Famous People I Have Met
by cjwhite-31645 | created - 9 months ago | updated - 1 month ago | Public
1. Christina Ricci
Actress | Casper
Precocious, outspoken child-teen starlet of the 1990s, Christina Ricci was born on February 12, 1980 in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children of Sarah (Murdoch), a realtor, and Ralph Ricci, a lawyer and therapist. She is of Italian (from her paternal grandfather), Irish, and ...
2. Scott Steiner
Actor | WWE SmackDown
Scott Steiner has been a mainstay in professional wrestling for over 15 years. When he started out in the business, he was a singles wrestler, wrestling in some smaller federations before coming to the NWA (WCW) to team with his older brother, Rick. It was at this time that Steiner became world ...
3. Jim Cummings
Actor | Winnie the Pooh
Born James Jonah Cummings on November 3, 1952, he grew up in Youngstown, Ohio.
Sooner or later, he moved to New Orleans. There, he designed Mardi Gras floats, was a singer, door-to-door salesman, and a Louisiana riverboat deckhand.
Then Cummings moved to Anaheim, California, where he started his ...
4. John DiMaggio
Actor | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
John DiMaggio is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and producer from Plainfield, New Jersey. He is best known for voicing Bender on Futurama, Jake the Dog on Adventure Time, King Zøg on Disenchantment, The Joker from Batman: Under the Red Hood and Jerry Jumbeaux Jr from Zootopia. He can ...
5. Jonathan Frakes
Actor | Star Trek: First Contact
Jonathan Scott Frakes was born in Bellefonte, central Pennsylvania. He is the son of Doris J. (Yingling) and Dr. James R. Frakes, a professor. His parents moved with Jonathan and his younger brother Daniel to Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania. There, his father taught English at Lehigh University, ...
6. Kurt Angle
Actor | Warrior
Kurt Angle was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He won a Olympic Gold Medal in 1996 having notoriously won it with a broken neck. In 1998 he transitioned into professional wrestling where he sky rocked to success after joining the World Wrestling Federation. He later became the first ever ...
7. Lance Henriksen
Actor | Aliens
An intense, versatile actor as adept at playing clean-cut FBI agents as he is psychotic motorcycle-gang leaders, who can go from portraying soulless, murderous vampires to burned-out, world-weary homicide detectives, Lance Henriksen has starred in a variety of films that have allowed him to stretch...
8. Michael Rosenbaum
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Michael Owen Rosenbaum is an American actor and pod-caster. He is known for portraying Lex Luthor on the Superman television series Smallville, a role that TV Guide included in their 2013 list of "The 60 Nastiest Villains of All Time". Rosenbaum is also known for portraying Martinex in Guardians of...
9. Sean Astin
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Sean Patrick Astin (né Duke; February 25, 1971) is an American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, producer, family man, author, marathon runner, political activist and philanthropist who is well known for his film debut portraying Mikey in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies (1985), for playing...
10. Trish Stratus
Actress | WWE Monday Night RAW
Patricia Anne Stratigeas, better known as Trish Stratus, is marketed as a former wrestler for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Before she became a mainstay in professional wrestling, she was a student at York University in Toronto, Canada. She majored in Biology and Kinesiology, but when the ...
11. Billy Boyd
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Billy Boyd was born in 1968 in Glasgow, Scotland, to Mary and William Boyd. The talented young boy, inspired by Star Wars to try acting, got his first taste of it in his school's production of Oliver Twist when he was 10. Boyd's parents were extremely supportive, driving over two hours to get him ...
12. Seth Lesser
Actor | WWE SmackDown
Seth Lesser was born on October 18, 1982 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), WWE NXT (2010) and NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn (2015).
13. Rob Strauss
Actor | The Wrestler
Rob Strauss was born on October 1, 1983 in Alpine, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Wrestler (2008), TNA iMPACT! Wrestling (2004) and WWE Raw (1993).
14. Terry Gerin
Actor | WWE SmackDown
While growing up in Detroit, Gerin's father died when he was just fourteen and his mother was working up to three jobs. While still living in Detroit, Gerin made his professional wrestling debut in 1994 in the independent circuit. Then in 1995, he started working for World Championship Wrestling (...
15. David Heath
Actor | WXW Rage TV
David Heath was born February 16th, 1969 in Florida. He played high school football but suffered a serious neck injury that ended his career. Despite fears that he would never play contact sports again, he became interested in professional wrestling. He was trained by Boris Malenko, father of ...
