On This Day
21 October 2018
Births
| 1978 Hélène Joy Age 40 |
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Hélène Joy is an Australian Canadian television, stage and film actress from Perth, Australia. She is best known for her work in the television series Durham County and Murdoch Mysteries. |
On This Day
22 September 2018
Births
| 1944 Frazer Hines Age 74 |
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Frazer Hines is an English actor best known for his roles as Jamie McCrimmon in Doctor Who and Joe Sugden in Emmerdale. Hines appeared in 117 episodes of the original series of Doctor Who; only the first four Doctors appeared in more episodes. |
| 1975 Jonny Harris Age 43 |
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Jonathan Harris is a Canadian actor and comedian from Newfoundland and Labrador. Harris is best known for his roles in the television series Murdoch Mysteries, Still Standing and Hatching, Matching and Dispatching, as well as the films Young Triffie, Moving Day, and Grown Up Movie Star. |
| 1979 MyAnna Buring Age 39 |
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MyAnna Buring (born Anna Margaretha My Rantapää) is a Swedish-born actress, known for her roles in The Descent, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 and Part 2 and Ripper Street. |
| 1985 Tatiana Maslany Age 33 |
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Tatiana Gabriele Maslany is a Canadian actress. She is known for portraying multiple characters in the science fiction television series Orphan Black (2013–2017), which aired on Space in Canada and BBC America in the US. For her performances in Orphan Black, Maslany has won a Primetime Emmy Award (2016), the TCA Award (2013), two Critics' Choice Television Awards (2013 and 2014), and five Canadian Screen Awards (2014–18), in addition to receiving a Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Maslany became the first Canadian actor from a Canadian series to win an Emmy in a key dramatic category. |
| 1996 Matt Clarke Age 22 |
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Matthew "Matt" Edward Barkell Clarke is an English professional footballer who plays for Portsmouth as a central defender |
On This Day
27 June 2018
Births
| 1972 Christian Kane Age 46 |
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Christian Kane is an American actor and singer-songwriter. He is known for his roles in the television shows Angel, Leverage, The Librarians and Into the West, and the movies Just Married, Taxi, and Secondhand Lions. Kane is the lead singer of the country-southern rock band Kane. On December 7, 2010, they released The House Rules, their third album and their debut for record label Bigger Picture Group. The album reached no. 25 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The first single from the album, also titled "The House Rules", debuted at no. 54 on the Billboard Country Songs chart. The second single, “Let Me Go”, was released on July 11, 2011. |
| 1985 Erin Agostino Age 33 |
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Erin Agostino was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for 18 to Life (2010), The Kennedys After Camelot (2017) and Murdoch Mysteries (2016-17). |
| 1986 Sam Claflin Age 32 |
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Samuel George Claflin is an English actor. He is known for portraying Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games film series, Philip Swift in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Will Traynor in Me Before You, Alex in Love, Rosie, and Philip in My Cousin Rachel. |
On This Day
Births
| 1953 Colm Meaney Age 65 |
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Colm J. Meaney is an Irish actor known for playing Miles O'Brien in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has guest-starred on many TV shows from Law & Order to The Simpsons, and starred as Thomas Durant on Hell on Wheels. |
| 1961 Harry Enfield Age 57 |
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Henry Richard "Harry" Enfield is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is known in particular for his television work, including Harry Enfield's Television Programme and Harry & Paul, and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager and Loadsamoney. |
| 1964 Mark Sheppard Age 54 |
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Mark Andreas Sheppard is a British-American actor and musician. He is often credited as "Mark A. Sheppard". Sheppard is known for his recurring roles as the demon/King of Hell Crowley on Supernatural, lawyer Romo Lampkin on the Battlestar Galactica reboot, Interpol investigator James Sterling on Leverage, and small-time crime lord Badger on Joss Whedon's Firefly. |
| 1974 Kostas Chalkias Age 44 |
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Konstantinos "Kostas" Chalkias is a Greek footballer who was plays as a goalkeeper. Previously he had played for Panathinaikos, Apollon Smyrni, Iraklis, Portsmouth, Real Murcia, Aris and PAOK. He currently plays for Panachaiki. Chalkias played 6 times for Portsmouth in 2005 |
