Hungarian-American celebrities
by connorclarkferguson | created - 5 months ago | updated - 2 months ago | PublicCelebrities with Hungarian ancestry.
1. Tony Curtis
Actor | Some Like It Hot
Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz, the eldest of three children of Helen (Klein) and Emanuel Schwartz, Jewish immigrants from Hungary. Curtis himself admits that while he had almost no formal education, he was a student of the "school of hard knocks" and learned from a young age that the only ...
2. Christopher Knight
Actor | The Brady Bunch
Once and forever a Brady! Christopher Knight met life as a child actor, starring as "Peter Brady" in the TV classic hit show The Brady Bunch (1969). A reluctant icon, Christopher has focused his adult years on interests beyond the entertainment industry, particularly the corporate world of ...
3. Eva Gabor
Actress | Green Acres
Eva Gabor was born on February 11, 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, to Jolie Gabor (née Janka Tilleman) and Vilmos Gabor (born Farkas Miklós Grün), a soldier. Her older siblings were Magda Gabor, an actress, and Zsa Zsa Gabor, an actress and socialite. Her parents were both from Jewish families. She went...
4. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity," Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her "dahlink" catchphrase, her actions, gossip, and quotations on men, rather than her film career.
Zsa Zsa was born as Sári Gabor on ...
5. Goldie Hawn
Actress | Private Benjamin
Goldie Jeanne Hawn was born November 21, 1945 in Washington, D.C. and raised in Takoma Park, Maryland to Laura Hawn, a jewelry shop/dance school owner & Rut Hawn, a band musician. She has a sister, Patti Hawn, and a brother, Edward, who died in infancy before her birth. She was raised in the Jewish...
6. Vilmos Zsigmond
Cinematographer | Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Along with László Kovács, a fellow student who fled Hungary in 1956, Zsigmond rose to prominence in the 1970s. He is known for his use of natural light and vivid use of color on features such as The Long Goodbye (1973) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
7. Paul Newman
Actor | The Hustler
Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, the second son of Arthur Sigmund Newman (died 1950) and Theresa Fetsko (died 1982). His elder brother was Arthur S. Newman Jr., named for ...
8. Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress | Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...
9. Peter Lorre
Actor | M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Peter Lorre was born László Löwenstein in Rózsahegy in the Slovak area of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the son of Hungarian Jewish parents. He learned both Hungarian and German languages from birth, and was educated in elementary and secondary schools in the Austria-Hungary capitol Vienna, but did ...
10. Don Adams
Actor | Get Smart
Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island. After the war he ...
11. Rodney Dangerfield
Actor | Back to School
Rodney Dangerfield was born Jacob Cohen on November 22, 1921 in Deer Park, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. He was the son of Dorothy "Dotty" (Teitelbaum) and Phillip Cohen, who performed in vaudeville under the name Phil Roy. His father was born in New York, to Russian Jewish parents, and ...
12. Ernie Kovacs
Actor | Bell Book and Candle
Author, actor, comedian, composer and producer. He was educated at the New York School of Theatre, and received the Sylvania Television Award. Joining the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1957, he composed a number of songs and themes, a number of which were used in ...
13. Paul Lukas
Actor | Watch on the Rhine
Oscar-winning actor Paul Lukas was born in Hungary and graduated from the School for Dramatic Arts. In 1916 he went to Kosice (Kassa) to be an actor; in 1918 he became an actor specializing in comedy. For ten years he was the most popular character player and romantic lead of the company. In 1918 ...
14. Gabor Csupo
Writer | Rugrats
Gábor Csupó is a Hungarian animator, film director, and producer. He has had a long career, but he is better known as the co-founder of animation studio Klasky-Csupo, Inc., a graphic design and animation studio based in Hollywood. The other major co-founder was his business partner and wife Arlene ...
Creator of Rugrats Co-creator of Aaahh! Real Monsters! Co-creator of The Wild Thornberrys Co-creator of Rocket Power
15. Rick Moranis
Actor | Parenthood
Rick began his career as a radio DJ while he was still at high school which led to him writing, producing and being on air in his own show. He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the film, ...
