Brimley/Cocoon Line

we got a big one today ....

Welcome, Angie. It's okay on this side of the line.

good evening, friends

Angelina Jolie around 1998

Angelina Jolie, recently

Born June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Angelina! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

CeeLo Green in his youth

CeeLo Green, more recently

Born May 30, 1975, CeeLo Green is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. We'll never forget you, CeeLo. You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Shoshanna Lonstein in the 90s

Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, more recently

Born May 29, 1975, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Shoshanna! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Shoshanna Lonstein in the 90s

Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss, more recently

Born May 29, 1975, Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Shoshanna! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

From 2021. We didn't congratulate him.

Fergie, probably in the 90s

Fergie in 2025

Born March 27, 1975, Stacy Ann Ferguson is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats, Fergie -- you've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line. It's time to be a big girl now.

Hats off. She crossed the Line on Feb. 1, 1965, then joined the exclusive #DoubleBrimley club on Oct. 27, 2015.

Those dates. The changes she saw, across her 40,741 days. RIP.

Chelsea Handler in the 90s

Chelsea Handler, recently

Born Feb. 25, 1975, Chelsea Handler is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats @chelseahandler.bsky.social! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Richard Burton, Jonathan Winters, Rock, RFK. An impressive run in mid-November 1925.

Drew Barrymore in 1984

Drew Barrymore, recently

Born February 22, 1975, Drew Barrymore is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Drew! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Consecutive Coopers

Bradley Cooper in the 90s

Bradley Cooper in 2025

Born Jan. 5, 1975, Bradley Cooper is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Bradley! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Danica McKellar during the run of 'The Wonder Years'

Danica McKellar, recently

We've done the math: Born Jan. 3, 1975, Danica McKellar is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Danica! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Dax Shepard in 2003

Dax Shepard in 2025

Born Jan. 2, 1975, Dax Shepard is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Dax! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Everyone born in 1974 has crossed the Line.

Ryan Seacrest, probably in 2002

Ryan Seacrest, recently

Born Dec. 24, 1974, Ryan Seacrest is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Ryan! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

We’d love to see it, but that’s some thirteen-fingered AI math in the screenshot. 14,837 days!

Meg White, playing the drums

Born Dec. 10, 1974, Meg White is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Meg! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Chloë Sevigny in 'Trees Lounge' (1996)

Chloë Sevigny in Monsters (2022)

Born November 18, 1974, Chloë Sevigny is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Chloë! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

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Headshot of young Leo during his ‘Growing Pains’ days

Leo, more recently, in a tuxedo

Born Nov. 11, 1974, Leonardo DiCaprio is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Leo! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Nelly in the 90s, with a St. Louis Rams jersey and some bling

Nelly, more recently

Born Nov. 2, 1974, Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. -- known to the world as Nelly -- is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Nelly! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Joaquin Phoenix as a child star

Joaquin Phoenix, more recently, dressed in a tuxedo

Born October 28, 1974, Joaquin Phoenix is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congratulations, Joaquin! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

UK's oldest WWII veteran, Donald Rose, dies at 110 Britain’s oldest World War II veteran, Donald Rose, has died at 110. Rose participated in the D-Day landings in 1944 and helped liberate the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

A word for the late British veteran Donald Rose: Born 24 December 1914, he crossed the Line on 17 September 1965, then completed the rare #DoubleBrimley on 11 June 2016. Hats off to a life well lived, spanning 40,377 days — about 2.18 Brimleys.

Screenshot from Jewel's 1996 video for "Who Will Save Your Soul"

Portrait of Jewel, 2024

Born May 24, 1974, singer Jewel is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. She's reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

Posh Spice in the 90s

Victoria Beckham, recently

Born 17 April 1974, Victoria Beckham -- sometimes known as Posh Spice -- is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley's age on the day 'Cocoon' was released. Congrats Victoria! You've reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

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