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A true comedian, Canadian-born Mike Myers got his career start on Saturday Night Live in 1988 and parlayed his successful character of Wayne in Wayne's World into a series of films. Raffi Boghosian takes us from the beginnings through the success with Austin Powers and the more character-driven parts in Bohemian Rhapsody as well as that iconic voice for the beloved character of Shrek.

The Irishman is proof that one can remain a character actor even after becoming a superstar. When he lost his license to kill, he started his career anew.

Michel Gondry can solve a Rubik’s cube with his toes, despises superheroes and adores the quirky Icelandic singer Björk. As famous for his music videos and commercials as he is for his feature films, it is hard to believe that the unique French director, once hailed as a boy wonder turns 60 today.

This "Superman", Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill was born on the Bailiwick of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It was school play renditions of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and a part in Grease that got him started as an actor early on.

Hard to believe that Adele Laurie Blue Adkins is celebrating her 35th birthday today. It seems like yesterday that she recorded her first album "19" - titled like the two that followed, "21" and "25" after her age at the time.

This five-time Golden Globe nominee and true California girl - she was born in Santa Ana CA – trained as a court stenographer but dropped out and worked as a supermarket checkout girl. She was 20 when she decided to be an actress so got some photographs and made up a resume saying that she'd done all sorts of things, which she hadn't.

This double Golden Globe-winner – for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for The Disaster Artist five years ago and for the role that marked his breakout as a star in 2001 for James Dean turns 45 today. A good reason for the HFPA's Raffi Boghosian to take us through his performances and re-visit that funny acceptance speech.

At 94, James Hong is still unstoppable. With more than 650 film and television credits going as far back as the early 1950s, Hong is one of the most prolific actors ever.

Idi Amin, Richard Nixon, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Niki Lauda, and, of course, the Queen and her royal family. His accomplishments are too many to list.

Actor, mother, activist, tireless campaigner for women’s rights and three-time Golden Globe winner, Patricia Arquette turns 55 today. Born in Chicago and raised in a rural community in Bentonville, Virginia before settling in Los Angeles, Arquette descends from a line of entertainers: her father, Lewis, was an actor; her paternal grandfather, Cliff, was a comedian.