Birth Place Matching "Syracuse, New York, USA" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
2. Rory Cochrane
Actor | Encounter
Rory Cochrane was born in New York, however he spent his childhood years in England. He later returned to New York City and was educated at the renowned High School of The Performing Arts. Soon after graduating, he got his first substantial role as Jeff Goldblum's son in Fathers & Sons, followed by...
3. Michaela Watkins
Actress | Wanderlust
Michaela is currently a main company member of The Groundlings in Los Angeles.
Before moving to Los Angeles, Michaela pursued a life in regional theater.
She received her BFA from Boston University School For the Arts.
Her father is a math professor at Syracuse University, and her mother teaches Latin...
4. Tom Kenny
Actor | SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the '80s and '90s as ...
5. Frank Whaley
Actor | Broken Arrow
Frank Whaley is a critically acclaimed actor/writer/director. He is best known for the films Pulp Fiction (1994) and Swimming with Sharks (1994), and has worked with Oliver Stone multiple times. His feature directorial debut, Joe the King (1999), earned him the Waldo Salt Screenwriting prize at the...
6. Bobcat Goldthwait
Director | God Bless America
Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait, born May 26, 1962, is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, and star of films and television shows. He is most widely known for his at times screechy voice and scattergun delivery during his standup comedy performances and some film roles.
He was born ...
7. Dylan Baker
Actor | Happiness
Dylan Baker was born on October 7, 1959 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Happiness (1998), Revolutionary Road (2008) and Trick 'r Treat (2007). He has been married to Becky Ann Baker since 1987. They have one child.
8. Siobhan Fallon Hogan
Actress | Rushed
Siobhan Fallon Hogan has been seen in several blockbusters over the past twenty five years. Her many film and television credits include "Men In Black," "Forrest Gump," "SNL," "Seinfeld, "Holes", "Eileen," "New In Town," and "Wayward Pines." She has done several foreign films including three with ...
9. Johnny Messner
Actor | Running Scared
Johnny Messner was born on April 11, 1970 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Running Scared (2006), Tears of the Sun (2003) and Spartan (2004).
10. Rod Serling
Writer | The Twilight Zone
A former boxer, paratrooper and general all-around angry young man, Rod Serling was one of the radical new voices that made the "Golden Age" of television. Long before The Twilight Zone (1959), he was known for writing such high-quality scripts as "Patterns" and "Requiem for a Heavyweight," both ...
11. Anthony Starke
Actor | Licence to Kill
Anthony attended Marquette University on the Liberace Foundation Scholarship for Performance, where he studied Theatre and Spanish Literature. While at Marquette he worked with the Pabst Theatre and the Wisconsin Shakespeare Company, appearing in a range of plays spanning classic, modern and ...
12. Post Malone
Actor | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Austin Richard Post, known professionally as Post Malone, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer.
Post was born in Syracuse, New York, the son of Nicole Frazier Lake, from Walton, NY, and Rich Post. His father had been a disc jockey in his youth and introduced Post to many ...
13. Mary Mara
Actress | Prom Night
Mary Mara's television credits include recurring roles on the series "ER" and guest-starring roles on "Hope & Gloria", "NYPD Blue" and "Law & Order". She has also appeared in the television films "In the Blink of an Eye", on the CBS Television Network, and "Indictment". Mara's feature film credits ...
14. Robert De Niro Sr.
Robert De Niro Sr. was born on May 3, 1922 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was previously married to Virginia Holton Admiral. He died on May 3, 1993 in New York City, New York, USA.
15. Jaclyn Hales
Actress | Legion
Jaclyn Hales was born on September 4th, in Syracuse, New York. A writer, director, producer and best known for her acting. Her career began when she was offered the lead role in the Indie feature 'Unicorn City', winning her the Best Actress award at the LA Comedy Festival. This led to her appearing...
16. Michael A. Nickles
Actor | Holly Star
Michael A. Nickles was born in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Holly Star (2018), Swing Away (2016) and Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary (1997).
17. Jeff Altman
Actor | Bee Movie
Jeff Altman was born on August 13, 1951 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Bee Movie (2007), Highlander II: The Quickening (1991) and Easy Money (1983). He is married to Bonnie Goldstein. He was previously married to Leslie Ackerman.
18. William Lundigan
Actor | Follow Me Quietly
The athletic William Lundigan stood 6' 2" and weighed 170 pounds. He played football, basketball and tennis at Syracuse (NY) University. He was discovered by Charles R. Rogers, head of production at Universal Studios. Rogers happened to tune into radio station WFBL in Syracuse. He was so intrigued ...
