Happy Birthday Robin Williams!
He has performed numerous comedy tours and taped successful HBO comedy specials, such as “Weapons of Self Destruction” and the five-time Emmy Award-nominated special, “Robin Williams: Live on Broadway.” Recently, he was honored with the Stand-Up Icon Award at the 2012 Comedy Awards.
Williams’ theater credits include Broadway’s “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” as well as productions of “Waiting for Godot” and “The Exonerated.” He’s received five Grammy Awards for his one-man shows and his children’s album “Pecos Bill.”
Born in Chicago and raised in both Michigan and California, Williams trained at New York’s Julliard School. Williams supports numerous philanthropic causes, including health care, human rights, education, environmental protection and the arts. He has headlined a number of USO tours, traveling to Iraq and Afghanistan five times, and has helped raise more than $50 million to help America’s homeless in affiliation with “Comic Relief.”
Currently, Williams resides in California. His birthday is July 21. He can be followed on Twitter @RobinWilliams.
Matt Czuchry’s television credits include “Gilmore Girls,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Veronica Mars,” “Hack,” and “The Practice.” In 2007, Czuchry was on stage as the title role of Third in Wendy Wasserstein’s West Coast premiere of the play by the same name. In 2008, he played Tucker Max in the movie adaptation of the New York Times bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.
In addition to his acting credits, Czuchry is also a published author. His first book, titled Brothers On Life, was released in the summer of 2012 and has reached as high as number four on Amazon’s bestseller list for poetry.
Czuchry attended the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where upon graduation from CofC in 1999, he received The Bishop Robert Smith Award for excellence in sports, academics, and community involvement.
Czuchry grew up in Johnson City, Tenn., and divides his time between Southern California and New York City, where he currently films THE GOOD WIFE. His birth date is May 20.