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List Of People From The Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area
This article contains a list of notable people who were born or lived a significant amount of time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The city of Pittsburgh is the second-largest city and the center of the second largest metro area in the U.S. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Artists Actresses * Tina Benko * Julie Benz * Lori Cardille * Caitlin Clarke * Dolores Costello * Marpessa Dawn * Barbara Feldon * Rita Gam * Elizabeth Hartman * Gillian Jacobs * Cherie Johnson * Kimmarie Johnson * Shirley Jones * Lorelei King * Christine Laitta * Heather Mazur * Mitzi McCall * Judith McConnell * Anisha Nagarajan * Evelyn Nesbit * Sandra Dee Robinson * Margot Rose * Zelda Rubinstein * Lillian Russell * Rena Sofer * Sam Sorbo * Maddie Ziegler * Lisa Emery Actors * F. Murray Abraham * Tom Atkins * Carl Betz * Christian Borle * Don Brockett * Steve Byrne * Ted Cassidy * David Conrad * Maurice Costello * Rusty Cundieff * John Davidson * Jack Dodson * Charles Esten * Joe Flaher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Western Pennsylvania, the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, second-most populous city in Pennsylvania behind Philadelphia, and the List of United States cities by population, 68th-largest city in the U.S. with a population of 302,971 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. The city anchors the Pittsburgh metropolitan area of Western Pennsylvania; its population of 2.37 million is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the Pennsylvania metropolitan areas, second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the List of metropolitan statistical areas, 27th-largest in the U.S. It is the principal city of the greater Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area that extends into Ohio and West Virginia. Pitts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Laitta
Christine Laitta is an American actress from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Biography Born in the Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon, Laitta is a member of Actors' Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. Her credits include author, director, choreographer, teacher and actor. She is a graduate of Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. Laitta originated the role as Ms. Frizzle on the first national tour of the '' Magic School Bus Live''. Laitta has performed at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Civic Light Opera Cabaret Theater. The CLO Cabaret is the only extended run venue in Pittsburgh. Laitta starred in ''Girls Only'', ''I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change'', '' Forbidden Broadway'', and '' Forbidden Broadway: SVU''. Laitta wrote and performs in an audience participation show entitled ''TV Tunes''. This original cabaret became the inspiration for Armstrong Cable's Television Plus advertising campaign: The Golden Age of Television. Laitta appeared in their television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Emery
Lisa Emery is an American stage, film, and television actress. Emery is best known for playing Darlene Snell on Netflix series ''Ozark''. Early life Emery was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an aspiring actress from Charlottesville, Virginia and an advertising executive who worked in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. She attended Hollins College, where she planned to study painting, but became interested in drama classes instead because "they were having way more fun." After graduation she studied at the Circle in the Square Theatre School for a year, then began to audition. Emery moved to New York with her then-longtime boyfriend. They eventually broke up and she enrolled in the Circle in the Square two-year program. She moved to the East Village in 1982. Career Emery's theatre credits include ''The Matchmaker'', '' Dinner with Friends'' (1999), '' What the Butler Saw'' (2000), '' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie'' (2006), '' Talley & Son'', '' Burn This'' (1987), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maddie Ziegler
Madison Nicole Ziegler (; born September 30, 2002) is an American actress and dancer. She was initially known for appearing in Lifetime's reality show '' Dance Moms'' from 2011 (at age 8) until 2016. From 2014, she gained wider recognition for starring in a series of music videos by Sia, beginning with "Chandelier" and "Elastic Heart", which have in total attracted more than 5 billion views on YouTube. Ziegler has appeared in films, television shows, concerts, advertisements and on magazine covers. Ziegler was a judge on the 2016 season of '' So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation'', toured with Sia in North America and Australia in 2016 and 2017 and has given dance tours with her sister, Mackenzie. Her 2017 memoir, ''The Maddie Diaries'', was a ''New York Times'' Best Seller. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Sorbo
Sandra Lynn "Sam" Sorbo (née Jenkins; born October 18, 1964) is an American actress. She played Serena in the television series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'' and hosts the weekday, syndicated radio program, ''The Sam Sorbo Show''. Career Under her maiden name, Jenkins, Sorbo played Serena on the TV series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. In the show, Hercules falls in love with Sorbo's character and they get married, but Serena dies under mysterious circumstances. Sorbo starred as Dr. Caroline Eggert in the third season of ''Chicago Hope'' and alongside Steve Buscemi in ''Twenty Bucks'' and '' Ed and His Dead Mother''. She had guest appearances as Mariah on ''seaQuest DSV'' and she acted alongside her husband as Dr. Sara Riley, Dylan Hunt's former fiancee, in two episodes of '' Andromeda''. Under her married name, Sorbo hosts a weekday radio show, ''The Sam Sorbo Show'', syndicated nationwide bMojo 5-0 Radio She also co-hosts ''Flashpoint Live'', a weekly ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rena Sofer
