People's Choice Award-Winning Individuals
by HankW180 | created - 09 Jan 2015 | updated - 07 Jan 2016 | PublicThis list covers People's Choice Awards for individuals (actors, entertainers, etc.) as opposed to movies or TV shows. It does not include solo recording artists except for their non-musical work. The list is sorted by the number of awards received (most to least) then by year of presentation (most recent first).
1. Bill Cosby
Actor | The Cosby Show
Bill Cosby is one of the world's most well-known entertainers and comedians. William Henry Cosby, Jr. was born on July 12, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Anna Pearl (Hite), a maid and William Henry Cosby, Sr., a U.S. Navy sailor. After 10th grade, Cosby joined the Navy and completed high ...
1999 : Favorite Time Favorite TV Star of 1998 1997 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1996 (1 of 2) 1992 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1991 1991 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1990 1991 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1990 1990 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1989 1990 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1989 1989 : Favorite All-Around Male Star of 1988 1989 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1988 1988 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1987 1988 : Favorite All-Time TV Star 1988 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1987 1987 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1986 1987 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1986 1986 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1985 1986 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1985 1985 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1984
2. Julia Roberts
Actress | Pretty Woman
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her ...
2005 : Favorite Smile of 2004 2005 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2004 2004 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2003 2003 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2002 2002 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2001 2001 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2000 2000 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1999 1998 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1997 1994 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1993 1992 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1991 1992 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1991 1991 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1990 1991 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1990
3. Ellen DeGeneres
Producer | Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres...
2015 : Favorite Daytime TV Host(s) of 2014 2014 : Favorite Daytime TV Host(s) of 2013 2012 : Favorite Daytime TV Host of 2011 (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) 2009 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 2008 2008 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 2007 2008 : Favorite Funny Female Star of 2007 2007 : Favorite Funny Female Star of 2006 2007 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 2006 2006 : Favorite Funny Female of 2005 2005 : Favorite Funny Female of 2004 2005 : Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host of 2004 1995 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1994
4. Carol Burnett
Soundtrack | The Carol Burnett Show
The entertainment world has enjoyed a six-decade love affair with comedienne/singer Carol Burnett. A peerless sketch performer and delightful, self-effacing personality who rightfully succeeded Lucille Ball as the carrot-topped "Queen of Television Comedy," it was Burnett's traumatic childhood that...
1991 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1990 1981 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1980 1981 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1980 1980 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1979 1980 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1979 1979 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1978 1979 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1978 (1 of 2) 1978 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1977 1977 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1976 1976 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1975 (1 of 2) 1976 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1975 1975 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1974
5. Sandra Bullock
Producer | The Proposal
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road ...
2016 : Favorite Movie Actress of 2015 2014 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actress of 2013 2014 : Favorite Dramatic Movie Actress of 2013 2014 : Favorite Movie Actress of 2013 2014 : Favorite Movie Duo of 2013 (with George Clooney in Gravity) 2013 : Favorite Humanitarian of 2012 2010 : Favorite Movie Actress of 2009 2006 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 2005 1999 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1998 1997 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1996 1996 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1995
6. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
2014 : Favorite Movie Actor of 2013 2012 : Favorite Movie Actor of 2011 2012 : Favorite Animated Movie Voice of 2011 (as Rango in Rango) 2011 : Favorite Movie Actor of 2010 2010 : Favorite Movie Actor of 2009 2008 : Favorite Male Movie Star of 2007 2007 : Favorite Male Movie Star of 2006 2007 : Favorite Male Action Star of 2006 2006 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2005 2005 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2004
7. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
2013 : Favorite Movie Icon of 2012 1990 : Favorite Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1989 1990 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1989 1989 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1988 1987 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1986 1986 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1985 1986 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1985 (1 of 2) 1985 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1984 1984 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1983
8. Tim Allen
Actor | Toy Story
Timothy Allen Dick was born on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. His father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a collision with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game, when Tim was eleven years old...
1999 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1998 1998 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1997 1997 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1996 1996 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1995 1995 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1994 1995 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1994 1994 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1993 1993 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1992 1992 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1991
9. Burt Reynolds
Actor | Boogie Nights
Enduring, strong-featured, and genial star of US cinema, Burt Reynolds started off in T.V. westerns in the 1960s and then carved his name into 1970s/1980s popular culture, as a sex symbol (posing nearly naked for "Cosmopolitan" magazine), and on-screen as both a rugged action figure and then as a ...
