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1. Mel Gibson

Actor | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

2. Robert Downey Jr.

Actor | Iron Man

Robert Downey Jr. has evolved into one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. With an amazing list of credits to his name, he has managed to stay new and fresh even after over four decades in the business.

Downey was born April 4, 1965 in Manhattan, New York, the son of writer, director and ...

3. Jean Firstenberg

Actress | The Bold and the Beautiful

Jean Firstenberg is known for The Bold and the Beautiful (1987), AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition (2007) and Keepers of the Frame (1999).

4. David Marshall Grant

Actor | The Devil Wears Prada

David Marshall Grant was born on June 21, 1955 in Westport, Connecticut, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Air America (1990) and Forever Young (1992). He has been married to K.C. Reischerl since March 27, 2009. They have one child.

5. Marshall Bell

Actor | Starship Troopers

A tall, imposing character actor with a penetrating stare, Marshall Bell has provided excellent support in a variety of roles and genres. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 28, 1942, and had been working as a consultant, teaching senior executives how to improve their speaking skills, ...

6. Tim Thomerson

Actor | Near Dark

Tim Thomerson rates highly as one of the best, most prolific, versatile and dependable character actors to ever grace both the big and small screens alike with pleasing regularity since the mid 70s. Although often cast as laconic rough 'n' tumble macho guys, Thomerson has proved on many occasions ...

7. Ernest Borgnine

Actor | Marty

Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino on January 24, 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents were Anna (Boselli), who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy, and Camillo Borgnino, who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, ...

8. Tova Borgnine

Self | TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes

Tova Borgnine was born on November 17, 1941 in Oslo, Norway. She was married to Ernest Borgnine and Louis A. Littleton. She died on February 26, 2022 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA.

9. Freddie Fields

Producer | American Gigolo

Freddie Fields was born on July 23, 1923 in Ferndale, New York, USA. He was a producer, known for American Gigolo (1980), Victory (1981) and Glory (1989). He was married to Corinna Tsopei, Cherie Latimer, Polly Bergen and Edith Fellows. He died on December 11, 2007 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.

10. Corinna Tsopei

Actress | A Man Called Horse

Corinna Tsopei was born on June 21, 1944 in Athens, Greece. She is an actress and producer, known for A Man Called Horse (1970), Soul and Flesh (1974) and The Sweet Ride (1968). She was previously married to Freddie Fields and Steven Zax.

11. Charles W. Fries

Producer | Screamers

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Chuck Fries graduated from Ohio State University, where he also received an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree. After serving in various production and administrative capacities in the entertainment industry, he became vice-president in charge of production for Screen...

12. Ava Ostern Fries

Writer | Troop Beverly Hills

Ava Ostern Fries was born on September 9, 1934 in Dexter, Missouri, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Troop Beverly Hills (1989), Born Famous (1987) and Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1997). She was married to Charles W. Fries. She died on October 2, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...

13. 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 ...

14. Ken Kragen

Producer | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour

Ken Kragen was born on November 24, 1936 in Berkeley, California, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1988), Gallagher: An Uncensored Evening (1980) and Gallagher: Two Real (1981). He was married to Cathy Worthington. He died on December 14, 2021 in ...

15. Cathy Worthington

Actress | JAG

Cathy Worthington was born in Washington D.C. Her father was a World War II veteran, mother was raised in North Carolina. She moved to Riverside, CA with her family, where her father was an Electronics Engineer for the government and her mother was a homemaker. She is the oldest child with 2 ...

16. Lorna Luft

Actress | Grease 2

The daughter of Judy Garland and producer Sidney Luft, and the half-sister of Liza Minnelli, Lorna Luft was born in 1952 in Santa Monica, California. According to her autobiography, "Me and My Shadows" (1998), she and her younger brother Joey Luft lived an idyllic childhood in Bel Air, oblivious to...

17. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

18. Ed McMahon

Soundtrack | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Ed McMahon's first appearance before a microphone was as a 15-year-old "caller" at a bingo game in Maine. After that, he spent the next three years touring the state fair and carnival circuit. A Marine fighter pilot during World War II, McMahon sold vegetable slicers on Atlantic City's boardwalk to...

19. Donna Mills

Actress | Knots Landing

Blonde, buoyant Donna Mills began acting in local amateur and professional productions in her home town of Chicago. Donna made her Broadway bow as a harem girl in Woody Allen's play "Don't Drink the Water," then played recurring roles on the Manhattan-based TV soap operas The Secret Storm (1954) ...

20. Sarah Jessica Parker

Actress | Sex and the City

Sarah Jessica Parker was born March 25, 1965, in Nelsonville, Ohio, to Barbra Forste (née Keck), a teacher who ran a nursery school, and Stephen Parker, a journalist. Her parents divorced, and her mother later remarried to Paul Forste and had four more children, bringing the total to eight. Sarah ...

21. Bob Rafelson

Producer | Five Easy Pieces

Bob Rafelson was an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the founders of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s. Among his best-known films are Five Easy Pieces (1970), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). He was also one of...

22. Suzanne Somers

Actress | Three's Company

Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a medical secretary. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive, alcoholic father...

23. Ken Wahl

Actor | Wiseguy

Ken Wahl is award-winning actor, most known for his Golden Globe starring role in the ground-breaking, critically acclaimed, CBS crime drama Wiseguy (1987). He entered acting without experience or aspirations. In 1979, Ken was set to be a walk-on in director Philip Kaufman's movie The Wanderers (...

