Singer Janelle Monae, actress Zoe Kravitz and comedian Sarah Silverman are all celebrating their birthdays today, December 1.
Janelle Monae, 29
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Singer, songwriter, composer and producer Janelle Monae turns 29 today. Monae released her first EP, Metropolis, in 2007, signing with Sean Combs's label, Bad Boy Records, later in the year. Under the new label, her EP was re-released with the new title Metropolis: The Chase Suite (Special Edition), receiving great reviews and earning Monae a Grammy Award nomination for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for her single "Many Moons."
Monae released her debut studio album, The ArchAndroid in 2010. The album received critical acclaim and earned Monae a Best Contemporary R&B Album nomination at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. The song "Tightrope" was also nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance. The album has also been more successful commercially, peaking at No. 17 on the Billboard 200.
Throughout her career, Monae earned a total of six Grammy Award nominations. In March 2012, "We Are Young," the song by the band fun. on which she appears as a guest vocalist, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, her first appearance in the US Top 10. Monae released her second studio album, The Electric Lady, on September 2013 and is working on her third.
Zoe Kravitz, 26
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Actress, singer and model Zoe Kravitz turns 26 today. Kravitz is the only child of musician Lenny Kravitz and actress Lisa Bonet. She landed her first film role while in high school, playing a babysitter hired by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the 2007 film No Reservations. Later that year she played a teenage prostitute in the action thriller The Brave One alongside Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard. She went on to star in Birds of America, Twelve, Beware the Gonzo, It's Kind of a Funny Story and Yelling to the Sky.
In 2011, she appeared in six episodes of the Showtime television series Californication. She later played Angel Salvadore in X-Men: First Class and Senshi Raige in M. Night Shyamalan's After Earth alongside Will Smith and Jaden Smith. Kravitz played Christina in Divergent, an adaptation of the young adult novel of the same name. She will reprise her role in the sequel, The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
Kravitz modeled for numerous fashion magazines including French Jalouse, Venus Zine and Elle. She was named the face of Vera Wang's Princess fragrance in 2009 and starred in a campaign for fashion designer Alexander Wang in 2010. Kravitz is the lead in the New York/Philadelphia-based band Elevator Fight, who played along with The Roots, TV On The Radio, and The Black Keys.
Sarah Silverman, 44
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Stand-up comedian, writer, producer and actress Sarah Silverman turns 44 today. Silverman was a writer and occasional performer for 18 weeks on Saturday Night Live and starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program, which aired from 2007 to 2010 on Comedy Central. Apart from television, Silverman appeared in the films Who's the Caboose?, School of Rock, Wreck-It Ralph and A Million Ways to Die in the West.
In 2007, Silverman hosted the MTV Movie Awards. In 2008, she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. She brought a video to Jimmy Kimmel, her boyfriend at the time, that turned out to be a song called "I'm F**king Matt Damon" in which she and Matt Damon sing a duet about having an affair. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards and in September that same year, she won a Creative Arts Emmy for writing the song.
In 2010, Silverman released a comic memoir, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee. In 2014, Silverman won the Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special Emmy for the Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles special.
Silverman became a vegetarian at the age of 10 and is currently dating Welsh actor Michael Sheen.
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