- Rob Lowe
Robert Hepler Lowe (born March 17, 1964) is an American actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies that included other members of the Brat Pack, such as "St. Elmo's Fire". Lowe is also known for his role as Sam Seaborn on "The West Wing".
- Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen (born August 3, 1940) is a three-time Emmy-winning and Golden Globe Award-winning Spanish American actor and perhaps best known for his role as Captain Willard in the film "Apocalypse Now" and, most recently, as President Josiah Bartlet on the acclaimed and long-running television drama series "The West Wing".
- Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor. Whitford majored in English and Theater at Wesleyan University and then went on to receive a fine arts degree from The Juilliard School. Whitford is best known for his role as Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", which he began with the show's premiere in 1999.
- John Spencer
John Spencer was an Emmy Award-winning American actor best known for his role as Leo McGarry, the White House Chief of Staff on the television drama "The West Wing".
- Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program "The Tonight Show". He also owns Big Dog Productions, a company that co-produces the show. He earns $30 million per year.
- Jimmy Smits
Jimmy Smits (born July 9, 1955) is a Golden Globe and Emmy winning American actor, primarily in movies, soap operas and television perhaps best known for his long-running roles on the TV series "L.A. Law" as Richard Dysart's youngest uptight law partner, Victor Sifuentes, who was also the firm's pro-bono lawyer (a role he played from 1986 to 1991), and as Dennis Franz's second partner, Det.
- Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image.
- John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American Emmy Award-winning film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series "Night Court" and Mike McBride in "McBride". He is expected to join the cast of "Boston Legal" in fall 2007.
- Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an Emmy-winning American actress, best known for her portrayal of President Josiah Bartlet's (played by Martin Sheen) press secretary and Chief of Staff, C.J. Cregg on the American television series "The West Wing".
- Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American film, television and theater actress, and singer. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several television roles, including "American Gothic" and "Once and Again". Wood made her debut as a lead film actress in 2002's "Little Secrets", and became well known after her Golden Globe-nominated role in "Thirteen", which garnered her critical praise.
- Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff (born May 27, 1955 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for playing Toby Ziegler on the NBC television drama "The West Wing", a role for which he won his Emmy Award. Schiff also made his directorial debut with "The West Wing", directing an episode entitled "Talking Points." Schiff is the middle of three sons born to a real estate lawyer and a cable television and publishing executive.
- Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing has received two Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Awards out of nine nominations, and a Tony Award. She earned her Academy Award nomination and one of her Golden Globe nominations when she reprised her Tony-nominated performance in the film version of "Six Degrees of Separation." She received a SAG Award nomination for the film "Smoke" and won a People's Choice Award for her role in "Grease."
- Matthew Perry
Matthew Langford Perry (born August 19, 1969 in Williamstown, Massachusetts) is a Canadian-American Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor who is best known for his role as Chandler Bing in the American television sitcom "Friends", a part he played for 10 years. He currently portrays Matt Albie in the NBC series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
- James Hong
James Hong is an American actor and the ex-president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists (AAPAA).
- John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor, perhaps best known for his roles on the television series "Roseanne", and in several Hollywood films.
- 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".
- Taye Diggs
Taye Diggs (born Scott Diggs on January 2, 1971 in Rochester, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor.
- Corbin Bernsen
Corbin Dean Bernsen (born September 7, 1954) is an American actor, known for his work on television. His greatest fame came from his role of Arnold Becker on "L.A. Law" during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though he has appeared regularly as a cast member or guest on other shows, including "General Hospital", "Cuts", and "Psych".
- Danielle Harris
Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American television and film actress, perhaps best known for her roles in several of the "Halloween" films.
- Felicity Huffman
Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show "Desperate Housewives" which debuted in 2004. A year later, her role as a transwoman in the independent film "Transamerica" was praised by many critics and earned her a Golden Globe Award.
- John Amos
John Amos (born December 27, 1939) is an American former professional football player and film and television actor.
- Gary Cole
Gary M. Cole (born September 20, 1956) is an American actor, known for numerous roles, including the television series "Fatal Vision", "The West Wing", "Midnight Caller", "Arrested Development", "American Gothic", "Wanted" and "Crusade", and the films "Office Space", "In the Line of Fire", "Kiss the Sky", "Dodgeball", "The Brady Bunch Movie", "A Very Brady Sequel", …
- William Fichtner
William Edward "Bill" Fichtner (born November 27, 1956 in East Meadow, New York) is an American actor. He is often credited as "William Fichtner" and occasionally as "Bill Fichtner". After graduating from State University of New York at Brockport with a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice in 1978, Fichtner decided to study at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.
- Emily Procter
Emily Mallory Procter (born October 8, 1968 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress best known for her roles of Ainsley Hayes in "The West Wing" and Calleigh Duquesne in "CSI: Miami"
- Joshua Malina
Joshua Malina (born 17 January 1966) is an American film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for portraying character Will Bailey on the NBC drama The West Wing.
- Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein (born May 21 1967) is an award-winning American actress and playwright. She currently stars as Lisa Cuddy, the Dean of Medicine at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital on the FOX drama "House"; as such, she is often listed as female lead of the show.
- Ian McShane
Ian McShane (born 29 September 1942) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire to Irene and Harry McShane. His father was a professional footballer with Manchester United. He grew up in Urmston, Manchester and attended Stretford Grammar School. In the United Kingdom his best known role is that of roguish but dashing antiques dealer "Lovejoy" in the BBC drama series of the same name.
- Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award.
- Tom Skerritt
Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes (half "Picket Fences").
- Christian Slater
Christian Slater (born August 18, 1969) is an American actor.
- Steven Culp
Steven Bradford Culp (born December 3, 1955) is an American actor.
- Eric Balfour
Eric Salter Balfour (born April 24, 1977) is an American film and television actor.
- Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker (born August 2 1964 in Fort Jackson, South Carolina) is an American actress whose work in theatre and film has won her international acclaim. She has been the recipient of the prestigious Tony, Emmy and Golden Globe awards. Her best-known works include "Fried Green Tomatoes", "Boys on the Side", "Proof", "The West Wing", "Angels in America", and her current role on Showtime's "Weeds".
- Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano.
- Anna Deavere Smith
Anna Deavere Smith (born September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actress, playwright, and professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known as the author of "Fires in the Mirror", which dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot, and "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992", …
- Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo (born September 28 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, outspoken atheist, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radio's "The Majority Report".
- Ted McGinley
Ted Martin McGinley (born May 30, 1958) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jefferson D'Arcy on the television series "Married... with Children", and as Charley Shanowski on the former ABC sitcom "Hope & Faith".
- Karl Malden
Karl Malden (born on March 22, 1912) is an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor, known for his expansive manner. In a career that spanned over seven decades, he was featured in classic films such as "A Streetcar Named Desire", "On the Waterfront" and "One-Eyed Jacks", with Marlon Brando, and also starred in the blockbuster movie, "Patton".
- 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."
- Miguel Sandoval
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He was born in Washington, D.C.. Sandoval began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of pantomime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films "Do the Right Thing", "Jungle Fever", and "Jurassic Park".