19. Viva
Actress | Lions Love
Viva was born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann in Syracuse, New York, to Mary Alice (McNicholas) and Wilfred Ernest Hoffmann, a well-to-do lawyer. She is the first child of a devout Catholic family, and is of German, Irish, English, and one eighth Italian, ancestry. Her parents had eight more children. ...
20. Andy Davoli
Actor | Welcome to Collinwood
Since the age of six, Andy Davoli has been performing on stage and it can be said that since then he hasn't left. He attended clown and magic school as a teen, graduated from Villanova University and then got accepted into law school. But Andy knew his destiny was always in front of him so he made ...
21. Susan Featherly
Actress | Corporate Fantasy
Susan Marie Featherly was born in Syracuse, New York to Robert "Bob" Featherly, a Korean War veteran and his wife Suzanne. She has two older brother Robert and William and a younger sister Crystal. She started working at nine years of age, along with her two brothers, at their parents family owned ...
22. Ted Markland
Actor | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ted Markland was born on January 15, 1933 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Colors (1988) and Last Man Standing (1996). He died on December 18, 2011 in Yucca Valley, California, USA.
23. Hoyt Richards
Actor | Intersection
Hoyt Richards is an award winning actor, writer and producer who was born in Syracuse, New York. He grew up in the Main Line area outside of Philadelphia, PA. He is is the fourth of six children. A high school scholar-athlete, who excelled at football and track, Hoyt graduated from Princeton ...
24. Mildred Shay
Actress | Little Shop of Horrors
Mildreds star shone for what seemed like a split second and yet she knew everybody in town and the whole of tinsel town knew Mildred Shay. Adrian, Hollywoods premiere costumer made all her gowns and a pair of false breasts. She worked with, and unlike the rest of Hollywood got on with Joan Crawford...
25. Tamara Bass
Actress | Baby Boy
Tamara Bass was born in Syracuse, New York, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Baby Boy (2001), If Not Now, When? (2019) and All That Matters (2015).
26. Samuel Bayer
Producer | Pony
Having photographed and directed hundreds of music videos and commercials over the last 15 years, Samuel Bayer has firmly established himself as one of the industry's most prolific and sought-after talents.
A 1987 graduate of New York City's School of Visual Arts, Bayer was a painter who saw film ...
27. Mark Kassen
Producer | Before We Go
Mark Kassen originated the role of "Ben" in the off-Broadway play, "Things You Shouldn't Say past Midnight".
He performed in the Broadway production of "The Last Night of Ballyhoo", and traveled with the production to Los Angeles.
A produced playwright, Mark's multi-media play "Perfect" was mounted at...
28. Caris Vujcec
Actress | Bull
Caris Vujcec is an award-winning American-born actress, writer, producer and director of Mediterranean descent. With a career spanning Broadway, television and original content creation, as a storyteller and filmmaker, she has a passion for narratives highlighting dynamic, powerful and vulnerable, ...
29. Ann Carter
Actress | The Curse of the Cat People
Ann Carter was born on June 16, 1936 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Curse of the Cat People (1944), Blondie Hits the Jackpot (1949) and The North Star (1943). She was previously married to Crosby Newton. She died on January 27, 2014 in Tacoma, Washington, USA.
30. David Greenman
Actor | About Last Night
David Greenman was born on October 27, 1977 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for About Last Night (2014), Bones (2005) and Gilmore Girls (2000).
31. Claire Luce
Actress | Up the River
Claire Luce was born on October 15, 1903 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Up the River (1930), The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) and Over She Goes (1937). She was previously married to Clifford Warren Smith. She died on August 31, 1989 in New York City, New York, USA.
32. Jim Abele
Actor | Playing by Heart
Jim Abele was born on November 13, 1960 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Playing by Heart (1998), Angel (1999) and 24 (2001).
33. Ann Leary
Writer | Two If by Sea
Ann Leary was born on August 14, 1962 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She is a writer, known for Two If by Sea (1996), Modern Love (2019) and The Good House (2021). She has been married to Denis Leary since August 19, 1989. They have two children.
34. John Alderman
Actor | Cleopatra Jones
John Alderman was a talented, prolific, and ubiquitous actor in numerous low-budget exploitation features who appeared in everything from 1960s softcore items to 1970s drive-in fare to 1980s hardcore porn throughout the course of his long and diverse career.