16. Tony Atlas
Actor | WWWF Championship Wrestling
Tony Atlas was born on April 23, 1954 in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. He is an actor, known for WWF Championship Wrestling (1972), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and Spectrum Wrestling (1977). He has been married to Monika DeRanek since June 27, 1990. He was previously married to Lisa.
17. Travis Gordon
Actor | Burial Ground Massacre
Travis Gordon was born on December 12, 1991 in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor, known for Burial Ground Massacre (2021), All In (2018) and Ring of Honor Wrestling (2009).
18. Bob Backlund
Actor | WWWF Championship Wrestling
Robert Louis Backlund is an American retired amateur and professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in the World Wide Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Federation from 1976 to 1984 and in the 1990s, where he held the WWWF Championship/WWF Championship on two occasions. His first...
19. Robert Remus
Actor | G.I. Joe
One of the most recognizable grapplers of the 1980s, Sgt. Slaughter became huge in National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), American Wrestling Association (AWA), and the World Wrestling Federation (now WWE). While never actually serving as a United States Marine, Remus adopted the character Sgt. ...
20. Adam Scherr
Actor | Holmes & Watson
Adam Scherr was born on September 6, 1983, in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina. Scherr is an American professional wrestler, actor and former strongman. Scherr recently completed a successful run as a WWE Superstar (2013-2021), where he performed on the SmackDown Live brand on FOX under the ring name...
21. Joseph Ruud
Actor | Ghosts of the Ozarks
Joseph Ruud is an American Professional Wrestler working under the ring name Erick Redbeard. During his 9 year career in the WWE Ruud performed as Erick Rowan. He was both a NXT Tag Team Champion and a two time SmackDown Tag Team Champion.
Standing at just over 6' 7' tall, Ruud has recently decided ...
22. Michael Hutter
Actor | The House of the Devil
Michael Hutter was born on March 18, 1983 in Willoughby, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The House of the Devil (2009), Free the Narrative (2021) and WWE NXT (2010).
23. Johnny Curtis
Actor | WWE NXT
Johnny Curtis was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is known for WWE NXT (2010), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and WWE Raw (1993).
24. Jasmine Benitez
Actress | AEW Collision
Jasmine Benitez is an American professional wrestler as Mercedes Martinez. She is best known for her work for WSU and SHIMMER. She debuted in November 2000 after training under former ECW World Television Champion and manager Jason Knight. She has been a 2x WSU Champion, a 1x WSU Tag Team Champion ...
25. Ivelisse Velez
Actress | WWE NXT
is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. In 2011, she was a contestant on WWE Tough Enough, but was eliminated from the competition due to injury. WWE signed her in November 2011 and Vélez adopted the ring name Sofia Cortez as she appeared in WWE's developmental territory Florida Championship ...
26. Matt Capiccioni
Actor | WWE Superstars
In 1999 Matt won gold medals in both the Rings and Vault at the AAU National Junior Olympics. This capped off a successful ten year gymnastics career and it became time to lay the foundation for what the world would later know as MDogg20. Out of sheer boredom and an ever-burning athletic drive, ...
27. Sonny DeFarge
Actor | Beyond Wrestling Beyond Uncharted Territory
American professional wrestler for CHIKARA as part of a tag team with Cornelius Crummels. Debuted at "CHIKARA Hour of Power #1", June 26, 2016, in a victory over the Snake Pit (Ophidian and Argus). They defeated the Colony (Soldier Ant and Worker Ant) at "CHIKARA Hour of Power #2" on August 7th. ...
28. Cornelius Crummels
Actor | Beyond Wrestling Beyond Uncharted Territory
American professional wrestler for CHIKARA as part of a tag team with Sonny DeFarge. Debuted at "CHIKARA Hour of Power #1", June 26, 2016, in a victory over the Snake Pit (Ophidian and Argus). They defeated the Colony (Soldier Ant and Worker Ant) at "CHIKARA Hour of Power #2" on August 7th. They ...
29. Hermit Crab
Actor | Camp Leapfrog: Camper's Choice
American professional wrestler who competes for CHIKARA and Excellence Professional Wrestling. Debuted at "CHIKARA The Ocean Walker" on October 10, 2015, teaming with Cajun Crawdad in a loss to Battleborn (Kevin Condron and Missile Assault Man) in a four-way match that also involved Battle Hive (...
