List of Famous people born in United States of America
William Sylvester
William Sylvester was an American television and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968).
Kevin Earley
Kevin Earley is an American actor and singer.
Richard Chew
Richard Franklin Chew is an American film editor, best known for his Academy Award-winning work on Star Wars (1977), alongside Paul Hirsch and Marcia Lucas. Other notable films include One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Risky Business (1983), Waiting to Exhale (1995), That Thing You Do! (1996), and I Am Sam (2001). His career over a variety of films spans more than four decades.
Jeff Celentano
Jeff Celentano, also credited as Jeff Weston, is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. Celentano starred as a character actor in such films as Robert Altman’s “The Player”, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation, Puppet Master II, and Demonic Toys. Also starring in “Dynasty” “Magnum P.I., and “Trapper John”. In 1994, he turned to directing with his first short film, Dickwad. Which won several film festivals as best comedy short. He also directed Under the Hula Moon, Gunshy starring Diane Lane, “Breaking Point” starring Tom Berenger and Busta Rhymes. and most recently the boxing saga Glassjaw. Celentano is an acting teacher and is the Executive Director of Drama at The Performer's Academy in Lake Forest, California. Celentano was born and raised in Pemberton, New Jersey.
Catlin Adams
Catlin Adams is an American actress and film director. Her main roles include The Jazz Singer and Toothless. She is also well known for her performance as promiscuous carnival worker Patty Bernstein in The Jerk. As a director, she shared a Directors Guild of America Award for an afterschool special.
Audra Lindley
Audra Marie Lindley was an American actress, most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off The Ropers.
Josephine Hull
Marie Josephine Hull was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood.
Ronald Vale
Ronald David Vale is a biochemist and cell biologist. He is a professor at the Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco. His research is focused on motor proteins, particularly kinesin and dynein. He was awarded the Canada Gairdner International Award for Biomedical Research in 2019, the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine in 2017 together with Ian Gibbons, and the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2012 alongside Michael Sheetz and James Spudich. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was the president of the American Society for Cell Biology in 2012. He has also been an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1995. In 2019, Vale was named executive director of the Janelia Research Campus and a vice president of HHMI, his appointment began in early 2020.
Gerald R. Molen
Gerald Robert "Jerry" Molen is an American film producer. He has worked closely with Steven Spielberg, having produced five of his films, and won an Academy Award for co-producing Schindler's List. Molen is now semi-retired and spends his time alternating between Montana and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dominic Chianese
Dominic Chianese is an American actor, singer, and musician. He is best known for his roles as Corrado "Junior" Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos and Johnny Ola in The Godfather Part II.