1991 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1990 1984 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1983 (1 of 2) 1983 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1982 1983 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1982 1982 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1981 1982 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1981 1980 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1979 1979 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1978 1979 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1978
10. Adam Sandler
Actor | The Waterboy
Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took ...
2015 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actor of 2014 2014 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actor of 2013 2013 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actor of 2012 2012 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actor of 2011 2011 : Favorite Comedic Star of 2010 2009 : Favorite Funny Male Star of 2008 2006 : Favorite Funny Male of 2005 2000 : Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Comedy of 1999
11. Jennifer Aniston
Actress | Friends
Jennifer Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California, to actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow. Her father was Greek, and her mother was of English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian descent. Jennifer spent a year of her childhood living in Greece with her family. Her family then relocated to New York City...
2013 : Favorite Comedic Movie Actress of 2012 2007 : Favorite Female Movie Star of 2006 2006 : Favorite Total Effects Fans Favorite Look of 2005 2004 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2003 2003 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2002 2002 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2001 2001 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2000
12. Tom Hanks
Producer | Cast Away
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has ...
2004 : Favorite All-Time Entertainer 2002 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2001 2002 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 2001 1999 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1998 1996 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1995 1996 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1995 1995 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1994
13. Barbara Mandrell
Actress | Touched by an Angel
Barbara Mandrell was born on December 25, 1948 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Touched by an Angel (1994), The Rockford Files (1974) and Baywatch (1989). She has been married to Ken Dudney since May 28, 1967. They have three children.
1987 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1986 (1 of 2) 1986 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1985 (1 of 2) 1985 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1984 1984 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1983 (1 of 2) 1983 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1982 1982 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1981 1982 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1981
14. Alan Alda
Actor | M*A*S*H
Alan Alda (born under the name Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter from New York City. His father was the Italian-American actor Robert Alda. Alda's best known role was playing chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the ...
1982 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1981 1981 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1980 1981 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1980 1980 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1979 1980 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1979 1979 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1978 1975 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1974 (1 of 2)
15. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
2009 : Favorite Scene Stealing Guest Star of 2008 (on Law & Order: SVU) 2008 : Favorite Funny Male Star of 2007 2007 : Favorite Funny Male Star of 2006 1994 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1993 1979 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1978
16. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
2004 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2003 2003 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2002 2001 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 2000 1997 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1996 1991 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1990
17. Whoopi Goldberg
Actress | Ghost
Whoopi Goldberg was born Caryn Elaine Johnson in the Chelsea section of Manhattan on November 13, 1955. Her mother, Emma (Harris), was a teacher and a nurse, and her father, Robert James Johnson, Jr., was a clergyman. Whoopi's recent ancestors were from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia. She worked in...
1996 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1995 1995 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1994 1994 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1993 1993 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1992 1993 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1992
18. Roseanne Barr
Producer | Roseanne
Firebrand Roseanne Barr has long been one of America's funniest and most controversial comedians.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, to Helen (Davis), a cashier and bookkeeper, and Jerome Hershel "Jerry" Barr, a salesman. Her family was Jewish, and had moved to the U.S. from Russia, Lithuania, ...
1995 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1994 1994 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1993 1990 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1989 1990 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1989 1989 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1988
19. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
1988 : Favorite All-Time Motion Picture Star 1987 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1986 1985 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1984 1984 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1983 (1 of 2) 1981 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1980
20. Linda Evans
Actress | Dynasty
Actress Linda Evans has personified beauty and grace to American television viewers for over five decades, from her role as Audra Barkley, a daughter of the Old West on The Big Valley (1965) (1965-1969 on ABC) to the glamorous Krystle Carrington on Dynasty (1981) (1981-1989 on ABC) to Hell's Kitchen...
1986 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1985 1985 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1984 (1 of 2) 1984 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1983 1983 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1982 (1 of 2) 1982 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1981
21. Tom Selleck
Actor | Blue Bloods
Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator "Thomas Magnum" on the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I. (1980).
Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha (Jagger), a homemaker, and Robert Dean Selleck, a...
1985 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1984 (1 of 2) 1985 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1984 1984 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1983 1983 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1982 1981 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1980
22. Bob Hope
Actor | The Ghost Breakers
Comedian Bob Hope was born Leslie Townes Hope in Eltham, London, England, the fifth of seven sons of Avis (Townes), light opera singer, and William Henry Hope, a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. His maternal grandmother was Welsh. Hope moved to Bristol before emigrating with his parents...
1985 : Favorite Favorite Entertainer of 1984 1978 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1977 1977 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1976 1976 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1975 (1 of 2) 1975 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1974
23. Mary Tyler Moore
Actress | Ordinary People
Mary Tyler Moore was born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on December 29, 1936. Moore's family relocated to California when she was eight. Her childhood was troubled, due in part to her mother's alcoholism. The eldest of three siblings, she attended a Catholic high school and married upon her graduation, in...
1979 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1978 (1 of 2) 1978 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1977 1977 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1976 1976 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1975 (1 of 2) 1975 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1974
24. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
2010 : Favorite Comedic Star of 2009 2005 : Favorite Funny Male of 2004 2001 : Favorite Motion Picture Stars in a Comedy of 2000 1996 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1995
25. Ray Romano
Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond
Ray Romano grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. He performed in the NYC comedy club circuit before landing a guest spot on The Letterman Show. It was here that he propelled his TV show Everybody Loves Raymond.
He was also the voice of the Mammoth in the extremely successful Ice Age Series Movies.
He is ...
2006 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2005 2004 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2003 2003 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2002 2002 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2001 (1 of 2)
26. Oprah Winfrey
Producer | The Oprah Winfrey Show
Oprah Gail Winfrey , often known simply as Oprah, is an American talk show host, television producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ...
2004 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 2003 1998 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1997 1997 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1996 1988 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 1987
27. Brooke Shields
Actress | The Blue Lagoon
"Want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing." If you have not heard of Brooke Shields before, this tagline from her Calvin Klein Jeans ad had to grab your attention. Not that she has not had a previously noteworthy resume. She was born on May 31, 1965 in New York City, to Teri (...
1997 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1996 1984 : Favorite Young Motion Picture Performer of 1983 1983 : Favorite Young Motion Picture Performer of 1982 1981 : Favorite Young Motion Picture Performer of 1980
28. Cybill Shepherd
Actress | Cybill
Cybill Lynne Shepherd was born in Memphis, Tennessee, to Patty, a homemaker, and William Shepherd, a small business owner. Named after her grandfather, Cy, and her father, Bill, Shepherd's career began at a young age in modeling, when she won the "Miss Teenage Memphis" contest in 1966 and the "...
1988 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1987 1987 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1986 1987 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1986 (1 of 2) 1986 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1985
29. Emmanuel Lewis
Actor | Webster
Emmanuel Lewis was born March 9th, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. The youngest son of Margaret Lewis, a former computer-science professional, Emmanuel attended regular public schools in Brooklyn until his busy acting career took him to Hollywood. He has four siblings. His acting career began one day ...
1987 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1986 1986 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1985 1985 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1984 1984 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1983
30. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
1984 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1983 (1 of 2) 1978 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1977 1977 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1976 1975 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1974
31. Gary Coleman
Actor | Diff'rent Strokes
Without a doubt Gary Coleman was THE child TV star of the late 1970s and early 1980s. A refreshingly confident little tyke with sparkling dark, saucer-like eyes and an ingratiating, take-on-anyone burst of personality, the boy charmed the pants right off of TV viewers the minute he was glimpsed in ...
1983 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1982 1982 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1981 1981 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1980 1980 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1979
32. Jane Fonda
Actress | Klute
Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...
1983 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1982 (1 of 2) 1982 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1981 (1 of 2) 1981 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1980 (1 of 2) 1980 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1979
33. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
1978 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1977 1977 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1976 1976 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1975 1975 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1974
34. Neil Patrick Harris
Actor | How I Met Your Mother
Neil Patrick Harris was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 15, 1973. His parents, Sheila Gail (Scott) and Ronald Gene Harris, were lawyers and ran a restaurant. He grew up in Ruidoso, New Mexico, a small town 120 miles south of Albuquerque, where he first took up acting in the fourth grade. ...
