August: Osage County (2007) Opening Night Premiere

1. Deanna Dunagan

Deanna Dunagan is a Tony Award-winning actress who has had a prolific career acting on the Chicago stage. Originally from Monahans, Texas, Dunagan made her Broadway debut in the 1979 production of George Bernard Shaw's "Man and Superman" at Circle in the Square. In 1981, she performed in the first ...

2. Amy Morton

Actress | Up in the Air

Amy Morton was born on April 3, 1959 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Up in the Air (2009), 8MM (1999) and Rookie of the Year (1993). She is married to Rob Millburn.

3. Sally Murphy

Actress | Fearless

Sally Murphy was born on October 12, 1962 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Fearless (1993), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Pollock (2000).

4. Mariann Mayberry

Actress | War of the Worlds

Mariann Mayberry was born on May 25, 1965 in Springfield, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for War of the Worlds (2005), Dogman (2012) and No God, No Master (2013). She was married to Scott Jaeck. She died on August 1, 2017 in Simsbury, Connecticut, USA.

5. Dennis Letts

Actor | Cast Away

Dennis Letts was born on September 5, 1934 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor, known for Cast Away (2000), Secondhand Lions (2003) and Passenger 57 (1992). He was married to Billie Letts. He died on February 22, 2008 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.

6. Madeleine Martin

Actress | Californication

Madeleine Martin was born on April 15, 1993 in the USA. She is an actress, known for Californication (2007), Hemlock Grove (2013) and The Discoverers (2012).

7. Jeff Perry

Actor | Wild Things

Jeffrey Perry is an American actor of stage, television, and film. He is known for his role as Richard Katimski on the teen drama My So-Called Life, Thatcher Grey on the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy, Cyrus Beene on the political drama series Scandal, all for ABC, and as Inspector Harvey Leek...

8. Brian Kerwin

Actor | Jack

Kerwin grew up in the Chicago suburb of Flossmoor, Illinois. After graduating from USC's Film School in 1972, he moved to New York City to pursue acting on the stage. After several off-off Broadway productions, he was cast for a brief stint on "The Young and the Restless", in Los Angeles. He ended ...

9. Kimberly Guerrero

Actress | The Glorias

Kimberly is a Native American actor who has enjoyed a long career in film, television, and theatre. Some of Kimberly's recent credits include playing "Auntie B" in FX on the hit comedy RESERVATION DOGS, "Katie Clarke" opposite Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer in the lauded Amazon/BBC limited series ...

10. Rondi Reed

Actress | The Astronaut's Wife

Rondi Reed was born on October 26, 1952 in Dixon, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for The Astronaut's Wife (1999), Mo' Money (1992) and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997).

11. Troy West

Actor | The Dilemma

Troy West is known for The Dilemma (2011), The Canned Film Festival (1986) and Chicago P.D. (2014).

12. Francis Guinan

Actor | Constantine

Francis Guinan was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He is known for Constantine (2005), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) and The Last Airbender (2010).

13. Anna D. Shapiro

Director | National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men

Anna D. Shapiro was born on March 10, 1966 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. She is a director and executive, known for Of Mice and Men (2014), The Stretch (2021) and The 65th Annual Tony Awards (2011).

14. Tracy Letts

Actor | Lady Bird

Tracy Letts is the son of actor Dennis Letts and best-selling author Billie Letts, of "Where The Heart Is" and "The Honk And Holler Opening Soon" fame. Tracy is also the author of the stage play "Killer Joe", which ran off-Broadway in 1998 for nine months and starred Scott Glenn, Amanda Plummer, ...

15. Joan Allen

Actress | Room

Joan Allen was born on August 20, 1956 in Rochelle, Illinois, the youngest of four children. She is the daughter of homemaker Dorothea Marie (Wirth) and gas station owner James Jefferson Allen. Her mother's family was German, and her father had English, Scots-Irish, and German ancestry. She ...

16. Ian Barford

Actor | 13 Going on 30

Ian Barford was born on September 4, 1966 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He is an actor and executive, known for 13 Going on 30 (2004), U.S. Marshals (1998) and Road to Perdition (2002).

17. Jon Robin Baitz

Writer | Brothers & Sisters

Mr. Baitz was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, and grew up there, in Brazil and South Africa. Plays include: "Other Desert Cities", "The Substance of Fire", "A Fair Country", and "Ten Unknowns", (All produced at Lincoln Center), The Paris Letter", "The Film Society", "Mizlansky/Zilinsky" and "Three ...

