- Don Johnson
Donald Wayne "Don" Johnson (born December 15, 1949) is an American actor well known for his fame in film and television. Johnson played the lead role of Sonny Crockett in the popular 1980s TV cop series, "Miami Vice". He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, "Nash Bridges".
- Colin Farrell
Colin James Farrell (born May 31, 1976) is an Irish actor who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood films including "Daredevil", "Miami Vice", "Minority Report", "Phone Booth" and "S.W.A.T."
- Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx (born Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor, a Grammy Award-nominated singer and a stand-up comic. Foxx is possibly best-known for his performance of musician Ray Charles in "Ray", and for his collaborations with director Michael Mann. With "Ray", he became one of the few African-Americans to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Bruce Willis
Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.
- Melanie Griffith
Melanie Griffith (born August 9, 1957 in New York City) is an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. She is married to actor/director, Antonio Banderas.
- Ben Stiller
Benjamin Edward Stiller (born November 30, 1965) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, actor, film producer and director. He is the son of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, both of whom are veteran comedians and actors themselves. Ben Stiller's most recent role was in the film "Night at the Museum" and his next upcoming film is "The Heartbreak Kid".
- Justin Theroux
Born August 10, 1971 in Washington, D.C., Theroux came from an artistic family. His uncle, Paul, wrote The Mosquito Coast, while his cousin, Louis, is a journalist. He discovered acting while attending Buxton School, a boarding school in Williamstown, MA (after being expelled from several high schools). Theroux graduated from Bennington College with a double major in visual arts and drama and later attended the prestigious British American Drama Academy in London, England.
- Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.
- Michael Richards
Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American comedian and film and television actor best known for his role as the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television show "Seinfeld", a role which earned him three Emmy Awards. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first stepping into a national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. He went on to become a series regular on ABC's "Fridays".
- Gong Li
Gong Li (born December 31, 1965) is a Chinese film actress. She first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Gong Li is generally considered as one of the best actresses in China.
- Philip Michael Thomas
Philip Michael Thomas (May 26, 1949 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor. Thomas' most famous role is that of detective Ricardo Tubbs on the hit 1980s TV series "Miami Vice". His first notable role was opposite Irene Cara in the 1976 film "Sparkle". Following his success in "Miami Vice", Thomas appeared in numerous made-for-TV movies and advertisements for telephone psychic services.
- Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor, of Mexican descent, best known for his roles of Lt. Martin Castillo in "Miami Vice", Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" and Admiral William Adama in the "Battlestar Galactica" re-imagined series.
- Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns.
- Julia Roberts
Julia Fiona Roberts (born October 28 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress and former fashion model. She shot to fame during the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy, "Pretty Woman", opposite Richard Gere. Since then, Roberts has become the highest-paid actress in the world, topping the "Hollywood Reporter's" annual power list of top-earning female stars for four consecutive years (2002-2005).
- Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson , born in Ireland, studied to be a teacher before turning to acting. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in Schindlers List , a Golden Globe nomination for Michael Collins , and a Tony Award nomination for Anna Christie . He has starred in numerous films including Star Wars: Episode 1The Phantom Menace; Nell; and Husbands and Wives .
- Patti D'Arbanville
Patti D'Arbanville (born May 25, 1951 in New York City) is an American actress and former model. Her first movie appearance was in a New York University student film "Tuesday And Blue Silk" in 1960, then in the 1968 Andy Warhol film "Flesh". Since then, she has worked steadily in dozens of films and television series in the United States and France, mostly as a supporting actress, …
- Naomie Harris
Naomie Melanie Harris (born September 6, 1976) is a British screen actress best known for her starring role as Selena in "28 Days Later..." and her supporting turn as Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
- Chris Cooper
Christopher W. Cooper (born July 9, 1951) is an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He became well known in the late 1990s, having appeared in supporting performances in several major Hollywood films, including "American Beauty" and "Seabiscuit".
- Jan Hammer
Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, Czechoslovakia) is a composer and keyboardist. His music is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock, as it is committed to the future of synthesized sound, electronics, television, film and animation. His career spans from the early 1970s and still continues today. His compositions have won him several Grammy awards.
- Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s.
- Terry O'Quinn
Terrance "Terry" O'Quinn (born on July 15, 1952) is an Emmy Award-nominated Irish American actor. He is best known for playing the role of John Locke on the popular ABC TV series "Lost."
- Phil Collins
Philip David Charles Collins (born January 30 1951 in Chiswick, London) is an English singer, songwriter, drummer and actor. He is best known as the lead singer and drummer of progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy and Academy Award-winning solo artist. He is also an accomplished actor, having starred in numerous films. Collins sang the lead vocals on eight American chart-toppers between 1984 and 1989; seven as a solo artist and one with Genesis.
- Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket".
- Don King
Donald "Don" King (born December 6 1931), is a successful American boxing promoter particularly known for his hairstyle and flamboyant personality.
- Laurence Fishburne
Laurence Fishburne III (born July 30 1961) is an American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor of screen and stage, playwright, director, and producer.
- Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
- Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci, Jr. (born 11 November 1960) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director.
- Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent Buscemi (born December 13, 1957) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated American actor and film director.
- Richard Belzer
Richard Jay Belzer (born August 4, 1944 in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American stand up comedian, writer and actor, best known for his work as Det. John Munch, on "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit".
- Julian Beck
Julian Beck (May 31, 1925-September 14, 1985) was an American actor, director, poet, and painter. He was born in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan in New York City. and briefly attended Yale University, but dropped out to pursue writing and art. He was an Abstract Expressionist painter in the 1940's, but his career turned upon meeting his future wife.
- Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress, known for her roles in the films "A Room with a View", "Howards End", and "Fight Club".
- Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. Bay has achieved financial success with such movies as "Transformers", "Armageddon", "The Rock", "Pearl Harbor", "Bad Boys", and "Bad Boys II". Bay is also one of the members of the LA music video production company Propaganda Films.
- Pam Grier
Pamela Suzette Grier (born May 26, 1949) is an iconic American actress. She came to fame in the early 1970s, after starring in a string of moderately successful women-in-prison and blaxploitation films, and has generally remained in the public eye, starring in B-movies such as 1974's "Foxy Brown", and in mainstream films such as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film, "Jackie Brown".
- Albert Hall
Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971. That same year he appeared off-Broadway in "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death".
- Ciarán Hinds
Ciarán Hinds is a Belfast-born film, television, stage, and radio actor.
- Viggo Mortensen
Young Viggo was an artistic kid, always to be seen with a pencil and paper on hand. This would continue back in New York State when, his parents divorcing in 1969, he and his brothers would move with their mother from Argentina back to Watertown.
- Arielle Dombasle
Arielle Dombasle is a French singer and actress. Her breakthrough roles were in Éric Rohmer's "Pauline at the Beach" and Alain Robbe-Grillet's "The Blue Villa", and she became known to American audiences through her appearances on "Miami Vice" and the 1984 miniseries "Lace".
- Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons (born August 25, 1949) is an Israeli-American hard rock bass guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. He is best known as "The Demon", his blood-spitting, fire-breathing, tongue-wagging act.
- Lou Diamond Phillips
Lou Diamond Phillips (born February 17, 1962) is an American film and television actor.
- Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American comedic actor and writer.