- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1924 – April 5, 2008[1][2]) was an American Academy Award-winning film actor. In a long career, Heston was known for playing heroic roles, such as Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas , Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. - Denise Richards
Denise Lee Richards (born February 17, 1971) is an American actress and former fashion model. She came to fame in the late 1990s, after a string of films that highlighted her sex appeal, including "Wild Things" and "The World Is Not Enough". Richards is also known for her marriage to (and divorce from) actor Charlie Sheen, son of The West Wing's Martin Sheen. - John Anderson
John Anderson (October 20, 1922 - August 7, 1992) was an American actor and director born in Clayton, Illinois. He was known for several roles, including his recurring role in "MacGyver" as Harry Jackson, the title character's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including several episodes of "Gunsmoke" in various roles, and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" as Virgil Earp. - Everett McKinley Dirksen
Dirksen was born in Pekin, Illinois -about 120 miles southwest of Chicago, Illinois -where he grew up on a small farm. He served in the United States Army during World War I . His political career began in 1927 , when he was elected to the Pekin city council. After an unsuccessful first run for the House of Representatives 1929 , he was elected to that body in 1932 . - John Malkovich
John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. - Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American supermodel, MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover girl, and actress. - Paul Thomas
Philip Toubus (born 17 April 1947, Winnetka, Illinois) is a prolific pornographic actor (porn star) and director who started his career as a mainstream actor on Broadway and in Hollywood, his most notable role being Peter in "Jesus Christ Superstar". He has appeared under many pseudonyms, including Paul Thomas. He later became a director in the porn industry. He is a member of the AVN Hall of Fame - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year," "Favorite Leading Man," or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. - Bob Newhart
George Robert "Bob" Newhart (born September 5, 1929 in Oak Park, Illinois) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Grammy Award-winning American stand-up comedian and actor. - Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois. His family later moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. He was something of a rebel, playing in bands but paying little attention to school. Gary and some friends tried out for "West Side Story" as a lark, but Gary was hooked on acting for life by closing night. Gary credits his love for theatre to his drama teacher, Barbara Patterson . - Karen Black
Karen Black (born July 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, screenwriter, singer and songwriter. - Calista Flockhart
Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1997-2002 television show, "Ally McBeal". She now plays Sally Field's feuding daughter, Kitty Walker, on the hit ABC drama, "Brothers & Sisters", as a political campaign advisor. - Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5 1940), best known by her stage name Raquel Welch, is an American actress of Spanish-Bolivian and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1960s as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. - Jane Lynch
Jane Lynch (born on July 14, 1960, in Dolton, Illinois) is an American writer, actress and comedian. Raised in Illinois, she received her bachelor's degree in theater from Illinois State University and her MFA from Cornell University, also in theater. Her extensive theater background involved touring with The Second City comedy troupe and playing Carol Brady in "The Real Live Brady Bunch". She also wrote and starred in the award-winning play "Oh Sister, … - Betty White
Betty White (January 17, 1922) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress with a career spanning 60 years, often referred to as "The first lady of Television" and "America's Sweetheart". She also appeared in radio programs, in movies and the theater, in commercials, and was also a talk show host and a game show host, but is best known for her roles in the sitcoms "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls". - Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (November 11, 1909 - July 11, 1973) was an Irish-American Oscar and Bafta award-nominated actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He most often played hardened cops and ruthless villains throughout his career. - Marlee Matlin
Marlee Matlin served in the form of keynote speaker in the seventh annual Diversity Conference of the Alabama Community College System Human Resources Management Association (ACCSHRMA) that took place on October 2-3 at Shelby-Hoover Campus of Jefferson State Community College. Marlee Beth Matlin is an American deaf actress who was born in Morton Grove, Illinois as on August 24, 1965. She is the daughter of Donald Matlin who deals in automobile and Libby Matlin . - William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born August 29 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection" in the early 1970s. - Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins (born December 2 1953 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. Jenkins earned a degree in drama from Illinois Wesleyan University before relocating to Rhode Island. He worked as an actor with Trinity Repertory Theater Company in Providence, Rhode Island before breaking into film with a bit part in "Feasting with Panthers" (1974), a television movie. - Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18 1920 - January 14 2006) was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. - Aidan Quinn
Aidan Quinn is an Irish American actor also known as Quinner. Aidan Quinn was born in Rockford, Illinois. He was raised in Chicago and Rockford by devoutly Catholic parents as well as in Dublin, Offaly, and other places in Ireland. His father was a professor in literature and his mother a homemaker; he has an older brother, Declan Quinn, who is a noted cinematographer. Aidan Quinn got his start in the Chicago theatre at age 19. He trained at Piven Theatre Workshop. - Amy Carlson
