Birth Place Matching "St. Louis, Missouri, USA" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
2. Sean Gunn
Actor | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Sean Gunn was born on May 22, 1974 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Avengers: Infinity War (2018).
3. Evan Peters
Actor | X-Men: Apocalypse
Evan Peters was born in 1987 in St. Louis, Missouri to Phil and Julie Peters. When his father's job was transferred, the family moved to Grand Blanc, Michigan. There, Evan began taking acting classes and at age 15, he moved with his mother to Los Angeles in hopes of pursuing a career in the ...
4. Chris Wood
Actor | Containment
Chris Wood was born in Dublin, Ohio. During childhood, Wood spent all of his free time writing plays and putting them on with his sister and their friends. Once he got his first super-8 camera at eleven years old, he began writing and directing short films which he entered into local film festivals...
5. Jon Hamm
Actor | Mad Men
Jon Hamm was born on March 10, 1971 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Jonathan Daniel Hamm. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), The Town (2010) and Million Dollar Arm (2014).
6. Annie Wersching
Actress | The Last of Us
Annie Wersching was born on March 28, 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Anne Wersching. She is an actress, known for The Last of Us (2013), 24 (2001) and Runaways (2017). She has been married to Stephen Full since September 6, 2009. They have three children.
7. John Goodman
Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Stephen Goodman is a U.S. film, television, and stage actor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman, and Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when John was a small child. He is of English, Welsh, and German ancestry. John is best ...
8. Kelly Stables
Actress | Superstore
Kelly Michelle Stables was born in St. Louis, Missouri where she performed at The Muny Opera. She graduated cum laude from The University of Missouri, Columbia with a BA in Communications and Theater. Upon moving to Los Angeles she quickly got involved in theater arts, acting and choreographing in ...
9. Sarah Clarke
Actress | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Actress Sarah Clarke was born and raised in Missouri, the middle child of Carolyn and Ernest Clarke, an engineer. She has an older and younger brother. She was educated at John Burroughs School in St. Louis, Missouri, and went on to Indiana University to study Fine Arts and Italian. During Clarke's...
10. Taylor Momsen
Actress | How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Taylor Momsen was born on July 26, 1993 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Taylor Michel Momsen. She is an actress and director, known for How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002) and Underdog (2007).
11. Scott Bakula
Actor | Quantum Leap
Scott Stewart Bakula was born on October 9, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Sally (Zumwinkel) and J. Stewart Bakula, a lawyer. He is of German, as well as Czech, Austrian, Scottish and English ancestry. He comes from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock band and wrote songs for ...
12. Kevin Kline
Actor | Wild Wild West
Kevin Kline was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Margaret and Robert Joseph Kline, who owned several stores. His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was of Irish ancestry. After attending Indiana University in Bloomington, Kline studied at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1972, ...
13. Sterling K. Brown
Actor | Black Panther
Emmy Award-winning actor Sterling K. Brown stars in NBC's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated drama series THIS IS US. For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe, becoming the first African American actor to win his ...
14. Linda Blair
Actress | The Exorcist
From the age of five, Linda Blair had to get used to the spotlight, first as a child model and then as an actress, when out of 600 applicants she was picked for the role of Regan, the possessed child, in The Exorcist (1973). Linda quickly rose to international fame, won the Golden Globe, and seemed...
15. Annalise Basso
Actress | Captain Fantastic
Annalise Nicole Basso (born December 2, 1998) is an American film and television actress and model. Her older siblings, Alexandria Basso and Gabriel Basso, are also actors. She has starred in the films, Bedtime Stories (2008), Love Takes Wing (2009), Standing Up (2013), and Oculus (2013). From 2014...
16. Mircea Monroe
Actress | Tekken
Mircea Monroe was born on March 11, 1982 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Tekken (2010), Dumbbells (2014) and The Ultimate Gift (2006).
17. Shelley Winters
Actress | The Poseidon Adventure
Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose Winter, was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. She had one sibling...
18. Vincent Price
Actor | The Great Mouse Detective
Actor, raconteur, art collector and connoisseur of haute cuisine are just some of the attributes associated with Vincent Price. He was born of Welsh ancestry to prosperous parents ("not rich enough to evoke envy but successful enough to demand respect"). His uniquely cultivated voice and persona ...
