Celebrities born on May 12

John J. Strauss is an American producer and writer of film and television. He has written and produced for the television series Boy Meets World, Me and the Boys and Odd Man Out. Since 1998, Strauss has mainly focused on films, co-writing the screenplays for There's Something About Mary (1998), Head Over Heels (2001), The Santa Clause 2, The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003), Rebound (2005), The Wild (2006), The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) and You Again (2010). He frequently collaborates with fellow producer and writer Ed Decter.

Melissa Sturm is a VP of Marketing at Sony Animation and is also a voice actress.

Jamie Costa is an American actor, filmmaker, and impressionist who is best known for his resemblance to Robin Williams.

Gabriel Gobin (12 May 1903 – 9 February 1998) was a Belgian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 1990. He was born in Hacquegnies, Belgium and died in Brie-Comte-Robert, France. Source: Article "Gabriel Gobin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Wakaba Irie was born on May 12, 1943 in Shiba, Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress, known for Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijôji no kettô (1964), Miyamoto Musashi (1961) and Miyamoto Musashi: Ganryû-jima no kettô (1965).

Writer-producer Matt Tarses is best known for his work on the comedies "Scrubs" and "Sports Night." In 1998 he began working on the latter, serving as co-producer and writing nine episodes from 1998 to 2000. He wrote two episodes of the sitcom "Norm" before beginning work on the long-running sitcom "Scrubs." He wrote eight episodes of the series and was co-executive producer for 80 episodes from 2001 to 2005. In 2003 he wrote the screenplay for the film "A Guy Thing" and a year later produced the TV film "Americana," directed by David Schwimmer. In 2006 he wrote and produced an episode of the series "Teachers" and two years later he wrote and executive produced the series "Worst Week." He has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for the first season of "Scrubs" and has won two Humanitas Prizes, one for "Scrubs" and another for an episode of "Sports Night."