Famous people that come from where you live.- Page 2

[Link Larkin Wanabe]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:46pm

Elisha Cuthbert went to my rival high school...and Evangeline Lily came from nearby too. What can I say...we have beautiful women.

Akiva

[bwaychae5192]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 9:58pm

Hmm...KY pretty much has country music artists.

The closest ones are:

Van Lear - Loretta Lynn
Paintsville (I think) - Hylo Brown
Pinetop - Rebecca Gayheart
Salyersville - Rebecca Lynn Howard
Greenup/Ashland - Billy Ray Cyrus
Ashland - Steve Kazee (or so his MySpace says)
Ashland - Wynonna, Ashley, and the other Judd whose name I can't remember!
Louisville (which is 5 hours away) - Laura Bell Bundy

That's all I can remember at the moment...I know there are more. There was an article in the Lexington Herald-Leader about Broadway actors from KY.

Posted: 12/27/06 at 10:02pm

Roger Maris
CariDee
Person banging/dating James Spader

[singingwendy]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 10:08pm

Johnathan Frakes--He was on Star Trek:The Next Generation

Daniel Robuck--He was on some TV show in the 90's. I can't remember at the moment. But his aunt is the house manager at the one local theatre.

Christine Taylor is from the next town over. She was Marcia in the Brady Bunch movie and is married to Ben Stiller.

Also, Lara Jill Miller. She used to be on "Gimme A Break" with Nell Carter

Oh..and "The Rock" went to my rival high school. Graduated the same year I did.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 10:42pm

My hometown is the site of Cushing Academy, the oldest co-ed boarding school in the country. Some of its most famous students include actress Bette Davis, Jeff Norton (former NHL player), Tom Ponti (NY Islanders defenseman), Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck (the king of Bhutan), and WWE wrestler John Cena. I attended at one point, but I was inexplicably expelled. Inexplicably.

Ashburnham is also the location of one of the most celebrated cases of UFO abduction. In 1967, Betty Andreasson and her family claimed that alien beings entered their home one night and took her inside their aircraft, where they performed a number of bizarre experiments. She was released approximately four hours later.

Updated On: 12/27/06 at 10:42 PM

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 10:43pm

I forgot to mention one of the most famous people from Hartford.............Katherine Hepburn.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 10:47pm

I know where you're from, Wendy. LJM is a good friend of mine.

Okay, this is officially the Invite Stalkers thread.

[singingwendy]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:02pm

LOL Rath.

One of my best friends was Wendy in a production of "Peter Pan" here with Lara Jill Miller.

You know what they say....6 degrees of separation.....

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:06pm

Yep! I've heard her sing a couple of those songs - she has a great voice for Peter.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:06pm

Anika Noni Rose

[Yawper]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:22pm

more from Detroit and Michigan than can be listed but here are a few:
Lily Tomlin, Gilda Radner, Tom Selleck, James Lipton, George Peppard, Tom Skerritt, Doug Sills, the Nederlanders, the Whitings, the Winans, Danny & Marlo Thomas, Helen Thomas (journalist), John Macurdy (Metropolitan Opera), Francis Ford Coppola, James Bailey (of Barnum & Bailey), Casey Kasem, Glenn Frey, Ted Nugent, Iggy Pop, Bob Seger, Aaliyah, Anita Baker, Jerry Bruckheimer...

Charles Lindbergh was born in Detroit
Robin Williams and Pam Dawber grew up in suburban Detroit
Joni Mitchell and Mike Wallace started their careers in the D.
(Mike Wallace was briefly considered as a replacement when the original radio Lone Ranger died in an auto accident. Wallace was show announcer for The Green Hornet at the time.)

and that's barely scratching the surface...

[JohnPopa]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:29pm

Canton, Ohio gave the world Marilyn Manson, the members of Relient K and Macy Gray.

You're welcome.

(Oh, and William McKinley.)
Updated On: 12/27/06 at 11:29 PM

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:31pm

Houston, Texas is the homeland of the late stand-up comedian Bill Hicks (Arizona Bay), filmmaker Wes Anderson (Rushmore), and the Quaid brothers

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

Posted: 12/27/06 at 11:51pm

Alice Cooper(still lives here) and Stevie Nicks.

[bwaygal731]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:11am

From my hometown and very close to it:
John Wayne
Brandon Routh

and if you're a quilter...
Marianne Fons and Liz Porter

[son_of_a_gunn_25]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 12:41am

Babyface (He worked at the same summer camp I work at when he hit it big.)
John (Cougar) Mellencamp
Michael Jackson
James Dean
Twyla Tharpe
Johnny Appleseed
Jane Pauley
Florence Henderson
Cole Porter
Dave Thomas
ee cummings
Shelley Long
Red Skelton
Bob and Tom
and unfortunately Dan Quayle.

From my college...
Letterman
Stedman, but I don't think he really counts
Jim Davis (Garfield Creator)
Joyce Dewitt

[AbbaRabbit]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 9:33am

actor peter dante and olympic athleet jim shea both went to my high school.

