10 Milestone Celebrity Birthdays in March

Jon Bon Jovi, Star Jones among those celebrating

Jon Bon Jovi and Star Jones

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Nicholas DeRenzo,

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Published February 28, 2022

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March 2: Jon Bon Jovi, 60

March 3: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 60

March 7: Taylor Dayne, 60

March 10: Jasmine Guy, 60

March 21: Matthew Broderick, 60

March 21: Rosie O’Donnell, 60

March 22: Bob Costas, 70

March 24: Star Jones, 60

March 26: Leslie Mann, 50

March 30: MC Hammer, 60

March 2: Jon Bon Jovi, 60

Musician Jon Bon Jovi poses for a portrait outside in New York

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The New Jersey-born front man and his eponymous band released their 15th studio album in 2020 (called, appropriately, 2020), which featured two songs written during the pandemic: “Do What You Can,” about helping out in times of need, and “American Reckoning,” a protest song about the killing of George Floyd. Bon Jovi is still married to Dorothea Hurley, whom he met in high school; they married in Vegas back in 1989 and have four kids. He’s now gearing up to hit the road with his band, kicking off a nationwide stadium tour in April.

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March 3: Jackie Joyner-Kersee, 60

Jackie Joyner-Kersee visits SiriusXM Studios in New York

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Few American athletes can match the breadth of skills mastered by this six-time Olympic medalist, who picked up three golds, one silver and two bronzes in the long jump and heptathlon — that’s seven track-and-field events, if you’re not up on your Greek. Sports Illustrated ranked her the top female athlete of the 20th century, and since hanging up her running shoes, she’s worked as a motivational speaker and established her own foundation dedicated to motivating the youth of greater East St. Louis in athletics and academics.

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March 7: Taylor Dayne, 60

Taylor Dayne on the red carpet for the Big Game Kick-Off event hosted by Merging Vets and Players at Academy LA

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Known for such hits as “Tell It to My Heart” and “Love Will Lead You Back,” the two-time Grammy nominee possesses one of the most effortlessly powerful voices in dance pop music, with an impressive range and a recognizable rasp. In 2019, she released her memoir, Tell It to My Heart: How I Lost My S#*t, Conquered My Fear, and Found My Voice — a voice that was heard (even when her face couldn’t be seen) on Season 4 of the reality juggernaut The Masked Singer, where she appeared as Popcorn.

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March 10: Jasmine Guy, 60

Actress Jasmine Guy at the Prime Video Harlem Premiere Screening and After Party

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Jasmine Guy was so perfect as preppy Southern belle Whitley Gilbert on the campus-set sitcom A Different World that she won six consecutive best actress trophies at the NAACP Image Awards. Since leaving Hillman College behind, Guy has remained a TV fixture, appearing as not-so-grim reaper Roxy Harvey on Showtime's Dead Like Me, Grams on The Vampire Diaries and, most recently, as Richard Webber’s friend Gemma on Grey’s Anatomy. Last December saw the premiere of her new Amazon Prime comedy, Harlem, from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver.

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March 21: Matthew Broderick, 60

Matthew Broderick attends the premiere of And Just Like That in New York

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A longtime screen favorite in such films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Glory, Broderick is perhaps even more at home on the New York City stage, where he’s picked up Tonys for his roles in Brighton Beach Memoirs and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and originated such iconic characters as Leo Bloom in The Producers. Last month, he returned to Broadway alongside wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, in Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite, in which they’ll play three different couples occupying the same hotel room on three different days.

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March 21: Rosie O’Donnell, 60

Rosie O'Donnell on the set of The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Pyramid

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Since her big break on Star Search in 1984, the Queen of Nice has mastered standup comedy, film, Broadway and daytime TV, winning a dozen Emmys in the process. Following guest stints on everything from Smash to Mom, she recently took on a pair of more dramatic TV roles: as Tutu, a South Boston grandmother dealing with manic depression, on Showtime’s SMILF, and then as social worker Lisa Sheffer on HBO’s I Know This Much Is True. Next up, she’s set to appear as Detective Sunday (a part originated by Héctor Elizondo) in the Showtime adaptation of American Gigolo, starring The Walking Dead’s Jon Bernthal.

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March 22: Bob Costas, 70

Sports journalist Bob Costas Bob Costas attends Brockmire Season 2 premiere at The Film Society of Lincoln Center Walter Reade Theatre in New York City

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As the face of NBC Sports for decades, Bob Costas hosted the Olympics 12 times and received 28 Emmys, all while speaking truth to power. In fact, his public remarks about the harms of concussions on football players ultimately led to his being relieved of his Super Bowl-hosting duties. He left the Peacock behind in 2019 and launched a reboot of his old HBO talk show, now called Back on the Record with Bob Costas; this year, for the second season premiere, he talked to ski racer Lindsay Vonn, sports commentator Al Michaels, cornerback Domonique Foxworth and more.

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March 24: Star Jones, 60

Star Jones on the red carpet at The American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Red Dress Collection 2020

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A former prosecutor with the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, Star Jones first brought her charisma and legal know-how to Court TV, before joining the inaugural hosting panel of ABC’s The View, where she stayed for nine Emmy-nominated seasons. This September, Jones will return to her roots when she takes the bench as the new host of Divorce Court. “Since the beginning of my TV career,” she said in a statement, “it’s been my mission to serve as a voice for the voiceless.”

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March 26: Leslie Mann, 50

Actress Leslie Mann Leslie Mann attends the Baby2Baby 10-Year Gala

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Leslie Mann can steal a scene in any comedy, but she’s perhaps most at home when collaborating with husband Judd Apatow on films like The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People and especially This Is 40, in which she starred opposite her own daughters, Maude and Iris. At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, she costarred in Cha Cha Real Smooth, which nabbed the coveted Audience Award, and next up, she’ll play the mayor of Seattle and a mother of three in the new Amazon Prime thriller The Power, which asks: What if all teenage girls suddenly had the ability to electrocute people at will?

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March 30: MC Hammer, 60

MC Hammer holds a microphone as he speaks onstage during the Capitol Music Group's 5th annual Capitol Congress Premieres new music and projects for industry and media

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MC Hammer doesn’t always get the credit he deserves, but his early ’90s hits, like “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit,” were some of the earliest rap songs to break into the mainstream, and he became the first hip-hop artist to earn a diamond record. (We can’t say he was as successful popularizing his trademark parachute pants.) In the years since he topped the charts, he’s served as a Christian minister, appeared on reality series, judged dance competition shows and continued touring, most recently on the nostalgia-drenched Hammer’s House Party tour, which included the likes of En Vogue, Sir Mix-a-Lot and Tone Loc.

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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.

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