Famous people

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 9:59pm

I know it has been posted before, but I cannot find it. So, what fanous people are from your city. I would have been a part of the forst thread that was made, but I was not a member.

HEATHER HEADLEY is from my town of Fort Wayne Indiana. I am very proud of that. Cole Porter was from Peru Indiana to, but I do not live there.

OK, so who is from you town that is famous.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:03pm

Jim Craig - goalie for the 1980 Olympic hockey team

Kristian Alfonso - I graduated from high school with her much more beautiful, star athlete sister, who turned out to be a LESBIAN. YAY!!

Updated On: 9/24/05 at 10:03 PM

[iwearshoes]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:03pm

John Stamos! whoop!

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:04pm

Marilyn Manson and Macy Gray both hail from right here in good old Canton, Ohio. One of the boy band boys -- Timmons I think (?) -- also.

Unlike most people around here, I don't claim to have gone to school with any of them.

Updated On: 9/24/05 at 10:04 PM

[lesserworm]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:07pm

Cheyenne Jackson and Chad Kimball are both from Seattle Washington and Ryan Stiles is from Bellingham Washington.

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:08pm

HEATHER HEADLEY wnet to one of our not so good high schools, but my mom met her before she ever got to Broadway.

One of her favorite teachers from the school (Northrop) who encouraged her got a big surprise from her. When she got into THE LION KING she called up the teacher and told him she had a big surprise for him and told him to come to New York. he did, and she had a front row ticket to the opening night of The Lion King.

My cousin went to school with her. I wish I met her. Darn.

Maybe she will come back and visit her town and have a concert or something. I wish.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:20pm

I live not too far away from where Wes Anderson grew up and, in fact, one of my friend's has a rather large role in Rushmore...

[theatreguy]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:23pm

Matt Groening
Sally Struthers
Tonya Harding
Phil Knight
Jane Powell

All from Portland, Oregon.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:26pm

How could I forget - George Plimpton! I had the privilege of meeting him the summer before he passed away (I was working for a friend of his) and it was fun to talk about our little tiny town that no one knows...his family actually founded it in 1725.

[Atrias]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:28pm

Goldie Hawn and Ben Stein graduated from my high school.

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:32pm

My hometown is Alvin, TX--home of Nolan Ryan (Astros and Rangers).

But for you First National Tour of Hairspray fans, I went to high school with Austin Miller.

[bta212]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 10:51pm

Kim Novak went to my HS

whoo hooo.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:14pm

Hartford, CT: Amy Brennerman, Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, Charles Nelson Reilly and Katherine Hepburn.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:24pm

Julia Roberts graduated from a high school very close to me. And Sutton and Hunter Foster lived near me for a while.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:24pm

For a while John and Yoko lived in the hamlet of Brookhaven (a neighboring town)

Isabella Rosellini lives on the road behind mine.

Several summers ago Glenn Close rented a house in Bellport. She used to do her grocery shopping wearing hair curlers. Not a pretty sight.

The Minnelli Deli is around the corner.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:26pm

Ahem! Am I not famous and from Bellport?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:26pm

Billy Dean (country singer) grew up in my town and went to my school. Dexter Jackson (played football for FSU, was the Defensive MVP in the 2003 superbowl (for tampa bay)) is also from my awesome little hometown in Florida.

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:41pm

Erika Harold(2003 Miss America) is from my town. A bunch of famous people including Donald O'Conner came from a town very near me.

And I just found out today that Ana Gasteyer's brother is my neighbor. Not really on topic, I just thought that was cool.

[Broadway_Baby]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:42pm

- Jeffrey Seller (I was just talking to Rath about this...)
- Gilda Radner (from Saturday Night Live)
- Eminem

They're not from my specific city, but they're all from Metro Detroit and within like a half hour of me.

Oh god, I know there are like a bazillion more...but I'm tired and frankly my brain is not fuctioning right now.