Hank Albert Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American film, television and stage actor, director, comedian and voice artist. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons. He performs the voices of Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and numerous other characters. He became more widely known through his appearances in films such as The Birdcage, Godzilla, and Along Came Polly. He starred in the drama Huff, playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot. Originally more of a comic actor, in recent years Azaria has taken on more dramatic roles including Tuesdays With Morrie and Uprising. He has won four Emmys and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Steven E. Levitan (born 1962) is an American director, screenwriter and producer of television comedies. He has created such TV series asJust Shoot Me!, Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, and Modern Family. As executive producer, Steve won an Emmy Award in 1996 for Frasier in the Outstanding Comedy Series category. He was also nominated in that same year for Outstanding Writing in Comedy Series category for The Larry Sanders Show. He was nominated for an Emmy in the Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series category for Just Shoot Me! and two more as executive producer. Steven won the Humanitas Prize(for writers whose work best communicates and encourages human values) in 1996 for the Frasier episode titled "Breaking the Ice." Steven has also won a CableACE Award and a Writers Guild nomination for The Larry Sanders Show. He also garnered a Producers Guild Award and a Television Critics Association Award for Frasier, a People’s Choice Award for Stark Raving Mad and a Golden Globe nomination for Just Shoot Me!

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Simon Pegg (born Simon John Beckingham; 14 February 1970) is an English actor, comedian, writer, film producer and director. He is best known for his starring roles in Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run, the comedy series Spaced and his recent portrayal of Scotty in Star Trek. Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes, Dylan Moran and Edgar Wright. Pegg has a close friendship with American actor David Schwimmer. The two have worked together in Band of Brothers,Big Nothing and Run Fatboy Run.

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Edward Harrison Norton (born August 18, 1969) is an American film actor, screenwriter and director. In 1996, his supporting role in the courtroom drama Primal Fear garnered him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. A year later, his lead role as a reformed white power skinhead in American History X earned a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actor. His other films include period dramas such as Kingdom of Heaven (2005), The Illusionist (2006), and The Painted Veil (2006); and other notable films such as Rounders (1998), Fight Club (1999), 25th Hour (2002), Red Dragon (2002), and The Incredible Hulk (2008). Aside from acting, Norton made his directorial debut with the film Keeping the Faith (2000) and is slated to direct the film adaptation of the novel Motherless Brooklyn, set to be released in 2010. He is a member of the board of trustees of Enterprise Community Partners, a non-profit organization for developing affordable housing, as well as a social activist.

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Daniel Michael "Danny" DeVito, Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, director and producer, who first gained prominence for his portrayal of "Louie De Palma" on the ABC and NBCTV series Taxi (1978–1983). Along with wife Rhea Perlman, he founded Jersey Films, a production company famous for producing films such as Pulp Fiction, Garden State, and Freedom Writers, and Jersey Television, most famous for producing the Comedy Central series Reno 911! He also currently stars as Frank Reynolds on the FX sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

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Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as acomposer, liberal political activist, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards, nine Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, and is one of the very few entertainers to have won all of these honors, although she has yet to win a competitive Tony Award. In 2008 she was inducted as a Kennedy Centre Honoree. Streisand received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2001. She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best selling solo recording artists with over 71 millon albums sold in the US and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the highest ranking female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list. According to the RIAA, Streisand has a total of 29 Top Ten albums to her credit since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (34 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. Streisand also holds the record for most Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. Her RIAA tally shows she has released 50 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums. Currently, Streisand appears at #7 on the RIAA list of Top Selling Artists, with over 70 million albums sold, right behind Billy Joel and Pink Floyd. She is currently #1 in all-time sales among female artists.

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Steven F. Seagal ( born April 10, 1952) is an American action movie actor, producer, writer, director, martial artist, philanthropist, guitarist and singer-songwriter. He belongs to a generation of movie action hero actors (including Chuck Norris, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren and Sylvester Stallone) who were featured in many blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and 1990s. A 6' 4" (193 cm) 7th-dan black belt in aikido, Seagal began his adult life as an aikido instructor in Japan. He became the first foreigner to operate an aikido dojo in Osaka, Japan. He later moved to the Los Angeles, California area where he made his film debut in 1988 in Above the Law. Since then, Seagal has become a major action star, mainly due to his films of the 1990s such as Under Siege (1992) and Under Siege 2 (1995) where he played Navy SEALs counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback. In total his movies have earned in excess of $850 million worldwide. Seagal is also a recording artist and guitarist and the founder of Steven Seagal Enterprises. In addition to his professional achievements, he is also known as an environmentalist, an animal rightsactivist and a supporter of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and the cause of Tibetan independence. Spiritualism and Buddhism play an important role in Seagal's life and he has been recognized by Tibetan lama Penor Rinpoche as a reincarnated Tulku. According to Seagal in a November 2006 interview: "I was born very different, clairvoyant and a healer".

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Jason Pollock is the director of the feature length documentary film The Youngest Candidate. It is produced by David Letterman’s company, Worldwide Pants, in partnership with Oscar winner Lawrence Bender and Balance Vector Productions.

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Christopher Julius "Chris" Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was voted by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time.

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Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2006) and Juno (2007) as well as utilizing unique opening sequences.

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