- 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. - Edie Falco
Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz". - Parker Posey
Displaying an off-kilter beauty and an ability to embrace the comically bizarre, Parker Posey has been repeatedly referred to as "The Queen of the Indies." Following her indie debut in Richard Linklater 's 1993 Dazed and Confused , Posey went on to star in no less than 15 independent features over the next five years, proving time and again how worthy she was of her royal title. Born in Baltimore on November 8, 1968, Posey was named after '50s model and sometimes-actress Suzy Parker . - Regina Spektor
Regina Spektor (born February 18, 1980) is a Russian-born American singer-songwriter and pianist. Her music is associated with the anti-folk scene centered on New York City's East Village. - Hal Hartley
Hal Hartley (b. November 3 1959, Lindenhurst, New York) is an American film director and writer, and a pioneer of the independent film movement who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase. Early on, Hartley was interested in painting and attended the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. While studying there, he took a few courses in filmmaking and realized that this was what he wanted to do. - Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. - Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci, Jr. (born 11 November 1960) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. - Chris Wedge
Christian "Chris" Wedge (born March 20 1957 in Binghamton, New York) is an American film director, best known for the films "Ice Age" and "Robots". - Josh Hartnett
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" - Sherry Stringfield
Sherry Lea Stringfield (born June 24, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American actress. She is best known for playing the role of Dr. Susan Lewis on the hit medical television drama "ER"; a role for which she has received three Emmy Award nominations. Stringfield was one of "ER's" original cast, but she sensationally quit the show during its third season, despite being contractually tied to appear in five. - Jeffrey Lewis
Jeffrey Lewis (born November 20, 1975 in New York City) is an American Anti-folk singer/songwriter and comic-book artist. He attended State University of New York at Purchase and graduated in 1997. His final thesis was on the Alan Moore graphic novel "Watchmen". Several of his musical influences have been acknowledged in his songs such as "Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror", "The History of The Fall" and "The Chelsea Hotel Oral Sex Song", concerning the song by Leonard Cohen. - Janel Moloney
Janel Moloney (born October 3 1969) is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Moss on "The West Wing". Born in 1969, in Woodland Hills, California, Moloney is the niece of Christine Ebersole, and attended the acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase. Her early work included television guest roles on "ER", "Sports Night", "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." and "Murder, She Wrote". - Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies (MARG-yoo-leez) is an American playwright whose plays include the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends". Other plays include "Brooklyn Boy" (2004), "Sight Unseen" (1991) and "Collected Stories" (1996) all of which were commissioned and originally produced by South Coast Repertory. "Sight Unseen" and "Collected Stories" were also both finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. - Mike Maronna
Michael C. Maronna (born October 8, 1977 in Rhode Island, USA) is an actor who has appeared in several television programs and films. He is arguably best known for his role as "Big Pete" on the TV show "The Adventures of Pete & Pete". Maronna went to Hunter College High School in New York City, before attending Purchase College of the State University of New York, where he studied filmmaking. - Tracy Middendorf
Tracy Lynn Middendorf (born January 26, 1970 in Miami Beach, Florida) is an American television, movie, and stage actress. She attended Pickens High School in Jasper, Georgia. In 1987, during her senior year, she left Jasper to take drama classes in Miami, and later attended SUNY Purchase. She broke into television as Carrie Brady on the daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives" in 1992. - Ron Eldard
Ronald Jason Eldard (b. February 20, 1965 on Long Island, New York) is an American film, television and stage actor best known for his understated character roles on both the screen and the stage. - Langhorne Slim
Langhorne Slim is a young folk singer, born Sean Skolnick on August 20, 1980, based out of Brooklyn, New York. Originally hailing from Langhorne, Pennsylvania, he graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system. He began to gain public notice through several years of touring with the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and an appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. - Melissa Leo
Melissa Leo (born 14 September 1960 in New York, New York) is an American actress best known for playing the tough-minded shift-Det. Kay Howard on the award-winning TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" from 1993-1997. She has also been a regular on "All My Children" and "The Young Riders". Feature films she has appeared in include "A Time of Destiny", "Last Summer in the Hamptons", "21 Grams", … - Thomas E. Franklin
Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) is an American photographer for "The Bergen Record", best known for his photograph "Raising the Flag at Ground Zero", which depicts firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center after the September 11, 2001 attacks. Franklin is a 1988 graduate of State University of New York at Purchase. the flag-rasing photo was made shortly after 5 p.m on September 11, 2001. - Susie Essman
Susie Essman is an American stand-up comedian and comic actress in television and films. Born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, she is well-known for her role as Susie Greene on the HBO comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Essman also provides the voice of Helen Higgins on the Comedy Central show "Crank Yankers" and has appeared on countless stages as a veteran comedian and on screen as an actress, … - Danny Leiner
