Billy Bob Thornberry (born Joe (spoken with a deep voice and with no last name) on August 4 1955) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, actor, as well as occasional director, playwright and singer. He came to fame in the mid 1990s, after writing, directing, and starring in the film "Sling Blade", and has since established a career as a Hollywood leading actor, having appeared in several successful films, …

Joey Lauren Adams (born January 9, 1968) is an American actress who has appeared in over 30 films. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the films of Kevin Smith, particularly "Chasing Amy".

Mary Steenburgen (born February 8, 1953) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Steenburgen was born in Newport, Arkansas; her last name is of Dutch origin.Steenburgen moved to New York City in 1972 to study acting. Steenburgen was married to Malcolm McDowell from 1980 to 1990, and has been married to actor Ted Danson since 1995. She won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1980 film "Melvin and Howard".

Corin Nemec (born November 5, 1971 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American actor. He is also sometimes credited with his nickname, "Corky". Nemec is best known for playing Parker Lloyd Lewis in the early 1990s television series "Parker Lewis Can't Lose" and Jonas Quinn in "Stargate SG-1". He also wrote the "Stargate SG-1" seventh season episode "Fallout". According to the Scientology community web site and Nemec's personal website, …

Gil Gerard was born on January 23, 1943 in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA and did a good deal of acting in high school. He attended the University of Arkansas but drooped out before graduation. He landed a job as an industrial chemist. He became regional manager of a large chemical company headed by governor Wynn Rockefeller in a few years.

Glen Campbell (born 22 April 1936, Delight, Arkansas) is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning American country pop singer and guitarist, best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a television variety show called "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" on CBS television. Campbell's hits include "Gentle On My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Witchita Lineman", "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy".

Laurence George Luckinbill (born November 24, 1934 in Fort Smith, Arkansas) is an American film and television actor. He was graduated from the University of Arkansas in 1956 and The Catholic University of America in 1958. He is best known for playing Spock's half-brother Sybok in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989). He has also appeared in such feature films as "The Boys in the Band", "Cocktail" and "The Promise", …

Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams on October 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa) is an American film actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams. A part-time secretary and actress raised in Arkansas, she began her film career in B-movie westerns. She used her real name, Betty Adams, until 1949 when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie Adams.

Benjamin E. Murphy (born March 6, 1942 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the television series "Alias Smith and Jones", co-starring first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis. He also appeared in a supporting role in "The Name of the Game", a series featuring a rotating leading cast including Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack.

Matt Besser (born on September 22, 1967, in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American comedian. He is probably best known for his work on the Comedy Central sketch comedy show, "Upright Citizens Brigade".

Daniel Davis (born November 26, 1945 in Gurdon, Arkansas) is an American actor who is best perhaps known for portraying Niles the Butler on the sitcom "The Nanny".

Melinda Rose Dillon (born October 13, 1939 in Hope, Arkansas) is an American actress. Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon got her start as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Her first major role was as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress (Dramatic) Tony Award.

William Ragsdale (b. January 19, 1961 in El Dorado, Arkansas) is an American actor. After attending Hendrix College where he appeared in plays with "Sling Blade" actress Natalie Canerday, he gained attention as the young hero of "Fright Night" and "Fright Night II", a series of humorous vampire films co-starring Roddy McDowall. He also performed in theatre productions of Neil Simon plays "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs".

Frank Bonner (born February 28, 1942 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an actor and television director best known for playing sales manager Herb Tarlek on the classic TV sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati". He reprised the character in the show's unsuccessful 1991 spinoff "The New WKRP in Cincinnati", and in a 2004 rock video for Canadian indie rock band Rheostatics (for the song "The Tarleks", from their album "2067").

Josh Lucas (born Joshua Lucas Easy Dent Maurer on June 20, 1971) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including "Glory Road" and "Poseidon".

Sheryl Underwood (b. October 28, 1963 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an African-American comedian. In 1989, Underwood became the Miller Lite Comedy Search's first female finalist. She currently hosts BET's "Comic View" and has her own BET show, "Holla". "Sheryl has won a number of high profile comedy competitions including Johnny Walker Red, Funniest Woman at the Improv, Old English Comedy Crunch and BET's Comic View's Funniest Female Comedian.

Jay C. Flippen (born March 6, 1899 in Little Rock, Arkansas; died February 3, 1971 in Los Angeles) is best remembered as a gruff-faced actor usually playing a police officer or weary criminal in many movies of the 1940s and 1950s. Flippen was already an established vaudeville singer and stage actor, after being discovered by famed African-American comedian Bert Williams in the 1920s, before shifting his focus to films.

Willie Macc is one of the housemates on Season 4 of BET’s reality television series, “College Hill”. In season 4 of “College Hill” four students from Los Angeles, and four students from the Virgin Islands lived together while they are taking classes at the University of the Virgin Islands. The son of Elder Willie McMiller and Minerva McMiller, Willie Macc was born in Seascy, Arkansas and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.

Rebecca Balding (born on September 21, 1955) is an American actress who was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is married to television producer James L. Conway. She has a long list of film and television credits to her name. She is best known for her role as Elise Rothman on "Charmed" and for her role as Carol David on "Soap". Balding also appeared in a first season episode of "Charmed" (The Fourth Sister) as Aviva's Aunt Jackie, …

Carla Carter (born January 15, 1972), better known by her stage name Kobe Tai, is a pornographic actress of Taiwanese and Japanese heritage

Joe Bob Briggs is a pseudonym and persona of John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953 in Dallas, Texas), a syndicated American film critic, writer and actor. Bloom was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. He began his writing career at "Texas Monthly". Joe Bob's persona is that of an unapologetic and unreformed redneck and male chauvinist with an avowed love of the drive-in theatre.

