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101. David Hyde Pierce

Actor | Frasier

David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce (both deceased) and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child, he was very interested in music (particularly piano) and regularly played the ...

102. Laura Innes

Actress | ER

Laura Innes was born on August 16, 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan. She was introduced to professional theater by her father, who often took the family to the Stratford Festival of Canada in Stratford, Ontario. With the support of her father, she attended Northwestern University and earned a degree in ...

103. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

104. Kristen Johnston

Actress | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Kristen Johnston studied acting at the Atlantic Theater Company Acting School in New York City.

She won two Emmys for her role on 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996). She has appeared on many other television shows, including Ugly Betty (2006), ER (1994), Bored to Death (2009) and, perhaps most memorably, ...

105. Simbi Kali

Actress | 3rd Rock from the Sun

Simbi Kali was born in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. Simbi is an actress, known for playing Nina on the hit TV show 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996), We Were Soldiers (2002) and Detroit: Become Human (2018). Simbi was married to Cress Williams, but the couple have since been divorced having 2 children.

106. Sally Kirkland

Actress | Anna

Sally Kirkland, Best Actress Oscar Nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit Award winner, LA Film Critics Circle Award winner, and veteran of over 200 movies. Feisty, hard-working, famously liberal, with the trademark blonde hair, actress Sally Kirkland has certainly made an indelible mark ...

107. Christine Lahti

Actress | Chicago Hope

Christine Lahti was born April 4, 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan, to Elizabeth Margaret (Tabar), a painter and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. She is of half Finnish and half Austro-Hungarian descent. She studied fine arts at Florida State University and received a bachelors degree in ...

108. Courtney Love

Actress | The People vs. Larry Flynt

The daughter of Grateful Dead devotee and first manager Hank Harrison and psychotherapist Linda Caroll, Courtney Love was born Courtney Michelle Harrison in San Francisco, California in 1964. Love spent her early years living in hippie communes in Oregon and at schools in Europe and New Zealand, ...

109. Frances McDormand

Actress | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances Louise McDormand was born on June 23, 1957, in Gibson City, Illinois. She was adopted by Canadian-born parents Noreen Eloise (Nickleson), a nurse from Ontario, and Rev. Vernon Weir McDormand, a Disciples of Christ minister from Nova Scotia, who raised her in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. She ...

110. Helen Mirren

Actress | The Queen

Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...

111. Shemar Moore

Actor | Criminal Minds

Shemar Franklin Moore (born April 20, 1970) is an American actor and former fashion model. His notable roles are that of Malcolm Winters on The Young and the Restless from 1994 to 2005, Derek Morgan on CBS's Criminal Minds from 2005 to 2016, and as the third permanent host of Soul Train from 1999 ...

112. Julia Ormond

Actress | Sabrina

The dark and classically beautiful British actress and social activist Julia (Karin) Ormond was born on January 4, 1965, in Surrey, into England, the second of five children. Born of privilege as the daughter of a well-to-do laboratory technician, her parents divorced when she was young. Julia ...

113. Alan Parker

Director | Evita

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a ...

114. Anthony Quinn

Actor | Alexis Zorbas

Anthony Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (some sources indicate Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca) on April 21, 1915, in Chihuahua, Mexico, to Manuela (Oaxaca) and Francisco Quinn, who became an assistant cameraman at a Los Angeles (CA) film studio. His paternal grandfather was Irish, ...

115. Paul Reiser

Actor | Mad About You

As a seasoned actor, writer, producer, and stand-up comedian, Paul Reiser continues to add to his list of accomplishments. In addition to co-creating and starring on the critically acclaimed NBC series, Mad About You (1992), which garnered him Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and Screen ...

116. Marion Ross

Actress | Superhero Movie

The lovely, cheery, continuously upbeat All-American mom from the classic Happy Days (1974) TV sitcom had fervent desires of becoming an actress while growing up in her obscure Minnesota town. Born Marian Ross (with an "a") on October 25, 1928, she grew up in her native state and, at one time, ...

117. Isabella Rossellini

Actress | Blue Velvet

Isabella Rossellini, the Italian actress and model who has made her home in America since 1979 and holds dual Italian and American citizenship, was born cinema royalty when she made her debut on June 18, 1952 in Rome. She is the daughter of two legends, three-time Oscar-winning Swedish-born actress ...

118. Geoffrey Rush

Actor | The King's Speech

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...

119. Greta Scacchi

Actress | The Player

Greta Scacchi was born in Milan, Italy, to Pamela Carsaniga, an English dancer and Luca Scacchi, an Italian art dealer and painter. She grew up in Milan and Sussex, England. In 1975, her mother and second husband moved to Australia, where, after she left school, Greta worked as an Italian ...

