(Updated periodically)

Birthdays:

Jodie Foster (November 19, 1962), who directed “Tales From the Darkside” (episode: Do Not Open This Box) and “Black Mirror” (episode: Arkangel), and starred in The Accused (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), “The X-Files” (episode: Never Again), and Panic Room (2002).

Foster in The Silence of the Lambs

Jason Scott Lee (November 19, 1966), who starred in Ghoulies Go to College (1991), “The Hunger” (episode: The Secret Shih Tan), Tale of the Mummy (1998), Dracula II: Ascension (2003), Dracula III: Legacy (2005), and The Prophesy: Forsaken (2005).

Lee in Ghoulies Go to College

Movie releases:

1993: Addams Family Values
1993: Man’s Best Friend

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