16. Jessica Szohr
Actress | Two Night Stand
Szohr was born in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin and is of Hungarian and one quarter African American ancestry. Szohr played soccer, served on the student council, and was part of the cheerleading squad while in school. She started a cleaning company with a friend, cleaning their teachers' houses.
Szohr...
17. Michael Curtiz
Director | Casablanca
Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...
18. Mickey Hargitay
Actor | Gli amori di Ercole
Mickey Hargitay was born on January 6, 1926 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for The Loves of Hercules (1960), Delirium (1972) and Bloody Pit of Horror (1965). He was married to Ellen Hargitay, Jayne Mansfield and Mary Birge. He died on September 14, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
19. Hedy Lamarr
Actress | Samson and Delilah
Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lemberg (now known as Lviv). Her parents were ...
20. Justin Bartha
Actor | National Treasure
Justin Bartha was born on July 21, 1978 in West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for National Treasure (2004), Gigli (2003) and The Hangover (2009). He has been married to Lia Smith since January 4, 2014. They have one child.
21. Sherwood Schwartz
Writer | Gilligan's Island
Sherwood Schwartz was born on November 14, 1916 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Gilligan's Island (1964), The Red Skelton Hour (1951) and The Running Man (1987). He was married to Mildred Schwartz. He died on July 12, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Creator of “The Brady Bunch” and “Gilligan’s Island”
22. Mariska Hargitay
Actress | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Mariska (Ma-rish-ka) Magdolna Hargitay was born on January 23, 1964, in Santa Monica, California. Her parents are Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield. She is the youngest of their three children. In June 1967, Mariska and her brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr. were in the back seat of a car when it was...
23. Kate Hudson
Actress | Almost Famous
Almost everyone who has spent time with Kate Hudson -including directors, family members, co-stars and interviewers - is quick to comment on her ability to light up a room. Through some combination of a winning smile, solid work ethic, and good old-fashioned talent, the young actress has gone from ...
24. Jerry Seinfeld
Producer | Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Betty (Hesney) and Kalman Seinfeld. His father was of Hungarian Jewish descent, while Jerry's maternal grandparents, Salha and Selim Hosni, were Syrian Jewish immigrants (from Aleppo). He moved with his family, including sister Carolyn, to ...
25. Ben Savage
Actor | Boy Meets World
Bennett "Ben" Joseph Savage was born on September 13th, 1980, in Chicago, Illinois. Ben got his start in acting when he appeared in his first commercial at the tender age of 5. From there, his first major speaking role was in the comedy series, Dear John (1988), opposite Judd Hirsch and fellow ...
26. Lisa Lucas
Actress | Heart and Souls
Lisa Lucas was born in 1961 in Arizona, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Heart and Souls (1993), The Adams Chronicles (1976) and The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972).
27. Nick Bakay
Producer | Sabrina the Teenage Witch
A native of Buffalo, New York, Nick Bakay graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio. In 1983, Bakay graduated from the Professional Acting Program at SMU in Dallas, Texas with an MFA (Master of Fine Arts). After moving to New York, he spent the early part of his acting career performing in numerous ...
28. Michael Pataki
Actor | Rocky IV
Excellent, prolific and versatile character actor Michael Pataki had a long, varied and impressive career in both movies and TV shows, alike, that spanned a little over 50 years. Pataki was born on January 16, 1938 in Youngstown, Ohio. He attended the University of Southern California as a double ...
29. Monica Seles
Actress | The Nanny
Monica Seles is a retired professional tennis player, who represented Yugoslavia and the United States. A former world no. 1, she won nine Grand Slam singles titles, eight of them as a teenager while representing Yugoslavia, and the final one while representing the United States. She is regarded as...
30. Joe Nagy
Director | Nightfall
Joe Nagy is known for Nightfall (2016), Lovely Molly (2011) and Midweek (1972).
