Born on This Day - July 3

Some of the people celebrating their birthday today include:

Tom Cruise (1962):	An American actor and film producer. Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and won three Golden Globe Awards. His first leading role was the 1983 film Risky Business, which has been described as "A Generation-X classic, and a career-maker" for the actor. After playing the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and financially successful 1986 film Top Gun, Cruise continued in this vein, playing a secret agent in a series of Mission: Impossible action films in the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to these heroic roles, he also played other roles, such as the misogynistic male guru in Magnolia (1999) and a cool and calculating sociopathic hitman in the Michael Mann crime-thriller film Collateral (2004). In 2005, the Hollywood journalist, Edward Jay Epstein argued that Cruise is one of the few producers (the others being George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Jerry Bruckheimer) who are able to guarantee the success of a billion-dollar movie franchise.Since 2005, Cruise and Paula Wagner have been in charge of the United Artists film studio, with Cruise as producer and star and Wagner as the chief executive. Cruise is also known for his controversial support of and adherence to the Church of Scientology.
	during the premiere of Dreamworks Pictures "Collateral," on August 2, 2004, in Los Angeles.	with Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Katie Holmes during the premiere of Columbia Pictures' THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS at the Mann Village Theater, on December 7, 2006, in Los Angeles.	with Katie Holmes aduring a fan screening of Paramount Pictures, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE – III, held at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, on May 4, 2006, in Los Angeles.
Gloria Allred (1941):	An American lawyer born in Philadelphia, on July 3, 1941. After high school, she attended the University of Pennsylvania. There she met her first husband and married. At age 20, she gave birth to Lisa. Soon after Lisa's birth, Allred and her husband divorced. A newly single mother, Allred moved back in with her parents and continued her studies in school, graduating with honors with a bachelor's degree in English in 1963. She tried her hand at a variety of jobs before she decided to become a teacher. After taking a position at Benjamin Franklin High School, she began working on her master's degree at New York University. While there, she became interested in the civil rights movement, which was beginning to gain momentum. Allred appears in a cameo role in the film Rat Race, where Wayne Knight's character exclaims "Oh shit, it's Gloria Allred!" after she has witnessed him hit a pedestrian. She also appears earlier in the film where the Cody brothers, played by Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, attempt to start a lawsuit against a hotel by slipping on a glass they placed at the top of a set of stairs. Before they go through with their plan, a woman slips on the glass and falls down the stairs. At the bottom, Gloria Allred introduces herself and plans to sue the hotel for negligence. In the The Simpsons episode "Behind The Laughter," she is featured at the family's lawyer-ridden Thanksgiving, being described as a "shrill feminist attorney." In the South Park episode "Cripple Fight," Gloria Allred is Big Gay Al's lawyer against a Boy Scouts-like club that excludes homosexuals. In the Family Guy episode of "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar," the character of Gloria Ironbox is a parody of Gloria Allred. She appeared on Dr. Phil with Nadya Suleman aka "Octomom".
	during the premiere of the new movie from Metro Goldwyn Mayer "Windtalkers," at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, on June 11, 2002, in Los Angeles.	with Robert Shapiro during the Metro Goldwyn Mayer " It Runs In The Family," premiere on April 7, in Los Angeles.	during the premiere of United Artists "Saved," on May 13, 2004, in Los Angeles.
Hunter Tylo (1962):	an American actress born Deborah Jo Hunter in Fort Worth, Texas, the daughter of Jo Anne and Morris Jabez Hunter. She is of Cherokee Native American descent on her mother's side. She has an older sister Elizabeth and a younger brother named Cliff. Tylo has been credited as Deborah Morehart; Morehart was the last name of her first husband.Tylo is primarily a soap opera actress. However, in 1984, using the name Deborah Morehart, she appeared in the sorority slasher film The Initiation with future Melrose Place star Daphne Zuniga. Her television debut was on All My Children in 1985. She met her future husband Michael Tylo on the set playing his love interest. She left the show and married Tylo in 1987. She played Marina Toscano on Days of our Lives from 1989 to 1990. Tylo played the role of Dr. Taylor Hayes as a series regular on The Bold and the Beautiful from 1990 through 2002. She returned to the show in 2004 for a two-episode appearance as a vision. In May 2005, she returned as a series regular.
	during the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre, on June 15, 2007, in Los Angeles.	during the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre, on June 15, 2007, in Los Angeles.	during the 34th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, held at the Kodak Theatre, on June 15, 2007, in Los Angeles.
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