November 18: Happy Birthday Delroy Lindo and Susan Sullivan

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Delroy Lindo is turning 65 today.  He was born in London, but moved first to Canada and then San Francisco as a teenager.  He studied at the American Conservatory Theater, and after a couple of film appearances in the seventies, he concentrated on his stage career in the eighties.  He made his Broadway debut in Athol Fugard’s “Master Harold”…and the Boys, and was a Tony nominee for starring in the original cast of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.

In 1990, Lindo returned to working regularly in film.  Over the next 15 years or so, he appeared in a wide variety of supporting roles in major films.  He made a number of movies with Spike Lee in the first half of the 1990s—Malcolm X, Crooklyn, and Clockers.  He had prominent roles in Get Shorty, A Life Less Ordinary, The Cider House Rules, and Heist.  Currently, Lindo is a regular on the CBS All Access series The Good Fight, which has been renewed for a second season.

Susan Sullivan is celebrating her 75th today.  She earned a degree in drama from Hofstra University.  She appeared on Broadway in Jimmy Schisgal’s Jimmy Shine, co-starring with Dustin Hoffman, and has a appeared in a handful of feature films, most notably My Best Friend’s Wedding.  However, she is best known for her work on television; she has been a fixture on the small screen since the beginning of the 1970s, when she began a run of over four years on NBC’s Another World.  She starred on CBS’s 1980s primetime soap opera Falcon Crest as Maggie Giorberti for eight seasons, and was a Golden Globe nominee as Kitty Montgomery on Dharma & Greg.  Most recently, she was a regular on Castle as the mother of the title character.

Georgia King, who turns 31, was a regular on HBO’s recently-concluded Vice PrincipalsMiranda Raison, who is 40, can be seen in the current releases Murder on the Orient Express and BreathePeta Wilson, who starred as Nikita on USA Network’s La Femme Nikita in the late 1990s, is 47 today.  Robert Kazinsky, who starred on Fox’s short-lived Second Chance and has been in films like Pacific Rim and Warcraft, is turning 34.  Nathan Kress, who is 25 today, played Freddie Benson on Nickelodeon’s iCarly.

Canadian novelist and poet Margaret Atwood turns 78 today.  She is the author of seventeen novels, including The Handmaid’s Tale, adapted into the Emmy-winning series on Hulu, and the Man Booker Prize winning The Blind Assassin.  Composer Carter Burwell turns 63.  He has had a long association with the Coen Brothers, scoring 15 of their films.  He was an Oscar nominee for his score for Carol and won an Emmy for scoring HBO’s Mildred Pierce.

Last year’s headliners on this date were Owen Wilson and Chloe Sevigny.

Owen Wilson is turning 49.  This year he returned to the voice role of Lightning McQueen in Cars 3, and has starring roles in Wonder, currently in release, and in the upcoming Father FiguresChloe Sevigny celebrates her 43rd birthday.  As befits an indie film queen, she has been in several features this year, and next year will star as Lizzie Borden in Lizzie.  She has also had regular television roles lately on Bloodline and American Horror Story: Hotel.

Kevin Nealon, who turns 64, currently appears as Don Burns on CBS’s Man with a PlanRomany Malco, who is 49 today, was featured in last year’s holiday film Almost Christmas and will be in the upcoming Night SchoolBrenda Vaccaro, seen in her first feature in over a decade this year, The Clapper, turns 78.  Allison Tolman, who turns 36, starred in the recently-released Barracuda and on the sole season of ABC’s Downward DogNasim Pedrad, who is also 36, has been cast in Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin.

If today is your birthday, congratulations on sharing your big day with these notable names.  Birthday wishes to everyone celebrating a big day today.  Come back tomorrow for more celebrity birthdays.

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