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Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Natasha Rothwell was born on 18 October 1980 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), The Characters (2016) and Insecure (2016).

Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, is an American YouTuber. He is credited with pioneering a genre of YouTube videos that centers on expensive stunts. His YouTube channel reached 300 million subscribers in July 10th 2024, making him the most-subscribed on the platform. Donaldson won Creator of the Year award three times at the Streamy Awards in 2020, 2021, and 2022; he also won the Favorite Male Creator award at the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards.

American actor and model Colton Lee Haynes was born in Wichita, Kansas, to Dana Denise (Mitchell) and William Clayton Haynes. He began modeling at age 15 and his first success came with an Abercrombie & Fitch campaign. He also modeled for J.C. Penney, Kira Plastinina, and Ralph Lauren. He is best known for his role as Jackson Whittemore on MTV's Teen Wolf (2011). He also played Brett Crezski on ABC's The Gates. He has had guest appearances on several television shows, including The Hills, CSI: Miami, The Nine Lives of Chloe King, and Look.

Amara Zaragoza is an actress/writer/director who loves playing music, traveling and riding horses. She is a native of Kansas who moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting after being cast off the street for her first project. One of her first acting jobs was on the longtime WB hit Smallville. That quickly led to multiple television appearances including recurring roles on Gossip Girl and Dirty Sexy Money. Amara has also appeared in several films such as Perfect Stranger with Bruce Willis and Halle Berry and starred in the movie Rez Bomb which earned her a best actress award at the Red Nation Film Awards. She also got to realize her dreams of being an action star on the set of Echelon Conspiracy where she worked alongside Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen and Ed Byrnes. In recent years, Amara has made guest appearances on the CW's Switched At Birth as well as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS. This year she has been working a pivotal role on her second season of CBS All Access's Strange Angel where she plays Joan, the High Priestess of a sex cult.

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Phyllis Coates moved to Hollywood as a teenager with intentions of enrolling at UCLA. A chance encounter with Ken Murray in a Hollywood & Vine restaurant landed her in the comedian's vaudeville show. She started out as a chorus girl and worked her way up to doing skits before moving on to work for veteran showman Earl Carroll and later touring with the USO. Coates got some of her first motion picture experience in comedy short subjects at Warner Brothers and then graduated to roles in early '50s films. After a one-season stint with the Man of Steel (George Reeves on Adventures of Superman (1952)), she began to divide her time among TV, B-movie assignments and serials at Republic.

Jeff Probst is the Emmy Award-winning host of Survivor (2000). He won the inaugural Emmy for Best Reality Show Host in 2008 and again in 2009. Probst also received an Emmy as Host/Producer of Survivor (2000) back in 2001.

He was also voted one of People Magazine's Most Beautiful People.

As a filmmaker, Probst wrote and directed the LionsGate released indie film, Finder's Fee (2001), starring Ryan Reynolds and Academy Award nominees James Earl Jones and Robert Forster.

Finder's Fee (2001) premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival where it won "Best Picture" and a "Best Director" award for Probst. Other awards: "Best Screenplay" at Method Fest, "Breakout Director" at Sonoma Film Fest. Probst was also selected as one of the "Ten Directors in the World to Watch" in a series presented by the American Cinematheque showcasing innovative and exciting new directors from around the world.

Probst previously served as host of VH1's Rock & Roll Jeopardy! (1998), hosted several programs for FX and traveled over 300,000 miles around the world as a correspondent for Access Hollywood (1996).

Prior to that, he hosted a variety of shows for KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle.

Probst hosts the "Howard Stern Celebrity Fan Roundtable" for Howard Stern on Sirius/XM radio.

Probst is a regular fill-in for Regis Philbin on Live with Kelly and Mark (1988) (aka "Live with Regis and Kelly").

In 2007, Probst founded The Serpentine Project a non-profit that empowers youth transitioning out of foster care to reach for their dreams by opening the door to possibilities.

Christiane Seidel is an American-born, German/Danish actor, and producer.

Upcoming, Christiane will be seen starring in the independent features, Paradise Highway (2022) (Lionsgate), written and directed by Anna Gutto, opposite Juliette Binoche, Frank Grillo, and Morgan Freeman and Boon (2022) alongside Neal McDonough.

Christiane can be seen in Netflix's global hit, award-winning limited series, The Queen's Gambit (2020), playing 'Helen Deardorff' alongside Anya Taylor-Joy from executive producer, Scott Frank.

