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Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Steven Spielberg is an American motion-picture director and producer whose diverse films—which range from science-fiction fare, including such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and...
Bruce Springsteen plays an acoustic guitar and sings into a microphone on stage at the New York Film Festival Spotlight Gala.
Bruce Springsteen
The true story of the music legend who inspired the film Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Bruce Springsteen is an American singer, songwriter, and bandleader who became the archetypal rock performer of the 1970s and ’80s. With his poetic lyrics describing the lives of everyday Americans, his...
Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
American director
Mike Nichols was an American motion-picture, television, and stage director whose productions focus on the absurdities and horrors of modern life as revealed in personal relationships. (Read Martin Scorsese’s...
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Elia Kazan was a Turkish-born American film director and author noted for his successes on the stage—especially with plays by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller—as well as for his critically acclaimed...
The one and only
Bob Mackie
The extravagant designer dressed Marilyn, Elton, and Cher
Bob Mackie was an American costume designer noted for his extravagant and inventive style, characterized by meticulously hand-beaded garments and abundant applications of feathers and rhinestones. His...
Sir Ian McKellen smiling, wearing a dark wide-brimmed hat and patterned scarf at the premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim in London.
Ian McKellen
British actor
Ian McKellen is a British actor of great versatility, noted for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company and for his eclectic filmography. Counted among the most respected stage actors of his time,...
Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.
Mel Brooks
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Mel Brooks is an American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor whose motion pictures elevated outrageousness and vulgarity to high comic art. Brooks began his career in entertainment...
Andrew Garfield wearing a gray suit and tie, posing and smiling slightly at an event in 2018.
Andrew Garfield
American-born English actor
Andrew Garfield is an American-born English screen and stage actor, known for giving his roles a unique vulnerability and emotional depth. Garfield began his acting career onstage and gained international...
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
Bob Fosse was an American dancer, choreographer, and director who revolutionized musicals with his distinct style of dance—including his frequent use of props, signature moves, and provocative steps—and...
Allison Janney smiles in a close-up portrait with shoulder-length light brown hair, wearing a black textured top and earrings, against a dark background.
Allison Janney
American actress
Allison Janney is an American actress who won acclaim on stage, film, and television but is perhaps best known for her portrayal of C.J. Cregg, the White House press secretary and chief of staff on the...
Matthew Broderick wearing glasses, a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie, smiling at the camera in a formal portrait taken in 2017.
Matthew Broderick
American actor
Matthew Broderick is an American actor best known for playing the title character in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) and for performing in such stage hits as The Producers (2001). He also gave Tony Award-winning...
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor
American director, playwright, and costume designer
Julie Taymor is an American stage and film director, playwright, and costume designer known for her inventive use of Asian-inspired masks and puppets. In 1998 she became the first woman to win a Tony Award...
Ryan Murphy in a patterned green tuxedo holds an Emmy Award trophy while standing in front of a black backdrop with the word Emmy visible.
Ryan Murphy
American producer, director, and writer
Ryan Murphy is a producer, director, and writer of television and film who has built a successful and prolific career by bringing the stories of marginalized characters to the mainstream and by exploring...
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington
American actor
Denzel Washington is an American actor celebrated for his engaging and powerful performances. Throughout his career he has been regularly praised by critics, and his consistent success at the box office...
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel
American actress and singer
Idina Menzel is an American actor and singer whose three-octave mezzo-soprano voice has made her a star of stage and screen in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. She is best known for her roles as...
John Lithgow smiling in a suit and tie against a dark background.
John Lithgow
American actor
John Lithgow is an American stage and screen character actor known for his extreme versatility, earning acclaim in roles ranging from mild-mannered everymen to cold-blooded killers. Lithgow’s notable credits...
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave
British actress
Vanessa Redgrave is a British actress of stage and screen who received numerous accolades—including an Oscar, two Emmys, a Tony, and a Laurence Olivier Award—for her performances. She was also a longtime...
Jeffrey Wright wearing glasses and a dark jacket, looking at the camera with a slight smile against a dark background.
Jeffrey Wright
American actor
Jeffrey Wright is an American actor known for his ability to play villains and heroes, supporting characters, and famous historical figures. His versatility and compelling presence in film, theater, and...
