Actors I've Worked With
by bill-stephens | created - 30 Oct 2014 | updated - 13 Dec 2015 | Public
1. Debbie Allen
Producer | Fame
Deborah Kaye Allen was born in Houston, Texas, to African-American parents, Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Debbie, her older brother, Andrew (called Tex), and her older sister, actress Phylicia Rashad, lived in Mexico to ...
2. Jayne Atkinson
Actress | Free Willy
Jayne Atkinson was born on February 18, 1959 in Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Free Willy (1993), The Village (2004) and 24 (2001). She has been married to Michel Gill since October 3, 1998. They have one child. She was previously married to Joe Urla.
3. Luis Avalos
Actor | The Ringer
Luis Avalos was born on September 2, 1946 in Havana, Cuba. He was an actor and director, known for The Ringer (2005), Hollywood Homicide (2003) and Resurrection Blvd. (2000). He died on January 22, 2014 in Burbank, California, USA.
4. Joe Don Baker
Actor | GoldenEye
Tall, broad shouldered character actor with Texan drawl first appeared in support in several Western vehicles both on TV and the cinema in the mid 1960s. Got himself noticed playing Steve McQueen's younger brother in Junior Bonner (1972), and then scored the lead role of Buford Pusser (!) in the ...
5. Bob Balaban
Actor | Gosford Park
Bob Balaban was born on August 16, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since April 1, 1977. They have two children.
6. Daniel Baldwin
Actor | Hawaii Five-0
Daniel Baldwin was born on October 5, 1960 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Hawaii Five-0 (2010), Grimm (2011) and Cold Case (2003). He has been married to Joanne Smith-Baldwin since July 28, 2007. They have two children. He was previously married to ...
7. Brian Bonsall
Actor | Family Ties
Brian was born in Torrance California in 1981, and grew up as a child actor in Hollywood. He filled a variety of roles, during his acting career between the ages of three and fourteen, which include "Andy Keaton" on Family Ties (1982); Worf's son "Alexander Rozshenko" on Star Trek: The Next ...
8. James Caan
Actor | Thief
A masculine and enigmatic actor whose life and movie career have had more ups and downs than the average rollercoaster and whose selection of roles has arguably derailed him from achieving true superstar status, James Caan is New York-born and bred.
He was born in the Bronx, to Sophie (Falkenstein) ...
9. Myrna Cabello
Actress | A Most Violent Year
Myrna Cabello is known for A Most Violent Year (2014), Confession Cam: The Clooney Tapes (2010) and Strawberry Cake (2020).
10. Darlene Cates
Actress | What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Cates' acting career ignited after she appeared on an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael (1983), titled "Too Heavy to Leave Their House". Shortly after, author and screenwriter Peter Hedges proposed to her that she play Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio's morbidly obese and housebound mother in What's ...
11. Chris Cooper
Actor | Adaptation.
Christopher Walton Cooper was born in Kansas City, Missouri, to Mary Ann (Walton), a homemaker, and Charles Sherwood Cooper, a cattleman and internist who served as a doctor in the US Air Force. His parents were from Texas, where Cooper was raised.
Educated at the University of Missouri school of ...
12. Sonny Carl Davis
Actor | Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Sonny Carl Davis' career began in the 70's Austin Tx. music scene with The Uranium Savages. They performed musical comedy with songs like "Edie Amin is my Yardman" & "Kill Yourself". He met Eagle Pinnell, a local filmmaker who cast him in the short: "A Hell Of A Note". That led to the feature "The ...
13. Blue Deckert
Actor | The Rookie
Blue Deckert was born on January 20, 1951 in Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for The Rookie (2002), Michael (1996) and The Stepfather (2009).
14. 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 ...
15. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
16. Bob Dishy
Actor | Along Came Polly
Bob Dishy was born on January 12, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Along Came Polly (2004), The Wackness (2008) and Don Juan DeMarco (1994). He has been married to Judy Graubart since 1986. They have two children.
17. Rick Ducommun
Actor | The 'Burbs
Once an overweight comic from Canada, Rick Ducommun slimmed down in the late 1980s and went on to tackle solid co-starring roles in feature films and TV, as well as headline several HBO and other pay-cable specials.
Ducommun grew up on a farm, the son of an entrepreneur father with whom he did not ...
18. Karen Duffy
Actress | Dumb and Dumber
Karen "Duff" Duffy is an American writer, model, television personality, and actress. She is a certified hospital chaplain, a former Coney Island Mermaid Queen, and one of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 1993. In 1995, Duffy was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease sarcoidosis ...
19. Shelley Duvall
Actress | The Shining
Shelley Alexis Duvall was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the first child to Bobbie Ruth (Massengale, 1929-2020), a real estate broker, and Robert Richardson Duvall (1919-1994), a lawyer. At the time of her birth, her mother was visiting her grandmother in Fort Worth, though Duvall was raised in Houston...