Seidel is known to audiences worldwide for her role of 'Sigrid Mueller' opposite Michael Shannon for four seasons on HBO's hit drama, Boardwalk Empire (2010) from executive producer Marin Scorsese and Terrence Winter.

Other recent television work includes FX's limited series Fosse/Verdon (2019) opposite Sam Rockwell as 'Hannah', Bob Fosse's mistress who is the catalyst for Gwen and Bob's divorce, and starring as 'Martha' a mysterious free-spirited woman, in Netflix's critically acclaimed series Godless (2017) from Scott Frank, executive produced by Steven Soderbergh. Godless earned 12 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series. Her other credits include the independent film Human Capital (2019), The Hollow (2016) from executive producer Lisa Bruce, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).

Christiane is a partner and producer at Red Rope Productions and has produced several short films that have screened at Academy Qualifying and international film festivals with numerous wins and nominations in multiple categories. She served as the Producing Director for the Scandinavian American Theater Company that presents award-winning Scandinavian plays in the US. In theatre, Christiane starred in the American Off-Broadway premiere of Then Silence by acclaimed Norwegian playwright Arne Lygre.

Christiane is a native English, German and Danish speaker who resides in New York with her family.

After working as early as the 1910s as a band vocalist, Hattie McDaniel debuted as a maid in The Golden West (1932). Her maid-mammy characters became steadily more assertive, showing up first in Judge Priest (1934) and becoming pronounced in Alice Adams (1935). In this one, directed by George Stevens and aided and abetted by star Katharine Hepburn, she makes it clear she has little use for her employers' pretentious status seeking. By The Mad Miss Manton (1938) she actually tells off her socialite employer Barbara Stanwyck and her snooty friends. This path extends into the greatest role of her career, Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939). Here she is, in a number of ways, superior to most of the white folk surrounding her. From that point her roles unfortunately descended, with her characters becoming more and more menial. She played on the "Amos and Andy" and Eddie Cantor radio shows in the 1930s and 1940s; the title in her own radio show "Beulah" (1947-51), and the same part on TV (Beulah (1950)). Her part in Gone with the Wind (1939) won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, the first African American actress to win an Academy Award, it was presented to her by Fay Bainter at a segregated ceremony, she had to sit at the back away from the rest of the cast.

Tommy Tune is possibly the tallest dancer in the country. He was in the New York Company of "How Now Dow Jones" when Ernest Lehman engaged him to play Ambrose Kemper in the film, "Hello, Dolly!". His father is a Texas restaurateur. Tommy acted in, directed and choreographed school productions, arrived in New York St. Patricks day, 1964 and, 24 hours later, had a role in the road company of "Irma La Douce". For a year, he was featured dancer in "Baker Street" on Broadway. He has his Masters Degree in Fine Arts which he received at the University of Houston.

Christopher Connelly was born on 8 September 1941 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Benji (1974), Atlantis Interceptors (1983) and Peyton Place (1964). He was married to Cindy Carol. He died on 7 December 1988 in Burbank, California, USA.

Dave Willis is an American writer, voice actor, and producer. A native of Texas, he got his start at Cartoon Network's Williams Street in 1995, where he would gain a writing jobs on Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1993) and its spin-off series Cartoon Planet (1997). Alongside fellow SGC2C writer Matt Maiellaro, Willis also co-created the series Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2000) for the network's Adult Swim block, in which he also voices the characters Meatwad and Carl Brutananadilewski. His other work includes co-creating the series Squidbillies (2005) and Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell (2013), in addition to voice acting roles in 12 oz. Mouse (2005), Archer (2009), and Ballmastrz 9009 (2018).

David Rees Snell was born on 20 August 1966 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor, known for The Shield (2002), Last Resort (2012) and School and Board (2012). He has been married to Melanie Myers since 6 July 2002.

Joe Walsh was born on 20 November 1947 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for The Warriors (1979), Spy Game (2001) and Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982). He has been married to Marjorie Bach since 13 December 2008. He was previously married to Denise Driscoll, Juanita Boyer and Stefany Amaro.

Wichita, Kansas-born Alan Fudge was an American actor with scores of television credits, including, notably Man from Atlantis (1977), Eischied (1979), Paper Dolls (1984), and Bodies of Evidence (1992). He made guest appearances on such shows as Banacek, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, M*A*S*H, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Magnum, P.I., Cagney & Lacey, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, MacGyver, Dynasty, Matlock, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, Murder, She Wrote, Northern Exposure, Home Improvement, Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, Dawson's Creek, and 7th Heaven.