Tony Award winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American playwright
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is an American playwright best known for his plays that deal with matters of identity and history, including race and family legacies. In 2024 his play Appropriate won three Tony...
Hugh Jackman wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and silver tie, smiling at an event in 2013.
Hugh Jackman
Australian performer
Hugh Jackman is an Australian performer who is considered a “triple threat”—a successful actor, dancer, and singer. He is perhaps best known for his action movies and stage musicals. He has portrayed the...
Al Pacino, wearing glasses and dark clothing, stands in dramatic lighting with a blurred face visible on a screen in the background in a scene from The Insider.
Al Pacino
American actor
Al Pacino is an American actor best known for his intense, explosive acting style. After growing up in East Harlem and the Bronx, Pacino moved at age 19 to Greenwich Village, where he studied acting at...
Andrew Lloyd Webber wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, standing in front of a blurred crowd at the Golden Globe Awards.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
English composer and theatrical producer
Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and theatrical producer whose eclectic rock-based works helped revitalize British and American musical theater, beginning in the late 20th century. Lloyd Webber...
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin
American actor
Mandy Patinkin is an American actor and singer known for his award-winning performances on stage, film, and television. His notable credits include the movies Yentl (1983) and The Princess Bride (1987),...
Kevin Spacey, wearing a tuxedo, stands onstage smiling and speaking at a microphone during the 2017 British Academy Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills.
Kevin Spacey
American actor
Kevin Spacey is an American actor on stage and screen, especially known for his dynamic roles in dark comedies. When Spacey was a young boy, his family moved frequently, ultimately settling in southern...
Nathan Lane smiling in a close-up portrait, wearing a dark pinstripe jacket and black shirt.
Nathan Lane
American actor
Nathan Lane is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his work in musical comedies, notably the Broadway production of The Producers. Lane discovered his flair for musical comedy...
Viola Davis stands at a microphone in a white and black gown, holding her Emmy Award while accepting the outstanding lead actress in a drama series honor.
Viola Davis
American actress
Viola Davis is an American actress known for her precise, controlled performances and her regal presence. She accomplished the rare feat of winning the four major North American entertainment awards (EGOT:...
Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
American singer and actress
Bernadette Peters is a prolific and award-winning American singer, actress, and author who has starred in Broadway musicals and on-screen for more than five decades. Often referred to as “The Queen of...
Martin Short smiling and wearing a dark pinstripe jacket at an event, with a dark background and other people partially visible behind him.
Martin Short
Canadian actor
Martin Short is an Emmy- and Tony-winning Canadian actor, comedian, and writer known for his work on television comedy shows such as SCTV Network and Saturday Night Live, movies such as Three Amigos! (1986)...
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, wearing a black cap and dark fur-trimmed cloak, standing against a plain background.
Mark Rylance
British actor and director
Mark Rylance is a British theater actor and director recognized not only for his period-specific enactments of both male and female roles in the works of William Shakespeare but also for his poignant portrayals...
Billy Crudup smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie at an event, with a blurred background featuring partial event signage.
Billy Crudup
American actor
Billy Crudup is an American stage and screen actor who has had a long and steady career playing complex characters within an ensemble cast. He is perhaps best known for his roles as rock star Russell Hammond...
Composer Richard Rodgers, seated at a piano, poses with lyricist Oscar Hammerstein, who stands beside him, both wearing suits in a 1944 black-and-white portrait.
Richard Rodgers
American composer
Richard Rodgers was one of the dominant composers of American musical comedy, known especially for his works in collaboration with the librettists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers wrote more...
Sam Mendes stands smiling in a dark pinstripe suit and white shirt, wearing a red poppy pin, with hands in his pockets in front of a Skyfall backdrop.
Sam Mendes
English director
Sam Mendes is an English film and theater director who is known for his innovative treatments of classic stage productions as well as for his thought-provoking films. His notable stagings have included...
Laurence Fishburne wearing a black suit and light pink tie, looking slightly to the side, with a patterned backdrop behind him.
Laurence Fishburne
American actor
Laurence Fishburne is an American actor noted for the intensity of his performances. He was the recipient of a Tony Award (1992) for his work in August Wilson’s play Two Trains Running but is probably...
Sarah Paulson
Sarah Paulson
American actress
Sarah Paulson is a versatile American actress who is admired for effortlessly disappearing into roles on both stage and screen and for playing difficult, often unlikable characters. She is perhaps best...
