Theater Actor
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The real theater actor type.
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| Paul Jabara |
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Paul Jabara (January 31, 1948 – September 29 1992) was an American actor,singer and songwriter.
Jabara was in the original cast of the stage musical Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar As well as taking over the role of Frank-N-Furter in the Los...
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| Ashley Brown |
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Ashley Brown (born February 3, 1982 in Gulf Breeze, Florida) is an actress currently starring as the title character in the new Broadway production of Mary Poppins.
Brown initially caught the attention of casting director Tara Rubin not long after...
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| William Gaxton |
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William Gaxton (December 2, 1893-February 2, 1963), born Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, California, was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre. He appeared in some ten films and eleven shows. Gaxton debuted on Broadway in the Music Box...
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| Marissa Jaret Winokur |
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Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2 1973) is a Tony Award-winning American actress known for her performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical adaptation of John Waters' film Hairspray, as well as her work on the Pamela...
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| Robert Morse |
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Robert Morse (born May 18, 1931, Newton, Massachusetts) is an American actor. Morse is best known for his appearances in musicals and plays on Broadway, and has also acted in movies and TV shows. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War.
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| Len Cariou |
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Leonard Joseph "Len" Cariou (born September 30, 1939) is a Canadian Tony Award-winning actor.
Born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Cariou is the son of Molly Estelle (née Moore) and George Marius Cariou, a salesman. He grew up and attended school in St...
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| John Lithgow |
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John Arthur Lithgow (; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor perhaps best-known for his starring role as Dr. Dick Solomon in the NBC sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun. He has also achieved success on stage, film, and radio. He has earned multiple...
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| Zero Mostel |
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Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (February 28 1915 – September 8 1977) was an American stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of comic characters such as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,...
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| Harvey Fierstein |
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Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6 1952) is a Tony Award winning American actor, playwright, and screenwriter.
Fierstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jacqueline Harriet (née Gilbert), a school librarian, and Irving Fierstein, a...
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| Brandon Maggart | Person |
Brandon Maggart (born 12 December, 1933) is an American actor.
Maggart was born Roscoe Maggart, Jr. in Carthage, Tennessee. He appeared in half of the "Buddy and Jim" sketches with James Catusi in the first season of Sesame Street, in 1969. In...
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| Sutton Foster |
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Sutton Foster (born March 18 1975) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is the sister of actor Hunter Foster.
Foster was born in Statesboro, Georgia and raised in Troy, Michigan. At age fifteen, she was a contestant on the television...
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| Steve Barton | Person |
Steve Barton (June 26, 1954 - July 21, 2001) was an actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, stage director and teacher.
Steven Neal Barton was born on June 26, 1954 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States, as youngest from 3 children of Tom and Mary...
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| David Shiner | Person |
David Shiner (born September 13 1953) is an American clown and actor.
Shiner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Francis Shiner, a computer programmer, and a homemaker mother. The lanky Shiner, usually donning a small dunce cap, started...
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| Dorothy Loudon | Musical Artist |
Dorothy Loudon (September 17, 1933 – November 15, 2003) was an American actress noted for her comedy and belting singing voice, which she used to deliver a wide range of musical comedy and songs of the Roaring Twenties .
She was born in Boston, and...
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| Donna McKechnie |
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Donna McKechnie (born November 16, 1940) is anAmerican musical theater dancer, singer. actress and choreographer. She is perhaps best known for her professional and personal relationship with choreographer Michael Bennett, with whom she collaborated...
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| Shelley Plimpton | Person |
Shelley Plimpton (b. February 27, 1947) is an American former actress and Broadway performer.
The Roseburg, Oregon native had a brief acting career spanning from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s. On Broadway she starred as Chrissy in Hair.
Shelley...
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| The Andrews Sisters |
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The Andrews Sisters were a close harmony singing group, consisting of sisters LaVerne Sophie Andrews (contralto; July 6, 1911–May 8, 1967), Maxene Angelyn Andrews (soprano; January 3, 1916–October 21, 1995), and Patricia Marie (a.k.a. Patty) Andrews...
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| Marilu Henner |
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Marilu Lucy Henner (born April 6 1952) is an American actress, producer and New York Times best-selling author.
Marilu was born in Chicago, IL. She was the third of six children born to Joe Pudlowski (a car salesman) and Loretta Henner (a dance...
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| Raúl Esparza |
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Raúl Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is a Cuba-American stage actor.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University...
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| Bonnie Franklin | Person |
Bonnie Gail Franklin (born January 6, 1944 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress.
Franklin graduated from Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California in 1962.
Franklin is best known for her portrayal of the divorced mother...
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| Bob Martin |
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Bob Martin is a writer, actor, and comedian from Toronto, Ontario, Canada born in England circa 1963. He has both performed in and written many TV shows. He also provides the voice of Cuddles the comfort doll on the Canadian TV show Puppets Who Kill...
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| Samuel E. Wright | Film actor |
Samuel E. Wright (born November 20 1946 in Camden, South Carolina) is an American actor who is best known as the voice of Sebastian in Disney's The Little Mermaid.
Samuel E. Wright was nominated for a Tony Award in 1984 for Best Featured Actor in a...
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| Chuck Cissel | Musical Artist |
Charles "Chuck" Cissel is an American singer and dancer. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma and graduated from Booker T. Washington High School. He received his BA from the University of Oklahoma, and was one of the first African American to graduate...
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| Beatrice Lillie |
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Bea Lillie (May 29, 1894 – January 20, 1989) was a comic actress. She was born as Beatrice Gladys Lillie in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Following her marriage in 1920 to Sir Robert Peel, she was known in private life as Lady Peel.
She began...
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| Janis Paige | Film actor |
Janis Paige (born Donna Mae Tjaden, September 16, 1922 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. She began singing in public from the age of five in local amateur shows. She then moved to Los Angeles after...
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| Sarah Brightman |
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Sarah Brightman (born 14 August, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer.
Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame...
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| Georgia Engel |
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Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948) is an American film and television actress.
Engel was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ruth Caroline (née Hendron) and Benjamin Franklin Engel, who was a Coast Guard officer. She is a graduate of...
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| Nell Carter |
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Nell Carter (September 13, 1948 – January 23, 2003) was an American singer, and film, stage, and television actress.
Born Nell Ruth Hardy to Horace and Edna Mae Hardy in Birmingham, Alabama, Carter, who was one of nine children, overcame adversity...
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| Terrence Mann | Person |
Terrence Mann (born July 1, 1951) is an American actor and dancer who has been prominent on the Broadway stage for the past two decades.
Mann was born Terrance Vaughan Mann in Ashland, Kentucky and grew up in Largo, FL. He is a 1969 graduate of...
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| Joel Grey |
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Joel Grey (born April 11, 1932) is a Tony, Golden Globe, BAFTA, & Academy Award-winning American stage and screen actor known best for his role as the Emcee in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret.
Grey was...
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