| 1979 Jenny Mollen Age 39 |
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Jenny Ann Mollen is an American actress and New York Times best selling author. She is known for her portrayal of Nina Ash on the television series Angel, and for Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave. She also writes a humorous column for The Smoking Jacket, a website affiliated with Playboy, as well as an advice column for Playboy. |
On This Day
16 May 2018
Births
| 1958 Glenn Gregory Age 60 |
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Glenn Peter Gregory is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose music career spans more than 30 years. He came to prominence in the early 1980s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave and synthpop band Heaven 17, which released six singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1980s, and 1990s, including "Temptation", "Come Live with Me", "Crushed by the Wheels of Industry", "Sunset Now", "This Is Mine", and "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" |
| 1964 Rebecca Front Age 54 |
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Rebecca Louise Front is an English actress, writer, comedian and singer. She won the 2010 BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for The Thick of It (2009–12). She is also known for her work in numerous other British comedies, including the radio show On The Hour (1992), The Day Today (1994), Knowing Me, Knowing You… with Alan Partridge (1994), Time Gentlemen Please (2000–02), sketch show Big Train (2002), and Nighty Night (2004–05). |
| 1969 David Boreanaz Age 49 |
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David Boreanaz is an American actor, television producer, and director, known for playing the roles of vampire-turned-private investigator Angel on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003) and its spinoff Angel (1999–2004), FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth on the television crime procedural comedy-drama series Bones (2005–2017) and Jason Hayes in the military drama series SEAL Team. |
| 1969 Yannick Bisson Age 49 |
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Yannick D. Bisson is a Canadian film and television actor and director best known to international audiences for playing Detective William Murdoch on the series Murdoch Mysteries. |
| 1982 Tiya Sircar Age 36 |
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Tiya Sircar is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in The Internship, 17 Again, Star Wars Rebels, and The Good Place. |
Deaths
| 2011 Edward Hardwicke (Born: 07 Aug 1932) Died Aged 78 |
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Edward Cedric Hardwicke was an English actor, who had a distinguished career on the stage, as well as being known for his portrayal of Dr. Watson in the Granada TV series Sherlock Holmes. |
On This Day
04 April 2018
Births
| 1963 Steve Berry Age 55 |
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Stephen Andrew Berry is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League for Portsmouth, Aldershot, Sunderland, Newport County, Swindon Town and Northampton Town, in the German second division for Darmstadt, and in the Hong Kong First Division League for Instant-Dict. Berry played 33 times for Portsmouth scoring 3 goals between 1981 – 1983 |
| 1965 Robert Downey Jr. Age 53 |
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Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor and singer. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a resurgence of commercial success in middle age. Downey began portraying the role of Marvel Comics superhero Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in several films as either the lead role, member of an ensemble cast, or in a cameo. |
| 1979 Natasha Lyonne Age 39 |
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Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein better known as Natasha Lyonne, is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Nicky Nichols on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, for which she received a nomination for the 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, and Jessica in the American Pie film series. Her other films include Everyone Says I Love You (1996), Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999). |
| 1987 Sarah Gadon Age 31 |
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Sarah Gadon is a Canadian actress. She first gained recognition for her performances in David Cronenberg's films A Dangerous Method (2011) and Cosmopolis (2012). She has guest starred in a number of television series, including Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1999), In a Heartbeat (2000), Mutant X (2002), and Dark Oracle (2004). She has also worked as a voice actress on various productions. |
Deaths
| 1995 Kenny Everett (Born: 25 Dec 1944) Died Aged 50 |
