Celebrities born on May 22

Mark Christopher Lawrence (born May 22, 1964) is an American character actor, stand-up comedian and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his role as esoteric D.J., Tone Deaf, in the 1994 satirical rap mockumentary, Fear of a Black Hat. He has co-starred in popular films such as Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Planet of the Apes, Lost Treasure and The Pursuit of Happyness. Lawrence can currently be seen in his regular role as Big Mike on the NBC series Chuck. He has made guest appearances on many television programs, most notably Heroes, My Name Is Earl, Crossing Jordan, Dharma & Greg, Malcolm in the Middle, Touched by an Angel, Malcolm & Eddie, Men Behaving Badly, Seinfeld, Murphy Brown, and Martin. He is also featured on the Radio Series Adventures in Odyssey as "Ed Washington". ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Simon Bamford Simon is best known for playing the ‘Butterball Cenobite’ in the original 'Hellraiser' and its first sequel 'Hellbound', as well as ‘Ohnaka’ in Clive Barker's 'Nightbreed'. However it was The Who’s 'Quadrophenia' which gave Simon his first film experience at the age of 16. Discovered playing 'The Fool' in a London production of King Lear by film director Clive Barker, he was invited to join 'The Dog Company' where he worked with Doug Bradley (Pinhead) and Oliver Parker (Film director of 'Johnny English Reborn', 'St Trinians', 'Dad's Army', 'Dorian Gray' & Swimming with Men’). 'Hellraiser' and 'Nightbreed' followed shortly afterwards. Simon was reunited with Clive whilst playing Derek in 'The Book of Blood' for Matador films. He was reunited with Candyman Tony Todd whilst playing ‘Gary’ in 'Dead of the Nite', and can be heard as the voice of ‘Commander Elgin’ in the animation 'The 11th Hour - Jericho'. In 2015 he completed four shoots: 'Arcade', 'Roots', 'The Pub Launch' and the auto-cannibalism horror short 'Hunger'. More recently he played the ‘Witchfinder General’ in ‘The Haunting of Margam Castle’ shot in Wales, and in LA, played art gallery owner ‘Mr Peindre’ in ‘14 Ghosts’. Outside of the horror genre, Simon played the senior consultant in the feature film 'Starfish' starring Tom Riley from 'Da Vinci's Demons' and Golden Globe winner Joanne Froggatt from 'Downton Abbey'. In 2021 he completed production on the award winning feature film ‘You are my Sunshine’ a LGBTQ love story set across several decades. He has worked in theatre worldwide from Kuala Lumpur to Stockholm, Ohio to Karachi. and has become a much sought after horror convention guest with USA shows in Atlantic City, Florida, Boston, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Indianapolis and LA as well as European shows in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and the UK. Simon was invited to play horror legend ‘Peter Vincent’ in the ‘Fright Night’ documentary 'You're so cool Brewster' which won ‘Best Documentary’ at the Top Indie film awards in 2017 He won ‘Best Actor’ for his portrayal of ‘Pip’ in a stage production of ‘Great Expectations’. For the 2022 Sci-Fi movie, ‘Project Skyquake’, he won Best Ensemble at the Las Vegas Movie Awards, and was nominated for Best Supporting actor at the Tietê International Film Awards. He was awarded the ‘Lifetime of Torment Award’ at Texas Frightmare in 2018 and Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020 at the ‘Russian International Horror Film Festival. In 2017 Simon shot the first episode of the ‘Dark Ditties’ series ‘The Offer’, bringing to life the role of smarmy investment banker, ‘Jonathon Brook Davies’. To date he has appeared in five of the ‘Dark Ditties Presents’ series. All episodes are available now on Amazon & Amazon Prime in both the UK and USA. In 2024, the long awaited Horror anthology ‘Mosaic’ is due for release. Simon plays ‘Elliot Foley’, a Detective Inspector, trying to make sense of an increasingly brutal series of bizarre murders. The Hungarian movie ‘Aftermath’ is also due for release this year. Simon plays the voice of ‘Alpha’, a squad leader, in a strange, mysterious world. He is currently in pre-production for two new films shooting in 2024.

John Nolan is an actor.

Eduardo Schuldt is a Peruvian animator and filmmaker, recognized for directing animated films such as Pirates en el Callao, El Delfín, Los ilusionautas, Condorito: La pelicula and Milagros: La extraordinaria osa.

