Cats Don't Dance 1997 premiere

1. Scott Bakula

Scott Stewart Bakula was born on October 9, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Sally (Zumwinkel) and J. Stewart Bakula, a lawyer. He is of German, as well as Czech, Austrian, Scottish and English ancestry. He comes from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock band and wrote songs for ...

2. Jasmine Guy

Actress | Harlem Nights

Actress-dancer-director Jasmine Guy has enjoyed a diverse career in television, theatre and film. She began her professional career at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. Jasmine starred on Broadway in the original productions of Beehive and Leader of the Pack, and reprised hit...

3. Natalie Cole

Soundtrack | Taxi

Growing up and living under the huge, daunting shadow of a singing icon can intimidate a son or daughter enough to want to look anywhere else to find their station in life. Those who dared to try to follow in their footsteps, such as Frank Sinatra Jr., found success branching out in other areas of ...

4. Ashley Peldon

Actress | Drop Dead Fred

Ashley Peldon was born on April 2, 1984 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Drop Dead Fred (1991), Ghost World (2001) and Child of Rage (1992). She has been married to Steve Hurdle since May 2010. They have one child.

5. Lindsay Ridgeway

Actress | Boy Meets World

Lindsay Ridgeway was born on June 22, 1985 in Loma Linda, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Boy Meets World (1993), Cats Don't Dance (1997) and The Wonderful World of Disney (1997).

6. Kathy Najimy

Actress | Hocus Pocus

Kathy Najimy was born and raised in San Diego, California. She is the daughter of Samia (Massery) and Fred Najimy, a postal worker, both of Lebanese ancestry. Kathy attended Crawford High School, and began her film career in the early 1990s, with several minor roles. Kathy got her breakthrough ...

7. John Rhys-Davies

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Welsh actor John Rhys-Davies was born in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, Wales, to Mary Margaretta Phyllis (nee Jones), a nurse, and Rhys Davies, a mechanical engineer and Colonial Officer. He graduated from the University of East Anglia and is probably best known to film audiences for his roles in the...

8. George Kennedy

Actor | Cool Hand Luke

George Harris Kennedy, Jr. was born on February 18, 1925 in New York City, to Helen (Kieselbach), a ballet dancer, and George Harris Kennedy, an orchestra leader and musician. Following high school graduation, Kennedy enlisted in the United States Army in 1943 with the hope to become a fighter ...

9. Rene Auberjonois

Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...

10. Betty Lou Gerson

Actress | One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Betty Lou Gerson was born on April 20, 1914 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Cinderella (1950) and Cats Don't Dance (1997). She was married to Louis Rocco Lauria and Joe Ainley. She died on January 12, 1999 in Los Angeles, ...

11. Hal Holbrook

Actor | Into the Wild

Hal Holbrook was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor who was one of the great craftsmen of stage and screen. He was best known for his performance as Mark Twain, for which he won a Tony and the first of his ten Emmy Award nominations. Aside from the stage, Holbrook made his reputation primarily on...

12. Matthew Herried

Actor | Cats Don't Dance

Matthew Herried was born on December 5, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Cats Don't Dance (1997).

13. Don Knotts

Actor | The Andy Griffith Show

Don Knotts, the legendary television character actor, was born Jesse Donald Knotts on July 21, 1924 in Morgantown, West Virginia, to William Jesse Knotts and the former Elsie Luzetta Moore. He was the youngest of four sons in a family that had been in America since the 17th century.

His first stint ...

14. Rick Logan

Music_department | I Am Legend

Rick Logan was born on June 20, 1961 in Grayson County, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for I Am Legend (2007), Star Trek Beyond (2016) and Mamma Mia! (2008).

15. Frank Welker

Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Frank Welker was born in Colorado. He followed his dream to California, and started a voice acting career which has spanned over five decades and hundreds of credits. Frank has worked with fellow voice actors Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Don Messick, Heather North, and Stefanianna Christopherson on ...

16. David Johansen

Soundtrack | Scrooged

New York City born David Johansen sang in Rock & Roll dance bands as a teenager, joining Charles Ludlum's Ridiculous Theater and starting the New York Dolls.

The highly influential Dolls made two iconic Rock & Roll records before disbanding in the mid seventies. At this time he created the David ...