30. Cajun Crawdad
Actor | Camp Leapfrog: Creepfrog
Professional wrestler for CHIKARA. Debuted with Hermit Crab in a loss in a four-way elimination match involving Battleborn (Snowflake (Kevin Condron) and Missile Assault Man (R.B. Banks), Battle Hive (Amasis (Desean Pratt) and Fire Ant) and the Nightmare Warriors (Hallowicked and Frightmare) at "...
31. Robert Englund
Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon ...
32. Vincent D'Onofrio
Actor | Men in Black
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio was born on June 30, 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, to Phyllis, a restaurant manager and server, and Gene D'Onofrio, a theatre production assistant and interior designer. He is of Italian descent and has two older sisters. He studied at the Actors Studio and the American ...
33. Amanda Wyss
Actress | The Id
Born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, Amanda Wyss, was discovered playing the titular character (Rhoda Penmark) in a production of "The Bad Seed" at an LA theater. She quickly found work in commercials before landing a guest starring role in television's science fiction hit Buck Rogers in...
34. Cal Dodd
Actor | X-Men
Cal Dodd was born on November 23, 1956 in Ireland. He is an actor, known for X-Men: The Animated Series (1992), Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994) and Marvel Super Heroes (1995).
35. Giancarlo Esposito
Actor | Breaking Bad
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to an Italian carpenter/stagehand father from Naples, Italy, and an African-American opera singer mother from Alabama. His parents, working in Europe at the time of his birth, settled in Manhattan by the time he was 6, and ...
36. Heather Langenkamp
Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Heather Langenkamp was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She got her start in acting when she was cast as an extra in the Francis Ford Coppola films The Outsiders (1983) and Rumble Fish (1983), which were both filmed in Tulsa. Her scenes were deleted from the final cut of both films. While studying at ...
37. Jodi Benson
Actress | Toy Story 3
Jodi Benson was born on October 10, 1961 in Rockford, Illinois as Jodi Marie Marzorati. She has received worldwide recognition & critical acclaim as the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989), Tour Guide Barbie in Toy Story 2 (1999), Weebo in Flubber (1997) as well as Thumbelina in Thumbelina ...
38. Kevin Nash
Actor | Magic Mike XXL
Native Detroiter Kevin Nash is an actor and equal rights advocate who discovered his love of comedy as the class clown in elementary school and to this day, he can find humor in almost any situation. One day he could not find humor was April 4th, 1968 as that was the day his father died of a heart ...
39. Lisa Wilcox
Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
Lisa is BACK to acting full time after raising her boys and married to corporate world for a couple decades. She is excited about a slew of 2019-2020 projects. Check out the latest! Lisa has performed in over 100 film, television, commercial and theater productions, starting her career in Equity ...
40. Ray Park
Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
Ray Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He moved with his parents, younger brother and sister to London, UK, at the age of seven. Ray always wanted to be in the movies, and be like their heroes. He also began to nurture a love for martial arts from the age of seven, when his father's fondness ...
41. Rob Van Dam
Actor | 3-Headed Shark Attack
He was trained by the Original Sheik, Ed Farhat, who was one of pro-wrestling's classic and greatest bad guys. Even though their styles are quite different (Sheik being a wild hardcore-style brawler, known for throwing fire, cutting his opponent's forehead's up with foreign objects like a pencil, ...
42. Ronee Blakley
Actress | Nashville
Ronee Blakley came to prominence as the fictional country superstar Barbara Jean (a role that was originally offered to Susan Anspach), in Robert Altman's Nashville (1975). Her performance in the film won her a National Board of Review for Best Supporting Actress, and garnered Academy Award, BAFTA,...
43. Mike Smith
Actor | Trailer Park Boys
Mike Smith was born and raised in Thorburn, Nova Scotia. He started playing hockey at the age of four but showed early signs of musical genius when he learned to play guitar at the age of seven. Continuing with both hobbies for the majority of his life, Mike eventually gave up hockey to concentrate...
44. Robb Wells
Actor | Trailer Park Boys
Robb Wells was born on October 28, 1971 in Moncton, New Brunswick and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia since the age of 8. His father was a Forensic Expert with The RCMP. Robb later went to high school with Mike Clattenberg and John Paul Tremblay. The three were always pulling practical jokes on ...
45. John Paul Tremblay
Actor | Trailer Park Boys
John Paul Tremblay was born on May 17, 1968 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Trailer Park Boys (2001), Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park (2016) and Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009). He is married to Andrea. They have three children.
46. Shane Alden
Actor | Against the Ropes
Shane Alden is known for Against the Ropes (2021), Catching Up (2020) and The Fire Nebula (2020).
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