Harold Pinter (born 10 October 1930) is a British Playwright. Born in 1930 in London. Considered one of the most important playwrights of the post-war era. His plays include "The Homecoming" and "The Caretaker".

Harvey Forbes Fierstein (born June 6, 1952) is an American Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright, and screenwriter.

Charles Busch, also known by his drag character Mary Dale, (born August 23, 1954) is an American actor and writer who has appeared in film and many off-Broadway productions.

Charles Herbert, (born Charles Herbert Saperstein on December 23, 1948, in Culver City, California, U.S.), was an American film and TV child actor of the 1950s and 1960s.

Before reaching his teens, Herbert was renowned by a generation of moviegoers for an on-screen broody, mature style and wit that enabled him to go one-on-one with some of the biggest names in the industry, and his appearances in a handful of films in the sci-fi/horror genre have garnered him an immortality there. In six years he appeared in 20 Hollywood features.

Herbert supported his family from the age of five and went from being one of the most desired and highest paid child actors of his time to one of the multitude of performers Hollywood "discarded" upon reaching maturity. His situation and the lifetime of damage it created for him have only recently come to light.

Charles Grodin (born April 21, 1935) is an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian, and former cable talk show host.

Grodin was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Orthodox Jewish American parents Lena (née Moretsky), who worked as an assistant in the family's store and was a volunteer for disabled veterans, and Theodore Grodin, who sold wholesale supplies. His maternal grandfather, Emanuel Moretsky, was a Russian Jewish immigrant who came from a long line of Rabbis and moved to Pittsburgh at the turn of the 20th century. He has an older brother, Jack.

Abraham Charles Vigodah (born February 24, 1921), best known as Abe Vigoda, is an American movie and television actor.

Vigoda was born in New York City to Lena and Samuel Vigodah, Jewish immigrants from Russia. His brother Bill Vigoda was a comic-book artist who drew for the "Archie" comics franchise and others in the 1940s.

Abraham Rubin Hercules Benrubi (born October 4, 1969) is an American actor known for his regular appearances as Jerry Markovic on the long-running US TV drama ER and for his first role as Francis Lawrence Kubiac III, aka "Larry Kubiac" or "Kube", on the early 1990s series Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1957) is an American television, film, and stage actor.

Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of actor/director/writer Alan Arkin and his wife Jeremy Yaffe. He has been married to the former Phyllis Ann Lyons since 1999. They have one son together. He also has a daughter, Molly, from his former wife, Linda. Arkin is Jewish.

Adam Charles Goldberg (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, director, and producer. He typically plays the quintessential 'young New York Jew' in many movies and TV programs of the 1990s and 2000s; including the title role of the self-parodying 'Jewsploitation' movie The Hebrew Hammer.

Goldberg was born in Santa Monica, California and was raised near Hollywood, the son of Donna (née Goebel) and Earl Goldberg. His father is Jewish and his mother is a Roman Catholic of Irish, French, and German descent.

Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor and singer, best known for his Tony-nominated performance as Roger Davis in the original cast of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent on Broadway. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida.

Pascal was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York, but raised in Syosset, New York.

Adam Rich (born on October 12, 1968) is an American actor born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is probably best remembered as a child actor for playing youngest son Nicholas Bradford on the 1970s television drama Eight is Enough, for which he was nominated for three Young Artist Awards, winning two, and his stint on the short-lived Lorne Greene vehicle Code Red. He made appearances on The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Six Million Dollar Man, Silver Spoons, and provided the voice for Presto the Magician on the Dungeons & Dragons television series along with his Eight is Enough co-star, Willie Aames

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, a Golden Globe-nominated actor, musician, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a popular Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over US$100 Million at the box office. Though he is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), and Big Daddy (1999), he has also had success in romantic and dramatic roles, such as in the films Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Spanglish (2004), Click (2006), and Reign Over Me (2007).

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award.

Brody's father is Jewish and his mother was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Catholic father and Jewish mother.

Albert Samuel Waxman, C.M., O.Ont (March 2, 1935 – January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor and director of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington (CBC) and Cagney & Lacey (CBS).

Waxman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated and owned Melinda Lunch, a small restaurant, and his father, Aaron Waxman, died when Al was nine.

Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning and four-time Emmy nominated American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Glengarry Glen Ross and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin.

Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Beatrice (née Wortis), a teacher, and David I. Arkin, a painter and writer who mostly worked as a teacher. Arkin was raised in a Jewish family with "no emphasis on religion;" his maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Odessa, Ukraine.

Alan Hamel (b. June 30, 1936 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was the co-host of a Canadian children's television show called Razzle Dazzle from 1961 to 1964. The show featured a talking turtle named Howard.

Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes.

Alan Rachins (born October 3, 1942 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American television actor, best known for his role as Douglas Brackman in L.A. Law, which earned him both Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, as well as for his portrayal of Dharma's hippie father, Larry, on the hit television series, "Dharma & Greg".

Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1951) is an American actor of both stage and screen, and current president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.

Rosenberg was born and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. Alan's late brother, Mark, was a political activist in the 1960's, later a film producer; while his first cousin is musician Donald Fagen.

Alan's German Jewish parents gave him enough money to apply to graduate school, but while studying at Case Western Reserve University he became New York state's backgammon champion in 1982[

Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, writer, comedian and director.

Brooks was born Albert Lawrence Einstein in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, the son of Thelma Leeds (née Goodman), a singer and actress, and Harry Parke (né Einstein), a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyarkarkus. His brothers are comedic actor Bob Einstein, better known by his stage name "Super Dave Osborne" and Cliff Einstein, a partner and longtime chief creative officer at the Los Angeles ad agency Dailey & Associates. Brooks is Jewish and attended Beverly Hills High School. Brooks grew up among show business royalty in southern California, attending high school with Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner.