Behind The Camera

1. Wes Anderson

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

2. Warwick Davis

Actor | Willow

English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he ...

3. Chris Cornell

Soundtrack | Casino Royale

Chris Cornell was a rock icon who thrived on contradictions. An innovator who resisted genre labels, he was nonetheless a chief architect of the 90s grunge movement. Frequently ranked as one of the best voices in music history, he successfully maintained his own unique identity over decades as a ...

4. Oscar Isaac

Actor | Ex Machina

Oscar Isaac was born Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada in Guatemala, to a Guatemalan mother, María Eugenia, and a Cuban father, Oscar Gonzalo Hernández-Cano, a pulmonologist. Oscar was raised in Miami, Florida. Before he became an actor, he played lead guitar and sang vocals in his band the Blinking ...

5. Charlotte Le Bon

Actress | The Hundred-Foot Journey

Charlotte Le Bon is a French Canadian actress, model and television presenter. She is best known for her work in the Canal+ talk show Le Grand Journal, and the films The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014), The Walk (2015), and The Promise (2016).

Le Bon began modelling at 16 years old and left Canada when ...

6. Jason Pollock

Producer | The Youngest Candidate

Jason Pollock is a filmmaker, writer and Founder of Boom Content. Boom Content is Pollock's creative agency, which operates in NYC, LA, DC, and STL.

Pollock has been a featured speaker at many high schools, universities, and major events including the 'Aspen Ideas Festival', Inc. Magazine's 'Inc. ...

Ashley Bell made her feature film debut in Lionsgate and Strike Entertainment's thriller, The Last Exorcism (2010). Her performance garnered her an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and an MTV Movie Award nomination, while the film grossed nearly $70 million, worldwide...

10. Alex Wagner

Actress | Billions

Alex Wagner is the host of MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner (2011) (weekdays at noon ET). She had been an MSNBC analyst and a frequent MSNBC guest since 2010. She was also a reporter with Huffington Post, where she covered innovation in the American economy, investigating the intersection of business, ...

11. Mark McKinnon

Producer | The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth

Mark McKinnon is known for The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (2016), Democrazy (2007) and The Bush Years: Family, Duty, Power (2019).

12. Nicholas Denmon

Actor | Wolf Hound

Nicholas Denmon went to the University of Florida. An actor and also a writer, Nicholas has published four novels, two collected works of poetry, and winning Silver Medalist, Fiction Novelist of The Year 2018. His is the mind behind the For Nothing television series, having created the novels that ...

13. Joe Hill

Writer | The Black Phone

Joseph Hillstrom King or Joe Hill is an American writer born in Hermon, Maine. He is the son of writer Stephen King and Tabitha King. Joe published his first book (a collection of horror stories called '20th Century Ghosts') in 2005:. It won the Bram Stoker Award and the British Fantasy Award for ...

14. Timothée Chalamet

Actor | Call Me by Your Name

Timothée Hal Chalamet was born in Manhattan, to Nicole Flender, a real estate broker and dancer, and Marc Chalamet, a UNICEF editor. His mother, who is from New York, is Jewish, of Russian Jewish and Austrian Jewish descent. His father, who is from Nîmes, France, is of French and English ancestry. ...

15. Laura Farber

Producer | We Are Columbine

I'm a documentary filmmaker. Before starting my professional career, I studied Cinema Art & Science at Columbia College Chicago and graduated with a BA in Fine Arts. After an initial internship at ABC Chicago, I was part of a mass-hire of associate producers at Towers Productions Chicago. My ...

16. Ramy Youssef

Actor | Ramy

Ramy Youssef was born on March 26, 1991 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Ramy (2019), Mr. Robot (2015) and Ramy Youssef: Feelings (2019).

17. Arturo Castro

Actor | Broad City

Arturo Castro is a Guatemalan actor best known for his portrayal of Jaimé Castro on the Comedy Central series Broad City, and David Rodríguez on the Netflix series Narcos. Castro hosted his own show, Conexion, on Guatemala's national network, a year before moving to New York City. In New York, he ...