Danny Leiner is a film director whose credits include "The Great New Wonderful", "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", "Dude, Where's My Car?", "Layin' Low", and "Time Expired". He has also directed a wide range television including "Arrested Development", Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Freaks and Geeks, Sports Night, Felicity, Action, The Tick, MTV's Austin Stories and HBO's Mind of the Married Man and The Sopranos. - Dean Haspiel
Dean Haspiel (born 1967 in New York City) is a comic book artist living in Brooklyn, New York. He is most recognized for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his "American Splendor" series as well as the recent graphic novel, "The Quitter". In the mid-1980s, Dean worked as an assistant to Howard Chaykin on "American Flagg!", Bill Sienkiewicz on "New Mutants" and "Elektra: Assassin", and Walter Simonson on "Thor". - Tim McCann
Tim McCann (born June 21, 1968) is an American film director and a professor of film and a director at his alma mater State University of New York at Purchase. After working as a housepainter, truck driver, and crew positions in the film industry, he directed his first feature film, Desolation Angels, in 1995, at a cost of under 50 thousand dollars. Desolation Angels won the International Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) at The Toronto International Film Festival, … - Jodi Long
Jodi Long (born January 7, 1954, New York, New York) is an Asian American actress raised in the Queens borough of New York City. Her parents are Lawrence K. Long, of Chinese-Scottish background who emigrated to the United States from Australia and had a career as a tap-dancer; and Kimiye Tsunemitsu, a vaudeville performer of Japanese American descent. Having graduated with a BFA from the acting conservatory at SUNY Purchase, … - Dan Deacon
Dan Deacon is a Baltimore, Maryland-based absurdist electronic music composer/performer. He attended Purchase College in Purchase, New York where he completed his graduate studies in electro-acoustic and computer music composition. He studied under composer/conductor Joel Thome. Currently, he lives at Wham City in Baltimore, Maryland. Dan Deacon's compositional style is best classified in the future shock genre along with Video Hippos, Santa Dads, Blood Baby, … - David Herman
David Herman (born February 20, 1967) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor - Brian Macdevitt
Brian MacDevitt is a prolific, award winning lighting designer for theatrical productions. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. A Long Island, New York, native, Brian graduated from SUNY Purchase with a degree in Lighting Design from the Department of Design/Technology of the Division of Theatre Arts & Film. - Brian Gaskill
Brian Richard Gaskill (born 22 January 1970 in Honolulu, Hawaii, raised in Neptune Township, New Jersey) is an American actor. His television debut was in the series "Models Inc." in 1994. In 1995, he was cast as Bobby Warner in the soap opera "All My Children", in which he appeared until 1997. In 2001 he appeared in the role as angel/vampire hunter Rafe Kovich on the serial "Port Charles". He continued with the role until the show was canceled in 2003. - Dwight Ewell
Dwight Ewell is an American actor. He is best known for his role in Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy" as a gay black writer of comic books posing as a violent militant. He delivers one of the film's more famous monologues, a diatribe denouncing the "Star Wars" trilogy (especially "Return of the Jedi") as racist. - Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo (born November 27, 1974 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor of Puerto Rican and Chinese descent, best known for his performances as Miguel Alvarez in "Oz" and Hector Salazar in "Law & Order: Trial by Jury". - Robert John Burke
Robert John Burke (born January 17, 1955) is an American actor. - Bill Charlap
William Morrison Charlap is a jazz pianist born October 15, 1966 in New York City. He comes from a musical background: his mother, Sandy Stewart, is a singer and his father was Broadway composer Mark "Moose" Charlap. He has recorded and accompanied with his mother. He is related to Dick Hyman. Bill Charlap began playing piano at age three. He later studied classical music, but remained most interested in jazz. He went on to work with Gerry Mulligan, Benny Carter, … - Bill Sage
Bill Sage (born William Sage III on July 17, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA) is an American actor and alumnus of State University of New York at Purchase. - Imani Coppola
Imani Francesca Coppola born on April 4, 1978 in New York City is a singer/songwriter/violinist probably best known for her 1997 hit "Legend of a Cowgirl" which sampled the instrumentals from Sunshine Superman by Donovan. While just a sophomore at the State University of New York (studying orchestra and later studio composition), Imani Coppola gained a record contract for her surrealistic, sample-laden pop/rockvision of hip-hop, … - Steven Weber
Steven Weber (born March 4, 1961) is an American actor. - Nasreen Pervin Huq
Nasreen Pervin Huq (born Bangladesh, 18th November 1958, died Bangladesh, 24th April 2006) was a prominent women's activist and campaigner for women's rights and social justice. She died in a tragic accident at her home in Dhaka when she was hit by a vehicle collecting her for work as Director of the UK non-governmental organization Action Aid. - Nick Gomez
Nick Gomez (b. April 13, 1963) is an American film director and actor born in Somerville, Massachusetts. Gomez has directed for a number of television and film studios. He has also acted in a few minor films. - Seth Gilliam
Seth Gilliam (November 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is most notable for appearances on the HBO programs "Oz" (as Clayton Hughes) and "The Wire" (as Ellis Carver). On both of these appearances, he co-starred with Lance Reddick and J.D. Williams. He was directly cast alongside both of these actors. His feature film credits include Private Sugar Watkins in the 1997 action movie "Starship Troopers". - Fred Wilson
Conceptual artist Fred Wilson, born in 1954 in the Bronx, describing himself as of "African, American Indian, European and Amerindian" descent. He received a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant in 1999 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 2003. Wilson represented the United States at the Biennial Cairo in 1992 and the Venice Biennale in 2003. In 2001, he was the subject of a retrospective, "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000", … - Bob Gosse
Bob Gosse (born January 9, 1963) is an American film producer.
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