Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 5-11

Tim Meadows, a cast member in the FOX series "Son of Zorn," poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Actor-comedian Tim Meadows (”Saturday Night Live”) is 56 on Feb. 5. Tim Meadows, a cast member in the FOX series “Son of Zorn,” poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Singer Bobby Brown is 48 on Feb. 5. FILE – In this Sept. 27, 2015, file photo, Bobby Brown, member of the 80s band New Edition, attends the 26th Annual Heroes and Legends Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. BET announced a new three-part miniseries, “New Edition: The Movie.” Actor Woody McClain will portray Brown. Principal photography is to start next month in Los Angeles, with the miniseries scheduled to debut on BET in 2017. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)
Singer Rick Astley is 51 on Feb. 6. (Courtesy Vevo via YouTube). (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, actor Rip Torn speaks during a news conference for the movie "Happy Tears" at the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany. Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been arrested for breaking into a Salisbury, Conn. bank and carrying a firearm while intoxicated.   (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)
Actor Rip Torn is 86 on Feb. 6. FILE – In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, actor Rip Torn speaks during a news conference for the movie “Happy Tears” at the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany. Actor Elmore “Rip” Torn has been arrested for breaking into a Salisbury, Conn. bank and carrying a firearm while intoxicated. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)
Comedian Chris Rock is 52 on Feb. 7. Host Chris Rock speaks at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2016, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Actor Ashton Kutcher (”That 70’s Show”) is 39 on Feb. 7. FILE – In this June 20, 2016 file photo, actor Ashton Kutcher attends the Museum of the Moving Image’s 2016 Industry Tribute in New York. According to a new analytics tool unveiled by the Nielsen company, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, people who say they like Kutcher are much more apt to watch morning shows than fans of most other celebrities. The ratings company believes the tool can provide scientific rigor to decisions on how to deploy talent. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Composer-conductor John Williams is 85 on Feb. 8. FILE – In this July 21, 2014 file photo, composer John Williams poses at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event “Behind the Score: The Art of the Film Composer” in Los Angeles. The force is strong with the Boston Pops in 2016. The beloved orchestra is announcing its spring concert schedule on Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, and it’s a star-studded lineup. Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer Williams, who wrote the score for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” will help Pops conductor Keith Lockhart lead a performance of selections from the hit movie’s soundtrack. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES - JULY 12:  Anchor of ABC News "Nightline," Ted Koppel (L), and anchor of "This Week," George Stephanopoulos, speak with the press during day one of the ABC Summer TCA Press Tour at the Century Plaza Hotel on June 12, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
ABC News anchor Ted Koppel (L) is 77 on Feb. 8. LOS ANGELES – JULY 12: Anchor of ABC News “Nightline,” Ted Koppel (L), and anchor of “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos, speak with the press during day one of the ABC Summer TCA Press Tour at the Century Plaza Hotel on June 12, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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Singer Carole King is 75 on Feb. 9. Singer Carole King puts her hands together after performing at a vigil for victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and other victims of gun violence, Thursday, Dec. 12, 2013, at the National Vigil for Victims of Gun Violence at the National Cathedral in Washington. The one year anniversary of the Newtown, Conn. shootings is December 14. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
PASADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 05:  Actor Michael B. Jordan poses in the press room at the 47th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 5, 2016 in Pasadena, California.  (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
Actor Michael B. Jordan (”Fruitvale Station,” `’That Awkward Moment”) is 30 on Feb. 9. PASADENA, CA – FEBRUARY 05: Actor Michael B. Jordan poses in the press room at the 47th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 5, 2016 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
Actress Uzo Aduba (”Orange is the New Black”) is 36 on Feb. 10. FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015 file photo, Uzo Aduba accepts the award for outstanding supporting actress in a drama series for “Orange Is The New Black” at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. In one of the exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are “whitewashed,” and that an “epidemic of invisibility” runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. A study to be released Monday, Feb. 22, 2016, by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism offers one of the most wide-ranging examinations of the film and television industries, including a pointed “inclusivity index” of 10 major media companies – from Disney to Netflix – that gives a failing grade to every movie studio and most TV makers. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)
Actress Elizabeth Banks is 43 on Feb. 10. FILE – In this Sept. 12, 2015 file photo, Elizabeth Banks poses for photographers upon arrival at the awards ceremony for the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy. Banks will return to direct Pitch Perfect 3, the follow-up to summer 2015’s blockbuster hit from Universal Pictures and Gold Circle Entertainment. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
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Singer Sheryl Crow is 55 on Feb. 11. Singer Sheryl Crow arrives at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (Photo by Al Powers/Invision/AP)
Jennifer Aniston arrives at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Actress Jennifer Aniston is 48 on Feb. 11. Jennifer Aniston arrives at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Tim Meadows, a cast member in the FOX series "Son of Zorn," poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly Hilton on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
FILE - In this Feb. 11, 2009 file photo, actor Rip Torn speaks during a news conference for the movie "Happy Tears" at the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany. Actor Elmore "Rip" Torn has been arrested for breaking into a Salisbury, Conn. bank and carrying a firearm while intoxicated.   (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)
LOS ANGELES - JULY 12:  Anchor of ABC News "Nightline," Ted Koppel (L), and anchor of "This Week," George Stephanopoulos, speak with the press during day one of the ABC Summer TCA Press Tour at the Century Plaza Hotel on June 12, 2004 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
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PASADENA, CA - FEBRUARY 05:  Actor Michael B. Jordan poses in the press room at the 47th NAACP Image Awards at Pasadena Civic Auditorium on February 5, 2016 in Pasadena, California.  (Photo by Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic)
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Jennifer Aniston arrives at the 21st annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Jan. 25, 2015, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Here are celebrities celebrating a birthday this week.