18. Nicholas Koda

Camera_department | The Commuter

Nicholas Koda was born on September 1, 1989 in Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA. Nicholas is known for The Commuter (2018), A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013). Nicholas died on October 19, 2018 in New City, New York, USA.

19. Valerie Harper

Actress | Mary Tyler Moore

Making people laugh was only one facet of Valerie Harper's career, which extended from the stage to television and feature films. A native of Suffern, New York -- "I was born to suffer" -- Harper began her career as a dancer with the corps de ballet at Radio City Hall during its spectacular heyday....

20. Jason Ritter

Actor | Freddy vs. Jason

Jason will next be seen starring in MATLOCK for CBS opposite Kathy Bates, and he can mostly recently be seen in ACCUSED for FOX. He also starred in Netflix's RAISING DION and CANDY on Hulu. Previous television credits include starring in ABC's KEVIN SAVES THE WORLD as well as Comedy Central's ...

21. Heather Langenkamp

Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street

Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She got her start in acting when she was cast as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), which were both filmed in Tulsa. Her scenes were deleted from the final cut of both films. While studying at ...

22. Ben Whishaw

Actor | Skyfall

Proclaimed by many critics as one of the best young actors of his generation, Benjamin John Whishaw was born in Clifton, Bedfordshire, to Linda (Hope), who works in cosmetics, and Jose Whishaw, who works in information technology. He has a twin brother, James. He is of French, German, Russian (...

23. Allison Holker

The Happytime Murders

Specializing in contemporary, ballet, jazz and tap dancing, a nine-year-old Allison Holker began her training at "The Dance Club" in Orem, UT. She then began entering dance competitions, including her wins in Colorado - "Company Dance" (2004) and New York - "New York City Dance Alliance" (2005). ...

24. Stephen Boss

Actor | Step Up 3D

He was born in Montgomery, Alabama. He got his nickname, as a child, from popping and ticking, when he couldn't sit still.

In 2000, he graduated from Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama. He went on to study Dance Performance at Southern Union State Community College in Wadley, Alabama and Chapman...

25. Jordan Peele

Writer | Nope

Jordan Peele is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning director, writer, actor, producer, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions. Peele's first feature film, "Get Out," was a critically acclaimed blockbuster, recognized with four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The film would earn Peele the ...

26. James Corden

Producer | The Late Late Show with James Corden

Describing himself as the "chunky unit," James Kimberley Corden was born in Hillingdon, London, England and raised in Buckinghamshire, England, the son of Margaret (Collins), a social worker, and Malcolm Corden, a musician. He studied drama at the Jackie Palmer Stage School before going on to ...

27. Anne Hathaway

Actress | Les Misérables

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. She is of mostly Irish descent, along with English, German, and French. Her first major role came in the short-lived television series ...

28. Anthony Hopkins

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...

29. Luke Grimes

Actor | Fifty Shades of Grey

Luke Timothy Grimes is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the acclaimed film American Sniper, the Fifty Shades film series and the drama series Yellowstone (2018-present). Grimes was born in Dayton, Ohio, the son of a Pentecostal pastor. Grimes graduated from Dayton Christian High...

30. Rob Grabow

Actor | The Year of the Dog

Rob majored in finance at Gonzaga University, has a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and studied acting at the William Esper Studio and the Actor's Studio and Drama School MFA program in New York.

He also briefly played semi-professional basketball in Australia, ...

31. Belle Adams

Actress | Bless This Mess

Belle Adams was born on May 22, 1995 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Bless This Mess (2019), Perry Mason (2020) and S.W.A.T. (2017).

32. Pudge the Pig

Actor | This World Alone

Pudge the Pig is known for This World Alone (2018).

33. Lau'rie Roach

Actor | This World Alone

Lau'rie Roach is known for This World Alone (2018), Rules to Rule (2021) and Witnessed (2023).

34. Gordon Ramsay

Producer | Hell's Kitchen

Scottish by birth, Gordon Ramsay was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in football, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel management. His dedication and natural talent led him to train with some ...

