On this day in 1930, actor-director Clint Eastwood was born.
He is well known for his film-making skills and is also a musician and politician.
Eastwood was part of the Western TV series Rawhide. He rose to international fame with his role as the Man with No Name in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns during the 1960s.
He won Academy Awards for the Best Director and Best Picture for his work in the Western film entitled Unforgiven and the sports drama called Million Dollar Baby.
Eastwood has directed over 30 films including Westerns, action films, and dramas.
He is one of the few top Hollywood actors to have also become a critically and commercially successful director.
Other celebrities celebrating their birthdays today are TV show host, Phil Keoghan, and singer, Normani Hamilton.
Have a lovely day!
