born 21 February 1970

Danya Devon, San Antonio, Texas, actress/anchorwoman

J.R. Hudson, La Mesa, California, jobs too various to enumerate

Jason Schmidt, birthplace unspecified, youthful Bostonian

Judy Brooke, Leeds, England, TV actress

Marinas Bouras, born in Greece, Danish actress

Michael Slater, Wagga Wagga, Australia, actor

Paul Diomede, Jersey City, New Jersey, actor

Sharlyn Brooner, birthplace unspecified, American actress

Svea Timander, Berlin, East Germany, actress

Tai-hyung Lim, Seoul, South Korea, director

Today’s Prize, of a delicious calzone, goes to Paul Diomede. He’s one of these actors who belongs to the unofficial Brotherhood of Big-and-Small Screen Goombahs and Mooks. “Sopranos” bit part? Check. Spike Lee movie? Check. Multiple “Law & Order” appearances? Check. Guys like this can hang around the margins of the business for decades.

Bonus points for his uncredited role in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. Funny story about that film: I saw it in the theater the first weekend it played. On the print they were showing, none of the multiple scenes involving the Haitian sno-cone vendor had subtitles. So there were these interminable stretches, containing a good deal of actual plot exposition, which for all the audience knew were intended to be penetrable only to speakers of the French language. I held this against Jarmusch for years afterward, until at some point I came to realize that it had been an innocent laboratory processing mistake.