Snakes on a Plane 2006 premiere

by thatgalaredcarpeteventguy | created - 19 Jun 2021 | updated - 20 Jun 2021 | Public

Thursday August 17th, TCL Chinese Theatre 6925 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028

1. 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), ...

2. Holly Robinson Peete

Actress | 21 Jump Street

Holly Robinson Peete was born on September 18, 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for 21 Jump Street (1987), For Your Love (1998) and 21 Jump Street (2012). She has been married to Rodney Peete since June 10, 1995. They have four children.

3. Cameron Goodman

Actress | The Informers

She was born in Texas but grew up in Washington D.C. Goodman has been in multiple movies; first starting out in 2002 as a freshman doing her comedic acting at Syracuse University on a show called SU Live. In 2003, she left Syracuse and transferred to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Goodman...

4. Ethan Embry

Actor | Sweet Home Alabama

Ethan Embry was born Ethan Philan Randall on June 13, 1978, in Huntington Beach, California, to Karen and Charles Randall. Before he started acting in movies, Ethan appeared in more than 100 TV and radio commercials. In 1991, at the age of 13, he appeared in three films and has continued acting ...

5. Sunny Mabrey

Actress | Hillbilly Elegy

Sunny Mabrey is an actress, writer, and comedian who hails from Rainbow City, Alabama. After traveling the world on the modeling circuit for a year following high school, Sunny went on to graduate with a B.A. in Theatre from University of Mobile, a small liberal arts school where she discovered her...

6. Lin Shaye

Actress | Insidious

Lin attended the University of Michigan, where she was an Art History major, although acting in as many University productions as possible, including "Bye Bye Birdie" and "On The Town". After U of M, she attended Columbia University School of the Arts, and acquired a Master of Fine Arts degree in ...

7. Annabella Sciorra

Actress | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Annabella Sciorra was born on March 29, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Annabella is an actor and producer, known for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992) and Jungle Fever (1991). Annabella was previously married to Joe Petruzzi.

8. Bobby Cannavale

Actor | The Station Agent

In both career and in real life, Bobby Cannavale tends to choose the unconventional way of doing things. In the beginning, his decisions may have cost the dark, swarthily good-looking actor some acting roles and/or good-paying parts but, in the end, his strong work ethic and sense of self, despite ...

10. David R. Ellis

Assistant_director | The Matrix Reloaded

Began as an actor in Kurt Russell-Disney Films in 1974. Made the switch to the Stunt world following a successful career as a junior pro surfer. Born, bred, and resided in Malibu. Many, many stunts later, David made the promotion to Stunt Coordinator in 1978 on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)....

11. Jimmy Jam

Self | 64th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony

Jimmy Jam was born on June 6, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for 64th Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony (2022). He has been married to Lisa Padilla since June 25, 1994. They have three children.

12. Nathan Phillips

Actor | Snakes on a Plane

Currently best known for his role as backpacker Ben Mitchell in Wolf Creek (2005). He began his career in the traditional rites-of-passage for Australian actors with a role in Neighbours (1985) in 1999. He worked entirely in television until 2001, with roles in The Wonderful World of Disney: Child ...

13. Byron Lawson

Actor | Snakes on a Plane

Byron Lawson was born and raised in Vancouver B.C. Canada. After having studied Robotics Engineering at the University of British Columbia. Byron decided to focus on his love of film and acting and put his then job as project manager for a major property developer on hold. Since then Byron has ...

14. Emmanuelle Vaugier

Actress | Saw II

Emmanuelle Vaugier is a Canadian actress and model. She began acting in grade school, after she was cast as an understudy in a play and had to fill in when the lead actor became ill. She modeled in Japan for three years. She made her acting debut in the 1995 made-for-TV movie drama, A Family ...

15. Flex Alexander

Actor | Snakes on a Plane

Flex Alexander was born on April 15, 1970 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), One on One (2001) and The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007). He has been married to Shanice since February 14, 2000. They have two children.

16. Rachel Blanchard

Actress | The Summer I Turned Pretty

Rachel attended Havergal College, an all girls school in Toronto. After high school she went on to attend Queens university in Kingston, Ontario Canada. To prepare for her role as Cher in the Clueless (1996) TV series, Rachel actually did go to some high schools in L.A. where she was surprised to ...

17. Elsa Pataky

Actress | Furious 6

Elsa Pataky was born Elsa Lafuente Medianu in Madrid, Spain. Her mother, Cristina Pataky Medianu, is a publicist of Romanian and Hungarian ancestry, and her father, José Francisco Lafuente, is a Spanish biochemist. She attended the Universidad de San Pablo CEU where she studied journalism and began...