Terryn Westbrook was born in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Inland Empire (2006), This Is Us (2016) and You (2018).

Neal Jones is a member of SAG/AFTRA and Equity. He is the father of actor Eldon Jones and actress Marian Jones and is best known for his portrayal of Billy in Dirty Dancing. He has had numerous memorable roles including 'The Fox' on criminal Minds, as well as roles in Rescue Me, Generation Kill, and numerous other stage and screen productions. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he home schools his children and is frequently on set with them.

Graf is one of Hollywood's premier second unit directors and stunt coordinators whose 35-year career behind the cameras includes the staging of stunts in over five dozen films while directing second unit action on three dozen features, including such recent films as Todd Phillips' comedy, "Due Date", "The Muppets" (2011, on which he also coordinated stunts) and Phillips' independent feature, "Project X" (2012).

A native of Southern California, Graf first made his mark on the gridiron, where he captained the 1967 San Fernando High School city championship team, winning All-American honors. He won a full athletic scholarship to the University of Southern California, and played offensive guard for John McKay's powerhouse Trojans. Graf started on McKay's legendary, undefeated (12-0) 1972 NCAA National Championship team, and was one of the heroes at the 1973 Rose Bowl, when USC defeated Ohio State 42-17. He next played in the 1973 college all-star game against the NFL's undefeated Miami Dolphins at Chicago's Soldier Field.

Following graduation, Graf became a free agent with the Los Angeles Rams before joining the World Football League's Portland Storm during their inaugural 1974 season. When the league abruptly folded, Graf tackled a career change when he fatefully won a role as former Chicago Bears player Dick Butkus' stunt double in the 1976 Disney film "Gus", a comic opus about a field goal-kicking mule.

Following his debut, Graf worked as a stunt player for several years on a variety of projects, notably Walter Hill's "Southern Comfort", "The Driver" and "The Long Riders", John Carpenter's "They Live", Paul Verhoeven's "Total Recall", "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", "Raising Arizona", "Action Jackson", "S.W.A.T.", "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", "Independence Day" and, most recently, "Captain America: The First Avenger".

He has coordinated stunts on several other projects, including "Punch Drunk Love", "Domestic Disturbance", "Broken Arrow", "Wayne's World", "The Hangover Part II" (the highest-grossing, R-rated comedy of all time), and several of director Hill's actioners, including "Supernova", "Geronimo: An American Legend" and "Wild Bill", on which he also directed the films' 2nd unit. On Hill's 1990 sequel, "Another 48 Hrs.", Graf, as the film's 2nd unit director and stunt coordinator, was the very first stuntman to cannon roll a bus at 60 mph. He subsequently flipped a bus again on the Jean-Claude Van Damme actioner "Nowhere to Run", cannon rolling a 40-foot bus underneath a 60-foot-wide freeway overpass.

The former college football great is also one of Hollywood's best-known football coordinators and 2nd unit directors, designing and staging the gridiron action for such films as Oliver Stone's epic "Any Given Sunday", Howard Deutch's comedy "The Replacements", "The Program", "The Waterboy", "Necessary Roughness", "Man of the House", Gary Fleder's football biopic, "The Express", Cameron Crowe's Oscar®-winning "Jerry Maguire" and Peter Berg's acclaimed football classic "Friday Night Lights". His work on "Friday Night Lights" and "The Express" all earned ESPY Awards.

To further add to Graf's slate of talents, he has also logged several supporting acting roles, including that of Capt. Turner on HBO's "Deadwood" (again working with Walter Hill) along with many other projects such as "L.A. Confidential" (the abusive husband beaten down by Russell Crowe in the film's early moments), "The Replacements", "Magnolia", "Boogie Nights", "The Doors", "Red Heat", "Another 48 Hrs.", "Poltergeist" and "RoboCop", among dozens of others.

Graf penned an original screenplay entitled "Turning the Tide", a football drama which depicts the historic 1970 gridiron contest between McKay's USC Trojans and Bear Bryant's Crimson Tide of Alabama.

Graf most recently reteamed with filmmaker Brian Helgeland on "42" after having served as 2nd unit director on his 2001 adventure film "A Knight's Tale", for whom he designed and directed all the jousting sequences.

