Saturday 10 September 2016

Birthday's to share this week : 11th - 17th September 2016.

Do you celebrate your Birthday this week?

Andrew Lincoln does on 14th September - check out my tribute to this Birthday Lad turning 43, at the end of this feature.

Do you also share your birthday with a well known, highly regarded & famous Actor or Actress; share your special day with a Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Singer/Songwriter or Composer of repute; or share an interest in whoever might notch up another year in the coming seven days? Then, look no further! Whilst there will be too many to mention in this small but not insignificant and beautifully written and presented Blog, here are the more notable and noteworthy icons of the big screen, and the small screen, that you will recognise, and that you might just share your birthday with in the week ahead. If so, Happy Birthday to you from Odeon Online!

Sunday 11th September
  • Brian De Palma - Born 1940, turns 76 - Director | Producer | Writer
  • Tony Gilroy - Born 1956, turns 60 - Director | Producer | Writer
  • Harry Connick Jnr. - Born 1967, turns 49 - Singer | Songwriter | Actor | Producer  
Monday 12th September
  • Ian Holm - Born 1931, turns 85 - Actor
  • Hans Zimmer - Born 1957, turns 59 - Composer | Songwriter | Musician
  • Rachel Ward - Born 1957, turns 59 - Actress | Writer | Director
  • Linda Gray - Born 1940, turns 76 - Actress  
Tuesday 13th September
  • Jacqueline Bisset - Born 1944, turns 72 - Actress
  • Frank Marshall - Born 1946, turns 70 - Producer | Director | Actor
  • Colin Trevorrow - Born 1976, turns 40 - Director | Producer | Writer  
Wednesday 14th September
  • Sam Neill - Born 1947, turns 69 - Actor | Producer | Writer | Director | Winemaker
  • Joon-ho Bong - Born 1969, turns 47 - Director | Producer | Writer
  • Andrew Lincoln - Born 1973, turns 43 - Actor  
Thursday 15th September
  • Tommy Lee Jones - Born 1946, turns 70 - Actor | Writer | Producer | Director  
  • Oliver Stone - Born 1946, turns 70 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
  • Tom Hardy - Born 1977, turns 39 - Actor | Writer | Producer
Friday 16th September
  • Mickey Rourke - Born 1952, turns 64 - Actor | Writer
  • Amy Poehler - Born 1971, turns 45 - Actress | Writer | Producer | Director | Singer  
Saturday 17th September
  • Baz Luhrmann - Born 1962, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer | Songwriter
  • Paul Feig - Born 1962, turns 54 - Director | Producer | Writer | Actor
  • Bryan Singer  - Born 1965, turns 51 - Director | Producer | Writer
  • Kyle Chandler - Born 1965, turns 51 - Actor | Producer | Director
  • Neill Blomkamp - Born 1979, turns 37 - Director | Producer | Writer | VFX Artist  
Andrew James Clutterbuck was born in London, England to mother, a South African nurse and father, a civil engineer. At eighteen months old the family moved to Hull, Yorkshire, and then at age eight to Bath, Somerset where he attended Beechen Cliff School - a secondary school for boys. It was while at school at age fourteen that he got his first taste of acting, in a school production of 'Oliver' playing The Artful Dodger. He spent a summer break at London's National Youth Theatre where his interest in acting as a career was cemented. Following school he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London which is when, wisely, he adopted the stage name Andrew Lincoln.

He gained his first television appearance in a single episode of Channel 4's 'Drop the Dead Donkey' series in 1994. A year later he was cast in his first full length feature film - 'Boston Kickout' - a British drama Written and Directed by Paul Hills and starring John Simm. Two episodes on 'Over Here' and one on 'Bramwell' followed in 1996, before 32 episodes on the BBC drama series 'This Life' which ran for two series from 1996 to 1997. He followed these up with the BBC's 'Woman in White' in 1997, and then feature film 'Human Traffic' for Director Justin Kerrigan and starring John Simm again. The film was a commercial and critical success and has since achieved cult status.

2000 saw British crime drama 'Gangster No. 1' for Director Paul McGuigan with Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany, David Thewlis, Eddie Marsan and Saffron Burrows. Up next was 'Offending Angels' which tanked at the UK box office taking less than one hundred pounds sterling, and received very mixed reviews despite it doing well on the film festival circuit. Made for television movies 'A Likeness in Stone' and 'State of Mind' came next with 'Understanding Jane' before Richard Curtis' 2003 'Love Actually' with a who's who of British acting talent including Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Martin Freeman, Liam Neeson, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Emma Thompson and Keira Knightley. Lincoln's role as Mark in the film, gained him wider recognition.

From 2001 to 2003 Lincoln starred as Simon Casey in Channel 4's 'Teachers' - a television comedy drama series that ran for four seasons, with Lincoln appearing in two of those seasons. The show was nominated for six BAFTA's during its time, and charted the lives of a bunch of secondary school teachers both in and out of the classroom.

Over the next few years Lincoln dipped in between television and films with appearances on 'The Canterbury Tales' for the BBC with John Simm once more, James Nesbitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julie Walters and Billie Piper, then 'Holby City', 'Lie With Me', 'Afterlife' for its two seasons over fourteen episodes, and the two part ITV adaptation of 'Wuthering Heights' with Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley. Feature films during this period included 'Enduring Love' with Daniel Craig, Bill Nighy and Samantha Morton, 'These Foolish Things' with Terrence Stamp, Lauren Bacall and Angelica Huston, the French comedy 'Hey Good Looking!' and 'Scenes of a Sexual Nature' with Ewen McGregor, Tom Hardy and Hugh Bonneville. Made for television movies included 'Things I Haven't Told You', 'Play or Be Played' and 'Moonshot' closed out the decade.

2010 launched with 'Heartbreak' with Vanessa Paradis, and 'Made in Dagenham' with Bob Hoskins, Rosamund Pike, Sally Hawkins, Andrea Riseborough and Geraldine James. Also that year he appeared in five episodes of 'Strike Back'. He also appeared in several stage plays over the years, radio productions, and voice over work for documentaries, advertisements and governmental campaigns.

This of course brings us up to the present day, to Lincoln's lead role in the highly acclaimed 'The Walking Dead' television series for AMC Productions in the role of Rick Grimes. With Season Seven going to air in the US in late October, this show has run to huge success since its launch in 2010, and has now seen 99 episodes (including the yet to air Season Seven), has won 48 awards and been nominated for another 142, and, it has the highest Nielsen ratings in cable television history. Lincoln has won three Best Actor Awards for his portrayal of Rick Grimes and been nominated a further ten times.

Lincoln has 41 Acting credits to his name and one Director credit for two episodes of 'Teachers' back in 2003. He has four award wins and another thirteen nominations so far under his belt. He married Gael Anderson in 2006, the daughter of Ian Anderson, the lead singer of Jethro Tull. Together they have two children Matilda (born in 2007) and Arthur (born in 2010). Lincoln has an older brother, Richard.

Andrew Lincoln - good friends with Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon on 'TWD'); has a distinctive raspy voice; has successfully moved between stage, screen and TV over the years; and has given us a character now ingrained in popular culture that we love you for, and love your work. Happy Birthday to you Andrew, from Odeon Online, and, from a fellow former Bath resident who lived just a mile up the road from where you went to school.

-Steve, at Odeon Online-

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