Her career started hot with roles in “Basic Instinct” and “The Firm,” and today she’s a polygamist’s wife on HBO’s “Big Love.” Jeanne Tripplehorn is 44.
•Actor Barry Morse (TV’s “The Fugitive”) is 89.
• Singer Shirley Alston Reeves of The Shirelles is 66.
•Actor Andrew Stevens is 52.
•Bassist Kim Deal of The Pixies is 46.
•Singer Maxi Priest is 46.
•Actress Gina Gershon is 45.
•Drummer Jimmy Chamberlin (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan) is 43.
•Model-actress Elizabeth Hurley is 42.
•Guitarist Joey Santiago of The Pixies is 42.
•Guitarist Emma Anderson (Lush) is 40.
•Country guitarist Brian Hofeldt of The Derailers is 40.
•Singer Mike Doughty (Soul Coughing) is 37.
• Singer Jo-Jo of K-Ci and Jo-Jois 36.
•Singer Faith Evans is 34.
•Singer LeMisha Grinstead of 702 is 29.
•Actor DJ Qualls (“Hustle and Flow”) is 29.
•Actor Shane West (“ER,” “Now and Again”) is 29.
•Singer Hoku is 26.
•Actress Leelee Sobieski is 25.
•Olympic Gold Medal winner Tara Lipinski is 25.
Birthdays of the past:
•1895, Hattie McDaniel, actress; died 1952
•1897, Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanov; executed 1918
•1902, Clyde Beatty, circus impresario; died 1965
•1904, Frederick Loewe, composer; died 1988
•1908, Robert Cummings, actor; died 1990
•1915, Saul Bellow, author; died 2005
•1922, Judy Garland, actress; died 1969