31. Dean Norris
Actor | Breaking Bad
Dean Joseph Norris is an American actor. He is well known for playing DEA agent Hank Schrader on the AMC series Breaking Bad (2008-2013). He also portrayed town councilman James "Big Jim" Rennie on the CBS series Under the Dome (2013-2015) and played mob boss Clay "Uncle Daddy" Husser on the TNT ...
32. Aaron Horvath
Director | The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Aaron Horvath was born on August 19, 1980 in California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), Teen Titans GO! To the Movies (2018) and Teen Titans Go! (2013). He has been married to Brooke Cadorette since April 4, 2009. They have two children.
33. Jennifer Salt
Producer | American Horror Story
Jennifer Salt was born on September 4, 1944 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for American Horror Story (2011), Play It Again, Sam (1972) and Soap (1977). She was previously married to David Greenberg.
34. David Krumholtz
Actor | Oppenheimer
David Krumholtz is an American actor and comedian. He played Mr. Universe in Serenity, Charlie Eppes in the CBS drama series Numb3rs, and starred in the Harold & Kumar and The Santa Clause film franchises. Krumholtz was born in Queens, New York City. He is the son of Michael, a postal worker, and ...
35. Calvin Klein
Actor | 30 Rock
Calvin Klein was born on November 19, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and costume designer, known for 30 Rock (2006), Players (1979) and Fashion Aid (1985). He was previously married to Kelly Rector and Jayne Centre.
36. Christina Toth
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Christina Toth is an actress and writer known for her work as Annalisa Damiva in Netflix's series Orange Is The New Black. Her performance in Revry's STRUT was considered for a 2022 Primetime Emmy Award. Theatre highlights include David Bowie's LAZARUS directed by Ivo van Hove, Candlelight by John ...
37. Jim Varney
Actor | Ernest Goes to Camp
James Albert Varney, Jr. was born in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nancy Louise (Howard) and James Albert Varney, Sr. He became interested in theater as a teenager, winning state titles in drama competitions while a student at Lafayette High School in Lexington, Kentucky. At age 15 he played Ebeneezer ...
38. Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor was a poor Hungarian immigrant when he arrived in the United States in 1889. He tried his hand in the fur trade (starting as a sweeper for $2 a week pay) and proved his entrepreneurial acumen by steady advancement, eventually setting up successful businesses in New York and Chicago. By...
39. Janice Karman
Writer | Alvin & the Chipmunks
Janice Karman was born on May 21, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a writer and producer, known for Alvin & the Chipmunks (1983), The Chipmunk Adventure (1987) and Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007). She has been married to Ross Bagdasarian Jr. since September 27, 1980. They have two ...
40. Harvey Korman
Actor | Blazing Saddles
Harvey Korman was a lanky, popular TV comedy veteran with a flair for broad comic characterizations, who shone for a decade as leading man and second banana par excellence on The Carol Burnett Show (1967).
Harvey Herschel Korman was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Ellen (Blecher) and Cyril Raymond ...
41. Bela Lugosi
Actor | Dracula
Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker. He was the youngest of four children. During WWI, he volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded ...
42. Stephanie Faracy
Actress | Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
Stephanie Faracy was born on January 1, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016), Temple Grandin (2010) and Sideways (2004).
43. Soupy Sales
Actor | Black Scorpion
Soupy Sales was born on January 8, 1926 in Franklinton, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Black Scorpion (2001), The Making of '...and God Spoke' (1993) and A Dirty Shame (2004). He was married to Trudy Carson and Barbara Fox. He died on October 22, 2009 in The Bronx, New ...
44. Dody Goodman
Actress | Grease
Her quivery, high-pitched, Southern-cracked tones were once described as sounding like "a Tweetie Pie cartoon bird strangling on peanut butter." Just the absurdity of that description fits comedienne Dody Goodman to a tee. One did not know what to make of her, but she could certainly induce ...