120. 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 ...

121. Elmarie Wendel

Actress | 3rd Rock from the Sun

Elmarie Wendel was born on November 23, 1928 in Cresco, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996), The Lorax (2012) and Knight Rider (1982). She died on July 21, 2018.

122. Courteney Cox

Actress | Friends

Courteney Cox was born on June 15th, 1964 in Birmingham, Alabama, into an affluent Southern family. She is the daughter of Courteney (Bass) and Richard Lewis Cox (1930-2001), a businessman. She was the baby of the family with two older sisters (Virginia and Dottie) and an older brother, Richard, Jr...

123. Kyra Sedgwick

Actress | The Closer

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick was born on August 19, 1965 in New York City to Patricia (Rosenwald), a family and speech therapist, and Henry Dwight Sedgwick V, a venture capitalist. Her mother was from an upper-class German Jewish family, and her father was from a wealthy Massachusetts clan of English ...

124. Kevin Bacon

Actor | Footloose

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

125. Chris Carter

Writer | The X Files

Born and raised in Bellflower, California, Chris Carter graduated from the California State University at Long Beach with a degree in journalism. Formerly a freelance journalist and editor of "Surfing" magazine, Carter began his career as a screenwriter in 1985 at The Walt Disney Studios. In 1992 ...

126. Laura Louie

Laura Louie was born on February 28, 1965. Laura has been married to Woody Harrelson since December 28, 2008. They have three children.

127. Jon Tenney

Actor | The Closer

Jon Tenney was born on December 16, 1961 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Closer (2005), Scandal (2012) and You Can Count on Me (2000). He has been married to Leslie Urdang since June 16, 2012. He was previously married to Teri Hatcher.

128. Alexondra Lee

Producer | Fall River

Alexondra Lee was born in The Poconos, Pennsylvania. She was a professional ballet dancer with The New York City Ballet for 8 years and performed in Lincoln Center's The Nutcracker, Coppelia and Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as dancing with Baryshnikov. Alexondra gained fame as an actress by ...

129. Matt Damon

Actor | Good Will Hunting

Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and ...

130. Molly Norton

Actress | Late Bloomers

Molly Norton is known for Late Bloomers (1996), Paparazzi!: Tales of Tinseltown (1995) and E! True Hollywood Story (1996).

131. Larry Karaszewski

Writer | American Crime Story

Mr. Karaszewski is known for unusual true stories written in tandem with Scott Alexander. Their feature film credits include the Oscar-winning Ed Wood, The People vs.Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon, Big Eyes, & Dolemite is My Name. Mr. Karaszewski co-chairs the International Feature Film category & ...

132. Scott Alexander

Writer | American Crime Story

Scott Alexander was born on June 16, 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for American Crime Story (2016), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Ed Wood (1994).

133. Tim Rice

Soundtrack | Aladdin

A prolific lyricist and librettist, Tim Rice was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, in the fall of 1944. Rice pursued his university education at Lancing College and, briefly, at l'Universite de Paris - Sorbonne. He was considering a legal career around the time that he met Andrew Lloyd Webber in ...

134. Brian Grazer

Producer | A Beautiful Mind

Emmy and Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer has been making movies and television programs for more than 25 years. As both a writer and producer, he has been personally nominated for four Academy Awards, and in 2002 won the Best Picture Oscar for A Beautiful Mind (2001). In addition to ...

135. Cameron Crowe

Writer | Almost Famous

Certainly idiosyncratic as a writer, Cameron Crowe has created a series of scripts that, while liked by the critics, were considered offbeat and difficult to market.

Cameron Bruce Crowe was born in Palm Springs, California, to Alice Marie Crowe (née George), a teacher and activist, and James A. ...

136. Ann Wilson

Soundtrack | The Golden Child

Singer, flute player, songwriter, and guitarist Ann Dustin Wilson was born on June 19, 1950 in San Diego, California. The daughter of Brig. Gen. John B. Wilson USMC, Wilson and her family moved around a lot, before eventually settling in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue, WA. Ann attended Interlake ...

137. Stephanie Seymour

Actress | Pollock

Stephanie Seymour was born on July 23, 1968 in San Diego, California. From her early teens it became obvious that the towering, stunningly beautiful young woman was ideal modeling material, and she immediately began getting some local print work. Having entered a modeling contest sponsored by Elite...

138. 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...

