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March 1: Ron Howard, 70
Few entertainers have made the leap from acting to directing as seamlessly as the former child star of The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days. One of Hollywood’s most iconic redheads, Howard has helmed hit films like Splash, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon and A Beautiful Mind, for which he won the Academy Awards for best picture and best director. His next film is the survival thriller Eden, about a group of people who abandon society in pursuit of happiness in the Galapagos Islands.
March 4: Catherine O’Hara, 70
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Long a favorite of comedy aficionados, the SCTV alumna became a regular collaborator of Tim Burton and Christopher Guest, bringing a trademark zaniness and warmth to roles in his mockumentaries like Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. O’Hara had her highest profile role in years as the highly theatrical matriarch Moira Rose on Schitt’s Creek, an out-of-left-field Canadian sitcom hit that earned her an Emmy for best actress in a comedy. For her next TV role, she’s taking a complete 180 turn: She was recently cast in the second season of HBO’s bleak post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us.
March 5: Eva Mendes, 50
Following a celebrated turn in the 2001 drama Training Day, Eva Mendes proved capable of tackling any genre, including romantic comedies (Hitch), action (2 Fast 2 Furious) and crime thrillers (We Own the Night). She met her future partner, Ryan Gosling, on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, which was released in 2012 and was her most recent starring film role. In the years since, she’s only made the rarest of TV and film appearances, including a role in Gosling’s 2014 directorial debut, Lost River, and a voice-acting gig as a yoga instructor on the Aussie kids’ show Bluey. Offscreen, Mendes launched her own clothing line with New York & Company and co-owns Skura Style, a collection of antimicrobial sponges and cleaning tools.
March 5: Marsha Warfield, 70
Sitcom fans will remember the Chicago-born actress and comedian from her one-two punch on two successful shows in the 1980s and ’90s: as the no-nonsense, tough-talking bailiff Roz Russell on Night Court and then as Dr. Maxine Douglas, the head of an inner-city medical clinic, on Empty Nest. Warfield came out as a lesbian in 2017, and after recurring on 9-1-1, she returned for a guest stint on the season 2 premiere of NBC’s Night Court reboot. These days, you can also catch her performing live at comedy clubs across the country.
March 7: Wanda Sykes, 60
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Stand-up comedian and actress Wanda Sykes has racked up an astonishing 17 Emmy nominations for her comedy specials and guest appearances on Black-ish and Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and she took home a trophy in 1999 for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. Following notable guest turns on shows like The New Adventures of Old Christine and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sykes began starring in her own Netflix sitcom The Upshaws, opposite Mike Epps and Kim Fields. Last year, she also teamed up with comedy royalty for History of the World: Part II, a TV adaptation of the Mel Brooks classic, on which she wrote and played Bessie Coleman, Harriet Tubman and Shirley Chisholm.
March 7: Jenna Fischer, 50
The Indiana-born actress first rose to fame with her lovable (and SAG Award–winning) role as The Office’s Pam Beesly, an administrative assistant caught up in one of the most romantic will-they-or-won’t-they relationships in TV history. She went on to star in the ABC sitcom Splitting Up Together, about a couple who fall back in love after getting separated, and since 2019, Fischer and her former Dunder Mifflin coworker Angela Kinsey have hosted a rewatch podcast called Office Ladies. Earlier this year, she appeared as Cady’s mom in the movie adaptation of the musical adaptation of Mean Girls.
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