the show's episodes based on "Breaking Smith's Quarterhorse", a novella by Paul St. Pierre, and starring Glenn Ford, he was asked to play "Old Lodge Skins" in Little Big Man (1970). This role led to an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1970. He continued to appear in films and became an accomplished stage actor. He died in 1981 on the same Indian reserve where he was born in North Vancouver at age 82.

Chris Haywood was born on 24 July 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and production manager, known for Sleeping Beauty (2011), Quigley Down Under (1990) and Muriel's Wedding (1994).

The handsome, weird and worldly-looking Chris Sarandon has shown his versatility in everything from vampires to Jesus Christ in hypnotic performances that have been controversial but irresistible. He was born Christopher Sarandon, Jr. and raised in Beckley, West Virginia of Greek heritage on both sides (family surname originally Sarondonethes). His mother Cliffie (Cardullias) and father Christopher Sarandon, Sr. were restaurateurs.

As a teen, Chris appeared locally on the musical stage and played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones. His band toured following high school and backed up such music legends as Bobby Darin, Gene Vincent and Danny and the Juniors. Chris later attended West Virginia University majoring in speech, but appearing in such musical productions as "The Music Man" as Harold Hill. He went on to attend the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he received his master's degree in theater and met first wife Susan Sarandon. They married in 1967.

Touring with improv companies and in regional theater productions, he made his professional debut in "The Rose Tattoo" in 1965 and later joined the Long Wharf Theatre Company for a season. The Sarandons moved to New York in 1968, wherein the dark and handsome charmer immediately nabbed the role of Dr. Tom Halverson on the daytime soap Guiding Light (1952), a part that would last two years. Throughout the 1970s he would be rewarded with rich theater acting roles. On Broadway he appeared in "The Rothchilds" and replaced Raul Julia in "Two Gentlemen from Verona" while appearing elsewhere in various Shakespeare and Shaw festivals both here and in Canada.

Chris made a phenomenally successful film debut in a huge, career-risking part as bank robber's Al Pacino's tormented, gender-confused lover in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), earning the New York Film Critics award and Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his supporting turn. He took other sordid roles as well, this time in co-leads, such as opposite Margaux Hemingway in the poorly received exploitative thriller Lipstick (1976) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel (1977). To avoid being typed as creepy characters, Chris furthered his range of roles in years to come, including the title role in The Day Christ Died (1980), a critically heralded TV-movie. He then received high marks also for his mesmerizing interpretation of two completely different characters with unique subtlety, intelligence, charisma and profoundness as both Sydney Carton and Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities (1980) and co-starred with Goldie Hawn in the more mainstream Protocol (1984). By the end of the 1970's, he and Susan would divorce and he would remarry (model Lisa Ann Cooper).

Moving into 80s work, Chris endeared himself to a younger generation of film goers with memorable performances in enjoyable roles such as the undeniably sexy, magnetic vampire-next-door in the teen horror classic Fright Night (1985), the cruel, evil-plotting prince in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride (1987) and as the investigating cop in Child's Play (1988), the first in the "Chucky" series about a murdering doll. In recent years Chris has continued steadily on stage, film and TV but at a lesser pace and in less flashy, high-profiled roles.

In 1991 he co-starred on Broadway in the short-lived musical "Nick and Nora" with Joanna Gleason, the daughter of Monty Hall (Let's Make a Deal (1963)). Again divorced, he and Gleason married in 1994 and reunited on stage in "Thorn & Bloom" in 1998. They have also appeared together in a number of films, including American Perfekt (1997), Edie & Pen (1996) and Let the Devil Wear Black (1999). He found frightful fun and a major cartoon niche as the voice of Jack Skellington in the original Disney movie The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), reprising the role in sequels, video games and Halloween special events.

Into the millennium, Chris' focus has been more on Broadway and off-Broadway theatre with flavorful roles in "The Light in the Piazza," "Cyrano de Bergerac," "Through a Glass Darkly and "The Exonerated." In the 2015 production of "Preludes," he played multiple roles that included Chekhov, Tchaikovsky and Tolstoy. He has also sporadically appeared in films with featured parts in Perfume (2001), Loggerheads (2005), My Sassy Girl (2008), a cameo as a vampire victim in a remake of Fright Night (2011), Safe (2012) and Frank the Bastard (2013), Big Stone Gap (2014) and I Smile Back (2015). He has also uplifted a number of popular TV shows with his presence: "ER," "Charmed," "Cold Case," "Judging Amy," "Law and Order," "The Good Wife," "Orange Is the New Black" and as the voice of Dracula in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

Lovely, exotic-looking, hazel-eyed blonde Constance Dowling was born on July 24, 1920, in New York City, and raised there. One of four children, her younger sister, Doris Dowling, followed her into show business; her two brothers, Richard and Robert did not. Following graduation from Wadleigh High School for Girls, she took classes at the New Theatre School. Lying about her age, a teenage Constance started her career off as a New York model, chorus girl, and nightclub dancer.

