- Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. - Sidney Poitier
Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (born February 20 1927), is an Academy Award-winning Bahamian American actor, film director, and activist. He broke through as a star in acclaimed performances in American films and plays, which, by consciously defying racial stereotyping, gave a new dramatic credibility for black actors to mainstream film audiences in the Western world. - 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. - John Waters
John Waters (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, personality, visual artist and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. - 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", … - Camryn Manheim
Camryn Manheim is an Emmy Award-winning American movie and television actress born on March 8, 1961 in Caldwell, New Jersey. Her interest in acting was spurred on after she participated in a Renaissance fair during high school. She graduated from the University of California with a BFA degree, and then later went on to earn a Master's degree in Fine Arts from New York University. Before she pursued her acting career, she worked as a sign language interpreter for hospitals. - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor who obtained wide fame in 1999 for his role as Jim Levenstein in the "American Pie" series of teen films. - Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor. McCarthy grew up in Westfield, New Jersey before moving to Bernardsville, New Jersey and attending The Pingry School. He began acting at the age of 15. He attended New York University as a theater major. His first film role was the lead in the 1983 film "Class". His better known films include the Brat Pack films "St. Elmo's Fire" and "Pretty in Pink". - Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy "The Office," and Arthur Martin, assistant mortician in HBO's "Six Feet Under". - Jesse Metcalfe
Jesse Eden Metcalfe (born December 9, 1978 in Carmel Valley, California) is an American actor. - Gq
Gregory J. Qaiyum, better known by his initials, GQ, is an actor, writer and MC. A product of a German mother and Pakistani father, GQ was raised in Chicago, where he attended Loyola Academy (high school), and later studied at New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. Before graduating from the Experimental Theatre Wing of NYU, … - Andy Samberg
David Andrew J. Samberg (born August 18, 1978 in Berkeley, California), better known as Andy Samberg or Andy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. Samberg attended Berkeley High School, New York University (NYU) film school, and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and "Arrested Development", … - David Wain
David Wain (born August 1, 1969 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American writer, director, actor and comedian. He is best known for the feature film "Wet Hot American Summer", the 90s sketch comedy series "The State", and the Comedy Central show "Stella". Wain was a founding member of Stella, along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. - Michael Showalter
Michael Showalter (born June 17, 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director. He is one-third of the sketch comedy trio Stella. Showalter first came to recognition as a cast member on MTV's "The State" which aired from 1993 to 1995. He co-wrote (with David Wain) and starred in the cult classic "Wet Hot American Summer" (2001) and he wrote, directed, and starred in "The Baxter" (2005), with Michelle Williams, Justin Theroux and Elizabeth Banks. - Julie Benz
Julie Benz (born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American actress. Benz grew up in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Franklin Regional High School in 1991. She later graduated from New York University. Initially, Benz followed her mother and older siblings, Jeffrey and Jennifer, into the figure skating field, and competed in the 1988 US Junior Ice Skating Championship. Benz gave up her pursuit of ice skating after an accident. - Louis Gossett Jr.
Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. (born May 27 1936) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Academy Award winning American actor. He was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn and attended Abraham Lincoln High School, where he was "class president" and an academic and athletic achiever. A sports injury left him with no choice but to take an acting class, and at 16 he made his stage debut in the school's production of "You Can't Take It With You". - Bill Duke
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. - Billy Crudup
Um I never know what to write for these! Well, I'm Billy. I'm 37, and I'm an actor from New York. You probably don't know this, but I'm the voice on those mastercard commercials about how there's somethings in life u can't buy, but - Marin Hinkle
Marin Hinkle is also known to television audiences for portraying the role of Judy on "Once and Again." Her other television credits include the series WITHOUT A TRACE, "House," "ER" and "Law & Order," and the Hallmark movie of the week "Fielders Choice." Her feature film credits include "I Am Sam," "Frequency," "Dark Blue," "I'm Not Rappaport," "Friends with Money" and the upcoming "Fast Track," "Rails and Ties," "She Lived" and "What Just Happened?" - Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe (born July 5, 1966) is an American actress best known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", a spin-off of "Law & Order". Born in Newton, Massachusetts, Erbe is a veteran of film, stage, and television, and has been a working actress since she graduated from New York University in 1989. While an undergraduate student at NYU, Erbe was cast as Lynn Redgrave's daughter on the sitcom "Chicken Soup". - Drea de Matteo
Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1973) is an Emmy-winning American actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos" and as Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom "Joey". - Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman is a US journalist, blogger, actor, director and comedian. Friedman has a BFA from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He can speak using a High British, East London, Cockney, Irish, Yiddish, German and other dialects and has special skills that include Sketch Comedy, Juggling, Unicycling, Driver's License, Various Circus Skills, Baseball, Tennis, Roller & Ice Skating, Basketball, Water & Snow Skiing, Golf, and Stage Combat. - Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant was an Indian-born film producer, best known for the results of his famously long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions which included director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards. Ivory was Merchant's long-term life partner - Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon III (9 August, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. - Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb (December 8, 1911 - February 11, 1976) was an American actor. Born Leo Jacoby to a Jewish family in New York City, Cobb studied at New York University before making his film debut in "The Vanishing Shadow" (1934). He joined the Manhattan-based left wing Group Theatre in 1935. He probably is known best for creating the role of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's 1949 play "Death of a Salesman" under the direction of Elia Kazan. - Joseph C. Phillips
Joseph Connor Phillips (born January 17, 1962 in Denver, Colorado) is an African American actor. He is the son of Dr. Clarence Phillips, a distinguished Denver pediatrician. Phillips played Martin Kendall on the NBC sitcom, "The Cosby Show" from 1989 to 1991. A little side fact from the Cosby Show is that Mr. Phillips played a character named Daryl on the second season of the show. Daryl was the man that Dr. Huxtable wanted his daughter, Sondra, … - Kenneth Lonergan
Kenneth Lonergan (b. 16 October 1962) is a playwright, screenwriter, and director born in the Bronx, New York City, New York. He began writing in high school, later graduating from the NYU Playwriting Program. His first success came with the play "This is Our Youth" (1996), and was followed by "The Waverley Gallery" (1999), based on his grandmother's Greenwich Village Gallery, and later "Lobby Hero" (2002). - Debbie Matenopoulos
Two-time Emmy nominee Debbie Matenopoulos brings her upbeat personality to E! Entertainment Television's fast-paced nightly entertainment show Daily 10 , with cohosts Sal Masekela and Catt Sadler . Every weeknight, the Daily 10 brings pop-culture addicts the most up-to-date gossip, buzz and scoop. Graduating with a bachelor of arts in journalism from New York University, Debbie has been a talk-show host, panelist, actress and producer for more than ten years. - Martin Brest
Martin Brest (August 8, 1951) is an American filmmaker, producer, screenwriter, film editor, and actor. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1973 and from the AFI Conservatory with an M.F.A. degree in 1977. His film debut as a director/writer was with 1979's "Going in Style", which starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg. - Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter (born February 17, 1980) is an American actor, son of the late actor John Ritter and Nancy Morgan. - Harry Carey
Harry Carey (January 16, 1878 - September 21, 1947) was an American actor and one of silent film's earliest superstars. - Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King was the first-born child and first daughter of Coretta Scott King and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her younger siblings are Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Rev. Bernice Albertine King. - D. B. Sweeney
Daniel Bernard Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American stage, film and television actor. - Allen Covert
Allen Covert (born October 13, 1964, Palm Beach County, Florida) is an American comedian and actor. A longtime friend of Adam Sandler, he is a familiar face to Sandler fans, having appeared in twelve of Sandler's movies. He also frequently writes for Sandler's films and comedy albums. He raised his profile as Sandler's best friend and town limousine driver in "The Wedding Singer" (1998), … - Marc Forster
Marc Forster (born 1969 in Ulm, Germany) is a Swiss film director and screenwriter. - Ken Davenport
Ken Davenport attended Johns Hopkins University and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated with honors and was named a “University Scholar”. Immediately upon graduation, Ken began his career in the commercial theatre industry with management positions on the Broadway revivals of My Fair Lady with Richard Chamberlain and Grease with Rosie O’Donnell. While a member of the staff of The Charlotte Wilcox Company, … - Richard Holmes
Richard Homes (aka Rick Holmes) (born March 16, 1963 in Philadelphia, PA) is a contemporary American actor of the stage and screen. He received his BA from Gettysburg College and an MFA in acting from New York University. He is currently playing the role of Lancelot in the Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot. - Michael O'Keefe
Michael O'Keefe (born April 24, 1955) is an American film and television actor. O'Keefe was born Raymond Peter O'Keefe, Jr. in Mount Vernon, New York, the oldest of seven children in a devoutly Roman Catholic Irish American family. His father was a law professor at Fordham University, as well as also teaching at St. Thomas of Villanova College. O'Keefe attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and New York University, … - Dia Mirza
Diya Mirza Handrich or Dia Mirza, nicknamed "Dee", (born 9 December 1981 in Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian model and actress and Miss Asia Pacific for the year 2000. She was also second runner up in the Miss India 2000 beauty contest.
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