Renas may refer to: Places *Rena, Badajoz, a municipality in Extremadura, Spain *Rena, Norway, a village in Innlandet county, Norway *Rena, Washington, a community in Clallam County, Washington, United States People *Rena (given name), list of people with this name *Rena (footballer), a Portuguese footballer Other uses * MV ''Rena'', a container ship that ran aground off New Zealand in 2011, resulting in an oil spill *Rena (snake), a genus of blind snakes in the family Leptotyphlopidae *Rena (film) See also *Reina (other) Reina (the Spanish word for queen) or La Reina may refer to: Geography * Reina, Badajoz, a municipality in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain * Reina, Estonia, a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, Estonia * La Reina, a commune ... * Reyna (other) {{disambiguation, geo, given name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lillian Russell
Lillian Russell (born Helen Louise Leonard; December 4, 1860 or 1861 – June 6, 1922), was an American actress and singer. She became one of the most famous actresses and singers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her beauty and style, as well as for her voice and stage presence. Russell was born in Clinton, Iowa, but raised in Chicago. Her parents separated when she was 18, and she moved to New York with her mother. She began to perform professionally by 1879, singing for Tony Pastor and playing roles in comic opera, including Gilbert and Sullivan works. Composer Edward Solomon created roles in several of his comic operas for her in London. In 1884, they returned to New York and married in 1885, but in 1886, Solomon was arrested for bigamy. For many years, she was the foremost singer of operettas and musical theatre in the United States, performing continuously through the end of the 19th century. In 1899, she joined the Weber and Fields' Music Hall, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zelda Rubinstein
Zelda May Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010) was an American actress and human rights activist, known as eccentric medium (spirituality), medium Tangina Barrons in the Poltergeist (film series), ''Poltergeist'' film series. Playing "Ginny", she was a regular on David E. Kelley's Emmy Award-winning television series ''Picket Fences'' for two seasons. She also made guest appearances in the TV show ''Poltergeist: The Legacy'' (1996), as Clairvoyance, seer Christina, and was the voice of Skittles (confectionery), Skittles candies in their long-running "Taste the Rainbow" ad campaign. Rubinstein was also known for her outspoken activism for Dwarfism, little people and her early participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Early life Rubinstein was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on May 28, 1933, to Jewish immigrant parents from Poland, Dolores and George Rubinstein. She was the youngest of three children and the only short-statured person in her family (she has been incor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margot Rose
Margot Rose (born July 17, 1956) is an American television and film actress, composer and lyricist. Background She attended Interlochen Arts Academy, the Yale School of Drama and the North Carolina School of the Arts. Margot began her career in 1975 working in theater (Godspell) and television commercials and was a member of the original company of ''I'm Getting My Act Together & Taking it on the Road'' at the New York Shakespeare Festival, then later at the Circle in the Square Downtown. Career Rose has guest starred on over sixty television series including: ''Hill Street Blues'', '' E/R'', ''Night Court'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', ''L.A. Law'', ''The West Wing'', ''Judging Amy'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' Law and Order: Los Angeles'', '' Murphy's Law'', ''The Mentalist'' and ''Numb3rs'', among many others. She had a leading role in the 1992 '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' episode " The Inner Light", one of the most widely acclaimed episodes of that series. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Dee Robinson
Sandra Dee Robinson, also sometimes credited as Sandra Robinson (born March 23, 1967), is an American actress, former beauty pageant contestant, and founder of the media training and consulting firm Charisma On Camera. Early life and pageantry Robinson was born Sandra Ferguson in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and grew up in the nearby suburb of Jefferson Hills. She began her career as a model by participating in beauty pageants. In her second major competition, she was named Miss Pennsylvania USA in March 1985. She then competed in Miss USA, the pageant to select the American entrant for the Miss Universe pageant, later that year. Acting career After her yearlong reign, Robinson began actively pursuing a career as an actress with intent to work in daytime drama. Her first, and most notable soap opera credit is her portrayal of Amanda Cory on '' Another World'' starting in August 1987. She left in 1993, returning in 1998 and remaining until the show's cancellation the following ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn Nesbit (born Florence Evelyn Nesbit; December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her years as a young woman in New York City, particularly her involvement in a deadly and abusive triangle between railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906. In her day, Nesbit was a famous fashion model, being frequently photographed for mass circulation newspapers, magazine advertisements, souvenir items, and calendars. When in her early teens, she had begun working as an artist's model in Philadelphia. Nesbit continued after her family moved to New York, posing for legitimate artists including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church, and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a " Gibson Girl". She was an artists' and fashion model when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anisha Nagarajan
Anisha Nagarajan (born May 21, 1983) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles in the Andrew Lloyd Webber theater musical, ''Bombay Dreams'', and as Madhuri on the 2010 NBC television series, '' Outsourced''. Early life Nagarajan's parents are emigrants from India. Her mother, Geetha Nagarajan, is a former developmental specialist at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic. Her father, Nandu Nagarajan, is a professor at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. Anisha was born in Evanston, Illinois, raised in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, before moving with her family to the suburb of Fox Chapel. Anisha grew up performing piano under the tutelage of Natasha Snitkovsky. She performed at Carnegie Hall at the age of ten. She also studied Carnatic Classical music. When she was 15 years old, Nagarajan spent a year at a boarding school in India, where she choreographed their production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