19. Mary Wickes
Actress | Sister Act
From the grand old school of wisecracking, loud and lanky Mary Wickes had few peers while forging a career as a salty scene-stealer. Her abrupt, tell-it-like-it-is demeanor made her a consistent audience favorite on every medium for over six decades. She was particularly adroit in film parts that ...
20. Doris Roberts
Actress | Everybody Loves Raymond
Doris Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Ann (Meltzer) and Larry Green. She was raised in New York, and took her stepfather's surname. Roberts was a 20-year veteran of the Broadway stage before she began appearing steadily in character roles in film and on television during the 1970s. A ...
21. Matt Schulze
Actor | The Fast and the Furious
Matt grew up in St. Louis and spent a good deal of time in the rough neighborhoods of East St. Louis. At age 16, he moved to Atlanta, where he studied guitar at the prestigious Atlanta Institute of Music. He moved back to St. Louis at age 17 and taught guitar for a year. He moved to Los Angeles in ...
22. Marsha Mason
Actress | The Goodbye Girl
Marsha Mason has a wonderful, extremely engaging "feel good" quality about her, an innate warmth that makes you root for her whether she's playing a stubborn single mom, brittle prostitute, or strung-out alcoholic. She was a resoundingly respected and popular film actress of the 1970s and 1980s ...
23. David Rasche
Actor | United 93
David Rasche was born on August 7, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor, known for United 93 (2006), In the Loop (2009) and Burn After Reading (2008). He has been married to Heather Rasche since 1979. They have three children.
24. Brent Sexton
Actor | Radio
Brent Sexton was born on August 12, 1967 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Radio (2003), Flightplan (2005) and The Belko Experiment (2016).
25. Phyllis Smith
Actress | Inside Out
Phyllis Smith was born on July 10, 1951 in Lemay, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is known for her work on Inside Out (2015), The Office (2005) and Bad Teacher (2011).
26. John Milius
Writer | Conan the Barbarian
John Milius is a screenwriter and director who came to prominence in the 1970s, when he was associated with Francis Ford Coppola and the pre-Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) George Lucas. Born on April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri, Milius was one of the first movie industry ...
27. Virginia Mayo
Actress | White Heat
Virginia Clara Jones was born on November 30, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a newspaper reporter and his wife. The family had a rich heritage in the St. Louis area: her great-great-great-grandfather served in the American Revolution and later founded the city of East Saint Louis, ...
28. Leonard Roberts
Actor | Drumline
Leonard Roberts was born on November 17, 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor, known for Drumline (2002), American Sniper (2014) and Heroes (2006).
29. Ryan Michelle Bathe
Actress | One for the Money
Ryan Michelle Bathe was born on July 27, 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for One for the Money (2012), Boston Legal (2004) and This Is Us (2016). She has been married to Sterling K. Brown since June 2007. They have two children.
30. Mark Linn-Baker
Actor | My Favorite Year
Mark Linn-Baker was born on June 17, 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and director, known for My Favorite Year (1982), Adam (2009) and Perfect Strangers (1986). He has been married to Christa Justus since December 29, 2012. He was previously married to Adrianne Lobel.
31. Kevin Nealon
Actor | Weeds
Kevin Nealon was born on November 18, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Weeds (2005), Happy Gilmore (1996) and The Wedding Singer (1998). He has been married to Susan Yeagley since September 3, 2005. They have one child. He was previously married to Linda Dupree.
32. Gabriel Basso
Actor | Super 8
Gabriel Basso was born on December 11, 1994 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor, known for Super 8 (2011), The Kings of Summer (2013) and Hillbilly Elegy (2020).
33. Barbara O'Neil
Actress | Gone with the Wind
Barbara O'Neil was an American actress, mostly remembered for playing Ellen O'Hara in "Gone with the Wind" (1939). She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress .
O'Neil was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prominent family. Her father was businessman David O'Neil (1874-...
34. Robert Guillaume
Actor | The Lion King
Robert Guillaume was born on November 30, 1927 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Robert Peter Williams. He was an actor and producer, known for The Lion King (1994), Sports Night (1998) and Big Fish (2003). He was married to Donna Brown Guillaume and Marlene Patricia Scott. He died on October 24, 2017...