24. Edgar Winter

Soundtrack | Air America

Edgar Winter was born on December 28, 1946 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for Air America (1990), My Cousin Vinny (1992) and Wag the Dog (1997). He has been married to Monique Winter since 1979.

25. Robert Wise

Director | West Side Story

Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...

26. Telly Savalas

Actor | Kojak

Of Greek descent on both sides, the son of immigrants, Savalas was a soldier during World War II, although most of his enlistment records were destroyed in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. He later studied psychology at Columbia University under the ...

27. Rocky Parker

Can't Buy Me Love

Rocky Parker was born on February 26, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Can't Buy Me Love (1987), In the Mood (1987) and Happy Together (1989). She was married to Patrick Dempsey, John David Haas and Sheldon Leonard Stein. She died on April 19, 2014 in Los ...

28. Patrick Dempsey

Actor | Grey's Anatomy

Patrick will next be seen in Eli Roth's new feature film THANKSGIVING as well as Michael Mann's new film, FERRARI, in which he stars opposite Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz. He was just seen starring in the Disney+ feature film and sequel to ENCHANTED, DISENCHANTED, opposite Amy Adams and most ...

29. Ana Alicia

Actress | Halloween II

Ana Alicia Ortiz Torres is a Mexican actress, she was born in Mexico City, Mexico on December 12, 1956. Ana Alicia became the third of four children to Carlos Celestino Ortiz and Alicia Torres Ortiz. Her parents were hotel agents in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico. She grew up between Acapulco, Mexico ...

30. Michael Nouri

Actor | The Watcher

Michael Nouri was born on December 9, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor, known for The Watcher (2022), Yellowstone (2018) and Devils (2020). He was previously married to Vicki Light and Lynn Goldsmith.

31. Vicki Light

With over two decades in the entertainment industry, Vicki began her career as the owner of the highly successful "The Light Company" Modeling and Commercial Agency in Denver, Colorado. She then moved to Los Angeles to open her extraordinarily successful and elite, boutique theatrical agency, "The ...

32. Sharon Stone

Actress | Basic Instinct

Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro ...

33. Jake Hooker

Soundtrack | The Covenant

Jake Hooker was born on May 3, 1953 in Haifa, Israel. He was an actor and composer, known for The Covenant (2006), Top Gun (1986) and Charlie's Angels (2000). He was married to Lorna Luft. He died on August 4, 2014 in Malibu, California, USA.

34. Michael Damian

Writer | Hot Tamale

With a prolific career both in front and behind the camera as well as in the recording studio, Michael Damian has starred on an award winning daytime drama, earned a #1 hit record on Billboard and been nominated for a Grammy for his starring turn on Broadway. He has also written and directed 12 ...

35. Helen Hunt

Actress | As Good as It Gets

Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.

36. Alan Hamel

Producer | Nothing Personal

Alan Hamel was born on June 15, 1936 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and actor, known for Nothing Personal (1980), Somersize Part 1, Suzanne Somers: Eat Great, Lose Weight (1996) and Exclusive (1992). He was previously married to Suzanne Somers and Marilyn Shapiro.

37. Mimi Rogers

Actress | Ginger Snaps

It's fair to say that after 20 years and over 50 film appearances, Mimi Rogers should be praised for her variety of roles and acting capabilities, not for a brief marriage to a Hollywood star. In the early 1980s she began to carve a niche for herself in Hollywood, appearing on television and in ...

38. Chris Ciaffa

Producer | Unstoppable

Chris Ciaffa was born on April 28, 1963. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Unstoppable (2010), Christmas Vacation (1989) and Doctor Mordrid (1992). He has been married to Mimi Rogers since March 20, 2003. They have two children.

39. Piper Laurie

Actress | The Hustler

Piper Laurie was a three-time Oscar nominee, nominated by BAFTA as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best performance by an actress in 'The Hustler' with Paul Newman.

Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to Charlotte Sadie (Alperin) and Alfred Jacobs, a ...

40. Robert Loggia

Actor | Big

Born and raised in New York City, Robert Loggia studied journalism at the University of Missouri before moving back to New York to pursue acting. He trained at the Actors Studio while doing stage work. From the late 1950s he was a familiar face on TV, usually as authoritative figures. Loggia also ...

41. Audrey Loggia

Producer | Hit and Run

Audrey Loggia was born on September 29, 1936 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Hit and Run (2012), Adopt a Sailor (2008) and Over the River and Through the Woods. She was previously married to Robert Loggia and Donald Lyons Marlette.

42. Dolph Lundgren

Actor | Rocky IV

Dolph Lundgren was born as Hans Lundgren in Stockholm, Sweden, to Sigrid Birgitta (Tjerneld), a language teacher, and Karl Johan Hugo Lundgren, an engineer and economist for the Swedish government. He lived in Stockholm until the age of 13, when he moved in with his grandparents in Nyland, ...

43. Ed Limato

Self | Naked Hollywood

Ed Limato was the last of the great Hollywood talent agents - a breed that dwindled with the loss of Stan Kamen and Irving "Swifty" Lazar. Over the years, Ed Limato's client list read like a who's who of Hollywood royalty and Oscar winners, including Antonio Banderas, Michael Biehn, Nicholas Cage, ...