45. Bill Dana
Actor | The Nude Bomb
Comedian, author and composer, educated at Emerson College. He served in the US Infantry during World War II. Later, he was part of the team Dana and Wood on television and in supper clubs. As a single, he appeared on television with Martha Raye and Imogene Coca and was a writer for Steve Allen, ...
46. Joe Eszterhas
Writer | Basic Instinct
Joe Eszterhas was born on November 23, 1944 in Csakanydoroszlo, Hungary. He is a writer and producer, known for Basic Instinct (1992), Showgirls (1995) and Sliver (1993). He has been married to Naomi Baka since July 30, 1994. They have four children. He was previously married to Geraldine Javer.
47. King Vidor
Director | War and Peace
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...
48. Ali MacGraw
Actress | Love Story
Ali was educated at Wellesley College, where she studied art history. After graduating, she worked on fashion magazines. Her interest in fashion photography led her to become a top model, a profession she carried on until 1968, when she made a late start in what was to be a sporadic film career, ...
49. Jerry Lucas
Writer | The Perfect Summer
Jerry Lucas was born on March 30, 1940 in Middletown, Ohio, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Perfect Summer, Rome 1960: Games of the XVII Olympiad (1960) and The Final Game (1967). He has been married to Cheri Wulf since 1989. He was previously married to Sharalee Beard and Treva Geib.
50. River Phoenix
Actor | My Own Private Idaho
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in Madras, Oregon. His mother, Arlyn (Dunetz), a Bronx-born secretary, and his father, John Bottom, a carpenter, met in California in 1968. They worked as itinerant fruit pickers, and later joined the Children of God religious group (John was originally ...
51. Richard Molnar
Actor | Hunter
Richard Molnar was born on August 14, 1946 in the USA. He is an actor, known for Hunter (1984), Blue Thunder (1984) and Simon & Simon (1981).
52. László Kovács
Cinematographer | Easy Rider
László Kovács was born on May 14, 1933 in Cece, Hungary. He is known for his work on Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), Ghostbusters (1984) and Copycat (1995). He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC in 2002. He was married to Audrey. He died on July 22, 2007 in Beverly Hills, ...
53. Shawn Hatosy
Actor | Animal Kingdom
Shawn Wayne Hatosy is an American film and television actor and director. He is best known for his roles in the films In & Out, The Faculty, Outside Providence, Anywhere but Here, The Cooler, and Alpha Dog. He is also well known for his role as Detective Sammy Bryant on the TNT crime drama series ...
54. Peter Robbins
Actor | A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Child actor Peter Robbins was born on August 10, 1956, in Los Angeles, California. His mother was an immigrant from Hungary who died from cancer when Peter was 16 years old. He first began acting in various films and television shows in 1963. Robbins has the distinction of being the first person to...
55. Paul Simon
Soundtrack | One-Trick Pony
Born on October 13, 1941, in Newark New Jersey, Paul Simon is one of the greatest singer/songwriters ever. In 1957, he and high school pal, Art Garfunkel, wrote and recorded the single, "Hey Schoolgirl", under the name "Tom and Jerry". After some failures, they broke up. Simon still wrote and ...
56. Peter Cetera
Soundtrack | The Karate Kid Part II
Noted vocalist and bassist Peter Paul Cetera was born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 13, 1944. His initial foray into music was the accordion, but he soon made his way to electric bass (and, occasionally, guitar). Cetera's family was Polish in origin, and Peter grew up Catholic.
As a youngster, ...
57. Megan Fox
Actress | Transformers
Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and raised in Rockwood, Tennessee to Gloria Darlene Tonachio (née Cisson), a real estate manager and Franklin Thomas Fox, a parole officer. She began her drama and dance training at age 5 and at age 10, she moved to Port St. Lucie, ...
58. Martha Smith
Actress | National Lampoon's Animal House
Smith is perhaps best-known as "Francine Desmond," intelligence agent (and nemesis of star Kate Jackson) on the CBS series Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983). Raised in Farmington, Michigan, Smith, an honor student with a mention in "Who's Who of American Students", enrolled in Michigan State ...