139. Wendy Neuss

Producer | Star Trek: The Next Generation

Wendy Neuss was born on October 24, 1954 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She is a producer and production manager, known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and King of Texas (2002). She was previously married to Patrick Stewart.

140. Susan Bridges

Producer | Cold Feet

Susan Bridges was born in Fargo, North Dakota, USA. She is known for Cold Feet (1989), Extra (1994) and The Annual Variety Club's Big Heart Awards (1986). She has been married to Jeff Bridges since June 5, 1977. They have three children.

141. Armand Assante

Actor | Gotti

Known as an Actor's Actor, the Four time Golden Globe Nominee, Emmy Award Winning Actor ( Gotti 1996 ) Assante has received acclaim for his work for close to Five decades. Internationally he has been the recipient of Twelve Lifetime Achievement Awards in the past ten years.

Full Biography at ...

142. Dick Clark

Actor | Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Dick Clark was born and raised in Mount Vernon, New York on November 30, 1929, to Julia Fuller (Barnard) and Richard Augustus Clark. He had one older brother, Bradley, who was killed in World War II. At the age of 16, Clark got his first job in the mailroom of WRUN, a radio station in Utica, New ...

143. Lisa Pelikan

Actress | Lionheart

Lisa made her feature film debut as the young 'Julia' in Fred Zinnemann's JULIA sharing the title role with Vanessa Redgrave, her television debut as the ingénue in the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of THE COUNTRY GIRL with Jason Robards and Shirley Knight, and her theatrical debut starring as '...

144. Kehly Sloane

Actress | Dallas

Kehly Sloane was born on August 14, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Dallas (1978), The Good Life (2007) and Wogan (1982). She has been married to Lance Sloane since October 31, 1987. They have two children.

145. Francesca Annis

Actress | Dune

English actress Francesca Annis, who has enjoyed a career spanning seven decades in movies, television and the theater, was born in London six days after V-E Day, on May 14, 1945. Her father, Lester, was English, but her mother, Mariquita (aka Mara Purcell), was of Brazilian-French heritage. From ...

146. Annabel Clark

Kinsey

Annabel Clark was born on July 10, 1981 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is known for Kinsey (2004), Starting Out in the Evening (2007) and Portal Runner (2021). She has been married to Eduardo Garabal since August 1, 2009.

147. John Clark

Actor | Raw Deal

John Clark began his acting career during WWII as a child in his native England as schoolboy D'arcy Minor, the comedy stooge to Will Hay on BBC radio's "The Will Hay Progamme". Following that, he became a star as the original "Just William" on stage and radio in 1947. Emigrating to Canada after a ...

148. Will Smith

Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...

149. Clementine Ford

Actress | Cherry Falls

Clementine Ford was born to actress Cybill Shepherd and her first husband, David Ford, in Memphis, Tennessee in 1979. Her parents divorced when she was still a baby, and Cybill went back to California to restart her acting career, becoming a celebrated television star on Moonlighting (1985). She ...

150. Gloria Reuben

Actress | Lincoln

Gloria Reuben is an actress, singer and published author whose impressive credentials in television, film, theater and music include portraying the HIV+ physician assistant Jeanie Boulet on the hit NBC series ER (a role that garnered her two Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe nomination) and many ...

151. Wayne Isaak

Producer | VH-1 Where Are They Now?

After more than 12 years at A&M Records, Isaak began in TV as the head of music and talent at VH1 in '94, where he developed and helped produce and book talent for all of the network's tent pole live events: VH1 Divas, VH1 Honors, VH1 Men Strike Back, VH1 Fashion Awards, Concert of the Century; and...

152. Tracy Pollan

Actress | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Tracy Jo Pollan is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Ellen Reed on the sitcom Family Ties (1985-1987). Pollan was born on Long Island, New York, the daughter of Corinne Elaine "Corky" (Staller), a magazine editor, and Stephen Michael Pollan, a financial consultant and writer. ...

153. James Keach

Actor | National Lampoon's Vacation

James Keach was born on December 7, 1947 in Queens, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Vacation (1983), The Long Riders (1980) and Walk the Line (2005). He was previously married to Jane Seymour, Mimi Maynard and Holly Collins.

154. Leslie Bogart

Leslie Bogart was born on August 23, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She has been married to Erich Shiffmann since 1990.

155. Sam Robards

Actor | A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Sam Robards was born on December 16, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), American Beauty (1999) and Casualties of War (1989). He has been married to Sidsel Jensen since November 8, 1997. They have two children. He was ...

156. Sidsel Jensen

Stunts | Dancer in the Dark

Sidsel Jensen is known for Dancer in the Dark (2000), It's All About Love (2003) and Dear Wendy (2005).

