Scorpio celebrities: 20 famous people born under the water zodiac sign

Something wicked this way comes: Scorpio season hath arrived. Cue the smoke machines and mind control.

Scorpio is the eighth sign in the zodiac wheel and is ruled by Pluto, the petite but potent planet of power, death, destruction, and transformation. Due to this influence, natives seek intensity and will not settle for the surface or second place.

Scorpio is a fixed water sign, and elementally speaking, if Scorpio were a body of water, it would be a swamp at night, still and murky, teeming with vitality and prone to swallow you whole.

Rulers of the eighth house of sex, secrets, and other people’s resources, Scorpios have an innate understanding of the primal urges and essential weaknesses of others. Hyper intuitive , their powers of perception can easily veer into full blown paranoia.

In honor of the most powerful and power-hungry zodiac member, here’s a roundup of 20 Scorpio celebs. 

Drake

Don’t let the easy smile and Degrassi pedigree fool you, folks: this man has a lot of sting. Born Oct. 24, 1986, the lovesick singer Drake once advised, “Before you give up, think of the reason you held on so long.”

Be it a relationship, a grudge or a gum wrapper that reminds them of someone they love, water signs like Scorpio have a hard time letting go. 

The influence of Drake’s Scorpio zodiac sign is easily identifiable; the dude named his fifth album “Scorpion,” concealed the birth of his firstborn son and then gave him the name of a demigod, secretly dropped an album no one knew he was even working on in the dead of night and has long-standing, (dry aged?) beef with many an opponent, chief among them, Kendrick Lamar.

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix was born on October 28, making him a triple Scorpio, with his sun, Mars, and Venus all falling in the dark pools of this fixed water sign.

Gabrielle Union

Never the type to stand down from a challenge, it tracks that Scorpio Gabrielle Union, born October 29th, would make her debut in a film titled “Bring It On.” Scorpio is synonymous with death, and Union has promised her ageist haters that she’ll wear thongs til she’s toe up, “You’re gonna see these cheeks until my ass literally falls off, and I might just wear a bikini in the casket.”

Kris Jenner

Kris Jenner, born Nov. 5, 1955, exhibits the Scorpio talent for acquiring and overseeing power through her role as the world’s most famous momager.

“Scorpio’s happiness is rooted in their ability to feel powerful,” states CostarAstrology.com. “They are deeply in tune with their insatiable drive for dominance. They want to be a vital organ in the big throbbing heart of the world.”

Tracks.

By managing the careers of her six children, Jenner has turned the family name and her own appetite for throbbing power into a billion-dollar brand.

Demi Moore

Proving the regenerative qualities of her sun sign, the ageless Demi Moore was born on November 11th. A quadruple Scorpio, Moore’s sun, Mercury, Venus and Neptune all fall under the stars of the scorpion.

Travis Barker

Born Nov. 14, 1975, Travis Barker is a true blue Scorpio. The evolution of his relationship with his wife, Kourtney Kardashian, reveals the Scorpio approach to love, which favors having a potential partner ‘audition’ for the role, getting close enough to observe their weaknesses and vet their shortcomings.

Case in point: Barker and Kardashian were friends and neighbors for years before dating, giving Barker ample time to observe and, eventually, circle and seduce the eldest Kardashian sister. 

Further evidence of our man’s Scorpio nature? Barker showed his propensity for extremes by doubling down on tattoos, covering the name of ex-flame Shanna Moakler with a scorpion (feel the sting, y’all), and adding a black ink imprint of wife Kourtney Kardashian’s lips. 

Bethenny Frankel 

“The Real Housewives of New York City” star and apex hustler Bethenny Frankel, born Nov. 4, 1970, studied psychology, the preeminent domain of Scorpio, at New York University. Her on-camera propensity for bluntness and clever curses demonstrates Scorpio’s search for truth and need for dominance.

Throbbing, searing and usually resulting in the shedding of rich lady tears, Frankel’s honesty is her hallmark. Find out what housewife aligns with your zodiac sign here.

RuPaul 

Born on Nov. 17, 1960, the “Drag Race” host is a pioneer in the art of drag and unparalleled in bringing the art form to the masses.

RuPaul’s trailblazing spirit is synonymous with Scorpio energy, which lives to push boundaries and is ever-seeking self-actualization.

As Ru herself states: “The overall commentary on what I’m doing is saying, ‘Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it’s all up to me. And the truth is, we are all basically the universe—pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time.’”

Ciara

Ciara, born Oct. 25, 1985, is Scorpio sensuality made manifest.

Regarding the physical body, each astrological sign rules a different zone, and, unsurprisingly, Scorpio’s dominion is the genitals and reproductive organs, an erogenous fact Ciara famously celebrates in her classic hit, “Goodies.”

Matthew McConaughey

Green lights and a mid-career resurgence are the mark of this Southern Scorpio, born on Nov. 4, 1969. As the sign of death and transformation, scorpions are predisposed to resurrection and pulling themselves up and out of slumps, ruts and shallow graves.

And when that rut looked like a string of abysmal romantic comedies, McConaughey pulled himself out with turns in the critically acclaimed films “Lincoln Lawyer” and “Dallas Buyers Club,” as well as an iconic performance as Rust Cohle in the HBO series “True Detective.”

So great was the man’s bounce-back that it inspired a pop-culture catchphrase, entered into the lexicon: McConaissance. Back and better than ever is the modality of the ever-evolving, never to be discounted Scorpio spirit.  

Willow Smith 

Willow Smith, the progeny of Hollywood royalty, was born on All Hallows Eve in 2000. Halloween is a fitting entry point for this mysterious musician, who seems preternaturally tapped into an alternate reality.

