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December 3
Because this actor’s given name–Julie Smith–was already in use by another actor of her generation, she became famous by a stage name that’s a portmanteau of both her parents’ names. A North Carolina native, she got her start on the daytime soaps before starring in an impressive number of turn-of-the-millenium hits: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Boogie Nights (1997), The Big Lebowski (1998), Magnolia (1999), The End of the Affair (1999), Hannibal (2001), Far from Heaven (2002), and The Hours (2002). In 2014, she won an Oscar for her portrayal of a linguistic professor diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in Still Alice. Her most recent projects include the limited series Mary & George (2024) and Sirens (2025). And, she’s authored a children’s book series with a main character who shares her signature red hair: Freckleface Strawberry.
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December 3
Born the very same day as the subject of the previous clue, this American actor is almost as well known for her environmental activism as for her film and television career. She’s been arrested multiple times since 2006 for taking action in defence of an urban farm in Los Angeles, in protest of mountaintop removal in West Virginia, and in front of the White House demonstrating against the Keystone XL pipeline. While she protests for environmental and peace causes in real life, on screen she’s known for playing violent characters. Her acting career started at age 17 in the horror film The Fury (1978). She did her own stunts as a homicidal android in Blade Runner (1983), and then became famous for playing the one-eyed assassin Elle Driver in the Kill Bill franchise.
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December 10
Born in Belfast, this actor and director is famous for interpreting Shakespeare for modern audiences. He both directed and starred in Henry V (1989), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Othello (1995), Hamlet (1996), and As You Like It (2006). In 2019, he directed a biographical film about Shakespeare’s life, All Is True–and starred as the playwright himself. When asked why he keeps returning to Shakespeare, he replied: “The words have always moved me, from the moment when I was 17 and went to see King Lear…I’ve loved working on something where you really have to justify and prove that it still can matter.” He’s collaborated on several films with director Christopher Nolan as a supporting actor, including Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), and Oppenheimer (2023). He won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for his semi-autobiographical Belfast (2021).
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December 26
A comic strip can be more than just a comic strip, and that’s true of this cartoonist’s internationally-synicated Sherman’s Lagoon. The artist, a native of Virginia, says the strip combines his lifelong loves of art and the sea. Since 1991, the strip has featured characters including a lazy great white shark named Sherman, his volatile wife Megan, and their friends and neighbors under the sea. Aimed at teens and adults, the series has earned a reputation for its funny characters and environmental themes, and is now syndicated in over 150 newspapers. In 2000, Sherman’s Lagoon won an Environmental Hero Award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) "for using art and humor to conserve and protect our marine heritage."
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