George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama "ER" (1994-99), and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema.

John Carter Hensley (born August 29, 1977) is an actor known for his role he plays on "Nip/Tuck" as Matt McNamara. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Before becoming an actor, Hensley worked on a horse ranch in Wyoming.

Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her leading roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thrillers, including "Kiss the Girls", "Double Jeopardy" and "High Crimes".

Patricia Neal (born January 20 1926, Packard, Kentucky) is an Academy Award winning American actress.

Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American character actor. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky to Ersel and Sheridan Harry Stanton, who divorced when Stanton was in high school; they later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California.

Don Galloway is an American actor, who first gained fame as Raymond Burr's protégé Sgt. Ed Brown on "Ironside", in the 1960s and 1970s. He later played Dr. Buzz Stryker on "General Hospital", in the 1980s. Galloway started his television career in the 1950s in the New York-based soap opera "The Secret Storm". In 1963, he was among the first regular cast members of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital" playing Buzz Stryker.

William Josh Hopkins (b. 12 September, 1970 in Lexington,Kentucky) is an American actor. Born Lexington, Kentucky, he portrayed Paul Allen in the 1999 film, "Pirates of Silicon Valley", and Raymond Milbury on the television series "Ally McBeal" (2001 to 2002), probably his most famous role to date. He most recently portrayed Charlie Babcock on the campy television series "Pepper Dennis" (2006).

Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971, in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress.

Joshua Ryan Hutcherson (born October 12, 1992) is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the early 2000s, appearing in several minor film and television roles, before gaining wider exposure with major roles in the 2005 films "Little Manhattan" and "Zathura", the 2006 comedy "RV", the film adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Firehouse Dog".

Angie Gregory (born January 25, 1975) is an American actress from Draffenville, Kentucky. She was a theatre major at Murray State University from 1999-2003. Angie landed a lead role in an episode of "Diary of An Affair" which originally aired on E! Channel and Style Network in 2005. Other credits include "Death Valley: The Revenge of Bloody Bill", Day of the Dead 2: Contagium, "The Memory Thief", and "Guilty or Innocent".

Joseph Daniel Kern (born 5 September, 1976 in Kentucky) is an American actor. Raised in Northern Kentucky in such towns as Florence, Kentucky and Independence, Kentucky. He is most famous for his roles in the 2003 movies "Cabin Fever" and "Grind".

Terrence Mann (born Terrance Vaughan Mann on July 1, 1951 in Kentucky) is a prominent singer and actor who has dominated the Broadway stage for the past two decades. Terrence made his Broadway debut in 1982 in the Tony Award-winning show "Barnum" (music by renowned Broadway writer Cy Coleman) at the St. James Theatre. He played the supporting role of Chester Lyman.

Hobart Henley (November 23 1887, Louisville, Kentucky - May 22 1964, Beverley Hills, California) was an American silent film actor, director and screenwriter. He was involved in well over 60 films either as an actor or director or both in his twenty year career, between 1914 and 1934 when he retired from film making. He directed films such as the 1931 Humphrey Bogart film "The Bad Sister".