17. Dee Bradley Baker

Actor | American Dad!

Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor from Indiana. He first became known for voicing Olmec in Legends of the Hidden Temple before voicing Daffy Duck in Space Jam. He is well-known for voicing Klaus in American Dad, the Clone Troopers in several Star Wars media, Ra's al Ghul in Batman: ...

18. Tony Pope

Actor | Akira

Tony Pope was born on March 22, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Akira (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and Dawn of the Dead (2004). He was married to Patricia Lentz. He died on February 11, 2004 in Burbank, California, USA.

19. Peter Renaday

Actor | Assassin's Creed

Peter Renaday is an American voice actor from Louisiana who voiced in several animated projects and video games including Assassins Creed, Evil Con Carne, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Country Bear Jamboree, The Aristocats, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The Princess and the Frog, Ninja ...

20. Mark Dindal

Writer | Chicken Little

Mark Dindal is an American animation film director, writer and voice actor from Columbus, Ohio who is known for directing the comedy classic Disney film The Emperor's New Groove. He is also known for directing Warner Brothers' musical Cats Don't Dance and Disney's Chicken Little. He provided ...

21. Paul Gertz

Producer | Titan A.E.

Paul Gertz brings a unique combination of business acumen, legal training, and creative experience to his role as Chief Operations Officer and President of Network Entertainment.

Paul holds a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and both a law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. ...

22. David Kirschner

Producer | Hocus Pocus 2

David Kirschner Productions maintains an eclectic slate of projects, focusing primarily on family and genre films. Currently in production is the film adaptation of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short story, Martian Child, written by sci-fi luminary, David Gerrold (Star Trek's "The Troubles ...

23. Bobs Gannaway

Producer | 101 Dalmatians: The Series

Bobs Gannaway was born on June 26, 1965 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997), Timon & Pumbaa (1995) and Hercules (1997). He has been married to Ilene Gannaway since May 15, 1993. They have three children. He was previously married to Faith Glantz.

24. Cliff Ruby

Writer | Dragon Tales

Cliff Ruby is known for Dragon Tales (1999), Balto (1995) and Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983).

25. Elana Lesser

Writer | Dragon Tales

Elana Lesser is known for Dragon Tales (1999), Balto (1995) and Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983).

26. Theresa Cullen

Animation_department | The Lego Movie

Theresa Cullen is known for The Lego Movie (2014), The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and G-Force (2009).

27. Rick Calabash

Big Fish

Rick Calabash began his career as a teenager, designing sets for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968).

He went on to work with animation legends William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, developing content for their most famous characters: Tom & Jerry, The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Scooby-Doo.

When media ...

28. Brian McEntee

Production_designer | Ice Age

Brian McEntee is known for Ice Age (2002), The Brave Little Toaster (1987) and Beauty and the Beast (1991).

29. Robert Lence

Writer | Beauty and the Beast

Robert Lence has been a major contributor on some of the most successful films in the history of animated features. In his twenty-eight-year animation career, he has worked as a Screenwriter, Head of Story, Storyboard Artist, Visual Development Artist, and Story Consultant, helping create original ...

30. Kelvin Yasuda

Art_department | Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Kelvin Yasuda is known for Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Aladdin (1992) and The Little Mermaid (1989).

31. David Womersley

Production_designer | Frozen

David Womersley is known for Frozen (2013), Chicken Little (2005) and Frozen II (2019).

32. Steve Goldstein

Soundtrack | Better Off Dead...

Steve Goldstein is known for Better Off Dead (1985), The Breakfast Club (1985) and The Birdcage (1996).

33. Randy Newman

Soundtrack | The Princess and the Frog

Randy Newman is an American film composer and singer who is well-known for composing The Princess and the Frog, Meet the Parents and various Pixar films including the Toy Story, Monsters, Inc and Cars franchises as well as A Bug's Life. He wrote iconic songs such as "Short People", "You've Got A ...

34. Dan Molina

Editor | Chicken Little

Dan Molina is a voice actor, sound designer and editor known for voicing Fish out of Water from the Chicken Little franchise and Dirk the Daring from Dragon's Lair. He provided editing and sound work for The Lion King, All Dogs Go to Heaven, An American Tail, The Land Before Time, Space Ace, The ...

