Other Greats In Media

1. Anne Rice

Writer | Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice began life in New Orleans as Howard Allen O'Brien, named after her father, as the second of four daughters of Howard and Katherine Allen O'Brien. She decided to call herself "Anne" when she enrolled in first grade at the Redemptorist Catholic School. Her mother (who had long suffered from...

2. Stephen King

Writer | Maximum Overdrive

Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...

3. Guillermo del Toro

Writer | El laberinto del fauno

Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Raised by his Catholic grandmother, del Toro developed an interest in filmmaking in his early teens. Later, he learned about makeup and effects from the legendary Dick Smith (The Exorcist (1973)) and worked on making his ...

4. Don Johnson

Actor | Miami Vice

Best known for his starring role as Det. Sonny Crockett on the hugely successful TV series Miami Vice (1984), Don Johnson is one of the stars who really defined the 1980s. As James "Sonny" Crockett he went toe-to-toe with drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, assassins, illegal arms-dealers and crooked...

5. Quentin Tarantino

Writer | Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.

In January of...

6. H.P. Lovecraft

Writer | Color Out of Space

Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine and others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most ...

7. Amal Clooney

Self | Forced from Home

Amal Clooney was born on February 3, 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon. She has been married to George Clooney since September 27, 2014. They have two children.

8. Lars von Trier

Writer | Dancer in the Dark

Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...

9. Guy Ritchie

Director | Sherlock Holmes

Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...

10. Chris Isaak

Actor | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Chris Isaak was born on June 26, 1956 in Stockton, California, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Wild at Heart (1990) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

11. Alex Winter

Actor | Destroy All Neighbors

Alex Winter began his career as a child actor; co-starring roles include the Broadway productions of "The King & I" with Yul Brynner, and "Peter Pan" with Sandy Duncan, and the American premiere of Simon Gray's "Close of Play" at the Manhattan Theater Club, directed by Lynne Meadow.

After attending ...

12. Rob Zombie

Writer | Grindhouse

Robert Bartleh Cummings, more famously known as Rob Zombie, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on January 12, 1965. He is the oldest son of Louise and Robert Cummings, and has a younger brother, Michael David (aka Spider One; b. 1968), who is the lead singer of Powerman 5000. Growing up, Zombie ...

13. David Lynch

Writer | Twin Peaks

Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...

14. Sofia Coppola

Actress | The Godfather Part III

Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...

15. Spike Lee

Director | Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended ...

16. Ridley Scott

Producer | The Martian

Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...

17. David Slade

Director | Hard Candy

David Slade was born on September 26, 1969 in the UK. He is a director and producer, known for Hard Candy (2005), The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) and 30 Days of Night (2007).

18. Ray Bradbury

Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater

Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.

He was...

19. Philippa Gregory

Writer | The Other Boleyn Girl

Philippa Gregory was born on January 9, 1954 in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a writer and producer, known for The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), The White Queen (2013) and A Respectable Trade (1998). She is married to Anthony Mason. She was previously married to Paul Carter and Peter Chislett.

20. Paul Thomas Anderson

Director | Punch-Drunk Love

Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...

21. Harvey Weinstein

Producer | Shakespeare in Love

Harvey Weinstein was born on March 19, 1952, in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA, the first of two boys born to Max and Miriam Weinstein. He is a film producer, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Gangs of New York (2002). He has been married and divorced ...

22. Ken Follett

Writer | Eye of the Needle

Follett's parents belonged to the Plymouth Brethren, a Protestant sect similar to the Baptists. He was forbidden to watch television, radio or cinema. He showed a strong penchant for literature in his early youth, when he read the works of H.G. at the age of seven. Wells and Ian Flamming discovered...

23. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

24. John Grisham

Writer | Runaway Jury

A graduate of Mississippi State University and Ole Miss Law School, John Grisham obtained his law degree in 1981 and practiced law for about 10 years, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. He was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1983 and served until...

25. Philip K. Dick

Writer | Blade Runner

Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of...

26. George R.R. Martin

Writer | Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO ...

27. Andrew Ross Sorkin

Writer | Billions

Andrew Ross Sorkin was born on February 19, 1977. He is a writer and producer, known for Billions (2016), Untitled Game Stop Project and I Am Not Satoshi. He has been married to Pilar Queen Sorkin since June 9, 2007. They have two children.

28. Neil Gaiman

Writer | Good Omens

Neil Gaiman is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. He is best known for the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.

As a child and a teenager, Gaiman read the works of C. S. ...

