List of Fordham University People - Entertainment

Entertainment

• Alan Alda, six-time Emmy Award and six-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor
• Prince Lorenzo Borghese, reality star of ABC's ninth edition of The Bachelor (master's degree from Fordham)
• Justin Brannan, musician and lyricist, Indecision and Most Precious Blood (attended Lincoln Center campus, no degree)
• Hilarie Burton, actress, best known for her role as Peyton Sawyer on the TV series One Tree Hill
• Thomas Calabro, actor, best known for his role as Dr. Michael Mancini on the TV series Melrose Place
• Joshua Caldwell, MTV Movie Award-winning director
• Patricia Clarkson, Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actress
• David Copperfield, magician (attended, no degree)
• Lana Del Rey, BRIT Award-winning singer-songwriter
• Kevin Devine, singer-songwriter, Capitol Records
• Faith Evans, Grammy Award-winning singer (attended, no degree)
• Dan Grimaldi, actor on the TV series The Sopranos
• Pat Harrington, Jr., Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning actor, best known for his role as Schneider on the TV sitcom One Day at a Time
• Jonathan Harris, actor, best known for his TV work as Bradford Webster in The Third Man and Dr. Zachary Smith in Lost in Space
• Amanda Hearst, socialite
• Elizabeth Hendrickson, actress from the daytime dramas All My Children and The Young and the Restless
• John Benjamin Hickey, Tony Award-winning actor for The Normal Heart
• Raúl Juliá, actor (no degree)
• Wayne J. Keeley, two-time Emmy Award-winning producer as well as a published writer and director
• Bob Keeshan, five-time Emmy Award and three-time Peabody Award-winning star and producer of the children's TV series Captain Kangaroo
• Robert Sean Leonard, Tony Award-winning actor, currently plays Dr. James Wilson, head of the oncology department, on Fox's medical drama House
• Lou Liberatore, Tony Award-nominated actor for Burn This
• Susan Lucci, professional actress and Emmy award winner
• Edward Madden, songwriter of American standards
• Dylan McDermott, Golden Globe Award-winning actor, best known for his role as defense attorney Bobby Donnell on the TV series The Practice
• Michaela McManus, actress, best known for her portrayals of Lindsey Strauss on the television series One Tree Hill and A.D.A. Kim Greylek on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Lara Jill Miller, actress, best known for her role as Samantha "Sam" Kanisky on the TV sitcom Gimme a Break!*
• Ilan Mitchell-Smith, actor, best known for his co-starring role as Wyatt Donnelly in the John Hughes film Weird Science (master's degree from Fordham)
• Brianne Moncrief, actress, best known for her role as Colby Chandler on the soap opera All My Children
• Melanie Moore, contemporary dancer, Season 8 Summer 2011 winner on Fox TV show So You Think You Can Dance (attended Ailey BFA, no degree)
• Annie Parisse, actress, best known for her role as assistant district attorney Alexandra Borgia on the TV series Law & Order
• Tim Rose, musician and songwriter
• Cathie Ryan, singer-Celtic musician
• Taylor Schilling, actress, plays the lead character, Nurse Veronica Callahan, on NBC's medical drama Mercy
• John Scurti, actor, plays Lt. Ken Shea, on FX (TV Channel) drama Rescue Me
• Streeter Seidell, comedian, writer, actor, co-star of the MTV series Pranked!, editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.com
• Amanda Seyfried, actress, Mean Girls, ABC Family's Wildfire, HBO's Big Love
• Raymond Siller, four-time Emmy Award-nominated head writer for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
• Karina Smirnoff, world champion professional dancer
• Alice Smith, Grammy Award-nominated singer
• Hunter Tylo, actress, best known for her role as Dr. Taylor Hayes on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful
• Denzel Washington, two-time Academy Award and three-time Golden Globe Award-winning actor
• Bill Wendell, longtime television announcer on numerous programs
• Julie White, Tony Award-winning actress
• Virginia Williams, actress, starring in the USA Network series Fairly Legal
• William Windom, Emmy Award-winning actor (attended, no degree)