Jay Scott Greenspan, known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television.
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. Tomlin started her career in stand-up comedy and sketch comedy before transitioning her career to acting across stage and screen. In a career spanning over fifty years, Tomlin has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Tony Awards, and a nomination for an Academy Award. She was also awarded the Kennedy Center Honor in 2014 and the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2017.
Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. Known for her distinctive husky voice, she is the recipient of two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy, and two Tony Awards.
Georgia Bright Engel was an American actress. She is best known for having played Georgette Franklin Baxter in the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1972 to 1977, Pat MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond from 2003 to 2005, and Mamie Sue on Hot in Cleveland from 2012 to 2015. She was nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards and a BAFTA award.
Jo Anne Worley is an American actress, comedian, and singer. Her work covers television, films, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. Worley is widely known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
Jane Wagner is an American writer, director and producer. She is Lily Tomlin's comedy writer, collaborator, and wife.
Carol Christine Hilaria Pounder is an American actress. She portrayed Mo'at in the Avatar franchise, Amanda Waller in various DC media, and Claudette Wyms in the FX police drama series The Shield (2002–2008). She has received four Primetime Emmy Award nominations for her roles in The X-Files, ER, The Shield, and The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Dawnn Jewel Lewis is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Jaleesa Vinson–Taylor on the NBC television sitcom A Different World from the series beginning in 1987 until the end of its fifth season in 1992, in addition to co-writing the opening theme song for the series.
Dorian Harewood is an American actor, best known for playing Jesse Owens in The Jesse Owens Story (1984), Det. Paul Strobber on Strike Force (1981–1982), and Rev. Morgan Hamilton in 7th Heaven (1996–2003).
Vicki Lewis is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Beth in the NBC sitcom NewsRadio. She is also well known for her roles as Deb and Flo in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, April Smuntz in Mouse Hunt, and Dr. Elsie Chapman in Godzilla. Additionally, she starred as Headmistress Knightslinger in Upside-Down Magic on Disney Channel.
Kathleen Freeman was an American actress. In a career that started when she was only two years old performing occassionally on Vaudeville with her parents in an act known as the Van Gordons and continuing on tirelessly until just weeks before her death - where she went back to her roots in 2001; singing and performing on stage once again. This time, on Broadway in The Full Monty for which she received her second Tony nomination. During this rarely paralleled career; Kathleen worked as a performer in the 1920's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's 80's, 90's, and finished working as a performer in her ninth decade in 2001 with The Full Monty! Kathleen Freeman became a rare gem. She could claim something few others could when she left this Earth as a performer. She may have been known more as that character caomedic actress so many knew her as when she portrayed acerbic maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors and relatives. As I said, she was famous for almost every character invariably leading to comic effect. In film, she is perhaps best remembered for appearing in 12 Jerry Lewis comedies in the 1950's and 1960's, such as The Nutty Professor and The Ladies Man. Of special note, Jerry Lewis once stated in an interview that while he wrote, directed, produced, and starred in The Ladies Man; he had predetermined Kathleen as the only one that could fill the role of Kathleen's character in The Ladies Man and it had been so critical, such an integral part of the storyline and the way the movie would ultimately develop and come off and therefore affect how it would be received by the audience; that if Kathleen had been unavailable or had turned down the role, he probably would have scrapped the entire project. She was integral also as the nun known as The Penguin when it came to the success of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's movie The Blues Brothers (1980). Miss Freeman was just that talented and unforgettable in everything she did. Kathleen Freeman worked in Vaudeville, Movies, Television, as a voice over artist in Movies, Television, and even in a video game in 1997, and then back on Broadway. She was a perfectionist and critical thinker as well. As such, it isn't surprising that she was also recognized for a well-received literary work she wrote on the Ethics for Theatre Performers. And yet, despite appearing in WELL over 200 credited performances and numerous uncredited ones, we are left to ask one simple question, "Why have the steps not been taken to find the distant relatives or waive the "relative approval" rule, if there are none living; AND PLACE A STAR on the Walk of Fame for a Star that gave all she had to us for most of seventy-six straight years of the seventy-eight she was alive?
Edward Grant Shaud III is an American actor best known for his portrayal of the character of Miles Silverberg on the television sitcom Murphy Brown. He's also had notable roles in the films The Distinguished Gentleman and Antz, among other voice performances in The Wild Thornberrys, Godzilla: The Series and Batman: The Animated Series.
Ellen Greene is an American actress and singer. She has had a long and varied career as a singer, particularly in cabaret, as an actress and singer in numerous stage productions, particularly musical theatre, as well as having performed in many films and television series. Her best-known roles are as Audrey in the original stage play and movie adaptation of Little Shop of Horrors, and as Vivian Charles in the ABC series Pushing Daisies.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman is a 1981 American science-fiction comedy film directed by Joel Schumacher, written by Jane Wagner, and starring Lily Tomlin, Charles Grodin, Ned Beatty, John Glover, and Elizabeth Wilson. A parody of the 1957 science-fiction film The Incredible Shrinking Man, it is credited as based on Richard Matheson's 1956 novel, The Shrinking Man. The original music score was composed by Suzanne Ciani.
Sheryl Lee Ralph OJ is an American actress and singer. Known for her performances on stage and screen, she earned acclaim for her role as Deena Jones in the Broadway musical Dreamgirls (1981), for which she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Since 2021 she has starred as Barbara Howard on the ABC mockumentary sitcom Abbott Elementary, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, becoming the first Black woman in 35 years to win the award.
Janis Paige was an American actress and singer. With a career spanning nearly 60 years, she was one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood.
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985) is a one-woman stage show written by Jane Wagner. The original Broadway production starred Lily Tomlin, won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience, and was turned into a film in 1991.
Cecily Legler Strong is an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022. She is the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history.
The following is a complete filmography of Jane Fonda. An American actress, writer, activist, former fashion model and fitness guru, Fonda has won two Academy Awards, for Klute (1971) and Coming Home (1978).
