Celebrities born on juillet 18

Michael Dante DiMartino (born July 18, 1974) is an American animation director, author and best known as the co-creator, executive producer, and story editor of the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, both on Nickelodeon.

Paul Verhoeven est un réalisateur et scénariste néerlandais, né le 18 juillet 1938 à Amsterdam. Sa carrière se divise en trois grandes périodes: il obtient d'abord ses premiers succès aux Pays-Bas, puis il accepte l'invitation de Hollywood et s'installe aux États-Unis, avant de rentrer en Europe, sur le tard, pour y retrouver la liberté de tourner des films plus personnels. Formé pour l'essentiel durant son service militaire au département audiovisuel de la Marine néerlandaise, pour laquelle il tourne des documentaires promotionnels dès 1964, il réalise ses premiers films aux Pays-Bas. Il obtient rapidement des succès importants avec, notamment, Turkish Délices (1973), record d'entrées dans son pays encore aujourd'hui. Mais après le très rude Spetters (1980), la censure, de plus en plus forte, le conduit à partir aux États-Unis. Il y découvre un tout autre monde et obtient ses plus grands succès internationaux: RoboCop (1987), Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), avant les controversés Showgirls (1995) et Starship Troopers (1997). Progressivement, le côté dérangeant et provocateur de sa production lui met cependant les studios à dos, tandis que le manque croissant de liberté le décide à rentrer en Europe pour tourner Black Book (2006). Regagnant en reconnaissance, il présente en 2016 le film francophone Elle, qui reçoit de nombreuses récompenses, parmi lesquelles une sélection en compétition officielle à Cannes, ainsi que deux César, dont celui du meilleur film. Toute la filmographie de Verhoeven est traversée par les thèmes du sexe, de la violence et de la religion, qu'il considère comme «les trois principaux éléments sur terre». En tant que réalisateur, il se pose en observateur froid et lucide, quitte à choquer pour mieux montrer la stricte réalité. Paul Verhoeven est né le 18 juillet 1938 à Amsterdam, d'un père instituteur et d'une mère au foyer. Très marqué par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dont il est un témoin direct dans son pays occupé par les Allemands, il garde le souvenir de scènes terribles. Mais il se souvient également d'une enfance joueuse, qui détournait ce décor sordide pour en faire comme une cour de récréation. Après la libération, les films américains se propagent aux Pays-Bas, et son père l'emmène souvent au cinéma. Il fréquente alors le Gymnasium Haganum à La Haye, où il s'oriente vers des cours de physique et de mathématiques. En 1955, toujours à l'initiative de son père, francophile, ses parents l'envoient passer une année en France, au lycée Henri-Martin de Saint-Quentin (Aisne) puis en pension à l'Alliance française Paris Île-de-France. Il y rencontre un professeur de français qui lui fait découvrir les grands classiques du cinéma, dans le cadre de son ciné-club. Il avoue que la naissance de sa vocation de metteur en scène remonte à cette époque; il veut intégrer l'IDHEC, mais sa démarche est trop tardive et il rentre aux Pays-Bas. ... Source: Article "Paul Verhoeven" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Fionn Whitehead (RP: fɪn) (born July 18, 1997) is an English actor, known for playing the lead role in the 2017 film Dunkirk. Whitehead's acting was first credited in the 2016 ITV miniseries Him. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fionn Whitehead, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Joseph Russo (born July 18, 1971) and his brother, Anthony Russo (born February 3, 1970), collectively known as the Russo brothers (/ˈruːsoʊ/ ROO-soh), are American directors, producers, and screenwriters. They direct most of their work together. They are best known for directing four films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU): Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Endgame grossed over $2.798 billion worldwide, briefly becoming the highest-grossing film of all time. The brothers have also worked as directors and producers on the comedy series Arrested Development (2003–2005), Community (2009–2014), and Happy Endings (2011–2012). They won a Primetime Emmy Award for Arrested Development.   Joseph Russo (born July 18, 1971) was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, the sons of Patricia Gallupoli and attorney and judge Basil Russo. His parents are both of Italian descent. Their paternal and maternal families emigrated from Sicily and Abruzzo, respectively, and settled in Ohio. He attended Benedictine High School, graduated from the University of Iowa, and majored in English and writing. The Russo brothers were graduate students at Case Western Reserve University (where Anthony studied law and Joe studied acting at UEA) when they began directing, writing, and producing their first feature, Pieces. They financed the film with student loans and credit cards. After viewing Pieces at the Slamdance Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh approached the duo and offered to produce their next film, along with his producing partner George Clooney. This project was the crime comedy Welcome to Collinwood, starring William H. Macy, Sam Rockwell, and Clooney. FX network executive Kevin Reilly hired the Russos to direct the pilot for the series Lucky, having liked the pair's work on Collinwood. Ron Howard was a fan of the pilot, and he had a hand in hiring the brothers to direct the pilot for Fox's Arrested Development. In 2017, the brothers founded the production company AGBO. The Russo brothers directed Avengers: Infinity War (2018), which became the first superhero movie to gross over $2 billion at the box office. They are the third directors to make a $2 billion movie after James Cameron's films Avatar and Titanic and J. J. Abrams's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Its sequel, Avengers: Endgame, was released on April 26, 2019, broke numerous box office records, and became the second superhero movie to gross over $2 billion. They join James Cameron as the only directors to make two $2 billion films. The brothers are financing the Los Angeles and Beijing joint-production company Anthem & Song, which is producing the Chinese superhero film The Hero's Awakening. The Russos also served as producers of the film Everything Everywhere All At Once, written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. The film, released in theatres in March 2022, is A24's highest-grossing film worldwide at the box office. At San Diego Comic-Con in July 2024, Marvel Studios announced that the Russo brothers would return to direct and also produce Avengers: Doomsday (2026) and Avengers: Secret Wars (2027).