2012 : Favorite TV Comedy Actor of 2011 2011 : Favorite TV Comedy Actor of 2010 1990 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1989
35. Will Smith
Producer | The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden ...
2009 : Favorite Male Movie Star of 2008 2009 : Favorite Male Action Star of 2008 2005 : Favorite Male Action Star of 2004
36. Reese Witherspoon
Producer | Wild
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...
2009 : Favorite Female Movie Star of 2008 2008 : Favorite Female Movie Star of 2007 2006 : Favorite Actress of 2005
37. Brad Pitt
Actor | Fight Club
William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student ...
2009 : Favorite Leading Man of 2008 2006 : Favorite Actor of 2005 2005 : Favorite Actor of 2004
38. Jennifer Garner
Actress | Alias
Jennifer Garner, who catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the television series Alias (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Patricia Ann (née English), a retired English teacher, and her father, Billy Jack ...
2006 : Favorite Female Action Star of 2005 2006 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2005 2005 : Favorite Hair of 2004
39. Eddie Murphy
Actor | The Nutty Professor
Edward Regan Murphy was born April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York, to Lillian Lynch (born: Lillian Laney), a telephone operator, and Charles Edward Murphy, a transit police officer who was also an amateur comedian and actor. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a ...
2002 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 2001 1989 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1988 1985 : Favorite All-Around Male Entertainer of 1984 (1 of 2)
40. Drew Carey
Producer | The Drew Carey Show
Drew Carey was born on May 23, 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for The Drew Carey Show (1995), Robots (2005) and Jack and Jill (2011).
2001 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2000 2000 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1999 1996 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1995 (1 of 2)
41. Harrison Ford
Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...
2000 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1999 1999 : Favorite Time Favorite Motion Picture Star of 1998 1998 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1997
42. Candice Bergen
Actress | Miss Congeniality
One cool, eternally classy lady, Candice Bergen was elegantly poised for trendy "ice princess" stardom when she first arrived on the '60s screen, but she gradually reshaped that débutante image in the '70s, both on- and off-camera. A staunch, outspoken feminist with a decisive edge, she went on to ...
1996 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1995 1993 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1992 1992 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1991
43. Kevin Costner
Actor | The Postman
Kevin Michael Costner was born on January 18, 1955 in Lynwood, California, the third child of Bill Costner, a ditch digger and ultimately an electric line servicer for Southern California Edison, and Sharon Costner (née Tedrick), a welfare worker. His older brother, Dan, was born in 1950. A middle ...
1993 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1992 1993 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1992 1992 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1991
44. Telly Savalas
Actor | Kojak
Of Greek descent on both sides, the son of immigrants, Savalas was a soldier during World War II, although most of his enlistment records were destroyed in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973. He later studied psychology at Columbia University under the ...
1977 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1976 1976 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1975 1975 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1974 (1 of 2)
45. Angelina Jolie
Actress | Maleficent
Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...
2009 : Favorite Female Action Star of 2008 2005 : Favorite Female Action Star of 2004
46. Kate Hudson
Actress | Almost Famous
Almost everyone who has spent time with Kate Hudson -including directors, family members, co-stars and interviewers - is quick to comment on her ability to light up a room. Through some combination of a winning smile, solid work ethic, and good old-fashioned talent, the young actress has gone from ...
2009 : Favorite Leading Lady of 2008 2005 : Favorite Look of 2004
47. Christina Applegate
Actress | Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Christina Applegate was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, to record producer/executive Robert Applegate and singer-actress Nancy Priddy. Her parents split-up shortly after her birth. She has two half-siblings from her father's re-marriage - Alisa (b. October 10, 1977) and Kyle (b. July 15...
2009 : Favorite Female TV Star of 2008 1999 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1998
48. Cameron Diaz
Actress | Vanilla Sky
Cameron Diaz, an American actress, was born in 1972 in San Diego, the daughter of a Cuban-American father and a German mother. Self described as "adventurous, independent and a tough kid," Cameron left home at 16 and for the next 5 years lived in such varied locales as Japan, Australia, Mexico, ...
