Xander R. Berkeley (born December 16, 1958) is an American actor.

Elias Koteas was born on March 11, 1961, in Montreal, Canada. Both his parents are of Greek descent. Elias attended Vanier College in Montreal before leaving to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1981, of which he is a graduate. He also attended the Actors Studio in New York City, where he studied acting under Ellen Burstyn and Peter Masterson . His film debut was in ... show all

Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools.

Mason Wilson Gamble (born January 16, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Dennis Mitchell in the 1993 film "Dennis the Menace" and as Jason Schwartzman's sidekick, Dirk Calloway, in Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson's critically acclaimed 1998 film, "Rushmore". He also appeared in "Anya's Bell" with Della Reese, starring as a dyslexic boy.

Born in San Francisco, George Marshall Ruge is the man behind the action of films that include The Lord of The Rings and Pirates of The Caribbean film trilogies. This introspective sometime poet, screenwriter, actor, director, stunt coordinator, musician, and artist has traveled an eclectic road rooted in the theater and literature to being the architect of some of the most memorable action sequences in film history. George Marshall Ruge is the past recipient of the Bank of America Drama...

Alan Arkin is an Academy Award-winning American actor who is also an acclaimed director, producer, author, singer and composer. He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of Jewish intellectuals from Russia and Germany. In 1946 the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, California. His father, David Arkin, was an artist and writer, who worked as a teacher, and lost his job for merely refusing to answer questions about his political affiliation...

Tony Shalhoub spent his early life in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, who herself originated from Lebanon. When Tony was just six, he was introduced to the theater, in a school production of "The King and I". He graduated from Green Bay East High, and then graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine before progressing to the Yale School of...

Jude Law was born December 29, 1972 in south east London. He started acting with the National Youth Music Theatre at the age of 12 and, at 17, he dropped out of school completely, to star in a Granada daytime TV Soap called "Families" (1990). In 1992, Jude began his stage career. He starred in many plays throughout London, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award of "Outstanding Newcomer". After doing the play "Indiscretions" in London, he moved and did it again on...

Smart, confident, eloquent, exceptionally handsome African-American actor Blair Underwood was born in Tacoma, Washington in 1964, the son of an Army man, and, with the family, lived all over the world. Trained in musical theater at Carnegie-Mellon, he moved to New York and got his first break on his second day there by winning a part on the "The Cosby Show." He made his film debut at age 21 in Krush Groove (1985) and appeared in a regular daytime role that same year on "One Life to...

Attended Harvard College

Gore Vidal was born in late 1925 to Gene Vidal, an aeronautics instructor at West Point, and his wife Nina. The Vidals endured a rocky marriage, and eventually divorced ten years after Gore's birth. Young Gore spent much of his childhood with his blind grandfather, Senator T.P. Gore of Oklahoma, and later became the stepbrother-in-law of one major US politician when his mother Nina married Jacqueline Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Auchincloss (he would also become a cousin of former Vice...

Plays the drums.

Primarily a comedic actor, he is one of the few members of "The State" to regularly get "straight," non-comedic work thanks to his leading man looks. Is the oldest cast member of "The State," he is about 2 years older than the others. He and David Wain met as college roommates and have been friends and professional collaborators (The State, Wet Hot American Summer (2001), The Ten (2007))ever since.