People (Births)

• 1893 – Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress (d. 1979)
• 1946 – Anthony Daniels, English actor and producer
• 1983 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress
• 1996 – Sophie Turner, English actress

People (Deaths)

• 2002 – John Thaw, English actor and producer (b. 1942)

Celia Lovsky

Celia Lovsky (born Cäcilia Josefina Lvovsky, 21 February 1897 to 12 October 1979) was an Austrian-American actress. She was born in Vienna, daughter of Břetislav Lvovsky (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer. She studied theatre, dance, and languages at the Austrian Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She is best known to fans of Star Trek as the original T’Pau, and to fans of The Twilight Zone as the aged daughter of an eternally youthful Hollywood actress.

Anthony Daniels

Anthony Daniels (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor and mime artist, best known for playing C-3PO in 10 Star Wars films. He is the only actor to have either appeared in or been involved with all theatrical films in the series, and has been involved in many of their spin-offs, including television series, video games, and radio serials.

Daniels was the voice of Legolas in the Ralph Bakshi animated adaptation of The Lord of the Rings (1978). He has appeared intermittently on British television in various dramas, including playing a pathologist in Prime Suspect starring Helen Mirren. Daniels is currently an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Centre.

Daniels has said that before his role in Star Wars, the only science fiction film he had ever seen in a theatre was 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968; he was so displeased with the film that he walked out after 10 minutes and demanded his money back. After Daniels was cast as C-3PO, Lucas recommended that he watch the film in its entirety to study HAL 9000’s voice. In a 2011 interview, Daniels said that he now regards 2001 as a masterpiece and that he also enjoys post-apocalyptic films such as Mad Max.

Melanie Laurent

Mélanie Laurent (born 21 February 1983) is a French actress, filmmaker, and singer. The recipient of two César Awards and a Lumières Award, she is an accomplished actress in the French film industry. Globally, she is best known for her roles in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Now You See Me, 6 Underground, and Operation Finale (2018).

Sophie Turner

Sophie Belinda Jonas (née Turner; born 21 February 1996) is an English actress. She made her acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO epic fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011-2019), for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2019.

Turner appeared in the television film The Thirteenth Tale (2013) and made her feature film debut in Another Me (2013). She appeared in the action comedy Barely Lethal (2015) and portrayed a young Jean Grey / Phoenix in the X-Men film series (2016-2019).

John Thaw

John Edward Thaw, CBE (03 January 1942 to 21 February 2002) was an English actor who appeared in a range of television, stage, and cinema roles. He starred in the television series Inspector Morse as title character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, Redcap as Sergeant John Mann, The Sweeney as Detective Inspector Jack Regan, Home to Roost as Henry Willows, and Kavanagh QC as title character James Kavanagh.