Famous Jewish actors and actresses
list of Famous Jewish actors and actresses And few singers
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1.
Natalie Portman
Actress, V for Vendetta
Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem, the
only child of a doctor father (from Israel) and an artist mother (from
Cincinnati, Ohio), who also acts as Natalie's agent. She left Israel for
Washington, D.C., when she was still very young. After a few more
moves, her family finally settled in New York, where she still lives to
this day...
2.
Scarlett Johansson
Actress, Lost in Translation
Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City to an Ashkenazi Jewish mother, Melanie Sloan and a Danish father, Karsten Johansson. Scarlett showed a passion for acting at a young age and starred in many plays. She has a sister named Vanessa Johansson, a brother named Adrian, and a twin brother named Hunter Johansson born three minutes after her...
3.
Mila Kunis
Actress, Black Swan
The talented Milena "Mila" Markovna Kunis
was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, USSR (now independent Ukraine), to a
Jewish family. Her mother, Elvira, is a physics teacher, her father,
Mark Kunis, is a mechanical engineer, and she has an older brother named
Michael. After attending one semester of college between gigs...
4.
James Franco
Actor, 127 Hours
Best known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks,
James Franco was born in Palo Alto, California on April 19, 1978.
Growing up with his two younger brothers, James graduated from Palo Alto
High School in 1996 and went on to attend UCLA, majoring in English. To
overcome his shyness, he got into acting while studying there...
5.
Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor, Donnie Darko
Jacob "Jake" Gyllenhaal (last name
pronounced jill-en-hall) was born in Los Angeles, California, on
December 19, 1980 to director Stephen Gyllenhaal and producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and is the brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, who played his sister in Donnie Darko. His father is of partial Swedish heritage and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage...
6.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor, There Will Be Blood
Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis was born in London, England, the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis (aka Nicholas Blake) (Poet Laureate of England) and his second wife, Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema, head of the famous Ealing Studios...
7.
Dustin Hoffman
Actor, Kramer vs. Kramer
Graduated from Los Angeles High School in
1954. Went to Santa Monica City College where he dropped out after a
year due to bad grades. But before he did, he took an acting course
because he was told that "nobody flunks acting." Also received some
training at Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Decided to go into acting
because he did not want to work or go into the service...
8.
Harrison Ford
His father was Irish, his mother
Russian-Jewish. He was a lackluster student at Maine Township High
School East in Park Ridge Illinois (no athletic star, never above a C
average). After dropping out of Ripon College in Wisconsin, where he did
some acting and later summer stock, he signed a Hollywood contract with
Columbia and later Universal...
9.
Jennifer Connelly
Actress, Requiem for a Dream
Jennifer Connelly grew up in Brooklyn
Heights, just across the Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan, except for the
four years her family spent in Woodstock, New York. Back in Brooklyn
Heights, she attended St. Ann's school. Her father was in the garment
industry, and a close friend of the family was an advertising
executive...
10.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Actor, Inception
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's remarkable
transition from child to adult actor deserves kudos, and then deserves
to be let go. (Yes, he was participating in a children's musical group
at age 6, when another child's manager suggested he should try doing it
professionally). After several years of smaller television roles...
11.
Adam Sandler
Actor, Grown Ups
Adam Sandler was born on September 9,
1966, in Brooklyn, New York, to Judy and Stanley Sandler. At 17, he took
his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he
spontaneously took the stage at a Boston comedy club. He found he was a
natural comic. He nurtured his talent while at New York University...
12.
Shia LaBeouf
Actor, Transformers
Shia Saide LaBeouf was born June 11, 1986,
in Los Angeles, California, to Jeffrey LaBeouf and Shayna Saide, and is
an only child. His parents are divorced, and he lives with his mom in
Los Angeles. He started his career by doing stand-up comedy around
places in his neighborhood, such as coffee clubs...
13.
Woody Allen
Writer, Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935,
as Allen Konigsberg, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 15, he started
selling one-liners to gossip columns. After working a while as a stand
up comedian, he was hired to write What's New Pussycat in 1965. He directed his first film a year later, What's Up, Tiger Lily? in 1966.
14.
