Sydney Pollack (born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, producer and actor. He has directed over 21 films and 10 television shows, acted in over 30 films or shows, and produced over 44 films.<small> </small> Sydney Pollack is best known for directing films "Out of Africa" (Academy Awards, 1985), "Tootsie" (1982), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), …

Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor.

Anne Jackson (born September 3, 1926) is an American actress of stage, screen, and television. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Jackson trained at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and The Actor's Studio. She made her Broadway debut in 1945. Her theatre credits include "Summer and Smoke", "Arms and the Man", "Luv", "The Waltz of the Toreadors", and "Lost in Yonkers".

Marian Hall Seldes (born August 23, 1928) is an award-winning American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

Illeana Douglas (b. July 25 1965, Quincy, Massachusetts) is an American actress. She was born Illeana Hesselberg, and her grandfather was the actor Melvyn Douglas. Her step-grandmother Helen Gahagan Douglas was an actress, who later entered politics and ran for the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon in 1950. Illeana's mother is an Italian American and her father was of Russian Jewish, Irish and Scottish ancestry. Acting since she was a child in Connecticut, …

Irene Lewisohn (1892 - 1944) was an American philanthropist. In 1915, she with her sister Alice Lewisohn (1883-1972) founded the Neighborhood Playhouse.

Connie Britton (born Constance Womack on March 6 1968, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actress who is most well-known for her role as Tami Taylor in "Friday Night Lights" starring opposite Kyle Chandler and as Nikki Faber on ABC's "Spin City" from 1996-2000. Britton uses her married name as her stage name, though she is now divorced from her husband. When she was 7 years old her family (mother Linda, father Allen, …

Martin Henderson (born October 8, 1974) is a New Zealand actor. Henderson was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He started acting when he was thirteen years old, appearing in "Strangers", a local television production. He attended Westlake Boys High School and Birkenhead Primary. He starred in the drama Shortland Street, where he played the character of "Stuart Neilson" from 1992 to 1995. He subsequently appeared in a number of Australian films and television productions, …

Richard Conte was an American actor who appeared in films such as "I'll Cry Tomorrow" and "The Godfather". He was born Nicholas Conte of Italian ancestry in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of a barber. In 1935, Conte was spotted by Elia Kazan and John Garfield when he was working as an entertainer at a Connecticut resort, which led to Conte finding stage work.

Frances Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning American actress. Born in Monroe, Georgia of Irish and Latvian descent, Conroy studied drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School in New York City. During the 1970s, she performed regularly with regional and touring theatrical companies (most notably The Acting Company), …

Elizabeth Wilson (born April 4 1921) is a Tony Award-winning American actress. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Wilson attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, then studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. She made her Broadway debut in "Picnic" in 1953. Her stage credits include "The Good Woman of Sezuan", "Sticks and Bones", "Uncle Vanya", "Threepenny Opera", …

Brian Timothy Geraghty (born 1975) is an American film and television actor. Geraghty was born in Toms River, New Jersey. He graduated from Toms River High School East in 1993 and then the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre before beginning his professional career in New York City; he later moved to Los Angeles. In his free time, he enjoys surfing.

Daniel Mann, also known as Daniel Chugerman, was an American film and television director. Daniel Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a stage actor since childhood, and attended New York's Professional Children's School and the Neighborhood Playhouse. He entered films in 1952 as a director, evincing very little flair for visual dynamics but an excellent ear for dialogue.

Rosemary Murphy is a German-born American actress of stage, film, and television. She was born on January 13, 1925 (some sources cite 1927), in Munich, Germany to a U.S. diplomat and his wife, who left Germany at the beginning of World War II. She attended Manhattanville College and acting school at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio before beginning her career on stage. She made her stage debut in Germany, in a 1949 production of Peer Gynt.

Dave Annable (born September 15, 1979) is an American actor. He was born in Suffern, New York. ... Dave Annable (born September 15, 1979) is an American actor. He was born in Suffern, New York. He attended SUNY Plattsburgh and participated in the student-run Plattsburgh State Television as talent and behind the camera.

Matthew Carnahan is an American producer, writer and director. Carnahan studied at New York University as well as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. He has a daughter with companion Helen Hunt, Måkena lei Gordon Carnahan (born 2004). He also has a son, Emmett.

Shari Lewis was an American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop, first appearing on "Hi Mom", a local morning show that aired on WNBC in New York. Lewis was Jewish-American. Her father was a founding member of Yeshiva University in New York City.

Noah Nicholas Emmerich (born in February 27, 1965 in New York City) is an American film actor who first broke out in the cult hit "Beautiful Girls". He was later seen in movies like "The Truman Show", "Cop Land", "Frequency", "Love & Sex", "Windtalkers", "Miracle", and "Little Children". He is considered an "actor's actor" for his understated performance style and naturalism.

Karina Lombard (born on January 21, 1964 in Tahiti) is an actress. Lombard's mother is from Tahiti. Lombard is a naturalized U.S. citizen, but when she was one, her father, who is of Russian, Italian and Swiss descent, took her to Barcelona, Spain. She later attended a number of Swiss boarding schools where she became fluent in Spanish, English, Italian, French, and German. She came to New York when she was 18 and began modeling and taking acting classes.

Leonard Frey (born September 4, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; died August 24, 1988 in New York) was an American actor. After college, where he studied art with designs on being a painter, he studied acting at New York City's prestigious Neighborhood Playhouse under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner, and decided to pursue a career in theater instead. In 1968, he received critical acclaim for his performance as a bitter, bitchy, …

Otis E. Young (born July 4, 1932 in Providence, Rhode Island; died October 11, 2001) was an African-American actor. He was the first black actor to co-star in a television Western, "The Outcasts" (1968-69). Young played another memorable role as Jack Nicholson's shore-patrol partner in the 1973 comedy-drama film "The Last Detail". Young, one of 14 children, joined the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of 17 and served in the Korean War.

Claire Brosseau (born February 24, 1977 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor and comedian. She is a graduate of John Abbott College in Montreal and the Neighborhood Playhouse acting school in New York City. She works in film, television, theatre and musical theatre, and splits her time between Montreal and Toronto. Her film credits include: "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002), "My First Wedding" (2004), "Geraldine's Fortune" (2004), …

Robert Maschio (born August 25, 1966) was born in New York, and grew up in Syosset, Long Island. He attended Columbia University in New York City, class of 1988. During his junior year he studied abroad, and in his senior year he began performing musical theatre, appearing in plays such as Pippin, Anything Goes, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. After college, Robert joined the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he studied acting under Sanford Meisner, …

Jane Kean (born April 10, 1924) is an American actress. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Kean and her sister Betty formed a comedy duo that worked the nightclub circuit throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the two appeared on Broadway as sisters in the short-lived 1955 musical "Ankles Aweigh". Kean studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Additional theatre credits include "Call Me Mister" and "Carnival!".

Lee Delano is a character actor who was born in New York City. He graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, where he studied with Sandy Meisner for acting and Martha Graham for dance. His classmates included Joanne Woodward, Susan Oliver and Steve McQueen. McQueen convinced Delano to make the move west to Hollywood where he began to obtain guest roles in episode of numerous television series, …

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