- William Frawley
William Frawley was an American stage entertainer, screen and television actor. Having acted in over one hundred films, he achieved greater fame playing landlord Fred Mertz on the landmark American television sitcom "I Love Lucy".
- Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher, (born February 71978) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is an American actor. He came to fame in the late nineties by playing Michael Kelso in the television series "That '70s Show", and is known for the MTV celebrity prank show "Punk'd". He has become a lead actor in Hollywood films, and a television producer and creator of television series such as "Punk'd" and "Beauty and the Geek", as well as others.
- John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, …
- Stephen Collins
Stephen Weaver Collins (born October 1 1947) is an American actor. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, he was raised in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He attended Amherst College, graduating cum laude. He played bass guitar and rhythm guitar in a number of rock and roll bands at Amherst, including Tambourine Charlie & The Four Flat Tires, The Naugahyde Revolution, and The Flower & Vegetable Show.
- Tom Arnold
Thomas Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian.
- Douglas Barr
Douglas Barr (b. May 1, 1949 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA) is an American actor, writer and director. He has starred in movies and on television. Douglas' first TV series was in the 1980s TV series "When the Whistle Blows". Later on, his big role came on the ABC TV series "The Fall Guy" as Howie Munson from 1981-1986.
- Elijah Wood
Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28 1981) is an American actor. Acting since the age of nine, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy. Making his film debut with a minor part in "Back to the Future Part II" (1989), Wood landed a succession of subsequent larger roles, and became a critically acclaimed child actor. After his role as Frodo in "The Lord of the Rings", …
- Donna Reed
Donna Reed (January 27, 1921 - January 14, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American actress.
- Brandon Routh
Brandon James Routh (born October 9, 1979) is an American actor and former fashion model. He grew up in Iowa before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career, and subsequently appeared on several television series throughout the early 2000s. In 2005, he was cast in the lead role in the 2006 film "Superman Returns".
- George Reeves
George Reeves (January 5, 1914 - June 16, 1959) was an American actor, best known for his role as Superman in the 1950s television program "Adventures of Superman" and his controversial death at the age of 45.
- Gary Kroeger
Gary Kroeger (born April 13, 1957) is an American actor best known for his work on "Saturday Night Live" from 1982 to 1985. Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Kroeger graduated from Northwestern University in 1981. He joined the cast of Saturday Night Live during Lorne Michaels' hiatus from the show, under the direction of Dick Ebersol. During his tenure, Kroeger, who also wrote for the show, was frequently cast as young teenage kids.
- Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards-more than any other female performer-and one Daytime Emmy Award.
- Hill Harper
Hill Harper (born Francis Harper on May 17 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor.
- Conrad Nagel
Conrad Nagel, (March 16, 1897 - February 24, 1970) was a successful American screen actor and matinee idol of the silent film era and beyond. He was also a well known television actor and radio performer.
- Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg was an American actress. She starred in 34 films in Hollywood and in France. Seberg became even more of an icon after her roles in numerous French films and the tragedy of her turbulent life.
- Laura Leighton
Laura Leighton (born Laurie Miller on July 24, 1968) is an American actress. She was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa and is a 1986 graduate of West High School in Iowa City (ironically located on Melrose Avenue). In 1988, she assumed her grandfather's surname.
- Ron Livingston
Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as a disaffected corporate employee in the cult comedy "Office Space", a sardonic writer and subject of a short-time obsession of Carrie Bradshaw in a cult TV-series "Sex and the City", and as Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries "Band of Brothers".
- Michelle Monaghan
Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23 1976) is an American actress.
- Lori Petty
Lori Petty (born October 14, 1963 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American movie actress. Petty graduated from North High School in Sioux City, Iowa in 1981 and worked for several years in Omaha as a graphic designer before pursuing acting. The role that made Petty famous was playing Keanu Reeves' surfer girlfriend in the 1991 action thriller "Point Break". Previous to that, she got her break starring with Richard Grieco in Fox's "Booker".
- Mary Beth Hurt
Mary Beth Hurt (born Mary Supinger on September 26, 1946 in Marshalltown, Iowa) is a critically acclaimed stage and screen actress. She studied drama at the University of Iowa and at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She made her New York stage debut in 1974. Hurt was nominated for three Tony awards for her Broadway performances in "Trelawney of the Wells", "Crimes of the Heart" and "Benefactors".
- Sue Lyon
Sue Lyon (born July 10, 1946 in Davenport, Iowa) is a former Golden Globe winning American actress.
- Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970 in Davenport, Iowa) is an American actress who was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Wisconsin. Although she is of mostly Irish descent, Boyle also has an Italian-American great-grandfather. [1] She is named after a character in Boris Pasternak 's novel Dr.
- Marcia Wallace
Marcia Wallace (born November 1, 1942) is an actress from Creston, Iowa. She is a Delta Zeta alumna. Wallace is best known for her roles as Carol Kester Bondurant, the receptionist for Bob Newhart (and dentist Jerry) on the 1972 television series "The Bob Newhart Show", and as the voice of Edna Krabappel on the animated series "The Simpsons", for which she won an Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.
