November 18th

11-19-1962 Jodie Foster – Born in Los Angeles, California. She is an American actress, film director, and producer. Her first significant role came in 1976 as a child prostitute in Taxi Driver, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Foster acknowledged coming out in a speech at the 70th Golden Globe Awards. She has two sons. She broke up with her long-time partner, movie producer Cydney Barnard, in 2008. They had been together since 1993. In April 2014, she married actress and photographer Alexandra Hedison.

11-19-1889 – 10-13-1966 Clifton Webb – Born in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was an American actor, dancer, and singer. Known for such films as Laura, The Razor’s Edge, and Sitting Pretty. Actor Robert Wagner, who co-starred with Webb in the films Stars and Stripes Forever and Titanic, stated in his memoirs that he considered Clifton Webb as a mentor and of course, he was gay.

11-19-1963 Klaus Bondam – Born in Aakirkeby, Denmark. He is a Danish actor and politician. He got his acting breakthrough in the movie Festen and starred in the series Langt fra Las Vegas. He ended his acting career in 2003. In 2005 he was named Mayor of Technics and Environment (in Copenhagen). Since 2011 he had been head of the Danish Cultural Institute in Brussels, Belgium. He is no longer active in Danish politics. In 2011 he was on a panel discussion, “They do (not) know I’m gay.” The debate was during Amsterdam Gay Pride and focused on the role of the arts in current LGBT issues in Europe. He is married to landscape architect Jacob Kamp.