List of Famous people born on June 23rd
Sergei Skripal
Sergei Viktorovich Skripal is a former Russian military intelligence officer who acted as a double agent for the UK's intelligence services during the 1990s and early 2000s. In December 2004, he was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and later tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He settled in the UK in 2010 following the Illegals Program spy swap. He holds both Russian and British citizenship.
Snehan
Snehan is an Indian poet, politician and lyricist who has worked in the Tamil film industry. After serving as an assistant to poet Vairamuthu, he began working as a lyricist in the film Putham Pudhiya Poove and has written lyrics for more than 2500 songs. Snehan has since also appeared in films as an actor and made his acting debut with Yogi (2009).
Danna Paola
Danna Paola Rivera Munguía is a Mexican actress, singer and model. She gained popularity as a child actress and singer, starring in dozens of television projects throughout her early childhood and adolescence.
Mana Ashida
Mana Ashida is a Japanese child actress, talent and singer. Ashida's first appearance was in Asahi Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Short Movie 2, though she rose to prominence after acting in the television drama Mother. She became the youngest lead star in Japanese drama history when she starred in Sayonara Bokutachi no Youchien. She was the youngest lead actress in a television serial drama by appearing in the serial drama Marumo no Okite in the spring of 2011. She also appeared in Japanese films such as Confessions and Usagi Drop.
Valery Meladze
Valeriy Shotayevich Meladze is a Russian singer of Georgian descent and a Meritorious Artist of Russia. He is the brother of composer and producer Konstantin Meladze, who writes songs for him.
Melissa Rauch
Melissa Ivy Rauch is an American actress. She is known for playing Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz on the sitcom The Big Bang Theory, for which she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2013.
Ayana Taketatsu
Ayana Taketatsu is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Saitama Prefecture. Like Yōko Hikasa, Taketatsu had also attended Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyujo, a voice actor training school before becoming affiliated with then management company. Taketatsu is now affiliated with Link Plan. Because of Taketatsu's sharp vocal tones, she would often voice tsundere characters. In 2013, Taketatsu formed a singing unit, Petit Milady, alongside voice actress Aoi Yūki.
Duffy
Aimee Anne Duffy, known by her surname, is a Welsh singer, songwriter and actress. Her debut album, Rockferry, released in 2008, became the best-selling album in the United Kingdom that year and led to worldwide attention. It spawned the successful single "Mercy". In 2009, Duffy received the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album for Rockferry, one of three nominations, and won three out of four Brit Awards nominations, for British Breakthrough, Best British Female and Best British Album. In 2010, she made her acting debut in the film Patagonia and released her second studio album Endlessly to moderate success.
Joe Taslim
Johannes "Joe" Taslim is an Indonesian actor and martial artist of mixed Palembang and Chinese descent. He was also member of the Indonesia judo national team from 1997 to 2009.
Kavka Shishido
Yuna Shishido , known as a solo artist by the stage name Kavka Shishido is a Japanese-Mexican drummer and vocalist. Originally a member of the rock band The News, she debuted as a solo musician in 2012 and released her debut album Kavkanize in 2013. She prominently plays the drums in all of her promotions.