Ben Stiller
Actor, Zoolander
Ben Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York, New York to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.
It's not surprising that Ben Stiller has followed in his family's
footsteps. Ben's parents made no real effort to keep their son away from
the Hollywood lifestyle and he grew up among the stars...
15.
Kate Hudson
Actress, Almost Famous
Almost everyone who has spent time with
Kate Hudson -including directors, family members, co-stars and
interviewers - is quick to comment on her ability to light up a room.
Through some combination of a winning smile, solid work ethic, and good
old-fashioned talent, the young actress has gone from indie beginner to
Vanity Fair cover girl in just three years...
16.
Jesse Eisenberg
Actor, The Social Network
Jesse was born in Queens, New York, and
raised in New Jersey. His parents moved to the US from Poland. His
father ran a hospital before moving on to become a college professor.
His mother is a professional clown, performing at children's birthday
parties. He has two sisters. He attended East Brunswick high school...
17.
Adrien Brody
Actor, The Pianist
The son of Hungarian-born photographer
Sylvia Plachy and retired history professor Elliot Brody, Adrien Brody
grew up an only child in the Woodhaven section of Queens, New York,
where he accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice. He
credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the camera...
18.
Joaquin Phoenix
Actor, Gladiator
Born in Puerto Rico to Children of God
missionaries John Bottom Amram and Arlyn Dunetz Jochebed (a.k.a. Heart),
Joaquin was the middle child in a brood of five. As a youngster he took
his cues from older siblings River Phoenix and Rain Phoenix, changing his name to Leaf to match their earthier monikers...
19.
Chris Pine
Actor, Star Trek
Born in Los Angeles, California, Chris Pine comes from a show business family. He is the grandson of actress Anne Gwynne and Max M. Gilford, who was President of the Hollywood Bar Association. His parents are actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford. His sister, Katherine Pine, also acts. Pine attended Oakwood School in the San Fernando Valley...
20.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Actress, Cruel Intentions
Eating in a local restaurant, she was
discovered by an agent when she was 4 years old. Soon after she was
making her first movie, An Invasion of Privacy.
Besides a long list of movies, she has also appeared in many TV
commercials and on the stage. Her breakthrough came with TV-series Swans Crossing. During...
21.
Andrew Garfield
Actor, The Social Network
Although born in Los Angeles, Andrew
Garfield grew up in England; his mother is English and they moved back
there when he was three years old. He went to a private school (known as
a "public" school in England), the City of London Freemen's School, and
began acting in youth theatre productions while he was still at school.
At 19, he went to the Central School of Speech and Drama...
22.
Seth Rogen
Actor, Pineapple Express
A talented actor, comedian and writer,
Seth Rogen has come a long way from doing stand-up comedy as a teen.
Rogen was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, to Mark and Sandy Rogen.
He attended Vancouver Talmud Torah Elementary School and Point Grey
Secondary School (although he dropped out of high school to move to Los
Angeles) and was known for the stand-up comedy he performed at Camp
Miriam...
23.
Paul Rudd
Actor, Role Models
Paul Rudd traveled with his family during
his early years because of his father's airline job. He attended Shawnee
Mission West High School in Overland Park, Kansas, and then enrolled at
the University of Kansas in Lawrence, majoring in theater. He graduated
from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-West...
24.
Jack Black
Actor, Kung Fu Panda
Jack Black was born in California, and attended the University of California at Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he was a member of Tim Robbins's acting troupe and it was through this collaboration that led to his 1992 film debut in Bob Roberts. Although he was just a background voice in his first film...
25.
Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23rd, 1989 to Alan Radcliffe and Marcia Gresham. He began performing in small school productions as a young boy. Soon enough, he landed a role in David Copperfield, as the young David Copperfield. A couple of years later, he landed a role as Mark Pendel in The Tailor of Panama...
26.
Dianna Agron
Actress, I Am Number Four
Dianna Elise Agron was born in Savannah,
Georgia, to parents Ronald and Mary Agron. She grew up in a middle class
family, in Savannah, before moving to Texas, and later, San Francisco,
California, due to her father's career as a general manager for Hyatt.