18. Kelly Osbourne

Actress | Austin Powers in Goldmember

Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne is a British actress, singer, fashion model and television personality from Westminster, London. She is the daughter of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. She is known for her roles in Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Masked Singer UK, Phineas & Ferb, The Muppets Wizard of Oz and...

19. Bruce James

Actor | Snakes on a Plane

Born and raised in the Okanagan Valley, the Irish/English Bruce left Kelowna shortly after highschool graduation and crossed the mountains to attend Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. There, he studied a range of varied topics like film noir, world literature, greek mythology, art history, stage...

20. Maja Ivarsson

Soundtrack | Snakes on a Plane

Maja Ivarsson was born on October 2, 1979 in Åhus, Skåne, Sweden. She is an actress and composer, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), Music and Lyrics (2007) and Final Destination 3 (2006).

21. Felix Rodriguez

Soundtrack | Music and Lyrics

Felix Rodriguez is known for Music and Lyrics (2007), Scream 4 (2011) and Final Destination 3 (2006).

22. Jesper Anderberg

Soundtrack | Music and Lyrics

Jesper Anderberg is known for Music and Lyrics (2007), Scream 4 (2011) and Final Destination 3 (2006).

23. Fredrik Bond

Director | The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman

Fredrik Bond was born on January 18, 1978 in Bjursås, Dalarna, Sweden. He is a director and actor, known for Charlie Countryman (2013), Apple iPhone: Nap (2019) and Coca-Cola Light: Take It Lightly (2019).

24. Kenan Thompson

Actor | Saturday Night Live

Kenan Thompson was born on May 10, 1978 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), Snakes on a Plane (2006) and Good Burger (1997). He has been married to Christina Evangeline since November 11, 2011. They have two children.

25. Pete Wentz

Soundtrack | Big Hero 6

Pete Wentz, the bassist and primary lyricist for the Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy, was born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III in Wilmette, Illinois. He is the son of Dale (Lewis), a high school admissions counselor, and Pete Wentz, an attorney. His grandfather, Arthur Winston Lewis, served as U.S. ...

26. Andrew Hurley

Soundtrack | Big Hero 6

Andrew Hurley was born on May 31, 1980 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Big Hero 6 (2014), The Fog (2005) and Stick It (2006). He has been married to Meredith Allen since February 14, 2024.

27. Amber Tamblyn

Actress | The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Amber Rose Tamblyn was born May 14, 1983 in Santa Monica, California. Amber caught an agent's eye at the age of ten after a performance in "Pippi Longstocking". She has appeared in Live Nude Girls (1995) and Johnny Mysto: Boy Wizard (1997). In addition, her most popular role has been the role of "...

28. Amy Poehler

Actress | Inside Out

Amy Meredith Poehler was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to high school teachers Eileen Frances (Milmore) and William Grinstead Poehler. Her brother is comedian Greg Poehler. She is of Irish (from her mother) and English, Irish, German, and Portuguese (from her father) descent. Amy was first ...

29. Gabe Saporta

Soundtrack | Snakes on a Plane

Gabe was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, to Jeanette Grauer and Diego Saporta. He is of Sephardi Jewish and Ashkenazi Jewish descent. Originally, his music career started in the punk-rock band 'Humble Beginnings.' From 1998 - 2004, Gabe was in the band Midtown from New Jersey. In 2006, he formed the ...

31. Elisa Schwartz

Producer | Ghost Hunters

Elisa Schwartz is known for Ghost Hunters (2004), Look Who's Stalking (2013) and Style Court (2003).

32. Ryland Blackinton

Soundtrack | Murder Mystery

Ryland Blackinton is known for Murder Mystery (2019), TMNT (2007) and ALGORITHM (2021).

33. Alex Suarez

Soundtrack | Disobedience

Alex Suarez is known for Disobedience (2017), Midnight Sun (2018) and TMNT (2007).

34. Julianna Margulies

Actress | ER

Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley (near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca (Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies, an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, ...

35. Victoria Rowell

Actress | Dumb and Dumber

Victoria Rowell is an award-winning actress, international lecturer, holds two 'honorary' doctorates - a teacher, advocate, mother, and former foster youth. She has been recognized by 193 members of Congress for advocacy work on behalf of education, arts, foster and adoptive youth and parents as ...

36. Jules Sylvester

Jurassic Park

Jules Sylvester was born on November 13, 1950 in Devon, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Jurassic Park (1993), Hard Target (1993) and Turner & Hooch (1989). He has been married to Sue Sylvester since March 13, 1987. They have two children.