2007 : Favorite Leading Lady of 2006 2006 : Favorite Whitestrips Fans Favorite Smile of 2005
49. Kelsey Grammer
Actor | Cheers
A six-time Emmy Award winner, Kelsey Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Sally (Cranmer), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and restaurateur, who were from the mainland. He was raised in New Jersey and Florida. Grammer was drawn to the works of William ...
2002 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2001 (1 of 2) 1994 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1993
50. John Goodman
Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...
2001 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 2000 1989 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1988
51. Bette Midler
Soundtrack | Beaches
Multi Grammy Award-winning singer/comedienne/author Bette Midler has also proven herself to be a very capable actress in a string of both dramatic and comedic roles. Midler was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 1, 1945. She is the daughter of Ruth (Schindel), a seamstress, and Fred Midler, a ...
2001 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 2000 1989 : Favorite Actress in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1988
52. Bruce Willis
Actor | Die Hard
Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.
Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...
2000 : Favorite Motion Picture Star in a Drama of 1999 1986 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1985
53. Kirstie Alley
Actress | Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Kirstie Louise Alley was an American actress. Her breakout role was as Rebecca Howe in the NBC sitcom Cheers (1987-1993), receiving an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe in 1991 for the role. From 1997 to 2000, she starred in the sitcom Veronica's Closet, earning additional Emmy and Golden Globe ...
1998 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1997 1991 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1990
54. Demi Moore
Actress | G.I. Jane
Demi Moore was born 1962 in Roswell, New Mexico. Her father Charles Harmon left her mother Virginia Guynes (née King) before Demi was born. Her stepfather Danny Guynes didn't add much stability to her life either. He frequently changed jobs and made the family move a total of 40 times. The parents ...
1996 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1995 1993 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1992
55. Tom Cruise
Actor | Top Gun
In 1976, if you had told fourteen-year-old Franciscan seminary student Thomas Cruise Mapother IV that one day in the not too distant future he would be Tom Cruise, one of the top 100 movie stars of all time, he would have probably grinned and told you that his ambition was to join the priesthood. ...
1994 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1993 1990 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1989
56. Steve Martin
Writer | Roxanne
Steve Martin was born on August 14, 1945 in Waco, Texas, USA as Stephen Glenn Martin to Mary Lee (née Stewart; 1913-2002) and Glenn Vernon Martin (1914-1997), a real estate salesman and aspiring actor. He was raised in Inglewood and Garden Grove in California. In 1960, he got a job at the Magic ...
1993 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1992 1992 : Favorite Actor in a Comedy Motion Picture of 1991
57. Suzanne Somers
Actress | Three's Company
Suzanne Somers was the third of four children born to Frank and Marion Mahoney. Her father worked loading beer onto boxcars, and her mother was a medical secretary. She grew up living in constant fear of being hurt or even killed at the hands of her verbally and physically abusive, alcoholic father...
1992 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1991 1978 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1977
58. Fred Savage
Actor | The Wonder Years
Fred Savage was born July 9, 1976. He began acting at age 9 in a production produced by Lorimar called Morningstar/Eveningstar (1986). He was found by Roger Damon Price to play the role of Alan Bishop. During production Fred auditioned for The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) which launched Jay Underwood's...
1991 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1990 1990 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1989
59. Dustin Hoffman
Actor | Tootsie
Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...
1990 : Favorite Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1989 1989 : Favorite Actor in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1988
60. Kirk Cameron
Actor | Growing Pains
Kirk Thomas Cameron was born in Panorama City, California, to Barbara Cameron (née Barbara Jeanne Bausmith), a homemaker, and Robert Cameron, a teacher. Though his parents initially did not project show business aspirations onto their children, a family friend in the business noted to Barbara that ...
1989 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1988 1988 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1987 (1 of 2)
61. Phylicia Rashad
Actress | The Cosby Show
Phylicia Rashad was born in Houston, Texas to African-American parents Vivian Elizabeth (Ayers), a poet and art director, and Andrew Arthur Allen, an orthodontist. As a child, Phylicia, her older brother Andrew (called Tex), and younger sister, dancer and actress Debbie Allen, lived in Mexico. She ...
