- Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (born November 19 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie "Menace on the Mountain", followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, …
- Meryl Streep
Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing.
- Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD.
- Ron Livingston
Ronald Joseph Livingston (born June 5, 1967) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his lead role as a disaffected corporate employee in the cult comedy "Office Space", a sardonic writer and subject of a short-time obsession of Carrie Bradshaw in a cult TV-series "Sex and the City", and as Captain Lewis Nixon in the miniseries "Band of Brothers".
- Angela Bassett
Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an Emmy and Academy Award-nominated, and Golden Globe winning American actor who has built her career with biographical film roles portraying women in American culture.
- Paul Giamatti
Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born June 6, 1967) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. He began acting in films during the 1990s, appearing in several supporting performances, and came to fame in the early 2000s, after his roles in the well-received films "American Splendor", "Sideways" and "Cinderella Man".
- Julie Harris
Julie Harris (born Julia Ann Harris on December 2, 1925) is a distinguished American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
- Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948, in New York City) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
- Frances McDormand
Frances Louise McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress.
- Edward Norton
Edward H. Norton (born August 18, 1969) is a critically acclaimed two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American film actor and director.
- Jennifer Beals
Jennifer Beals is probably best known for her starring role in Flashdance (1983) whilst still a freshman studying American literature at Yale. ... Over the years, Jennifer Beals has had starring roles in a number of telemovies and feature films. In her most recent film, The Grudge 2 (2006), Jennifer Beals stars alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar and finds herself at the mercy of the grudge's wrath.
- Dick Cavett
Drunken female heckler: I pay your salary, buddy, with my hard-earned money.<br />Cavett: And I'm tempted to guess at your profession. His most famous line from this period may have been the following: He also played Mr. Kelly's in Chicago and the Hungry i in San Francisco, during which latter time he met Lenny Bruce, about whom Cavett said: In 1965, Cavett did some commercial voiceovers, …
- Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver on October 8, 1949 in New York City) is an Oscar-nominated American actress.
- 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, …
- Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance (born March 12, 1960) is an American actor. He formerly starred as a regular in the NBC television series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" as Ron Carver. Vance was born in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Detroit Country Day School, a fee-paying university-preparatory school, and later graduated from Harvard with a bachelor of arts degree and the Yale School of Drama with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
- Lewis Black
Lewis Niles Black is a Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, and actor. He is known for his regular appearances on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" delivering his “Back in Black” commentary segment, in which he ridicules (often simulating a nervous breakdown or rant) recent trends and cultural phenomena. He currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
- David Duchovny
Biography : Rocketing from obscure bit player to TV's resident uber-sex god thanks to his role as FBI agent Fox Mulder on The X-Files , David Duchovny can claim to have had one of the 1990s' more remarkable career metamorphoses.
- Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the long-running NBC television series "Law & Order". He has also appeared in many feature films.
- Melissa Errico
Melissa Errico (born March 23, 1970) is an American actress and singer. Born in Manhattan, Errico moved to Manhasset on Long Island at an early age. As a child, she studied ballet and gymnastics but was sidelined by a knee injury. Her interest in theater was sparked when she appeared in a Girl Scouts musical production and was cemented by a summer spent at an arts camp.
- Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. He is well remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films, his tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff.
- Henry Winkler
Henry Franklin Winkler is a Golden Globe Award-winning actor, director, producer and author who is most famous for his role as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the popular sitcom "Happy Days" (1974–1984). Winkler gained national fame for his auto mechanic-greaser role as "The Fonz", starting out as a minor character at the show's beginning but having top billing by the time the show ended.
- Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang (born 2 January 1949) is a contemporary playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.
- Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster (born April 26, 1980) is an American actress, best known for her roles in "The Fast and the Furious", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning", "The Faculty", "D.E.B.S.", and Annapolis.
- Josh Saviano
Joshua D. "Josh" Saviano (born March 31, 1976) is an American actor who played Kevin Arnold's best friend, Paul Joshua Pfeiffer, in the situation comedy, "The Wonder Years". His role in "The Wonder Years" was one of his few television or movie roles. Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie "The Wrong Guys" in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie "Camp Cucamonga" in 1990.
- Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach (born Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. on June 2, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical roles. Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father Stacy Keach, Sr. His brother, …
- Chris Noth
Christopher David Noth (born November 13 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an actor in American film, stage and television. He is best known for two long-running television roles: as Det. Mike Logan on "Law & Order", and as "Mr. Big" on "Sex and the City". Noth (pronounced to rhyme with both) is a name which has its origins in the European area of Alsace-Lorraine (on the border of France and Germany), …
- Charles S. Dutton
Charles S. Dutton (born January 30 1951) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor and director.
- Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress.
- Liev Schreiber
Liev Schreiber (born October 4, 1967) is a Tony Award-winning American actor. He became known during the late 1990s and early 2000s, having initially appeared in several independent films, and later mainstream Hollywood films, including the "Scream" series.
- David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce (born April 3, 1959) is a Screen Actors Guild, Tony and Emmy Award-winning American actor, best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Niles Crane on the sitcom "Frasier".
- Ernie Hudson
Ernie Hudson (born December 17 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Winston Zeddemore in the "Ghostbusters" film series, and as Sergeant Albrecht in the cult movie The Crow.
- James Keach
James Keach (born December 7, 1947 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is the younger brother of actor Stacy Keach.
- Bronson Pinchot
Bronson Alcott Pinchot is an American actor. Pinchot was raised in southern California but after graduating from South Pasadena High School found his way back East to attend Yale University by way of a scholarship. He began college studying painting but became interested in acting.
- Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. (born November 30, 1918 in New York, New York) is an American actor best known for his roles in the television series "77 Sunset Strip" and "The F.B.I." and for several appearances as "Dandy Jim Buckley" on TV's "Maverick". Zimbalist is the son of violinist Efrem Zimbalist, Sr. (1889-1985) and operatic soprano Alma Gluck (1884-1938). Like his father before him he is also an accomplished violinist and a composer.
- Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff (January 13, 1949 - August 27, 1997) was a popular NBC executive who was credited with turning around NBC's low prime time reputation with such hit series as "Hill Street Blues", "L.A. Law", "ALF", "Family Ties", "The Cosby Show", "Cheers", "Miami Vice", "The Golden Girls", "Knight Rider", "The A-Team", "St.
- Marcus Giamatti
Marcus Giamatti (born October 3, 1961 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. He is the son of former Yale University president and Major League Baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and older brother of actor Paul Giamatti who attended Choate Rosemary Hall and then Yale University. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he received the Carole Dye Award for Excellence in Acting.
- Joan van Ark
Joan Van Ark (born June 16, 1943) is an American actress. She is known for playing Larry Hagman's sister-in-law Valene Clements Ewing beginning on "Dallas" and then on the spin-off series, "Knots Landing", as Michele Lee's best friend and neighbor.
- 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", …
- James Whitmore
James Allen Whitmore (born October 1, 1921) is an American film actor.
- Rodger Kamenetz
Rodger Kamenetz is a poet and author. He was born in Baltimore in 1950, educated at Yale, Stanford and Johns Hopkins University. He currently lives in New Orleans and holds a dual appointment as Professor of English and Professor of Religious Studies at LSU. He is best known as the author of The Jew in the Lotus (Harper San Francisco, 1994) which is the authoritative account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the Dalai Lama. It is an international best seller.