- Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as the title character in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Ichabod Crane in the film adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. - Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her leading roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thrillers, including "Kiss the Girls", "Double Jeopardy" and "High Crimes". - Nick Lachey
Nicholas Scott Lachey (born November 9, 1973) is an American pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the late-1990s as a writer and joint lead-vocalist along with founding member Jeff Timmons of the boy-band, 98 Degrees. The group also included Lachey's brother Drew Lachey and classmate Justin Jeffre. They have sold over ten million records worldwide and charted top-forty singles. - Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky) is an American country singer, and actor, who is best known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992). He is also a multi-platinum selling recording artist, with one number one country single and eight top-ten singles. From 2001 to 2004, he starred in the television series "Doc", a show about a doctor from the ranch adjusting to the large city. - Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002) was an American popular singer and actress. She was most popular singing Traditional Pop music in the 1940s and 50s with songs like "Come On-a My House". She was the aunt of actor George Clooney, and the sister to former television personality Nick Clooney. - Nick Clooney
Nicholas Clooney (born January 13, 1934) is an American television journalist, anchorman, game show and American Movie Classics host, as well as a politician from the state of Kentucky. He is the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney, and the father of actor George Clooney. - Jim Kelly
Jim Kelly (born May 5 1946 in Paris, Kentucky) is an American athlete, actor and martial artist who came to prominence in the early 1970s. Kelly began his athletic career in high school, competing successfully in basketball, football, and track and field. He attended the University of Louisville and left during his freshman year to begin studying Shorin-ryu karate. After winning the 1971 International Middleweight Karate Championship, he opened his own martial arts school. - Pee Wee Reese
Harold Henry "Pee Wee" Reese (July 23 1918 - August 14 1999) was an American professional baseball player who played for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1940 to 1958. Reese was a ten-time All Star shortstop who contributed to seven league championships for Brooklyn. Reese was a strong supporter of the first black Major League Baseball player, Jackie Robinson. He refused to sign a petition that threatened a boycott if Robinson joined the team. - Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer, and is the sister of legendary country singer Loretta Lynn and distant cousin of singer Patty Loveless. In the late 70s and 80s, she had great pop crossover success with "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue", "Talking In Your Sleep" and "Half the Way". - Harry Dean Stanton
Harry Dean Stanton (born July 14, 1926) is an American character actor. Stanton was born in West Irvine, Kentucky to Ersel and Sheridan Harry Stanton, who divorced when Stanton was in high school; they later re-married. He had two younger brothers, Archie and Ralph. Stanton attended the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, where he studied journalism and radio arts. He also studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California. - Hal Sparks
Hal Sparks (born Hal Harry Magee Sparks III, September 25, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an actor, comedian one-time game show host best known for his witty additions to VH1 and the role of Michael Novotny on the American television series "Queer as Folk". His previous claim to fame was hosting E!'s "Talk Soup". In addition to acting, Hal is also the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, Zero 1 (previously called The Hal Sparks Band). - Red Foley
Clyde Julian "Red" Foley was a country music singer. Foley was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky. He began playing the guitar and the harmonica as a young boy and at age seventeen he won first prize in a statewide talent show. Ultimately he signed with Decca Records in 1941. His hit songs include "Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy", "Birmingham Bounce", "Old Shep", "Sugarfoot Rag", and "Tennessee Saturday Night". "Peace in the Valley", backed up by The Sunshine Boys, … - Lee Majors
Lee Majors (born Harvey Lee Yeary on April 23, 1939), a popular American actor, primarily for his roles in movies, sitcoms and television who also starred in four long-running ABC TV series over four decades. He is best known for his roles as Barbara Stanwyck's son, Heath Barkley on "The Big Valley" (1965-1969), as Arthur Hill's law partner/friend, Jess Brandon on "Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law" (1971-1974), … - Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon (born 1974) is an American stage and film actor. Shannon began his career as a stage actor in Chicago, where he helped found A Red Orchid Theatre. He has since worked with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, and other groups. Shannon originated the role of Peter Evans in "Bug" in 2004 and also starred in the 2007 film adaptation with Ashley Judd and Harry Connick, Jr, directed by William Friedkin. - Lisa Sparxxx
