Singer Toni Braxton Celebrates Her 56th Birthday Today

Actors:

Joe Armstrong is 45 (“Robin Hood,” “Hitched”)

Shawn Ashmore is 44 (“Frozen,” “X-Men” franchise)

Allison Munn is 49 (“What I Like About You,” “That ‘70s Show”)

Nicole Ari Parker is 53 (“Boogie Nights,” “Soul Food”)

Holland Roden is 37 (“Teen Wolf,” “Bring It On: Fight to the Finish”)

Amber Stevens is 37 (“Greek,” “Fired Up!”) (FAST FACT: Before she hit fame, she was a back-up singer for Gladys Knight)

The late June Allyson (1917 – 2006) (“The Glenn Miller Story,” “Music for Millions”) 

Musicians:

Toni Braxton is 56

Taylor Hicks is 47 (FAST FACT: He won the fifth season of American Idol)

John Mellencamp is 72

Bon Jovi’s Tico Torres is 70

Yo-Yo Ma is 68

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke is 55 

Plus:

Comedienne and TV personality Joy Behar is 81

Television producer, executive, and celebrity judge Simon Cowell is 64

San Francisco Giants’ third baseman Evan “Longo” Longoria is 38

TV and radio personality Col. (ret.) Oliver North is 80 (North was a National Security Council staff member during the Iran–Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s. The scandal involved the clandestine sale of weapons to Iran, which was to encourage the release of U.S. hostages then held in Lebanon. North formulated the second part of the plan, which was to divert proceeds from the arms sales to support the Contra rebel groups in Nicaragua, which had been specifically prohibited under the Boland Amendment).

Russian president Vladimir Putin is 71

Olympic ice dancer Jayne Torvill is 66 (half of the gold-medal winning Olympic team, Torvill & Dean…with Christopher Dean, she won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics)

 


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