Grant Bowler (born 18 July 1968) is a New Zealand-Australian actor who has made appearances on American, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian movies and television shows. He is known for playing the role of Constable Wayne Patterson in Blue Heelers and also appeared as Wilhelmina Slater's love interest Connor Owens in Ugly Betty. In November 2010, he was announced as the host of The Amazing Race Australia which will air on the Seven Network in 2011. Bowler was married to South African actress Roxane Wilson from 2001 to 2011 and has two children.

Britt Leach (born July 18, 1938, in Gadsden, Alabama) is an American character actor.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Roy Huggins (July 18, 1914 – April 3, 2002) was an American novelist and an influential writer/creator and producer of character-driven television series, including Maverick, The Fugitive, and The Rockford Files. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Huggins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Teresa Ann Savoy, FRSA (18 July 1955 – 9 January 2017) was a British actress who appeared in a number of Italian films. Savoy was 18 years old when she appeared in the Italian adult magazine Playmen (October 1973), using an alias of "Terry". "Terry", who fled from home at 16, was living in a hippie community in Sicily and soon became an attention of the press. In 1974, her acting career began when film director Alberto Lattuada (who discovered Federico Fellini and Silvana Mangano) gave her first role in the film Le farò da padre aka La bambina, playing an intellectually disabled girl named Clotilde. Her next film was Private Vices, Public Pleasures (Vizi privati, pubbliche virtù) (1975) directed by the Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó. The film told the story of the Crown Prince Rudolf, son of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph and his rebellion against his father. Teresa played the baroness Mary Vetsera, Rudolf's lover, but in Jancso's vision, she appears as an intersex person. In 1975 Savoy met Tinto Brass and they worked together in the successful film Salon Kitty (1976). In the film she played a young BDM girl (League of German Maidens, a female Nazi youth organization) who becomes a spy that poses as a prostitute for the SS Nazi paramilitary organization. In 1979 Brass directed her again as Drusilla in the controversial film Caligula. In 1977 Savoy played Jamilah in the Italian film made for TV Sandokan alla riscossa! (Sandokan to the Rescue) based on the Sandokan novels by Emilio Salgari. Savoy made a return to cinema in 1981 with La disubbidienza by Aldo Lado, where she played Edith, an attractive Jewish governess. The film covered events under the reign of the Republic of Salò. In the same year, director Miklós Jancsó worked with her again in the film A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon (The Tyrant's Heart) in which she played alongside Ninetto Davoli. Savoy died of cancer on 9 January 2017 in Milan, where she lived with her husband and two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Teresa Ann Savoy, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Witaya Wasukraipaisarn, nicknamed Aun, is a Thai actor. His most notable work is as Dr. Benjang in the drama The Fallen Leaf (2019) on ONE 31.

The son of a former circus clown turned grocer and a cleaning woman, Red Skelton was introduced to show business at the age of 7 by Ed Wynn, at a vaudeville show in Vincennes. At age 10, he left home to travel with a medicine show through the Midwest, and joined the vaudeville circuit at age 15. At age 17, he married Edna Marie Stilwell, an usher who became his vaudeville partner and later his chief writer and manager. He debuted on Broadway and radio in 1937 and on film in 1938. His ex-wife/manager negotiated a seven-year Hollywood contract for him in 1951, the same year The Red Skelton Hour (1951) premiered on NBC. For two decades, until 1971, his show consistently stayed in the top twenty, both on NBC and CBS. His numerous characters, including Clem Kaddiddlehopper, George Appleby, and the seagulls Gertrude and Heathcliffe delighted audiences for decades. First and foremost, he considered himself a clown, although not the greatest, and his paintings of clowns brought in a fortune after he left television. His home life was not completely happy--two divorces and a son Richard who died of leukemia at age 9--and he did not hang around with other comedians. He continued performing live until illness, and he was a longtime supporter of children's charities. Red Skelton died at age 84 of pneumonia in Rancho Mirage, California, on September 17, 1997. Red is interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Glendale, California, in the Great Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Benediction.