29. Sara Shepard

Writer | Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

Sara Shepard was born on April 8, 1977 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019), Pretty Little Liars (2010) and Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (2022).

30. Bryan Fuller

Writer | Pushing Daisies

Self professed Star Trek geek who watched and loved the Trek series "Deep Space Nine" and set out to write for them. At the time, Star Trek had an open script submission policy and Fuller contributed a spec, leading to a pitching opportunity. When he had sold a couple of stories to Deep Space Nine,...

31. Michael Green

Writer | Logan

Michael Green was born on February 18, 1973 in Mamaroneck, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Logan (2017), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and Blue Eye Samurai (2023). He is married to Amber Noizumi. They have two children.

32. Ryan Murphy

Producer | Glee

Born November 9, 1965 in Indianapolis, Indiana, US as Ryan Patrick Murphy, he is an American writer, director, and producer, responsible for creating such hits as Nip/Tuck (2003), Glee (2009) and American Horror Story (2011). His mother, J. Andy Murphy, was a writer and communications worker and ...

33. Frank Miller

Writer | Sin City

Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier, Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the '70s and '80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His ...

34. Bill O'Reilly

Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Political commentator Bill O'Reilly was born on September 10, 1949 in New York City, to Winifred Angela (Drake) and William James O'Reilly. He was born into a classic Irish Catholic family and attended private Catholic schools.

O'Reilly attended Marist College and studied history. Bill was also in ...

35. Martin Dugard

Writer | A Warrior's Heart

Martin Dugard is known for A Warrior's Heart (2011), Killing Reagan (2016) and Killing Kennedy (2013).

36. Michael Bay

Producer | Armageddon

A graduate of Wesleyan University, Michael Bay spent his 20s working on advertisements and music videos. His first projects after film school were in the music video business. He created music videos for Tina Turner, Meat Loaf, Lionel Richie, Wilson Phillips, Donny Osmond and Divinyls. His work won...

37. Sam Esmail

Producer | Mr. Robot

Sam Esmail was born on September 17, 1977 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Mr. Robot (2015), Homecoming (2018) and Leave the World Behind (2023). He has been married to Emmy Rossum since May 28, 2017. They have two children.

38. Sebastian Junger

Director | Restrepo

Sebastian Junger was born on January 17, 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Restrepo (2010), The Perfect Storm (2000) and Korengal (2014). He has been married to Daniela since 2002.

39. Randall Emmett

Producer | The Irishman

Randall Emmett was born on March 25, 1971 in Miami, Florida, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Irishman (2019), Silence (2016) and Boss Level (2020). He was previously married to Ambyr Childers.

40. Todd Phillips

Producer | Joker

Todd Phillips is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.

Growing up on Long Island, New York, Todd Phillips fell in love with feature film teen comedies made in the 1980s, and claims they were his biggest influence in becoming a filmmaker. While studying film at New York University, ...

41. Brent Bolthouse

Actor | Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth

Brent Bolthouse was born on December 18, 1969 in Sierra Madre, California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992), This is not dying (2017) and The Immortals (1995).

42. Vince Neil

Soundtrack | The Dirt

Vince Neil was born on February 8, 1961 in Hollywood, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for The Dirt (2019), Friday Night Lights (2004) and Hot Tub Time Machine (2010). He has been married to Lia Gherardini since January 9, 2005. He was previously married to Heidi Mark, Sharise ...

43. LL Cool J

Actor | Deep Blue Sea

L.L. Cool J was born James Todd Smith in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, the son of Ondrea Griffith and James Louis Smith, Jr.

Todd, as he was called, did not have a very happy childhood. At the age of four, he saw his mother and grandfather shot by his own father. After they recovered from their ...

44. Calvin Klein

Actor | 30 Rock

Calvin Klein was born on November 19, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and costume designer, known for 30 Rock (2006), Players (1979) and Fashion Aid (1985). He was previously married to Kelly Rector and Jayne Centre.

45. Sia

Soundtrack | Sia: Chandelier

Sia Kate Isobelle Furler (born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer, songwriter, record producer and music video director. She started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s in Adelaide. In 1997, when Crisp disbanded, she released her debut studio album titled ...

46. Fergie

Soundtrack | Nine

Fergie was born Stacy Ann Ferguson on March 27, 1975 in Hacienda Heights, California, to Theresa Ann "Terri" (Gore) and John Patrick Ferguson, both schoolteachers. Her ancestry includes German, English, Irish, Scottish, Swedish, and Luxembourgish. When she was a teenager, her parents divorced, ...

