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.
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“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
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“Poetry, and Picture, are Arts of a like nature; and both are busie about imitation. It was excellently said of Plutarch, Poetry was a speaking Picture, and Picture a mute Poesie. For they both invent, faine, and devise many things, and accommodate all they invent to the use, and service of nature. Yet of the two, the Pen is more noble, than the Pencill. For that can speake to the Understanding; the other, but to the Sense.”
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