1989 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1988 1985 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1984 (1 of 2)
62. Dolly Parton
Soundtrack | The Porter Wagoner Show
Dolly Rebecca Parton was born on January 19, 1946 in Pittman Center, Tennessee and raised in Sevierville, Tennessee to Avie Lee Parton, a housewife & Robert Lee Parton, a tobacco farmer. At 12, she was appearing on Knoxville TV and at 13, she was already recording on a small label and appearing at ...
1988 : Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer of 1987 1988 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1987
63. Pam Dawber
Actress | Mork & Mindy
Actress Pam Dawber grew up in a suburb of Detroit. Her career began to take off when a friend who was going to New York suggested that Pam accompany her and bring along her modeling portfolio to show various New York modeling agents. A pretty girl, Pam had done some modeling in Detroit, where she ...
1987 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1986 1979 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Program of 1978
64. Katharine Hepburn
Actress | The Lion in Winter
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...
1983 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1982 (1 of 2) 1976 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1975
65. James Garner
Actor | The Notebook
Amiable and handsome James Garner had obtained success in both films and television, often playing variations of the charming anti-hero/con-man persona he first developed in Maverick, the offbeat western TV series that shot him to stardom in the late 1950s.
James Garner was born James Scott ...
1982 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1981 1978 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 1977
66. Channing Tatum
Actor | 21 Jump Street
Channing Tatum was born in a small town, Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay (Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in construction. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in ...
2016 : Favorite Movie Actor of 2015
67. Faith Hill
Actress | The Stepford Wives
Audrey Faith McGraw known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer, actress and record producer. She is one of the most successful country music artists of all time, having sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Hill's first two albums, Take Me as I Am (1993) and It Matters to Me (...
2006 : Favorite 'n Easy Fans Favorite Hair of 2005
68. Matthew McConaughey
Actor | Interstellar
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is ...
2006 : Favorite Male Action Star of 2005
69. Jay Leno
Producer | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Jay Leno began his career in night clubs, where he worked 300 nights a year before hitting it big in 1992 with his own late-night talk show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992). By that time he had appeared on television, acted in a few films (American Hot Wax (1978)) but hit paydirt with his ...
2006 : Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host of 2005
70. Matt LeBlanc
Actor | Friends
Matt LeBlanc was born on 25 July 1967 in Newton, Massachussetts. His mother, Patricia, is of Italian origin, and worked as an office manager, and his father, Paul LeBlanc, who was from a French-Canadian family, was a mechanic. After graduating from high school, he spent some time as a photo model ...
2005 : Favorite Male TV Performer of 2004
71. David Letterman
Writer | Late Show with David Letterman
Television would never be the same after David Letterman made his second attempt at a show in 1982. But his career before becoming host of the show was quite an interesting and long one.
Letterman was born in Broad Ripple, a neighborhood in Indianapolis, to Dorothy Marie (Hofert), a church secretary...
2005 : Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host of 2004
72. Renée Zellweger
Actress | Chicago
Renée Kathleen Zellweger was born on April 25, 1969, in Katy, Texas, Her mother, Kjellfrid Irene (Andreassen), is a Norwegian-born former nurse and midwife, of Norwegian, Kven (Finnish), and Swedish descent. Her father, Emil Erich Zellweger, is a Swiss-born engineer. The two married in 1963. Renée ...
2005 : Favorite Actress of 2004
73. Marg Helgenberger
Actress | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Marg Helgenberger is an established dramatic actress whose prominence has been steadily increasing. Her work has been noted on stage, film and TV. Most of her career has been spent in dramatic roles on television, but she has also had a noteworthy presence in feature films.
Helgenberger earned a ...
2005 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 2004
74. Damon Wayans
Writer | My Wife and Kids
A tall (6'2"), sly, cueball-domed comedian of film and television satire, Damon Wayans hit outrageous 90's TV stardom playing various wise guys and streetwise slick characters on older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans' landmark, black-oriented TV sketch comedy In Living Color (1990). The show was pretty...
2002 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 2001
75. Reba McEntire
Actress | Reba
Reba Nell McEntire was born on Monday, March 28th, 1955, in McAlester, Oklahoma. The reigning queen of country music has pursued a musical career since she was 5. In Junior High school, she performed with her musical siblings, aka the Singing McEntires. A fine athlete, Reba McEntire followed in the...