37. Rolf Mittweg

Producer | Run Fatboy Run

Rolf Mittweg is known for Run Fatboy Run (2007), The New World (2005) and My Own Private Idaho (1991).

38. Russell Schwartz

Producer | Down by Law

Russell Schwartz was born in 1948. He is known for Down by Law (1986), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988) and They All Laughed (1981).

39. Vanessa Williams

Actress | Candyman

Vanessa Estelle Williams (Actress, Singer, Writer, Director) born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, is a talented force that came to Hollywood in the 90's with passion purpose and staying power. This highly sought-after creative artist wrapped "A Rich Christmas" a feature film for BET this past December ...

40. James Pickens Jr.

Actor | Grey's Anatomy

James Pickens Jr. was born October 26, 1954 in Cleveland, Ohio. While attending college at Bowling Green State University, Pickens began pursuing an interest in acting. He graduated from BGSU with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1976. Afterwards, Pickens began work on the stage at the Roundabout Theatre...

41. Shanice

Soundtrack | Boomerang

Shanice Wilson has been singing since she was only 7 months old and throughout the years she just kept getting better and better. At the age of 8, she was picked to sing in a Kentucky Fried Chicken Commercial with the legendary Ella Fitzgerald and and was also a first prize winner on the talent tv ...

42. Sticky Fingaz

Actor | Flight of the Phoenix

Kirk Jones better known by his stage name Sticky Fingaz, is an American hardcore rapper, record producer, and actor best known as a member of multi-platinum hardcore rap group Onyx. Sticky Fingaz was discovered by Jam Master Jay of Run-D.M.C., who signed Onyx on his label JMJ Records provided that ...

43. Chris Keyes

Producer | Prize Fighter

Chris Keyes is known for Prize Fighter (2015), Closer to God (2014) and Because I Could Not Stop for Death (2014).

44. Carla Gugino

Actress | Watchmen

Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But ...

45. Travie McCoy

Soundtrack | Snakes on a Plane

Travie McCoy was born on August 6, 1981 in Geneva, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), Never Back Down (2008) and I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009).

46. Matt McGinley

Soundtrack | Never Back Down

Matt McGinley is known for Never Back Down (2008), I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) and TMNT (2007).

47. Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo

Soundtrack | Never Back Down

Disashi Lumumba-Kasongo is known for Never Back Down (2008), I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) and TMNT (2007).

48. Eric Roberts

Music_department | East Side Showdown

Eric Roberts is known for East Side Showdown (1998).

49. Trevor Rabin

Composer | Deep Blue Sea

Trevor Rabin was born in South Africa in 1954. He began playing guitar at the age of 12 after having had piano lessons since he was a toddler. In 1972 he formed the band Rabbit becoming the most successful rock act ever to emerge from South Africa. Rabin left Rabbit to pursue a solo career in ...

50. Clifton Collins Jr.

Actor | Star Trek

An acting chameleon who can easily lose himself in the life of his film and television characters, Clifton Collins Jr. is a native Angeleno who grew up destined to become a part of the Latino entertainment industry. His great-grandparents on his mother's side were a Mexican trumpet player and ...

51. Gary Dourdan

Actor | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

From the time he was a young lad, Gary Dourdan knew that he wanted to be an actor. Despite a myriad of interests, which included music, athletics and even break dancing, Dourdan focused much of his passion centered on acting. His determination, of course, eventually paid off - after an increasing ...

52. Samantha Mathis

Actress | Broken Arrow

Samantha Mathis was born in 1970 in New York, to Donald Mathis and Austrian-born Bibi Besch, an aspiring actress at the time. Her maternal grandmother was actress Gusti Huber. Her first acting job was in a commercial for baby products with her mother. Since her parents divorced when she was only ...

53. Amber Hay

Actress | Beerfest

Slim and sexy blonde knockout Amber Hay was born on July 27, 1987 in Oahu, Hawaii. Amber grew up traveling all over the world in Costa Rica, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand. She decided at age fourteen to pursue a career as both an actress and a model. Hay made her professional debut as "Cali ...

54. 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 ...

55. Brian Finkelstein

Writer | Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Brian Finkelstein is known for The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003), The Morning After (2011) and Boo! (2019).

56. Tygh Runyan

Actor | Versailles

Tygh Runyan is an award-winning actor, best known for his work in feature films such as 15 Minutes (2001) with Robert DeNiro, K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) with Harrison Ford & Liam Neesen, Antitrust (2001) with Tim Robbins, and Snakes on a Plane (2006) with Samuel L. Jackson. With a passion for ...