20. Fred Ellis
Actor | Pure Country
Fred Ellis is known for Pure Country (1992), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) and Attraction (2000).
21. Miguel Ferrer
Actor | Traffic
Miguel Ferrer was an American actor known for playing Morton from RoboCop, Shan Yu from Mulan, Martian Manhunter from Justice League: The New Frontier, Slade Wilson from Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Death from Adventure Time, Sesa Refumee from Halo 2 and Vice President Rodriguez from Iron Man 3...
22. Gabriel Folse
Actor | Wyatt Earp
Gabriel Folse was born on September 2, 1955 in Austin, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Wyatt Earp (1994), Arlington Road (1999) and Miss Congeniality (2000). He has been married to Litsa Condon since April 2, 2016. He was previously married to Tracy J. Horvath.
23. 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), ...
24. Mona Lee Fultz
Actress | Virgin Cheerleaders in Chains
Mona Lee Fultz is a German-born American actress and Juilliard graduate with more than 50 films, TV movies, and commercials to her credit. She also has extensive theatrical experience including performances at Lincoln Center in New York City. She's a working actress whose 40-year career includes ...
25. M.C. Gainey
Actor | Club Dread
M.C. Gainey was born on January 18, 1948 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Club Dread (2004), Wild Hogs (2007) and Con Air (1997). He has been married to Kim since May 2, 2002.
26. Harry Goaz
Actor | Twin Peaks
Born in North Carolina, grew up in Beaumont, Texas, Harry Goaz did not become interested in acting until after he graduated from the University of Texas. He then settled in Los Angeles and studied acting under Bill Traylor at The Loft while working as a driver. He first met David Lynch while ...
27. Peter Gallagher
Actor | American Beauty
Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor. Since 1980, he has played roles in numerous Hollywood films. He is best known for starring as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007, recurring roles such as Deputy Chief William Dodds on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,...
28. Babs George
Actress | Friday Night Lights
Babs George founded The Actor's School (formerly the State Theatre School of Acting) in 1993 and has been the Director since its inception. She is a professional actress and has been a member of SAG and AEA for over 30 years. Babs graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA in Performance from the ...
29. Laura Harrington
Actress | Maximum Overdrive
Laura Harrington was born on April 29, 1958 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Maximum Overdrive (1986), The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and Paulie (1998).
30. Philip Seymour Hoffman
Actor | The Master
Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York, suburb of Fairport to Marilyn (Loucks), a lawyer and judge, and Gordon Stowell Hoffman, a Xerox employee, and was mostly of German, Irish, English and Dutch ancestry. After becoming involved in ...
31. David Jensen
Actor | Midnight Special
Character actor David Jensen born in DuQuoin, Illinois. Studied theater at LSU with John Dennis and worked the early film work of Steven Soderbergh culminating with Schizopolis a low budget comedy in the spirit of Richard Lester and Bunuel. Known for The Mist, Midnight Special, Benjamin Buttons, ...
32. Mike Judge
Writer | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, film director, screenwriter, and television producer.
In 1962, Judge was born in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador and the country's main port. His parents were expatriate Americans. His father was archaeologist William James Judge and his mother was ...
33. Jeff Kober
Actor | Sully
Jeff Kober was born in Billings, Montana on December 18, 1953. Not satisfied with being a rancher, Kober relocated to the L.A. area in his twenties with the desire to become an actor. His first appearance on the small screen was a non-billed role in the 1980s series V (1984). Kober went on to ...
34. Cloris Leachman
Actress | The Last Picture Show
The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...
35. Michael Lerner
Actor | Barton Fink
Michael Lerner was an American actor from New York City, the older brother of actor Ken Lerner. He was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the domineering studio head Jack Lipnick in "Barton Fink" (1991). Other well-known roles include crime boss Arnold ...
36. Richard Linklater
Director | Waking Life
Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...
37. Tone Loc
Actor | Heat
Tone Loc was born on March 3, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Heat (1995), Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Titan A.E. (2000).
39. John C. McGinley
Actor | Scrubs
John C. McGinley's path to stardom is a story that reads like a classic Hollywood script. While an understudy in New York in the Circle-In-The-Square production of John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea," he was spotted by director Oliver Stone and soon after was cast in "Platoon," the...
40. Alex Morris
Actor | Guess Who
Alex Morris was born in Chicago, Illinois but proud to be raised in Pembroke Township, and is a lifelong die hard Cubs fan. Alex is proud to have been nominated for an Emmy Award nomination for his iconic role as Ken in the cult hit TV Series 'Baskets' with the great Louie Anderson and Zach ...
41. Edwin Neal
Actor | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Edwin Neal was born in Houston, Texas, USA. Following high school, he studied with Zula Pearson at Lon Morris in Jacksonville, Texas, before moving on to acting and directing studies with B. Iden Payne at the University of Texas Drama Department. While there, he auditioned for role of HitchHiker in...
42. Eric Norris
Actor | Universal Soldier
Eric Norris was born in 1965 and is the youngest son of Chuck Norris.