Dianna and her brother, Jason, were raised Jewish, and she graduated
from Burlingame High School with honors...
27.
Logan Lerman
Actor, 3:10 to Yuma
Logan Wade Lerman was born in Beverly
Hills, California. His mother Lisa (Goldman), is his manager, and his
father, Larry, is a businessman. He has two siblings, Lucas (a brother),
and Lindsey (a sister). Logan and his family are Jewish. Logan wanted
to become an actor at an early age. So he told his mother of his desire
to be an actor when he was 2 1/2 years old...
28.
Harvey Keitel
Actor, Reservoir Dogs
Came to prominence in the early films of Martin Scorsese after working in theatre for around ten years, particularly Mean Streets and Taxi Driver.
Faded into anonymity in the eighties even though he turned in some
impressive performances in films by some of America's leading directors.
He re-emergered into star status with his role as Mr...
29.
Evan Rachel Wood
Actress, The Wrestler
Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father is Ira David Wood III, and her mother is Sara Wood. She has two older brothers: Dana, a musician, and Ira David Wood IV.
Evan and her brothers sometimes performed at Theatre In The Park in
Raleigh, North Carolina, where her father is the executive director and
founder of the theatre...
30.
Isla Fisher
Actress, Rango
Isla Fisher was born to Scottish parents
in the Middle Eastern country of Oman. Her family moved to Australia in
the early 1980s. From a young age Isla showed an interest in both acting
and writing. At nine years old she was appearing in Australian TV
commercials. She landed some small parts in the Australian TV series Bay Cove (aka "Bay City")...
31.
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Actress, The Dark Knight
Maggie Gyllenhaal made her debut in her father's Stephen Gyllenhaal film Waterland and emerged as a full-blown star in Secretary.
Her sweet looks and conduct result in a subtle on-screen style that
emerges from the character she plays, whether the part is large or
small. A graduate of Columbia University...
32.
Elizabeth Banks
Actress, Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Actress Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth
Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in Western
Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She
describes herself as having been seen as a "goody two-shoes" in her
youth who was nominated to be the local Harvest Queen. Banks left home
to attend college at the University of Pennsylvania...
34.
Neve Campbell
Actress, Scream
Born and raised in Canada by a Scottish
father and Dutch mother, Neve Campbell first came to our TV screens in
the hit Drama series Party of Five.
Described as TV's most believable teenager, her first major film role
came in the form of innocent victim "Sidney Prescott" in Scream, the film which re-defined the slasher genre...
35.
Michelle Trachtenberg
Actress, All My Children
Michelle Trachtenberg grew up in Brooklyn
and started her acting career young; she began appearing in commercials
at the age of three. She continued to act and dance through her school
years, making regular television appearances from the age of 10. She
landed a recurring role in the kids' TV show...
36.
Emmy Rossum
Actress, Pilot
It would seem that 2004, the year of her
18th birthday, will be remembered as pivotal for Emmy Rossum due to her
appearance in two very different films, The Day After Tomorrow and The Phantom of the Opera.
Emmy's performance in the latter film gained her a Golden Globe
nomination, and should assure that she will be a memorable presence in
many films to come...
37.
Kirk Douglas
Actor, Spartacus
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star
of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the
name give to his best-selling 1988 autobiography) of Russian-Jewish
ancestry to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as
Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born in Amsterdam, New York...
38.
Amanda Bynes
Actress, Easy A
Amanda Laura Bynes was born on April 3,
1986, in Thousand Oaks, California. The youngest of three children, she
became interested in acting and performing from the age of three, when
she would say her older sister Jillian's lines with her while she
performed in plays. It was from then on that her family and friends knew
that she would be a star someday...
39.
Lauren Bacall
Actress, The Big Sleep
Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske
on September 16, 1924, in New York City. Her parents were middle-class,
with her father working as a salesman and her mother as a secretary.
They divorced when she was five. When she was a school girl, Lauren
originally wanted to be a dancer, but later, she became enthralled with
acting...
40.
Eric Dane
Actor, Marley & Me
Eric Dane is an American actor known as "Dr. Mark Sloan" on Grey's Anatomy and as a co-star in Marley & Me and Valentine's Day.