35. Chris Pine

Actor | Star Trek

Chris Pine was born in Los Angeles. His parents are actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford, and his maternal grandparents were Max M. Gilford, a president of the Hollywood Bar Association, and actress Anne Gwynne. His sister, Katherine Pine, has also acted. Chris's ancestry is Russian Jewish (from ...

36. Jarvis Cocker

Soundtrack | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Jarvis Cocker was born on September 19, 1963 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Children of Men (2006). He was previously married to Camille Bidault-Waddington.

37. Felix Mallard

Actor | All the Bright Places

Felix Mallard was born on April 20, 1998 in Melbourne, Australia. He is an actor, known for All the Bright Places (2020), Neighbours (1985) and Turtles All the Way Down (2024).

38. Aramis Knight

Actor | Into the Badlands

Aramis Knight born October 3, 1999 in Woodland Hills, California. At age 4, his mother, enrolled him in an acting workshop. In 2005, Aramis began acting in commercials and playing minor screen roles. Since then, he has guest starred and appeared as recurring characters on multiple television series...

39. Stephen Colbert

Writer | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Stephen Tyrone Colbert (pronounced "cole-BEAR") was born on May 13, 1964 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He is the son of Lorna Elizabeth (Tuck) and James William Colbert, Jr., a doctor and medical school dean at Yale, Saint Louis University, and MUSC. He is the ...

40. Adam Nimoy

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Adam Nimoy was born on August 9, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) and Babylon 5 (1993). He was previously married to Terry Farrell, Martha and Nancy Nimoy.

41. Leonard Nimoy

Actor | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Leonard Simon Nimoy was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Dora (Spinner) and Max Nimoy, who owned a barbershop. His parents were Ukrainian Jewish immigrants. Raised in a tenement and acting in community theaters since age eight, Nimoy did not make his Hollywood debut until he was 20, with a bit ...

42. Jesse Plemons

Actor | Game Night

Jesse Lon Plemons is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor and achieved a career breakthrough with his major role as Landry Clarke in the NBC drama series Friday Night Lights (2006-2011). He subsequently portrayed Todd Alquist in season 5 of the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad...

43. Kirsten Dunst

Actress | Spider-Man

Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...

44. David Oyelowo

Actor | Lawmen: Bass Reeves

David Oyelowo also known as 'David O', is a classically trained stage actor who has quickly become one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents. He graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), and received the "Scholarship for Excellence" from Nicholas Hytner in 1998.

David ...

45. Dean Dinning

Soundtrack | Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Dean Dinning was born on June 9, 1967. He is an actor and composer, known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Empire Records (1995) and Jobs (2013).

46. Randy Guss

Soundtrack | Empire Records

Randy Guss is known for Empire Records (1995), Jobs (2013) and Toad the Wet Sprocket: One Little Girl (1989).

47. Todd Nichols

Soundtrack | Fear

Todd Nichols is known for Fear (1996), Empire Records (1995) and Jobs (2013).

48. Stephen Kolzak

Casting_department | Altered States

Stephen Kolzak was born on February 19, 1953 in Connecticut, USA. He was a casting director, known for Altered States (1980), Bachelor Party (1984) and Cheers (1982). He died on September 19, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

49. Paul Monette

Writer | Friday the 13th: The Series

Paul Monette was born on October 16, 1945 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer, known for Friday the 13th: The Series (1987), Hotel (1983) and Thirtysomething (1987). He died on February 10, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

50. Matt Greenwood

Actor | Bohemian Rhapsody

Matt Greenwood was born in Manchester, England on 27th February 1995. He began acting at the age of 6, starting at the Helen O'Grady Children's Drama Academy where he trained up until the age of 10. It was then from ages 10 to 16 that he trained at the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop. It was during ...

51. Abed Abest

Director | Killing the eunuch KHAN

Abed Abest (Director, Writer, and Actor)

Abed Abest was born in 1987 in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran, and was graduated from Mahshahr Azad University in architecture. In the beginning, he has been engaged in theatre as an actor, and writer. Then, he continued in cinema and took part in ...

