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People From Pittsburgh
This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the second-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia. Artists Actresses * Tina Benko * Julie Benz * Lori Cardille * Caitlin Clarke * Dolores Costello * Marpessa Dawn * Lisa Emery * Barbara Feldon * Rita Gam * Elizabeth Hartman * Gillian Jacobs * Cherie Johnson * Kimmarie Johnson * Shirley Jones * Lorelei King * Christine Laitta * Heather Mazur * Mitzi McCall * Judith Lynn McConnell, Judith McConnell * Anisha Nagarajan * Evelyn Nesbit * Sandra Dee Robinson * Margot Rose * Zelda Rubinstein * Lillian Russell * Rena Sofer * Sam Sorbo * Maddie Ziegler * Chloe Lukasiak * Mackenzie Ziegler Actors * F. Murray Abraham * Tom Atkins (actor), Tom Atkins * Carl Betz * Christian Borle * Don Brockett * Steve Byrne * Ted Cassidy * David Conrad * Maurice Costello * Rusty Cundieff * John Davidson (en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh Skyline Night
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and its county seat. It is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania (after Philadelphia) and the List of United States cities by population, 67th-most populous city in the U.S., with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city is located in Western Pennsylvania, southwestern Pennsylvania at the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River, which combine to form the Ohio River. It anchors the Greater Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh metropolitan area, which had a population of 2.457 million residents and is the largest metro area in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 26th-largest in the U.S. Pittsburgh is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''Oklahoma! (film), Oklahoma!'' (1955), ''Carousel (film), Carousel'' (1956), and ''The Music Man (1962 film), The Music Man'' (1962). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a vengeful Prostitution, prostitute in ''Elmer Gantry (film), Elmer Gantry'' (1960). She played the lead role of Shirley Partridge, the widowed mother of five children, in the musical sitcom, situation-comedy television series ''The Partridge Family'' (1970–1974), which co-starred her real-life stepson, David Cassidy, son of Jack Cassidy. Early life Jones was born on March 31, 1934, in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, to Methodism, Methodist parents Marjorie (née Williams), and Paul Jones, owner of the Jones Brewing Company. Jones' paternal grandfather came from Wales. She was named after child star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Sorbo
Sandra Lynn "Sam" Sorbo (née Jenkins; born October 18, 1964) is an American actress. She played Serena in the television series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and hosts the weekday, syndicated radio program, ''The Sam Sorbo Show''. Career Under her maiden name, Jenkins, Sorbo played Serena on the TV series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. Serena is a recurring love interest for Hercules. Sorbo starred as Dr. Caroline Eggert in the third season of '' Chicago Hope'' and alongside Steve Buscemi in '' Twenty Bucks'' and '' Ed and His Dead Mother''. She had guest appearances as Mariah on ''seaQuest DSV'' and she acted alongside her husband as Dr. Sara Riley, Dylan Hunt's former fiancee, in two episodes of '' Andromeda''. Under her married name, Sorbo hosts a weekday radio show, ''The Sam Sorbo Show'', syndicated nationwide bMojo 5-0 Radio She also co-hosts ''Flashpoint Live'', a weekly radio news magazine. Personal life Sorbo studied Biomedical Engineering at Du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Sofer
Rena Sherel Sofer (born December 2, 1968) is an American actress, known for her appearances in daytime television, episodic guest appearances, and made-for-television movies. In 1995, Sofer received a Daytime Emmy Award for her portrayal of Lois Cerullo in the soap opera ''General Hospital''. She reprised the role of Lois in October 2023. From 2013 to 2022, she played Quinn Fuller on the CBS soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful''. Early life Sofer was born in Arcadia, California, the daughter of Susan Sofer (née Franzblau), a psychology professor, and Martin Sofer, an Orthodox rabbi. She moved with her father and brother David to Teaneck, New Jersey, in 1970. However, when Sofer was 5 years old, they resided in Western Pennsylvania. They lived in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, where her father led Beth Samuels Jewish Center. She later attended the Frisch School, a coeducational Modern Orthodox Jewish high school in Paramus, New Jersey. Sofer lived in North Bergen, New Jersey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860 or 1861 – June 6, 1922) was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, praised for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. Russell was born in Clinton, Iowa, but raised in Chicago. Her parents separated when she was 18, and she moved to New York with her mother. She began to perform professionally by 1879, singing for Tony Pastor and playing roles in comic opera, including Gilbert and Sullivan works. Composer Edward Solomon created roles in several of his comic operas for her in London. In 1884, they returned to New York and married in 1885, but in 1886, Solomon was arrested for bigamy. For many years, she was the foremost singer of operettas and musical theatre in the United States, performing continuously through the end of the 19th century. In 1899, she joined the Weber and Fields' Broadway Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda May Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium (spirituality), medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist (film series), ''Poltergeist'' film series. Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning television series ''Picket Fences'' for two seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show ''Poltergeist: The Legacy'' (1996), as Clairvoyance, seer Christina, and was the voice of Skittles (confectionery), Skittles candies in their long-running "Taste the Rainbow" ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for Dwarfism, little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Zelda Rubinstein and Heather O'Rourke were the only cast members to have appeared in all three ''Poltergeist'' films. Early life, family and education Rubinstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 28, 1933, to Dolores and George Rubinstein, Jewi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Rose