He was born Eric William Dane on November 9, 1972, in San Francisco,
California. He is the older of two brothers. His father is an architect
and interior designer based in San Francisco...
41.
Mélanie Laurent
Actress, Inglourious Basterds
Mélanie Laurent was born in Paris, France.
She is the daughter of Annick, a ballet teacher, and Pierre, a voice
actor, who is most recognized for the french version of The Simpsons. She also has a younger brother, Mathieu. In 1998, she was visiting the set of Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar with a friend when she caught the attention of Gerard Depardieu...
42.
Adam Brody
Actor, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Born and raised in San Diego, California,
Adam Brody spent a lot of his teen years hanging out with his friends,
having fun and surfing. Upon graduation, he convinced his parents to
allow him to attend college in Los Angeles. However, instead of
enrolling in school, he hired an acting coach, signed with a personal
manager and soon landed the lead in the NBC movie-of-the-week...
43.
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Actress, You Don't Mess with the Zohan
Emmanuelle Chriqui was born in Montreal,
Quebec, to Moroccan immigrants. Her family moved to Toronto when she was
2 years old. At the age of 10, Chriqui appeared in a McDonald's
commercial. She moved to Vancouver guest-starring in series such as Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Forever Knight, Once a Thief, and PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal...
44.
Lisa Kudrow
Actress, Analyze This
Hardly the dumb blonde of Romy and Michele's High School Reunion,
Lisa Marie Diane Kudrow was born in Encino, California on July 30,
1963. Her father, Lee, was a physician and her mother, Nedra, was a
travel agent. Lisa was raised in Tarzana and played varsity-level tennis
in high school and college, and is a pool shark who has mastered some
of the more difficult trick shots (so beware)...
45.
Alicia Silverstone
Actress, Clueless
Alicia Silverstone was born on October 4, 1976, in San Francisco, California, the youngest of three children to Monty Silverstone,
a real-estate investor, and Didi Silverstone, a former flight
attendant. Alicia's career began at the tender age of six when her dad
took some photos of his young daughter...
46.
Amanda Peet
Actress, 2012
Amanda Peet grew up in New York with her
older sister and their parents; Charles, a lawyer; and Penny, a social
worker. She made an unconventional stage debut at the age of three, when
she jumped onto the stage during a play. Yet, despite this early start,
she later studied acting more as a hobby than anything else...
47.
Goldie Hawn
Actress, Death Becomes Her
Goldie Jean Hawn was born in Washington
D.C. to Laura Steinhoff (a jewelry shop/dance school owner) and Edward
Rutledge Hawn (a band musician). She has a sister, Patricia, and a
brother, Edward, who died before she was born. She was raised in the
Jewish religion. Her mother was Jewish and the daughter of Hungarian
immigrants...
48.
Barbra Streisand
Self, Barbra: The Concert
Barbra Streisand is an American singer,
actress, director and producer and one of the most successful
personalities in show business. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942,
from a middle class Jewish family, she grew up dreaming to become an
actress (or even an actress / conductor, as she happily describes her
teenager years in one of her concerts)...
50.
Alyson Hannigan
Actress, American Pie
Alyson, born in Washington DC, began her
acting career in Atlanta at the young age of 4 in commercials sponsoring
such companies as McDonald's, Six Flags, and Oreos. She is a seasoned
television actress veteran, guest starring in Picket Fences, Roseanne, Touched by an Angel and the The Torkelsons before starring in her most notorious role yet in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as "Willow Rosenberg"...
51.
Liev Schreiber
Actor, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Liev (pronounced Lee-ev) is the son of Heather, a painter, and Tell Schreiber, a theatrical actor with a small role in The Keeper.
When he was one, the family moved from San Francisco to Canada. His
parents were divorced when he was five. He and his mother moved to New
York, where she drove a cab...
53.
James Caan
Actor, The Godfather
A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life
and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average
rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him
from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York born and
bred (the son of a butcher). The athletically gifted Caan played
football at Michigan State University while studying economics...
54.