Lisa Sparxxx (born October 6, 1976 in Kentucky) is the pseudonym of an American pornographic film actress. Before she entered the adult entertainment industry, Sparxx was a college student, and later earned a Master of Arts degree in Multimedia with a minor in Business at the University of Kentucky. To pay her way through university, she worked in and managed a hair salon. Her first film was "Dirtier Debutants #4" with Ed Powers. She was also a host for KSEX Radio. - Josh Hutcherson
Joshua Ryan Hutcherson (born October 12, 1992) is an American film and television actor. He began performing in the early 2000s, appearing in several minor film and television roles, before gaining wider exposure with major roles in the 2005 films "Little Manhattan" and "Zathura", the 2006 comedy "RV", the film adaptation of "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Firehouse Dog". - Annie Potts
Annie Potts (born October 28, 1952) is an American television and film actress. She is probably best known for playing the role of Janine Melnitz in the "Ghostbusters" films and for the television sitcom "Designing Women", but has had a wide variety of prominent roles in both television and film. Other notable roles include Mary Elizabeth (O'Brien) Sims on the Lifetime Television show "Any Day Now", … - Rumer Willis
Rumer Glenn Willis (born August 16 1988) is an American actress, the daughter of actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. She has appeared in both of her parent's movies since her early childhood. She was born in Kentucky where her father Bruce was filming the 1989 movie called "In Country". Her mother hired a cameraman to video tape her birth. - Rebecca Budig
Rebecca Budig (born Rebecca Jo Budig on June 26, 1973 Cincinnati and raised in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky). She is an American soap opera actress and television presenter. Budig is the youngest of eight children, she has five sisters and two brothers. Budig graduated from the Cincinnati School of the Performing Arts and later went on to major in zoology at Miami University in Ohio. In 1993, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue her acting career. - Warren Oates
Warren Oates was an American character actor best known for his performances in several films directed by Sam Peckinpah including "The Wild Bunch" (1969) and "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" (1974). He starred in numerous films during the early 1970s which have since achieved cult status including "The Hired Hand" (1971), "Two-Lane Blacktop" (1971) and "Race with the Devil" (1975). - W. Earl Brown
W. Earl Brown (born September 7, 1963 in Murray, Kentucky) is an American character actor who has appeared in many mainstream film and television projects. He is perhaps best known as Cameron Diaz's mentally challenged brother Warren in "There's Something About Mary". Brown graduated with a bachelor's degree in theater from Murray State University before going on to DePaul University in Chicago where, with his fellow classmates John C. Reilly and Gillian Anderson, … - William Mapother
William Reibert Mapother, Jr. (born April 17, 1965) is an American actor and former teacher, perhaps best known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series "Lost". - Laura Bell Bundy
Laura Bell Bundy (b. April 10, 1981 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a Tony Award-nominated American actress who has been seen in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film. Bundy made her stage debut in regional theatre at age 9, originating the role of Tina Denmark in the Off-Broadway show "Ruthless! The Musical". For this part, she was nominated for a 1993 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. - Jeremy Sumpter
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter (born February 5, 1989) is an American actor. He is known for playing the title role in the 2003 film version of "Peter Pan" - Charles Napier
Charles Napier (born April 12, 1936) is an American character actor, known for his portrayals of square-jawed tough guys and military types. - Matt Long
Matt Long (born May 18, 1980) is an American actor. Long was born in Winchester, Kentucky. He played the teenaged Jack McCallister on "Jack & Bobby" and the younger Johnny Blaze in "Ghost Rider". Long attended Western Kentucky University where he met his wife. He was also a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. After graduation, Matt moved to New York City where he worked as an actor throughout various theatres. He now resides in Hollywood, California - Chuck Woolery
Charles Herbert "Chuck" Woolery (born on March 16, 1941) is an American popular game show host, singer, actor and a two-time talk show host, best known as the host of "Wheel of Fortune" and the dating game show "Love Connection". He currently hosts "Lingo" on the Game Show Network. Woolery who is a devout born again Christian has had four wives, and enjoys bass fishing. Along with hosting numerous shows he has also appeared on the World Poker Tour. - James Best
James Best (born July 26, 1926, in Powderly, Kentucky) is an American character actor best known for his role as bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane in the television series "The Dukes of Hazzard". He has two daughters, Janeen and Jojami, as well as a son named Gary. Best was born Jewel Guy in Powderly, Kentucky in 1926. After his mother died in 1929, he was sent to live in an orphanage. - Brandi Lyons
Brandi Lyons (born March 26, 1979) is an American pornographic actress who has appeared in nearly 250 adult movies. She has been married to porn actor Scott Lyons, and they have 1 child. - Maggie Lawson
Margaret "Maggie" Lawson (born August 12, 1980, in Louisville, Kentucky; an Assumption High School graduate) is an actress who has starred in the sitcoms "Family Rules", "Inside Schwartz", "It's All Relative", and "Crumbs", as well as the movie "Nancy Drew". In 2000, she starred in an ABC-TV movie featuring Justin Timberlake called "Model Behavior". - Keith Robinson
Keith Robinson is an American actor and R&B singer. Robinson was born in Kentucky, grew up in the Augusta, Georgia suburb of Evans, and later moved to Atlanta. While attending the University of Georgia, Robinson signed a recording contract with Motown Records, although the label never issued any of his material. Moving to Los Angeles and touring to acting, Robinson gained a starring role in the TV series "Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue" as Joel Rawlings, … - Roger Davis
Roger Davis (born 5 April, 1939) is an American actor, best known for his roles in "Dark Shadows. Davis was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and first appeared on television in 1962. He first gained attention playing multiple characters on the daytime gothic soap TV series "Dark Shadows". In 1971, Davis narrated the title sequence voice-over for the comedy western TV series "Alias Smith and Jones, … - Arthur Lake
Arthur Lake (b. Arthur Silverlake, Corbin, Kentucky,April 17 1905; d. January 9 1987, Indian Wells, California) was an American actor known best for bringing Dagwood Bumstead, the stumbling husband of "Blondie" to life in film, radio, and television. Lake appeared in films starting in the late 1920's, beginning as an adolescent character actor. By the sound era he was playing light romantic roles, usually with a comic "Mama's Boy" tone to them. - Ryan Case
Ryan Case (born 1975, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an award-winning stage actor, who has also performed on radio and television. He primarily works in regional theatre. - Todd Wellemeyer
Todd Allen Wellemeyer (born August 30, 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is primarily used in long relief, but has been a starting pitcher in the minor leagues. A graduate of Bellarmine University, he is the only Chicago Cub to earn a save in his major league debut, earning it by striking out three batters in order against Milwaukee after 17 innings of play. - Marie McDonald
Marie McDonald was an American singer and actress born with the name Cora Marie Frye in Burgin, Kentucky. She was the daughter of a Ziegfeld Follies girl who divorced her father when she was a child and she eventually moved with her mother and stepfather to Yonkers, New York. Marie wanted to pursue a career in journalism but her mother encouraged her to go into show business. She competed in numerous beauty pageants including Miss America. - Lawrence Pressman
Lawrence Pressman (born July 10, 1939 in Cynthiana, Kentucky, USA) is an actor, probably best known for roles on "Doogie Howser, M.D.", "Ladies Man", a recurring role on "Profiler", and as the titular character on "Mulligan's Stew". His first role was on the soap opera "The Edge of Night", and one of his first movie starring roles was in "Shaft". In addition to Doogie, Pressman has often portrayed a doctor, … - Joey Kern
Joseph Daniel Kern (born 5 September, 1976 in Kentucky) is an American actor. Raised in Northern Kentucky in such towns as Florence, Kentucky and Independence, Kentucky. He is most famous for his roles in the 2003 movies "Cabin Fever" and "Grind". - Joyce Compton
Joyce Compton (January 27, 1907 - October 13, 1997) was an American actress. Born Eleanor Hunt in Lexington, Kentucky, Compton appeared in a long string of mostly B-movies from the 1920s through the 1950s, often in the role of an attractive "dumb blonde", and frequently without credit. Among her better films were "Imitation of Life", "Magnificent Obsession", "The Awful Truth", "Rose of Washington Square", "They Drive by Night", … - Lee Roy Reams
Lee Roy Reams (born August 23, 1942) is an American musical theatre actor, choreographer, and director. Born in Covington, Kentucky, Reams earned a Masters of Arts degree and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He made his Broadway debut in "Sweet Charity" in 1966.
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