Jabari Banks is 25. Will Smith on “Bel-Air”.
Charli XCX is 31. British singer from “Boom Clap“ and Iggy Azalea’s “Fancy“.
Hallie Eisenberg is 31. Adorable little girl from the Pepsi commercials and the Robin Williams robot movie “Bicentennial Man“. She’s Jesse Eisenberg’s sister.
Edward Furlong is 46. John Connor in “Terminator 2”. He also returned to play John Connor again in “Terminator: Dark Fate“.
Sam Worthington is 47. Jake Sully in the “Avatar” movies, Marcus Wright in “Terminator Salvation”, and Alex Mason in “Call of Duty: Black Ops”.
Jacinda Barrett is 51. Kyle Chandler’s wife Diana on the Netflix show “Bloodline“. She started off as a cast member on “Real World: London”.
Kevin Smith is 53. Silent Bob in “Clerks”, “Mallrats”, “Chasing Amy”, “Dogma”, “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back”, and 2019’s “Jay and Silent Bob Reboot“. Kevin wrote and directed all of them.
Mary-Louise Parker is 59. Pot selling mom Nancy Botwin on “Weeds” and feminist lobbyist Amy Gardner on “The West Wing”.
Apollonia is 64. Prince’s girlfriend in “Purple Rain“. Biggest hit: “Sex Shooter“, with her band Apollonia 6.
Butch Patrick is 70. Eddie Munster on “The Munsters”.
Garth Hudson is 86. The Band. Biggest hit: “The Weight“.
Max Wright (1943 – 2019) Willie Tanner on “Alf”.
Wes Craven (1939 – 2015) Director of “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, all four “Scream” movies, and the original versions of “Last House on the Left” and “The Hills Have Eyes”.
Peter O’Toole (1932 – 2013) Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia”.
Carroll O’Connor (1924 – 2001) Archie Bunker on “All In The Family” and Sheriff Bill Gillespie on “In the Heat of the Night”.
Andrew Gold (1951 – 2011) His song “Thank You for Being a Friend“ hit #30 on the charts in 1978, and was the theme for “The Golden Girls”.
• Today is National Coloring Book Day
• It’s 8 days to Morning Show Boot Camp, which is in Dallas this year.
• It’s 30 days until Labor Day Weekend
August 2nd On This Day in History
Originally posted on August 2nd, 2023
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