- Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 - June 29, 2003) was an iconic American star of film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence. A screen legend, Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from twelve nominations (Meryl Streep currently holds the record for most overall acting nominations with fourteen).
- 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.
- Katherine Heigl
Katherine Marie Heigl (born November 24 1978) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. Heigl is known for her roles on the TV series "Grey's Anatomy" and "Roswell" as well as in the film "Knocked Up".
- Justin Long
Justin Jake Long (born June 2 1978) is an American actor, best known for his performances in the films "Jeepers Creepers", "Waiting...", "Accepted", "Dodgeball", "Live Free or Die Hard", the TV series "Ed" and his personification of a Macintosh computer in Apple's 2006/2007 "Get a Mac" advertisement campaign.
- Ed Begley
Edward James Begley (March 25, 1901 - April 28, 1970) was an Academy Award winning American film actor.
- Linda Blair
Linda Denise Blair (born January 22 1959 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress most famous for her role as the possessed child in the 1973 film "The Exorcist" and its sequel, "Exorcist II: The Heretic".
- Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". He was also the executive producer of the short-lived series, "The Winner".
- John Davis Lodge
John Davis Lodge was a Republican, was governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. He was also an actor and U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Argentina and Switzerland.
- Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools.
- Linda Evans
Linda Evans (born Linda Evanstad on November 18, 1942 in Hartford, Connecticut) is a Golden Globe-winning American actress known primarily for her roles on soap operas and television. At 23, she arose to fame as Barbara Stanwyck's daughter and Lee Majors's sister, Audra Barkley, on the 1960s western, "The Big Valley" (1965-1969) and later as John Forsythe's younger compassionate wife, Krystle Carrington, on the 1980s prime-time television soap opera, …
- James van der Beek
James Van Der Beek (born March 8, 1977 in Cheshire, Connecticut) is an American television and film actor, best known for his role as Dawson Leery in "Dawson's Creek".
- Amy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her roles in the television series "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy".
- Gerald Green
Gerald Green (April 8, 1922 - August 29, 2006) was an American author, journalist, producer and director.
- Lauren Ambrose
Lauren Ambrose (born Laura Anne D'Ambruoso, 20 February 1978) is an American film and television actress, best known for portraying the character Claire Fisher on the popular HBO drama "Six Feet Under".
- Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany is an American film, stage, and television actress. Known especially for her two-time Emmy Award winning performance as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show "China Beach" (1988–91), Delany has been active in film, television, and stage since the late 1970s. Delany was born in New York City. After growing up in Connecticut, she attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, then Wesleyan University.
- Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12 1951 or 1954) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor.
- Jane Curtin
Jane Therese Curtin (born on September 6, 1947 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States) is an American actress and comedienne. Curtin is well known for being one of the Not Ready For Prime Time Players. Curtin was also in a "Saturday Night Live" inspired movie, "The Coneheads".
- Gene Pitney
Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17 1940 - April 5 2006) was an American singer and songwriter. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed considerable success on both sides of the Atlantic, and charted more than 20 Top 40 hit singles. He was also an accomplished guitarist, pianist, drummer, and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
- Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Gregory Brandis (April 13, 1976 - November 12, 2003) was an American film and television actor.
- William Gillette
William Hooker Gillette ("b." July 24, 1853, Hartford, Connecticut; "d." April 29, 1937, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American actor, playwright and stage-manager. Gillette was a major stage actor in the United States in the early twentieth century. While he was not the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes, he became best known for that role until his retirement in 1932.
- Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin (born Julius Dassin on December 18, 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist. One of eight children of a Russian-Jewish barber, Dassin started as a Yiddish actor with the ARTEF ("Yiddish Proletarian Theater") company in New York, but became well-known for his noir films "Brute Force", "The Naked City", and "Thieves' Highway" in the 1940s.
- Evan Ross
Evan Olaf Ross is an African-American actor. The son of singer Diana Ross and Norwegian businessman Arne Næss Jr. he began acting in the late 2000s, appearing in the films "ATL" and "Pride", and having been cast in several other upcoming roles.
- Christy Carlson Romano
Christy Carlson Romano (born Christy Michelle Romano on March 20, 1984) is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the sitcom "Even Stevens" and the animated series "Kim Possible", in which she is the voice of Kim Possible, as well as garnering a considerable boost in fandom for providing the voice of Yuffie Kisaragi in "Kingdom Hearts" and "Final Fantasy VII Advent Children".