59. Jeffrey Tambor
Actor | Transparent
Jeffrey Tambor starred in Amazon Studios hit series TRANSPARENT, playing family patriarch "Mort Pfefferman," who over the course of the show becomes the unforgettable "Maura." Tambor's groundbreaking performance earned him two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award and a Critics' Choice ...
60. Rachel Weisz
Actress | The Constant Gardener
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...
61. John Vernon
Actor | National Lampoon's Animal House
John Vernon was a prolific stage-trained Canadian character player who made a career out of convincingly playing crafty villains, morally-bankrupt officials and heartless authority figures in American films and television since the 1960s. Vernon was directed by some stellar filmmakers, including ...
62. Paul Begala
Writer | Third Term: How John McCain Promises to Continue George Bush's Failed Policies
Paul Begala was born on May 12, 1961 in New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Third Term: How John McCain Promises to Continue George Bush's Failed Policies (2008), House of Cards (2013) and Hillary (2020). He has been married to Diane Friday since July 29, 1989.
63. Corey Brooks
Actor | Reflect
Corey Brooks is known for Reflect (2023), Apocalypse and Can't Sleep (2021). He has been married to Samantha Swanson since July 8, 2023.
64. Agnes Bruckner
Actress | Murder by Numbers
Agnes Bruckner was born on August 16, 1985 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Murder by Numbers (2002), Blood and Chocolate (2007) and Anna Nicole (2013).
65. Irwin Corey
Actor | The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Professor Irwin Corey, "The World's Foremost Authority," was born on July 29, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York. He and his five siblings were wards of the Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and during the Great Depression, he worked for the Civilian Conservation Corp. Possessing brawn as well as brains, ...
66. Csaba Lucas
Actor | I Spy
Csaba Lucas (coach, author, speaker and storyteller) was born in a small Hungarian town, Mosonmagyarovar. For the past three decades, Csaba has been a successful coach to world-class athletes and professional sports teams, Wall Street business leaders and Fortune 500 companies, severely injured ...
67. George Cukor
Director | My Fair Lady
George Cukor was an American film director of Hungarian-Jewish descent, better known for directing comedies and literary adaptations. He once won the Academy Award for Best Director, and was nominated other four times for the same Award.
In 1899, George Dewey Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of...
68. Sandy Dennis
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
It would not be easy for anyone to out-do one of American theater's finest thespians, but somehow actress Sandy Dennis managed to even out-quirk the legendary Geraldine Page when it came to affecting nervous tics and offbeat mannerisms on stage and in film. She and Page had few peers when it came ...
69. Ralph Emery
Actor | Nashville Rebel
Ralph Emery was born on March 10, 1933 in McEwen, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Nashville Rebel (1966), Girl from Tobacco Row (1966) and Dolly (1976). He was married to Joy Kott and Skeeter Davis. He died on January 15, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
70. Charles Fleischer
Actor | Zodiac
Charles Fleischer was born on August 27, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Zodiac (2007), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). He has been married to Sheryl Stressman since 1977. They have two children.
71. William Fox
Producer | 7th Heaven
Starting at the age 8 he had a series of jobs before starting his own business in 1900, which was sold to buy a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the new owner with an empty house, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to attract patrons into the dark 146-seat theatre. Once audiences adequately ...
72. Mitzi Gaynor
Actress | South Pacific
It is perhaps ironic that the film for which this performer is best remembered was also her musical swansong and one of her very last motion picture appearances. That was, of course, South Pacific (1958), with Mitzi Gaynor famously cast as feisty Ensign Nellie Forbush, warbling "I'm Gonna Wash That...
73. Joe Jonas
Soundtrack | Camp Rock
Joe Jonas got his start as the frontman for the Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum selling group, Jonas Brothers, which quickly grew into one of the highest-grossing bands in music history.
Beyond his career in music, Joe has appeared in guest-starring roles on TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" and The ...
