List of Famous people born on August 20th
Chetan Sakariya
Chetan Sakariya is an Indian cricketer who represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket.
Laura Donnelly
Laura Donnelly is an actress from Northern Ireland. She is known for her lead role as Amalia True in HBO’s The Nevers (2021). In April 2018 she won the Best Actress award at the Olivier Awards for her performance in The Ferryman. She made her on-screen debut in 2005 in the Channel 4 drama Sugar Rush. She is also known for appearing in Outlander, Britannia, The Fall, and as a main character in the Irish film Insatiable (2008). She also starred in Best: His Mother's Son, a BBC drama on the life of George Best, playing Best's sister, Barbara. She starred in Jez Butterworth's play, The River at the Royal Court Theatre, alongside Dominic West and Miranda Raison. She reprised her role in the Broadway production alongside Hugh Jackman.
Matej Delač
Matej Delač is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Danish club AC Horsens.
Anna Umemiya
Anna Umemiya is a Japanese television personality and model. Born in Tokyo, she is the daughter of a Japanese father and an American mother, herself a former model. Her father, Tatsuo Umemiya, was an actor, and former original Iron Chef judge.
Max Hopp
Max Hopp is a German professional darts player who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events.
Leigh Griffiths
Leigh Griffiths is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Scottish Premiership club Celtic and the Scotland national team.
George John Mitchell Jr.
George John Mitchell Jr. is an American lawyer, businessman, author, and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He briefly served as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine from 1979 to 1980.
Alexander Nouri
Alexander Nouri is a retired German footballer and current manager. He played professionally for 14 years with Werder Bremen, Seattle Sounders, KFC Uerdingen, VfL Osnabrück, Holstein Kiel and VfB Oldenburg.
Joe Pasquale
Joseph Ellis Pasquale is an English comedian, actor and television presenter.
David O. Russell
David Owen Russell is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early directing career includes the comedy films Spanking the Monkey (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Three Kings (1999), and I Heart Huckabees (2004). He gained recent critical success with biographical sports drama The Fighter (2010), the romantic comedy drama Silver Linings Playbook (2012), and the crime film American Hustle (2013). All three of the films were commercially successful and acclaimed by critics, having earned Russell three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, as well as a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Silver Linings Playbook and a Best Original Screenplay nomination for American Hustle. Russell received his seventh Golden Globe nomination for the semi-biographical comedy-drama Joy (2015).