157. Peter Marc Jacobson

Writer | The Nanny

Executive Producer, Writer, Director , Actor, Singer. Peter started his career in front of the camera, guest starring in such memorable series as Murphy Brown, Beverly Hills 90210, the Facts of Life, Dynasty, Too Close for Comfort, Booker, Matlock, and some not so memorable ones that locked in his ...

158. Steve Beers

Producer | This Is Us

Steve Beers is known for This Is Us (2016), Taken (2002) and 21 Jump Street (1987).

159. LaTanya Richardson Jackson

Actress | U.S. Marshals

She graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1971. While a student at Spelman (an all-female institution), she met Samuel L. Jackson, who was a student at Morehouse College (the all-male institution affiliated with Spelman), who would later become her husband. She and Jackson have one ...

160. Dorothy Dean Bridges

Actress | Finders Keepers

Dorothy Dean Bridges was born on September 19, 1915 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. She was an actress, known for Finders Keepers (1921), Sea Hunt (1958) and See You in the Morning (1989). She was married to Lloyd Bridges. She died on February 16, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

161. Wendy Treece

Self | The Variety Club International All Star Party

Wendy Treece has been married to Beau Bridges since April 10, 1984. They have three children.

162. Jane Menelaus

Actress | Quills

Jane Menelaus was born in 1959 in Australia. She is an actress, known for Quills (2000), The Light Between Oceans (2016) and The Dish (2000). She has been married to Geoffrey Rush since 1988. They have two children.

163. Rob Camilletti

Actor | Born on the Fourth of July

Rob Camilletti was born on August 1, 1964 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Loverboy (1989) and Soapdish (1991).

164. Robert Stigwood

Producer | Evita

Robert Stigwood was born on April 16, 1934 in Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia. He was a producer, known for Evita (1996), Gallipoli (1981) and Grease 2 (1982). He died on January 4, 2016 in London, England, UK.

165. Tracy Warbin

Make_up_department | Sling Blade

Tracy Warbin was born on January 8, 1968 in the USA. She is a producer, known for Sling Blade (1996), Kids (1995) and Balto (1995). She was previously married to Noah Wyle.

166. Allan McKeown

Producer | Tracey Takes On...

Allan McKeown was born on May 21, 1946 in Ealing, Middlesex, London, England, UK. He was a producer and writer, known for Tracey Takes On... (1996), Get Carter (1971) and Lovejoy (1986). He was married to Tracey Ullman. He died on December 24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

167. Gabriel Byrne

Actor | The Usual Suspects

Byrne was the eldest of six children born to a family in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a cooper and his mother a hospital worker. He was raised Catholic and educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. He spent five years of his childhood in a seminary training to be a Catholic priest. He later said...

168. Leila Kenzle

Actress | Identity

Leila Kenzle was born on July 16, 1960 in Patchogue, Long Island, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Identity (2003), White Oleander (2002) and Mad About You (1992). She has been married to Neil Monaco since April 26, 1994.

169. Jane Pollack

Art_department | Skeeter

Jane Pollack is known for Skeeter (1993). She has been married to Lance Henriksen since April 22, 1995. They have one child.

170. Janusz Kaminski

Cinematographer | War Horse

Janusz Kaminski is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has established a partnership with Steven Spielberg, working as a cinematographer on his movies since 1993. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for his work on Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998).

His ...

171. Andrew G. Vajna

Producer | Evita

Andy Vajna was born in Budapest. In 1956 at the age of 12, he fled from Hungary and with the support of Red Cross he made his way alone to Canada. Vajna launched his career in the entertainment industry with his purchase of motion picture theaters in the Far East. He founded Panasia Films Limited ...

172. Barry Josephson

Producer | Enchanted

Barry Josephson is known for Enchanted (2007), Bones (2005) and TURN: Washington's Spies (2014). He has been married to Brooke Josephson since October 27, 2007. He was previously married to Jackie Marcus Schaffer.

173. Matthew Fox

Actor | Bone Tomahawk

Matthew Chandler Fox was born in Abington, Pennsylvania. His mother, Loretta B. (Eagono), was a schoolteacher, and his father, Francis G. Fox, was a consultant for an oil company, who raised longhorn cattle and horses and grew barley for Coors beer. He has Italian (from his maternal grandfather), ...

174. Camille Grammer

Actress | The Hungover Games

Camille Grammer was born on September 2, 1968 in Newport Beach, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Hungover Games (2014), Private Parts (1997) and Neurotic Tendencies (2001). She has been married to David C. Meyer since October 20, 2018. She was previously married to ...