Feb. 5: Actor Stuart Damon is 80. Singer-songwriter Barrett Strong is 76. Actor David Selby (”Dark Shadows,” `’Falcon Crest”) is 76. Singer Al Kooper is 73. Actress Charlotte Rampling is 71. Actress Barbara Hershey is 69. Actor-director-comedian Christopher Guest is 69. Actor Tom Wilkinson (”Selma”) is 69. Actor-comedian Tim Meadows (”Saturday Night Live”) is 56. Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh is 55. Actress Laura Linney is 53. Bassist Duff McKagan of Velvet Revolver (and Guns N’ Roses) is 53. Actor Chris Parnell is 50. Singer Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors is 49. Singer Bobby Brown is 48. Actor Michael Sheen (”Masters of Sex,” `’Frost/Nixon,” `’Twilight” films) is 48. Actor David Chisum (”Black Box,” `’One Life to Live”) is 47. Country singer Sara Evans is 46. Country singer Tyler Farr is 33. Keyboardist Mark Shusterman of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats is 32. Actor Darren Criss (”Glee”) is 30. Keyboardist Kyle Simmons of Bastille is 29. Actor Jeremy Sumpter (”Friday Night Lights,” `’Peter Pan”) is 28. Drummer Graham Sierota of Echosmith is 18.

Feb. 6: Actor Rip Torn is 86. Actress Mamie Van Doren is 86. Actor Mike Farrell is 78. NBC news anchorman Tom Brokaw is 77. Actress Gayle Hunnicutt is 74. Singer Fabian is 74. Actor Michael Tucker (”L.A. Law”) is 73. Actor Jon Walmsley (”The Waltons”) is 61. Actor-director Robert Townsend (”The Parent `Hood”) is 60. Actress Kathy Najimy (”Veronica’s Closet,” `’King of the Hill”) is 60. Drummer Simon Phillips of Toto is 60. Actor Barry Miller (”Saturday Night Fever,” `’Fame”) is 59. Actress Megan Gallagher (”Millennium”) is 57. Country singer Richie McDonald of Lonestar is 55. Vocalist Axl Rose of Guns N’ Roses is 55. Singer Rick Astley is 51. Bassist Tim Brown of the Boo Radleys is 48. TV host Amy Robach (”Good Morning America”) is 44. Actress Crystal Reed (”Teen Wolf”) is 32. Singer Tinashe is 24.

Feb. 7: Saxophonist Brian Travers of UB40 is 58. Comedian Robert Smigel (Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) is 57. Actor James Spader is 57. Country singer Garth Brooks is 55. Keyboardist David Bryan of Bon Jovi is 55. Comedian Chris Rock is 52. Actor Jason Gedrick (”Windfall,” `’Boomtown”) is 50. Guitarist Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit is 42. Bassist Tom Blankenship of My Morning Jacket is 39. Actor Ashton Kutcher (”That 70’s Show”) is 39. Actress Tina Majorino (”Napoleon Dynamite,” `’Veronica Mars”) is 32. Actress Deborah Ann Woll (”True Blood”) is 32.

Feb. 8: Composer-conductor John Williams is 85. ABC News anchor Ted Koppel is 77. Actor Nick Nolte is 76. Comedian Robert Klein is 75. Actor-guitarist Creed Batton (”The Office”) (The Grass Roots) is 74. Actress Brooke Adams is 68. Actress Mary Steenburgen is 64. Author John Grisham is 62. Actor Henry Czerny (”Revenge,” `’The Tudors”) is 58. Singer Vince Neil of Motley Crue is 56. Singer-guitarist Sammy Llanas of The BoDeans is 56. Actress Missy Yager (”Manchester By the Sea”) is 49. Actress Mary McCormack is 48. Guitarist Keith Nelson of Buckcherry is 48. Actor Seth Green (”Austin Powers,” `’Buffy The Vampire Slayer”) is 43. Actor Josh Morrow (”The Young and the Restless”) is 43. Bassist Phoenix of Linkin Park is 40. Actor Jim Parrack (”True Blood”) is 36. Musician Joey Ryan of Milk Carton Kids is 35. Actress Cecily Strong (”Saturday Night Live”) is 33. Rapper Anderson Paak is 31. Drummer Max Grahn of Carolina Liar is 29. Actress Karle Warren (”Judging Amy”) is 25.

