- Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer.
- John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer.
- 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".
- Jeremy Piven
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".
- Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles.
- Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray (b. September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in "Saturday Night Live", as well as for his comedic roles in films such as "Stripes", "Groundhog Day", "Caddyshack", "Ghostbusters" and "Rushmore", among many others. He has gained further acclaim for recent dramatic roles, …
- Joe Mantegna
Joseph Anthony Mantegna, Jr. (born November 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor.
- 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.
- Salli Richardson
Salli Elise Richardson-Whitfield (born November 23, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie actress. She grew up in in Chicago, Illinois, where she played high school tennis, and launched her acting career in the Kuumba Workshop theater there. Richardson born to Marcia Harris, an African American mother and Duel Richardson, an Irish/Italian American father.
- Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress.
- Chris Farley
Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 - December 18, 1997) was an American actor and comedian. Farley was a cast member at Chicago's Second City Theatre and achieved his greatest fame as a cast member on the American sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live". He starred in a string of moderately successful comedic films in the 1990s before his death in late 1997.
- John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24 1949 - March 5 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers".
- John Mahoney
John Mahoney (born June 20, 1940) is an English actor known for playing the retired police officer father, Martin "Marty" Crane, of Kelsey Grammer's character, Dr. Frasier Crane, in the popular American TV series "Frasier" (NBC, 1993-2004).
- Joan Cusack
Joan Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian.
- Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film "Sideways".
- William Petersen
William Louis Petersen (born February 21, 1953) is an American actor, best known for playing Gil Grissom on CSI.
- Jami Gertz
Jami Gertz (born October 28, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress.
- Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series "The X-Files" and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series "Bleak House".
- George Wendt
George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor perhaps best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show "Cheers".
- Jenny McCarthy
Jennifer "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American model, actress and author. She first appeared in Playboy magazine in October 1993 and was named Playmate of the Year in its June 1994 issue. She later began a career in television and film and has recently started writing books.
- Patricia Arquette
Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress.
- Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series "American Idol". She went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 musical film "Dreamgirls", for which she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award, as well as two BET Awards.
- Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning 62 years.
- John Reilly
John Reilly (born November 11, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor. Mr. Reilly replaced John Colenback as Dr. Dan Stewart on "As the World Turns" in January 1974 and quickly became a fan favorite. He greatly resembled the Mr. Colenback. After a two-year run, he left the soap opera in January 1976 to explore other opportunities.
- David Soul
David Soul (born August 28, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor and British citizen and singer best known for his role as the "seat-of-the-pants" California police detective Ken 'Hutch' Hutchinson (opposite co-star and long-time friend Paul Michael Glaser) in the cult television program "Starsky and Hutch" (1975-79). Originally David Richard Solberg, he was born the son of a Lutheran minister.
- Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (November 11, 1909 - July 11, 1973) was an Irish-American Oscar and Bafta award-nominated actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He most often played hardened cops and ruthless villains throughout his career.
- Tom Bosley
Thomas Edward Bosley (born October 1, 1927) is an Emmy-nominated and Tony Award winning American actor.
- 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".
- Harvey Korman
Harvey Herschel Korman, professionally known as Harvey Korman is an American actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He has performed in television and movie productions in the U.S. since 1960. His first big break was being a featured performer on "The Danny Kaye Show" (1963–1967), but he is probably best remembered for his performances on "The Carol Burnett Show" (1967–1978) and in the comedy films of Mel Brooks, …
- Mick Napier
Mick Napier is an actor, director, teacher and author living in Chicago. He is the founder and artistic director of the Annoyance Theatre and an award-winning director of The Second City. He has worked with people such as Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Horatio Sanz, Nia Vardalos, Andy Richter, Jeff Garlin, and David Sedaris as well as others. Napier directed the Comedy Central show "Exit 57". Mick graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington.
- Tom Amandes
Tom Amandes (born March 9 1959 in Richmond, Illinois), a veteran of both film and television, returned to series television in 2002 as Dr. Brown's rival, Dr. Harold Abbott, in the hit WB drama "Everwood". Amandes was born the sixth of 11 children in the small town of Richmond, Illinois (population: 1,000). A self-described "theater jock," Amandes began acting at an early age, performing at home with his siblings as well as starring in school productions.
- Mr. T
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21 1952) is an iconic actor known for his roles as Sgt. "B. A." Baracus in the 1980s television series "The A-Team", as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film "Rocky III", and for his numerous appearances in the WWE and pro-wrestling. He is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle and for wearing an excessive amount of gold jewelry. He currently stars in the reality show "I Pity the Fool", …
- 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.
- Jason Robards
Jason Nelson Robards, Jr., (July 26, 1922 - December 26, 2000) was an Emmy-, Tony-, and Academy Award-winning American actor. He became famous playing works of American dramatist Eugene O'Neill, and would regularly play O'Neill's works throughout his career. Robards' was cast in both common-man roles and as well-known historical figures.
- Michael Gross
Michael Gross (born June 21, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois) is a television and movie actor who plays both comedic and dramatic roles. His most notable roles are fatherly figure Steven Keaton from "Family Ties" and graboid hunter Burt Gummer from the "Tremors" film and "television" series.
- Redd Foxx
Redd Foxx, born John Elroy Sanford, was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom "Sanford and Son".
- Dennis Franz
Dennis Franz (born October 28, 1944) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-winning American actor known for his role as Andy Sipowicz, a gritty police detective in the television series "NYPD Blue".
- Jeff Perry
Jeff Perry (born August 16, 1955 in Highland Park, Illinois) is an American character actor. Perry grew up in Highland Park, Illinois, where his father was a teacher at Highland Park High School.
- Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, although the year is still subject to question), is an American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the 1965-1969 television series "The Wild Wild West", in which he played the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film.
- Chris O'Donnell
Christopher "Chris" Eugene O'Donnell (born on June 26, 1970 in Winnetka, Illinois, USA) is an Golden Globe Award Nominated American actor. O'Donnell is best known for playing Robin in the Batman films, "Batman Forever" and "Batman & Robin".