FAMOUS KANSAS CITIANS

Hollywood Famous Born or Raised in Greater Kansas City

• Walt Disney: Producer and multiple-Academy Award winner and nominee
• Robert Altman: Director and Honorary Academy Award winner
• Chris Cooper: Actor and Academy Award winner (Adaptation)
• Don Cheadle: Actor and Academy Award nominee (Hotel Rwanda)
• Ed Asner: Actor and multiple-Emmy and Golden Globes winner (Lou Grant, Mary Tyler Moore, Roots)
• Ginger Rogers: Actress, Dance partner of Fred Astaire and Academy Award winner (Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman)
• William Powell: Actor and multiple-Academy Award nominee (The Thin Man, My Man Godfrey, Life with Father)
• Jean Harlow: Actress and Starlet
• Burt Bacharach: Composer and Academy Award winner (Arthur, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
• Charlie Parker: Jazz Musician
• Eminem: Musical Artist, Actor and Academy Award winner (“Lose Yourself”)
• Paul Rudd: Actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
• Craig Kilborn: Actor and former Late-Night Talk Show Host
• Scott Foley: Actor (Felicity)
• David Snell: Actor (The Shield)
• Jay Karnes: Actor (The Shield)
• Rob Riggle: Actor (The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live)
• Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock)
• Mike McShane: Actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Office Space)
• Leslie Charleson: Actress and multiple-Daytime Emmy nominee (General Hospital)
• Tuc Watkins: Actor (One Life to Live)
• Eddie Griffin: Actor and Comedian
• Todd Bosley: Actor (Little Giants, Jack)
• Jason Gerhardt: Actor (General Hospital)
• Tom Kane: Voice-over artist (78th Annual Academy Awards)
• Danni Boatwright: Winner Survivor: Guatemala
• Earl Cole: Winner Survivor: Fiji
• Wes Bergmann: Cast member Real World: Austin
• Bryce Gahagan: Contestant The Apprentice
• Phil Anschutz: Investor (Ray)
• Duncan Tucker: Director/Writer (Transamerica)
• Kevin Willmott: Director/Writer (Bunker Hill, Ninth Street)
• Aaron Thomas: Writer (Friday Night Lights-NBC)
• Liz Craft and Sarah Fain: Writers (The Shield)
• Steve Sullivan: Visual Effects (Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest)