Here’s one: Howard Duff
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.
Renee Zellwenger – TX
Jake Gyllenhaal – CA
John Travolta - Englewood, NJ (about four blocks from where I live now)
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:
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Florence Henderson - IN
Do we count the territories? if so, José Ferrer, PR
George Clooney - KY
Gale Storm, from tiny Bloomington TX, about 12 miles from my house.
Ed O Neil - Youngstown, Ohio
Patrick Dempsey - Maine
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
As a decade-long Newfoundlander, I’ll go with Gordon Pinsent, who played Hap Shaughnessy on The Red Green Show.
Drew Carey - Cleveland, Ohio
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”.
Dean Martin - Steubenville, Ohio
Yeah, after I posted it I remembered it said ‘actors’.
Chris Pratt is from Washington.
Beverly D’Angelo - Columbus, Ohio.
Texas – Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin. (Unrelated)