- Brian Williams
Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News", the flagship evening news program of the NBC television network. Williams replaced former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw on December 2, 2004. Previously, Williams was the network's chief correspondent at the White House and host of "The News with Brian Williams" on CNBC and MSNBC. - 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. - Tim Russert
Tim Russert , a fixture in American homes on Sunday mornings and election nights since becoming moderator of "Meet the Press" nearly 17 years ago, died Friday after collapsing at the Washington bureau of NBC News. He was 58 and lived in Northwest Washington. - David Letterman
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series 1994 "Late Show with David Letterman"David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, "Late Night with David Letterman", … - Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009. - Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality who became well-known as co-host of NBC's "Today". In 2006, she made a highly publicized move from NBC to CBS, and on September 5, 2006 she became the first woman to solo-anchor the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC). - Fred Thompson
Frederick Dalton "Fred" Thompson (born August 19 1942) is an American lawyer, lobbyist, and character actor. He represented Tennessee as a Republican in the U.S. Senate from 1994 thru 2003. Thompson resides in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence. As an actor, Thompson has performed in film and on television. - George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an Academy Award- and two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor, director, producer and screenwriter, known for his role in the first five seasons of the long-running television drama "ER" (1994-99), and his rise as an "A-List" movie star in contemporary American cinema. - David Gregory
David Gregory (born August 24, 1970) is currently the NBC News Chief White House Correspondent, a job he has held since February, 2001. He is occasionally a guest host on MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews" and "Meet the Press", in addition to appearing as a commentator on a variety of NBC and MSNBC news programs. He has been nicknamed "Stretch" by the President because of his height. - Matt Lauer
Matt Lauer or Matthew Todd Lauer (December 30, 1957) is an American television personality, best known as a co-host of NBC's "The Today Show" (since 1994) after being a news anchor in New York and a local talk-show host in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and Richmond. He was also host of "PM Magazine" (or "Evening Magazine" 1980-1986) and worked for ESPN in the 1980s. - Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto, Fox's "money guy" (his words) is at times, as regular readers of this site know, very adept at creating the illusion that his show is about "business news" while simultaneously beating the propaganda drums for the Bush administration. Today he was at the top of his game. - John Gibson
John Gibson is a neoconservative American television talk show host, hosting the weekday edition of "The Big Story" and "The John Gibson Show" on Fox News Radio. Prior to joining Fox News, Gibson hosted news talk programs on MSNBC and covered the Lewinsky scandal at length. He began his career in the late 1960's as a staff reporter for the entertainment gossip magazine, the Hollywood Reporter, and was a reporter and weekend anchorman at KCRA, … - Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", … - Carson Daly
Carson Jones Daly (born June 22, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is an American television personality. He became known for being a host and VJ on MTV's "Total Request Live". He currently hosts "Last Call with Carson Daly" on NBC. - Andrea Mitchell
Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is a journalist, television commentator, and writer. She covers burgeoning international issues for all NBC News broadcasts, including "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams", "Today", and MSNBC. She is also often a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews. She frequently anchors the 11AM hour of MSNBC Live. Mitchell graduated with a B.A. in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967, … - Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Anthony Ventimiglia (born July 8 1977) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the NBC series "Heroes" as idealistic hero Peter Petrelli and in the family-oriented television series "Gilmore Girls" as Rory's rebel boyfriend Jess Mariano. - Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23,2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Richard Engel
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest", published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq war from Baghdad. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, … - Meredith Vieira
Meredith Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality, game show hostess and journalist. She currently co-hosts NBC's "Today". She previously co-hosted ABC's daytime talk show "The View" (from 1997 to 2006), and is currently the host of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" in syndication. She also hosted " Intimate Portrait," a series on Lifetime Television. - Jonathan Alter
Jonathan Alter is a columnist and senior editor for "Newsweek" magazine, where he has worked since 1983. A Chicago native and resident of Montclair, New Jersey, he is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared regularly on NBC, MSNBC and CNBC. In addition, he can be heard frequently on cancelled "Imus in the Morning," and "The Al Franken Show" on Air America Radio. - Ed McMahon
Edward "Ed" Peter Leo McMahon, Jr. (born March 6, 1923) is a popular American comedian, game show host, announcer and television personality most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer on the "Tonight Show", from 1962 to 1992, and as the host of the talent show "Star Search", from 1983 to 1995. - Zach Braff
