- Dan Castellaneta
Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958) is an Emmy award winning American voice actor and comedian best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series "The Simpsons". - Robin Tunney
Robin Tunney (born on June 19, 1972) is an American actress of stage, television and film. - James Belushi
James Edgar Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an American actor, comedian, musician and younger brother of the late comedian John Belushi. Belushi stars in the sitcom "According to Jim". - Sendhil Ramamurthy
Sendhil Ramamurthy (born May 17, 1974) is an American actor, born in Chicago, Illinois. He plays the Indian geneticist Mohinder Suresh in the NBC drama "Heroes". He was born in the US to Indian parents, both of whom are physicians. His parents are from Bangalore, India. He has one sister, who is a physician, doing a residency in a combined internal medicine and psychiatry residency program. He and his sister were raised in San Antonio. - Larry Manetti
Larry Manetti (born July 23, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor best known for his starring role as Orville "Rick" Wright on the long-running television show "Magnum P.I." which starred Tom Selleck as the title character. - Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. - Haskell Wexler
Born in Chicago, Wexler attended the University of California at Berkeley for a year before joining the Merchant Marines. He stayed at sea for five years, became a second officer, then returned to Chicago where he spent ten years making documentary and educational films before moving to California in 1955. - John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 - May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer. He was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and men, 27 of whom he buried in a crawl space under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers, between 1972 and his arrest in 1978. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, … - Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz (born October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. - Anita O'Day
Anita O'Day (October 18, 1919 - November 23, 2006) was an American jazz singer. Many place her among the greatest female jazz singers (the only white one) in a group that includes Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen McRae, Sarah Vaughan, Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter. Born Anita Belle Colton, O'Day was admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". - Morey Amsterdam
Morey Amsterdam was a veteran television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, to a Jewish family, he began working in vaudeville in 1922 as the straight man for his brother's jokes. He was also a cellist, a skill which he used throughout his career. By 1924, he was working in a speakeasy operated by Al Capone. After being caught in a gun fight, Amsterdam moved to California and sought work writing jokes. - Lewis Arquette
Lewis Michael Arquette was an American film actor, writer and producer. Arquette was well known as "J. D. Pickett" on the TV series, "The Waltons", where he worked from 1978-1981. - Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress. - Fisher Stevens
Fisher Stevens is an accomplished actor, director and producer. In addition to performing both on the stage and in numerous television series, Stevens has starred in a wide range of feature films, such as Reversal of Fortune, The Flamingo Kid, Short Circuit, Only You, and most recently, Miramax's Undisputed . In 1996, Stevens co-founded GreeneStreet Films, a New York-based independent production company, with John Penotti . - Karl Malden
Karl Malden (born on March 22, 1912) is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront" and "One-Eyed Jacks", with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, "Patton". - Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie "My Girl". She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain. - Ken Olin
Ken Olin (born July 30, 1954) is an American actor, director and producer. He first became well known for his starring role on the television series " thirtysomething", but is now a prolific television producer and director. - Terry Kath
Terry Alan Kath born in Chicago, Illinois, was the original guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Chicago. He died in 1978 at the age of 31 from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound. - Pat Sajak
Pat Sajak (born Patrick Leonard Sajdak on October 26, 1946), is an Emmy Award-winning television personality and one-time talk show host, best known as the host of the popular and long-running American television game show, "Wheel of Fortune". - Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio, was one of the most successful American singers of the twentieth century. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, and Old Man Jazz. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun," "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Jezebel," "High Noon", "I Believe", … - Marcheline Bertrand
Marcheline Bertrand (May 9 1950 - January 27 2007) was an American actress of French-Canadian descent. According to daughter Angelina Jolie, Bertrand was often wrongly identified as a French actress: "My mom is as far from French Parisian as you can get. She was part Iroquois Indian, from Chicago. She grew up in a bowling alley that my grandparents owned." Of her reported Indigenous Iroquois ancestry, Bertrand's former husband, Jon Voight, … - Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is a two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of fiery detective Frank Pembleton on "Homicide: Life on the Street" from 1993 to 1998, and again in the 2000 made-for-TV movie. - Tempestt Bledsoe
Bledsoe graduated from New York University with a degree in finance. She is still involved in acting, performing in several off-Broadway productions and in the TV movies The Expendables and 2002's Fire and Ice . She has had a recurring role on The Practice, as well as guest starring on The Parkers and The Jenny McCarthy Show . - Garry Shandling