57. Sarah Lind

Actress | Edgemont

Sarah Lind was born on July 22, 1982 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. She is an actress and director, known for Edgemont (2000), The Great Christmas Switch (2021) and The Humanity Bureau (2017). She was previously married to Tygh Runyan.

58. Cindy Ellis

Stunts | Soldier

Cindy Ellis is known for Soldier (1998), Cellular (2004) and Shark Night (2011). She was previously married to David R. Ellis.

59. Samantha Harris

Actress | Baywatch

A seasoned entertainment news journalist and two-time Emmy-nominated TV personality, Samantha Harris is currently seen on the world's #1 entertainment news program, Entertainment Tonight (1981), as a correspondent. In just her first months with the show, she covered the Cannes Film Festival, ...

60. Brie Larson

Actress | Room

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...

61. Diora Baird

Actress | Wedding Crashers

Diora Baird is an actress and former model. Born in Miami, Florida, she first entered into acting after her mother enrolled her into acting class. She had the dream of becoming an actress from her early childhood. To pursue the career in acting she moved to Los Angeles when she was only 17. She ...

62. Dave Winfield

Producer | We Play Ball

Dave Winfield, the hard-hitting, Gold Glove outfielder who put together a Hall of Fame career with the San Diego Padres, the New York Yankees, the California Angels and the Toronto Blue Jays (with which he won a World Series Championship in 1992), Minnesota Twins (1993-1994), and Cleveland Indians ...

63. Joe Francis

Actor | Texas Frightmare Massacre

Joe was born early one January morning during the year of our lord, nineteen-eighty. A year or so after being born Joe moved with his then parents to Whitney, Texas where he lived out his infancy in an old trolley car. His parents divorced around age three, where Joe always held his father in high ...

64. Chris Rock

Actor | Top Five

Christopher Julius Rock was born in Andrews, South Carolina and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He is the son of Rosalie (Tingman), a teacher and social worker for the mentally handicapped, and Julius Rock, a truck driver and newspaper deliveryman, whose own father was a preacher.

...

66. 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.

67. Shawn M. Richardz

Actress | Nochebuena

Shawn M. Richardz is known for Nochebuena (2023), The Last Altruist (2022) and Treme (2010).

68. Shedrack Anderson III

Actor | Fat Albert

Shedrack Anderson III is an African American actor, dancer, singer, entrepreneur, writer/directors. He got his big break as a lost boy in the Steven Spielberg film "Hook", he then starred in the NBC hit teen series Just Deal as the lovable Jermaine Green. He then became known to a world wide ...

69. John Heffernan

Actor | Eye in the Sky

John was born in Billericay in Essex in 1981 to a couple of teachers, one of four brothers. He became interested in theatre as a young boy watching The Animated Shakespeare Tales on television and, when his parents separated and he moved with his mother to a village near to Stratford-on-Avon he ...

70. David Koechner

Actor | Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Actor, writer and producer David Michael Koechner was born in Tipton, Missouri, to Margaret Ann (Downey) and Cecil Stephen Koechner, who ran a turkey coop manufacturing business. He is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. An alumnus of Chicago's Second City Theater, Koechner got his first break ...

71. Todd Louiso

Actor | High Fidelity

In 2015, an adaptation Todd and his writing partner created of Shakespeare's Macbeth for See-Saw Films (The King's Speech and Shame) premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, was released by The Weinstein Company this past ...

72. Terry Chen

Actor | Almost Famous

Terry Keli Chen was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He moved around growing up but was raised mainly in Alberta and on the West coast. After dropping out of the University of Calgary he spent two years traveling throughout Cuba and the Cayman Islands. Terry moved back to Vancouver, British ...

73. Mark Houghton

Actor | Elektra

Mark is an American actor/filmmaker trained in Los Angeles and New York that has performed onstage in New York, Los Angeles and London, England. Some of those productions include lead roles in; Shepard's 'True West', Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot', Shakespeare's 'Timon of Athens' and Mamet's 'The ...

74. Tom Butler

Actor | Freddy vs. Jason

Tom Butler was born in 1951 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Freddy vs. Jason (2003), Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and Josie and the Pussycats (2001).

75. Taylor Kitsch

Actor | X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Best known for his portrayal of troubled high school football star "Tim Riggins" on NBC's acclaimed television series, Friday Night Lights (2006), actor Taylor Kitsch has scored big with audiences and critics on both the big and small screens.

Taylor Kitsch was born on April 8, 1981 in Kelowna, ...