18. Laura Bauer

Costume_designer | High Fidelity

Laura Bauer is known for High Fidelity (2000), Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Mo' Money (1992). She has been married to Chris Bauer since May 12, 1997. They have two children.

19. Eric Bogosian

Actor | Talk Radio

Eric Bogosian was born in Boston and grew up in Woburn, Massachusetts. After graduating from Woburn Memorial High School in 1971, he attended the University of Chicago and graduated from Oberlin College in 1976, whereupon he moved to New York City. In New York he was hired by the Kitchen as an ...

20. Josh Charles

Actor | Dead Poets Society

Joshua Aaron Charles is an American actor. He is best known for the roles of Dan Rydell on Sports Night; Will Gardner on The Good Wife, which earned him two Primetime Emmy Award nominations; and his early work as Knox Overstreet in Dead Poets Society. He is the son of Allan Charles, an advertising ...

21. Barry Cohn

American Experience

Barry Cohn is known for American Experience (1987).

22. Jean Doumanian

Producer | Deconstructing Harry

Jean Doumanian, American television and film producer, was born in Chicago on July 28, 1936. She had two older siblings, James and Elaine.

Doumanian produced/executive produced eight films written and directed by Woody Allen: Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Don't Drink the Water (1994), Mighty ...

23. Anthony Edwards

Actor | ER

Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist, and Peter Edwards, an architect. His mother was of German descent, and his father was of English,...

24. Linda Emond

Actress | Only Murders in the Building

Linda Emond is a three-time Tony Award nominee and is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and an Obie. She works in film, television, theatre and voiceover, across genres, in roles that are often transformational. She was born in New Jersey but grew up in ...

25. Christine Ebersole

Actress | The Wolf of Wall Street

Christine Ebersole was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Marian Esther (Goodley) and Robert Amos Ebersole, a steel company president. She won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her work in "Grey Gardens". Previously, she was awarded the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle ...

26. Ana Gasteyer

Actress | Mean Girls

Ana Kristina Gasteyer was born on May 4, 1967 to Marian Roumell-Gasteyer and Phil Gasteyer. Gasteyer began her career at Northwestern University; she initially enrolled as a voice major, but later switched to theater studies when she started to get involved with the campus' improv comedy group. She...

27. Evan Handler

Actor | Ransom

Evan Handler was born on January 10, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Ransom (1996), Sex and the City (2008) and Californication (2007). He has been married to Elisa Atti since October 12, 2003. They have one child.

28. Doug Hughes

Self | Smash

Doug Hughes was born on August 15, 1955 in Palm Springs, California, USA. He is married to Kate Jennings Grant. He was previously married to Lynn Fusco.

29. Tom Hulce

Actor | Amadeus

Thomas Edward Hulce was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in Plymouth, MI, where he was raised with his two sisters and older brother. He is the son of Joanna (Winkleman), who had sung professionally, and Raymond Albert Hulce, who worked for Ford. He has English, German, and Irish ancestry. ...

30. Zeljko Ivanek

Actor | Seven Psychopaths

Zeljko Ivanek was born on August 15, 1957 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is an actor and producer, known for Seven Psychopaths (2012), Argo (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).

31. Ritchie Jakson

Actor | Night Shift: Summer of love

Ritchie Jakson is known for Night Shift: Summer of love (2017).

32. Melina Kanakaredes

Actress | Providence

Melina Kanakaredes is an Emmy-nominated actor, writer, director, and philanthropist. She's best known for her starring role as Stella Bonasera in CSI: New York. Prior to that, she starred as Dr. Sydney Hansen in NBC's Providence. Most recently, Melina starred as Dr. Lane Hunter in Fox's The ...

33. Terry Kinney

Actor | Billions

Terry Kinney, the stage, film and television actor, was born in Lincoln, Illinois and attended Illinois State University. While at university, his friend, the aspiring actor Jeff Perry, took Kinney to Chicago to see a production of "Grease" in which his best friend, Gary Sinise, was appearing. The ...

34. John Krasinski

Actor | Jack Ryan

American actor John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV sitcom, The Office (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.

Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979,...

35. Ana Kuzmanic

Costume_designer | The Metropolitan Opera HD Live

Ana Kuzmanic is known for The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006) and Kubuku Rides (This Is It) (2006).

