Media
- Gillian Anderson, actress
- Stanley Andrews, actor
- Dominic Armato, voice actor
- Reiko Aylesworth, actress
- Barney Balaban, mogul, head of Paramount Pictures
- Bob Balaban, actor, director, producer
- Adam Baldwin, actor
- Leonard Baldy, police officer; Chicago's first helicopter traffic reporter
- Ryan Bank, media producer
- Ike Barinholtz, actor, comedian
- Ralph Bellamy, actor
- James Belushi, actor, comedian (Wheaton)
- John Belushi, actor, comedian (Wheaton)
- Jack Benny, actor, comedian (Waukegan)
- Tom Berenger, actor
- Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist
- Shelley Berman, comedian
- Carlos Bernard, actor
- Michael Ian Black, comedian
- Budd Boetticher, film director
- Tom Bosley, actor
- Charles Boyce, syndicated cartoonist
- Andre Braugher, actor
- Buddy Bregman, composer, arranger
- Danny Pudi, actor
- Pat Byrnes, The New Yorker cartoonist
- Colt Cabana, professional wrestler
- Monique Calhoun, model
- Steve Carell, actor, comedian (born in Concord, Massachusetts)
- Allan Carr, producer
- Sarah Wayne Callies, actress
- Dan Castellaneta, actor, comedian (Oak Park)
- Kyle Chavarria, actress
- Anna Chlumsky, actress
- Stephen Colbert, comedian
- Don Cornelius, creator and former host of Soul Train
- Cindy Crawford, model, actress (DeKalb)
- Joan Cusack, actress, comedian (Evanston)
- John Cusack, actor (Evanston)
- Clifton Davis, actor, composer, minister
- Elizabeth DeCicco, actress, model, singer, photographer
- Walt Disney, founder of The Walt Disney Company (Hermosa)
- Matt Doherty, actor
- Mike Douglas, talk show host
- Katie Doyle, castmember of MTV's Road Rules
- Tom Dreesen, actor, comedian (Harvey)
- Moosie Drier, actor, director
- Michael Clarke Duncan, actor
- Kevin Dunn, actor
- Dennis Farina, actor
- Chris Farley, actor, comedian (born in Madison, Wisconsin)
- Jon Favreau, actor, writer, director
- Tina Fey, actress, comedienne, writer (born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania)
- Karen Finley, performance artist, actress, artist, recording artist
- Michael Flatley, dancer
- Neil Flynn, actor
- Harrison Ford, actor
- Bob Fosse, director, choreographer
- Redd Foxx, comedian (born in St. Louis, Missouri) (Bronzeville)
- Dennis Franz, actor
- Kathleen Freeman, actress
- Marla Gibbs, actress
- Ira Glass, NPR broadcaster
- Arlene Golonka, actress
- Stuart Gordon, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer
- Chuck Goudie, television reporter, columnist (Detroit, Michigan)
- Michael Gray, actor of Shazam!