Margot Rose is an American television and film actress, composer and lyricist. Background She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, the Yale School of Drama and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Margot began her career in 1975 working in theater (Godspell) and television commercials and was a member of the original company of ''I'm Getting My Act Together & Taking it on the Road'' at the New York Shakespeare Festival, then later at the Circle in the Square Downtown. Career Rose has guest starred on over sixty television series including: ''Hill Street Blues'', '' E/R'', ''Night Court'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''L.A. Law'', ''The West Wing'', ''Judging Amy'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' Law and Order: Los Angeles'', ''Murphy's Law'', ''The Mentalist'' and ''Numb3rs'', among many others. She had a leading role in the 1992 '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode " The Inner Light", one of the most widely acclaimed episodes of that series. Rose has had a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Dee Robinson
Sandra Dee Robinson, also sometimes credited as Sandra Robinson (born March 23, 1967), is an American actress, former beauty pageant contestant, and founder of the media training and consulting firm Charisma On Camera. Early life and pageantry Robinson was born Sandra Ferguson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in the nearby suburb of Jefferson Hills. She began her career as a model by participating in beauty pageants. In her second major competition, she was named Miss Pennsylvania USA in March 1985. She then competed in Miss USA, the pageant to select the American entrant for the Miss Universe pageant, later that year. Acting career After her yearlong reign, Robinson began actively pursuing a career as an actress with intent to work in daytime drama. Her first, and most notable soap opera credit is her portrayal of Amanda Cory on '' Another World'' starting in August 1987. She left in 1993, returning in 1998 and remaining until the show's cancellation the following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Nesbit
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American model (person), artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906. As a model, Nesbit was frequently photographed for mass circulation newspapers, magazine advertisements, souvenir items and calendars. When in her early teens, she had begun working as an artist's model in Philadelphia. Nesbit continued after her family moved to New York, posing for artists including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a "Gibson Girl". She began modeling when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art genre) were beginning to expand. Nesbit entered Broadway theatre, initially as a chor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisha Nagarajan
Anisha Nagarajan is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the Andrew Lloyd Webber theater musical, '' Bombay Dreams'', and as Madhuri on the 2010 NBC television series, '' Outsourced''. Early life Nagarajan's parents are immigrants from India. Her mother, Geetha Nagarajan, is a former developmental specialist at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic. Her father, Nandu Nagarajan, is a professor at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Anisha was born in Evanston, Illinois, and was raised in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before moving with her family to the suburb of Fox Chapel. Anisha grew up performing piano under the tutelage of Natasha Snitkovsky. She performed at Carnegie Hall at the age of ten. She also studied Carnatic Classical music. When she was fifteen years old, Nagarajan spent a year at a boarding school in India, where she choreographed their production of ''Jose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Lynn McConnell
Judith McConnell is an American actress, best known for her role as Sophia Wayne Capwell on the TV series '' Santa Barbara'', on which she appeared from 1984 to 1993. Early life and education McConnell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and attended Carnegie Mellon University. She was Miss Pennsylvania for 1965 and competed in the 1966 Miss America pageant. Career McConnell started her acting career in an episode of ''Judd, for the Defense'' (1967). Around the same time, she played Yeoman Tankris in ''Star Trek'' episode " Wolf in the Fold" (also 1967). She appeared in an episode of ''Get Smart'' called '' The King Lives'' (January 1968) as Princess Marta. She later played short-term recurring roles on ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' (1969) as a bank secretary and '' Green Acres'' (as Eb's girlfriend) in the 1970-71 season. She played Betsy Nicholls in an episode of '' Dragnet'' (1970) and in the TV series ''Mannix'' (Season 4 Episode 06: ''The Lost Art Of Dying''). Prior to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitzi McCall
Mitzi McCall (born Mitzi Joan Steiner; September 9, 1930 – August 8, 2024) was an American comedian and actress. She was known for her work with her husband, Charlie Brill, and their performance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show'' on February 9, 1964, the same episode that featured the first appearance of The Beatles on the show. Life and career Background Mitzi Steiner was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 1930. She adopted her stage name from ''McCall's'' magazine. In the early 1950s, McCall was married to Jack Tolen, a television director and production manager. She and Charlie Brill met in 1959 and married the following year. They had a daughter. Early career Steiner had the ''Kiddie Castle'' program in Pittsburgh. She received national attention in 1952 via an Associated Press story about a five-year-old Pittsburgh girl with a cleft palate who spoke her first words while watching the actress in a pantomime on television. Afterward, doctors "didn't know wha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
