Supermodel Tyra Banks Celebrates 50th Birthday Today

Actors:

Fred Armisen is 57 (“Saturday Night Live,” “Portlandia”)

Max Baer Jr. is 86 (“The Beverly Hillbillies,” “The Birdmen”)

Jeff Bridges is 74 (“Tron,” “The Big Lebowski”)

Orlando Brown is 36 (“Sister, Sister,” “The Proud Family”)

Charity Shea is 40 (“Single Ladies,” “Alpha Dog”)

Kevin Sussman is 53 (“Ugly Betty,” “The Big Bang Theory”)

Tony Todd is 69 (“Platoon,” “Candyman” series)

Marisa Tomei is 59 (“My Cousin Vinny,” “Spider-Man: Homecoming”)

Patricia Wettig is 72 (“thirtysomething,” “The Langoliers”) (FAST FACT: She’s been married to Ken Olin since 1982)

The late Deanna Durbin (1921-2013) (“Three Smart Girls,” “Can’t Help Singing”) (FAST FACT: She auditioned for the voice of Snow White, but Walt Disney thought her voice was too mature sounding)

The late Victor French (1934-1989)… he would have been 89 (“Little House on the Prairie,” “Highway to Heaven”) 

Musicians:

Lila McCann is 42 (She broke through at the age of 15 in 1997 with the hit, “I Wanna Fall In Love.”)

Niykee Heaton is 29 (born Nicolet Aleta Heaton)

Cassandra Wilson is 68

The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus’ Ronnie Winter is 41

Jay-Z is 54 (FAST FACTS: Born Shawn Corey Carter, it’s been said that his legal name is now Shawn Knowles-Carter – and that his wife’s legal name is Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. What gives? Beyonce’s parents didn’t have any son’s they decided to keep her family name going.)

The late Beach Boys’ Dennis Wilson (1944-1983)…he would have been 79 

Plus:

TV personality and model Tyra Banks is 50 (FAST FACT: Long before her TV show and her run on “America’s Next Top Model,” she was the first African-American woman to be on the covers of “GQ” and “Sports Illustrated’s” swimsuit issue)

Sportscaster Skip Bayless is 72 (ESPN’s “First Take”)

Astronaut Roberta Bondar is 78 (Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space)

Game Show Host Wink Martindale is 90 (“Tic Tac Dough,” “Debt”)

Reality TV star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro is 38 (“Jersey Shore”)

The late scientist and inventor Robert Adler (1913-2007) (Adler is best known for the wireless remote control for televisions. While not the first, its underlying technology was revolutionary and a vast improvement over previous remote control systems.)

The late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975) (He ruled Spain from 1939-1975) 

 


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