- Phil Morris
Phil Morris (born April 4 1959 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American TV and movie actor.
- Ben Foster
Ben Foster (born October 29, 1980) is a Daytime Emmy- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor. He is known for his roles in the teen movies "Liberty Heights" and "Get Over It", as well as the action films "Hostage" (2005) and "X-Men: The Last Stand" (2006).
- Stephen Stucker
Stephen Stucker was an American actor, known for his scene-stealing portrayals of larger-than-life flamboyant characters, most notably the insane control room worker Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs in the "Airplane!" movies and the cross-dressing, rubber-penis-waving stenographer in the courtroom sequence in 1977's "The Kentucky Fried Movie". Stucker was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on July 2, 1947, …
- Terry Farrell
Theresa "Terry" Lee Farrell Grussendorf (born November 19, 1963) is a tall (6', 1.83m) American actress and former fashion model, best known for her roles in the television series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Becker".
- Lew Anderson
Lewis Burr Anderson (May 7 1922-May 14 2006) was an American actor and musician, most famous for being the third and final actor to portray Clarabell the Clown on "Howdy Doody" between 1954 and 1960. He was also a musician. He famously gave Clarabell's one and only line on the program on the show's final episode in 1960, with a tear visible in his eye, "Goodbye, kids". Anderson was born in Kirkman, Iowa, the son of a railroad telegrapher.
- Chester Conklin
Chester Cooper Conklin (January 11, 1886 - October 11, 1971) was an American comedian and actor. Born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, he was one of three children who grew up in a violent household. When Conklin was eight, his mother was found burned to death in the family garden. Although first adjudged a suicide, his father would eventually be charged with murder but at trial was found not guilty. A few years later, after vowing to a friend he would never return, a promise he kept, …
- Hank Worden
Hank Worden (23 July 1901 Rolfe, Iowa - 6 December 1992 Los Angeles, California) was an American cowboy-turned-character-actor. He was raised on a cattle ranch near Glendive, Montana. He was educated at Stanford University and the University of Nevada as an engineer. He enlisted in the U S Army hoping to become an Army pilot, but washed out of flight school. An expert horseman, he toured the country in rodeos as a saddle bronc rider.
- Toby Huss
Toby Huss (born December 9, 1966) is a U.S. actor. He was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, United States. Huss briefly attended the University of Iowa where he participated in No Shame Theatre before moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He has appeared in over 35 movies and television series.
- Nia Long
Nia Long (born Nitara Carlynn Long on October 30, 1970) is an American actress and occasional music video director. She is best known for her roles in "Big Momma's House", "Soul Food", and "Are We There Yet?".
- Babe London
Jean "Babe" London (Ruth Glover) (28 August 1901 - 29 November 1980) was an American motion-picture actress and comedian, most remembered for her onetime-only partnership with Oliver Hardy, in the 1931's Laurel and Hardy's two-reeler "Our Wife".
- Jon Foster
Jon Foster (born August 3, 1984) is an American actor. He was born in Fairfield, Iowa of Jewish descent; his older brother, Ben Foster, is also an actor. Foster is perhaps best known for his roles in 2004's "The Door in the Floor" and 2006's horror movie, "Stay Alive". Sophia Bush, his co-star from the movie Stay Alive, revealed in US Weekly, that she is dating Foster whom she describes as "great." Sophia and he have been dating since April 2006.
- Karen Morley
Karen Morley (December 12, 1909 - March 8, 2003) was an American film actress.
- David Anthony Higgins
David Anthony Higgins (born December 9, 1961) is a comedic actor from Des Moines, Iowa. He is perhaps most well recognized for his roles as Craig Feldspar in "Malcolm in the Middle" and Joe Farrell in "Ellen". He has also served as a writer on the television show "The Higgins Boys and Gruber" and co-wrote "The Wrong Guy," a movie starring himself and Dave Foley.
- Michelle Vieth
Michelle Vieth Paetau is an American-born Mexican actress of telenovelas. She was married to actor Héctor Soberón from 2002 to 2003. Her family moved to Acapulco when she was three, and at the age of 15 she was invited to be an extra in the telenovela "Acapulco, cuerpo y alma". Chilean producer Valentín Pimstein invited her to a casting for Televisa, …
- Billy Aaron Brown
Billy Aaron Brown (born July 28 1981 in Clarinda, Iowa) is an American actor most notable for his role as Kyle in ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules. In 2001, Brown played "Scott" in the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen film, "Holiday in the Sun" and "Danny" in Getting There. He also starred in the 2003 horror movie Jeepers Creepers 2 as Andy "Bucky" Buck. He also starred in the DCOM Going to the Mat and a SciFi Channel original movie known as "Sabertooth".
- Christian Clemenson
Christian Clemenson (born November 11, 1959) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor.
- Kiersten Warren
Kiersten Warren (born on November 4, 1965 in Iowa, USA) is an American actress. She has appeared in numerous films including "13 Going on 30", "Intolerable Cruelty", "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and "Independence Day". She is the mother of actress Misti Traya.