Jeff Goldblum
Actor, Jurassic Park
Born Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum on October 22,
1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor Jeff Goldblum began his career
on the New York stage after moving to the city at the age of seventeen.
Possessing his own unique style of delivery, Goldblum made an impression
on moviegoers with little more than a single line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall...
55.
Seth Green
Actor, Austin Powers in Goldmember
Seth was born in Philadelphia and has
worked non-stop as an actor in film and television since he was seven.
Seth and Matthew Senreich created/executive produce/write and direct the
Emmy-winning "Robot Chicken" via their Stoopid Monkey Prods. Green
provides the voice of Chris on "Family Guy" and is consulting on
Lucasfilm's upcoming animated comedic "Star Wars" series.
56.
Sara Paxton
Actress, The Innkeepers
Sara Paxton was born in Woodland Hills,
California. At a young age she began acting in television commercials.
She was cast in her first film at the age of 8 as a child at school and
at the party in Liar Liar. Her first major television series role was on the WB's Greetings from Tucson. She filmed Sleepover in fall 2003 (released July 9...
57.
Tony Curtis
Actor, Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the
eldest of three children to immigrant parents, Emanuel and Helen
Schwartz. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal
education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks", and learned
from a young age that the only person who ever had his back was
himself...
58.
Sacha Baron Cohen
British actor and comedian Sacha Baron
Cohen is the middle son of an Israeli mother and Welsh father. He was
educated at a private school, Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School in
Hertfordshire, and went on to read History at Christ's College,
Cambridge. Baron Cohen had an interest in performing from an early
age...
59.
Alan Arkin
Actor, Little Miss Sunshine
Alan Arkin is an Academy Award-winning
American actor who is also an acclaimed director, producer, author,
singer and composer. He was born Alan Wolf Arkin on March 26, 1934, in
Brooklyn, New York, into a family of Jewish intellectuals from Russia
and Germany. In 1946 the Arkins moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles...
60.
Richard Dreyfuss
American leading man who has played his
fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers, Richard
Dreyfuss worked his way up through bit parts (The Graduate, for one) and TV before gaining attention with his portrayal of Baby Face Nelson in John Milius' Dillinger. He gained...
61.
Edward G. Robinson
Actor, Double Indemnity
Edward G. Robinson arrived in the United
States at age ten, and his family moved into New York's Lower East Side.
He took up acting while attending City College, abandoning plans to
become a rabbi or lawyer. The American Academy of Dramatic Arts awarded
him a scholarship, and he began work in stock...
62.
Matthew Broderick
Actor, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
A slight comic actor chiefly known for his
boyish charm, Matthew Broderick was born on March 21, 1962, in New York
City to actor James Broderick and Patricia Broderick.
Matthew initially took up acting at New York's upper-crust Walden
School after being sidelined from his athletic pursuits (football and
soccer) by a knee injury...
63.
Jason Isaacs
Actor, Peter Pan
Jason Isaacs is the 3rd of 4 children. He
studied Law at Bristol University and graduated in 1985 with a degree in
law but decided to study acting. Whilst at Bristol University he
directed and/or appeared in over 20 productions. Whilst at the Central
School of Speech and Drama he met his wife Emma and graduated from there
in 1989.
64.
Patricia Arquette
Actress, True Romance
With her expressive blue eyes, soft,
Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from
hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of
the most underrated, talented actresses of her generation. Though she's
been working for years, she's always stayed just under the radar of
true stardom...
65.
Debra Winger
Actress, Terms of Endearment
Mary Debra Winger was born in Cleveland,
Ohio, in 1955 to a Jewish family. Her maternal grandparents called her
Mary, while her parents called her Debra. (Her father named her Debra
after his favorite actress, Debra Paget).
The family moved to California when Debra was five. She fell in love
with acting in high school but kept it a secret from her family...
66.
Zach Braff
Actor, Garden State
Born and raised in New Jersey. Attended
Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. Graduated from
Northwestern University with a BA in film.
67.
Martin Landau
Actor, Ed Wood
Martin Landau, the Oscar-winning character
actor, was born on June 20, 1928, in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of
17, he was hired by the New York Daily News as a staff cartoonist and
illustrator. In his five years on the paper, he served as the
illustrator for Billy Rose's "Pitching Horseshoes" column...