47. Bernard Cornwell

Writer | The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die

Bernard Cornwell was born on February 23, 1944 in London, England, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die (2023), Sharpe (1993) and Agincourt.

48. DJ Khaled

Actor | Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

DJ Khaled was born on November 26, 1975 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Bad Boys for Life (2020) and Charlie's Angels (2019).

49. Steve Aoki

Actor | Why Him?

Steve Aoki was born on November 30, 1977 in Miami, Florida. He's an American electro house musician, record producer, D.J. & music executive. He's the 3rd child of Chizuru Kobayashi & Rocky Aoki. His father was a former wrestler who also founded the restaurant chain Benihana. He has 2 older ...

50. Drake

Actor | Degrassi: The Next Generation

Aubrey Drake Graham was born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Dennis Graham, an African-American musician born in Memphis, Tennessee, and Sandi (Sher) Graham, a Canadian Jewish educator. As a young man, Drake appeared in several commercials, for such retailers as Sears and GMC. In 2001, Drake rose ...

51. Anderson Cooper

Actor | Chappie

Anderson Cooper was born on June 3, 1967 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Chappie (2015), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Anderson Cooper 360° (2003).

52. Christopher Nolan

Writer | Tenet

Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...

53. Francis Ford Coppola

Producer | Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...

54. Ice Cube

Soundtrack | Friday

Ice Cube was born in South Central Los Angeles, to Doris (Benjamin), a custodian and hospital clerk, and Hosea Jackson, a UCLA groundskeeper. He first came to public notice as a singer and songwriter with the controversial and influential band N.W.A. His compositions with that group included many ...

55. Frank Spotnitz

Producer | The X Files

Award-winning American writer and producer Frank Spotnitz is the Chief Executive of Big Light Productions Ltd., a London-and Paris-based production company he founded in 2013 with a vision to create distinctive and ambitious TV drama series, and has become one of the fastest-growing independent ...

56. Samantha Rosenman

Thunder Force

Samantha Rosenman is known for Thunder Force (2021), The Little Mermaid (2023) and The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018).

57. John Lunn

Composer | Downton Abbey

John Lunn's music possesses a wonderfully unique voice that spans a wide spectrum of musical styles. Classically trained, yet contemporary in attitude, he combines a highly intelligent and sensitive approach with a sound that always hits at the emotional heart of a piece. His scores, which match ...

58. Luke Bryan

Actor | Luke Bryan: One Margarita

From his early days in Nashville as a songwriter to his current status as one of country music's reigning superstars, Luke Bryan's career has been populated by songs that have had a lasting impact. Country Aircheck declared him the Most Heard Artist of the Last Decade, an honor he earned with such ...

59. Bret Michaels

Soundtrack | A Letter from Death Row

Bret Michaels was born on March 15, 1963 in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A Letter from Death Row (1998), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and Friday Night Lights (2004).

60. Plain White T's

Soundtrack | No Strings Attached

Plain White T's is known for No Strings Attached (2011), Prom Night (2008) and Underdog (2007).

61. Ashlee Simpson

Actress | The Hot Chick

Ashlee Nicolle Simpson was born on October 3, 1984 in Waco, Texas, to Tina Simpson (née Drew) and Joe Simpson, who is a psychologist and Baptist youth minister. Ashlee started dancing at the age of 4 and by the time she was 11 enjoyed the status of being the youngest person ever admitted to the ...

62. Shaggy

Soundtrack | Money Train

Shaggy was born on October 22, 1968 in Kingston, Jamaica. He is a music artist and actor, known for Money Train (1995), No Time to Die (2021) and Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). He has been married to Rebecca Parker since 2014. They have three children.

63. Seal

Soundtrack | Batman Forever

His Nigerian mother and Brazilian-born father were still studying when Seal was born. They were barely able to stay afloat with odd jobs. Shortly after his birth, Seal was sent to a foster family, where he grew up in sheltered conditions until he was four years old. In 1967, his mother Adebisi ...

64. Lisa Vanderpump

Actress | John Halifax, Gentleman

Lisa Vanderpump (born 15 September 1960) is an English actress, restaurateur, designer, television personality, author and humanitarian. She is best known for her appearances on the American reality television shows The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Vanderpump Rules, and Vanderpump Dogs.

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65. Scott Dunlop

Actor | The Last Starfighter

Scott Dunlop is known for The Last Starfighter (1984), The Real Housewives of Orange County (2006) and The Real Housewives of Miami (2011).

66. Gigi Hadid

Actress | Ocean's Eight

Jelena Noura "Gigi" Hadid is an American model. She was signed to IMG Models in 2013. In November 2014, Hadid made her debut in the Top 50 Models ranking at Models. In 2016, she was named International Model of the Year by the British Fashion Council.

