- Abigail Breslin
Abigail Kathleen Breslin (born April 14 1996) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. The fourth youngest actress ever to be nominated for a competitive Academy Award, Breslin is known for her role in the film "Little Miss Sunshine", as well as for several supporting parts in other Hollywood films.
- Scott Weinger
Scott Eric Weinger (born October 5 1975) is an American actor and screenwriter best known as the speaking voice of Aladdin in Walt Disney's eponymous feature film. Weinger would reprise the role in two direct-to-video sequels and for the Disney Channel television series.
- Ted Demme
Ted Demme, born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. He grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme. His career had modest beginnings - starting as a production assistant at MTV, he later created the cable network's seminal hip-hop show "Yo! MTV Raps" and directed other projects for them, …
- Abe Vigoda
Abe Vigoda (born Abraham Charles Vigodah on February 24, 1921) is an American movie and television actor. Vigoda was born in New York City to Lena and Samuel Vigodah, Jewish immigrants from Russia. Vigoda gained fame through his supporting character roles, notably as mobster Sal Tessio in the 1972 movie "The Godfather". He later played Detective Sgt. Fish on the television series "Barney Miller" and its spinoff "Fish".
- Jon Abrahams
Jon Avery Abrahams (born October 29 1977) is an American film and television actor. Abrahams has starred in many films and TV shows. His most notable role is probably Bobby in "Scary Movie" or Dalton Chapman in the horror movie "House of Wax". He is currently "DJ Jonny" on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show", replacing Tony Okungbowa. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Park Slope, Brooklyn.
- Rosanna Arquette
Rosanna Lauren Arquette (born August 10, 1959) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, film director, and film producer.
- Anne Meara
Anne Meara (born September 20, 1929) is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller.
- Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce (April 10, 1903 - October 9, 1987) was an American editor, playwright, social activist, politician, journalist, and diplomat. Witty, perceptive, and determined, she was also a prominent figure in New York society circles.
- Rene Auberjonois
René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940, in New York City. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss painter, and his father Fernand, a writer. The Auberjonois family moved to Paris shortly after World War II, and it was there that René made an important career decision at the age of six. When his school put on a musical performance for the parents, little René was given the honor of conducting his classmates in a rendition...
- Amy Stiller
Amy Stiller (born August 9, 1961 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She is the daughter of the comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and the older sister of actor Ben Stiller.
- Kyra Sedgwick
Kyra Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress. In 2007, Sedgwick won Best Actress for lead role in a dramatic TV series at the Golden Globes for her role in "The Closer".
- Noah Emmerich
Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born in February 27, 1965 in New York City) is an American film actor who first broke out in the cult hit "Beautiful Girls". He was later seen in movies like "The Truman Show", "Cop Land", "Frequency", "Love & Sex", "Windtalkers", "Miracle", and "Little Children". He is considered an "actor's actor" for his understated performance style and naturalism.
- Leila Hyams
Leila Hyams (May 1 1905 - December 4 1977) was an American film actress. Born in New York, New York to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre, Hyams appeared on-stage with her parents while still a child. As a teenager she worked as a model and become well known across the United States after appearing in a successful series of newspaper advertisements. This success led her to Hollywood. She made her first film in 1924, and with her blonde hair, …
- Devon Aoki
Devon Edwenna Aoki, born August 10, 1982, is an American model and actress.
- Leelee Sobieski
Leelee Sobieski (born Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski on June 10, 1983) is an American actress.
- Adrien Brody
Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award.
- Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum , the star of 'Phantom Of The Opera' had to face up to her biggest fear of her life, swimming underwater. Emmy Rossum had to learn how to scuba dive and free dive for her new film 'Poseidon'. Emmy also had to learn how to stay calm when holding her breath. Emmy Rossum said.... It was probably the hardest thing I ever had to do. I had to learn to scuba dive and free dive.
- John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes was a Greek American actor, screenwriter, and director. He is considered a pioneer of American independent film.
- Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff (born January 25, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American stage and film actress. She is of Russian Jewish descent. Manoff is the daughter of actress Lee Grant and screenwriter Arnold Manoff. In 1980, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and the Theatre World Award for her performance in the Broadway play, "I Ought to Be in Pictures".
