Celebrities born on May 22

Paul Wheeler is a writer, known for The Medallion (2003), Caravan to Vaccares (1974) and Ransom (1974). He has been married to Alexandra Wheeler since March 26, 1964. They have two children.

Chris Pedersen (born May 22, 1963) is an American musician, actor, and NASCAR racer. Pedersen was born in San Francisco and grew up in Southern California. Pedersen was never formally trained as an actor. He was approached by director Penelope Spheeris at a park in Burbank where the band T.S.O.L. was playing. According to Pedersen, who was unemployed at the time, "I was thinking 'yeah, right' and didn't pay any attention to her until she said it paid $100 a day, which at the time was a lot of money. So I showed up for the audition on time and tried really hard not to screw it up. That was the start of my acting career." He played a punk rocker in Suburbia, and also appeared in Platoon, Night of the Comet and Point Break among others. (wikipedia)

Claudio Rissi (Buenos Aires, May 22, 1956 - February 2, 2024) was an Argentine theatre, film, and television actor and stage director.

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Madeline Weinstein was born in New York City and graduated from Northwestern University with a BA in Theater. In 2014 she made her Broadway debut alongside Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ewan McGregor, Cynthia Nixon, and Josh Hamilton in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing directed by Sam Gold. She is based in New York City. She would also like everyone to know she is not related to Harvey Weinstein.

Caleb Spillyards was brought up in the foothills of the Ozarks in Maumelle, Arkansas, which reflects his love as a true adventurist. The avid outdoorsman got his start in gymnastics at an early age, which fueled his passion for performance. As a ten-time state champion, the Junior Olympic competitor graduated from Oak Grove High School, where he discovered his knack for music and singing. Out of high school, Caleb signed to his first record label as singer/bassist for popular rock band School Boy Humor. He spent years touring, writing, producing albums and videos, and living the musician's fantasy. After an exciting and unpredictable career as a musician, he demanded more as a performer. He moved to New Orleans after recognising his natural gift for acting and directing through his involvement with several indie films around the country.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (/ˈvɑːɡnər/; German: [ˈʁiçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ] (About this sound listen); 22 May 1813 – 13 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). His compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs—musical phrases associated with individual characters, places, ideas, or plot elements. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music. His Tristan und Isolde is sometimes described as marking the start of modern music. Famously, he is known for Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Richard Wagner. The works are based loosely on characters from the Norse sagas and the Nibelungenlied. The four parts that constitute the Ring cycle are, in sequence: Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold) Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Siegfried Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) Wagner had his own opera house built, the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, which embodied many novel design features. The Ring and Parsifal were premiered here and his most important stage works continue to be performed at the annual Bayreuth Festival, run by his descendants. His thoughts on the relative contributions of music and drama in opera were to change again, and he reintroduced some traditional forms into his last few stage works, including Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg).

David Hillary Hughes (22 May 1901 – 5 February 1974 age 72) was an American actor with only four television and movie appearances.