# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/41 "2015-10-19T01:29:00Z")
Clark Gable - Cadiz, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/42 "2015-10-19T02:06:50Z")
Ohio: (from memory) Sarah Jessica Parker Katie Holmes Jonathan Winters Drew Carey George Clooney (well, suburban Cincinnati, but the Kentucky side) Jamie Farr from _MASH_ Gordon Jump and Gary Sandy from _WKRP in Cincinnati_ Dave Chapelle (split time between Ohio and Washington, D.C.) Martin Sheen ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/43 "2015-10-19T02:25:06Z")
Paul Newman - Shaker Heights, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/44 "2015-10-19T14:25:52Z")
Ohio – Allison Janney ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/45 "2015-10-19T16:04:48Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > I couldn’t think of any from Washington either. Tori Black ---
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That reminds me – Ohio – John Holmes Traci Lords ---
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Leonard Nimoy Ma. ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/48 "2015-10-19T20:22:12Z")
Elizabeth Ashley - Ocala, Florida ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/49 "2015-10-19T21:13:01Z")
From states I lived in for several years or more, and were once my “home state”: Wisconsin – Orson Welles Louisiana – Dorothy Lamour New Brunswick – Donald Sutherland Quebec --Genevieve Bujold Kansas – Buster Keaton Missouri – John Huston ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/50 "2015-10-19T21:16:58Z")
Octavia Spencer- Alabama Former co-worker and FB friend. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/51 "2015-10-19T21:42:39Z")
Jerry Van Dyke - Illinois (the non-Chicago part) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2015, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/52 "2015-10-20T05:41:12Z")
Carol Kane - Cleveland, Ohio ---
**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 21, 2015, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/53 "2015-10-21T20:32:16Z")
Marjorie Main - Indiana ---
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Morgan Freeman - TN ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/55 "2015-10-22T06:18:37Z")
Carmen Electra - Sharonville, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/56 "2015-12-12T01:05:09Z")
Katy Mixon - Pensacola, FL ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/57 "2015-12-12T04:20:03Z")
Amy Yaskbek - Cincinnati, Ohio ---
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Barbara Eden - Tucson, AZ. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/59 "2015-12-12T04:45:23Z")
Molly Shannon - Shaker Heights, Ohio ---
**Author:** ![epbrown01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ba0ec/32.png) [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367/60 "2015-12-12T12:17:04Z")
> [@MentalGuy](#): > > George Clooney - KY Since you took him, I’ll mention Johnny Depp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-actresses-from-your-state-game/734367.md?page=4)