- Kathy Griffin, actress, comedienne (Oak Park)
- Michael Gross, actor
- Kevin Hagen, actor
- Daryl Hannah, actress
- Wood Harris, actor
- Hugh Hefner, publisher
- Marilu Henner, actress
- Charlton Heston, actor (Evanston)
- Mark Hollmann, Urinetown composer, lyricist, (born and raised in Belleville, Illinois)
- Terrence Howard, actor
- Jennifer Hudson, actress, singer (Englewood)
- John Hughes, film director/writer
- Bonnie Hunt, actress, comedian, director, producer
- Sam J. Jones, actor
- William James Jones, actor
- Philip Kaufman, film director
- Harvey Korman, actor, comedian
- Tessa Kosta, actress, musicals
- Greg Kotis, Urinetown playwright
- Clara Lipman Chicago-born stage actress and playwright
- Ron Livingston, actor
- Richard Long, actor
- Lar Lubovitch, choreographer
- Bernie Mac, actor, comedian
- Justina Machado, actress
- William H. Macy, actor, producer (born in Miami, Florida)
- Amy Madigan, actress
- John Mahoney, actor
- Karl Malden, actor
- John Malkovich, actor
- David Mamet, playwright, poet, screenwriter, director
- Michael Mann, film director, writer, producer
- Joe Mantegna, actor
- Ron Masak, actor
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, actress (Oak Park)
- Jenny McCarthy, actress, model (West Elsdon)
- LisaRaye McCoy, actress
- Frances McDormand, actress
- Laurie Metcalf, actress (born in Carbondale)
- Devon Michaels, pornographic actress
- Vincente Minnelli, Oscar-winning director
- Rick Moranis, actor, comedian
- Cindy Morgan, actress
- Read Morgan, actor
- Trevor Morgan,actor
- Jennifer Morrison, actress, producer
- Brian Doyle-Murray, actor
- Bill Murray, actor, comedian
- Bob Newhart, actor, comedian
- Nichelle Nichols, actress (Robbins)
- Richard Nickel, photographer
- Ken Nordine, voiceover and Word Jazz recording artist
- Kim Novak, actress
- Donald O'Connor, actor, dancer
- Matt O'Leary, actor
- Keke Palmer, actress/singer (Harvey and Robbins)
- Mandy Patinkin, actor
- Melvin Van Peebles, director
- Jeannie Pepper, pornographic actress
- Jeff Perry, actor
- William L. Petersen, actor
- Wally Pfister, cinematographer
- Jeremy Piven, actor (Evanston)
- Harold Ramis, actor, director, comedian
- Bill Rancic, winner of The Apprentice
- Robert Reed, actor
- John C. Reilly, actor
- Shonda Rhimes, screenwriter, director, producer (creator and executive producer of Grey's Anatomy)
- Lucille Ricksen, actress
- John Ridgely, actor
- Justin Roberts, current WWE Raw ring announcer
- Craig Robinson, actor, comedian
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, film critic
- Jennifer Runyon, actress
- Pat Sajak, game show host
- Horatio Sanz, actor, comedian
- Ryan Schreiber, Pitchfork Media founder
- Stefanie Scott, actress, singer
- Amy Sedaris, actress
- David Sedaris, radio broadcaster & author
- Sherri Shepherd, actress
- Gary Sinise, actor
- Susan St. James, actress (Rockford)
- John Stagliano, pornographic actor and director
- Todd Stashwick, actor
- Michael Stoyanov, actor
- Joe Swanberg, film director, actor
- Gloria Swanson, actress
- Mr. T, actor
- Rea Tajiri, filmmaker
- Giorgio Tozzi, singer, actor
- Vince Vaughn, actor
- Douglas Walker, film critic/comedian
- Carol Wayne, actress
- Jason Weaver, actor, singer
- George Wendt, actor
- Raquel Welch, actress
- Orson Welles, actor, director, writer, producer (born in Kenosha, Wisconsin) (Woodstock)
- Robin Williams, actor, comedian
- Steve Wilkos, talk show host
- Oprah Winfrey, talk show hostess, actress, entrepreneur, philanthropist (born in Kosciusko, Mississippi)
- Sam Witwer, lead actor on the SyFy Channel show Being Human (North American TV series) and in the video game series Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Glenview, Cook County, Illinois)
- Robert Young, actor
- Billy Zane, actor
- Robert Zemeckis, director, producer, writer (Roseland)
- Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., empresario
- Adrian Zmed, actor
- Edward Zwick, director, producer, writer
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“One can describe a landscape in many different words and sentences, but one would not normally cut up a picture of a landscape and rearrange it in different patterns in order to describe it in different ways. Because a photograph is not composed of discrete units strung out in a linear row of meaningful pieces, we do not understand it by looking at one element after another in a set sequence. The photograph is understood in one act of seeing; it is perceived in a gestalt.”
—Joshua Meyrowitz, U.S. educator, media critic. “The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, Oxford University Press (1985)
“Never before has a generation of parents faced such awesome competition with the mass media for their children’s attention. While parents tout the virtues of premarital virginity, drug-free living, nonviolent resolution of social conflict, or character over physical appearance, their values are daily challenged by television soaps, rock music lyrics, tabloid headlines, and movie scenes extolling the importance of physical appearance and conformity.”
—Marianne E. Neifert (20th century)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)