# Notable celebrity closest to your age **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405 "2009-02-18T15:59:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/41 "2009-02-18T17:27:25Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > Well . . . what’s the _prize?_ Moderating the Pit? ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/42 "2009-02-18T17:30:39Z")
In showbiz, Forest Whitaker (JRD+4 days). In general, Barack Obama (JRD-16 days). Dang, that bar is waaaay up there… ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/43 "2009-02-18T17:31:01Z")
Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and author Kelly Armstrong share my birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/44 "2009-02-18T17:32:26Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui and author Kelly Armstrong share my birthday. \ ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/45 "2009-02-18T17:32:52Z")
I know I was born the same year as Britney Spears and Georges St. Pierre. I don’t know who was born the same month/day/week as me. I did find out through some very light googling that Jessica Alba was born the same day as my wife; about 9 weeks before me. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/46 "2009-02-18T17:34:08Z")
Apparently Orlando Bloom is nine days older than me. I think I’ll start to point that out to people, it makes me seem younger than I really am. ---
**Author:** ![Wash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9dc877/32.png) [@Wash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wash)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/47 "2009-02-18T17:40:06Z")
The only name I recognise on my birthday is Mercedes McNab, who played Harmony on _Buffy_ and _Angel_. I’m a week younger than Laura Prepon and a week older than Ronaldinho and the very un-punk-named Deryck Whibley of Sum 41. I’m also kind of surprised to discover than I’m 2 months younger than Maksim Chmerkovskiy (thought he was older than that), Zooey Deschanel (thought she was younger), and Jason Segel (thought he was older). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/48 "2009-02-18T17:43:00Z")
Randy Jackson, of the Jackson Five, was born on the same day as me. If he’s not famous enough to qualify, Dylan McDermott, Peter Jackson, and Larry Mullen were all born within a few days of me. ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/49 "2009-02-18T17:44:59Z")
I share a birthdate with [Toby Kebbel](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1527905/)l, who is going to be in the [Prince of Persia movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473075/), though in which role is not specified. [Tay Zonday](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2747938/), of “Chocolate Rain” youtube fame, is 3 days older than me. No one really famous in my month, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/50 "2009-02-18T17:46:11Z")
Sarah McLachlan shares a birthday with me. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/51 "2009-02-18T17:51:29Z")
Kenny Chesney was born the day before I was I share my birthday with [Sandra Hess](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381524/), of General Hospital fame, apparently. Lucy Lawless was born two days after me. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/52 "2009-02-18T17:55:37Z")
I appear to share my birthday with one [Lexi Leigh](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0500257/), star of such gems as _Titty Slickers 3_ and _Stripped Bare for Bondage!_ (love that exclamation mark!). Also born in the same month as me: Ronan Keating, Irish crooner Bubba Sparxxx (possibly not his real name), rapper James Van Der Beek, bloke who conspicuously failed to cop off with Katie Holmes in _Dawson’s Creek_ [marcus40](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1939338/), absolutely no idea! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/53 "2009-02-18T17:57:31Z")
Kobe Bryant about two weeks before, Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed about one week after. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/54 "2009-02-18T18:47:18Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > People born on my actual birthday, but not the same year, include Charlie Watts, Thomas Hardy, Sir Edward Elgar, the Marquis de Sade, and Jerry Mathers (as the Beaver). I didn’t think of that approach. Lemme see…Michael Hutchence, Linda Blair, Lord Byron, D.W. Griffith, George Balanchine, U Thant, Piper Laurie, Bill Bixby and John Hurt were all born on the same day I was. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/55 "2009-02-18T18:55:10Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Randy Jackson, of the Jackson Five, was born on the same day as me. Michael, Marlon, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie… was their a sixth Jackson in the Jackson Five? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/56 "2009-02-18T18:59:24Z")
Mine was a bad year for celebrities, apparently. I’m within 3 days of Anna Quindlen, columnist for Newsweek; and Leon Spinks, one-time boxer. The closest “movie star” to me is Andrew (‘throw me the whip…I throw you the idol’) Molina. ---
**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/57 "2009-02-18T19:03:56Z")
Troy Aikman is five days older than me. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/58 "2009-02-18T19:04:23Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Michael, Marlon, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie… was their a sixth Jackson in the Jackson Five? 😕 Yeah, like the Fifth Beatle. Seven, if you count the guy off _American Idol_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/59 "2009-02-18T19:05:18Z")
For some odd reason, Caroline Kennedy has always been about my age… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405/60 "2009-02-18T19:09:12Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > For some odd reason, Caroline Kennedy has always been about my age… That’s prone to continue. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/notable-celebrity-closest-to-your-age/486405.md?page=4)