Birthdays: April 9

Paulina Porizkova was born on 9 April 1965 in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She is an actress and director, known for Thursday (1998), Her Alibi (1989) and Arizona Dream (1993). She was previously married to Ric Ocasek.

Albert Rémy was born on 9 April 1915 in Sèvres, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France. He was an actor and director, known for The 400 Blows (1959), The Train (1964) and Gigot (1962). He died on 26 January 1967 in Paris, France.

Alfredo Leuco is known for Los esclavos felices (la secta) (2004), Los Leuco (2015) and Los 8 escalones (2014).

Allen Jaffe was born on 9 April 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Papillon (1973), Circle of Fear (1972) and Mission: Impossible (1966). He was married to Jeri K. Decker. He died on 18 March 1989 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Both of Allen Jenkins' parents were musical comedy performers, and he entered the theater as a stage mechanic after World War I, after having spent time working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Although his screen persona was that of a not-too-bright Brooklyn tough guy, Jenkins attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and appeared in many Broadway plays before making his film debut in 1931. He found his niche at Warner Brothers, where he perfected his slow-witted but good-natured gangster/taxi driver/cop/etc. character. In the latter part of his career he appeared frequently on TV, and was a regular on the TV series Hey, Jeannie! (1956). He is probably best remembered by "baby boomers" as the voice of the put-upon cop Officer Dibble in the popular cartoon series Top Cat (1961).

He died in Santa Monica, CA, in 1974 after undergoing surgery.

Allyn Rachel was born on 9 April 1983 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Bee & Puppycat: Lazy in Space (2022), Kong: Skull Island (2017) and Instant Family (2018).

Amanda Gallo began acting at the age of 8 when she saw a commercial for Disneyland and decided she wanted to do a commercial for Disney. She has done 3 Disney commercials, among many others, and has been on a Disney television show, as well as several other television shows.

Amanda graduated from high school at the age of 16 and is continuing her education with college classes. Amanda also volunteers at a Charter School helping students in grades 2 and 3 with their reading and math.

At the age of 12 Amanda became a Black Belt in Taekwondo and she continues to study martial arts. One of Amanda's goals is to be in a film with Jackie Chan.

Aside from acting Amanda sings and is working on a music video featuring an original song written for her by Trust Labs Music Production. Amanda will also be able to use her hip hop skills in this music video and she is hoping to cut a demo record soon after the music video is released.

Having a hectic schedule does not leave much free time for Amanda but she enjoys swimming, loves the beach, really loves shopping, loves kids and helping them in school, and tries to spend time with her friends just hanging. Amanda is having so much fun with her acting, singing, and dancing that she knows this is what she wants to do forever!

Actor, Director and Voice Artist. Amber started voice acting in 2007 with a strong passion and vigor for the craft. She firmly believes that through hard work, determination and perseverance anything can be accomplished - and continues to holds herself to these beliefs and standards in her work.

From Video games and Animation, to Commercials, Radio Ads and more - Amber's versatile and extensive range has enabled her to work in various forms of media. However, her true passion and specialty lay in character voices, especially for Video games.

When she is not working, Amber enjoys a variety of hobbies including; Yoga, Hiking, Reading, Painting and photographing sunsets.

Anthony Chisholm was born on 9 April 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Premium Rush (2012), Oz (1997) and Going in Style (2017). He was married to Gloria Nixon and Valerie Moore. He died on 16 October 2020 in Montclair, New Jersey, USA.

Arlen Escarpeta was born in Belize, Central America as Arlen Alexander Escarpeta. He is known for his work on Whitney (TV Movie) (2015), Final Destination 5 (2011), Into the Storm (2014) and Friday the 13th (2009). He currently resides in Los Angeles, California and has been able to make a name for himself within the world of TV, film, voiceover and print.

Born in Nottingham, England, Arsher Avesta Ali hails from a South Asian background. His father was a welder at the world-famous Raleigh Bike factory in Nottingham and the family ran a chauffeur business.

After finishing secondary school, he decided to become a sports journalist but needed an extra subject to fill out his college timetable. He added Drama to his list of subjects, due to having so many friends in that class.

After receiving encouragement from his drama teacher over the course, Arsher decided to drop all other subjects to focus singularly on Drama and apply to only one drama school after getting a taste for method acting, East 15.

Arsher left Nottingham for London, amid a mixed reaction from his family - determined to make his new path a success and become the first member of his family to work in the arts.

Upon leaving East 15, he signed with Ruth Young at what was then PFD (now United Agents) and was named as one of Screen Internationals 'Stars of Tomorrow'.

He continues to showcase his considerable versatility across TV and Theatre and remains extremely selective in the work he commits to.