52. Callum Booth-Ford

Actor | Peaky Blinders

Callum is an English actor, he was born on Christmas Eve, 2006.

He signed with a talent agency at the age of 10 and quickly gained his first role, starring alongside his younger sister Olivia in a scripted anthology series produced by Michael Haussman, Jude Law and Pulse films.

In 2018, Callum gained...

53. Millie Gibson

Actress | Doctor Who

Millie Gibson was born on June 19, 2004 in Greater Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctor Who (2023) and The Forsyte Saga.

54. Garrard Conley

Writer | Boy Erased

Garrard Conley is known for Boy Erased (2018), Velshi (2020) and Today (1952).

55. Barry Keoghan

Actor | The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Barry came to prominence in the 2017 film 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' with his truly terrifying portrayal of Martin, an American teenager exacting a grisly revenge on drunken surgeon Colin Farrell, but he was neither an American nor a teenager. Born in Dublin on 17th October 1992, he has a ...

56. Ryan Orser

Self | Still

57. Peter Bernuth

Actor | The Big Shave

In one of his first film exercises the great director Martin Scorsese created an allegoric tale on the Vietnam War in the acclaimed The Big Shave (1967). However, the images don't tell exactly about the war. Instead, Marty's approach on the subject is on deeper levels while he presents his story ...

58. FKA twigs

Actress | Honey Boy

FKA twigs was born on January 16, 1988 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Honey Boy (2019), FKA Twigs: Pendulum (2015) and The King's Man (2021).

59. Rangi Ngamoki

Actor | Two Cars, One Night

Rangi Ngamoki was born on April 27, 1994. He is an actor, known for Two Cars, One Night (2003) and The King Boys (2006).

60. Sean Wang

Director | Still Here

Sean Wang is known for Still Here (2020), H.A.G.S. (Have A Good Summer) (2021) and Sunday (2021).

61. Kenneth Mitchell

Actor | Jericho

Kenneth Mitchell was born on November 25, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Jericho (2006), Miracle (2004) and The Astronaut Wives Club (2015). He was married to Susan May Pratt. He died on February 24, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

62. Paul Walter Hauser

Actor | I, Tonya

Paul Walter Hauser is an American actor and comedian. He played supporting roles in the films Cruella, I, Tonya, Late Night, BlacKkKlansman, and Da 5 Bloods. In 2019, Hauser had his breakout performance as the title character in the film Richard Jewell, leading the National Board of Review to award...

63. Alan Tudyk

Actor | Rogue One

Alan Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Plano, where he attended Plano Sr. High. In 1990, he went on to study drama at Lon Morris Jr. College. While there, he was awarded the Academic Excellence Award for Drama. He was also named Most Likely to Succeed and Sophomore Beau. During this ...

64. Sam Waterston

Actor | The Killing Fields

Sam Waterston was born on November 15, 1940 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Killing Fields (1984), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Law & Order (1990). He has been married to Lynn Louisa Woodruff since January 26, 1976. They have three children. He was ...

65. Charlie Mackesy

Writer | The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

Charlie Mackesy is known for The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022), The Oscars (2023) and CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (1979).

66. Delphi Lythgoe

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Delphi Lythgoe was born on February 24, 1992 in Chichester, Sussex, England, UK. She is a production manager and director, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Paddington 2 (2017) and Memories of Tomorrow (2014).

67. J.J. Abrams

Producer | Lost

Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....

68. Louis Gossett Jr.

Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman

Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and was also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen, he was a social activist, educator, and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. He was the first African-American to ...

69. Robbie Coltrane

Actor | Cracker

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...

70. Alan Rickman

Actor | Die Hard

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

71. Travis Robertson

Director | A Way of Life

Travis Robertson is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for making sci-fi and drama films. Robertson first gained recognition from his original productions via Youtube then made the transition into the film industry after creating RobertsonFilms. Travis has a passion...