Celebrities born on May 22

Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko (Ukrainian: Микола Григорович Гринько; Russian: Николай Григорьевич Гринько) was a Soviet and Ukrainian actor. His film debut was in the role of a rebel in the film "Taras Shevchenko" by Igor Savchenko. He is best known for his roles in the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, including: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rubliov, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker, as well as Sergei Parajanov's "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors".

Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (May 22, 1938 – January 21, 1999) was an American actress. Description above from the Wikipedia article Susan Strasberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Chrissie Chau is a Chinese actress and celebrity model from Hong Kong. Chau achieved widespread fame after the release of her portrait albums in 2009 and 2010. Her film career began after she starred in the horror film Womb Ghosts (2009); Chau has starred in 20 productions in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Malaysia. Chau won four "Most Searched Photos on Yahoo!" in 2009–2012, "Yahoo! Entertainment Spotlight Person" in 2009 and "Most Popular Actress Award" in Yahoo Asia Buzz Awards. She received "Award of Merit: Leading Actress" from The Accolade Competition in 2011 for her performance in Beach Spike. Chau first drew attention following "After 90s' Girls" in Hong Kong from the survey held by YMCA 2010. The report showed surveyed girls think that Chau has a high IQ and is optimistic and bold, whilst Chau ranked 16th in 2010 LIVAC Celebrity Roasters of Cross-Straits Media announced by HKIEd, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.

Bryan Lloyd Danielson is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of the William Regal led stable Blackpool Combat Club, alongside Jon Moxley and Wheeler Yuta. He is also known for his time in WWE where he worked from 2009 to 2021 under the ring name Daniel Bryan. Danielson began his professional wrestling career in 1999 on the independent circuit, and signed an 18-month contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), in 2000; he later went on to make uncontracted appearances in WWE until 2003. He joined the Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion in 2002, wrestling in the main event of the promotion's first event, The Era of Honor Begins. Considered a mainstay of ROH, he stayed with the company until 2009 and, during his career, won the ROH World Championship and ROH Pure Championship once each, unifying them at one point, and was the inaugural winner of the annual Survival of the Fittest tournament. Due to his contributions to ROH, he was part of the inaugural class of the ROH Hall of Fame in 2022. Danielson also wrestled extensively in Japan, winning the GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship in Pro Wrestling Noah and the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (with Curry Man) in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). Danielson also won numerous titles on the independent circuit, including two PWG World Championships and the FIP Heavyweight Championship and the wXw World Heavyweight Championship once each. In 2009, Danielson again signed with WWE, but was fired for three months in 2010. Upon his return, he went onto win the WWE Championship four times,[Note 1] the World Heavyweight Championship once, and the United States and Intercontinental Championships once each. Danielson also won the WWE Tag Team Championship as part of Team Hell No (with Kane) and the SmackDown Tag Team Championship (with Erick Rowan), thereby becoming WWE's 26th Triple Crown Champion and 15th Grand Slam Champion. He also won the Money in the Bank ladder match in 2011, won Superstar of the Year at the 2013 Slammy Awards, and headlined several major WWE pay-per-view events, including their flagship event, WrestleMania, in 2014 and 2021. Danielson retired from wrestling in 2016 due to injuries arising from multiple concussions, which led to seizures and a brain lesion. He then took on a non-wrestling role for WWE as the on-screen general manager of SmackDown. He remained in the role until 2018, when he was unexpectedly cleared by doctors to return to in-ring competition. After his WWE contract expired in May 2021, Danielson signed with AEW, debuting in September that year.

Michael Kostroff was born on May 22, 1961. He is an actor.

Summer H. Howell (born 22 May 2004) is a Canadian actress. She began her acting career at the age of 8 when she was cast as Alice in the horror film Curse of Chucky (2013) directed by Don Mancini. For this leading role, Summer was able to work closely with Fiona Dourif, Danielle Bisutti and Brennan Elliott and was nominated and won her first Joey acting award for her performance. Shortly after that film, she was cast to play Nascien in the Action, Sci-Fi thriller Garm Wars: The Last Druid (2014) directed by Mamoru Oshii which featured Lance Henriksen and Kevin Durand.

Lucy Gordon (22 May 1980 – 20 May 2009) was an English actress and model. She became a face of CoverGirl in 1997 before starting an acting career. Her first film was Perfume in 2001 before going on to have small roles in Spider-Man 3, Serendipity and The Four Feathers. Gordon had played the actress and singer Jane Birkin in the film Gainsbourg, a biopic of singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg. Before the film was released, she was found hanged in her flat in Paris on 20 May 2009 after dying by suicide.

Tomokazu Koshimura (越村 友一, Koshimura Tomokazu, May 22, 1979) is a Japanese actor and voice actor born in Saitama Prefecture. After working for the theater company Tokyo Celeson Deluxe, he joined the Seinenza Theater Company.

Nico Christou got the acting bug while performing on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. After enjoying two seasons, his love for acting was solidified. In 2014 Nico was cast in the lead role of Oliver in the independent feature Run the Tide, co-starring Taylor Lautner. A few months later Nico was cast in the lead role of Caleb Burns in Sweet Sweet Summertime, another independent feature co-starring David DeLuise, Markie Post and Kayla Ewell. Nico enjoys school, surfing, singing, hanging out with friends, writing and acting.

Endy Arfian, born Arfiandi Eka Putra on May 22, 2001, in Jakarta, Indonesia, is a prominent Indonesian actor. He first came into the limelight in 2006 through his appearance in a commercial for the Triaminic brand of medicine.

Kwak Jae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film My Sassy Girl in 2001. He is known for his limitless fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kwak Jae-yong, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guillermo Toledo (born Madrid, 22 May 1970), professionally known as Willy Toledo, is a Spanish film and television actor, theater producer and political activist.

Jack has appeared in over 60 feature films, including Men in Black II. One of his most memorable performances was in film Love Liza as Denny, an energetic radio control hobbyist trying to help Philip Seymour Hoffman's character come to terms with the suicide of his wife. He also had a brief but memorable role in The Big Lebowski as The Dude's (Jeff Bridges) landlord. He guest starred in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Babel", and in the Angel episode "Long Day's Journey". In 1995 he played Mr. Chase in the Babylon 5 episode "Comes the Inquisitor". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Kehler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Noa Tishby (born 22 May 1975) is an Israeli actress, writer, producer, and activist.