Most Popular Crew, Directors, and Writers

• 1. Steve Harvey
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  b.1956, Welch, West Virginia

  Steve is a triple-threat: an actor, entertainer, and comedian. He began doing stand-up comedy in the early 1990s, eventually leading to a long stint as host of It's Showtime at the Apollo, picking up where his friend Cedric the Entertainer left off. His success as a stand-up…
  Recent Role: Writer on Me and the Boys
• 2. Melissa Peterman
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  b.1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

  Melissa hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota. After graduating from Minnesota State University with theater as one of her majors, she was cast as Madeline Monroe in Hey City Theater's production of Tony & Tina's Wedding. Melissa had more than 600 performances before she…
  Recent Role: Producer on Working Class
• 3. Matthew Rhys
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  b.1974, Cardiff, Wales, UK

  Matthew Rhys is Welsh. He began his acting career on stage, and was a breakout star in plays such as Peaches and the stage-adaptation of The Graduate. His success in Britain led him to television, making him one of the country's hottest exports to the US. He has appeared most…
  Recent Role: Director on Brothers & Sisters
• 4. Lindsay Lohan
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  b.1986, New York, New York, USA

  On July 2, 1986, Lindsay Dee Lohan (before she changed her middle name to Morgan) was born in New York, New York to parents Michael and Dina Lohan. At the early age of three years, Lindsay was spotted by an agent of the Ford Modeling Agency where she signed on to be their first…
  Recent Role: Director on Making the Video
• 5. Jensen Ackles
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  b.1978, Richardson, Texas, USA

  Jensen was born in Dallas, Texas. His father Alan Ackles was an actor in the Dallas area, so he was exposed to the entertainment industry at a young age. When he was a sophomore in high school, a friend asked him to come along to a local acting seminar. After getting an…

  Recent Role: Director on Supernatural
• 6. Jeff Dunham
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  b.1962, Dallas, Texas

  A comedian his whole life, Jeff Dunahm has performed on numerous comedy shows, including Comedy Central Presents in 2003. His usual puppets include a woozle named Peanut; a bitter old man named Walter; José Jalapeño on a Stick, a talking jalapeño pepper on a stick; Achmed…

  Recent Role: Executive Producer on The Jeff Dunham Show
• 7. Roseanne Barr
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  b.0, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.

  As a wife and the mother of five, not only is Roseanne Barr a Domestic Goddess in real life, but she found her way, through stand-up comedy, to play one on TV. In all of television history, it took until 1980's for this powerfully funny, Salt Lake City native to break the…

  Recent Role: Writer on Roseanne
• 8. Katherine Parkinson
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  Katherine Parkinson is an English actress. She went to Tiffin Girls' School in Kingston-Upon-Thames, Surrey, and then studied Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. After Oxford she went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art although she left without completing…
  Recent Role: Writer on Comedy Lab
• 9. Ashley Tisdale
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  b.1985, West Deal, New Jersey, USA

  Ashley Michelle Tisdale was born in Monmouth, New Jersey on July 2, 1985, to Mike and Lisa Tisdale. Ashley's career began at the age of three, when she was discovered by her manager, Bill Perlman, at a local mall.
  
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  Recent Role: Executive Producer on Picture This!
• 10. Tom Welling
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  b.1977, Putnam Valley, West Point, New York, USA

  Thomas John Patrick Welling was born in upstate New York on April 26, 1977. Tom started out as a construction worker and a Calvin Klein model before becoming an actor. He is best known for his role as Clark Kent on …
  Recent Role: Executive Producer on Hellcats
• 11. David Boreanaz
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  b.1969, Buffalo, NY, USA

  David was born in Buffalo, New York and grew up in Philadelphia. As a child he dreamed of becoming an actor, and when he graduated high school he moved to New York and studied acting at Ithaca College. After college, he moved to Los Angeles.
  
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  Recent Role: Producer on Bones
• 12. Mike Rowe
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  b.1962, Baltimore, MD

  Rowe is constantly putting his hands into places that are often curious, sometimes dangerous and always dirty, thanks to his current job as host of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel. From roadkill-removal specialists, to bat biologists, to professionals who determine the sex of…
  Recent Role: Producer on Dirty Jobs
• 13. Holly Marie Combs
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  b.1973, San Diego, CA, USA

  Lauralei Combs was only 15 years old when she gave birth to Holly. Holly's parents' marriage only lasted two years. Holly's mother, has worked as an actress and a singer. Her stepfather is a musician. Mother and daughter lived near the beach in San Diego until Holly was…
  Recent Role: Producer on Charmed
• 14. Sophia Bush
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  b.1982, Pasadena, California, USA

  Sophia Anna Bush was born to parents Charles William Bush and Maureen Bush on July 8, 1982 in Pasadena, CA. She was the only child for the couple. Sophia graduated from Westridge High School - an all girls school - and moved on to study at USC. She was part of a sorority…
  Recent Role: Director on One Tree Hill
• 15. Michael T. Weiss
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  b.1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA

  Michael T. Weiss was born under the sign of Aquarius in Northbrook, a suburb of Chicago. The "T" stands for Terry. "I think parents get together and say, 'Let's stick this kid with a really awful name,' you know what I mean?" He's 6'3" tall, has dark brown hair and brown eyes…
  Recent Role: Director on The Pretender
• 16. Chad Michael Murray
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  b.1981, Buffalo, New York

  Born in Buffalo, New York, Chad found a ready audience for his talents early on. When he was just four or five years old, the young ham performed skits and sang made-up songs for his large family which includes three brothers, Rex, Brandon and Nicholas, a half-brother,…
  Recent Role: Director on One Tree Hill
• 17. Josh Gates
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  b.1977

  Josh grew up in Manchester-by-the-Sea, a small town in Massachusetts, USA. He has two degrees, one in archeology and one in drama, both from Tufts University in Boston. Josh is also a qualified SCUBA diver and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro. One of his passions is photographing…
  Recent Role: Producer on Destination Truth
• 18. Jason Isaacs
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  b.1963, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

  Jason was born in his father's hometown of Liverpool on June 6, 1963. From the very beginning he had initially planned to go into law, a white-collar profession that would have fit nicely with those of his brothers, who became a doctor, lawyer, and accountant, but was swayed by…
  Recent Role: Producer on Awake
• 19. Mark Harmon
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  b.1951, Burbank, California, USA

  Mark Harmon was born in Burbank, California to Tom Harmon, a University of Michigan football All-America and Heisman Trophy and actor and artist, Elyse Knox. Mark has two older sisters, actress and painter Kristin Nelson, the former wife of singer Ricky Nelson, and actress Kelly…
  Recent Role: Executive Producer on NCIS
• 20. Ron Perlman
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  b.1950, New York City, New York, USA

  Ron grew up in Washington Heights, New York City, and attended George Washington High School, where he got his first taste of acting in school productions. After graduating from Lehman College in New York City in 1971 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre, Ron went on…
  Recent Role: Director on Beauty and the Beast
• 21. Jami O'Brien
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  Recent Role: Writer on Da Vinci's Demons
• 22. Steven Spielberg
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  b.1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

  Steven was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a Jewish American family, the eldest of four children (sisters: Anne, Sue and Nancy). His father Arnold was an Electrical Engineer, and his mother, Leah Adler, was a concert pianist. His parents divorced and his mother…
  Recent Role: Executive Producer on Falling Skies
• 23. Blair Brown
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  b.1947, Washington, D.C. USA

  Blair Brown was born on April 23, 1946 in Washington, D.C. According to Blair, her father, Milton Henry Brown, was career CIA. Her mother, Elizabeth Ann Brown, was a teacher. She originally intended to have a career in the medical field. Instead, she trained at Canada's…
  Recent Role: Director on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
• 24. J.J. Abrams
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  b.1966, New York, New York, USA

  JJ ABRAMS
  Creator & Executive Producer
  
  Screenwriter of such films as Armageddon, Forever Young, and Regarding Henry, J.J. Abrams made his first step into television with Imagine Television and Touchstone Television's series…
  
  
  
  Recent Role: Executive Producer on Person of Interest
• 25. David Schwimmer
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  b.1966, Astoria, New York, USA

  If one were to base one's judgment of David Schwimmer's talent on his low-key performance as the anxious, awkward but lovable paleontologist Ross on NBC's smash hit comedy Friends, one might never suspect that beneath the affable exterior lies a versatile, multi-talented…
  Recent Role: Director on Little Britain USA
• 26. Alfred Hitchcock
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  b.1899, Leytonstone, London, England

  Alfred Hitchcock was born in England in 1899 to Emma Hitchcock and her husband William, a greengrocer in London's East End. In 1920, Alfred got the chance to work in the film industry when he became a title designer for Islington Studios. For two years he worked there,…

  Recent Role: Director on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
• 27. David Duchovny
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  b.1960, New York, New York, USA

  David Duchovny (August 7, 1960 - ) was born David William Duchovny in New York, New York. Best known for his starring role as Fox Mulder on the FOX sci fi drama series The X-Files and his recurring role as Jake Winters in the series Red Shoe diaries. He has also starred in…
  Recent Role: Executive Producer on Californication
• 28. Tony Goldwyn
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  b.1960, Los Angeles, California, USA

  Tony Goldwyn's grandmothers were both well known actresses, his maternal grandfather, playwright Sidney Howard, wrote the screenplay for Gone With the Wind while industry pioneer Samuel Goldwyn was his paternal grandfather. His father is a prominent producer and his mother an…
  Recent Role: Director on Grey's Anatomy