Zachary Israel Braff (born April 6, 1975) is an American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. During the 2000s, he became known for his role as J.D. on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs". Braff has also starred in several films as well as writing and directing 2004's "Garden State" and selecting and producing tracks for its soundtrack record for which Braff was awarded a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. - Al Roker
Albert Lincoln Roker (born August 20, 1954) is an American television broadcaster, best known as the weather anchor for NBC's "Today" show. He holds American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238. - Ann Curry
Ann Curry (born November 19 1956) is an American journalist and television personality who has served as news anchor on NBC's "Today" since May 1997 and host of "Dateline NBC" since May 2005. - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - George Michael
George Michael (born March 24, 1939), is a sportscaster best known nationally for his long-running American sports highlights show called "The George Michael Sports Machine". Started as a local show in 1980 called "George Michael's Sports Final" and then nationally syndicated in 1984, the nationally broadcast show was distributed for syndication by NBC until it left the air following the March 25, 2007 airing. - Masi Oka
Oka: I got to see a little bit of it, but I guess the crowd reacted well. It was very cool, because I realize that Hiro is kind of representative of all the comic book geeks. I myself am a big Manga freak as well, so I was just happy that I could give it justice, and it seemed like a lot of the audience members did connect to the character, so that was very cool. - Pete Williams
Pete Williams is an NBC News correspondent based in Washington, D.C. He has been covering the Justice Department and the U.S. Supreme Court since March 1993. Williams was also a key reporter on the Microsoft anti-trust trial and Judge Jackson's decision. Prior to joining NBC, Williams served as a press official on Capitol Hill for many years. In 1986 he joined the Washington, DC staff of then Congressman Dick Cheney as press secretary and a legislative assistant. - Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is a four-time Emmy and a two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor who is best known for his two decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier". He has also worked as a producer, director, and writer. - Michael Medved
Michael Medved (born October 3 1948) is an American, conservative radio talk show host, film critic and author. - Zachary Quinto
Zachary J. Quinto (born June 2, 1977) is an American actor who is most famously known for his roles as Adam Kaufman on "24", Sasan on "So NoTORIous" and Gabriel "Sylar" Gray on NBC's "Heroes". - Bob Costas
Robert Quinlan Costas (born March 22, 1952) is an American sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s. His mother was of Irish Catholic descent, and his father was of Greek descent. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. Bob's father, John Costas, was an electrical engineer, baseball fan, and gambler. - Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his passion in writing plays however, and quickly established himself as a young promising playwright. - Ben Silverman
Ben Silverman (born August 15, 1970, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is the new chairman of NBC Entertainment and NBC Universal Television Studio. Silverman is also the founder and CEO of Reveille, an independent television and film production and distribution company. He is the executive producer of such shows as NBC's "The Office," "The Biggest Loser," and ABC's "Ugly Betty," as well as several cable shows, … - Howie Mandel
Howie Michael Mandel II (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian and actor, primarily for his roles on sitcoms and television. He is best known as Ed Flanders's young intern, Dr. Wayne Fiscus on "St. Elsewhere", and is currently the host of the US game show "Deal or No Deal", airing on NBC, and the Canadian version, "Deal or No Deal Canada", airing on Global. - 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". - Larry David
Larry David, born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. David was co-creator, head writer and executive producer (as well as the voice of New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner) for the television series "Seinfeld". He also created and stars in the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". - Greg Grunberg
Gregory Phillip Grunberg, born to a Jewish family July 11, 1966, in Los Angeles, California, is an American television actor. He is married to Elizabeth Grunberg and has three children. He is best known for his starring role as Matt Parkman on the NBC television series "Heroes", ongoing since 2006. Other notable roles included the characters Sean Blumberg on "Felicity" (1998-2002) and Eric Weiss on "Alias" (2001-2006), both produced by childhood friend, … - David Lee
David Lee (born David Olejniczak on May 13 1961) was a professional DJ, and is now a professional voiceover announcer. During his career, which began in 1977, he has worked with such affiliates as Westwood One, Live Nation, NBC, and WRIF/Detroit. He has served as imaging voice for over 50 radio stations worldwide and DJ'd for 4 stations in Wisconsin. He attended high school at Premontre (now Notre Dame), a private high school in Green Bay, WI. There, … - Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub, (born October 9, 1953) is a three-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe-winning American television and film actor. He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show "Monk" in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, …
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