35. James Ingram

Soundtrack | Junior

As a sophomore at the University of Akron, he left town to come to Los Angeles with his band, Revelation Funk. The band broke up shortly after arriving in L.A. Shortly afterward, Ingram started working with Ray Charles as a piano player.

After Quincy Jones heard James Ingram's voice on "Just Once," ...

36. Carnie Wilson

Soundtrack | Bridesmaids

Carnie Wilson was born on April 29, 1968 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Bridesmaids (2011), Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) and Whip It (2009). She has been married to Rob Bonfiglio since June 23, 2000. They have two children.

37. Will Downing

Soundtrack | Madea's Family Reunion

Will Downing was born in 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Will Downing: One in a Million (2020) and Will Downing: God Is So Amazing (2019). He has been married to Audrey Wheeler since 2002. They have one child. He was previously ...

38. Ben Affleck

Producer | Argo

Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975...

39. Patricia Arquette

Actress | Boyhood

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 and talented actresses of her generation. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed ...

40. Brendan Fraser

Actor | The Mummy

Brendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary (Genereux), a sales counselor, and Peter Fraser, a journalist and travel executive. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. As his parents frequently moved, Brendan can claim ...

41. Drew Barrymore

Producer | Charlie's Angels

Since melting audiences' hearts at the tender age of six - in Steven Spielberg's beloved sci-fi blockbuster, E.T. (1982) - Drew Barrymore has emerged as one of the most endearing and singularly talented actresses of her generation. Born in Culver City, California to actors John Drew Barrymore and ...

42. Jeremy Northam

Actor | Gosford Park

Jeremy Philip Northam was born in Cambridge, England to parents John and Rachel, both university professors. John Northam is best known for his translations of Henrik Ibsen. The family moved to Bristol, in 1972, where Jeremy attended Bristol Grammar School. Jeremy graduated from Bedford College, ...

43. Charlize Theron

Producer | Monster

Charlize Theron was born in Benoni, a city in the greater Johannesburg area, in South Africa, the only child of Gerda Theron (née Maritz) and Charles Theron. She was raised on a farm outside the city. Theron is of Afrikaner (Dutch, with some French Huguenot and German) descent, and Afrikaner ...

44. Jacqueline McKenzie

Actress | Deep Blue Sea

Jacqueline will next be seen in the independent film, THE CONVERT, directed by Lee Tamahori and opposite Guy Pearce. She can also be seen starring in the limited series SIGNIFICANT OTHERS for ABC and SAVAGE RIVER opposite Katherine Langford for Dynamic Television, for which she was nominated for an...

45. Mena Suvari

Actress | American Beauty

Mena Alexandra Suvari was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the youngest of four children. She is the daughter of Ando Suvari, a psychiatrist, and the former Candice Chambers, a nurse. Mena's first name comes from her British aunt named after the "House of Mena" Hotel (at the base of the pyramids in ...

46. Gretchen Mol

Actress | The Thirteenth Floor

Gretchen Mol was born November 8, 1972, in Deep River, Connecticut, the daughter of a school principal, James Mol, and his artist wife, Janet. Deep River is a small community located on the Chester Bowles Highway (Rt. 9), nine miles northwest of Old Saybrook (home of the legendary Katharine Hepburn...

47. Jay Leno

Producer | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Jay Leno began his career in night clubs, where he worked 300 nights a year before hitting it big in 1992 with his own late-night talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). By that time he had appeared on television, acted in a few films (American Hot Wax (1978)) but hit paydirt with his ...

48. Diane Lane

Actress | Unfaithful

Diane Lane was born on January 22, 1965, in New York. She is the daughter of acting coach Burton Eugene "Burt" Lane and nightclub singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. Her parents' families were both from the state of Georgia. Diane was acting from a very young age and made her stage debut at the ...

49. Nathan Bexton

Actor | Go

Nathan Bexton was born on February 26, 1977 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and director, known for Go (1999), The in Crowd (2000) and Nowhere (1997).

50. Mia Sara

Actress | Timecop

Mia Sara is an American actress. She is best known for Legend (1985) and Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986).

She also had minor roles in A Stranger Among Us (1992) and Timecop (1994).

In 1996, she married Jason Connery, son of Sean Connery, with whom she performed in Bullet to Beijing (1995). In June ...