He started his career as a Stunt Man at a young age, then later graduated to Stunt Coordinating, 2nd Unit Directing and eventually Directing Main Unit.
He's Married with 3 Daughters- Camrynn, Chloe and Chantz and has one son Cash ...
43. Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress | Shakespeare in Love
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of noted producer and director Bruce Paltrow and Tony Award-winning actress Blythe Danner. Her father was from a Jewish family, while her mother is of mostly German descent. When Gwyneth was eleven, the family moved to Massachusetts, where ...
44. Austin Pendleton
Actor | What's Up, Doc?
Actor Austin Pendleton was born March 27, 1940 in Warren, Ohio to Frances and Thorn Pendleton. He graduated from Yale University. He later became an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, and acted in several of the theater's productions. His first film appearance was in Petulia (...
45. Diane Perella
Actress | DC Universe Online
Diane Perella is known for DC Universe Online (2011), Lost Angels (1989) and The Teller and the Truth (2015).
46. Marco Perella
Actor | Boyhood
Marco Perella was born on May 18, 1949 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Boyhood (2014), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Friday Night Lights (2004). He has been married to Diane Perella since 1984. They have two children.
47. Tonie Perensky
Actress | The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Raised in Canada, Tonie has a rich theater background. At the age of 16, she was voted "Top Teen Actor in the Provence." This award was given to her, no doubt, as a result of her experience as a gifted protege, who at the age of 13, was selected to be part of a unique program that had her working ...
48. Dennis Quaid
Actor | Far from Heaven
Dennis William Quaid was born on April 9, 1954 in Houston, Texas to Juanita Bonniedale "Nita" Quaid (née Jordan), a real estate agent & William Rudy Quaid, an electrician. He grew up in the Houston suburban city of Bellaire. He was raised a Baptist, and studied drama, Mandarin Chinese, and dance ...
49. James Rebhorn
Actor | Independence Day
James Robert Rebhorn (September 1, 1948 - March 21, 2014) was an American actor who appeared in over 100 films, television series, and plays. At the time of his death, he had recurring roles in the current series White Collar and Homeland.
An early performance was in Butterflies are Free at the ...
50. Meg Ryan
Actress | When Harry Met Sally...
Blonde-haired, blue-eyed with an effervescent personality, Meg Ryan was born Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra in Fairfield, Connecticut, to Susan (Duggan), an English teacher and one-time actress, and Harry Hyra, a math teacher. She is of Ruthenian, Polish, Irish, and German ancestry ("Hyra" is a ...
51. Timothy Scott
Actor | Fried Green Tomatoes
Tim Scott was tall and thin, who sometimes went unshaven, and because of this rough yet unthreatening appearance he was often cast in westerns. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, but as a young boy moved with his family to Albuquerque, New Mexico. He loved the theater deeply and he became the ...
52. Elisabeth Shue
Actress | Leaving Las Vegas
Elisabeth Shue was born in Wilmington, Delaware, to Anne Brewster (Wells), who worked for the Chemical Banking Corporation, and James William Shue, a lawyer and real estate developer. She is of German and English ancestry, including descent from Mayflower passengers. Shue's parents divorced while ...
53. Joe Stevens
Actor | True Grit
Joe Stevens was born in Quantico, Virginia, USA. He is known for True Grit (2010), Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) and American Outlaws (2001).
54. Randy Stripling
Actor | October Sky
Randy Stripling was born on May 13, 1948 in the USA. He was an actor, known for October Sky (1999), Lone Star (1996) and Keys to Tulsa (1997). He died on April 16, 2020 in Texas, USA(undisclosed).
55. Brandon Smith
Actor | Powder
Brandon Smith was born on August 13, 1952 in Harris County, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Powder (1995), Jeepers Creepers (2001) and Bernie (2011). He was married to Margaret Laurence. He died on October 27, 2023 in Houston, Texas, USA.
56. Wes Studi
Actor | The Last of the Mohicans
From small-town Oklahoma native to internationally acclaimed actor and musician, Wes Studi credits his passion and multi-faceted background for his powerful character portrayals that forever changed a Hollywood stereotype. Within a few years of his arrival in Hollywood, Studi caught the attention ...
57. Julius Tennon
Actor | The Woman King
Julius Tennon is an accomplished film, television, and theatre producer and actor with over thirty years of experience. A native of Austin, Texas, he began as both a thespian and a star linebacker. Julius was offered a full football scholarship to the University of Tulsa, where he became the very ...
58. Paul Willson
Actor | Office Space
Paul Willson was born on December 25, 1945 in Fairmont, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Office Space (1999), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and Barstow 2008 (2001).
59. Barbara Alyn Woods
Actress | One Tree Hill
Barbara Alyn Woods was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Barbara Alyn is an actor, known for One Tree Hill (2003), Striptease (1996) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987). Barbara Alyn has been married to John Lind since 1999. They have three children.
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