Gigi Hadid was born and raised in Los Angeles to...

67. Mohamed Hadid

Actor | Ripple Effect

Mohamed Hadid was born on November 6, 1948 in Nazareth, Palestine. He is an actor, known for Ripple Effect (2007), The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2010) and Second Wives Club (2017). He was previously married to Yolanda Hadid and Mary Butler.

68. Stassi Schroeder

Self | Vanderpump Rules

Stassi Schroeder was born on June 24, 1988 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Vanderpump Rules (2013), Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016) and Hashtaggers (2016). She has been married to Beau Clark since September 7, 2020. They have two children.

69. Ariana Madix

Self | Vanderpump Rules

Ariana Madix was born on June 24, 1985 in Melbourne, Florida, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Vanderpump Rules (2013), Anger Management (2012) and Waking Up with Strangers (2018).

70. Anna Todd

Writer | After

Anna Todd (writer/producer/influencer) is the New York Times best-selling author of the After series, which has been released in 35 languages and has sold more than twelve million copies worldwide-becoming a #1 best-seller all over the world. Todd is also the author of The Spring Girls and The ...

71. Kandi Burruss

Soundtrack | The Adventures of Pluto Nash

Kandi is best known as one of the lead vocalists in the hugely successful 1990s R&B vocal group, Xscape. Burrus sang lead on hits such as "My Little Secret", "Just Kickin' It" and "Who Can I Run To", as well as wrote their early hits, including "Feel So Good" and "Can't Hang". Kandi is also known ...

72. Erika Jayne

Soundtrack | The Watch

Erika Jayne was born as Erika Chahoy. She is an actress and composer, known for Lowball (1996), Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens (2016) and Bravo's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (2015). She has been married to Thomas A. Girardi since January 7, 2000. She was previously married to Thomas Zizzo

73. Shirley Jackson

Writer | The Haunting

Shirley Jackson was a horror and mystery writer born in San Francisco, California in 1916. She is best remembered for her unsettling novel of paranoia and the supernatural, 'The Haunting of Hill House' (1959) and her terrifying short story 'The Lottery' (1948), a horror tale rife with symbolism ...

74. Bethenny Frankel

Actress | Hollywood Hills 90028

Bethenny Frankel was born on November 4, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Hollywood Hills 90028 (1994), The Cure (1995) and Danger in the Dorm. She was previously married to Jason Hoppy and Peter Sussman.

75. Jill Zarin

Actress | Night of the Wild

Jill Zarin was born on November 30, 1963 in Woodmere, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Night of the Wild (2015), White Collar (2009) and Iron Chef America Countdown (2012).

76. Candace Bushnell

Writer | Sex and the City 2

Candace Bushnell was born on December 1, 1958 in Glastonbury, Connecticut, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Sex and the City 2 (2010), Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City (1998). She was previously married to Charles Askegard.

77. Russ Irwin

Actor | Be Cool

Russ Irwin is known for Be Cool (2005), Corbin Nash (2018) and NFL on FOX (1994).

78. New Kids on the Block

Soundtrack | It

New Kids on the Block is known for It (2017), Free Willy (1993) and It Chapter Two (2019).

79. Mark McGrath

Actor | Scooby-Doo

Mark McGrath was born on March 15, 1968 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Scooby-Doo (2002), Wild Things (1998) and The Sweetest Thing (2002). He has been married to Carin Kingsland McGrath since September 24, 2012. They have two children.

80. Ryan Lochte

Actor | 30 Rock

Ryan Lochte was born on August 3, 1984 in Rochester, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for 30 Rock (2006), 90210 (2008) and All I Wish (2017). He has been married to Kayla Rae Reid since January 9, 2018. They have three children.

81. Andy Cohen

Producer | Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List

Andy Cohen was born on June 2, 1968 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (2005), Top Chef (2006) and Queer Eye (2003).

82. Enrique Iglesias

Soundtrack | Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler was born in Madrid, Spain, to Spanish singer Julio Iglesias and Spanish-Filipino socialite Isabel Preysler. In 1979, his parents' marriage was annulled. He was eight years old when he moved to the U.S., and at the age of 15, secretly began writing music. He studied ...

83. Steven Tyler

Soundtrack | Be Cool

Steven Tyler was born on March 26, 1948 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Be Cool (2005), Epic (2013) and Wayne's World 2 (1993). He was previously married to Teresa Barrick and Cyrinda Foxe.