Appearing in a number of Broadway productions, she made a minor debut in the 1939 play "Quiet City," directed by Elia Kazan with whom she had a major affair. She then went on to appear in "Liliom" "Panama Hattie (with sister Doris), "Hold On to Your Hats" (Al Jolson's last Broadway show) and "The Strings, My Lord, Are False." In 1943, she moved to California test her luck in films. Briefly favored by mogul Samuel Goldwyn as one of his "Goldwyn Girls," he handed her the prime role of sweet nurse and love interest Mary Morgan in Danny Kaye's second musical movie vehicle Up in Arms (1944). Despite Constance's Broadway musical background, co-star/rival Dinah Shore was handed all the female songs in the picture. Handsome Dana Andrews complete the romantic quadrangle.

In the same year, Constance appeared opposite Nelson Eddy (in his post-Jeanette MacDonald film days), starring as a radical journalist, in the 17th century musical comedy Knickerbocker Holiday (1944). As the only female love interest this time, she would also be pursued by crafty colonial governor Charles Coburn. Although the film version watered-down the political satire and scrapped most of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Broadway songs in favor of new ones by the pair and by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, Constance did manage to impress with her vocals on new tunes "One More Smile" and "Love Has Made This Such a Lovely Day".

When Goldwyn lost interest in Constance, preferring to promote fellow blonde Virginia Mayo instead, Constance moved on and earned a second femme lead in the romantic comedy The Well Groomed Bride (1946) starring Olivia de Havilland and the femme lead in the Universal film noir Black Angel (1946) co-starring Dan Duryea and June Vincent. She was next loaned to Columbia to play a revengeful escaped jailbird and femme fatale in the crime drama Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) starring Chester Morris and then paired up with Morris again in the crimer Blind Spot (1947).

Once she started moving further down the credits list, as she was for the Republic film noir The Flame (1947) which starred studio mogul Herbert J. Yates' wife Vera Ralston, Constance decided to move to Italy and try and maintain her leading lady career there. Younger sister Doris, who had achieved a modest degree of popularity, would make the same exact move. Together they became the first American actresses to work exclusively in Italian films.

Constance appeared in a number of dramatic showcases while there (1947-1950), starting with Mad About Opera (1948) starring Gina Lollobrigida, followed by Escape (1948), Addio Mimí! (1949), Una voce nel tuo cuore (1949) (A Voice in Your Heart) with Vittorio Gassman, her second Lollobrigida film Miss Italia (1950), and Duel Without Honor (1950) (Duel Without Honor) with Raye Girouard. For the most part, her time spent in Italy did little to advance or elevate her international star.

Returning to the states, Constance studied at the Actor's Studio and focused on TV and appeared in a number of anthologies ("Chevron Theatre," "Pulitzer Prize Playhouse," "Cosmopolitan Theatre," "Fireside Theatre") and a couple of films (she was top-billed in the Italian film Stormbound (1950), and played a scientist in the cult robot sci-fi flick Gog (1954) co-starring Richard Egan) written and produced by Ivan Tors .

Constance married Tors in 1953 and retired from acting. They had four sons (Matthew, Steven, David, Peter) and an adopted child from Kenya (Alfred). During the 1960s she worked as a guide at the Dolphin Laboratory in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Little else was heard from her, however, until her sudden and untimely death of a heart attack on October 28, 1969. Only 49 years old, she was buried at the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California.

Dan Hedaya is a familiar face from his work in films and on TV, where he often plays a villain (although he had a good comic turn as the charmingly sleazy Nick Tortelli, Carla's ex-husband, in Cheers (1982) and its short-lived spin-off The Tortellis (1987)). He has also done much stage work, appearing opposite Alien Resurrection (1997) star Sigourney Weaver in "The Conjuring an Event" at the American Place Theater. Other stage performances include Broadway roles such as "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and many New York Shakespeare Festival productions.

Noted Filipino-American martial arts practitioner, who studied "jeet kune do" from fellow martial artist and actor Bruce Lee. Always seeking to improve his knowledge, Inosanto holds numerous belts in various martial arts including Asian, American & Brazilian disciplines such as Muay Thai, Pentjak Silat & Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. An accomplished weapons practitioner, he has showcased his skills in Game of Death (1978) fighting Bruce Lee, he gave detective Burt Reynolds a grisly "manicure" before being speared to death in Sharky's Machine (1981), appeared in the John Carpenter fantasy - martial arts adventure Big Trouble in Little China (1986), and clashed pool cues with Steven Seagal in the violent Out for Justice (1991).

He currently operates a martial arts school (The Inosanto Academy) in Marina Del Rey, California.

Daniel Viglietti was born on 24 July 1939 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a composer and actor, known for South of the Border (1988), Me gustan los estudiantes (1968) and Banda sonora (2007). He died on 30 October 2017 in Montevideo, Uruguay.