175. Tim Allen

Actor | Toy Story

Timothy Allen Dick was born on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. His father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a collision with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game, when Tim was eleven years old...

176. Laura Diebel

Self | Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration

Laura Diebel was born on November 12, 1956 in the USA. She was previously married to Tim Allen.

177. Meg Tilly

Actress | The Big Chill

Meg Tilly was set on being a dancer, and at 17 connected to the Connecticut Ballet Company and later Throne Dance Theatre. It was in this capacity that she had her screen debut in Alan Parker's Fame (1980). Unfortunately, an injury to her back cut short her plans for a dance career, and a small ...

178. Paula Ravets

Self | Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim

Paula Ravets has been married to Paul Reiser since August 21, 1988. They have two children.

179. Anne Ramsay

Actress | A League of Their Own

Anne Ramsay was born on September 11, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for A League of Their Own (1992), Planet of the Apes (2001) and The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014).

180. Lisa Moran

Producer | The Life of David Gale

Lisa Moran is known for The Life of David Gale (2003), Evita (1996) and The Commitments (1991). She was previously married to Alan Parker.

181. Nathan Lane

Actor | The Producers

Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married ...

182. Julie Moran

Actress | Independence Day

Julie Moran was born on January 10, 1962 in Thomasville, Georgia, USA. She is an actress, known for Independence Day (1996), All Good Things (2010) and Criminal Minds (2005). She has been married to Rob Moran since April 12, 1987. They have two children.

183. Anthony Minghella

Writer | The Talented Mr. Ripley

Anthony Minghella was the son of immigrants from Italy, who own an ice-cream factory on the Isle of Wight, where Anthony was born on January 6, 1954. He and his two siblings, Edana Minghella and Dominic Minghella, grew up there, a popular British holiday spot. After graduating from the University of...

184. Saul Zaentz

Producer | The English Patient

Saul Zaentz learned gambling as a youth in Passaic, New Jersey, playing a card game called briscola. Later, in his twenties, he earned a full-time living as a gambler.

Saul settled in San Francisco after WWII, at first working for a local record distributor and eventually joining the jazz record ...

185. Joe Roth

Producer | The Great Debaters

Joe Roth was born on June 13, 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Great Debaters (2007), Maleficent (2014) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012). He has been married to Irene Oh since April 8, 2006. He was previously married to Donna Roth.

186. Elliot Goldenthal

Music_department | Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Elliot Goldenthal is an Academy Award-winning composer best known for his original music scores for such films as Frida (2002) and Across the Universe (2007), among his other works.

He was born on May 2, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York. His father was a house-painter, and his mother was a seamstress. ...

187. Joel Siegel

Actor | Deathtrap

Joel Siegel was born on July 7, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Deathtrap (1982), Hotel (1983) and Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2001). He was married to Ena Swansea, Melissa DeMayo, Jane Kessler and Karen Oshman. He died on June 29, 2007 in New York ...

188. Sherry Lansing

Producer | Indecent Proposal

Sherry was born in Chicago and pursued an acting career after graduating from Northwestern University. After appearing in two films, Loving (1970) and Rio Lobo (1970), Sherry decided to leave the acting field. In 1974, Sherry joined Talent Associates, as an executive in charge of development. In ...

189. Brett Harrelson

Actor | The People vs. Larry Flynt

Brett Harrelson was born on June 4, 1963 in Midland, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Now You See Me (2013) and Kingpin (1996).

190. David Paymer

Actor | Get Shorty

One of modern TV and moviedom's most sturdy and reliable character actors, David Paymer dreamed of being an actor from early childhood. Although he came from a traditional middle-class Jewish family that urged him to become a doctor or lawyer, Paymer felt more at home in the world of the thespian. ...

191. Mike Leigh

Director | Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...

192. Sophie Fiennes

Director | Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

Sophie Fiennes was born on February 12, 1967 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, UK. She is a director and producer, known for Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017), Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) and The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012).

193. Jane McIntosh

Actress | Centrespread

Jane McIntosh is known for Centrespread (1981). She has been married to Tim Rice since August 19, 1974. They have two children. She was previously married to Michael Whitehall.

194. Donald Rice

Director | I Am Bob

Donald Rice was born on March 27, 1977 in Oxford, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for I Am Bob (2007), Closer (2004) and Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012).

195. Julian Clary

Actor | Carry on Columbus

Julian Clary was born on May 25, 1959 in Surbiton, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Carry on Columbus (1992), Dick Whittington (2002) and Aladdin (2000). He has been married to Ian Mackley since November 19, 2016.