70.
David Schwimmer
Actor, Madagascar
Born in New York and raised in Los
Angeles, Schwimmer was encouraged by a high school instructor to attend a
summer program in acting at Northwestern University. Inspired by that
experience, he returned to Northwestern where he received a bachelor's
degree in speech/theater. In 1988, along with seven other Northwestern
graduates, he co-founded Chicago's Lookingglass Theatre Company.
71.
Billy Crystal
Actor, Monsters, Inc.
Billy Crystal was born on March 14, 1948
in Long Beach, Long Island, New York. He was the youngest of three sons
born to Jack and Helen Crystal. His father was a well-known concert
promoter who co-founded Commodore Records and his mother was a
homemaker. With his father in the music business, Billy was no stranger
to some of the top performers of the time...
72.
Jon Favreau
Actor, Iron Man
Initially an indie film favorite, actor
Jon Favreau has progressed to strong mainstream visibility into the
millennium and, after nearly two decades in the business, is still
enjoying character stardom as well as earning notice as a
writer/producer/director. Of Jewish and French/Italian descent, the
amiable...
73.
William Shatner
William Alan Shatner was born in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada. Handsome actor who - despite his detractors - has
notched up an impressive 50-years-plus in front of the camera, most
recently displaying comedic talent, and being instantly recognizable to
several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain
James T...
74.
Eli Roth
Producer, Grindhouse
Eli Roth began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight, after watching Ridley Scott's Alien
and vomiting, and deciding he wanted to be a producer/director. With
his brothers and friends, ketchup for blood and his father's power
tools, he made over fifty short films before attending film school at
N.Y.U....
75.
Alison Brie
Actress, Scream 4
Alison Brie was born in Hollywood,
California and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of South Pasadena.
Interested in acting at an early age, she began her career performing in
community theater shows at the Jewish Community Center in Los Feliz.
Her very first role was "Toto" in the Wizard of Oz. After...
76.
Gina Gershon
Actress, Face/Off
Since making her unaccredited debut as a dancer in Beatlemania
(1981), Gina Gershon has established herself as a character actress and
one of the leading icons of American camp. For it was fourteen years
after her movie debut that Gina made movie history as the predatory
bisexual who was the leading light of a Las Vegas leg-line in director Paul Verhoeven's kitsch classic Showgirls...
78.
Julianna Margulies
Actress, Snakes on a Plane
Born in Spring Valley (near New York City)
as youngest of three daughters of a former dancer in American Ballet
and an advertising writer. Until beginning high school in New Hampshire
at 14, she lived several years with her family in Paris and in England.
Obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College...
79.
Ginnifer Goodwin
Actress, Walk the Line
Ginnifer Michelle Goodwin was born on 22nd
May 1978, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bright and talented, Ginnifer carried
her love for theater and acting through her high school years. She
graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in 1996 and spent a year at
Hanover before going to Boston University where she received her BFA in
Acting...
81.
Michael Vartan
Actor, One Hour Photo
Michael Vartan came to international
acclaim with his starring role as agent "Michael Vaughn" for five
seasons on the worldwide hit ABC series, Alias. This fall, Vartan stars in the new ABC/Warner Bros. Television series, Big Shots.
He plays James "Walker", the moral center of the drama, which revolves
around four high-powered CEOs who socialize at the same exclusive golf
club...
82.
Rosanna Arquette
Actress, Pulp Fiction
Rosanna Arquette has acted extensively in
film and television, and has come to be acknowledged as an actress of
rare depth and scope. Growing up in a family of actors, she began at a
young age. Her first big break came as a teenager with a role in the
Movie of the Week The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, which starred Bette Davis...
83.
James Maslow
Actor, Big Time Movie
James (David) Maslow was born in New York,
U.S. and raised in La Jolla, California. He graduated from CoSA in 2007
in the musical theater department. He's an American singer, actor and
dancer. He's a member of the music group Big Time Rush. He can play the
drums, piano and guitar. Best known for his role in Big Time Rush...
84.
