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1. Mia Kirshner

Actress | Not Another Teen Movie

Mia Kirshner was born in Toronto, Ontario, to Etti, a teacher, and Sheldon Kirshner, a journalist. Her father is of Polish Jewish descent and her mother is a Bulgarian Jewish immigrant. Mia had a middle class upbringing and graduated from McGill University with a degree in English Literature. She ...

2. Eugene Levy

Actor | A Mighty Wind

Eugene Levy is an award-winning actor, writer, and producer. He has appeared in more than 60 motion pictures to date, eight of which having topped the $100M mark. The box office success of films such as Bringing Down the House (2003), Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005) , and Father of the Bride Part II ...

3. Steven Spielberg

Producer | Schindler's List

One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...

4. Woody Allen

Writer | Annie Hall

Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.

Allen ...

5. Erika Aronson

Producer | A Rainy Day in New York

Erika Aronson was born Erika Leigh Aronson in 1971 in New York City to E. Letty Aronson (Konigsberg) and Sidney Aronson (1923-2002), and was raised in Manhattan. She was educated at Trinity College and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Aronson worked as a corporate attorney at O'Melveny & ...

6. Nettie Konigsberg

Self | Wild Man Blues

Nettie Konigsberg was born on November 8, 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. She was married to Martin Konigsberg. She died on January 27, 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.

7. Martin Konigsberg

Self | Wild Man Blues

Martin Konigsberg was born on December 25, 1900 in New York, USA. He was married to Nettie Konigsberg. He died on January 8, 2001 in New York, USA.

8. Letty Aronson

Producer | Midnight in Paris

Letty Aronson is an American film producer. She is the younger sister of director Woody Allen. She's been a producer and a co-executive producer of 26 films directed by Woody Allen: Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Don't Drink the Water (1994), Mighty Aphrodite (1995), Everyone Says I Love You (1996), ...

9. Isaac Asimov

Writer | I, Robot

Isaac Asimov was born Isaak Judah Ozimov, on January 2, 1920, in Petrovichi shtetl, near Smolensk, Russia. He was the oldest of three children. His father, named Judah Ozimov, and his mother, named Anna Rachel Ozimov (nee Berman), were Orthodox Jews. Ozimov family were millers (the name Ozimov ...

10. Scarlett Johansson

Actress | Lost in Translation

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson was born on November 22, 1984 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Her mother, Melanie Sloan is from a Jewish family from the Bronx and her father, Karsten Johansson is a Danish-born architect from Copenhagen. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress, ...

11. Melanie Sloan

Producer | A Love Song for Bobby Long

Melanie Sloan was born on February 25, 1951. She is a producer and actress, known for A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004), Napoleon and Betsy and Manny & Lo (1996). She was previously married to Karsten Johansson.

12. Karsten Johansson

Actor | Manny & Lo

Karsten Johansson was born on October 2, 1943 in Denmark. He is an actor, known for Manny & Lo (1996). He was previously married to Melanie Sloan.

13. David Duchovny

Actor | The X Files

David William Duchovny was born on August 7, 1960, in New York City, New York, USA. His father, Amram Ducovny, was a writer and publicist who was from a family of Jewish immigrants (from Ukraine and Poland), and worked for the American Jewish Committee. His mother, Margaret (Miller), was a ...

14. Amram Ducovny

Amram Duchovny (later: Ducovny) was born in 1927 in New York. His father, Moshe Duchovny, was a noted Yiddish writer and journalist, and his mother, Hannah Julia (Fiskoff), was an immigrant from Poland. Moshe, who came to American in 1918 from what is now Berdychiv, Ukraine, wrote for the Morning ...

15. Laurie Birnbaum

Actress | Pink Flamingos

Laurie Birnbaum is known for Pink Flamingos (1972) and Match Game/Hollywood Squares Hour (1983).

16. Daniel Ducovny

Camera_department | Jumpin' Jack Flash

Daniel Ducovny is known for Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Californication (2007) and Vibes (1988).

17. Adam Sandler

Actor | The Waterboy

Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...

18. Ben Stiller

Producer | Tropic Thunder

Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).

His parents made no real...

19. Amy Stiller

Actress | Inside Amy Schumer

Amy Stiller was born on September 8, 1961 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Inside Amy Schumer (2013), Divorce (2016) and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017).

20. András Kern

Actor | A miniszter félrelép

András Kern was born on January 28, 1948 in Budapest, Hungary. He is an actor and writer, known for A miniszter félrelép (1997), Sztracsatella (1996) and Think of Me (2016).

21. Miklós Benedek

Actor | Macskafogó

Miklós Benedek was born on September 28, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor and writer, known for Cat City (1986), Soldaty svobody (1977) and Illatszertár (1987). He was married to Éva Hodgyai. He died on January 9, 2024 in Budapest, Hungary.

22. György Markos

Actor | Négyen az árban

György Markos was born on July 22, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary. He is an actor and writer, known for Négyen az árban (1961), Telepohár (1983) and Nincs mese! (1984).

23. Austin Abrams

Actor | Paper Towns

Austin Noah Abrams is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Ron Anderson in the fifth and sixth seasons of the television series The Walking Dead (2010), as Ethan Lewis in Euphoria (2019), and as Dash in Dash & Lily (2020). He has also appeared in films such as Gangster Squad (2013), ...

