Celebrities born on April 05

Mitchell Craig "Mitch" Pileggi (born April 5, 1952) is an American actor. Pileggi is known for playing FBI assistant director Walter Skinner on the long-running popular series The X-Files. He also had a recurring role on Stargate Atlantis as Col. Steven Caldwell. He appeared in the 2008 film, Flash of Genius.

Saba Qamar Zaman is a Pakistani film and television actress. Qamar has established a career in the Pakistani entertainment industry, and is the recipient of several accolades, including Eight lux style Award.

Kristopher Bowers (born April 5, 1989) is an American composer, pianist and documentary director. He has composed scores for films, including Green Book, King Richard, and The Color Purple, and television series, among them Bridgerton, Mrs. America, Dear White People, and When They See Us. Bower is a recipient of the 2024 Oscar for Best Documentary Short film for The Last Repair Shop and a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Amazon Prime's adaptation of The Snowy Day. He has also garnered multiple nominations at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Academy Awards (Best Documentary Short Subject for A Concert Is A Conversation) Grammy Awards and Critics' Choice Awards.

Jason Done (born 5 April 1973) is an English actor who appeared as Mordred in the 1998 TV miniseries Merlin, opposite Sam Neill. However he is best known for his role as Stephen Snow in ITV drama Where The Heart Is from 1999 to 2001 and Tom Clarkson in the BBC drama Waterloo Road from 2006 to 2013. Where The Heart Is - Jason appeared as Stephen Snow in the ITV drama series Where The Heart Is, taking over the part in series 3 from William Ash, in 1999. Stephen Snow was the son of Peggy Snow (Pam Ferris) and Vic Snow (Tony Haygarth). Jason portrayed Stephen throughout series 3 & 4 & part of series 5, during which the character left the fictional town of Skelthwaite. Waterloo Road - On 9 March 2006, Done began appearing as schoolteacher, Tom Clarkson in the successful BBC One drama series, Waterloo Road. On 10 April 2013, it was announced that Done would be leaving his role as Tom after seven years and eight series. Tom left the series in the final episode of the eighth series, on 4 July 2013, in a shock twist which saw Tom fall from the school roof after helping troubled pupil, Kyle Stack (George Sampson) from committing suicide. Done is the second longest serving cast member. TV - In May 2014, Done appeared as Andrew Wendell in Casualty and in October 2014 as Paul Brightway in the story "The Lions of Nemea", part of series 8 of the ITV drama series Lewis. He also started in Closets, a short film. On 7 February 2016, Done appeared in the TV series Vera. In 2016, he appeared in the ITV/Netflix series Paranoid. Coronation Street 2017. (Wikipedia)

Vanessa Scalera (born 5 April 1977) is an Italian actress. She was born in Latiano, Apulia and later moved to Rome, where she graduated from the theatre school La Scaletta. She gained national stardom for portraying the role of Imma Tataranni in the tv series Imma Tataranni - Deputy Prosecutor, for which she won a Flaiano Prize in 2020. Other notable film credits have included Lea (2015), Diabolik (2021) and L'Arminuta (2021).

Pharrell Lanscilo Williams (born April 5, 1973) is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer and entrepreneur. With close friend Chad Hugo, he formed the hip hop and R&B production duo The Neptunes in the early 1990s, with whom he has produced songs for various recording artists. He has won 13 Grammy Awards, including three for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (one as a member of The Neptunes). He is also a two-time Academy Award nominee: in 2014 for Best Original Song, for "Happy" (from Despicable Me 2); and in 2017 for Best Picture, as a producer of Hidden Figures.

Predrag "Miki" Manojlović ( (Serbian Cyrillic: Предраг "Мики" Манојловић; born April 5, 1950, Belgrade, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia) is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of former Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans, meaning that he's currently active in productions all over Europe. At February 2009 the Serbian Government established him as a president of the Serbian Film Center.

Tom Riley (born 5 April 1981 in Maidstone, Kent) is an English film, television, and theatre actor. Tom was involved in drama in his home town of Maidstone, Kent, since the age of four and spent his school years writing and directing plays. He studied English Literature and Drama at Birmingham University, graduating in 2002 with first class honours, and set up a small theatre company before deciding to go to drama school. He started the three year Professional Acting Course at LAMDA the same year, completing his studies in 2005.

David Winters (April 5, 1939 - April 23, 2019) was an English-born American dancer, choreographer, producer, director, screenwriter, and actor. Winters participated in, directed and produced over 400 television series, television specials, and motion pictures. Of these, he has directed, produced and distributed over 50 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Winters (choreographer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Le Mesurier (born John Elton Le Mesurier Halliley, 5 April 1912 – 15 November 1983) was a BAFTA Award-winning English actor. He is most famous for his role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the popular 1970s BBC comedy Dad's Army. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Le Mesurier, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Christopher Reid (born April 5, 1964), formerly known as Kid (shortened from his original MC name, Kid Coolout), is an American actor, comedian, and former rapper. He was half of the late 1980s/early 1990s hip-hop/comedy duo Kid 'n Play. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock. He was also known as an excellent standup speaker with a wry sense of humour. He many times remarked that he had "the heart of a little boy", quipping "I keep it in a jar on my desk." Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over twenty novels, usually crime fiction, science fiction and, perhaps most influentially, horror fiction (Psycho). He was one of the youngest members of the Lovecraft Circle. H. P. Lovecraft was Bloch's mentor and one of the first to seriously encourage his talent. Bloch was a contributor to pulp magazines such as Weird Tales in his early career, and was also a prolific screenwriter and a major contributor to science fiction fanzines and fandom in general. He was the recipient of the Hugo Award (for his story "That Hell-Bound Train"), the Bram Stoker Award, and the World Fantasy Award. He served a term as president of the Mystery Writers of America (1970) and was a member of that organisation and of Science Fiction Writers of America, the Writers' Guild, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Count Dracula Society.In 2008, The Library of America selected Bloch’s story “The Shambles of Ed Gein” for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American true crime. His favourites amongst his own novels were The Kidnapper, The Star Stalker, Psycho, Night-World and Strange Eons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Bloch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim (born 5 April 1955) is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble Protestant family from Alsace, Charlotte de Turckheim studied theater after completing her baccalauréat degree. She has appeared in numerous films. In 2007, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue. On Feb 25, 2014, it was announced that she would present a French version of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow. The writer Émilie de Turckheim is her cousin. She is a descendant of the French automobile and aircraft engine manufacturer Adrien de Turckheim of the company Lorraine-Dietrich. Source: Article "Charlotte de Turckheim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre (December 32nd) by Luciano De Crescenzo. Source: Article "Enzo Cannavale" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Erica Rhodes is an American actress and comedian. She has been performing on A Prairie Home Companion since the age of 10 and appeared in several movies and TV shows, including Plague Town, 1,000 Ways to Die, and The Consultants. She has also guest starred on New Girl, @midnight with Chris Hardwick, and Modern Family. She competed in the reality television comedy competition series Bring the Funny. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Giovanni Cianfriglia (born 5 April 1935) is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1958. Born in Anzio, Cianfriglia debuted as the body double of Steve Reeves in Hercules, then he started appearing, often uncredited, as a stuntman in dozens of genre films. Since the second half of the sixties he starred in several adventure films and Spaghetti Westerns in leading roles using the stage name Ken Wood. Source: Article "Giovanni Cianfriglia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.