Bryan Greenberg
Actor, Friends with Benefits
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Bryan Greenberg
discovered acting at an early age. He went on to perform with several
other theater companies. Greenberg made his small screen debut with a
1997 guest appearance on Law & Order and made his big screen debut the following year in A Civil Action, starring John Travolta...
85.
Jerry Seinfeld
Writer, Seinfeld
Born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents
Kalman and Betty. Moved with family, including sister Carolyn, to
suburban Massepequa, Long Island at young age. Dad, who had terrific
sense of humor, was a commercial sign maker. Attended Oswego College in
upstate New York but transferred to Queens College back in New York
City...
86.
Ellen Barkin
Actress, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Offbeat, unconventionally pretty, and
utterly mesmerizing, Ellen Barkin was born in 1954 of Jewish parentage,
the daughter of a chemical salesman and hospital administrator. Raised
in the South Bronx and Queens, New York area, she wanted to be an
actress as early as her teens and was eventually accepted into
Manhattan's High School of the Performing Arts...
87.
Lisa Edelstein
Actress, What Women Want
Lisa Edelstein began her professional
acting career while studying theater at N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the
Arts. After performing in a wide range of productions off and on
Broadway, authored and performed the AIDS-related musical "Positive Me"
at Ellen Stuart's La Mama, in Manhattan. It was one one of the earliest
AIDS-related theater productions...
88.
Kyra Sedgwick
Actress, Phenomenon
Kyra was born in New York and attended private schools. She made her professional acting debut at 16 on the soap opera Another World.
A graduate of USC, Kyra has pursued a career that includes stage,
screen and television. Kyra's reason for becoming an actor is that it
gives her the ability to be compassionate and to walk around in the
shoes of others...
90.
Shiri Appleby
Actress, Swimfan
Shiri Appleby was born in Los Angeles,
California, on December 7, 1978. The daughter of Jerry and Dina Appleby,
Shiri has been acting since the age of 4, landing jobs in several
commercials for Cheerios, M&Ms, and Taco Bell. Her first television
job was on the soap Santa Barbara. Next came various roles on thirtysomething...
93.
Pink
Self, Get Him to the Greek
Alecia "Pink" Moore was born in
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and later raised in Philadelphia. Her parents,
James and Judy Moore, divorced when she was very young. As a child, all
Pink wanted out of life was to become a singer, and she was driven by
the music of Madonna, Mary J. Blige, 4 Non Blondes...
94.
Leonard Nimoy
Actor, Star Trek
Raised in a Boston tenement, acting in community theaters since age eight, Leonard Nimoy did not make his Hollywood debut until he was 20, a bit part in Queen for a Day and another as a ballplayer in the perennial Rhubarb. After two years in the United States Army, he was still getting small...
96.
David Arquette
Actor, Never Been Kissed
The youngest of five, David Arquette was born in Virginia and is part of the illustrious Arquette family whose work has spread over many generations. Like siblings Rosanna Arquette, Patricia Arquette, Richmond Arquette and Alexis Arquette, David started working at an early age and his first major role came...
97.
Peter Falk
Actor, The Princess Bride
Peter Falk was born in 1927 in New York
City. At the age of three, his right eye was surgically removed due to
cancer. He graduated from Ossining High School, where he was President
of his class. His early career choices involved becoming a certified
public accountant, and he worked as an efficiency expert for the Budget
Bureau of the state of Connecticut before becoming an actor...
98.
Marlee Matlin
Actress, Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Beth Matlin was born to Don and
Libby Matlin; she was their third child. Marlee lost much of her hearing
at the age of 18 months. That didn't stop her, though, from acting in a
children's theater company at age 7; she was Dorothy in "The Wizard of
Oz." Her deafness never held her back. As an adult she said it so
eloquently: "I have always resisted putting limitations on myself...
99.
Corey Feldman
Actor, Stand by Me
Corey Scott Feldman began his career at
the age of three, starring in a Clio Award-winning McDonald's commercial
and has sustained a 35-year career as a steadily working actor, with
more than 80 films under his belt. Corey began his career in
guest-starring roles on television series such as Mork & Mindy...
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