- Harry Connick Jr.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, actor, and humanitarian. The music encompasses jazz, some of it very much in the style of the crooners of the 1940s and early 1950s, funk and blues. - Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". - Master P
Percy Robert Miller (born April 29, 1967 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known as Master P is an entrepreneur, businessman, marketer, and rap artist. He is the founder and CEO of No Limit Enterprises, an entertainment and financial conglomerate." Fortune" magazine listed Master P as one of the wealthiest men under the age of 40 in North America, with a net worth of $361 million in 1999 - Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Witherspoon is frequently cited by media to be one of the most beautiful leading ladies in today's cinema and her off screen life is widely reported. Her first role was in the made for television movie "Wildflower" (1991), … - Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry (born September 13, 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an African-American playwright and actor. He is best known for producing popular melodramas for the stage and screen that feature African-American characters in moral quandaries. His best-known character, played by himself, is Mabel Simmons, … - John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is a Golden Globe-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor, perhaps best known for his roles on the television series "Roseanne", and in several Hollywood films. - Patricia Clarkson
Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. - John Carroll
John Carroll (17 July 1906 - 24 April 1979) was an American actor and singer. He was born Julian LaFaye in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carroll performed in several small roles in films under his original name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in "Hi, Gaucho!". He appeared in several Western films in the 1930s, including the role of Zorro in "Zorro Rides Again" in 1937. - Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. - Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson (born October 14, 1952) is an American actor and magician. Born in Newport, Rhode Island, Anderson was a street magician before becoming an actor. He is famous for the role of Judge Harry Stone on the 1984-1992 television series "Night Court". In addition to eight appearances on "Saturday Night Live" between 1981 and 1985, Anderson had a recurring guest role as con man "Harry the Hat" on "Cheers", toured extensively as a magician, … - Bob Clark
Benjamin "Bob" Clark (August 5 1939 - April 4 2007) was an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer best known for directing and writing the script with Jean Shepherd to the 1983 holiday film "A Christmas Story". His earliest success was the 1982 hit film "Porky's" and he also wrote and directed its sequel "Porky's II: The Next Day". - Richard Simmons
Richard Simmons (12 July, 1948) is a fitness expert who promotes weight-loss programs, most famously through a line of aerobics videos and television programs. He is known for his humor and flamboyant personality. - John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American Emmy Award-winning film and television actor. His best known roles include Dan Fielding on the series "Night Court" and Mike McBride in "McBride". He is expected to join the cast of "Boston Legal" in fall 2007. - Jay Thomas
Jay Thomas (born Jon (or John) Thomas Terrell on July 12, 1948 in Kermit, Texas) is an American actor and disc jockey. He was raised in New Orleans, where he attended Jesuit High School, New Orleans. He and his wife Sally live in Southern California and are parents to two sons. - Jeffrey Hunter
Jeffrey Hunter was a film and television actor. He was born Henry Herman McKinnies, Jr. in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, and began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. He served stateside in the United States Navy in World War II, then studied drama at Northwestern University. In 1950, while a graduate student in radio at the University of California, … - Michael Wolff
Michael Wolff is an American jazz pianist, composer and actor. - Dorothy Lamour
Dorothy Lamour was an American motion picture actress. - Bryant Gumbel
Bryant Charles Gumbel (born September 29, 1948), is an American television personality for news and sports programs. He is best known for his 15-year stint as co-anchor of NBC's "The Today Show". He is the younger brother of veteran sports broadcaster Greg Gumbel - Romeo Romeo
Percy Romeo Miller, Jr. (born August 19, 1989 in New Orleans, Louisiana), better known by his stage name Romeo or formely Lil' Romeo, is an American rapper and actor. He is the son of rapper, producer and entertainment mogul Master P and nephew of C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker. He records southern rap hip-hop music on his father's Guttar Music label. He has so far released three studio albums and two compilation albums. - Anthony Mackie
Anthony Mackie (born September 23, 1979 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor. Mackie has been featured in fourteen films, three television series and acted in several Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including "Talk" by Carl Hancock Rux for which he won an Obie award in 2002. He appeared in Eminem's movie "8 Mile" as Papa Doc and with Denzel Washington in the remake of "The Manchurian Candidate". - Carl Weathers
Carl Weathers (born January 14, 1948) is an American actor, and former professional American and Canadian league football player. He is perhaps best known for his role as Apollo Creed in the "Rocky" series of films. - Garrett Morris
Garrett Morris (b. February 1, 1937) is an American comedian and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. Morris was a church-choir singer from his youth, trained at the Juilliard School of Music, and soloed early in his career with the Harry Belafonte singers. He performed in a number of Broadway musicals, including "Hallelujah, Baby!" and "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death". - Clyde Drexler
Clyde Austin Drexler (born June 22, 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a former National Basketball Association shooting guard. A ten-time All-Star and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was named one of basketball's fifty greatest players by the NBA. Drexler won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 and an NBA championship in 1995 with the Houston Rockets. He is currently the color commentator for Rockets home games. - John McConnell
