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Nov. 3: Kate Capshaw, 70
After working as a teacher specializing in learning disabilities, the Texas-born star got her acting start on the soap opera The Edge of Night, before beating out 120 other actresses to play nightclub singer Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It was on that set that she met her future husband, Steven Spielberg. Capshaw retired from acting in 2002 and has spent the past several years painting portraits, including a collection depicting young people experiencing homelessness that she showed in a recent exhibit called Unaccompanied.
Nov. 5: Tatum O’Neal, 60
The preternaturally gifted actress broke the record for the youngest-ever winner of a competitive Oscar at the age of 10, when she starred opposite her father, Ryan O’Neal, in 1973’s Paper Moon. She continued her streak with roles in The Bad News Bears, International Velvet and Little Darlings, though her acting slowed down as she dealt with drug addiction and later a debilitating stroke that put her in a coma. O’Neal recently revealed in an interview with People that she’s in a 12-step program and working on her sobriety.
Nov. 7: Joni Mitchell, 80
The Canadian folk icon faced an incredible uphill battle after a 2015 brain aneurysm left her unable to speak, walk, sing or play guitar. So it was especially emotional when she triumphantly returned to the stage in a star-studded set at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival, which saw her performing some of her most beloved hits, guitar in hand. This summer, she one-upped herself when she played Washington State’s Gorge Amphitheatre in a three-hour show that marked her first headlining concert in 23 years.
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Nov. 8: Parker Posey, 55
Celebrated as “The Queen of the Indies” in the 1990s, Parker Posey earned raves for a string of cult classics like Party Girl, Kicking and Screaming and The Daytrippers, and she became a go-to member of Christopher Guest’s improv-heavyweight troupe in mockumentaries like Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show. This year, she returned to the New York City stage in the Chekhov update The Seagull/Woodstock, NY and starred opposite Joaquin Phoenix in the surrealist horror comedy Beau Is Afraid.
Nov. 9: Nick Lachey, 50
Twenty years ago, boy bander Nick Lachey parlayed his fame as a member of 98 Degrees into an MTV deal that saw him and his wife, pop starlet Jessica Simpson, dip a toe in the reality television waters with the screwball docuseries Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica. Over the years, he has remained a TV fixture, hosting shows like The Sing-Off, before teaming up with his now wife, Vanessa Lachey, to emcee the popular Netflix dating series Love Is Blind.
Nov. 10: Tracy Morgan, 55
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A lovably zany presence on Saturday Night Live and then 30 Rock, the two-time Emmy nominee took on a slightly more grounded role in The Last O.G., a sweet TBS sitcom about an ex-con who returns to his old Brooklyn stomping grounds after the neighborhood’s been gentrified. This August, the aquarium aficionado — he has an enormous shark tank in his backyard and calls himself “the Black Jacques Cousteau” — returned to his stand-up roots with the Max comedy special Takin’ It Too Far.