Bryan Cranston wearing a black suit, white shirt, and striped tie, smiling at the camera at the Argo premiere in London.
Bryan Cranston
American actor
Bryan Cranston is an American actor best known for his intense portrayal of Walter White, a chemistry teacher turned drug kingpin, in the television series Breaking Bad (2008–13). Cranston was raised around...
Bette Midler
American actress and singer
Bette Midler is an American actress and singer who is known for her dynamic energy, comedic wit, and campy humour. Midler was raised in rural Aiea, Oahu, the third of four children of a house painter and...
Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts
Henry Fonda
American actor
Henry Fonda was an American stage and film actor who appeared in more than 90 films over six decades and created quintessential American heroes known for their integrity. Fonda grew up in Omaha, Nebraska,...
Tracy Letts wearing a tuxedo and glasses, smiling and holding his Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play, standing in front of a Tony Awards backdrop.
Tracy Letts
American actor and playwright
Tracy Letts is an American actor and dramatist who was best known for his award-winning play August: Osage County (2007; film 2013). Letts was raised in Durant, Oklahoma, the home of Southeastern Oklahoma...
Jerome Robbins
Jerome Robbins
American choreographer
Jerome Robbins was one of the most popular and imaginative American choreographers of the 20th century. Robbins was first known for his skillful use of contemporary American themes in ballets and Broadway...
Glenn Close smiles while wearing a black sequined dress with a sheer neckline at the Academy Museum Gala in Los Angeles.
Glenn Close
American actress
Glenn Close is an American actress who has drawn acclaim for her considerable range and versatility. Over a career spanning decades, she has earned eight Academy Award nominations and a host of other awards...
Jeremy Strong wearing a bright pink velvet jacket, white shirt, and silver bow tie, standing in front of a plain dark blue background.
Jeremy Strong
American actor
Jeremy Strong is an American actor best known for playing Kendall Roy in Succession (2018–23), the HBO comedy-drama series that showcases a powerful media-mogul patriarch and his adult children’s desperate...
Jodie Comer smiling and looking at the camera, wearing a black coat with her blonde hair styled in loose waves.
Jodie Comer
English actress
Jodie Comer is an English actress who became widely known for playing the psychopathic assassin Villanelle on the award-winning BBC America spy thriller Killing Eve (2018–22). She later became a sought-after...
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda
American actor, composer, lyricist, and writer
Lin-Manuel Miranda is an American actor, composer, lyricist, and writer who created and starred in stage productions that blended modern musical forms with classic musical theatre. Perhaps his best-known...
Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker
American actress
Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress of stage, screen, and television who is noted for bringing integrity and depth to her performances. Parker grew up in South Carolina and studied acting at the...
Six-time Tony winner
Audra McDonald
American actress and singer
Audra McDonald is an American actress and singer whose melodious soprano voice and expressive stage presence made her a leading figure on Broadway in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. McDonald is...
Argo
Alan Arkin
American actor
Alan Arkin was an American actor who won respect during a long career as a performer onstage, in television, and in films. His comedic skills were particularly admired. Arkin aspired to be an actor from...
Stephen Daldry smiles while posing for a portrait against a plain dark background, wearing a denim jacket over a light sweater.
Stephen Daldry
English film and theater director
Stephen Daldry is an English film and theatre director known for his sensitive and nuanced treatments of stories featuring conflicted characters. Daldry’s father—a bank manager who died when Daldry was...
Actress Phylicia Rashad wearing a metallic dress and pearl necklace, standing in front of a green leafy backdrop at the 69th Annual Tony Awards in New York City.
Phylicia Rashad
American actress
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress who first gained fame for her work in the television series The Cosby Show (1984–92) and later became the first African American woman to win (2004) a Tony Award...
Barry Manilow wearing a dark suit sings into a handheld microphone on stage during his Las Vegas show Music and Passion.
Barry Manilow
American singer
Barry Manilow is an American pop singer and songwriter who specializes in elaborately orchestrated romantic ballads, which first won him a wide audience in the 1970s. His best-known hits include “Mandy”...
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes
English actor
Ralph Fiennes is an English actor noted for his elegant, nuanced performances in a wide range of roles. Starting his career on the stage, he rose to prominence in films with a memorable turn as a Nazi...