HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY TO (in no particular order) Judd Apatow (/ˈæpətaʊ/; born December 6, 1967) is an American film producer, director, comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in comedy films, and is the founder of Apatow Productions and also developed the cult television series Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared andGirls. Apatows work has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award (for The Ben Stiller Show), a Hollywood Comedy Award, and an AFI Award for Bridesmaids.[1][2] His work has also been nominated forGrammy Awards, PGA Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Academy Awards(for Bridesmaids). In October 2012, Vanity Fair announced that Apatow would be guest-editing their comedy Issue, the first person to ever do so.[3]Apatow will also reportedly guest-write an episode of The Simpsons that is due sometime in 2014.[4] In 2007, he was ranked No. 1 on Entertainment Weeklys The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.[5] He is considered a pioneer of the modern film genre, bromantic comedy; multi-Academy Award-winning US special effects cinematographer Richard Edlund, A.S.C. (born December 6, 1940); JoBeth Williams, actress who made her film debut in the Academy Award-winning film Kramer vs. Kramer. Williams began her career on the stage and took her first Broadway bow in a 1980 production of A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. After starring as a regular on the popular soap operas “Somerset” and “The Guiding Light,” Williams landed a role in Kramer vs. Kramer. With an acclaimed film to her credit, Williams was cast as the mother of Heather O’Rourke in the chillingPoltergeist films. She has since given memorable performances in Dutch (1991), Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992),Parallel Lives (1994), Wyatt Earp (1994), Jungle 2 Jungle (1992), It Came From the Sky (1999) and TVs Homeward Bound in 2001; Tom Hulce, actor: The Heidi Chronicles, Fearless, The Inner Circle, Parenthood, Dominick & Eugene, Amadeus, National Lampoon’s Animal House; Janine Turner (Gauntt), actress: Northern Exposure, Behind the Screen, Cliffhanger, Steel Magnolias, Monkey Shines, Knights of the City; James Naughton, actor: The Paper Chase, Planet of the Apes [TV], The Glass Menagerie, The Cosby Mysteries, The First Wives Club, Oxygen; brother of actor David Naughton; Janine Turner, actress who rose to fame playing an Alaskan pilot on the offbeat comedy/drama “Northern Exposure” (1990-95). Turner got her first taste of stardom when she competed as a child in beauty pageants in her home state of Texas. After moving to New York at age 15, Turner quickly signed a modeling contract with the Wilhelmina agency. Making the move to the small screen in the early ‘80s, Turner did guest spots on episodes of “Dallas” and “Knight Rider,” and played the “new Laura” on the hit soap “General Hospital,” when Genie Francis took a break from the series. Still, fame eluded Turner until “Northern Exposure” premiered in 1990. Turner became an overnight sensation with the advent of the series, and she soon began appearing on the silver screen in Cliffhanger (1993), The Curse of Inferno (1996),Leave It to Beaver (1997), A Secret Affair (1999) and Dr. T and the Women in 2001; Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American comedian, actor and writer. He is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, and one-liners with contrived situations ; Andrea Doane Timoner (born December 6, 1972) is anAmerican film director, producer, editor and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Interloper Films, a full-service production company in Pasadena; Craig Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American film director and screenwriter. His 2005 movie Hustle & Flow won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, Its Hard Out Here for a Pimp; Wil Shriner (born December 6, 1953) is an American actor, comedian, director and game show host; Jim Hemphill (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker and critic.; Sarah Gray Rafferty is an American television and film actress. She is known mainly for her role as Donna, a main character on the USA Network legal drama Suits. She has appeared in many other television series, as well as the 2007 TV movie What If God Were the Sun? and the 2011 movie Small, Beautifully Moving Parts; Stefanie Noelle Scott (born December 6, 1996) is an American actress and singer. Scott is best known for her roles as Dana Tressler in the feature film Flipped in which she won a 2011 Young Artist Award and in No Strings Attached as Young Emma; Lindsay Jaylyn Price (born December 6, 1976) is an American television actress, best known for her roles as Janet Sosna on Beverly Hills, 90210 and as Victory Ford on Lipstick Jungle; Jack DeSena (born John Patrick DeSena; December 6, 1987, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American screen and voice actor. He is best known for his work on the sketch comedy series All That; Thom Barry is an American actor, notable for playing Detective Will Jeffries in Cold Case; Nora Kirkpatrick (born December 6, 1984) is an American actress and musician. Kirkpatrick graduated from UCLA in 2007 with a degree in Theatre Film and Television. She is probably best known for her role as Katherine, the stern president of Panhellenic, on the ABC Family TV series Greek; Leon Russom (born December 6, 1941) is an American Emmy-nominated actor. Russom has appeared in numerous television shows, particularly soap operas. He portrayed Admiral Toddman (in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode The Die is Cast) and the Starfleet Commander-in-Chief in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country...
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