Famous people born today – celebrity birthdays for April 30 – Gal Gadot, Kirsten Dunst and Keith Lemon
HAPPY Birthday to everyone celebrating today, but did you know you share it with these famous faces?
These are the celebs who will be popping open the champers this evening…
Whose birthday is it today?
Gal Gadot, 33
The Israeli beauty is best-known for her portrayal of superhero Wonder Woman.
The former model also went on to star in the film Justice League as the same character.
Crowned Miss Israel in 2004, she served two years in the Israeli Defence Forces.
Now a mum-of-two, this year Gal was included in the Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Gal turns 33 today.
Kristen Dunst, 36
The American actress has been a staple of our screens after first gaining popularity as a child star.
Aged just 12, she was cast opposite Brad Pitt in the cult classic Interview with a Vampire, and in Jumanji alongside the late Robin Williams the following year, in 1995.
She went on to play the female lead in the first Spider-Man trilogy, from 2002-2007, as Mary-Jane Watson.
Kristen, who is pregnant with her first child with fiancée Jesse Plemons, won her first Screen Actors guild Award for her performance in Hidden Figures last year.
Kristen turns 36 today.
Keith Lemon, 45
Leigh Francis, better known as his alter-ego Keith Lemon, is a stand-up comedian, actor, director, producer, writer, and voice artist.
He is best-known for creating Channel 4’s Bo’ Selecta!, and more recently hosting Celebrity Juice, with Fearne Cotton and Holly Willoughby as frequent guests.
The married dad-of-one is rarely interviewed or photographed out of character, with Keith Lemon emerging as the frontrunner after previously working as Avid Merrion for a number of years.
Some of Leigh’s most recent work includes a collaboration with presenter Paddy McGuiness in The Keith & Paddy Picture Show.
Leigh turns 45 today.
What about these legends?
William Shakespeare’s birthday is normally celebrated on April 23, although the exact date is unknown.
The poet was baptised in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26, 1564, leading to the assumption that he was born three days before.
He also passed away on April 23, 1616, making it a popular legend that he died on his birthday.
Legendary cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away on March 14, 2018, was born in Oxford on January 8, 1942.
The Beatles’ John Lennon, who was shot dead in New York on December 8, 1980, at the age of 40, was born in Liverpool on October 9, 1940.
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Elizabeth II, who’s been the Queen of England since 1952, was born in Mayfair, London, on April 21, 1926.
The Queen also has an “official birthday”, which she celebrates on the second Saturday in June.
WW2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill celebrated his birthday on November 30.
He was born in Bleinham Palace, Oxfordshire, in 1874 – and passed away on January 24, 1965.
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