Amy Lynn Carlson (born July 7, 1968 in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American actress best known for playing Josie Watts on "Another World" and Alex Taylor on "Third Watch." Most recently, she played Kelly Gaffney on the short-lived NBC courtroom drama, "Law & Order: Trial by Jury". - Chris Klein
Frederick Christopher Klein (born March 14 1979) is an American movie actor. He is perhaps best known for his "American Pie" role, in which he played Chris "Oz" Ostreicher. - Bob Fosse
Bob Fosse (June 23, 1927 - September 23, 1987) was a musical theater choreographer and director, and a film director. He won an unprecedented eight Tony Awards for choreography, as well as one for direction and was also awarded the recipient of an Academy Award for Best Director in 1972 for "Cabaret" - Kim Novak
Kim Novak (born February 13, 1933) is an American actress who was one of America's most popular movie stars in the late 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" (1958). - Keke Palmer
Keke Palmer (born Lauren Keyana Palmer on August 26, 1993) is an American SAG Award-nominated NAACP Image Award-winning actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film "Akeelah and the Bee" and as Mary in "Jump In!". - Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor (born February 20 1967) is an American film and television actress. Taylor, the second youngest of six children, was born in Glencoe, Illinois to Marie, a professional babysitter, and Park Taylor, a folk artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a "warm family environment" and has described herself as being a "tomboy" and "a bit of a searcher" during her childhood. She graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, … - Fred MacMurray
Fredrick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 - November 5, 1991) was an actor who appeared in over one hundred movies and a highly successful television series during a career that lasted from the 1930s to the 1970s. MacMurray's most famous role was in the 1944 film noir "Double Indemnity", in which he starred with Barbara Stanwyck. Later in life, he became better known as the slightly stammering Steve Douglas, the widowed patriarch on the CBS TV series, … - Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Nichols on December 28 1932) is an American singer, actress, and voice actress. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting. Her most famous role may be that of communications officer Lieutenant Uhura aboard the USS "Enterprise" in the popular "Star Trek" television series, as well as the succeeding motion picture spinoffs, … - Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (14 June 1909 - 14 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning American actor and acclaimed folk music singer and author. He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the movie The Big Country. - Don Siegel
Donald Siegel (October 26, 1912 - April 20, 1991) was an influential American film director and producer. His name appeared in the credits of his films as both Don Siegel and Donald Siegel. Born in Chicago. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge and found work in Warner Bros. film library, rising to become head of the Montage Department. - Margaret Smith
Margaret Smith is a four-time Emmy Award winning standup comic, actor, writer, and producer originally from suburban Illinois. She is known for her deadpan and often acerbic delivery. Smith currently writes and produces for "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". She also recently published her first book, a partial memoir about becoming a single mother, entitled, "What Was I Thinking". Smith has won the American Comedy Award for Best Female Stand Up Comedian, … - Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad (born Conrad Robert Falk on March 1, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, although the year is still subject to question), is an American film and TV actor and director. He is primarily known for the 1965-1969 television series "The Wild Wild West", in which he played the title character, James West. The movie remake starring Will Smith was based on this series, and Conrad was openly critical of the film. - David Bruce
David Bruce was an American film actor. Born in Kankakee, Illinois he signed a movie contract with Warner Brothers in 1940. The Northwestern graduate appeared in many movies from the 1940s until 1955 when Bruce decided to give up acting. The 6' 1" actor appeared in over 60 movies including "Flying Tigers" (1942), "Christmas Holiday" (1944) and "Lady on a Train" (1945). He is the father of singer-songwriter Amanda McBroom, who wrote the song "The Rose", … - Tyler Christopher
Tyler Christopher (born Tyler Christopher Baker on November 11, 1972 in Joliet, Illinois, USA) is an American actor, best known for his role as Nikolas Cassadine on the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital", a character which he originated in 1996 and has played off and on ever since. He was nominated for Daytime Emmys for the role in 1998, 2005, and 2006. He is sometimes credited as Tyler Baker. - Justin Hartley
Justin Hartley (born January 29, 1977 in Knoxville, Illinois) is an American actor who is most popular for having portrayed the role of Fox Crane on the NBC daytime drama "Passions" and Oliver Queen/Green Arrow in "Smallville". - Bob Odenkirk
Robert "Bob" Odenkirk (born October 22, 1962, in Naperville, Illinois) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. Odenkirk is best known as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO sketch comedy series, "Mr. Show". - Terry Kinney
Terry Kinney (born January 29, 1954) is an American actor and a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company with Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry. Kinney was born in Lincoln, Illinois to Elizabeth L. and Kenneth C. Kinney, who worked for a tractor company. Kinney had a role in the 1988 film "Miles from Home", which featured many cast members of Steppenwolf and was directed by Sinise. He will be directing Richard Greenberg's new play "Well Appointed Room".
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