Born on this day – Adan Canto:

Adan Canto

Actor

December 5, 1981 – January 8, 2024

Credits:

The Cleaning Lady (2022); Agent Game (2022); Entertainment Tonight (2022); The Devil Below (2021); The Shot (2020); 2 Hearts (2020); Bruised (2020); The Hypnotist's Love Story (2019); Designated Survivor (2016–2019); The Marilyn Denis Show (2018); Amanda & Jack Go Glamping (2017); CTV's Big Fall Preview 2017 (2017); The Catch (2016); Second Chance (2016); Blood & Oil (2015); Narcos (2015); Before Tomorrow (2014); Pilot (2014); Almost Thirty (2014); Classification: M (2014); E! News (2014); Mixology (2014); X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014); Good Day L.A. (2013); The Following (2013); Al Ras (2012); Amar no es querer (2011); Santiago del otro lado (2011); Te presento a Laura (2010); Los Minondo (2010); Sin memoria (2010); Estado de Gracia (2009).

Born on this day – Lisa Sheridan:

Lisa Sheridan

Actress

Producer

December 5, 1974 – February 25, 2019

Credits:

Strange Nature (2018); Six LA Love Stories (2016); Murder in the First (2016); Still the King (2016); The Fosters (2016); A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015); Only God Can (2015); Sick Day (2014); A Magic Christmas (2014); Taken Away (2014); Halt and Catch Fire (2014); Category 5 (2014); Elsa & Fred (2014); Perception (2013); Scandal (2013); Tiny Little Words (2012); Home Invasion (2012); Private Practice (2011); CSI: NY (2011); Healing Hands (2010); NCIS (2009); The Mentalist (2009); Conspiracy (2008); McCartney's Genes (2008); Saving Grace (2008); Shark (2008); CSI: Miami (2007–2008); Journeyman (2007); Moonlight (2007); The 4400 (2007); Invasion (2005–2006); Strong Medicine (2005); Without a Trace (2005); Monk (2004); CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2004); Las Vegas (2004); The Practice (2003); Carolina (2003); Pirates (2003); FreakyLinks (2000–2001); Beat (2000); Diagnosis Murder (1999); Legacy (1998–1999); Any Day Now (1998); Step by Step (1997).

Born on this day – Carrie Hamilton:

Carrie Hamilton

Actress

Writer

December 5, 1963 – January 20, 2002

Credits:

Lunchtime Thomas (2001); The Pretender (2000); P.1 (1999); The X-Files (1999); Brooklyn South (1998); Touched by an Angel (1997); Walker, Texas Ranger (1995); Cool World (1992); A Mother's Justice (1991); Thirtysomething (1991); Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991); Equal Justice (1991); Murder, She Wrote (1990); Checkered Flag (1990); Carol & Company (1990); The 61st Annual Academy Awards (1989); Single Women Married Men (1989); Tokyo Pop (1988); Knightwatch (1988); Shag (1988); Tokyo Pop (1988); Hostage (1988); Fame (1986–1987); Love Lives On (1985).

Born on this day – Pamela Blair:

Pamela Blair

Actress

December 5, 1949 – July 23, 2023

Credits:

21 Grams (2003); 42nd Street: The Musical (2019); All My Children (1985–1992); Angelo (1999); Annie (1982); Another World (1994); Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996); Before and After (1996); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Donahue (1990); Family Feud (1985); Great Performances (1971); Law & Order (1994); Loving (1983–1985); Maneater (2009); Me and Veronica (1992); Mighty Aphrodite (1995); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Ryan's Hope (1980); Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1998); Svengali (1983); The Cosby Mysteries (1994); The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd (1989); The Last Dance (2000); Tomorrow Morning (2022).

Born on this day – J.J. Cale:

J.J. Cale

Singer

Guitarist

Songwriter

Sound engineer

December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013

Born on this day – Joan Didion:

Joan Didion

Writer

December 5, 1934 – December 23, 2021

Credits:

Run River (1963); Play It As It Lays (1970); A Book of Common Prayer (1977); Democracy (1984); The Last Thing He Wanted (1996); Vintage Didion (2004); The 1960s & 70s (2019); Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968); The White Album (1979); Salvador (1983); Miami (1987); Some Women (1990); After Henry (1992); Sentimental Journeys (1993); Perspectives on the Individual (1998); Political Fictions (2001); Fixed Ideas (2003); Where I Was From (2003); Live and Learn (2005); The Year of Magical Thinking (2005); We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live (2006); Blue Nights (2011); Insider Baseball (2016); South and West (2017); Collected Essays (2018); Let Me Tell You What I Mean (2021); Bonds of War (2022); What She Means (2022); The Writer on Her Work (1980); Women Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (1989); Florida Stories (1993); Writing Women's Lives (1994); Writing New York (1998); The Eloquent Essay (2000); Writing Los Angeles (2002); The Little Big Book of California (2005); 40 Model Essays (2005); The Believer Book of Writers Talking to Writers (2005).

Movies and television:

A Star Is Born (1976 / 2018); Babel (2005); Broken Trust (1995); Celebrity: Dominick Dunne (2008); Charlie Rose (1996–2011); Crossing Borders: The Journey of Carlos Fuentes (1989); David Halberstam: The Coldest Winter (2007); Dominick Dunne et les crimes de la jet set (2007); Ellie Parker (2005); Everything Is Copy (2015); Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold (2017); Kraft Suspense Theatre (1965); Late Review (2011); New York 360º Presents: The 2007 Matrix Awards (2007); New York in the 50's (2000); Nicole (1976); Northern Exposure (1993); Out of My Head (2018); Play It As It Lays (1972); Shotgun Freeway: Drives Through Lost L.A. (1995); Such Good Friends (1971); The 50 Year Argument (2014); The Brandon Teena Story (1998); The Falling of the Bright (2008); The Last Thing He Wanted (2020); The Panic in Needle Park (1971); The South Bank Show (2007); True Confessions (1981); Up Close & Personal (1996); West Wing Week (2013); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990); Writers in Needle Park (2011).

Born on this day – Ray Austin:

Ray Austin

Director

Writer

Producer

Stuntman

Actor

December 5, 1932 – May 17, 2023