76. Samantha McLeod

Actress | Snakes on a Plane

Samantha McLeod is known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), John Tucker Must Die (2006) and The L Word (2004).

77. Kevin McNulty

Actor | Snakes on a Plane

Canadian-born actor Kevin McNulty, can be described as being a prolific performer of film and television. Born in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Kevin grew up in Rossland, British Columbia. He studied music and acting at Washington State University and graduated from Studio 58, Langara ...

78. Craig Berenson

Producer | Snakes on a Plane

Craig Berenson was born on February 8, 1959 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and Airplane! (1980).

79. Don Granger

Producer | The Tomorrow War

As President of Feature Film Production at Skydance, Don Granger is responsible for overseeing the development and production of the Company's robust feature film slate, including Top Gun: Maverick, The Tomorrow War, Snake Eyes, The Adam Project and the upcoming seventh and eighth installments of ...

80. Gary Levinsohn

Producer | Saving Private Ryan

Gary Levinsohn was born in 1959 in South Africa. He is a producer, known for Saving Private Ryan (1998), 12 Monkeys (1995) and Virus (1999).

81. Sebastian Gutierrez

Writer | Elizabeth Harvest

Sebastian Gutierrez was born on September 10, 1974 in Caracas, Venezuela. He is a writer and director, known for Elizabeth Harvest (2018), Judas Kiss (1998) and Girl Walks Into a Bar (2011).

82. David Dalessandro

Writer | Snakes on a Plane

David Dalessandro is known for Snakes on a Plane (2006), 43rd Annual Stone Lion Writer's Conference (2010) and Slwc (2011).

83. Adam Greenberg

Cinematographer | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Adam Greenberg was born on April 11, 1937 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He is a cinematographer, known for Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Ghost (1990) and The Terminator (1984).

84. Howard E. Smith

Editor | The Abyss

Howard E. Smith grew up in Chicago, Illinois. While at Northwestern University in the late 60s he wrote, directed, shot and edited over 50 short films and while there received one of the first AFI grants to independent filmmakers. With that grant he made the award winning short, "Still?" Smith was ...

85. Brandon Routh

Actor | Superman Returns

Brandon James Routh (pronounced like "south") was born in Des Moines, Iowa, and grew up in nearby Norwalk. He is the son of Catherine (Lear), a teacher, and Ronald Routh, a carpenter. He has English, Scottish, and German ancestry. Brandon attended the University of Iowa and starred in many ...

86. Clive Owen

Actor | Children of Men

British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...

87. Daniel Craig

Actor | Casino Royale

One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).

He was born ...

88. Hugh Jackman

Actor | Les Misérables

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...

89. Tom Cruise

Actor | Top Gun

In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...

90. Will Ferrell

Producer | Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.

A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student ...

91. Michael C. Hall

Actor | Dexter

Michael C. Hall was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Janice (Styons), a guidance counselor, and William Carlyle Hall, who worked for IBM. Michael is a graduate of NYU's Master of Fine Arts program in acting. He is known for the titular character "Dexter" in Dexter (2006) and as mortician "David ...

92. Edward James Olmos

Actor | Battlestar Galactica

Born February 24, 1947, in East Los Angeles, at The First Japanese Hospital to Pedro Olmos and Eleanor Huizar. Raised on Cheesebrough's Lane, he attended Greenwood Elementary and Montebello Junior High. He then graduated from Montebello High School in 1964. After which he received an Associative ...

93. Kiefer Sutherland

Actor | 24

Kiefer Sutherland was born in London, England, UK, to Canadian actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland, who moved to California shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who was a Premier of Saskatchewan for over 17 years and led ...

94. 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), ...

95. Matt Dallas

Actor | Kyle XY

Matthew Joseph "Matt" Dallas born October 21, 1982 is an American actor, best known for playing the title character on the ABC Family series Kyle XY. Dallas was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and attended Arizona School for the Arts. He has two younger brothers and one younger sister. He became ...

96. Noah Wyle

Actor | ER

Noah Wyle was born in Hollywood, California, to Marjorie (Speer), an orthopedic head nurse, and Stephen Wyle, an entrepreneur and electrical engineer. He is one of six children. His father's family was Russian Jewish. Noah had early support for his acting ambitions from his stepfather, film ...

97. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

98. Judi Dench

Actress | Skyfall

Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...

99. Kate Bosworth

Actress | Superman Returns

Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to Patricia (Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, who was an executive for Talbots. Unlike the characters Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film, which are known as "townies", Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and...

100. Maggie Gyllenhaal

Actress | Secretary

Maggie Gyllenhaal was born on November 16, 1977 in New York City, New York as Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal, the daughter of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...



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