84. Virginia C. Andrews

Writer | The Dollanganger Saga

Virginia C. Andrews was born on June 6, 1923 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Dollanganger Saga (2014), Flowers in the Attic (1987) and V.C. Andrews' Heaven (2019). She died on December 19, 1986 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA.

85. Tommy Lee

Soundtrack | Barb Wire

Tommy Lee was born on October 3, 1962 in Athens, Greece. He is an actor and composer, known for Barb Wire (1996), The Dirt (2019) and Vanilla Sky (2001). He has been married to Brittany Furlan since February 14, 2019. He was previously married to Pamela Anderson, Heather Locklear and Elaine ...

86. Cody Carpenter

Composer | Halloween Kills

Cody Carpenter is a third-generation musician. His grandfather, Howard Carpenter, is a founding member of the Nashville Strings; his father, John Carpenter, is a director and composer; and his mother, Adrienne Barbeau, is a star of film, television, and the Broadway stage.

Cody was introduced to his...

87. Clive Barker

Writer | Nightbreed

Born in Liverpool, England, UK, Clive Barker is an English writer, director, and visual artist, best known for his works in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. His mother Joan Ruby (née Revill) was a painter and school welfare officer and his father Leonard Barker was a personnel director for an...

88. Eli Roth

Producer | Thanksgiving

Eli Raphael Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Cora (Bialis), a painter, and Sheldon H. Roth, a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and clinical professor. His family is Jewish (from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland). He began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight; after watching Ridley ...

89. Dan Futterman

Producer | Capote

Dan Futterman was born on June 8, 1967 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Capote (2005), A Mighty Heart (2007) and The Birdcage (1996). He has been married to Anya Epstein since September 23, 2000. They have two children.

90. Lawrence Wright

Writer | The Looming Tower

Lawrence Wright was born on August 2, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Looming Tower (2018), The Siege (1998) and Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief (2015). He has been married to Roberta Murphy since January 22, 1970. They have two ...

91. Jeff Lindsay

Writer | Dexter

Jeff Lindsay is known for Dexter (2006), Dexter: New Blood (2021) and The Dark Defender (2007).

92. Marilyn Manson

Soundtrack | Detroit Rock City

Marilyn Manson was born Brian Hugh Warner on January 5, 1969 in Canton, Ohio, to Barbara Jo (Wyer) and Hugh Angus Warner. He has German and English ancestry. During his childhood, one of his neighbors molested him several times until the young Brian broke down one day and told his mother what ...

93. Aaliyah

Soundtrack | Romeo Must Die

Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly.

Aaliyah Dana Haughton was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Diane (Hankerson) and Michael Haughton. Her uncle was music manager Barry Hankerson and her brother is director Rashad Haughton. Aaliyah was ...

94. Dean Zanuck

Producer | Road to Perdition

Dean Zanuck represents the third generation of one of Hollywood's most illustrious film families. His grandfather was the legendary Darryl F. Zanuck, Co-Founder and Chairman of 20th Century Fox, and his father was the Oscar-winning Producer, Richard D. Zanuck.

In a career that spans over 25 years, ...

95. Sting

Actor | Dune

Sting was born Gordon Matthew Sumner on 2 October, 1951 in Wallsend, North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, the eldest of four children of Audrey (Cowell), a hairdresser, and Ernest Matthew Sumner, an engineer and milkman. He received his name from a striped sweater he wore which looked like a bee...

96. Lindsay Seim

Actress | Insidious: Chapter 2

Nebraska native Lindsay Seim is an actress and writer, best known for roles in James Wan's Insidious: Chapter 2, Darren Lynn Bousman's St. Agatha, Patrik-Ian Polk's Blackbird, and two-time Academy Award-winner Janusz Kaminski's Russian mafia thriller American Dream.

Seim has also guest starred on ...

97. James Wan

Writer | Saw

James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...

98. Aaron Sorkin

Writer | The West Wing

Aaron Sorkin grew up in Scarsdale, a suburb of New York City where he was very involved in his high school drama and theater club. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater, Sorkin intended to pursue a career in acting. It took him only a short time to ...

99. Michael Morris

Director | To Leslie

Michael Morris is known for To Leslie (2022), Better Call Saul (2015) and Bloodline (2015). He has been married to Mary McCormack since July 5, 2003. They have three children.

100. Gavin Rossdale

Actor | Constantine

Gavin Rossdale was born on October 30, 1965 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Constantine (2005), Stealth (2005) and Tank Girl (1995). He was previously married to Gwen Stefani.