Feb. 9: News correspondent Roger Mudd is 89. Actress Janet Suzman is 78. Actress-turned-politician Sheila James Kuehl (”The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”) is 76. Singer Carole King is 75. Singer Barbara Lewis is 74. Actor Joe Pesci is 74. Author Alice Walker (”The Color Purple”) is 73. Actress Mia Farrow is 72. Singer Joe Ely is 70. Actress Judith Light (”Ugly Betty,” `’Who’s The Boss”) is 68. Saxophonist Dennis “DT” Thomas of Kool and the Gang is 66. Actor Charles Shaughnessy (”The Nanny”) is 62. Actor Ed Amatrudo (”Nashville”) is 61. Sax player Steve Wilson is 56. Country singer Travis Tritt is 54. Actress Julie Warner (”Nip/Tuck,” `’Family Law”) is 52. Actress Sharon Case (”The Young and the Restless”) is 46. Actor Charlie Day (”It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) is 41. Singer Chad Wolf of Carolina Liar is 41. Actor A.J. Buckley (”CSI: NY”) is 40. Guitarist Richard On of O.A.R. is 38. Actor Tom Hiddleston (TV’s “The Night Manager,” film’s “The Avengers”) is 36. Actor David Gallagher (”Seventh Heaven”) is 32. Actor Michael B. Jordan (”Fruitvale Station,” `’That Awkward Moment”) is 30. Actress Rose Leslie (”Game of Thrones,” `’Downton Abbey”) is 30. Actress Camille Winbush (”The Bernie Mac Show”) is 27. Actor Jimmy Bennett (”No Ordinary Family”) is 21.

Feb. 10: Actor Robert Wagner is 87. Guitarist Don Wilson of The Ventures is 84. Singer Roberta Flack is 80. Singer Jimmy Merchant of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers is 77. Bassist Bob Spalding of The Ventures is 70. Keyboardist Cory Lerios of Pablo Cruise is 66. Actress Kathleen Beller (”Dynasty”) is 61. Country singer Lionel Cartwright is 57. “Good Morning America” co-host George Stephanopoulos is 56. Actress Laura Dern is 50. Country singer Dude Mowrey is 45. Actor Jason Olive (”For Better or Worse) is 45. Actress Elizabeth Banks is 43. Actress Julia Pace Mitchell (”The Young and the Restless”) is 39. Actress Uzo Aduba (”Orange is the New Black”) is 36. Actor Max Brown (”Beauty and the Beast,” `’The Tudors”) is 36. Actor Barry Sloane (”Revenge”) is 36. Singer Eric Dill (The Click Five) is 35. Keyboardist Ben Romans of The Click Five is 35. Actor Trevante Rhodes (”Moonlight”) is 27. Actress Emma Roberts (”American Horror Story,” `’We’re the Millers”) is 26. Actress Makenzie Vega (”The Good Wife”) is 23. Actress Chloe Grace Moretz (”Hugo”) is 20. Actress Yara Shahidi (”black-ish”) is 17.

Feb. 11: Actor Conrad Janis (”Mork and Mindy”) is 89. Actor Burt Reynolds is 81. Actress Tina Louise (”Gilligan’s Island”) is 79. Actor Sonny Landham (”48 Hours,” `’Predator”) is 76. Musician Sergio Mendes is 76. Actor Philip Anglim (”The Thorn Birds”) is 65. Actress Catherine Hickland (”One Life To Live”) is 61. Actress Carey Lowell (”Law and Order”) is 56. Singer Sheryl Crow is 55. Actress Jennifer Aniston is 48. Singer D’Angelo is 43. Actor Brice Beckham (”Mr. Belvedere”) is 41. Vocalist Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and of Fort Minor is 40. Singer-actress Brandy (”Moesha”) is 38. Country musician Jon Jones (The Eli Young Band) is 37. Actor Matthew Lawrence (”Boy Meets World”) is 37. Singer Kelly Rowland (Destiny’s Child) is 36. Actress Natalie Dormer (”Game of Thrones”) is 35. Singer Aubrey O’Day (Danity Kane) is 33. Actor Taylor Lautner is 25.

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