“You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there’s an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for,” she told Interview in 2016. “I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don’t see in this world.”

Beyond the veil and within the hair whip, Smith exudes clandestine charisma.

Lisa Bonet

Perennial Scorpio babe Lisa Bonet was gifted to our world on November 16, 1967. After finding early fame on “The Cosby Show,” Bonet took a dramatic step back from the industry to focus on being a parent. “I think there are probably times when these thresholds can either sink you, or you can see who you are and rise and dust yourself off,” she told Net-A-Porter in 2018. 

Rising from the primordial sinkhole in service of their personal growth is a Scorpio specialty.

Gordon Ramsay

Never one to shy away from hard truths or direct confrontation, Gordon Ramsay, born Nov. 8, 1966 exhibits the direct and often disparaging nature of Scorpio.

Not big on apologies, Ramsay staunchly defends his approach to communication, revealing the punishing, perfectionist streak that beats in the heart of all Scorpios. “When I get angry, I’m just being honest, and I don’t think it’s ever going to be any different,” he once said. “I, like any good chef, want everything to be perfect.”

Ryan Gosling

Born November 12, charismatic Scorpio king Ryan Gosling is perfectly paired with his wife, and fellow water sign Pisces Eva Mendes.

Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese, whose film oeuvre includes abyss-probing masterpieces like “Taxi Driver,” “Killers of the Flower Moon,” “Raging Bull,” and “The Last Temptation of Christ,” was born on November 17.

Margaret Atwood

A Scorpio’s favorite sin is wrath, and it has never been more evident than in the written and spoken words of poet and novelist Margaret Atwood, born Nov. 18, 1939. Atwood, author of the acclaimed book (and subsequent Hulu series) “The Handmaid’s Tale,” channeled that wrath through her protagonist Elaine in her 1988 novel “Cat’s Eye,” writing, “It disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.”

This Scorpio came to sting — and she wants you to know who to blame for the swelling. 

Stanley Tucci 

Italian American actor Stanley Tucci was born Nov. 11, 1960. The thespian and avowed epicurean was derailed but not destroyed by the loss of his sense of taste following cancer treatment. Unable to enjoy food, Tucci took to training/torturing himself by watching cooking shows. “This was an act of pure masochism, as even just the thought of food disgusted me,” he wrote in his new memoir, “Taste: My Life Through Food.” “In hindsight, I suppose it was a way to cling to what I loved or remember what I’d once had because I was so desperate to have it again. I was determined to make myself heal faster.”

Tucci transmitted that pain into prose, regaining his senses and publishing the account of his losses in his memoir.

Jamie Lee Curtis 

Scorpio actress Jamie Lee Curtis, born Nov. 22, 1958, made her film debut in John Carpenter’s “Halloween,” playing traumatized, tenacious scream queen Laurie Strode.

Ruled by Pluto, the planet of death, and drawn to the dark matter of life, horror is a fitting genre for this Scorpio.

It is no coincidence that Halloween, Día de Muertos, and Samhain fall in the season of the scorpion or that one of their own would star and stand as a beacon for survival.

Colin Kaepernick 

Born on Nov. 3, 1987, athlete and activist Colin Kaepernick embodies the fearless, fighting spirit of the eighth sign of the zodiac.

Frank Ocean 

Singer, songwriter, and Scorpio Frank Ocean was born Oct. 28, 1987. Be it musical stylings or sexuality, Ocean refuses to be characterized or contained by labels, “I’ll respectfully say that life is dynamic and comes along with dynamic experiences, and the same sentiment that I have towards genres of music, I have towards a lot of labels and boxes and s–t,” he told GQ in 2012.

Seeing life as a dynamic set of experiences and himself as an influx, beyond definition participant, is pure Scorpio actualization. 

Anna Wintour

Fashion zeitgeist and fellow Scorpio Anna Wintour was born Nov. 3, 1949. The Scorpio need for secrecy and deflection is made manifest in Wintour’s choice of eyewear; she is rarely seen without dark glasses, keeping up the unknowable vibe even when greeting the Queen Mother during Fashion Week. 

Future 

Rapper and apex Scorpio Future was born Nov. 20, 1983.

Future named his debut album “Pluto,” a reference to the ruling planet of Scorpio. His approach to life and music strongly aligns with his zodiac sign, the domain of the unseen, and other people’s money. Future got his start ghostwriting for other artists, including Ciara and Ludacris.

Kendall Jenner

The most reserved of the Kardashian/Jenner clan, darkhorse Kendall was born on Nov. 3, 1995.

Jenner’s aloof allure makes her the most mysterious — and thus most captivating — member of her famous family. 

Adam Driver 

Born Nov. 19, 1983, Scorpio Adam Driver proves just how many lives members of this zodiac sign can live within the span of a single lifetime. Before becoming an actor, Driver served his country as a United States Marine, crediting the experience with giving him the courage and emotional breadth to pursue acting.

Recognizing the lack of arts access within the military he established a nonprofit organization called Art in the Armed Forces, that funds free arts programming to service members.

Pete Davidson 

Scorpio comedian and “Saturday Night Live” cast member Pete Davidson, born Nov. 16, 1993, lives on the knife-edge of intense emotion and transformative experiences.

Davidson has found source material and levity in the least likely of places; his father’s tragic death on 9/11 and the dissolution of his famously failed relationships. As Davidson admitted to Interview in 2015, “Things that I feel really sad about, I talk about. That way, if it’s funny, it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Turning pain into punchlines and grief into gold, Davidson is emblematic of Scorpio’s resilience.  

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