Born in 1942 in Wichita, Kansas, Laurel Goodwin was a child model, and made her film debut in Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) opposite Elvis. She only made a few more movies, but appeared in many TV series; and she was in the "pilot" (Star Trek: The Cage, 1965, which has an actual copyright date of 1964) for the Star Trek (1966) TV series (this was part of a two-hour show, Star Trek: The Menagerie: Part II (1966), which had parts of "The Cage" in "flashback" and was finally aired in its entirety in 1986). She married, in 1971, businessman Walter Wood, and the two lived in Palm Springs. She was involved with home-nursing, and attended Elvis Presley "reunions" and Star Trek conventions.

Rob Bowman was born on 15 May 1960 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Reign of Fire (2002), The X Files (1998) and The X-Files (1993). He has been married to Dusty Dawn Bowman since 5 October 2006. They have two children.

Jo Andres was an American filmmaker, choreographer and artist.

Andres first became known on the kinetic downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s for her film/dance/light performances, shown at The Performing Garage, La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, St. Marks Danspace, and the Collective for Living Cinema. As a filmmaker, Andres drew acclaim and awards for the 1996 film, Black Kites (1996), which aired on PBS and played several film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, London and Human Rights Watch Film Festivals. She directed music and art videos, as well as her own film performance works. Andres was a dance' consultant to the acclaimed Wooster Group. She was an artist in residence at leading universities, museums and art colonies, including Yaddo and The Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy.

She created a series of cyanotype photographs, which can be seen on JoAndres.com.

She and her husband, actor Steve Buscemi, had one son, Lucian Buscemi.

Taryn Southern is a digital personality, writer, producer, director and songwriter with more than 500 million views across her internet videos. In 2018, she produced the world's first pop album composed with artificial intelligence (I AM AI) and wrote and produced a Streamy-nominated immersive virtual reality series for Google/YouTube VR. In addition, her directorial debut, I AM HUMAN, premiered at The Tribeca Film Festival in May 2019.

Taryn got her start on American Idol before landing guest starring roles in television shows such as Rules of Engagement (CBS), New Girl (NBC), Legit (F/X) and Guys with Kids (CBS) and writing comedy for digital networks (Heavy.com, MovieTickets.com) and television ( "Private High Musical" for MTV.) As a frequent television host, Taryn was a correspondent for the highest rated late night series on Discovery Channel in 2013/2014 (Shark After Dark/Naked After Dark), as well as a correspondent for NBC's The X Factor and host/producer for AT&T U-Verse, "Project MyWorld" for DirecTV, and a correspondent for VH1, G4, MTV and more.

In 2012, Taryn launched a YouTube channel, growing more than 500,000 subscribers by 2014, and digital production company, Happy Cat Media. Through the channel, Taryn returned to comedy and music, landing a comedy song ("Crush") on the US radio charts and hosting her own countdown show on Sirius XM Radio.Her production company Happy Cat Media focused on high-end, influencer based content for brands and distributors such as Marriott, MovieTickets.com, Conde Nast, Snapchat, Vimeo, HTC Vive, and more. In 2017, she was featured as one of three women leaders in media for Ford's national "She's Got Drive" campaign and named one of the Top 20 Women in VR.

Al Corley was born on 22 May 1956 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dynasty (1981), The Ice Road (2021) and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006). He was previously married to Jessika Cardinahl.

Reylynn Caster is a resident of Los Angeles, California, where she stars as Faith Newman on CBS's The Young and the Restless (1973). She can also be seen as Lola Wight on the Netflix Original/WWE production, The Big Show Show (2020), alongside WWE superstar Paul Wight. She formerly appeared in a recurring role as Brie Witherspoon on ABC's American Housewife (2016), and as series regular Nori Sterling on the CBS sitcom Me, Myself and I (2017). Her first Hollywood feature film, Adventures of Dally & Spanky (2019), from Sony Pictures, was released in September 2019 with Reylynn in a starring role as well. She has appeared on stage in numerous productions on shows including "Big River", "The Music Man", "Aladdin", "Pippin", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Willie Wonka". Reylynn's first onscreen appearance was at age 7 in a national television commercial working with Leif Jonker, director of the cult horror film, Darkness (1993).

Kendall Schmidt was born on 2 November 1990 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Big Time Rush (2009), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and Big Time Movie (2012).