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'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate...
TRACY LETTS I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather...
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When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s...
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My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and...
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FINN WITTROCK I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M...
CASSIE VENTURA I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris...
KATHERINE LANGFORD My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
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I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they...
DANICA MCKELLAR It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so w...
ZOEY DEUTCH I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysf...
DIANE FARR My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either wi...
KSENIA SOLO I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti...
SAMANTHA SHANNON My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanni...
DAKOTA FANNING My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it&...
KIM JI-WOON![]()
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas...
BRIE LARSON My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to...
PATRICK MURPHY![]()
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around...
QUEEN LATIFAH My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston....
DULE HILL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ...
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LILLA CRAWFORD I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '...
DAVID HASSELHOFF My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ...
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GALE HAROLD My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the act...
OLIVIA COOKE When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom...
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#...
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PAUL DANO My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who ...
GREY DAMON My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and...
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My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ...
KIM CATTRALL![]()
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TREY PARKER My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awe...
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LAKE BELL![]()
I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it&...
APOLO OHNO My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in A...
MAIARA WALSH Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childho...
DANIEL BREAKER My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah...
ELLE KING![]()
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I...
JENN PROSKE I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
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My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were marrie...
RON HOWARD![]()
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH![]()
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my ...
CHRIS EVANS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
MAKO![]()
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. S...
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I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground.
ERIC CLAPTON II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s...
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AUDRA MCDONALD Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t...
HUGH GRANT![]()
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O...
MARLEE MATLIN I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing ...
VALERIA GOLINO![]()
Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ...
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I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating...
GEORGE CLOONEY![]()
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS![]()
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'
LELAND ORSER![]()
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we ...
SUKI WATERHOUSE![]()
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni...
ELIZA DUSHKU My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER![]()
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria...
VINCE VAUGHN My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents...
DYLAN PENN I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
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MAXIM KNIGHT![]()
I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. ...
JAY-Z![]()
Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendo...
KIM FIELDS I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexolo...
LAURA HADDOCK I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c...
GARY SINISE The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom ...
ISAAC BROCK I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ...
RACHEL KELLER
INARA GEORGE When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and ...
SAM CLAFLIN
My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE It was definitely a part of our life. I mean, my mom had both her brothers and her fiancee in Vietna...
VANESSA KERRY What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I...
DANA DAVIS I graduated from a place called Whitworth College in Spokane with a theater degree, then in 1993 I m...
TREVOR ST. JOHN
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER
Maluma comes from my mom, my dad and my sister's names. The first letters of my mom's name a... MALUMA
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grim... GUNTER GRASS First acting gig was playing a victim in 'America's Most Wanted.' The night the show air...
ZOE MCLELLAN Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.
TED SHACKELFORD The first seven years of my life, me, my mom and dad and my four older siblings lived in a suburb of...
ERIK HASSLE
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was i...
ELOISE MUMFORD
My first cousin, by the way, on my father's mother side was John Marshall Harlan, who was a Supr... WILLIAM HURT
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote... GAIL CARSON LEVINE
'Killer Joe' was originally written in 1991 and first produced in '93 at the Next Theate... TRACY LETTS I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather...
RACHEL BLOOM I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb...
SEAN HAYES
When I was younger, I always liked acting. You know, like, acting locally, or community theater at s... TAVI GEVINSON
Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and... BINDI IRWIN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and... BOOBOO STEWART That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.
FINN WITTROCK I'm from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. M...
CASSIE VENTURA I had my first screen-acting class in March 2015, and I was, like, 18, turning 19, so it's a ris...
KATHERINE LANGFORD My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b...
BRETT DALTON My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed ...
CARL WEATHERS I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot...
DAVID LAMBERT
I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they... DANICA MCKELLAR It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so w...
ZOEY DEUTCH I used to teach acting in a maximum security men's prison. I worked with guys with the most dysf...
DIANE FARR My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either wi...
KSENIA SOLO I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti...
SAMANTHA SHANNON My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanni...
DAKOTA FANNING My background is in acting, so I enjoy being able to show what I'm looking for. With acting, it&...
KIM JI-WOON
I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas... BRIE LARSON My dad's a Republican. My dad's my mentor. When I was 18 or whatever it was and I decided to...
PATRICK MURPHY
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston....
DULE HILL I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES
My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ... TATIANA MASLANY I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - ...
LILLA CRAWFORD I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was '...
DAVID HASSELHOFF My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a ...
IAN GOMEZ My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the act...
OLIVIA COOKE When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA I first got into acting when I was 14, coming back from a junior high school basketball game. My mom...
SKYLAR ASTIN
On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#... DAN FEUERRIEGEL
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder... PAUL DANO My ma and pa are both very artistic, so I suppose it's in my blood. But my ma's the one who ...
GREY DAMON My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and...
ZACH BRAFF
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... KIM CATTRALL
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'So... TREY PARKER My brother and I did theater in high school, and were both in Pennsylvania Youth Theatre. It was awe...
KATE MICUCCI
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comical... LAKE BELL
I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it&... APOLO OHNO My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in A...
MAIARA WALSH Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childho...
DANIEL BREAKER My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah...
ELLE KING
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I... JENN PROSKE I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confide...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
My folks met at the University of Oklahoma, in the theater department in the 1940s. They were marrie... RON HOWARD
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my ... CHRIS EVANS I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, ...
MAKO
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You'd get a broken arm. S... MICHAEL CAINE
I grew up playing in clubs - that's my spiritual stomping ground. ERIC CLAPTON II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s...
NATHALIE KELLEY When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piec...
AUDRA MCDONALD Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of acting: character acting and lead acting. And in my life, t...
HUGH GRANT
I began acting on stage when I was 7 years old. My first role was as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of O... MARLEE MATLIN I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing ...
VALERIA GOLINO
Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR.
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating... GEORGE CLOONEY
I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a... GILLIAN JACOBS
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n... STEPHANIE SIGMAN My very first acting role was Tiny Tim in 'A Christmas Carol.'
LELAND ORSER
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we ... SUKI WATERHOUSE
After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's uni... ELIZA DUSHKU My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria... VINCE VAUGHN My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
KATE WALSH It's funny because I've resisted acting as a career for most of my life. But both my parents...
DYLAN PENN I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for ...
MAXIM KNIGHT
I didn't go to many movies. My mom would make a family outing and bring chicken in the theater. ... JAY-Z
Working with Will Smith was one of the highlights of my career. He is so talented and has a tremendo... KIM FIELDS I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexolo...
LAURA HADDOCK I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I c...
GARY SINISE The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom ...
ISAAC BROCK I was actually born in L.A. My sisters and I were playing in a parking lot, and my dad was like, ...
RACHEL KELLER
I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Ki... 
I've definitely had the experience where I was pursuing someone for a long time that I just obvi... 
Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became... 