More famous actors that went to Cal. Hmmmm, not much of a list!
Kathy Baker, B.A. 1977 - three-time Emmy Award winning actress (Picket Fences [TV series, 1992-1996)]; The Right Stuff [1983], Edward Scissorhands [1990], The Cider House Rules [1999], Cold Mountain [2003])
Bill Bixby (attended) - director, actor (The Incredible Hulk)
Golden Brooks, B.A. 1994 - film and television actress; currently appears on UPN sitcom, Girlfriends; studied literature and sociology with an emphasis on media representation of minorities at UC Berkeley
John Cheng, 1996 - producer, Code Name: The Cleaner imdb.com
John Cho, B.A. 1996 - actor (American Pie [1999], Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle [2004])
Jeff Cohen, B.S. 1996 - former actor (Chunk in The Goonies); currently entertainment lawyer
Roxann Dawson, B.A. 1980 - actress, director, author, playwright
Ralph Edwards, B.A. 1935 - national television host and producer
Jon Else, B.A. 1968 - Prix Italia winner (The Day After Trinity), Emmy Award winner, nominated twice for the Academy Award, 1999 winner of the Sundance Film Festival Filmmaker's Trophy, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow, cinematographer on the Academy Award winning Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, professor of journalism at UC Berkeley
Carl Franklin, B.A. 1971 - film director (One False Move [1992], Devil in a Blue Dress [1995], High Crimes [2002], Out of Time [2003])
Takashi Fujimoto, B.A. 1962 - Cinematographer and director of photography; Boston Society of Film Critics Award in 1991 for work on Silence of the Lambs, National Society of Film Critics Award in 1996 for Devil in a Blue Dress
Peter Gethers (attended 1970-1972) - screenwriter and author of bestselling Norton the cat trilogy
Amos Gitai, Ph.D. (Architecture) 1986 - Israeli film director (Field Diary [1982], Eden [2001], Free Zone [2005])
Karen Grassle, B.A. 1965 - actress, best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls (the mother) on the Little House on the Prairie television series
William Hung (attended) - rejected singer from American Idol, acted in film My Crazy Mother (2004), cameo on Arrested Development
Oren Jacob, B.S. 1992, M.S. 1995 - Pixar Animation Studios technical director
Stacy Keach, B.A. 1963 - actor
Adam Lamberg (Class of 2006) - actor (Lizzie McGuire Movie)
Sanaa Lathan, B.A. 1992 - actress (Blade [1998], Something New [2006]; Tony Award nomination [2004], Raisin in the Sun)
Audry Lederer, B.A. 1981 - screenwriter (The Truth about Cats and Dogs)
Quentin Lee, B.A. 1992 - Asian-American film director (Shopping for Fangs [1997], Drift [2001], Ethan Mao [2004])
Joshua Marston, B.A. 1990 - film director (Maria Full of Grace [2004])
Quinn Martin, B.A. 1949 - television producer (The Fugitive, Streets of San Francisco)
Jerry Mathers, B.A. 1974 - actor (Leave it to Beaver)
Freida Lee Mock, B.A. 1961 - documentary filmmaker, winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995 (for Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision)
Errol Morris (attended philosophy graduate program) - documentary film director (The Thin Blue Line [1988], Fog of War [2003])
Gregory Peck, B.A. 1939 - actor, won the Academy Award for portrayal of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), nominated for the Oscar four other times; served as president of the Screen Actors Guild
Walter Plunkett, B.A. 1923 - Academy Award winning costume designer
James Schamus, B.A. 1982, M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 2003 - screenwriter and movie producer known for his frequent collaborations with Ang Lee on movies (The Wedding Banquet [1993] and Eat Drink Man Woman [1994], and the Academy Award winning movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon[2000] and Brokeback Mountain [2005]), professor at Columbia University
Andrew Schneider, B.A. 19?? - screenwriter and executive producer, co-winner of an Emmy Award in 1992 for Northern Exposure
Randi Mayem Singer, B.A. 1979 - writer and producer, Mrs. Doubtfire, Jack and Jill.
George Takei, 1959 (attended, later transferred to UCLA) - actor (Star Trek) |
