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By transforming into his characters and pulling the audience in, Ed Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most talented actors of our time.

Ed Harris was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, to Margaret (Sholl), a travel agent, and Robert Lee Harris, a bookstore worker who also sang professionally. Both of his parents were originally from Oklahoma. Harris grew up as the middle child. After graduating high school, he attended New York's Columbia University, where he played football. After viewing local theater productions, Harris took a sudden interest in acting. He left Columbia, headed to Oklahoma, where his parents were living, and enrolled in the University of Oklahoma's theater department. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to find work. He started acting in theater and television guest spots. Harris landed his first leading role in a film in cult-favorite George A. Romero's Knightriders (1981). Two years later, he got his first taste of critical acclaim, playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff (1983). Also that year, he made his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love", a performance that earned him an Obie for Outstanding Actor. Harris' career gathered momentum after that. In 2000, he made his debut as a director in the Oscar-winning film Pollock (2000).

Tate Buckley Donovan began making television appearances while still in his teens, most often cast as angst-ridden high schoolers in such made-for-TV films such as Not My Kid (1985) and Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder (1987).

Donovan was born to a large family in Tenafly, New Jersey, the son of Eileen Frances (McAllister) and John Timothy Donovan, a surgeon. He is of Irish descent. Donovan moved to Los Angeles to be closer to the television industry while he attended college at USC, where he also met several fellow actors who became longtime friends, such as Grant Heslov and George Clooney, with whom he still parties with to this day (he also had a fairly substantial part in their smash film, Ngủ Ngon và Chúc May Mắn (2005). Although not quite as active as his friend Clooney in the romantic arena, confirmed bachelor Donovan has been engaged to both film star Sandra Bullock and television icon Jennifer Aniston, and has dated a diverse group of women such as socialite Plum Sikes (2000), stage actress Whitney Allen (2001) and television actress Lauren Graham, whom he met when they both appeared in the play "Once in a Lifetime" at the Williamstown Theater Festival in 2002. After graduating from college, Donovan gained prominent notice for his portrayal of the charismatic yet self-centered co-pilot in the ensemble period drama Memphis Belle (1990). Prior to that, Donovan had appeared as the cocky elder camper in SpaceCamp (1986) and as a recovering drug addict in Clean and Sober (1988). His first leading role was in the charming but minor Love Potion No. 9 (1992), costarring Bullock, to whom he became engaged (their relationship ended in 1994). He then appeared in several independent features as sullen, withdrawn types before following up with a role in the Disney family comedy, Holy Matrimony (1994). He returned to Disney for perhaps his highest-profile effort to date, the animated Dũng Sĩ Héc-quyn (1997), for which he provided the voice for the adult version of the title character. His small-screen work has included a Cable ACE-nominated turn in the HBO series Vietnam War Story II (1988) (V). He joined the parade of film stars who turned to sitcoms, heading the cast of Partners (1995) opposite Jon Cryer. When that failed to catch on, he joined with his "Memphis Belle" co-stars Eric Stoltz and Reed Diamond to play three brothers in a memorable episode of NBC's Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and had a recurring role as a client and potential love interest for Calista Flockhart's titular lawyer Ally McBeal (1997). Switching networks, he had a recurring role as a love interest opposite his then-girlfriend Jennifer Aniston in NBC's Những Người Bạn (1994) and donned clerical garb to play the priest son of a large Irish Catholic family in the short-lived NBC drama Trinity (1998). More recently he has appeared as a guest star in several shows such as The Guardian (2001), as well as Mister Sterling (2003) and in the new show The O.C. (2003).

Born in Tenafly, New Jersey, U.S.A. on 20th June1975. Adam Rothenberg was born to Gillian and Kenneth Rothenberg. A graduate of New York's Acting studio he has starred in many off-Broadway shows. These include the lead in Second Stage's revival of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (2004), as well as his critically acclaimed role in The Women's Project's Birdy (2003). In a 2008 interview with People Magazine, Rothenberg discussed his work before turning to acting as a garbage man and a fact checker for Mademoiselle. The worst was as a security guard: gruesome 12-hour shifts in front of an elevator. In 2006, Rothenberg played the Scottish storyteller "Chimney Bosch" in the MCC Theater's The Wooden Breeks, directed by Trip Cullman.

