Celebrate These Milestone Celebrity Birthdays in November

Calista Flockhart, Don Cheadle, Leonardo DiCaprio, Danny DeVito, Robin Givens and more toast another year

Nicholas DeRenzo,

AARP

Published October 31, 2024

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Nov. 8: Matthew Rhys, 50

Nov. 11: Calista Flockhart, 60

Nov. 11: Leonardo DiCaprio, 50

Nov. 16: Diana Krall, 60

Nov. 17: Lorne Michaels, 80

Nov. 17: Danny DeVito, 80

Nov. 18: Chloë Sevigny, 50

Nov. 27: Robin Givens, 60

Nov. 29: Don Cheadle, 60

Nov. 29: Joel Coen, 70

Nov. 8: Matthew Rhys, 50

A Welsh actor who trained at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Matthew Rhys broke out in the U.S. in the TV ensemble drama Brothers & Sisters. But his biggest star-making turn came on FX’s The Americans, in which he and now-wife Keri Russell play Soviet agents posing as a 1980s suburban American couple during the Cold War. Rhys took home an Emmy for the role, which involved multiple disguises and identities. He traveled even further back in time to play famed defense lawyer Perry Mason in the eponymous HBO series set in 1930s L.A. And this fall, he goes against type yet again, portraying stand-up comedian George Carlin in Saturday Night, a biopic about the original "Not Ready for Primetime Players" in 1975.

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Nov. 11: Calista Flockhart, 60

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Calista Flockhart

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Calista Flockhart redefined a generation of working women with her quirky 1990s dramedy Ally McBeal, which focused on the romantic and personal life of a Boston lawyer. She appeared in several films since her TV breakout, including The Birdcage and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and returned to the small screen in 2006 for the family drama Brothers & Sisters. A fixture on the New York stage, Flockhart will star opposite Christian Slater in an off-Broadway production of Sam Shepard’s Curse of the Starving Class this winter.

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Nov. 11: Leonardo DiCaprio, 50

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio finally broke through at the Academy Awards with his Best Actor win for 2015’s The Revenant. In 2020, he picked up a seventh nomination for his turn in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. For more than two decades, he’s been something of a muse for director Martin Scorsese, appearing in six features ranging from Gangs of New York to The Departed to last year’s Oklahoma-set Killers of the Flower Moon. Next up, he’ll star in Paul Thomas Anderson’s secretive next film, rumored to be called The Battle of Baktan Cross.

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Nov. 16: Diana Krall, 60

Diana Krall

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One of the most popular jazz musicians working today, singer and pianist Diana Krall released her debut album in 1993 and won her first Grammy for the 1999 song “When I Look in Your Eyes.” Over the years, she’s collaborated with the likes of Elvis Costello (whom she married in 2003), Tony Bennett, Ray Charles and Barbra Streisand. This month, she’s touring across her native Canada with stops in Quebec and Ontario. Next year, superfans can join her, trumpeter Chris Botti, and vocalists including Katharine McPhee and Esperanza Spalding on a 7-day jazz cruise called Botti at Sea II.

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Nov. 17: Lorne Michaels, 80

In 1975, Canadian-born Lorne Michaels forever changed the TV comedy landscape with his daring experiment Saturday Night Live, which birthed countless comedy legends and is still on the air 50 seasons later. In addition, he produced 30 Rock, a slew of late-night shows on NBC, and films such as Mean Girls and Wayne’s World. Along the way, he's won 21 Primetime Emmys. This fall, he got the biopic treatment in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, a film detailing the 90 hectic minutes before the very first episode of SNL. (He’s played by The Fabelmans actor Gabriel LaBelle.)

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Nov. 17: Danny DeVito, 80

Danny DeVito

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New Jersey-born Danny DeVito packs a lot of talent into his 4-foot-10 frame. He’s won an Emmy for playing the gruff Louie De Palma on Taxi, earned an Oscar nod for producing Erin Brockovich, starred on Broadway and the West End, and directed movies including The War of the Roses and Matilda. Since 2006, DeVito has played the chaotic, amoral Frank Reynolds on the FX series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In 2021, it became the longest-running live-action sitcom in American TV history — and the cast is currently filming their 17th season.

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Nov. 18: Chloë Sevigny, 50

The ultimate “it girl” of the 1990s, Chloë Sevigny first made a splash in the shocking indie film Kids when she was just 20 years old. But she officially hit the mainstream with her Oscar-nominated supporting turn in 1999's Boys Don’t Cry. She later starred as one of the three wives of a Mormon polygamist on HBO’s Big Love, a role which earned her a Golden Globe. Since then, she's become a prestige-TV fixture, appearing on series like Those Who Kill, Bloodline, Russian Doll, and several projects for writer/director/producer Ryan Murphy, including American Horror Story and Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. Most recently, Murphy tapped Sevigny for the Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story, in which she plays the murdered mother of the titular brothers.

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Nov. 27: Robin Givens, 60

Robin Givens

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After rising to prominence on the 1980s high school sitcom Head of the Class, Robin Givens gained tabloid infamy thanks to her tumultuous marriage to boxer Mike Tyson. She returned to TV in 1996 for the UPN sitcom Sparks, took on a starring role in the 2019 OWN drama Ambitions, and has had recurring roles in comic-book adaptations like Riverdale and Batwoman. This September, Givens appeared in the human-trafficking-centered crime thriller Deadly Ruphoria, now streaming on Tubi.

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Nov. 29: Don Cheadle, 60

Don Cheadle

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Don Cheadle stays very, very busy. After standing out in ensemble films like Boogie Nights, Traffic and the Ocean’s franchise, he came into his own with an Oscar-nominated turn in the harrowing 2004 genocide drama Hotel Rwanda. In recent years, Cheadle has shown off his incredible range in front of and behind the camera. He’s starred in two comedy series (House of Lies and Black Monday), joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as James Rhodes/War Machine), narrated a nostalgic network sitcom (the Wonder Years reboot), and directed and starred in Miles Ahead, a 2015 biopic of jazz icon Miles Davis. This fall, he’s pulling double duty in two sports-related projects — the boxing miniseries Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist and the inspiring Unstoppable, about a real-life wrestler born with one leg.

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Nov. 29: Joel Coen, 70

As part of a directing and screenwriting duo with younger brother Ethan, Joel Coen has won four Academy Awards, including best screenplay for Fargo and best picture for No Country for Old Men. Together, the siblings have created memorable classics like The Big Lebowski, Miller’s Crossing and O Brother, Where Art Thou? In 2021, Joel struck out on his own with The Tragedy of Macbeth, co-starring his wife (and frequent collaborator) Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth. If you miss the brothers’ collaborations, rest easy: Earlier this year at a Q&A in Norway, Ethan teased that they’re reuniting for “a pure horror film” that will get “very bloody.”

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Nicholas DeRenzo is a contributing writer who covers entertainment and travel. Previously he was executive editor of United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Sunset and New York magazine.