Stocky, general purpose actor, a prolific face on the small screen during the 1960s and 1970s. Batanides got into acting after performing stand-up routines in front of fellow GI's in Europe during World War II. His training in dramatic art at the Actors Lab in Los Angeles was followed by extensive stage experience. He was more recently noted as "Mr. Kirkland" in four instalments of the popular "Police Academy" franchise but is remembered by older viewers chiefly as the ill-fated U.S.S. Enterprise geologist Lieutenant D'Amato who died rather badly (cellular disruption) in the Star Trek (1966) episode, That Which Survives (1969). Other notable appearances include one of dictator Clemente's (Peter Falk) henchmen in The Twilight Zone (1959) episode, The Mirror (1961); and the Mongol leader "Batu" in The Time Tunnel (1966) episode, Attack of the Barbarians (1967). Batanides regularly played heavies in shows like I Spy (1965) and Mission: Impossible (1966), or spoofed them (for instance, as a KAOS agent in Get Smart (1965)). He retired from acting in 1989.

Arthur Maia was born on 9 April 1962 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is a costume designer and production designer, known for Vamos Cantar Disco Baby (1979), Dôra Doralina (1982) and O Vampiro de Copacabana (1976).

Aubrey entered the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after winning a Leverhulme Scholarship in 1954. He left after two years to work in rep at Worthing, Richmond, Palmer's Green and Leatherhead. He did seasons at Startford on Avon and Regents Park Open Air and appeared in West End productions of "Men Without Shadows", "Oliver", "The Lord Chamberlain Regrets" and "The Four Musketeers". He has also appeared in revues and cabaret at the the Savoy in Dorchester as well as Music Hall at the Players Theatre Club. Aubrey is married to Gaynor.

Austin Peck was born on 9 April 1971 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Austin is an actor and writer, known for Chicago Fire (2012), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Days of Our Lives (1965). Austin has been married to Terri Conn since 1 July 2011. They have two children. Austin was previously married to Tara Crespo.

Avery Schreiber's 1960s and 1970s partner on the comedy stage was Jack Burns, the chatty, clean-cut dunderhead. Avery Schreiber was the Oliver Hardy counterpart who bore the brunt of Burns' verbal drone. This rumpled, gap-toothed, hefty-sized master of the slow boil stood out among the crowd with his huge trademark walrus mustache, thick thatch of curly black hair, teddy bear eyes and mischievous grin. Together the pair became a staple of TV variety shows, mainstays on such classic entertainment as "The Ed Sullivan Show," "The Dean Martin Show" and "The Hollywood Palace."

Born in 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, Schreiber's father was a laborer, and his mother a secretary. At 17 Schreiber enlisted in the Armed Services and eventually became a part of the All-Army Talent Show. This satisfaction of putting on variety shows and entertaining prompted his move into a career of comedy. Winning a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse, he instead decided to stay closer to home and attend night school at the University of Chicago while studying his craft at the Goodman Theatre. A cabaret show brought him to the attention of the renowned improv troupe Second City in 1960, where he remained for five years developing sketches and characters.

It was at Second City that Schreiber met Jack Burns, a former Boston news anchorman, in 1962. The Irish/Jewish duo began performing together on cruise ships and elsewhere. Jack Paar first introduced "Burns & Schreiber" to TV on his "Tonight Show" program in 1964. The duo's most identifiable skit was the "taxi cab" routine with Avery as a beleaguered cabbie at the mercy of Burns' relentlessly gabby and nonsensical customer, with Burns punctuating every conversation with a repeated "Huh?...Huh?...Huh?" Political satire was also a strong, popular platform for Schreiber both with Burns (the album "The Watergate Comedy Hour") and without. Schreiber was at his very best skewering politicos.

Both trained actors, they also gave each other the freedom to work solo. Burns would repeat as Deputy Warren Ferguson on The Andy Griffith Show (1960) for a time and Schreiber was a regular as the broadly villainous Captain Mancini on My Mother the Car (1965), a well-known 60s TV show.

At their peak, the duo appeared as regulars on the summer replacement musical variety series Our Place (1967), then earned the right to front their own summer series with The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour (1973). It was hard to figure out who in this duo was the funnyman and who was the straight man although Avery was considered the more reactive of the two.

Breaking up once in 1968 because they felt stale, they re-teamed for a time in 1972, but split again later when Burns decided to leave the limelight and devote himself exclusively to writing. Schreiber continued providing guest comedy relief on "Alice," "The Rockford Files" and "The Dukes of Hazzard" and sitting on game show panels.

He also kept close ties to the stage throughout his career. Directing a Broadway revue entitled "How to Be a Jewish Mother" in 1967, he performed in (Second City) Paul Sills' production of "Ovid's Metamorphosis." Schreiber also performed in productions of "Hamlet," "Showboat" and "Fiddler on the Roof." He last appeared on Broadway in "Welcome to the Club" in 1989, which was a short-lived Cy Coleman musical.

Households knew him best for his various Doritos corn chip ads in a sundry of disguises (chef, sultan, pilot), all of them perturbed by people loudly crunching on the popular snack. In addition to acting, Schreiber taught improv theater in and out of his L.A.-based area.

In 1994, Schreiber suffered a heart attack, aggravated by his diabetes. Although he survived triple by-pass surgery, he never fully recovered. He died at age 66 in Los Angeles of a heart attack and was survived by his wife of 40 years, Rochelle Isaacs, and their two children, Jenny and Joshua.

