List of University of Chicago Alumni - Arts and Entertainment

Arts and Entertainment

• Ed Asner (X. 1948) - Emmy Award-winning actor.
• David Auburn (A.B. 1991) - Playwright; winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Proof.
• Lester Beall (A.B. 1926) - Modernist graphic designer.
• Anna Chlumsky (A.B. 2002) - Actress; starred in My Girl.
• Misha Collins (A.B. 1997) - Actor; currently stars in TV series Supernatural.
• Jan Crull Jr. (A.M. 1984) - Enigmatic documentary filmmaker.
• Katherine Dunham (Ph.B. 1936) - Dancer and choreographer. National Medal of Arts winner.
• Roger Ebert (X. 1970) - Film critic and Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Kurt Elling (X. 1992) - Jazz singer and nine-time Grammy Award nominee.
• George R. Ellis (A.B. 1959, M.F.A. 1962) - author, art historian and director of the Honolulu Museum of Art
• Philip Glass (A.B. 1956) - Academy Award-nominated composer and musician.
• Sessue Hayakawa (A.B. 1913) - Academy Award-nominated silent film actor; starred in Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat.
• Marilu Henner (X. 1974) - Actress; starred in TV series, Taxi.
• Mark Hollmann (A.B. 1985) - Tony Award winning Composer.
• Celeste Holm (X. 1934) - Academy Award-winning actress.
• Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. 2003) - Runner-up on the fourth season of The Apprentice.
• Indiana Jones (fictional) - Studied archaeology under professor Abner Ravenwood.
• Philip Kaufman (A.B. 1958) - Film director, The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
• Rose Kaufman (X. 1959) - Screenwriter The Wanderers and Henry & June.
• Wolf Kahn (A.B. 1950) - Artist.
• Greg Kotis (A.B. 1988) - Tony Award-winning playwright.
• Aaron Lipstadt (A.B. 1974) - Director.
• Joshua Marston (A.M. 1994) - Film director, Maria Full of Grace.
• Tucker Max (A.B. 1998) - Internet celebrity and New York Times bestselling author.
• Elaine May (A.B. 1953) - Writer, actress, and director.
• Mike Nichols (X. 1953) - Film director; winner of a Tony Award and an Academy Award; directed The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood; co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe.
• Korla Pandit - Musician
• Sheldon Patinkin (A.B. 1953) - Theater director.
• Kimberly Peirce (A.B. 1990) - Film director, Boys Don't Cry (Academy Award for Best Actress, Hilary Swank) and Stop-Loss.
• Dan Peterman Artist
• Bernard Sahlins (A.B. 1943) - Co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe.
• Hayden Schlossberg (A.B. 2000) - Writer, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
• Jason Shaw (A.B. 1995) - Male model and former boyfriend of Paris Hilton.
• Eddie Shin (A.B. 1998) - Television actor.
• Paul Sills (A.B. 1951) - Co-founder of The Second City comedy troupe.
• Fritz Weaver (A.B. 1951) - Actor.