51. Marcia Gay Harden

Actress | Mystic River

Marcia Gay Harden was born on August 14, 1959, in La Jolla, California, the third of five children. Her mother, Beverly (Bushfield), was a homemaker, and her father, Thad Harold Harden, was in the military. The family relocated often -- she first became interested in the theatre when the family was...

52. Garth Brooks

Soundtrack | Frequency

Troyal Garth Brooks is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the country music single and album charts, multi-platinum recordings and ...

53. Trisha Yearwood

Soundtrack | Con Air

Trisha Yearwood was born on September 19, 1964 in Monticello, Georgia, USA. She is a music artist and producer, known for Con Air (1997), For Love of the Game (1999) and Hope Floats (1998). She has been married to Garth Brooks since December 10, 2005. She was previously married to Robert Reynolds ...

54. Beau Bridges

Actor | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Beau Bridges was born in Hollywood, and is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his ...

55. Kirk Douglas

Actor | The Final Countdown

Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...

56. Anne Douglas

Producer | Scalawag

Anne Douglas was born on April 23, 1919 in Hanover, Germany. She was a producer and actress, known for Peg Leg, Musket & Sabre (1973), Deep River (2009) and Kirk Douglas: Before I Forget (2009). She was married to Kirk Douglas and Albert Buydens. She died on April 29, 2021 in Beverly Hills, ...

57. Sarah Douglas

Actress | Superman

Even though Sarah Douglas was born and raised in Stratford-Upon-Avon, and knew that she wanted to act, she did try to expand options available to her. She worked in a factory and for a time, also in a sterilizing department of a hospital. She briefly moved to France and also undertook a teacher ...

58. Tom Wilkinson

Actor | Michael Clayton

Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, ...

59. Jill Hennessy

Actress | Crossing Jordan

Jill Hennessy can be seen starring in Showtime's "City on a Hill" with Kevin Bacon and Aldis Hodge, executive produced by Tom Fontana and Ben Affleck. Jill starred in the special event series "Shots Fired" by Gina Prince-Bythewood with Sanaa Lathan and Stephan James on FOX and was the lead in the ...

60. Valerie Perrine

Actress | Superman

Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an American actress and model. For her role as Honey Bruce in the 1974 film Lenny, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her ...

61. 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,...

62. Kabir Bedi

Actor | Octopussy

Kabir Bedi is one of India's most famous international actors, with a career that spans from Bollywood to Hollywood and Europe, in films, television, theatre, and radio.

Kabir's Italian series "SANDOKAN" made him a major star across all of Europe.

He starred in one of the world's most-watched TV ...

63. Steve Perry

Soundtrack | Independent Lens

Steve Perry was born on January 22, 1949 in Hanford, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Independent Lens (1999), The Losers (2010) and Tron: Legacy (2010).

64. Elton John

Soundtrack | Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Sir Elton John is one of pop music's great survivors. Born 25 March, 1947, as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, he started to play the piano at the early age of four. At the age of 11, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. His first band was called Bluesology. He later auditioned (...

65. Prince

Soundtrack | Under the Cherry Moon

Prince Rogers Nelson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mattie Shaw, a jazz singer and social worker, and John L. Nelson, a lyricist and pianist. His father's stage name was "Prince Rogers". His parents were both from African-American families from Louisiana. They separated during his youth, ...

66. Will Patton

Actor | The Postman

Will Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina. His father, Bill Patton, is a playwright, acting/directing instructor, and Lutheran minister. Patton attended the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has won two OBIE awards for Best Actor -- for the off-Broadway plays "Fool for Love" (by Sam ...

67. Sven-Ole Thorsen

Actor | Gladiator

Born in Denmark, Sven-Ole Thorsen has a remarkable sporting background as a champion bodybuilder, champion power-lifter, and karate black belt that made him an obvious choice for movies roles as "muscle for hire." The hulking almost 6' 4" actor first came to attention as one of Thulsa Doom's ...

68. Cristos

Actor | Deep Blue Sea

Cristos, originally from the east coast, started his acting career in New York and moved to L.A. soon after. He was influenced as a child by actors such as Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino and Clint Eastwood. With over thirty feature films and twenty network shows to his credit, Cristos has many memorable ...

