- America Georgine Ferrera
Nothing against the 818, says the star of TV's "Ugly Betty," who grew up in Woodland Hills, Calif., and attended El Camino Real High School, but she had plans. "The Valley reminds me of my childhood," says Ferrera, who appears in the just-released film "Under the Same Moon." "I had a really rough time through high school. I don't think I liked myself very much. High school is a very hard place to like yourself.
- Kathy Griffin
Kathy Griffin (born November 4 1960) is an Emmy-nominated American stand-up comedienne and actress. She has also been a voice actor and a red carpet commentator. Griffin is a self-proclaimed "D-list celebrity."
- Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Mexican/American actress, Daytime Emmy-winning director, and an Emmy-nominated tv and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants. [1]
- Eric Mabius
ERIC MABIUS as "Tim Haspel" was born and raised on the East Coast and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. He has starred in more than a dozen films, including "Resident Evil," "Welcome to the Dollhouse," "The Crow III: Salvation," "Cruel Intentions," and "Lawn Dogs." Among his previous television credits are lead roles in "Extreme Team," and "Harvest of Fire," and guest roles on "Fastlane" and "Chicago Hope."
- Ana Ortiz
Ana Ortiz (born January 251971) is an American actress and singer. She is a native of Manhattan, New York but was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is currently a regular on the ABC dramedy series "Ugly Betty", in which she plays the title character's older sister, Hilda Suarez. The role earned her the ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in 2007.
- Becki Newton
Becki Newton (born July 4, 1978 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actress. Newton is currently a regular cast member of "Ugly Betty".
- Ashley Jensen
Ashley Jensen (born 11 August 1969) is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles in "Extras" and "Ugly Betty".
- Michael Urie
Michael Urie was born in Dallas, Texas. He attended Plano High School, where he acted in plays and competed with the speech and debate team. He then attended Collin County Community College. A teacher convinced him to audition for Juilliard. He graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts. Starting his career in off and off-off Broadway, he has made a name for himself as an established... More
- Mark Indelicato
Mark Indelicato (born July 16, 1994) is an American child actor and singer. He is currently a regular on the ABC dramedy series "Ugly Betty", where he plays Justin Suarez, the fashion-obsessed nephew of series heroine Betty Suarez.
- Rebecca Romijn
Her father was Dutch-born and worked as a custom furniture maker; her mother was American-born, of Dutch descent, and was an English teacher. Rebecca attended Berkeley High School where her nickname was the "Jolly Blond Giant". Then, she attended the University of California at Santa Cruz where she majored in Music, but left in 1995. Rebecca (in her own words): "I was a freshman at UC Santa Cruz, really poor and restless to see the world.
- Tony Plana
Tony Plana (born April 19, 1954) is a Cuban-American actor.
- Alan Dale
Marcus Alan Dale (born May 6, 1947 in Dunedin, New Zealand) is an Australian/New Zealand actor. He is best known for his roles as Jim Robinson in "Neighbours" and Caleb Nichol in "The O.C.".
- Christopher Gorham
Christopher Gorham is an American actor.
- Judith Light
Judith Light (born Judith Ellen Licht on February 9, 1949) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress. She is best known for her role as Angela Bower on the ABC sitcom "Who's the Boss?". She can now be seen playing Claire Meade on ABC's "Ugly Betty".
- Kevin Sussman
Kevin Sussman (b. December 4, 1970 in Staten Island) is an American actor of television and film perhaps best known for his recurring role as Walter on the ABC comedy-drama "Ugly Betty"
- Jayma Mays
Jayma Mays (b. July 16 , 1979 , Grundy, Virginia ) is an American actress. Mays may be remembered by genre fans for her guest appearance on Heroes as Burnt Toast Diner waitress Charlie Andrews but she may be better known, again as Charlie, on the ABC series Ugly Betty . Mays graduated from Radford University in Radford, Virginia with a degree in performing arts in 2001 .
- Tim Gunn
Timothy M. Gunn (born 1953) is an American fashion maven and television personality. Chair of Fashion Design at Parsons The New School for Design from August 2000-March 2007, he is best known as on-air mentor to designers on the Bravo reality television program "Project Runway".
- Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues.
- Kevin Alejandro
Kevin Alejandro (born April 7, 1976, in San Antonio, Texas) is an American actor of Mexican descent. He grew up in the small West Texas town of Snyder and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Alejandro is currently appearing in the ABC series "Ugly Betty", playing Santos, the father of Justin Suarez and love interest of Hilda. In the first-season finale of "Ugly Betty", Santos is shot while attempting to foil an armed robbery and apparently killed.
- Gina Gershon
She's sitting in a funky little tea room in Beverly Hills, picking at her sandwich and politely fending off any question she's not sure how to handle. So she won't talk about her private life. She won't talk about Showgirls, the hilariously awful bit of trash that launched her fame. And she won't talk about the man she'll identify only as Sean, the boyfriend and housemate she clearly adores. "I've seen it too many times in Hollywood," the actress explains.
- Ava Gaudet
Ava Gaudet is an American television, film, and theatre actress/singer from Providence, Rhode Island.
