Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras.

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is a two-time Academy Award winning American actress. She is also a two-time Emmy Award winner who became a household name at age 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom, "The Flying Nun". She is currently starring as Nora Holden Walker on the ABC hit drama, "Brothers & Sisters", as a grieving matriarch who helps out in the family business. Her newest film, "Two Weeks" came out in early 2007.

From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set.

Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series "Entourage".

Thomas Haden Church (born June 17, 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor.

Tony Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show "Monk" in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, …

Nothing against the 818, says the star of TV's "Ugly Betty," who grew up in Woodland Hills, Calif., and attended El Camino Real High School, but she had plans. "The Valley reminds me of my childhood," says Ferrera, who appears in the just-released film "Under the Same Moon." "I had a really rough time through high school. I don't think I liked myself very much. High school is a very hard place to like yourself.

Terrance "Terry" O'Quinn (born on July 15, 1952) is an Emmy Award-nominated Irish American actor. He is best known for playing the role of John Locke on the popular ABC TV series "Lost."

James Todd Spader (born February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor best known for his eccentric roles in movies such as "sex, lies, and videotape" (for which he won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival), "Stargate", and "Secretary", as well as his role as the lead character in the TV series "Boston Legal".

Katherine Marie Heigl (born November 24 1978) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Heigl is known for her roles on the TV series "Grey's Anatomy" and "Roswell" as well as in the film "Knocked Up".

Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director.

Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto on August 3 1926) is an American singer of popular music, standards and jazz who is widely considered to be one of the best interpretative singers in these genres. After having achieved artistic and commercial success in the 1950s and early 1960s, his career suffered an extended downturn during the height of the rock music era. Bennett staged a remarkable comeback, however, in the late 1980s and 1990s, …

Jaime Lynn Pressly (born July 30, 1977) is an Emmy Award-nominated American actress and model. She currently plays Joy on the NBC sitcom "My Name Is Earl".

Rob Marshall (born October 17 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA) is an American theater and film director, and choreographer. He is a 6-time Tony nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film "Chicago" and the 1998 Broadway revival of "Cabaret".

Stanley Tucci, Jr. (born 11 November 1960) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director.

David Chase (born David DeCesare—although some sources list his birth name as David Del Cesare—August 22, 1945) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known as the creator and head writer of the highly acclaimed HBO series "The Sopranos."

Greg Daniels is an American television comedy writer, producer, and director. He began his career as a writer on HBO's satirical news show "Not Necessarily the News" before moving to "Saturday Night Live". He spent three seasons at SNL, winning an Emmy Award in the process. Greg then joined "The Simpsons", writing and producing some of the most popular episodes in the history of the series (including "22 Short Films About Springfield", "Homer and Apu", …

Leslie Caron (born July 1, 1931) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning film actress and dancer. Caron has said of herself: "I'm not a ballerina. I'm a hoofer."

Alan Taylor (born 1965) is an American television director. Taylor has directed for numerous programs on both network television and on premium cable most notably on HBO. Besides his television work, Taylor has directed three feature films: "Palookaville", "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "Kill the Poor". Taylor's parents are videographer James J. Taylor and curator Mimi Cazort; his sister is indie rocker Anna Domino.

Judy Davis (born 23 April, 1955) is an Academy Award-nominated Australian actress.