Peggy Shannon (January 10, 1910 - May 11, 1941) was an American actress. She appeared on the stage and screen of the 1920s and 1930s. Born Winona Sammon in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, she became the latest addition to the Ziegfeld Follies in 1923 at age 13, though she claimed to be 17. She prepared for six weeks and began her stage work, becoming a stage dancer for two seasons.

Richard Ewing "Dick" Powell was an American singer, actor, producer, and director. Born in Mountain View, Arkansas, Powell attended Little Rock College in Arkansas, before starting his entertainment career as a singer in his own band. He recorded a number of records for the Vocalion label in the late 1920s. In April 1930, Warner Bros. bought up Brunswick Records, which at that time owned Vocalion. Warner Bros.

Robin "Bob" Burns, born Robin Burn and nicknamed The Arkansas Traveler and The Arkansas Philosopher, was a popular American radio and film comedian during the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Greenwood, Arkansas, Burns popularized the word bazooka which had wide usage during World War II as the name of a weapon and then as Topps Chewing Gum's Bazooka bubblegum.

George Young Newbern (born December 10, 1964 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American television and film actor. Newbern's first lead role was in 1987's "Double Switch", a retelling of "The Prince and the Pauper" that aired as a part of the "Wonderful World of Disney" television series. Updating the classic story for the 1980s, Newbern handled the role of Bart, a teenage rock star longing for a normal life, and also the role of Matt, …

Katherine Alexander, (22 September 1898 - 10 January 1981), was an American film actress and Broadway performer. Katherine Alexander was born on 22 September 1898 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. She was the daughter-in-law of William Brady, Sr., married to his son William Brady, Jr., (half-brother to actress Alice Brady). Alexander played in a large number of movies from 1930 until her last film in 1949.

Elizabeth Ward Gracen is an American actress known almost as much for her off-screen activities as for her movie and television roles. She was born "Elizabeth Ward" but should not be confused with another Elizabeth Ward who worked as a television actress during the first half of the 1980s.

Natalie Canerday is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. After attending Hendrix College (where she performed in plays with "Herman's Head" star William Ragsdale), she began her motion picture career as a production secretary for the television feature "The Tuskegee Airmen", then made minor appearances in films such as "Biloxi Blues" and "Walk the Line".

Tessie Jean Washam (born August 15, 1950), better known as Tess Harper, is an American actress.

Gail Davis (born October 5, 1925; died March 15, 1997) was an American actress. The daughter of a small town medical doctor, she was born Betty Jeanne Grayson in a hospital at Little Rock, Arkansas. Her family lived in McGehee, Arkansas where she was raised until they moved to Little Rock. She had been singing and dancing since childhood and after graduating from high school in Little Rock, she went to study drama at a woman's college in Bryn Mawr, …

Fay Templeton (December 25, 1865, Little Rock, Arkansas - October 3, 1939, San Francisco, California) was an American stage actress. Templeton's parents were both actors and she followed in their footsteps, making her Broadway debut in 1900. She continued to appear there until 1934. Some of her notable performances were in "HMS Pinafore" and "Roberta". On her death she was buried in the Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

Chester "Chet" Lauck, (9 February 1902 - 21 February 1980), played the character of Lum Edwards on the classic American radio comedy "Lum and Abner". Chester Lauck was born in Aleene, Arkansas. Lauck's family moved to Mena, Arkansas where he met his future comedy partner Norris Goff. Though both began as blackface comics, they soon found success on local station KTHS with a recurring hillbilly skit, leading to a network series, recorded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1931.

Matt Cavenaugh (born 31 May, 1978 in Jonesboro, Arkansas) is an American stage, film, and television actor. He graduated from Ithaca College with a BFA in 2001. His film debut was in "Little Monsters" as a child actor, and has more recently played starring roles on Broadway and Off Broadway.

Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert, 4 March, 1904 in James Mill, Arkansas - died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California) was an American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was a stage and film actor, expert horseman, circus and wild west performer, contortionist and firewalker. Chief Tahachee's stage and film career spanned the 1920s to the 1960s. His first film credit was on a silent film, "The Last of the Mohicans", in 1920.

Norris Goff (May 30, 1906 - June 7, 1978) was an American comedian in radio and film best known for his portrayal of Abner Peabody on the rural comedy "Lum and Abner". Nicknamed "Tuffy," Goff was born in Cove, Arkansas, but soon moved to Mena, Arkansas where he met his longtime friend and partner Chester Lauck (Lum). Despite their fame as backwoodsmen, both actors graduated from the University of Arkansas.

Broncho Billy Anderson (March 21, 1880 - January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who is best known as the first star of the Western film genre.

Kimberly Foster (b. July 6, 1961 in Ft. Smith, Arkansas) is an American actress, best known for her role as Michelle Stevens in the later seasons of the prime-time drama "Dallas" which she played from 1989 to 1991. Her character was briefly a sister-in-law to Bobby Ewing and later briefly a daughter-in-law to J.R. Ewing. From 1994-1995, she played the role of "Liz Sloan" on the ABC daytime drama series, "All My Children".

Ketty Lester (born Revoyda Frierson, 16 August 1934, Hope, Arkansas) is an American singer and television actress, who is probably best known for her 1962 hit single, "Love Letters", which reached the Top 5 of the charts in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Lester began her singing career after studying music at San Francisco State College and performed in the city's Purple Onion club in the early 1950s.

Gauge (born July 24, 1980 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA) is an American pornographic actress and a former stripper.

Luenell Campbell (born March 12 1959) is an American comedian and actress. She was born in the U.S. state of Arkansas and uses only her first name. She is the youngest of eight children. Luenell was raised in Northern California and attended Castro Valley High School. She was one of the few actual actors in the 2006 hit mockumentary-styled comedy film "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan".