- Tom Cruise
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. He is tied with Tom Hanks as the only actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million plus blockbusters on his resume, and Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won the Golden Globe Award.
- Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor.
- Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell (born March 23, 1976) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series "Felicity", which ran from 1998 to 2002. Russell has since appeared in several films, including "We Were Soldiers", "The Upside of Anger", …
- Leonard Nimoy
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as 'Dragnet', and serials such as Republic Pictures 'Zombies of the Stratosphere' in 1952.
- Michelle Monaghan
Michelle Lynn Monaghan (born March 23 1976) is an American actress.
- Greg Morris
Francis Gregory Alan Morris (September 27, 1933 - August 27, 1996) was an American television and movie actor. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Morris began his acting career in the 1960s making guest appearances on many TV shows such as "The Twilight Zone" and "Ben Casey". In 1966, he was cast in his most recognizable role as the electronics expert Barney Collier in the TV series "Mission: Impossible".
- Jean Reno
Jean Reno (born Juan Moreno y Herrera Jiménez while French sources spell it as Don Juan Moreno Errere y Rimenes. on July 30, 1948) is a French actor. Working in both French and English, he has appeared in numerous successful Hollywood productions, but also European productions such as the 2005 Italian film "The Tiger and the Snow".
- Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. (January 15, 1913 - March 10, 1998) was an American actor. Bridges had success as a star in television series, and appeared in more than 150 films.
- Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress.
- Peter Graves
Peter Graves (born March 18 1926) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his starring role in the television series "Mission: Impossible" from 1967 to 1973 (and again from 1988 to 1990).
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor.
- Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000.
- 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.
- Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. She is also a social activist for human rights.
- Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant". He is currently a recurring guest star as Wilson White on the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
- Martin Landau
Martin Landau (born June 20, 1931) is an Academy Award-winning American film and television actor. He is perhaps most well-known for his roles in the television series "Mission: Impossible" (1966 - 1969) and "Space: 1999" (1975 - 1977). He received a Golden Globe award in 1969 for his performance in the former, playing the role of mission specialist Rollin Hand.
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (born 27 July, 1977) is an Irish actor and Golden Globe winner.
- Maggie Q
Margaret Denise Quigley (Vietnamese: Lý Mỹ Kỳ, born May 22, 1979), better known as Maggie Q, is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong.
- Peter Lupus
Peter Lupus is an American bodybuilder and actor, born in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 17, 1932. Standing 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm) with a developed physique, Lupus earned the titles of Mr. Indianapolis, Mr. Indiana, Mr. Hercules and Mr. International Health Physique. Lupus was one of many bodybuilders who followed Steve Reeves into the sword and sandal films of the late 1950s and early 1960s, …
- John Ireland
John Benjamin Ireland was an Academy Award-nominated actor and sometime film director. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he was raised in New York City. He started out in minor stage roles on Broadway. A tall, lean former Canadian professional swimmer who once performed in a water carnival, he appeared on Broadway and toured in Shakespeare in the late 1930s and early 40s before entering film in the mid-40s. He made his screen debut as Pvt.
- Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson (born Robert Cleveland Johnson in 1921 in Portland, Oregon - died 1994) was an American actor and voice actor who played supporting roles on series television and in films from the late 1950s til a few years before he died. He frequently read voice-over work on "The Outer Limits", and may have been involved in English-language dubbing on lesser-known spaghetti westerns.
- Phil Morris
Phil Morris (born April 4 1959 in Iowa City, Iowa) is an American TV and movie actor.
- Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood (born John Gary Yusolfsky on February 21, 1937 in Van Nuys, California) is an American actor who is probably best known for his role as astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968). A very familiar face to movie and television audiences for nearly fifty years, Lockwood was a movie stuntman and stand-in for Anthony Perkins prior to his film acting debut in an uncredited bit role in 1959's "Warlock".
- Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress. Bain was born Millicent Fogel in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a dancer and high fashion model. Bain studied with Martha Graham, thus cementing her interest in dancing. After attending Lee Strasberg's Actors' Studio, she changed careers to acting.
- Pat Hingle
Pat Hingle (born July 19, 1924) is an American actor, born Martin Patterson Hingle in Denver, Colorado. Pat Hingle enlisted in the U.S. Navy in December 1941, Dropping out of the University of Texas. He Served on the Destroyer USS Marshall during WWII While he is probably best known for playing Commissioner Gordon in the 1989 film "Batman" and its three sequels, Hingle has a long list of television and movie credits to his name, going back to 1948.
- John Vernon
John Vernon (February 24, 1932 - February 1, 2005) was a Canadian actor. He made a career in Hollywood after achieving initial television stardom in Canada.
- Dougray Scott
Dougray Scott (born Stephen Scott on November 25, 1965) is a Scottish television and film actor best known in America for playing Ian Hainsworth in Desperate Housewives. Sometimes Scott is referred to as "Young Sean Connery", and a similarity in acting style is also noted between Scott and Steve McQueen. He is most known for his roles as the villain in "Mission: Impossible 2" as well as Ian in the US dramedy "Desperate Housewives".
- Joan Collins
Joan Henrietta Collins OBE (born May 23 1933) is a Golden Globe Award winning British actress and bestselling author. She is most widely known for her role as Alexis Colby in the 1980s primetime soap opera "Dynasty". She was born in London, England, Great Britain and is one of the United Kingdom's most popular actresses.
- Darren McGavin
William Lyle Richardson (May 7, 1922 - February 25, 2006), who adopted the name Darren McGavin, was an American actor best known for playing the title role in the television horror series "Kolchak: The Night Stalker", and also his portrayal in the movie "A Christmas Story" of the grumpy father given to bursts of profanity that he never realizes his sons overhear.
- Kristin Scott Thomas
Kristin Scott Thomas OBE (born 24 May 1960) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress.
- Jon Vincent Voight
Jonathan Vincent Voight (born December 29, 1938) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. Voight, an Oscar-winner and four-time nominee, has had a long and distinguished career as both a leading man and, in recent years, character actor, with an extensive range. He came to prominence at the end of the sixties, with a riveting performance as a would-be hustler in 1969's Best Picture winner, "Midnight Cowboy", for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination.
- Dean Stockwell
Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American film and television actor, active for over 60 years. He played Rear Admiral Albert "Al" Calavicci in the NBC television series "Quantum Leap", and currently appears in the Sci Fi Channel-Sky TV revival of "Battlestar Galactica" as Brother Cavil.
- Larry Linville
Larry Linville was an American actor. Larry Linville was born in Ojai, California, and is best known for his portrayal of obnoxious, self-important Major Frank Burns in the television series "M*A*S*H". In stark contrast to the belligerent, callous, mean-spirited, and selfish Frank, Larry Linville himself has often been described by the show's other cast members as a kind, friendly man who was very open-minded and courteous to those around him.
- Nicholas Colasanto
Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the long-running sitcom "Cheers". Feature films include "Fat City" and "Raging Bull". A decorated veteran of World War II, he also directed various television series, such as "Columbo", "Starsky and Hutch" and "CHiPs". He attended Bryant University, now located in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
- James Daly
James Daly (born October 23, 1918; died July 3, 1978) was an American actor born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin. He is best known for his role in the long-running hospital drama series "Medical Center", where he played Chad Everett's superior. He is also remembered for his portrayal of Mr. Flint (an apparently immortal human) in the "Star Trek" episode Requiem for Methuselah.
- Antony Hamilton
Antony Hamilton was an Australian actor, model, and dancer. Hamilton was born in Liverpool, England, was adopted by an Australian RAF-hero and his wife soon after birth, and grew up on a sheep farm in Australia. He and attended Scotch College in Adelaide, Australia, where dance and ballet was a significant part of the curriculum. Hamilton proved to have a talent for ballet and, after leaving school, …
- James Gregory
James Gregory was an American character actor noted for playing brash roles such as McCarthy-like Senator Joseph Iselin in "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), the audacious General Ursus in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", and loudmouthed Inspector Luger in "Barney Miller" (TV-Series 1975 - 1982). He also played Dean Martin's spy boss MacDonald, in the "Matt Helm" movie series, and is fondly remembered for his role as Dr. Tristan Adams, …
- Lloyd Bochner
Lloyd Bochner (July 29, 1924 - October 29, 2005) was an Canadian-Jewish actor, also leading man, usually playing the role of cool, suave, rich men.
- Thaao Penghlis
Thaao Penghlis (born December 15, 1945 in Sydney, Australia) is an actor best known for roles in U.S. daytime soap operas such as "Days of Our Lives", "Santa Barbara", and "General Hospital", but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as "Kojak", "Cannon", "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe", "Hart to Hart", "Nero Wolfe", and "Magnum, P.I.".
- Monte Markham
Monte Markham (born June 21, 1935) is an American actor. Born in Manatee County, Florida, Markham made his Broadway debut in 1973 in "Irene", for which he won the Theatre World Award. He also appeared on stage in "Same Time, Next Year". Markham's many television credits include "Mission: Impossible", "The Mod Squad", "The Virginian", "Hogan's Heroes", "The High Chaparral", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", …