On This Day
02 August 2018
Births
| 1949 Madeline Smith Age 69 |
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Madeline Smith is an English actress. Having been a model in the late 1960s she appeared in many television series and stage productions, plus comedy and horror films, in the 1970s and 1980s. |
| 1970 Kevin Smith Age 48 |
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Kevin Patrick Smith is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy film Clerks (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob. Jay and Silent Bob have appeared in Smith's follow-up films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks 2 which were set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. |
| 1972 Jacinda Barrett Age 46 |
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Jacinda Barrett, an Australian actress and former model, first became known to audiences as a cast member on The Real World: London (1995) before appearing in films such as The Human Stain(2003), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004), Ladder 49 (2004), The Namesake (2006), Poseidon (2006), and The Last Kiss (2006). She appeared in the series The Following in 2013 and joined the main cast of the Netflix series Bloodline, which launched in 2015. |
| 1979 Donna Air Age 39 |
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Donna Air is an English media personality, singer, and actress. |
| 1992 Charli XCX Age 26 |
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Charlotte Emma Aitchison, known professionally as Charli XCX, is a British singer and songwriter. She signed to Asylum Records in 2010 and her releases include four mixtapes (Heartbreaks and Earthquakes and Super Ultra in 2012, and Number 1 Angel and Pop 2 in 2017), two studio albums (True Romance in 2013 and Sucker in 2014), and two extended plays (including Vroom Vroom in 2016.) The songs "Boom Clap" and "Doing It" earned Charli XCX her first two top-ten singles on the UK Singles Chart as a lead artist; the former reached the top-ten of several charts worldwide. As a featured artist, she reached number one in the UK with Icona Pop's "I Love It" and number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 with Iggy Azalea's "Fancy". |