74. Kevin Jonas
Actor | Camp Rock
Kevin Jonas was born as Paul Kevin Jonas Jr. on November 5,1987 in New Jersey. His parents are Paul Kevin Jonas Sr. and Denise Jonas. He has 3 brothers Nicholas Jerry Jonas, Joseph Adam Jonas, and Franklin Nathaniel Jonas. He got his start doing commercials. Later he and his brothers wrote a song ...
75. Nick Jonas
Actor | Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Nick Jonas is best known as one of the Jonas Brothers, a band formed with his brothers Kevin and Joe. He has appeared in films such as Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) and Careful What You Wish For (2015). He has also appeared television series Last Man Standing (2011) and ...
76. Richard Jordan
Actor | The Hunt for Red October
Harvard-educated stage and screen actor Richard Jordan was born into a socially prominent family on July 19, 1937 in New York City, the grandson of Learned Hand, the greatest American jurist never to have served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Newbold Morris, his stepfather, was a member of the New York...
77. Kerry Katona
Actress | Showbands
Kerry Katona was born on September 6, 1980 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Showbands (2005), A Deal Is a Deal (2008) and Showbands II (2006). She was previously married to George Kay, Mark Croft and Brian McFadden.
78. Adrien Brody
Actor | The Pianist
Adrien Nicholas Brody was born in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, the only child of retired history professor Elliot Brody and Hungarian-born photographer Sylvia Plachy. He accompanied his mother on assignments for the Village Voice, and credits her with making him feel comfortable in front of the ...
79. Dora Kiss
Actress | Smile
Dora Kiss was born in Budapest, Hungary. She resides in Los Angeles. She is fluent both in English and Hungarian. Dora speaks with an American accent. She has been a member of The Actors' Gang Theatre company (Art.Dir. Tim Robbins) for ten years. Dora is an All-American, formal pro tennis player.
80. Gabe Kaplan
Writer | Welcome Back, Kotter
Gabe Kaplan was born on March 31, 1945 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Welcome Back, Kotter (1975), Lewis & Clark (1981) and The Grand (2007).
Creator of “Welcome Back, Kotter”
81. Robert Klein
Actor | Two Weeks Notice
Robert Klein was born on February 8, 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Two Weeks Notice (2002), One Fine Day (1996) and The Back-up Plan (2010). He was previously married to Brenda Boozer.
82. Ricki Lake
Actress | Hairspray
Ricki Lake was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, surprisingly as a blond. She has one sister, who is one year younger than she, named Jennifer. Her father, Barry, is a pharmacist, and her mother, Jill, is a homemaker. The two currently reside in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ricki attended Hastings ...
83. Marc Summers
Stunts | The Florida Project
Born in Indianapolis, he paid his dues as a magician, disc jockey, comedian and studio page in Los Angeles during the 1970s. When Jack Barry's announcer fell sick on The Joker's Wild (1972), 1973, Marc (then a 22-year-old page) filled in. That was his break. He began warming up audiences for ...
84. Robert Viharo
Writer | Marbles
Robert Viharo was born on August 14, 1936 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Marbles (2005), American Playhouse (1980) and Villa Rides (1968). He is married to Paige Olson. He was previously married to Jeane Manson, Anne Helm, Charlotte Glenn and Jennifer West.
85. Fred Silverman
Producer | Meatballs and Spaghetti
Fred Silverman was born in 1937, and quickly grew up into the television business. After starting out in the mail-room of ABC-TV in the late 1950s, he rose to director of program development at WGN-TV, Chicago in the early '60s. One day, he abandoned his car during a snowstorm and boarded a plane ...
86. Jeff Bergman
Actor | Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Jeff Bergman is an American voice actor who is one of many successors of Mel Blanc. He did the voice of Bugs Bunny in several Looney Tunes works including Nike commercials with Michael Jordan, which inspired Space Jam as well as Space Jam: A New Legacy. He also voiced Fred Flintstone after Henry ...