35. Todd Susman
Actor | The Taking of Pelham 123
Todd Susman was born on January 17, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), Blast from the Past (1999) and Coneheads (1993).
36. Norbert Leo Butz
Actor | Dan in Real Life
Norbert Leo Butz was born on January 30, 1967, in St. Louis, MO, the seventh child of Elaine and Norbert A. Butz. He has German, French, and Irish ancestry. Norbert went to audition for the Alabama Shakespeare festival in 1993 without using his middle name, but because people kept getting him ...
37. Anita Barone
Actress | The War at Home
Anita Barone was born on September 25, 1964 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Anita Louise Barone. She is an actress, known for The War at Home (2005), Friends (1994) and One Last Ride (2004). She has been married to Matthew Glave since 2000. They have two children.
38. John Pankow
Actor | To Live and Die in L.A.
Born and raised in Chicago, John is the sixth of nine children. He dabbled in drama during high school, but didn't become serious about acting until enrolled at Northeastern Illinois University, where he majored in theater arts.
He left the university in his junior year after he attended a ...
39. Eric Nenninger
Actor | One Day at a Time
Eric Nenninger was born on November 19, 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Eric John Nenninger. He is an actor and writer, known for One Day at a Time (2017), Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp (2015) and Generation Kill (2008). He has been married to Angel Parker since August 10, 2002. ...
40. Erin Daniels
Actress | House of 1000 Corpses
Erin Daniels was born on October 9, 1972 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Erin Cohen. She is an actress and director, known for House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The L Word (2004) and A Single Man (2009). She was previously married to Chris Uettwiller.
41. Kasi Lemmons
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Kasi Lemmons was born on February 24, 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Karen Lemmons. She is an actress and director, known for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), Candyman (1992) and Harriet (2019). She has been married to Vondie Curtis-Hall since August 19, 1995. They have two children.
42. Amir Arison
Actor | The Blacklist
Amir Arison was born on March 24, 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Blacklist (2013), Billions (2016) and Ramy (2019).
43. Jeff East
Actor | Superman
Jeff East was born on October 27, 1957 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Superman (1978), Tom Sawyer (1973) and Huckleberry Finn (1974). He has been married to Pascale Lambert East since October 23, 2015. He was previously married to Lori East.
44. Betty Grable
Actress | A Yank in the R.A.F.
Elizabeth Ruth Grable was born on December 18, 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, to Lillian Rose (Hofmann) and John Charles Grable, a stockbroker. She had German, English, Irish, and Dutch ancestry. Her mother was a stubborn and materialistic woman determined to make her daughter a star. Elizabeth, who ...
45. Andreas Katsulas
Actor | Babylon 5
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Andreas from a working-class Greek-American family. Attracted from early childhood to being on stage when at 4 his mother took him to see a community theater performance, he took theatre as an extra-curricular activity in high school. He then majored in it at St. Louis ...
46. Christian Stolte
Actor | Chicago Fire
Christian Stolte was born on October 16, 1962 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Christian Joseph Stolte. He is an actor, known for Chicago Fire (2012), Law Abiding Citizen (2009) and Public Enemies (2009).
47. Bert Convy
Actor | The Cannonball Run
Bert Convy was born on July 23, 1933 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA as Bernard Whalen Patrick Convy. He was an actor and producer, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), Weekend Warriors (1986) and The Snoop Sisters (1972). He was married to Catherine Hall and Anne Anderson. He died on July 15, 1991 in ...
48. Al Leong
Actor | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Asian American actor & stuntman has picked up a cult fan following based around his numerous appearances in high voltage action flicks from the mid-1980s onwards. Al nearly always turns up as a bad guy with his lean muscled physique, incredible agility, amazing martial arts skills, wispy black hair...
49. Gregory Sporleder
Actor | The Rock
Gregory Michael "Spoonie" Sporleder was born and raised in University City Missouri, just across the St. Louis City line. After graduating from high School he attended Webster Universities Theater program for 2 years before being cut. Dusting himself off he was accepted to the Eugene O'Neill ...
50. Brian Thomas Smith
Actor | The Big Bang Theory
Brian Thomas Smith was born on May 13, 1977 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Big Bang Theory (2007), Danny Collins (2015) and The Wedding Party (2016).