Alderman was born on June 12, 1934, in ...
35. Zane Lamprey
Writer | Drinking Made Easy
Zane Lamprey is often told he has the greatest job in the world. A bold claim, but when considering that for the last decade Zane has been hosting and producing shows about travel, drinks, food, and all things awesome, the statement seems pretty much on par. For example, Zane's latest adventure, ...
36. Will McLaughlin
Actor | Men in Black 3
Will McLaughlin was born on February 24, 1969 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Men in Black 3 (2012), Non-Stop to Comic-Con (2016) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999).
37. Christina Northrup
Christina Northrup was born on March 19, 1981 in Syracuse, New York, USA. She is a production manager and producer, known for Deja Vu (2006), Junior (2012) and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007).
38. Tim Scanlon
Actor | Ryan Carson
Tim Scanlon received a B.A. in English/Communications at Niagara University. In the summer of '89 he traveled across the country to Los Angeles with his college roommate to pursue screen writing. In '91 he secured a job at Multi Entertainment Holdings where he met and worked with Donald O'Connor (...
39. Michael Coulthard
Actor | WrestleMania XXVIII
Michael Coulthard was born on December 8, 1968 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for WrestleMania XXVIII (2012), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and WrestleMania XXVI (2010).
40. Doris Kenyon
Actress | The Road to Singapore
The daughter of a poet, Doris Kenyon made her stage and screen debuts in 1915. She was often cast as a pleasant heroine in many silent films. She co-starred with popular silent-era actors like Rudolph Valentino and her future husband Milton Sills. Due to her stage experience she made a smooth ...
41. Roy Atwell
Writer | Here Comes the Bride
Actor, comedian, and composer, educated at the Sargent School of Acting. His Broadway stage appearances included "The Little Missus", "The Mimic World", "The Firefly", and "How's Your Health?". He was a member of the Fortune Gallo Opera Company, and joined ASCAP in 1957. He composed the popular ...
42. Pamela Stein
Self | Playboy: Playmate Private Pleasures
Gorgeous, buxom and slender blonde knockout Pamela Jean Stein was born on August 13, 1963 in Syracuse, New York. Pamela grew up in Florida and graduated from Pinellas High School in 1981. She was discovered walking along Clearwater Beach in Florida. Pamela acted in a number of TV commercials prior ...
43. Thom Filicia
Production Designer | Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Thom is the founder of his own interior design company, Thom Filicia Inc., where he has established a strong reputation and was named one of House Beautiful's Top 100 American Designers. His firm has completed work in metropolitan New York, the Hamptons, Los Angeles, Miami and Bermuda. His practice...
44. Alan Gelfant
Actor | Next Stop Wonderland
Alan Gelfant was born on May 21, 1957 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Next Stop Wonderland (1998), Who's the Caboose? (1997) and Monkeybone (2001).
45. Larry Sherman
Actor | One Fine Day
Larry Sherman was born on February 2, 1923 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for One Fine Day (1996), Law & Order (1990) and The Sopranos (1999). He was previously married to Marion. He died on August 26, 2017 in New York, New York, USA.
46. Mitchell Lewis
Actor | Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ
Mitchell Lewis was born on June 26, 1880 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925), Salomé (1922) and The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1920). He was previously married to Rosabel Morrison and Nan Frances Ryan. He died on August 24, 1956 in ...
47. Clement Brace
Actor | A Woman for All Men
Clement Brace was born on January 6, 1916 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A Woman for All Men (1975) and The Loretta Young Show (1953). He died on November 3, 1996 in Medford, Oregon, USA.
48. Louise Henry
Actress | Reckless
Louise Henry was born as Jessouise Heiman to Dr. Jesse Heiman and his wife, Louise Henry Heiman, who was a vaudeville star. Louise Henry Sr. as she was known, contracted tuberculosis while performing in vaudeville and was sent to a sanitarium in Saranac Lake, NY. While there she was treated by Dr. ...
49. Casey Baker
Producer | Click
Casey Baker was born on January 7, 1980 in Syracuse, New York, USA. Casey is a producer and writer, known for Click, Hunch and Somebody Loved.
50. Jack Coogan Sr.
Writer | Daddy
Jack Coogan Sr. was born on January 21, 1887 in Syracuse, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Daddy (1923), Trouble (1922) and Johnny Get Your Hair Cut (1927). He was previously married to Lillian Coogan. He died on May 4, 1935 in San Diego, California, USA.