87. Fanny Brice
Actress | Be Yourself!
Fanny Brice was a popular and influential American comedienne, singer, theatre and film actress, who made many stage, radio and film appearances but is best remembered as the creator and star of the top-rated radio comedy series, The Baby Snooks Show. Thirteen years after her death, she was ...
88. Andrew Laszlo
Cinematographer | Innerspace
Cinematographer Andrew Laszlo was born on January 12, 1926 in Papa, Hungary. Laszlo started out as a camera apprentice at the Motion Picture Studios of Budapest when World War II began. Andrew and his family were sent to a Nazi concentration camp; he was the sole member of his family to survive ...
89. Peter J. Lucas
Actor | Inland Empire
Peter J. Lucas was born June 2nd in Wrzesnia (near Poznan), Poland. He earned a master's degree in engineering and became an award-winning singer, touring various music festivals throughout Poland. His first acting audition won him a series of commercials in England. Peter moved to the USA in 1989 ...
90. Ilona Massey
Actress | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Born on June 16, 1910, sultry, opulent, mole-lipped, Budapest-bred blonde singer/actress Ilona Massey survived an impoverished childhood in Hungary to become a glamorous talent both here and abroad. As a dressmaker's apprentice she managed to scrape up money together for singing lessons and first ...
91. Jeremy Miller
Actor | Growing Pains
Jeremy James Miller is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on Growing Pains and its two reunion movies. He also was the voice of Linus in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown and Snoopy the Musical.
Miller was first cast in a McDonald's commercial and then began to land multiple ...
92. Gene Simmons
Actor | Extract
Best known as the fire breathing, blood splitting and larger than life co-founder of the major hard rock group, KISS. Simmons was actually born Chaim Witz in August 1949 in Haifa, Israel, the son of Hungarian Jewish parents, Flóra "Florence" (Klein or Kovács) and Feri Yechiel Witz. He moved to New ...
93. Carly Simon
Soundtrack | All Good Things
Carly Simon has an unparalleled career that spans five decades of openhearted storytelling both in song and print. Joining the singer-songwriters of the early 1970s, Simon changed the public's conception of pop music to an honest, sensitive and intelligent craftwork. Simon's biggest success came ...
94. Shaun Sipos
Actor | Texas Chainsaw 3D
Shaun Sipos of Croatian descent was born in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Sipos debuted before the cameras in 2001 with a small role in "Special Unit 2", and that same year played a series regular on "Maybe It's Me", playing Nick Gibson.
Since then, Shaun has developed a successful career in ...
95. Harry Houdini
Actor | The Man from Beyond
The great American escape artist and magician Houdini (immortalized by a memorable performance by Tony Curtis in the eponymous 1953 film) was born Erich Weiss on March 24, 1874 in Budapest, Hungary, though he often gave his birthplace as Appleton, Wisconsin, where he was raised. One of five ...
96. Alex Borstein
Actress | Family Guy
Alex Borstein is a Chicago-born American actress, known for her work on the animated sitcom Family Guy (1999), Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (2005), Bad Santa (2003), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017). Borstein became a MADtv cast member in 1997, during the sketch comedy show's third season. ...
97. Angela Kerecz
Actress | S.O.U.L.
Angela Kerecz is an American born actress and writer. Originally from the small town of Waynesboro, MS, Angela was always very involved in the arts through years of dance, piano, and clarinet training. In high school, she enjoyed participating in the drama club and was director of the school's play...
98. Julianna Margulies
Actress | ER
Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley (near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca (Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies, an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, ...
99. Nicholas Gyeney
Producer | The Activated Man
Nicholas enjoys filmmaking, eating delicious food, watching movies with loved ones, and writing biographies in the third person. He was born to Hungarian parents on July 15th, 1986, and quickly immersed himself in the world of cinema with the guidance of his loving father, Örs, who introduced ...
100. Tracy Toth
Actress | Law Abiding Citizen
Tracy Toth is known for Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Onion (2007) and The Onion News Network (2011).
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