Badja Djola was born on 9 April 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Last Boy Scout (1991), Mississippi Burning (1988) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988). He died on 8 January 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Baris Falay was born on 9 April 1972 in Edremit, Balikesir, Turkey. He is an actor, known for Ebb and Tide (2013), Ezel (2009) and Kuzenlerim (2002). He has been married to Esra Ronabar since 7 July 2006. They have one child.

Weaver most recently directed the feature film Miss Valentine (Paris Berelc). Previously he directed Cupid For Christmas (starring Richard Kind) which premiered on HULU, the horror film Getaway, and the Christmas romantic comedy Santa Girl (starring Barry Bostwick and Jennifer Stone). He wrote, directed, and starred in the award-winning thriller Cut To the Chase (with Lance Henriksen) and the acclaimed romantic comedy 6 Month Rule (alongside Martin Starr, Natalie Morales and John Michael Higgins). Previous films he's written and directed include Weather Girl (with Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch) and Outside Sales. He also co-wrote and acted in Manic (Don Cheadle, Joseph Gordon- Levitt and Zooey Deschanel) which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

He has appeared in films such as Favor, Where We're Meant To Be, Junk, Deep Dark Canyon, Official Rejection, and The Good Old Boys opposite Tommy Lee Jones. His numerous episodic television credits include Wolf Pack, E.R., JAG, and The Middleman. He provided the voice of Peter Pan in the Disney animated feature Return To Never Land and still does the voice for Disney today.

A native of Louisiana, Weaver studied in New York City, Oxford University, and graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Political Science. He lives in Los Angeles where he works as a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actor, and Distributor through his company Secret Identity Pictures.

American supporting player specializing in tough guys. Of Serbian extraction, he was born in Nevada in 1917. As a young man, he boxed in amateur bouts and had early training in theatre at the Pasadena Playhouse. He joined the Air Corps during World War II and was assigned to the troupe performing the Moss Hart Broadway tribute to the Corps, Winged Victory, acting under his first chosen stage name, Barry Mitchell. He appeared in the film version of the show, and after the war became active in radio drama as well as theatre. John Huston spotted him in a play and cast him as a bad guy in The Asphalt Jungle (1950), under the new sobriquet of Brad Dexter. Throughout the Fifties, he continued to play hard cases of a usually villainous stripe, in both crime dramas and Westerns. His most famous role came as one of title characters in The Magnificent Seven (1960), albeit his fame was considerably eclipsed by most of the other members of that band: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and James Coburn. He continued acting into the 1970s, then made a shift into producing.

Brandon De Wilde was born into a theatrical family and made a much-acclaimed Broadway debut in "The Member of the Wedding" at age 9. He was the first child actor to win the Donaldson Award, and went on to repeat his role in the film version, directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1952. As the blond-haired, blue-eyed Joey who idolizes the strange gunman played by Alan Ladd in the film Shane (1953), he stole the picture and received an Oscar nomination for his work. During 1953-54, Brandon starred in his own television series, Jamie (1953), and made his mark as a screen adolescent during the 1960s playing a younger brother in All Fall Down (1962) and nephew in Hud (1963), starring Paul Newman. He managed to keep his career-building into early adulthood, but his career was tragically cut short: en route to visit his wife at a hospital where she had recently undergone surgery, he was killed when the camper-van he was driving struck a parked truck. He was only 30 years old.

Brandon is best recognized for his standout role as Levi Sumner in OUTER RANGE (Amazon Prime), as well as performances in YOUR HONOR (Showtime), THE BIG SHORT (Paramount), TERMINATOR GENISYS (Paramount), and STAR TREK: PHASE II. His ability to portray high-stakes, complex characters has made him a sought-after talent in Hollywood features, independent cinema, and premium television series.

Beyond acting, Brandon is an award-nominated producer and filmmaker with multiple projects in development. He serves as director, producer, and writer for ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM and as producer on T.R.I.C.K. (TV Series). As a co-founder of Cinema Social Club, he is committed to producing elevated, character-driven storytelling for film and television.

His body of work includes studio blockbusters, festival-recognized films, and prestige TV dramas, reinforcing his reputation as a versatile, in-demand performer and creator.

Bruno Zanin was born on 9 April 1951 in Vigonovo, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Amarcord (1973), Marco Polo (1982) and Inganni (1986). He was married to Monique. He died on 7 July 2024 in Domodossola, Piedmont, Italy.

Cameron Dye was born in New Orleans, but criss-crossed the U.S. while growing up, as his family never stayed in one place for longer than four years. His high-school years were divided between Ohio and Northern California. He applied and was accepted into the theater arts department of UCLA, where he met Tim Robbins, at the time also a novice actor. In between acting jobs, Cameron writes and performs his own music. His songs can be heard on the soundtracks to his films 'Scenes From The Goldmine' and 'The Apocalypse.'

Carlo Croccolo was born on 9 April 1927 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for Gunman of One Hundred Crosses (1971), 'O re (1989) and Pulcinella, cetrulo di Acerra (1961). He was married to Daniela Cenciotti. He died on 12 October 2019 in Castel Volturno, Campania, Italy.