Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 - June 22, 1969) was an Oscar-nominated American film actress and singer, best known for her role as Dorothy Gale from "The Wizard of Oz". Garland's singing voice had a natural vibrato, which she was able to maintain at an extremely low volume. The effects which she was able to project enabled her to convey a wide range of emotion when she interpreted a song.

Joshua Daniel Hartnett (born July 21, 1978) is an American actor. He came to fame after his first film role, in 1998's "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later", and has since become a leading Hollywood actor, having starred in "Black Hawk Down", "Here on Earth", "Pearl Harbor", "Wicker Park", "Lucky Number Slevin", and most recently "The Black Dahlia"

Jessica Phyllis Lange (born April 20, 1949) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress.

James Arness is an actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" for 20 years (though the length of time in a role is shared with Kelsey Grammer’s portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane, Grammer played the same role on "three" different programs, Cheers, Frasier, and Wings), however, James Arness has played the part of Marshal Matt Dillon in 5 separate decades. 1955 to 1975 in the weekly series.

Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1946) is an American actress, best known for her role as "Jennifer Marlowe" on the television sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988 to 1993). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter, well-publicized debacle. Anderson was born in St. Paul, Minnesota to Carl K. Anderson and Maxine H. Kallin. As she tells it in her autobiography, "My Life in High Heels", …

Rachael Leigh Cook (born October 4, 1979) is an American actress. She came to fame after her role in the 1999 teen romantic comedy, "She's All That", and has since appeared mostly in lower-profile films.

Theodore Raymond “T.R.” Knight is an American actor. Knight's most high-profile role to date is his current role as Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's top-rated drama "Grey's Anatomy".

Jane Russell (born June 21, 1921) is an American actress and sex symbol. She was born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota.

Marisa Christine Coughlan (born March 17 1974 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American actress. She went to and graduated from Breck School, a small private school in Minneapolis. She has appeared in top 100 "hot" lists put out by numerous men's magazines in recent years and graced the cover of Stuff magazine in May 2001.. Some have compared her physical appearance to Lindsay Lohan. Her first film appearance to gain mainstream attention was "Teaching Mrs.

Ed Flanders was an American actor best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Dr. Donald Westphall in the television series "St. Elsewhere".

Cedric Yarbrough (born March 20, 1973) is an American actor. Yarbrough was born in Burnsville, Minnesota. He has two brothers, Eni and Trevor, and a sister, Amber. Yarbrough attended Burnsville High School and later Minnesota State University. Yarbrough stars on the Comedy Central television series "Reno 911!" as Deputy S. Jones. He also provides the voice of Tom Dubois on "The Boondocks" animated series featured on the "Adult Swim" lineup.

Kelly Carlson (born February 17, 1976) is an American actress. She is known for her current role as Kimber Henry on "Nip/Tuck". In 2001 she was listed on "Tear Sheet Magazine"<nowiki>'s</nowiki> 50 Most Beautiful list, and in 2003 her career picked up with a role on "Nip/Tuck". Carlson is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and attended the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield. In addition to acting, she has also modeled, …

Winona Ryder (born October 29 1971) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress. She has received a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Academy Award nominations in 1993 and 1994, respectively. Ryder made her screen debut in "Lucas" (1986) playing a teenage girl with a crush on the film's title character, Lucas.

Kevin Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor probably best known for the role of Hercules on "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys".

Seann William Scott (born October 3, 1976) is an American actor perhaps best known for portraying Steve Stifler in the "American Pie" series of teen films. He also played Bo Duke in the film adaptation of "The Dukes of Hazzard".

Richard Dix was an American motion picture actor.

American movie actor Richard Carlson (April 29, 1912- November 21, 1977) was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. In the 1930s Carlson appeared on the Broadway stage after studying and teaching drama in Minnesota. His first film role was in 1938 (David O. Selznick's "The Young in Heart"). He worked as a freelance actor, appearing in many different film studio works, beginning in 1939 when he moved to California.

Melissa Margaret Peterman (born July 1,1971) is an American actress who was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

James LeGros (born April 27, 1962) is an American film and television actor. He is known as a star of independent films with a diversified body of work in the early to mid 1990s.

John Madden Towey (born February 13, 1940) studied acting and directing at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Received B.F.A. degree in directing in 1967. Acted two seasons at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. (1977-78 and 1981). Acted two seasons at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis (1984-1986) and two seasons at The Public Theatre in New York 1987-89, before moving to Los Angeles in 1990.

Michael O'Leary (born March 27, 1958 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) is an American actor. O'Leary plays the character of Dr. Fredrick "Rick" Bauer on "Guiding Light", a role he has played from 1983-1991 and from 1995-present.

Trevor Gregory Fehrman is an American actor. He was born on July 14, 1981 in South St. Paul, Minnesota. Trevor grew up in South St. Paul and performed in theater at his high school and did local commercial acting and modeling before his first TV break for NBC's Encore! Encore!. Both of Trevor's parents were school teachers in the area and he has one older sister. Trevor is currently attending college in Southern California.

Lindsay Frost (born on 4 June 1962 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American actress. She is the daughter of actor Warren Frost, and sister of Mark Frost and writer Scott Frost.

Carol Dempster (December 9, 1901 - February 1, 1991) was a notable American film actress of the silent film era.

Kelli Maroney (b. December 30,1965 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is an American actress who has starred in film and in television. Her well known television roles are on soap operas "Ryan's Hope" as Kimberly Harris Beaulac (1980-1981, 1982-1983) and "One Life to Live" as the second Tina Clayton Lord. Her best known film roles were in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" as a cheerleader named Cindy, …

Hmong actress in Saint Paul, Minnesota and a community activist, Sandi Ci Moua has starred in some of the first contemporary Hmong plays in the world including From Shadows To Light and Hmong! The CIA's Secret Army. She frequently works with Theater Mu / Mu Performing Arts and her written work has appeared in the anthology 'Yell-oh Girls!'.