Ralph Dunn was an American film, television, and stage actor. Dunn was born in Titusville, Pennsylvania and spent early years living with relatives in Canton, Illinois. Dunn's father was a veterinarian for the U.S. Army during WWI, and his mother was an actress. Dunn was enrolled briefly at the University of Pennsylvania, but left after one day to join a Vaudeville troupe. Ralph Dunn used his burly body and rich, theatrical voice to good effect in hundreds of minor feature-film roles and supporting appearances in two-reel comedies. He came to Hollywood during the early talkie era, beginning his film career with 1932's The Crowd Roars. A large man with a withering glare, Dunn was an ideal "opposite" for short, bumbling comedians. A frequent visitor to the Columbia short subjects unit, Dunn showed up in the Three Stooges comedies Mummy's Dummies, as well as Who Done It? and its remake, For Crimin' Out Loud Dunn kept busy into the 1960s, appearing in such TV series as Kitty Foyle, and Norby and such films as Black Like Me.

Steve Gan (born May 22, 1945) is a Chinese-born Filipino comics artist. He is best known for co-creating Panday with Carlo J. Caparas and Marvel Comics' Star Lord and Skull the Slayer. Steve Gan was born as Santos S. Gan but changed his first name to "Steve" in admiration of Steve Ditko. Gan studied architecture at the Mapúa Institute of Technology and later worked as an artist in the Komiks industry.It was as Steve Gan that he got a huge break drawing for American comic book publisher Marvel Comics, sending work through his United States-based agent, the Filipino comic book artist Tony DeZuñiga. In 1974, Gan began drawing for Marvel Comics and contributed to their line of black-and-white magazines, including Savage Tales and Dracula Lives. He co-created Star Lord and Skull the Slayer with writers Steve Englehart and Marv Wolfman, respectively. Gan was highly regarded for his artwork on both Conan, titles Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan, from 1974 to 1979. Gan briefly worked for Warren Publishing in the early 1980s. After leaving the comics industry, he became a layout designer and storyboard artist in the animation field. Upon the release of the Guardians of the Galaxy film in 2014, Gan was given both credit in the movie and royalties for co-creating Star-Lord. Gan is married with three children. He retired from drawing comics full-time in 2002; speaking at a convention in 2014, he spoke about walking away from drawing in the medium 12 years ago. Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve Gan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Joana Preiss (born 22 May 1972) is a French actress, director, singer, and performer. Joana Preiss has starred in the films of Christophe Honoré, Olivier Assayas, Nobuhiro Suwa and Pia Marais, and has also collaborated with Nan Goldin in her works. She has also worked with Ugo Rondinone, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. She has performed on stage in the shows of Pascal Rambert and Eleanor Weber. She was trained in classical singing and contemporary music, and regularly performs in concerts. She founded the duo White Tahina with Vincent Epplay, Hiroyuki, and Frédéric Danos, in which she sings poems by Hölderlin. In 2011 she directed her first film Sibérie. Source: Article "Joana Preiss" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Cavan Spencer Kendall McCarthy (22 May 1942 – 29 October 1999) was a British actor.

A native of Ghent, Belgium, Delfine Bafort began her career as a model at the age of 17. Since then, she has walked many a runway and become the face for such exclusive brands as Balenciaga, Versace, D&G, Jean Paul Gaultier, Loewe, Cacharel, Calvin Klein, Moschino and DKNY, among others. She has adorned the covers of such international magazines as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie-Claire, Elle and Dazed & Confused. A passionate actress at heart, Bafort holds a Bachelor of Drama degree from the KASK Conservatorium of the Arts, in Ghent, and studied with John Korkes at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, in New York. In 2003, she played the female lead in Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen’s film “Steve + Sky.” In 2008 she starred alongside Vincent Gallo, in his film “Promises Written in Water,” which premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival, where it was screened in competition. Bafort has also performed in a handful of short films and, in 2016, appeared in two other features — Lydia Rigaux’s “Hoe Kamelen Leeuwin worden” and Marco Laguna’s “Doubleplusungood” — as well as starring in Dimitri de Clercq’s You go to my head

Thira Chutikul is a Thai actor and model.

Max Brooks is an American author and screenwriter. Brooks is also a television and voice-over actor.