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Maurice James Christopher Cole, known professionally as Kenny Everett, was a British comedian, radio DJ and television entertainer. Everett is best known for his career as a radio DJ and for The Kenny Everett Video Show. |
On This Day
19 February 2018
Births
| 1915 Dick Emery (Died: 02 Jan 1983) Aged 67 |
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Richard Gilbert Emery was an English comedian and actor. Beginning on radio in the 1950s, an eponymous television series ran from 1963 to 1981. |
| 1972 Lisa Faulkner Age 46 |
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Lisa Tamsin Faulkner is an English actress and celebrity chef. She played the role of Fi Browning in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders in 2017. |
| 1981 Nicky Shorey Age 37 |
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Nicholas Robert Shorey is an English former professional footballer who played as a left back or a defensive midfielder. He is a coach at League Two club Stevenage. Shorey played 44 times for Portsmouth between 2014 – 2015 |
| 1985 Arielle Kebbel Age 33 |
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Arielle Caroline Kebbel is an American model and actress. She is known for her television roles on The Vampire Diaries, Life Unexpected, 90210, Gilmore Girls, UnREAL, and Ballers. As of 2015, she has been featured in three Hallmark Channel movies. |
| 1986 Ophelia Lovibond Age 32 |
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Ophelia Lucy Lovibond is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Kitty Winter in the American television series Elementary, as Izzy Gould in the BBC's W1A, and as Lady Alex Lindo-Parker in Sky 1's Hooten & the Lady. |
| 1993 Victoria Justice Age 25  |
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Victoria Dawn Justice is an American actress and singer. In 2003, she began an acting career, appearing in films, television shows and commercials. She rose to fame on Nickelodeon, starring as Lola Martinez in the television series, Zoey 101 (2005–2008), and Tori Vega in the sitcom, Victorious (2010–2013). She starred in the films The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (2010), Fun Size (2012), The First Time (2012) and Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List (2015). |
On This Day
12 February 2018
Births
| 1945 Gareth Thomas (Died: 13 Apr 2016) Aged 71 |
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Gareth Daniel Thomas was a British actor. He was best known for his role as Roj Blake in the BBC science fiction television series Blake's 7, but appeared in many other films and television programmes, including Shem in the ITV sci-fi series Star Maidens and Adam Brake in the fantasy series Children of the Stones. |
| 1950 Michael Ironside Age 68 |
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Frederick Reginald Ironside, known as Michael Ironside, is a Canadian actor. He has worked as a voice actor, producer, film director and screenwriter in movie and television series in various Canadian and American productions. He is best known for playing villains and "tough guy" heroes. |
| 1980 Christina Ricci Age 38 |
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Christina Ricci is an American actress and former child actress. Her debut performance in Mermaids (1990) was followed by a breakthrough role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family(1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993) when she was eleven and thirteen years old, respectively. Following her success with the Addams Family films, she earned something of a "teen icon" status thanks to appearances in various big-budget productions, notably Now and Then (1995) and Casper (1995), which were marketed for younger audiences. She made a successful transition into adult-oriented roles with the art-house drama The Ice Storm (1997), at the age of seventeen. |
| 1980 Enver Gjokaj Age 38 |
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Enver Leif Gjokaj is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles as Victor in Joss Whedon's science fiction television series Dollhouse and as Agent Daniel Sousa on Agent Carter. |
| 1980 Sarah Lancaster Age 38 |
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Sarah Lancaster is an American actress. She is known for her long-running roles as Rachel Meyers in the NBC series Saved by the Bell: The New Class and Ellie Bartowski in the NBC comedy-spy series Chuck, as well as playing Chloe Grefe in Lovers Lane, Madison Kellner on The WB's Everwood, and Marjorie in ABC's TV series What About Brian. |
| 1986 Georgina Reilly Age 32 |
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Georgina Reilly is a Canadian film and television actress, best known to date for her roles in the films Pontypool and This Movie Is Broken, the television series The L.A. Complex and Murdoch Mysteries, and the CBC Radio drama series Trust Inc. |