Celebrities born on May 23

Patrick Martin is an American professional wrestler and physical therapy clinician, better known by the ring name Alex Shelley. He is best known for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as one half of the The Motor City Machine Guns with Chris Sabin. He previously gained fame on the independent circuit working for Ring of Honor, as well as in Japan, for Pro Wrestling Zero1-Max. As of September 2024, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand. In TNA he is a former one-time TNA World Champion and a former one-time X Division Champion and three-time World Tag Team Champion. Aside from wrestling, he is the lead singer of a rock band called The High Crusade, which includes his friends and fellow wrestlers Chris Sabin and Petey Williams.

An accomplished Australian filmmaker from the Otto acting family. This is her fourth SXSW – as an actress/editor with feature film Three Blind Mice, and “Living Between Fucks” and director of feature documentary “Under the Volcano”. Seriously Red is her debut drama feature. Gracie is currently filming Heartbreak High for Netflix.

Tim has been a life-long performer since the age of 4. It was his mother and her twin sister singing in church that first inspired him to pursue his love of the arts. Recently, Tim worked alongside Glenn Close and John Malkovich in Damian Harris' "Wilde Wedding" as Dylan. He also starred in "Miles" as Miles along with Molly Shannon and Paul Reiser. You can also catch him on Netflix in Tina Fey's "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" as Dylan.

You can see Ben recurring as "Michael Siletti" on TNT's Murder In the First, "Zach" on Teen Wolf, "James" on Grey's Anatomy, "Nathan" on Sullivan & Son, "Evan Braun" on Criminal Minds, "James (recurring)" on Shake It Up, "Owen (recurring)" on Lab Rats, "Camden" on Richie Rich, "Todd" in Tales of Halloween Feature Film, "Nicholas" (series regular) on Bad Family/Fox Pilot, "Zuke (lead")" on There Goes the Planet Pilot, Johnny on "Cozmos", and "Adam (lead)" on Cartoon Networks Live Action Pilot Attention Students. Ben is also a writer, finishing his first pilot script when he was just 16, and completing a full table read of his script at Second City. He also writes sketch comedy, sitcom spec, and completed writing two more pilots by the age of 19. Ben is in the Improv Conservatory Program at Second City, and has been continually working on honing his comedic and improvisational skills since the age of 13. He's trained at Second City, The Groundlings, and LA Connection. Ben enjoys visiting new Escape Rooms, Parkour/Free Running, and trains at various gyms in Los Angeles when he's not acting or writing.

Rubens "Rubinho" Gonçalves Barrichello is a Brazilian professional racing driver who competed in Formula One between 1993 and 2011. He scored 11 Grand Prix wins and 68 podiums. As of 2023, he competes full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro Series, driving the No. 111 Toyota Corolla E210 for Full Time Sports.

Edward Scaife BSC (23 May 1912 – November 1994) was an English cinematographer, who worked five times with the director John Huston. Sometimes credited as Ted Scaife, he worked originally in the sound department of a London film company. From 1940 onwards, he was a member of the camera crew in productions such as Michael Powell's Black Narcissus (1947) and Huston's African Queen. From 1951 he was first employed as a chief camera man, and photographed films of all genres, including Night of the Demon (1957), 633 Squadron (1964), Khartoum (1966), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), before retiring from the industry in 1979.

Elliot Davis is an American cinematographer. Davis graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Master of Fine Arts in Film from UCLA. Davis feels his tenure as an architect carries over into his shooting style.