69. James Michael Tyler

Actor | Friends

James Michael Tyler was born in Mississippi. The youngest of five children, he was raised by a retired United States Air Force captain father and a homemaker mother. At age 11, he moved to Anderson, South Carolina to live with his sister.

A Tigers fan, he enrolled at Clemson University and majored ...

70. Johnny Depp

Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...

71. Denise Richards

Actress | The World Is Not Enough

Denise Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois, the older of two daughters of Joni Lee, who owned a coffee shop, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She has German, French-Canadian, Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry. She grew up in the Chicago area, until the family relocated to Oceanside...

72. Dwight Schultz

Actor | Star Trek: First Contact

Dwight Schultz is an American actor who is known for playing Howling Mad Murdock from The A-Team and Reginald Barclay from Star Trek: The Next Generation. He is also known for his voice work as Mung Daal from Chowder, Professor Pyg from Batman: Arkham Knight, Vulture from Spider-Man video games, Dr...

73. Colm Feore

Actor | Chicago

Colm Joseph Feore OC is a Canadian actor. A 13-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is known for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the CBC miniseries Trudeau (2002), his portrayal of Glenn Gould in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), and for playing ...

74. Carly Simon

Soundtrack | All Good Things

Carly Simon has an unparalleled career that spans five decades of openhearted storytelling both in song and print. Joining the singer-songwriters of the early 1970s, Simon changed the public's conception of pop music to an honest, sensitive and intelligent craftwork. Simon's biggest success came ...

75. Mindy Sterling

Actress | Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Mindy Sterling is an American actress from New Jersey. She is known for her roles in the Austin Powers film trilogy, the 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas film, Con Man, Chowder, The Legend of Korra, iCarly, the Spider-Man 2 video game, Mars Needs Moms, Invader Zim and The Goldbergs. She had a ...

76. Natasha Richardson

Actress | The Parent Trap

Natasha Jane Richardson was born in Marylebone, London, England, to director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave. She was the sister of actress Joely Richardson, the niece of actors Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave, and the granddaughter of actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel ...

77. Persis Khambatta

Actress | Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Persis Khambatta was born on October 2, 1948 in Bombay, India. When aged 16, as Femina Miss India, she entered Miss Universe 1965, dressed in off-the-rack clothes she bought at the last minute. Khambatta became a model for companies such as Revlon. Her biggest acting break was getting the role of ...

78. Charlene Polite

Actress | Star Trek

Born in Ohio, Charlene graduated from Youngstown University, in the mid-1960s, where she married her first husband, poet Frank Polite. Following graduation, she acted in regional theater, including the Pittsburgh (PA) Playhouse, where she had a post-graduate scholarship. Later, she moved to San ...

79. Sean Astin

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...

80. Viggo Mortensen

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Since his screen debut as a young Amish farmer in Peter Weir's Witness (1985), Viggo Mortensen's career has been marked by a steady string of well-rounded performances.

Mortensen was born in New York City, to Grace Gamble (Atkinson) and Viggo Peter Mortensen, Sr. His father was Danish, his mother ...

81. Bonnie Hunt

Actress | Jumanji

Bonnie Lynn Hunt is an American actress and comedienne who is known for her work in Rain Man, Beethoven, Jumanji, Jerry Maguire, The Green Mile and Cheaper by the Dozen. She voiced in the Disney films A Bug's Life, Zootopia, Monsters, Inc, Toy Story 3 and Cars. She was married to John Murphy but ...

82. Mira Furlan

Actress | Babylon 5

A leading actress of theatre, film and TV in the former Yugoslavia, Mira Furlan emigrated to the U.S. with her husband, Goran Gajic, in November 1991, due to the intolerable political circumstances in her homeland. Ms. Furlan starred in the Warner Brothers TV series Babylon 5 (1993) as "Ambassador ...

83. Steve Zahn

Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes

Steve Zahn was born in Marshall, Minnesota, to Zelda, who worked at a YMCA, and Carleton Edward Zahn, a Lutheran pastor at Peace Lutheran Church, Robbinsdale, Minnesota. His career kicked off in his native Minnesota when he crashed the audition of a local stage production of "Biloxi Blues" and won ...

