- 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. - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. - 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. - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - 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. - Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers, and has starred in many movies and TV shows such as "30 Rock" and is also noted for hosting "Saturday Night Live" 13 times. - Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, "Soap", and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers". - Bill Duke
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. - Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman (born June 22, 1959) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is noted for his numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs and on television, his biography of "Pistol" Pete Maravich, and his supporting comedic acting roles in "The X-Files", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Legally Blonde", and "50 First Dates". - John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer. - Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn (born May 11, 1959 in Albany, New York) is best known as one of the original video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson). Prior to joining MTV, Quinn graduated from Ossining High School in 1977 and NYU in 1981. She got the MTV job even though her prior on-camera experience had been limited to a few television commercials. "Rolling Stone" magazine readers selected her as "MTV's Best-Ever VJ" years later. - Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959 in Corona, Queens, New York) is an American stage, film and television actress. She was raised in Hauppauge, Long Island and Topsfield, Massachusetts. She won the first of two Tony Awards for Best Actress, along with a Drama League Award for her portrayal of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion" (televised on PBS' American Playhouse). She was awarded her second Tony and Drama League Awards, … - Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon III (9 August, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. - Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres. - Bryan Greenberg
Bryan Greenberg (born May 24, 1978) is an American actor, best known for his role as "Jake Jagielski" in the CW Network TV show "One Tree Hill". He currently stars in the ABC drama "October Road". - Skeet Ulrich
Bryan Ray "Skeet" Ulrich (born January 20, 1970) is an American actor who stars in the CBS drama "Jericho". - Bryce Dallas Howard
When he was a child actor, his father was very involved in his career, protecting him from unfair treatment, and being strict with him, (when necessary). As a director, he's known for being versatile and exploring different sorts of movies (e.g.comedy, drama, fantasy, etc.). He was awarded the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2003. - 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. - Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy and SAG winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in "Will & Grace" and for appearing in a series of film roles. - Ben Curtis
Benjamin Bowmar Curtis (born November 2, 1980 in Chattanooga, Tennessee), also known as the Dell Dude, is an American actor and former spokesman for Dell Computers. Curtis was prominently featured in the popular "Dell Dude" ads from 2000 to 2003. - Mara Wilson
Mara Elizabeth Wilson (born July 24 1987) is an award-winning American actress. - Bai Ling
Bai Ling (born October 10 1961) is a Chinese actress who has also attained fame in the United States. Bai, her surname, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. - Joshua Seth
Joshua Seth Freedman (born December 17, 1970) was born in Kent, Ohio and attended NYU film school. He has voiced several anime characters and is sometimes credited as "Jeremiah Freedman". In 2005, he became the announcer of "Kids WB's Aftertoons Show" block and "Saturdays: Unleashed" block. He also works as a comedy hypnotist and magician. - Beau Sia
Beau Sia (Born 1976, Philippines) is a Chinese Filipino-American slam poet. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When not participating in his high school's swim team, he spent time at Oklahoma City's only open mike night. From there, Sia went to New York University, where he attended the Tisch School of the Arts dramatic writing program. - 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". - Todd Solondz
Todd Solondz (born October 15 1959 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American screenwriter and independent film director known for his style of dark, thought-provoking socially conscious satire. Solondz is seen to explore the emotions of his characters to reveal the flaws in human nature. While his films are relatively uncommercial, Solondz has been critically acclaimed for his examination of the "dark underbelly of middle class American suburbia", … - Vincent Schiavelli
Vincent Andrew Schiavelli was an Italian-American character actor noted for his work in film, stage and television. He was often described as "the man with the sad eyes". - 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 - Idina Menzel
Menzel holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts . She is married to fellow performer Taye Diggs and appeared on Broadway in Wicked where she received her first Tony award (Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical). (Aug 2005) - Logan Marshall-Green
Logan Marshall-Green (born November 1, 1976) is an American actor known for his roles in "The O.C." and "24". He was born in Charleston, South Carolina and raised by his mother, Lowry Marshall, in Cranston, Rhode Island. He has a twin brother named Taylor. His mother wanted her name involved, hence the hyphenated combination of last names from his mother and father. As an actress, writer, director, and member of the Brown University theatre department, … - Jesse Merz
JESSE MERZ (Artistic Director, Meisner Acting Instructor) Jesse Merz grew up on an apple and pear orchard in Parkdale, Oregon and lived in New York City for 8 years. As an actor, he has performed off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway, in regional theatre, summer stock, feature films, on the radio and in 120 cities in 34 states on national tours. - 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". - 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. - Keith Powell
Keith Powell is an American television actor who is best known for his recurring role as Toofer on the NBC sitcom "30 Rock". He is also the Producing Artistic Director of Contemporary Stage Company, a summer theater in Wilmington, Delaware. He has produced/starred in/directed shows with Lynn Redgrave, Jasmine Guy, Keith David, Richard Easton, Duncan Sheik, and Sean Patrick Thomas. - Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French/American actress, singer and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. - 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". - Heather Burns
Heather Burns (born 1975 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. The daughter of a Chicago lawyer, she is engaged to fellow actor Ajay Naidu, her high school boyfriend. She is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Burns has appeared in a number of films with Sandra Bullock, including "Miss Congeniality" (2000) and "Two Weeks Notice" (2002). More recently she starred in the film "Bewitched" (2005). - Isabel Gillies
Isabel Gillies (born February 9, 1970) is an actress living in New York City. She received a BFA in Film from New York University in 1992, and she plays Elliot Stabler's wife, Kathy, in "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". Prior to assuming her role on "SVU", Gillies appeared in an episode of the original "Law & Order" series, "Bad Girl". She played a young woman who murders an undercover police officer, … - Jeff Nimoy
Jeff Nimoy (Born June 25, 1966) is a voice actor and writer. - Keith Hamilton Cobb
Keith Hamilton Cobb (born 28 January 1962) is an American actor, best known for his roles as the ruthless Tyr Anasazi in the science-fiction series "Andromeda" from 2000 to 2002 and Noah Keefer on "All My Children" from 1994 to 1996. He also appeared in two episodes of the "Beastmaster" television series in 1999. Cobb was born in North Tarrytown, New York; he graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1987.
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