Garry Shandling (born November 29, 1949) is an American comedian. He is best known for his work in "It's Garry Shandling's Show" and "The Larry Sanders Show". - Ron Masak
Ron Masak is an American actor born in Chicago, Illinois in 1936. He began on stage and much of his work is in theater. His first screen role was in an episode of The Twilight Zone in 1960. He is perhaps best known for a recurring role on "Murder, She Wrote" as Sherrif Mort Metzger. In the 1980s and early 1990s, he was dubbed "The King of Commercials" for his voiceover work, most notably for Vlasic Pickles. - Cynda Williams
Cynda Williams (1966) is an American actress. Born in Chicago, Illinois as Cynthia Williams, she went by the name Cindy Williams until she started her film career. At that time, the graduate of Ball State University was forced to change her first name to "Cynda" by the Screen Actors Guild because another actress was already registered under her real name (See: Cindy Williams). Although she obviously went on to Hollywood to appear in various movies, … - Vincente Minnelli
Vincente Minnelli (February 28, 1903 - July 25, 1986) was a famous Hollywood director and accomplished stage director, often considered by critics to be the father of the modern musical. - Harry J. Lennix
Born in Chicago, Illinois on November 16, 1965, to Lillian and Harry Lennix , Harry Joseph Lennix , was not always certain he wanted to be an actor. Always an A student, Harry decided to act in his high schools play while he waited for the Baseball season to begin. From this, bloomed a veritable bevy of movies roles, and guest-starring roles in many popular television shows such as, ER, Diagnosis Mu ... show all - Lance Legault
Lance LeGault (b. Henry Legault on May 2, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, sometimes credited as W. L. LeGault) is an American actor who stars in films and on television. Lance grew up in Chillicothe, IL and graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1955. Lance's first 3 feature films he starred in were 3 Elvis Presley movies, "Girls! Girls! Girls!" (1962) in which he was a stunt double for Elvis Presley, … - Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American screen actor. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern and was formerly married to actress Diane Ladd. - Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born September 8, 1975 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. Born on the west side of Chicago, Tate is the youngest of three siblings (his two brothers, Larron and Lahmard, are also actors) whose family moved to California when he was nine years old. Convinced by their parents (whose father is teacher Larry Tate at Suva Intermediate School at the City of Bell Gardens, California) to enter a drama program at the Inner City Cultural Center, … - Kinky Friedman
Richard S. "Kinky" Friedman (born October 31, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humorist, politician and former columnist for "Texas Monthly". He was one of two independent candidates in the 2006 election for the office of Governor of Texas. Receiving 12.6% of the vote, Friedman placed fourth in the five-party race. - Casey Siemaszko
Casey Siemaszko (b. Kazimierz Siemaszko on March 17, 1961) is an American actor. Siemaszko was born in Chicago, Illinois to a Polish American father and an English mother. His most well-known film roles are "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future Part II" as 3-D, "Stand By Me" as Billy Tessio, "Young Guns" as Charley Bowdre and as Curley in "Of Mice and Men". - Mark Romanek
Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an award-winning American music video director who has also moved into directing theatrical films. - Mel Tormé
A professional singer at the age of three, Mel Torme was a genuine musical prodigy. As a teenager, he played the drums in Chico Marx's band and earned the nickname "The Velvet Fog" because of his smooth, mellow high baritone voice. In the 1940s he formed his own group, the Mel-Tones, one of the first jazz-influenced vocal groups. As a solo musician, he had a number one hit in 1949 called "Careless Love, " and several lesser hits. He also acted in films and wrote several books, including... - Emmett Till
Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (July 25, 1941 - August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who died in what has been characterized as a "brutal murder" in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta in the small town of Money in Leflore County. His murder was one of the key events that energized the nascent American Civil Rights Movement. The main suspects were acquitted but later admitted to committing the crime. - Reiko Aylesworth
Reiko M. Aylesworth (born December 9, 1972) is an American film and television actress. She is known for her work on the television series "24". - Samm Levine
Samuel (Samm) Franklin Levine (born March 12, 1982), is an American television and film actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Neal Schweiber on the short-lived NBC dramedy "Freaks and Geeks". In addition, Levine has guest-starred on "Spin City", "The Steve Harvey Show", "Boston Public", "Undeclared", "Raising Dad", "The Drew Carey Show", "That's So Raven", "Life as We Know It", "That '70s Show", … - Lauren Storm
Lauren Marlene Storm (born January 2, 1987) is an American actress. Storm was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father is German Lutheran and her mother is Jewish, and Storm was raised in the Jewish religion. She serves on the Board of Directors of two charity organizations. Kids With A Cause and Olive Crest. At age 16, she graduated from the Excelsior School of Los Angeles. - Gene Siskel
Eugene "Gene" Kal Siskel (January 26, 1946 - February 20, 1999) was one of the world's most successful film critics. Along with on-screen partner Roger Ebert, they pioneered the popular weekly movie review TV show "Siskel & Ebert" until Siskel's death at age 53.
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