Celebrity Birthdays – February 8: Two Marvel movie actors share a day
Who do you share a birthday with today?
• Thomas William Hiddleston (37)
The English actor, producer and musical performer grew his fame status when landed the role of Marvel’s God of Mischief, ‘Loki’.
Going back to the beginning of his acting career, he appeared in West End theatre productions of Cymbeline (2007) and Ivanov (2008). His performance in Cymbeline earned him the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Newcomer in a Play.
In 2011 he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing in Thor as Loki. He then continued the role in The Avengers (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Tom also made an appearance in Steven Spielberg’s movie, War Horse (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Midnight in Paris (2011) and more.
“In 2015, he starred in Crimson Peak, Ben Wheatley’s High Rise, and played the troubled country music singer Hank Williams in the biopic I Saw The Light.
In 2016, he starred in and was an executive producer of the AMC / BBC limited series The Night Manager, for which he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie and Outstanding Limited Series, and won his first Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film.”
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• Michael Bakari Jordan (31)
American actor, Michael Jordan’s television roles include Wallace in the HBO series The Wire (2002), Reggie Montgomery in the ABC soap opera All My Children (2003–2006), and Vince Howard in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2009–2011).
He has also starred in movies such as Fruitvale Station (2013), the Human Torch in Fantastic Four (2015) and he was in the Rocky sequel film Creed that same year.
A few other movies he has been in are: Red Tails (2012), Chronicle (2012), That Awkward Moment (2014) and even the latest Marvel movie, Black Panther (2018).
(Source: Wikipedia)
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