36. Angela Lansbury

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

37. David Lindsay

Actor | Do Over

A native of New Orleans, David Lindsay has been working as a professional actor since the age of six. He's done numerous commercials as well as television, film and theatre. At 15 he moved to Los Angeles, which gave him the opportunity to work and learn more about his craft. He's also studied film ...

38. Joe Mantello

Actor | The Normal Heart

Born December 27, 1962 in Rockford, Illinois, US as Joseph Mantello, he is an American actor, director, and producer, best known for his work in Broadway theatre. His mother Judy was of half Italian descent and his father Richard Mantello, an accountant, was of Italian descent. He graduated the ...

39. Laurie Metcalf

Actress | Lady Bird

Laurie Metcalf was born June 16, 1955 in Carbondale, Illinois, the oldest of three children of Libby (Mars), a librarian, and James Metcalf, a budget director. She was raised in Edwardsville, Illinois. Laurie attended Illinois State University, where she obtained her bachelor of arts in theater in ...

40. Omar Metwally

Actor | The Affair

Omar Metwally is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television programs. He is best known for his work on Showtime's The Affair, as well as for film roles in Steven Spielberg's Munich, Julian Schnabel's Miral and many others. He was born in Queens, New York and raised in ...

41. Kellie Overbey

Actress | That's What She Said

Kellie Overbey was born on November 21, 1964 in Murray, Kentucky, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for That's What She Said (2012), Outbreak (1995) and The Stand (1994).

42. Alan Rickman

Actor | Die Hard

Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...

43. Daryl Roth

Producer | Dinner with Friends

Daryl Roth was born on December 21, 1944. She is a producer and actress, known for Dinner with Friends (2001), Albert Nobbs (2011) and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife. She is married to Steven Roth. They have one child.

44. David Schwimmer

Actor | Friends

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 ...

45. Marian Seldes

Actress | The Haunting

Tony Award-winner Marian Hall Seldes, one of the premier stage actresses in America, was born on August 23, 1928 in Manhattan, New York, to writer and journalist Gilbert Seldes, and his socialite wife, the former Alice Wadhams Hall. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and her ...

46. Duncan Sheik

Soundtrack | The Saint

Duncan Scott Sheik was born on November 18, 1969, in Montclair, New Jersey. His mother was single, so he was raised by her and his grandparents in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He has one younger sister. His father lives in New Jersey. Duncan was raised Catholic, but converted to Buddhism later in ...

47. Gary Sinise

Actor | Forrest Gump

Gary Alan Sinise was born in Blue Island, Illinois, to Mylles S. (Alsip) and Robert L. Sinise, A.C.E., a film editor. He is of Italian (from his paternal grandfather), English, Scottish, Irish, French, German, and Swedish ancestry. His family moved to Highland Park, where he attended high school. ...

48. Joey Slotnick

Actor | Twister

Joey Slotnick was born on October 2, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Twister (1996), Hollow Man (2000) and Blast from the Past (1999).

49. Lois Smith

Actress | Minority Report

Lois Smith was born on November 3, 1930 in Topeka, Kansas, USA. She is an actress, known for Minority Report (2002), Lady Bird (2017) and Twister (1996). She was previously married to Wesley Dale Smith.

50. Paul Anthony Stewart

Actor | The Guiding Light

Paul Anthony Stewart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is an actor, known for Guiding Light (1952), FBI (2018) and Elementary (2012). He has been married to Michael Cook since April 18, 2018.

51. Elaine Stritch

Actress | 30 Rock

A brash, sharp-tongued, incorrigible actress/singer who led a six decade career that contained many highs and lows, veteran Elaine Stritch's raucous six-decade career certainly lived up well to the Stephen Sondheim song lyrics "I'm Still Here." A popular, magnetic performer, she stole so many ...

52. Tamara Tunie

Actress | Flight

Tamara Tunie was born on March 14, 1959 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Flight (2012), The Devil's Advocate (1997) and Snake Eyes (1998). She was previously married to Gregory Generet and Greg Bouquett.

53. Kate Walsh

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Kate Walsh was born in San Jose, California, on October 13, 1967. She grew up partly in San Jose and partly in Tucson, Arizona, later attending the University of Arizona, where she got involved in regional theater. She later moved to Chicago where she began working with the Piven Theatre Workshop ...