List of Famous people born in Washington, United States of America
Pamela Reed
Pamela Reed is an American actress. She is known for playing Arnold Schwarzenegger's hypoglycemic police partner in the 1990 movie Kindergarten Cop and as the matriarch Gail Green in Jericho. She appeared as Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. She is also well known as the exasperated wife in Bean.
Mark Arm
Mark Arm is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the vocalist for the grunge band Mudhoney. His former group, Green River, was one of the first grunge bands, along with Malfunkshun, Soundgarden, Skin Yard, the U-Men, and others. He is also the manager of the Sub Pop warehouse and previously worked at Fantagraphics Books.
Ivyann Schwan
Ivyann Schwan is an American actress and singer. She has starred in the movies Parenthood and Problem Child 2. She has appeared in various TV shows such as Bill Nye the Science Guy and The Jenny Jones Show. Schwan has been on stage in such productions as Miracle on 34th street and The Sound of Music. She currently models for ads such as J.C. Penney and Kellogg's Rice Krispies. She also performs with the Olympic World Champion figure skaters in Sun Valley, Georgia. She co-narrated a two-hour charity ice special and emceed a concert for New Kids on the Block. She works with Fred Frank at his Roadshow Music Corporation, a company with a gold and platinum track record, several times a year. A highlight in her singing career was when she was invited to sing the National Anthem at a Seattle SuperSonics home game. Ivyann released her first album, Daisies, in 2000.
Emily Rose
Emily Rose is an American actress. She is best known for her role in the critically acclaimed Uncharted video game series as Elena Fisher and for her lead role as Audrey Parker in the Syfy series Haven (2010–2015).
Brian Thompson
Brian Earl Thompson is an American actor. His career began with a small role in the 1984 film The Terminator. He played the villainous "Night Slasher" in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise, the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files, and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B movie parody The Extendables.
Bianca Kajlich
Bianca Maria Kajlich is an American actress. Kajlich has had starring and supporting roles in television and film including the role of Jennifer on the CBS comedy Rules of Engagement (2007–2013). Kajlich was an actress on Bosch as Christina Henry during Season 5 of the Amazon Prime series.
David Wood
David Leroy Wood is an American former professional basketball player, who most notably played in the NBA.
Pee Wee
Irvin Salinas, known professionally as Pee Wee, is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and actor. He was a former singer for the band Kumbia Kings and was a lead singer for Kumbia All Starz, both created by A.B. Quintanilla. In early 2008, he left Kumbia All Starz to become a solo artist. His debut studio album Yo Soy was released on August 11, 2009.
Matt Hague
Matthew Donald Hague is an American former professional baseball first baseman and current minor league coach. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Toronto Blue Jays, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers. Prior to beginning his professional career, he played college baseball at the University of Washington and Oklahoma State. In early 2020, he joined the Blue Jays organization as a coach.
Jo Baer
Josephine Gail Baer is an American painter associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turned away from non-objective painting. Since then, Baer has fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration." She currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.