[Stagedoor2]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 10:19am

From my hometown: Cindy Crawford

From my college: John Malkovich, Judith Ivey, Sean Hayes and the founding members of the Steppenwolf Theater Company (of which Malkovich was one)

[Broadwayboobs]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 10:39am

Famous New Jerseyites

Bud Abbott comedian, Asbury Park
Charles Addams cartoonist, Westfield
Edwin Aldrin astronaut, Montclair
William Count Basie band leader, Red Bank
Joan Bennett actress, Palisades
Judy Blume author, Elizabeth
Jon Bon Jovi musician, Sayreville
William J. Brennan jurist, Newark
Aaron Burr political leader, Newark
Lloyd H. Conover inventor, Orange
James Fenimore Cooper author, Burlington
David Copperfield magician, Metuchen
Lou Costello comedian, Paterson
Stephen Crane writer, Newark
Helen Gahagan Douglas representative, Boonton
Allen Ginsberg poet, Newark
Savron Glover choreographer, Newark
William Frederick Halsey, Jr. admiral, Elizabeth
Lauryn Hill rapper, South Orange
Donald Fletcher Holmes inventor, Woodbury
Whitney Houston entertainer, Newark
Ice-T rapper, Newark
Alfred Joyce Kilmer poet, New Brunswick
Alfred C. Kinsey zoologist, Hoboken
Ernie Kovacs comedian, Trenton
Dorothea Lange photographer, Hoboken
Jerry Lewis comedian, film director, Newark
Anne Morrow Lindbergh author, Englewood
Norman Mailer author, Long Branch
James W. Marshall discovered gold in California, Hunterdon
Patricia McBride ballerina, Teanick
Eger V. Murphree inventor, Bayonne
Jack Nicholson actor, Neptune City
Dorothy Parker author, West Bend
Zebulon Mongomery Pike explorer, soldier, Lamberton
Joe Piscopo comedian, actor, Passaic
Paul Robeson singer, actor, Princeton
Edward J. Rosinski inventor, Gloucester County
Philip Milton Roth author, Newark
Ruth St. Denis dancer, choreographer, Newark
Antonin Scalia jurist,Trenton
Norman Schwarzkopf army general, Trenton
Frank Sinatra singer, actor, Hoboken
Kevin Spacey actor, South Orange
Bruce Springsteen musician, Freehold
Amos Alonzo Stagg football coach, West Orange
Alfred Stieglitz photographer, Hoboken
Meryl Streep actress, Summit
Albert Payson Terhune journalist, author, Newark
Dave Thomas restaurateur, Atlantic City
William Henry Vanderbilt financier, New Brunswick
Sarah Vaughan singer, Newark
Dionne Warwick actress, singer, East Orange
William Carlos Williams physician, poet, Rutherford
Ray Liotta actor, Newark
Edmund Wilson literary critic, author, Red Bank

[CJR]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 10:47am

Topher Grace and Katherine Heigel hail from New Canaan CT.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 10:57am

I know we've posted this before, but what the hey! I'll just drag my list out from the last time I posted it.

Here's the folks I know that came from my hometown of Lawrence, Kansas. Some are stars, some just working actors, and some not either:

Broadway---
Jane Bodle - Cats, Les Miz, Miss Saigon, Me and My Girl, Sunset Boulevard
Patricia Garland - Original Judy in "A Chorus Line"
Lorenzo Fuller - "Kiss Me Kate" OBC (played Paul and introduced "Too Darn Hot" to the world). He was also in "Finnian's Rainbow" and "St. Louis Woman."

Other notables who went to school in Lawrence, Kansas (the University of Kansas---my Alma Mater!):

Mandy Patinkin
Nancy Opel
Neil LaBute
Don Johnson
Paul Rudd
Joyce Castle (Mrs. Lovett in the NYCO Sweeney Todd)
Scott Bakula
Mary Bracken Phillips (Broadway: 1776, Annie)
Charles "Buddy" Rogers (star of first Best Picture "Wings," and husband to Mary Pickford)
Becky Barta (Broadway & tour Les Mis)
Ken Marsolais (Broadway producer)

Other non-Broadway notables from Lawrence, Kansas:

Delbert Mann (Oscar-winning director of "Marty")
Erin Brokovich (went to my high school)
Langston Hughes (grew up in Lawrence)
William S. Burroughs (lived there for many years until the end of his life)
Herk Harvey (directed the horror classic Carnival of Souls there, and was my dad's best friend.)
Jay Karnes (I went to school with Jay, who's a regular on the TV series The Shield)
Paul Coker Jr. (cartoonist for Mad Magazine, Hallmark, and created the character designs of Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and many other specials for Rankin Bass)
Hugh Beaumont (Leave It To Beaver's "Dad")

[blueflame]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 11:27am

Oh sh*T boobs!
I'm going to confine myself to a 12 block radius of the house where I grew up (aka LEO & CHARLEEN'S HELL ON EARTH):
Ja'net Dubois lived on the block behind us.
Kevin Kline lived a few blocks away -- nearer to the Walgreens.
Howard Nemerov lived near the library and I always thought the shirtless, tanned man with the white crew-cut and walking stick was "a bum". He was a poet, which is much the same.

Updated On: 12/28/06 at 11:27 AM

[today4u:proofpositiv]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 11:38am

Billy Talent. My piano teacher taught one of the members, but I don't remember which one.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 11:58am

Some other New Jerseyites that Broadway boobs missed are...
Frankie Valli
Tommy DeVito
Nick Massi
Joe Pesci
Zach Braff
Bryan Singer
Danny Devito
Nathan Lane


I would have said Bob Gaudio, but he's actually from The Bronx

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 12/28/06 at 11:59am

From my hometown of Sayreville

Jon Bon Jovi - lived down the street until my family moved

Greg Evigan - Jesus Christ Superstar; On t.v. - A Year At The Top w/Paul Shaffer, BJ and the Bear, My Two Dads

Dule Hill - Bring in Da' Noise, Bring In Da' Funk; The West Wing