84. Monica Keena

Actress | Freddy vs. Jason

Monica Keena was born in Brooklyn on May 28, 1979, to Bill and Mary Keena and was little sister to Samantha, the Keenas' first daughter. Growing sup, Monica shone in all things arts. Dance, singing, acting, and drawing. At 13, Keena enrolled in the prestigious LaGuardia school for acting and made ...

85. Jason Patric

Actor | The Lost Boys

Jason Patric was born on June 17, 1966 in Queens, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Lost Boys (1987), Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) and The Losers (2010).

86. Jason Statham

Actor | Crank

Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman ...

87. Joaquin Phoenix

Actor | Walk the Line

Joaquin Phoenix was born Joaquin Rafael Bottom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Arlyn (Dunetz) and John Bottom, and is the middle child in a brood of five. His parents, from the continental United States, were then serving as Children of God missionaries. His mother is from a Jewish family from New ...

88. Michael York

Actor | Logan's Run

Michael York was born in Fulmer, England, 27 March 1942. He performed on stage with the National Youth Theatre in London's East End and on international tour. Other early acting experience came through the Oxford University Dramatic Society (he graduated from Oxford in1964), the Dundee Repertory, ...

89. Kristin Davis

Actress | Sex and the City 2

Kristin Lee Davis was born on February 23, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado. An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby. She was adopted by her stepfather, psychology professor Keith Davis, after he married her mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968. Early in her childhood, ...

90. Christina Pickles

Actress | Masters of the Universe

Hailing from an English theatrical family, Christina Pickles is a beloved stage-trained actress who has enjoyed a rich and varied career that has allowed her to show her incredible range and great depth of character in her performances. She sets the bar for all at an entirely new height with this ...

91. Harry Connick Jr.

Actor | Hope Floats

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Anita Frances (Levy), a lawyer and judge, and Harry Connick, Sr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick), who served as District Attorney of New Orleans from 1973 to 2003. His father is of Irish, English, and German ...

92. Jerry Doyle

Actor | Babylon 5

Jerry Doyle was born on July 16, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Babylon 5 (1993), Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996) and Babylon 5: The River of Souls (1998). He was married to Andrea Thompson. He died on July 27, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

93. John Leguizamo

Actor | Moulin Rouge!

Fast-talking and feisty-looking John Leguizamo has continued to impress movie audiences with his versatility: he can play sensitive and naïve young men, such as Johnny in Hangin' with the Homeboys (1991); cold-blooded killers like Benny Blanco in Carlito's Way (1993); a heroic Army Green Beret, ...

94. Dana Carvey

Actor | Wayne's World

One of SNL's most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including "Church Lady", "Garth" of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding "Hans" of Hans & Franz notoriety. This sharp and witty ...

95. Richard Schiff

Actor | Man of Steel

Richard was born in Bethesda, Maryland, the middle of three sons of Edward, a real estate lawyer, and Charlotte, a cable TV and publishing executive. His parents divorced when he was 12. He dropped out of high school and switched to night school because he could finish sooner with less work. He ...

96. Richard Biggs

Actor | Babylon 5

Richard Biggs had a somewhat unsettled childhood as he travelled between Air Force bases where his father was stationed. Because of his itinerant lifestyle he made few friends and changed schools often. When he was seventeen, and living at a missile base in North Dakota, he decided to change his ...

97. Sissy Spacek

Actress | In the Bedroom

As a kid, Sissy Spacek climbed trees, rode horses, swam, and played in the woods. She was born Mary Elizabeth Spacek on December 25, 1949, in Quitman, Texas, to Virginia Frances (Spilman) and Edwin Arnold Spacek, Sr., a county agricultural agent. Her father's family was of Czech and German origin.

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98. Loretta Swit

Actress | M*A*S*H

Equally versatile at comedy and drama, Loretta Swit was born on November 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey. Her parents, Polish immigrants, were not in favor of her making a stab at a show business career. Performing on stage from age 7, however, nothing and nobody could deter her.

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99. Mindy Cohn

Actress | The Facts of Life

Mindy Cohn was born on May 20, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Facts of Life (1979), What's New, Scooby-Doo? (2002) and The Boy Who Could Fly (1986).

100. Kim Fields

Actress | The Facts of Life

Kim Fields was born on May 12, 1969 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Facts of Life (1979), Living Single (1993) and What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012). She has been married to Christopher Morgan since July 23, 2007. They have two children. She ...