John McConnell, also known as John "Spud" McConnell (born November 13, 1958) is an actor and a radio personality in New Orleans, Louisiana. McConnell was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He has acted in more than 40 movies. John is a character actor who appears regularly in movies set or filmed in the Gulf Coast region. He has also appeared in countless plays including a run Off-Broadway in the one man show, … - Kitty Carlisle Hart
Kitty Carlisle Hart (also billed as Kitty Carlisle) (September 3 1910 - April 17 2007) was an American singer, actress and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best known for having been a regular panelist on the television game show "To Tell the Truth". The entertainer was a tireless advocate for the arts, serving 20 years on the New York State Council on the Arts. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. - Barry Shabaka Henley
Barry Shabaka Henley (born September 15, 1954) is an American character actor. He was born in New Orleans. Henley is a fixture in many films, most often the films of director Michael Mann, having worked with the director four times. Henley had the part of Herbert Muhammed in "Ali". In "Collateral" he made an impression as a sensitive jazz musician living on borrowed time. - Ben Turpin
Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869 - July 1, 1940) was a comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films. - Paul Burke
Paul Burke (born July 21, 1926) is an American actor best known for his lead roles in the 1960s television programs Naked City and Twelve O'Clock High. Burke was born in New Orleans, the son of Marty Burke, a boxer who fought Gene Tunney and later owned a string of nightclubs in the New Orleans French Quarter. After training at the Pasadena Playhouse, Burke's film career began with a small role in the movie "Golden Girl". - Shae Marks
Christy Shae Marks (born June 1, 1972) is an American model and actress. - Fred Weller
Frederick Weller (born 1966, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor. He was initially successful as a stage actor, which is still his biggest passion. He has also appeared in several well-received films, such as "The Business of Strangers", "The Shape of Things", and the 2000 drama/miniseries, "The Beach Boys: An American Family", as Brian Wilson. - Paul Carr
Paul Carr (born February 1, 1934 - died February 17, 2006) was a character actor who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carr was a very busy actor for some fifty years in television, film, and on-stage, amassing an enormous list of credits. - Rhonda Shear
Rhonda Shear (born November 12, 1954) is a United States television program host and actress. Shear was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a Jewish American family. Before she became famous, she earned titles in several beauty contests, including holding the titles of Miss Louisiana USA 1975 for Miss USA and that of Miss Louisiana for both the Miss World and the Miss International pageants. Among her other titles was Queen of the Floral Trail Society. - Vance Degeneres
Vance DeGeneres (born September 2, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a performer, producer, and writer of several television shows. The son of Elliot DeGeneres, a salesman, and Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Pfeffer. He is of French, English, German and Irish descent and is also the brother of actress and comedian Ellen DeGeneres. Vance DeGeneres was a correspondent on "The Daily Show" from 1999 to 2001. - George Washington Dixon
George Washington Dixon (1801? –2 March 1861) was an American singer, stage actor, and newspaper editor. He rose to prominence as a blackface performer (possibly the first American to do so) after performing "Coal Black Rose", "Zip Coon", and similar songs. He later turned to a career in journalism, during which he earned the enmity of members of the upper class for his frequent allegations against them. - China Lee
China Lee (born September 2, 1942) is an American model and actress. She was Playboy's Playmate of the Month for the August 1964 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. She was the first Asian American Playmate. Lee was born in New Orleans, Louisiana to parents who were born in China and were married before they emigrated to the United States. She has three brothers and four sisters. - Taylor Miller
Linda Taylor Miller (born August 18, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American soap opera actress, best known for her role as Nina Cortlandt on "All My Children", which she played from 1979 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1989. Miller returned in cameos in 1994, 1995, and 1996. Her pairing with Peter Bergman's Cliff was the first supercouple on the soap. During a break from "All My Children", she also played Sally Frame on "Another World" (1985-1986). - Corey Johnson
Corey Johnson (born John Johnson on May 17, 1961) is an American actor largely active in the United Kingdom. Johnson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His films include "Saving Private Ryan", Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of "Hellboy", and the 2005 Ray Bradbury film "A Sound of Thunder". 1999 was a break out year for Johnson first he played tomb raider Daniels in "The Mummy", then the bungling, … - Marco St. John
Marco St. John (b. Mark S. Figueroa on May 7,1939, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American actor who has starred in many films and on television. He is best known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 hit film "Thelma and Louise". Marco is also well known in the horror fan community as Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning". - Ray Walston
Ray Walston (December 2 1914 - January 1 2001) was a stage, television and feature film character actor who played the title character on the situation comedy "My Favorite Martian" and Judge Henry Bone on the drama series "Picket Fences". - Katherine Lanasa
Katherine La Nasa (born December 1, 1966) is an American actress. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, she was trained as a ballet dancer. She has appeared in guest roles on numerous television series, including "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "ER", "Justice", and "Seinfeld". She portrayed recurring character Yvonne Dunbar on "Judging Amy" and Kim McPherson on "The Guardian".
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