24. Gideon Adlon

Actress | Blockers

Gideon Adlon was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Blockers (2018) and The Mustang (2019).

25. Asher Angel

Actor | Shazam!

Asher Angel was born on September 6, 2002 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Shazam! (2019), Andi Mack (2017) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023).

26. Alexis Arquette

Actress | Pulp Fiction

Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette) (death: September 11, 2016) was an American actress. Arquette was born in Los Angeles, the fourth of five children of Lewis Arquette, an actor and director, and Brenda Olivia "Mardi" (Nowak), a Jewish actress, poet, theater operator, activist, acting teacher, ...

27. Patricia Arquette

Actress | Boyhood

With her expressive blue eyes, soft, Southern-tinged voice and an acting range that can carry her from hysterically funny to terrifying in seconds, Patricia Arquette is one of the most underrated and talented actresses of her generation. Though she has been working for years, she's always stayed ...

28. Iris Apatow

Actress | Funny People

Iris Apatow was born on October 12, 2002 in Los Banos, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Funny People (2009), This Is 40 (2012) and Knocked Up (2007).

29. 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 ...

30. Jill Vandenberg Curtis

Self | The Jill & Tony Curtis Story

Jill Vandenberg Curtis was born on February 27, 1971. She was previously married to Tony Curtis.

31. Kelly Curtis

Actress | The Sentinel

Kelly Curtis was born on June 17, 1956 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Sentinel (1996), Trading Places (1983) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). She has been married to Scott Morfee since September 14, 1989.

32. 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...

33. Allegra Curtis

Costume_department | Joe Versus the Volcano

Allegra Curtis was born on July 11, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Flashback (2000) and L.A. Heat (1996).

34. Maude Apatow

Actress | This Is 40

Maude Apatow is an American actress. She is the eldest daughter of director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann, and is possibly best known for her very popular Twitter page. After minor roles in Knocked Up (2007) and Funny People (2009), as the daughter of Leslie Mann's characters, she had a ...

35. Rosanna Arquette

Actress | Pulp Fiction

Rosanna Arquette has acted extensively in film and television, and has come to be acknowledged as an actress of rare depth and scope.

Arquette was born in New York City, New York. Her parents, Lewis Arquette, an actor, and Brenda Denaut (née Nowak), an acting teacher and therapist, had 4 other ...

36. Jim Abrahams

Writer | Airplane!

Jim Abrahams was born on May 10, 1944 in Shorewood, Wisconsin, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Airplane! (1980), Top Secret! (1984) and Hot Shots! (1991). He is married to Nancy Cocuzzo.

37. Samuel Goldwyn

Producer | The Best Years of Our Lives

Famed for his relentless ambition, bad temper and genius for publicity, Samuel Goldwyn became Hollywood's leading "independent" producer -- largely because none of his partners could tolerate him for long. Born Shmuel (or Schmuel) Gelbfisz, probably in 1879, in the Jewish section of Warsaw, he was ...

38. Alexander Korda

Director | The Private Life of Don Juan

One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to ...

39. Zoltan Korda

Director | Cry, the Beloved Country

A one time Hungarian cavalry officer, Zoltan Korda started working in films as a cameraman then an editor before becoming a director with London Films run by his brother Alexander Korda. Zoltan had strong liberal/socialist ideals and often clashed with Alexander, who, despite their both being born ...

40. Vincent Korda

Art_director | The Longest Day

Hungarian born Vincent Korda came to Britain in the 1930s with his brothers Alexander Korda and Zoltan Korda. Vincent became a distinguished Art Director and Production Designer. Among his best works are Things to Come (1936), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and The Longest Day (1962).

41. Ariel Martin

Actress | Zombies 2

Known professionally as "Baby Ariel", Ariel is recognized as one of the most influential people on the Internet by Time magazine and is featured on Forbes' 2017 list of top entertainment influencers. She has been nominated for a number of awards, and won the Teen Choice Award for "Choice Muser" in ...

42. Vivian Kubrick

Composer | Full Metal Jacket

Vivian Kubrick was born on August 5, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986) and Boots Oyson: sa katawan mo ... aagos ang dugo! (1989).

43. Ilene Kristen

Actress | One Life to Live

Ilene Kristen was born on July 30, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for One Life to Live (1968), Ryan's Hope (1975) and Desperately Seeking Susan (1985).

44. Miriam Kressyn

Actress | Der Purimshpiler

Miriam Kressyn was born on March 4, 1910 in Bialystok, Poland, Russian Empire [now Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for The Jester (1937), The Jewish Gypsy (1930) and Sailor's Sweetheart (1930). She was married to Seymour Rechzeit. She died on October 28, 1996 in New York ...

45. Zoë Kravitz

Actress | Mad Max: Fury Road

Zoë Kravitz has captivated audiences in diverse group of acclaimed major motion picture films, notable independent releases and blockbuster franchises including The Batman, Mad Max and Fantastic Beasts, as well as the celebrated EMMY® Award-winning series Big Little Lies.

Following her role both ...

46. Sammi Kane Kraft

Actress | Bad News Bears

Sammi Kane Kraft was born on April 2, 1992 in Livingston, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Bad News Bears (2005), Today (1952) and Help Her Live (2022). She died on October 9, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.