Celebrities born on May 21

Charles Arthur Russell Jr. was an American cellist, composer, producer, singer, and musician from Iowa, whose work spanned a disparate range of styles.

Born in Santiago de Chile, she worked at La Moneda Palace with Salvador Allende. After the death of her partner, Miguel Enriquez, at the hands of the military, Carmen Castillo, who was pregnant and injured, was expelled from Chile and came to France as a political refugee. She has directed numerous documentaries for television, especially for the French channels TF1 and FR3 and for the Franco-German Arte. The first was Los muros de Santiago (1983), which was followed by Estado de guerra: Nicaragua (1984). La Flaca Alejandra (1993) won the Golden FIPA at Cannes, in addition to other awards in Geneva, Monte Carlo, San Francisco and New York. She then directed La verdadera leyenda del Subcomandante Marcos (1995), Inca de oro (1996), El bolero, una educación amorosa (1999), First Prize at the Annecy Festival, Viaje con la cumbia por Colombia (2000), María Félix, la inalcanzable (2000), El Camino del Inca (2001), El astronomo y el indio (2002), First Prize at the Paris Scientific Film Festival, José Saramago, el tiempo de una memoria (2003), Mísia, la voz del fado (2003) and El país de mi padre (2004), Second Prize Fidocs in Santiago de Chile. He also directed the fiction feature film series for Arte Tierras extranjeras, between 1994 and 1999. Carmen Castillo's most recent work is Calle Santa Fé (2007), which was presented in Cannes' Un Certain Regard and will be shown at this year's San Sebastian Film Festival in the Zabaltegi section. She has also written the scripts for Inca de oro and Color Habana, which have already been completed, and those for Hasta luego and La montaña azul, which are in pre-production. Carmen Castillo has also published several books, including Un día de octubre en Santiago (1980), Ligne de fuite (1987) and Santiago/Paris, el vuelo de la memoria (2000), with Mónica Echeverría.

Kamen Velkovsky was born on May 22, 1977 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is an assistant director and producer, known for Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian (2013), Halloween (2018) and The Dead Don't Die (2019).

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Gelfant (born May 21, 1957 in Syracuse, New York) is an American film actor. Alan Gelfant has acted in more than 50 plays and dozens of TV shows and movies, including leading roles in the films Next Stop Wonderland, The Destiny of Marty Fine, Men in Scoring Position, Turn of Faith and highly acclaimed documentary Hero. As a director, he has put his interest in new plays. Consequently, he is the co-founder of the annual Stella Adler Theatre - One Act Play Festival in Los Angeles. He was hired by HBO to direct and co-write Colin Quinn’s one man show The Seven acraments. In the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont, Gelfant has produced, directed and acted in performances at the Parish Players, playing Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge. Besides professional acting and directing for TV, movies and the stage, Alan Gelfant teaches acting, playwriting and filmmaking at high schools. Currently, he is a teacher and tutor in Writing and Rhetoric Program of Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College, focusing on research and study in making documentary films for educational use. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Gelfant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rudolf Buitendach (or Rudolf B.) is a South African born film director and editor. His short Indoor Fireworks produced by Sleevemonkey Films was the world's first fully uncompressed film shot on the legendary Viper filmstream camera and lauded by the likes of director Darren Aronofsky and composer Angelo Badalamenti (who scored the film) It was picked up by Canal Plus for European distribution. His short Rearview was nominated by BBC Three as best short of 2006 in their new talent strand and also screened at the LA International shortsfest and Brief Encounters. It was shortlisted by the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival for a Golden Melies nomination and also screened in Cannes and Venice. In 2007 Rudolf was a finalist in the filmaka.com international filmmaking competition. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Deron John Miller (born May 21, 1976) is an American heavy metal musician. He is best known as the former lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of alternative metal band CKY, which he co-founded in 1998. Outside of music, Miller has also appeared in several films, most notably the CKY video series, Haggard and Hotdog Casserole.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Glen MacWilliams (May 21, 1898 – April 15, 1984), was an American cinematographer. Born in California, MacWilliams started his career in the silent days. He worked in the United Kingdom for much of the 1930s, working on several musicals with Jessie Matthews. He returned to the US in the 1940s where he worked extensively for 20th Century Fox, filming Laurel and Hardy's first two films for the studio and also worked with Alfred Hitchcock on Lifeboat in 1944. He had previously worked with Hitchcock on one occasion in Britain. He later worked in television on such shows as Highway Patrol, Wanted: Dead or Alive, The Untouchables and My Living Doll before he retired in the mid-1960s.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rob Jenkins (born 21 May 1975) is an Australian actor. 2001 won a Best Actor Award for The Irving Hand Prophecy which also starred Undead cast member Mungo McKay. In 2003, Played character Wayne in the Australian Film Undead Rob appeared in channel 7's All Saints and later that same year appeared on the ABC's The Chasers CNNNN. In 2008, completed filming another independent feature titled Sharkmen in which he played the lead role of Orca, a hitman. Written and Directed by first timer Jason Gibson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Anisha Nagarajan (born May 21, 1983) is an American actress and singer. She was born to Hindu parents, she has a brother named Arjun. She grew up in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood and later moved with her family to the suburb of Fox Chapel, where she graduated from the local high school in 2002. She subsequently enlisted at NYU. While he was studying at NYU, she was chosen to play Priya in the musical's Broadway "Bombay Dreams"; and after working in this work, he was seen in several theater productions regional as "Rent" and "The Wiz", among others. Before the cameras, she made her debut in 2006 when she participated in the drama "Hope and a Little Sugar". Then she was seen in the short "The Trident" (2007), which was followed by a participation as guest in "Ugly Betty" (2009), and from 2010 can be seen in the skin of Madhuri in 'Outsourced' NBC series. In regards to her personal life, she is married to actor Aalok Mehta, whom she had met when she worked in "Bombay Dreams".