Two birthdays on August 15th are Jennifer Lawrence (27) and Ben Affleck (45). Others include Emily Kinney (32, Conviction), Quinton Aaron (33, Halfway), Natasha Henstridge (43, Medinah), Anthony Anderson (47, Black-ish), Debra Messing (49, Will & Grace), Alejandro González Iñárritu (54, The Revenant), and David Zayas (55, Bloodline).

Jennifer Lawrence was born in Louisville, Kentucky, got her first acting role in Monk (crime show with Tony Shalhoub) in 2006, won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2012 for Silver Linings Playbook, and is perhaps best known for her role as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games series (4 films 2012-2015). She has also been in Winter’s Bone (2010 drama, Oscar nomination), 3 X-Men movies as Mystique (2011-2016 comic book action), American Hustle (2013 crime drama, Oscar nomination), Serena (2014 drama with Bradley Cooper), Joy (2015 drama, her third film with director David O. Russell and Robert De Niro, her fourth film with Bradley Cooper, and fourth Oscar nomination). Lawrence was most recently in Passengers (2016 sci-fi with Chris Pratt), and will next be seen in Mother! (horror with Javier Bardem), Red Sparrow (thriller with Mary-Louise Parker), Bad Blood (drama written and directed by Adam McKay), and X-Men: Dark Phoenix.

Ben Affleck was born in Berkeley, California, got his first acting credit in The Dark End of the Street (1981 drama with Lance Henriksen), and may be best known for his 2 Oscar winning films, Good Will Hunting (1997 Best Writing with Matt Damon) and Argo (2012 Best Picture which he directed and starred in). He has also been in Dazed and Confused (1993 comedy with Matthew McConaughey), Armageddon (1998 action with Bruce Willis), Pearl Harbor (2001 drama with Kate Beckinsale), The Sum of All Fears (2002 action with Morgan Freeman), Daredevil (2003 comic book action, watch the director’s cut!), State of Play (2009 mystery with Russell Crowe), The Town (2010 crime drama he also directed and co-wrote), Gone Girl (2014 drama with Rosamund Pike), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016 comic book action, in his first appearance as Batman). Affleck was also in the Kevin Smith written and directed films Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, and Clerks 2 (1995-2006). Most recently Ben was in The Accountant (action with Anna Kendrick), Live by Night (crime drama he also adapted the screenplay and directed), and will next be seen in the first two Justice League films, The Batman, a sequel to The Accountant, and Witness for the Prosecution (adapted from a Agatha Christie novel).

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