Celebrities born on May 18

Justin Xavier Smith was born May 18, 1990 in Libertyville, IL to Virginia Smith and Joseph Smith. He was raised on Lake Nagawicka in Nashotah, WI. From an early age, he wrote plays; cast his neighbors and siblings in, and put up performances in his basement or anywhere he could find an audience. Justin moved on to filmmaking in high school, writing and directing feature film spoofs with his friends. Justin was active in school theater, performing in musicals like "The Music Man" or "The Sound of Music," other plays like "Fairy Tale Fraud" and "Stardust," before finally completing his high school career playing the role of MacBeth in his high school production of the same name. Justin attended Miami University from 2008 to 2012, graduating with a degree in Creative Writing. He began acting professionally in 2012, writing, producing, directing, and starring in a web series called "Door to Door" with his writing partner Rachel Woodhouse. They raised over $20,000 on Kickstarter and produced 21 episodes, available on various online streaming services like "FunnyorDie," and Vimeo. He played the lead in feature film, "Petey," directed by Fred Forte Jr., and was a co-star on an episode of "Turn: Washington's Spies" on AMC. Justin moved to Los Angeles in January 2015, starred in a play called "The Desperate Yogi" for the Hollywood Fringe Festival that same year, and in a short film called "Benefit of the Doubt." He also wrote and directed another short entitled "Breakfast." For Justin every step along the journey has been a learning experience to help him get to where he wants to go. Justin is deeply invested in all things film and is often creating and excited to be part of the Entertainment Industry. Biography from IMDB

Joseph Vernon "Big Joe" Turner Jr. (May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985) was an American singer from Kansas City, Missouri. According to songwriter Doc Pomus, "Rock and roll would have never happened without him." His greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly "Shake, Rattle and Roll", but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, with the Hall lauding him as "the brawny voiced 'Boss of the Blues'". Turner was born May 18, 1911, in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. His father was killed in a train accident when Turner was four years old. He sang in his church, and on street corners for money. He left school at age fourteen to work in Kansas City's nightclubs, first as a cook and later as a singing bartender. He became known as "The Singing Barman", and worked in such venues as the Kingfish Club and the Sunset, where he and his partner, the boogie-woogie pianist Pete Johnson, became resident performers. The Sunset was managed by Piney Brown. It featured "separate but equal" facilities for white patrons. Turner wrote "Piney Brown Blues" in his honor and sang it throughout his career. At that time Kansas City nightclubs were subject to frequent raids by the police; Turner said, "The Boss man would have his bondsmen down at the police station before we got there. We'd walk in, sign our names and walk right out. Then we would cabaret until morning." His partnership with Johnson proved fruitful. Together they went to New York City in 1936, where they appeared on a playbill with Benny Goodman, but as Turner recounted, "After our show with Goodman, we auditioned at several places, but New York wasn't ready for us yet, so we headed back to K.C." Eventually they were seen by the talent scout John Hammond in 1938, who invited them back to New York to appear in one of his From Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall, which were instrumental in introducing jazz and blues to a wider American audience. In part because of their appearance at Carnegie Hall, Turner and Johnson had a major success with the song "Roll 'Em Pete". The track was basically a collection of traditional blues lyrics. It was a song that Turner recorded many times, with various musicians, over the ensuing years. In 1939, along with the boogie-woogie pianists Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis, Turner and Johnson began a residency at Café Society, a nightclub in New York City, where they appeared on the same playbill as Billie Holiday and Frankie Newton's band. Besides "Roll 'Em, Pete", Turner's best-known recordings from this period are probably "Cherry Red", "I Want a Little Girl" and "Wee Baby Blues". "Cherry Red" was recorded in 1939 for the Vocalion label, with Hot Lips Page on trumpet and a full band in attendance. During the next year Turner contracted with Decca and recorded "Piney Brown Blues" with Johnson on piano. ... Source: Article "Big Joe Turner" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Alex Rodríguez (born May 18, 1971) is a French-born Mexican film editor with more than twenty film credits. Rodríguez was born in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France. He has edited several films directed by Alfonso Cuarón, commencing with Y tu mamá también (2001). He and Cuarón were nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for the film Children of Men (2006). The critic Wesley Morris described their work as follows: "'Children of Men' has a blistering immediacy that's singular in this age of rapid cutting. Along with Alex Rodríguez, Cuarón cut the picture himself, and while he uses digital effects as enrichment, he builds scenes within the camera's frame rather than just in an editing room. So the film is as theatrical as it is cinematic."

Olga Kurkulina (Hebrew: אולגה קורקולינה; born May 18, 1971) is a Soviet-born Israeli high-jumper, bodybuilder and actress.

Tony Taffin, né Pierre Taffin est un acteur français.

Fabien Incardona et né le 18 mai 1985 à Six-fours les plages dans le Var et étudie le chant et la comédie dès l'âge de 8 ans. Il se produit sur scène dans différents groupes et spectacles et participe à l'âge de 20 ans à l'émission de Pascal Sevran Entrées d'Artistes sur France 2. Il est finaliste du télé-crochet ce qui lui permet de se présenter à la sélection pour le Concours Eurovision de la chanson 2006. Il se classe second derrière Virginie Pouchain qui représente la France cette année-là. L'année suivante, Fabien rejoint la comédie musicale Roméo et Juliette, les enfants de Vérone de Gérard Presgurvic pour une tournée en Asie et des représentations au Palais des Congrès de Paris. En 2011, il s'installe à Paris et influencé par Queen et The Doors, il devient le chanteur d'un groupe de rock Gravity off. Un EP est édité et le groupe se produit sur quelques scènes parisiennes. En janvier 2014, Fabien participe à la saison 3 de The Voice, la plus belle voix. Il interprète Wuthering Heights de Kate Bush mais aucun coach ne le choisit. Cette opportunité médiatique lui permet de financer un EP Change financé par 201 producteurs sur la plateforme participative MyMajorCompany. En octobre de la même année, Fabien est candidat au nouveau télé-crochet de M6 Rising Star. Il participe à deux émissions. Dove Attia, le producteur des comédies musicales de Mozart, l'opéra rock et 1789, les amants de la Bastille entre autres lui propose le rôle de Méléagant dans son nouveau spectacle La Légende du roi Arthur. En septembre 2015, les représentations de La Légende du roi Arthur débutent au Palais des Congrès de Paris puis s'ensuit une tournée jusqu'en 2016. Florent Mothe (Mozart, l'opéra rock), Charlie Boisseau, Zaho, Camille Lou (1789, les amants de la Bastille) et David Alexis (Le Bal des vampires) font également partie de la distribution. Ses qualités vocales et scéniques sont particulièrement remarquées par la presse et font de lui la révélation de ce spectacle.

Samson Fainsilber (18 June 1904, Iași – 19 December 1983, Paris) was a Romanian-born French film actor. During his career he appeared in around sixty films and television series. He featured in the 1933 historical drama Roger la Honte. Source: Article "Samson Fainsilber" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.