Onni Tommila is a Finnish actor. He is the son of actor Jorma Tommila and nephew of director Jalmari Helander.

Actor, director, screenwriter and producer, is the son of Tatiana Iekel and famous romanian actor Florin Piersic. After a 4 year relationship with actress Dorina Chiriac - with whom he has a little girl, Sonia - divorce her, but raise their daughter together. In July 2009 Humanitas publishes his volume of essays and stories entitled "Complete Works" (ISBN 973-50-2503-8). Also in 2009 he starred in "Gruber's Journey" as "Curzio Malaparte". In 2011 Humanitas publishes Florin's second book entitled "Romantic Porno" (ISBN 978-973-50-2923-4). In 2013, he wrote and produced the one-man-show entitled 'Freak Show'. His performance has been acclaimed both by the public and the critics. In 2015, he won the prize for the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Q.E.D.) at the Gopo Awards (Romanian 'Oscars') and starred in "Complete Works - Volume Two".

Actor, director, screenwriter and producer, is the son of Tatiana Iekel and famous romanian actor Florin Piersic. After a 4 year relationship with actress Dorina Chiriac - with whom he has a little girl, Sonia - divorce her, but raise their daughter together. In July 2009 Humanitas publishes his volume of essays and stories entitled "Complete Works" (ISBN 973-50-2503-8). Also in 2009 he starred in "Gruber's Journey" as "Curzio Malaparte". In 2011 Humanitas publishes Florin's second book entitled "Romantic Porno" (ISBN 978-973-50-2923-4). In 2013, he wrote and produced the one-man-show entitled 'Freak Show'. His performance has been acclaimed both by the public and the critics. In 2015, he won the prize for the Best Actor in a Leading Role (Q.E.D.) at the Gopo Awards (Romanian 'Oscars') and starred in "Complete Works - Volume Two".

Arvind Swamy is an Indian film actor, model, entrepreneur and television presenter known for his work in Tamil cinema. He was introduced as an actor by Mani Ratnam with the film Thalapathi (1991) and subsequently starred in successful films such as Roja (1992), Bombay (1995), Minsaara Kanavu (1997) and Alaipayuthey (2000). Swamy also starred in other ventures, including the Telugu film Mounam (1995), the Malayalam film Devaraagam (1996), and the Bollywood film Saat Rang Ke Sapne (1998). Swamy spent a decade in businesses ranging from software engineering, construction, international trade to global outsourcing, before returning to acting with works such as Kadal (2013), Thani Oruvan (2015), Dear Dad (2016), Dhruva (2016), and Bogan (2016). He is the host of the third season of Neengalum Vellalam Oru Kodi on STAR Vijay.

Holt Boggs was born and raised in Houston, Texas for the most part. The son of a geologist, he and his family traveled the world for several years living in Africa, Indonesia, Singapore and Jakarta before returning to Texas. Shortly there after, his parents got divorced and he and his little brother went to live with their mother back in Houston. Always the class clown, Holt first gravitated towards sketch comedy and his ultimate goal was to land a gig on the TV show, 'SNL'. He hit the stage, doing stand-up at the local comedy clubs before auditioning and being accepted into a two-year conservatory program in Dallas. While in the program, Holt did every play, commercial and short film he could, to gain experience. Frustrated with the lack of film work in Dallas, he co-wrote and produced the indie thriller, "The Prodigy". The success of this international indie film has kept Holt in demand around the globe where he's gotten to work with some of the biggest names in the business. Holt has since moved to Los Angeles where he has worked on numerous TV and film projects.

Lori Alan (née Denniberg, born July 18, 1966) is an American actress, voice actress, writer, producer, and stand-up comedian. She voices the long-running role of Pearl Krabs the Whale on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. She also voices news anchor Diane Simmons on Family Guy, the Invisible Woman on Fantastic Four, and The Boss in the Metal Gear video game series, as well as various voices on Hey Arnold!. She voiced for movies including Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Inside Out, Monsters University, Despicable Me 2, Minions, and as Bonnie's Mom in Toy Story 3 & 4 (and Toy Story Toons). She started acting at age five, making her television debut in a Shakey's Pizza commercial. Her stage debut was as Annie's youngest sister in a local community theater production of Annie Get Your Gun. A longtime member of New York's Gotham City Improv (Groundlings East), she went on to Emerson College and graduated with honors from Tisch School of the Arts.