- Bailey Chase
Bailey Chase (born Bailey Chase Luetgert on May 1, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois) is a stage and television actor known for his recurring roles as Graham Miller in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Christopher "Chris" Robert Hughes (from 2003 through 2005) in the soap opera "As The World Turns" and Beckett 'Becks' Scott on Ugly Betty. <br> Chase split time growing up between Barrington, Illinois and Naples, Florida, and went to high school in Jacksonville, Florida.
- Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer (born May 25, 1972) is an American comedian and actress. Spencer was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the sixth of seven children. She attended Auburn University and has a bachelor's degree in liberal arts. Spencer's first role was a bit part in the 1996 film "A Time to Kill", based on the book by John Grisham. She also appeared briefly in the film "Bad Santa" as Opal, an associate of Willie Stokes, …
- Debi Mazar
Deborah Mazar (born August 15, 1964), better known as Debi Mazar, is an American actress, best known for her trademark "Jersey Girl"-type appearances, and as edgy, sharp-tongued women in independent films. Mazar was born in Queens, New York. Her father, Harry Mazar, was born in the Latvian SSR, Soviet Union, to a Jewish family, …
- Lucy Davis
Lucy Davis (born 2 January 1973) is an English actress. She is best known for playing the character Dawn Tinsley in the BBC comedy, "The Office". Davis played Maria Lucas in the BBC's 1995 production of "Pride and Prejudice". She has also appeared in the films "Sex Lives of the Potato Men" (2004), had a role in "Shaun of the Dead" (2004), …
- Stelio Savante
Stelio Savante born 1970, in Cape Town, South Africa is a South African film and television actor living in the United States. Is a native English speaker (Anglo South African) and fluent in Afrikaans and Greek.
- Isaac Mizrahi
Isaac Mizrahi (born October 14, 1961) is an American fashion designer.
- Brett Cullen
Brett Cullen (born August 26, 1956) is a native of Houston, Texas, who has appeared in numerous motion pictures and television programs. Early in 2007, he was cast as the role of an estranged father to one of the football players, Tim Riggins (played by actor Taylor Kitsch), in the NBC drama series "Friday Night Lights".
- Jowharah Jones
Jowharah Jones (born 1982) is an American actress and singer. She is best-known for her television role as Nico Slater, daughter of Vanessa Williams' character, on the series "Ugly Betty".
- Rhys Coiro
Rhys Coiro (born March 12, 1979) is a television and stage actor in the United States. He is best known for his recurring characters Billy Walsh on "Entourage" and Vincent Bianchi on "Ugly Betty". In 2002, he graduated with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, School of Drama.
- Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal is a comedian who grew up in Colorado
- Greg Proops
Gregory Everett Proops (born October 3, 1959) is an American actor and stand-up comedian, and works largely in Europe as a comic and improviser.
- Ron Canada
Ron Canada is an American actor. He began as a television newscaster during the 1970s in the Baltimore-Washington area until the early 1980s when he became an actor.
- Nicholas Gonzalez
Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an American actor. Gonzalez was a student at San Antonio’s Central Catholic High School. He became an accomplished cross-country and track runner, winning the Texas State Championship in the mile and two mile. After graduating in 1994 and turning down a presidential appointment to West Point, Nicholas pursued an English degree at Stanford University in California.
- Thea Vidale
Thea Vidale (born November 26, 1956, in Washington, District of Columbia, USA) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She began her career doing stand-up comedy in comic clubs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles. As an actress, she has also numerous guest appearances on sitcoms, including "Ellen", "The Wayans Bros.", "The Drew Carey Show", and "My Wife and Kids".
- Liz Torres
Elizabeth "Liz" Torres (born on September 27, 1947, in New York City) is an actress, singer, and comedian of Puerto Rican descent.
- Patrick Fabian
Patrick Fabian (born December 7, 1960) is an American actor who has a number of television credits to his name including "Joan of Arcadia", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "24", "Rude Awakening", "Xena: Warrior Princess", "Star Trek:Voyager" and many other shows. Fabian has found much of his fame in playing college professors, …
- Lupita Ferrer
Lupita Ferrer is a Venezuelan telenovela actress. Ferrer was born Yolanda Guadalupe Ferrer in Maracaibo to Spanish immigrant parents. She became famous for her beauty (especially her large and expressive eyes) and her strong theatrical presence. Her first telenovelas were "Esmeralda", about a blind young woman, "Mariana de la Noche" (1975), about the forbidden love of Mariana Montenegro and Ignacio Lugo Navarro (José Bardina), "María Teresa", …
- Ninel Conde
Ninel Conde (born Ninel Herrera Conde; September 29, 1970 in Toluca) is a Mexican actress, model and singer.
- Vanessa Lynn Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams (born March 18, 1963) is a Grammy Award-nominated and Tony Award-nominated American R&B/pop/theatrical singer and actress. Williams made history in 1983 when she became the first African-American woman to be crowned Miss America. Williams' reign as Miss America came to an abrupt end when scandal led to her subsequent resignation of the title. Williams rebounded by launching a career as an entertainer.