- Armand Assante
Armand Anthony Assante Jr. (born October 4, 1949, New York City, New York) is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated American actor.
- Ellen Rona Barkin
Ellen Rona Barkin (born April 16, 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress.
- Anne Revere
Anne Revere (June 25 1903-December 18 1990) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress.
- Kieran Culkin
Kieran Kyle Culkin (born September 30, 1982) is an American actor. The brother of child actor Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin was born in New York City, New York. He debuted at the age of eight in a small role alongside his starring brother in "Home Alone". He played his brother's cousin, Fuller. Kieran continued acting as a child and teenager, mainly working in comedy films, …
- Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen (born May 5 1940) is a U.S. actor, painter, and potter. A versatile and prolific performer, his trademarks as an actor are his deep, gravelly voice, piercing stare, and chiseled, weathered features.
- Jacob K. Javits
Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits (May 18, 1904 - March 7, 1986) was a liberal Republican New York politician originally allied with Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, fellow U.S. Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating, and Mayor John V. Lindsay. Javits graduated from New York University and its law school in Manhattan. He was admitted to the bar in 1927. During World War II, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army.
- Betty Furness
Elizabeth Mary Furness, better known as Betty Furness (born January 3, 1916; died April 2, 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator. Born in New York, New York, Furness began her professional career as a model before being signed to a film contract by RKO Studios. Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the 1932 film "Thirteen Women" but her scenes were deleted before the film's release.
- Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Known especially for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show "China Beach" (1988–91), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Delany was born in New York City. After growing up in Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, then Wesleyan University.
- Ashley Peldon
Ashley Peldon (born April 2, 1984) is a Daytime Emmy-nominated American television and film actress.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Elizabeth Scarlett Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning American actress and comedian who gained popularity while playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" in the 1990s. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine".
- Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing has received two Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Awards out of nine nominations, and a Tony Award. She earned her Academy Award nomination and one of her Golden Globe nominations when she reprised her Tony-nominated performance in the film version of "Six Degrees of Separation." She received a SAG Award nomination for the film "Smoke" and won a People's Choice Award for her role in "Grease."
- Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor.
- Bonnie Bedelia
Bonnie Bedelia, born March 25, 1948, is an American actress. Her parents are Marian Ethel (Wagner), a writer/editor, and Philip Harley Culkin, a journalist. She is the aunt of her brother Kit Culkin's children, which are actors Macaulay Culkin, Quinn Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Christian Culkin, Shane Culkin, Rory Culkin, and Dakota Culkin.
- Fiorello H. Laguardia
Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (born Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia; December 11, 1882 - September 20, 1947) (often spelled La Guardia [la 'gwardja]) was the Republican Mayor of New York for three terms from 1934 to 1945. He was popularly known as "the Little Flower," the translation of his Italian first name, "Fiorello" [fjo'rl:o], also perhaps a reference to his short stature. A popular mayor and a strong supporter of the New Deal, …
- Phoebe Cates
Phoebe Cates (born on July 16, 1963) is an American film actress known for her roles in several teen films, most notably "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Gremlins". In 1984, at the height of her popularity, "Harper's Bazaar" named her as one of America's 10 Most Beautiful Women.
- Chazz Palminteri
Chazz Palminteri (b. May 15, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor and writer, best known for his performances in "The Usual Suspects", "A Bronx Tale" and "Mulholland Falls".
- Ron Perlman
Ronald Francis Perlman (born April 13, 1950, in Washington Heights, New York), billed as Ron Perlman, is an American television, film and voice over actor.
- Ally Sheedy
Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films "The Breakfast Club" and "St. Elmo's Fire".
- Jerry Orbach
Jerome Bernard Orbach was an American actor best known for his starring role as Det. Lennie Briscoe in the "Law & Order" television series and for his musical theater roles.
- Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 - October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art.
- Jon Cryer
Jon Cryer (born on April 16, 1965 in New York, NY), is an American actor, writer and producer. He is currently starring in the CBS comedy series "Two and a Half Men" with Charlie Sheen. In July 2006, he received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for his work in the series. He is the son of Gretchen Cryer and David Cryer, and has two sisters, Robin and Shelley. He is a 1983 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.