# Actors/Actresses from your state game **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [October 11, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367 "2015-10-11T22:42:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Daniel\_Boone\_Fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Boone_Fanatic)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/21 "2015-10-12T22:37:16Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I couldn’t think of any from Washington either. Here’s one: Howard Duff ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/22 "2015-10-12T22:41:25Z")
Current state, or native state? I’ll do both: Current: Utah’s own **Wilford Brimley** reminds you to eat your damn oatmeal, lest you get diabeetus. Native: There are tons, but because I just watched _Birdman_, I’ll go **Edward Norton**. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/23 "2015-10-13T04:05:51Z")
Renee Zellwenger – TX ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/24 "2015-10-13T06:52:18Z")
Jake Gyllenhaal – CA ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/25 "2015-10-13T21:05:26Z")
John Travolta - Englewood, NJ (about four blocks from where I live now) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/26 "2015-10-13T21:32:21Z")
> [@me](#): > > Native: There are tons, but because I just watched _Birdman_, I’ll go **Edward Norton**. Should have clarified that Ed is from Maryland, where I grew up. And from Saigon, the place I was born; well, you have your pick of **Dustin Nguyen** (the old _21 Jump Street_ TV series) or **Ke Huy Quan** (Data from _The Goonies_). :smack: . ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/27 "2015-10-13T23:30:31Z")
Florence Henderson - IN ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/28 "2015-10-14T00:51:54Z")
Do we count the territories? if so, José Ferrer, PR ---
**Author:** ![MentalGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MentalGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MentalGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/29 "2015-10-14T04:12:02Z")
George Clooney - KY ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/30 "2015-10-14T05:05:06Z")
Gale Storm, from tiny Bloomington TX, about 12 miles from my house. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/31 "2015-10-15T04:12:35Z")
Ed O Neil - Youngstown, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/32 "2015-10-15T14:26:53Z")
Patrick Dempsey - Maine ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2015, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/33 "2015-10-15T14:45:11Z")
I’ll answer for my native state, since no one has so far: Don Knotts, Chris Sarandon, Jennifer Garner, Brad Dourif, Ted Cassidy (Lurch on the original Addams Family series) - West Virginia ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/34 "2015-10-16T03:59:39Z")
As a decade-long Newfoundlander, I’ll go with Gordon Pinsent, who played Hap Shaughnessy on The Red Green Show. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/35 "2015-10-16T04:12:55Z")
Drew Carey - Cleveland, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/36 "2015-10-16T04:30:48Z")
Jon Hamm and Vincent Price were each born in St. Louis. Jenna Fischer of “The Office” was raised in St. Louis. I’m sure there are lots of other actors from my home state/town, but those are the ones that pinned come to mind. Vincent Price scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I vaguely remember being just terrified by “The Abominable Dr. Fibes”. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/37 "2015-10-16T04:50:36Z")
Dean Martin - Steubenville, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![TheSpeculationElucidation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@TheSpeculationElucidation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheSpeculationElucidation)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2015, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/38 "2015-10-16T10:02:10Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I couldn’t think of any from Washington either. Yeah, after I posted it I remembered it said ‘actors’. Chris Pratt is from Washington. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/39 "2015-10-18T07:38:39Z")
Beverly D’Angelo - Columbus, Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2015, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/40 "2015-10-18T23:54:38Z")
Texas – Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin. (Unrelated) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367.md?page=3)