Trish Van Devere is an American actress best-known for her comedic turn in Carl Reiner's cult classic, Where's Poppa? (1970), in support of George Segal and Ruth Gordon, and for being the wife and widow and frequent co-star of legendary actor, George C. Scott. Born Patricia Louise Dressel on March 9, 1941 in Tenafly, New Jersey, she first made her mark, professionally, on the soap opera, One Life to Live (1968). She met Scott when they co-starred (along with his then-wife Colleen Dewhurst) in the neo-noir, The Last Run (1971). Scott eventually shed Dewhurst (for the second time) and married Van Devere in 1972. She co-starred with him in Mike Nichols' thriller, The Day of the Dolphin (1973), which was not a success, and The Savage Is Loose (1974), a flop, directed by Scott, that was barely released. During the rest of the decade, they co-starred in the TV movie, Beauty and the Beast (1976), Movie Movie (1978), and The Changeling (1980) (1980), a period that coincided with the decline of Scott's stardom and critical reputation. After 1980, when the two appeared on Broadway in a calamitous flop, she continued to appear in less prestigious movies and on TV until 1994.

Van Devere became a stage actress under the tutelage of Scott. She made her Broadway debut in 1975 in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings", directed by her husband. She also co-starred with him on the Great White Way in "Sly Fox", a retelling of Ben Jonson's "Volpone", that was a great hit. In 1980, they co-starred for the final time on Broadway in the mystery-romance, "Tricks of the Trade", which closed on opening night.

Jay Huguley is an American film, television and theatre actor, best known for playing David on AMC's The Walking Dead, and Jimmy Ledoux on HBO's True Detective, opposite Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

Huguley also played Will Branson on Seasons 3 and 4 of the HBO series, Treme, and Whit Peyton in the Emmy Award-winning ABC TV series, Brothers & Sisters.

In 2015, Huguley starred as Jonah Bock in the hit indie darling, "Sunny in the Dark," a feature film directed by Courtney Ware, for which he took home the award for "Best Actor" from the Northeast Film Festival.

He is set to appear in the highly anticipated horror film, "Abattoir," by the man credited for furthering the Saw franchise, Darren Lynn Bousman. "Abattoir" has already nabbed a sequel deal, prior to its official theatrical release.

In 2013, he appeared in Steve McQueen's Oscar-winning film ("Best Picture"), "12 Years a Slave," with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender. In addition to "Treme," Huguley has also played recurring characters in ABC Family's Ravenswood (the spin-off to Pretty Little Liars), and in the CW's Star-Crossed.

Huguley spent his teenage years attending The Peddie School, a boarding school in Hightstown, N. J., where he later graduated. He spent a year abroad at The University of London studying Political Science, and graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with a double major in Political Science and Communications.

Huguley studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, under the aegis of Anna Strasberg, and at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in L.A., under the world-renowned teacher Milton Katselas.

He first realized his passion for acting while taking a Directing class in college, where one of his assignments was to audition for the school play to get an idea of what actors experience in their process of attempting to score acting roles. He got the part of the Gentleman Caller in Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie." After rehearsing for his role, he knew this was all he wanted to do.

Huguley also worked as a fashion model for brands like Armani, Valentino, Zegna, and Romeo Gigli, in London, Milan and Paris.

In his earliest appearances on TV, Huguley starred in smaller roles on MADtv; Norm; Walker, Texas Ranger; Providence; and Strong Medicine; before getting more recurring roles on television series such as Summerland and Alias. He also starred as Richard Hightower on the highest-rated daytime drama, The Young and The Restless, in 2010.

In 2008, Huguley starred in David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony Award-winning play "Rabbit Hole" at the Skylight Theatre. For his role, the Los Angeles Times said, "Jay Huguley dwells inside the play's contradictions and connects us to its anguished, buoyant heart." The following year, Huguley played the lead role in Tom Stoppard's "The Real Thing" at Los Angeles' Skylight Theatre.

A deadpan, freckle-faced, curly red-haired, highly talented child actor of the late 50s, Rusty Hamer entered films and TV at age 5 and became a precocious TV celebrity the very next year, trading clever quips with volatile top comedian Danny Thomas as his smart-alecky son, Rusty Williams, on the hit sitcom, Make Room for Daddy (1953), in 1953. The popular sitcom co-starred Jean Hagen as Rusty's level-headed mother, and pretty, pig-tailed Sherry Jackson as his older sister.

Born Russell Craig Hamer on February 15, 1947, in Tenafly, New Jersey, he was the youngest of three sons born to shirt salesman Arthur Walter (who died when Rusty was 6) and former silent screen actress Dorothy Hamer (nee Chretin). Moving to Los Angeles in 1951, Rusty and his brothers, John and Walter, were prodded by the parents to perform in local theatre productions. Rusty learned to recited stories and perform skits at various community for service club and church functions.

Rusty's first on-camera role was a tiny part in the western Fort Ti (1953) as George Montgomery's young nephew and was given a role in an episode of the TV anthology "Fireside Theatre." While spotted in one of his theatre stage shows, Rusty was brought in to test for the Thomas series and won the role of "Rusty Williams." His mother and older brother John Hamer would appear briefly on Rusty's TV show.

Playing a 'second banana' scamp to the well-loved comedy star was no easy task, yet this boy showed an incredibly sharp comedy sense far beyond his years and the show ran a very healthy eleven seasons. During the long run, Rusty appeared only occasionally elsewhere. Seen in an episode of "Four Star Playhouse," he played, alongside the equally delightful young Gigi Perreau, orphan kids under the wing of mushy-hearted Lou Costello in Abbott & Costello's last film together Dance with Me, Henry (1956). Rusty also appeared on various variety shows ("The Red Skelton Show," "The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show," "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show") usually in tandem with his beloved TV family.

A major cast change in the series erupted when Hagen asked to leave the show (her character dies) and Jackson grew up and left home for college. Rusty's stepmother and little stepsister, played by Marjorie Lord and Angela Cartwright, respectively, were a delightful addition to the show and contributed greatly to the show's enduring popularity. Performing in 300 plus episodes, Rusty was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his TV work in 1960.

In 1964, and with the end of the TV series, 17-year-old Rusty Hamer, at age 17, found himself out of work for the first time. The talented kid had become an awkward teen and offers dried up immediately. Hoping to branch out into dramatic roles, outside of an isolated appearance on "Green Acres" and appearances reprising his "Rusty Williams" persona, the only work he was able to find in later years were reunion specials and a new, updated sitcom revolving around his old TV family now playing Rusty as a married medical student. Make Room for Granddaddy (1970) not successful, however, and was canceled after the 1970-1971 season. Nothing else came his way although he continued to take acting classes and worked at a messenger service and as a carpenter's apprentice to support himself.

The aimless, embittered young man, left Hollywood for good for Louisiana in 1976 to help care for his Alzheimer's-stricken mother and his life quickly fell apart. Left with no job skills, Rusty had extreme difficulty finding direction, consequently living a wanderlust lifestyle, taking menial jobs that ranged from working on Exxon oil rigs to delivering newspapers to toiling as a short order cook in older brother John's cafe. His poverty-ridden status, so different from his youthful celebrity, caused him to spiral into deep depression and, eventually, alcohol abuse. Increasingly violent and delusional and suffering from chronic back pain, he shot himself to death in his trailer on January 18, 1990. He was only 42.

Chalking up another child star statistic who met a tragic, untimely end, Rusty had the true makings of a terrific comedy actor. Danny Thomas himself once said that Rusty was "the best boy actor I ever saw in my life. He had a great memory . . . great timing and you could change a line on him at the last minute and he came right back with it." It was Hamer's suicide, in fact, that prompted former child actor Paul Petersen to establish his support group A Minor Consideration. The group has been successful in assisting many former child actors with no other work skills to make a positive career transition.

Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy Award-winning film and television composer, singer/songwriter, and producer of the critically acclaimed band, Goldspot.

In 2024 Khosla received an Emmy for his work on Hulu's critically acclaimed series, Only Murders In The Building, in the "Outstanding Music Composition For a Series" category.

In 2022, Khosla received three Emmy nominations, two for his work on Only Murders In The Building in the "Outstanding Original Main Title Music" and "Outstanding Music Composition For a Series" categories, and an additional nomination for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" for his #1 Billboard-charting song "The Forever Now" (shared with Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith) from NBC's Emmy-winning drama series, This Is Us.

In 2019 and 2021, he received Emmy nominations for his work on This Is Us for "Outstanding Music Composition For a Series" and in 2020 for "Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics" for the original song "Memorized."

Khosla has the distinction of being the first Asian person in history to win a Primetime Emmy for original score.

Upcoming projects include Skydance Animation film's POOKOO, directed by Nathan Greno; Amazon Studios' OH.WHAT. FUN, directed by Michael Showalter; Dan Fogelman-created Hulu drama Paradise; Netflix's No Good Deed; and Season 2 of the CBS Drama Elsbeth.

Recent credits include Amazon Studios' THE IDEA OF YOU, directed by Michael Showalter; Netflix's romantic comedy A FAMILY AFFAIR, directed by Richard LaGravenese; the Reese Witherspoon-starring Netflix romantic comedy YOUR PLACE OR MINE directed by Aline Brosh McKenna; Paramount+'s Rabbit Hole; Hulu's limited series Welcome to Chippendales; Paramount+'s comedy film QUEENPINS, directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly; Amazon studios' dramedy film I WANT YOU BACK, directed by Jason Orley; and more.

In November 2013, Khosla was invited as the musical guest for First Lady Michelle Obama's Diwali celebration at the White House, where he delivered an emotional performance of several of his original songs.

He has also been performing his music from This Is Us for audiences worldwide. In 2019, he performed in Los Angeles at the Ford Theatre and at the MOSMA Festival in Málaga, Spain.

Larry Williams was born on 29 July 1913 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Brother Rat (1938), The Monster Maker (1944) and On Trial (1939). He was married to Nell O'Day. He died on 3 January 1983 in Westport, Connecticut, USA.

Mary Foran was born on 21 November 1919 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Foxy Brown (1974), Gilligan's Island (1964) and That Girl (1966). She was married to James Foran. She died on 10 April 1981 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

David Wild was born on 16 December 1961 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Let's Go Crazy: The Grammy Salute to Prince (2020), The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards (2021) and Tuổi 40 (2012). He is married to Fran Turk. They have two children.

Jonathan Klein was born on 27 December 1968 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Những Nàng Sói Xấu Xí (2000), The Bacchae (2002) and Khách Sạn Cún Cưng (2009).

Neal Dusedau was born on 2 August 1980 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. Neal is a writer and producer, known for Thảm Họa Toàn Cầu (2008), Khủng Bố Munich (2005) and Teen Girl Nổi Loạn (2009).

Tami Luchow is a former child actress, motivational speaker& writer from New Jersey. At the time of her birth in 1970 (to Jed & Anya Luchow), Tami was premature,missing two fingers,three toes & the lower half of her right leg. Tami,however, was determined to live the life of a normal child, enrolling in gymnastics & ballet. She also became active in student government at both her Middle School & High School, becoming president at both.

After graduating Tenafly High School, Tami went on to Yale University to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in English. During her time at Yale, she also became a coordinator for Connecticut's Special Olympics. In addition, Tami received a full scholarship to Columbia University's Teachers College where she studied Special Education & psychology of disability.

Tami is very active in community work & speaks around the country to people of all ages about self-esteem,diversity, & disability. Her belief is that every person CAN do and CAN share within their own communities.

Tami now lives in New Jersey with her husband & two sons.

Adam Dubowsky was born on 28 June 1983 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Movie Show (2020), Attack of the Show! (2005) and The Morning After (2011).

Charles DeRosa was born in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. Charles is known for The Last Hand (2010), The Last Hurrah (2009) and Dick Night (2011).

Priscilla Gillette was born on 27 November 1925 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Studio One (1948), The Edge of Night (1956) and Startime (1959). She died on 2 February 2006 in New York City, New York, USA.

Palmer Williams was born on 7 October 1916 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for CBS Reports (1959) and 60 Minutes (1968). He was married to Barbara Payne and ???. He died on 1 January 1996 in New York City, New York, USA.