- Cassie
Casandra Ventura (born August 26, 1986 in New London, Connecticut), professionally known as Cassie, is an American R&B and pop singer, model, and actress. She is best known for her 2005 single "Me & U", which became a hit in 2006. Cassie is trilingual, being fluent in English and conversational in Tagalog and Spanish.
- Ted Knight
Ted Knight (December 7, 1923-August 26, 1986) was an American actor.
- Lisa Lampanelli
Lisa Lampanelli (born Lisa Lampugnale, July 19, 1961, in Trumbull, Connecticut), often called "the Loveable Queen of Mean", is an American stand-up comedian and insult comic.
- Madeline Zima
Madeline Rose Zima (born September 16, 1985) is an American actress. She is mostly known for her six years as Grace Sheffield on the TV Series "The Nanny"
- Vernon Washington
Vernon Alfred Washington is an African-American actor who has starred in film and on television. He is best known for his roles in the 1984 science fiction movie "The Last Starfighter" as Otis and in the 1985 horror movie "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning" as George. His best known television role is in the 1979 miniseries "Roots: The Next Generations" as Rev. Mills.
- Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born on September 29 1962) is an American actor. Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, grew up in New Jersey, Bart made his Broadway debut in "Big River" as Tom Sawyer in 1987. Additional theatre credits include Jonathan in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice musical "King David", Harlequin in "Triumph of Love", Snoopy in the Broadway revival of "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" (for which he won the Drama Desk Award and a Tony), …
- Michael Learned
Michael Learned is a four-time Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actress best known for her role as Olivia Walton on "The Waltons".
- Annabella Sciorra
Annabella Gloria Philomena Sciorra (born March 24, 1964) is an American film and stage actress who has starred in a number of films and television series.
- Joyce Cohen
Joyce Cohen (born November 25, 1948 in West Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress. She is known for plaing Mrs. Gallagher in the Disney Channel Original Movie "Read it and Weep". She has also played: *Ms Falstaff in High School Musical *Dr. McAllister in Pixel Perfect Both of which are Disney Channel Original Movies bringing her total to 3.
- Fred Norris
Eric Fred Norris (born Fred Leo Nukis on July 9, 1955) is an American radio personality on The Howard Stern Show. Norris is a comedic writer, musician and mimic, and has worked with Stern longer than any other staff member.
- Paul Lieberstein
Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born February 22, 1967) is an Emmy Award-winning American screenwriter and television producer who is most widely known as a supporting cast member on the NBC sitcom "The Office".
- Gabriel Mann
Gabriel Mann (born May 14, 1972) is an American actor and former male fashion model. He has performed in many films, including "The Life of David Gale" and "The Bourne Supremacy". Mann originally filmed "Exorcist: The Beginning", directed by Paul Schrader, but when the producers rejected the Shrader version of the film, Mann's character, Father Francis, had to be recast because of a scheduling conflict.
- Raviv Ullman
Raviv Ullman, formerly known by his stage name Ricky Ullman, is an Israeli-born American actor. He is perhaps best known for playing Phil Diffy, the main character in the Disney Channel television series "Phil of the Future".
- Daniel Cosgrove
Daniel Cosgrove (born December 16, 1970, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. Daniel Cosgrove married Marie Cosgrove on October 18, 1997. They share three children; Lily (b. 2000), Esme (b. 2003), and Ruby Willow (b. 2005). He grew up in Branford, Connecticut, but later moved to New York City to join the cast as Scott Chandler on the ABC soap opera "All My Children" in 1996 which made him become popular.
- Gary Burghoff
Gary Burghoff was the only actor in Twentieth Century Fox's hit film M*A*S*H who was asked to reprise his character for the extremely successful television series. Burghoff's performance as the naive, but omniscient Radar O'Reilly was rewarded with an Emmy as Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 1977...
- Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph (born on December 30, 1956, in Waterbury, Connecticut,) is a Tony Award-nominated Jamaican-American actress and singer.
- Chuck Mitchell
Chuck Mitchell (November 28, 1927 - June 22, 1992) was an American actor from Connecticut. He was well known for his role as "Porky" in the raunchy 1982 cult classic movie "Porky's". Mitchell reprised his role in the 1985 sequel "Porky's Revenge". Mitchell is also remembered as the mean owner of the restaurant called "Pig Burgers" in the 1985 hit comedy "Better Off Dead". He starred in the TV soap opera "General Hospital" as Big Ralph, …