2002 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 2001
76. Billy Campbell
Actor | The Rocketeer
In 2019 Billy Campbell won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor for his role in the CTV/HULU television series "Cardinal" for the second year in a row, as well as being nominated for a 2018 International Emmy Award for Best Actor in a series. He is also known for his work as a co-lead in the ...
2000 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1999
77. Jennifer Love Hewitt
Actress | I Know What You Did Last Summer
Jennifer Love Hewitt was born in Waco, Texas, to Patricia Mae (Shipp), a speech-language pathologist, and Herbert Daniel Hewitt, a medical technician. She has English, Italian, French, Scottish, and German ancestry. She got her first name from her older brother Todd Daniel Hewitt (b. November 8, ...
2000 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1999
78. Calista Flockhart
Actress | Ally McBeal
Calista Kay Flockhart was born 11 November, 1964 in Freeport, Illinois. Her mother, Kay (Honohan), was a school teacher, and her father, Ronald Flockhart, worked for Kraft Foods Inc. She has Irish, Scottish, German, and English ancestry. Calista was named after her great-grandmother.
Flockhart ...
2000 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1999
79. Nathan Lane
Actor | The Producers
Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married ...
1999 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1998
80. Helen Hunt
Actress | As Good as It Gets
Helen Hunt began studying acting at the age of eight with her father, respected director and acting coach Gordon Hunt. A year later she made her professional debut and afterwards worked steadily in films, theatre and television.
1999 : Favorite Female TV Performer of 1998
81. Tony Danza
Actor | Don Jon
Tony Danza is an American actor, perhaps best known for starring on some of television's most beloved and long-running series, including "Taxi" (1978-1983) and "Who's the Boss?" (1984-1992).
Danza was born in Brooklyn, New York to Anne (Cammisa), a bookkeeper, and Matty Iadanza, a garbageman. His ...
1998 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1997
82. Michael J. Fox
Actor | Back to the Future
Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...
1997 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1996 (1 of 2)
83. Jeff Foxworthy
Producer | Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Foxworthy was born Jeffrey Marshall Foxworthy in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6, 1958.
He followed in his father's footsteps working for IBM in Georgia, but on a dare from friends, he did a few minutes of comedy at an Atlanta comedy club. A few months later, Foxworthy quit his job and started on ...
1996 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1995 (1 of 2)
84. Lea Thompson
Actress | Back to the Future
Lea Katherine Thompson was born May 31, 1961 in Rochester, Minnesota. She is the youngest of five children. Her parents are Barbara and Cliff Thompson. Since all her siblings were much older than her, Lea says it seemed like she had more than two parents. The family lived in the Starlight motel, ...
1996 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1995
85. Anthony Edwards
Actor | ER
Anthony Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, on July 19, 1962, to a well-blended family. He is the youngest of five children, and the son of Erika Kem (Weber), a landscape painter and artist, and Peter Edwards, an architect. His mother was of German descent, and his father was of English,...
1995 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Series of 1994
86. Jodie Foster
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of two. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the TV series Mayberry R.F.D. (1968). In 1975 Jodie was offered the role of prostitute Iris Steensma in the movie Taxi Driver (1976). This role, for which she received ...
1995 : Favorite Actress in a Dramatic Motion Picture of 1994
87. Brett Butler
Actress | Grace Under Fire
Brett Butler (born January 30, 1958) is an American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian. She played the title role in the comedy series Grace Under Fire.
Butler was born Brett Anderson in Montgomery, Alabama, the eldest of five sisters. Before experiencing success as a stand-up comic, she worked ...
1994 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1993
88. Susan Lucci
Actress | All My Children
Susan Lucci was born on December 23, 1946, in Scarsdale, New York, to Jeanette (Granquist) and Victor Lucci, a building contractor. She is of Italian (father) and Swedish, German, and French (mother) descent. Susan grew up in Garden City. Since she can remember, she wanted to be a performer, and ...
1992 : Favorite Female Performer in a Daytime Serial of 1991
89. Eric Braeden
Actor | The Young and the Restless
Eric Braeden is a German actor in America who began his career playing Nazis and eventually became a star of daytime soap operas. Born Hans Gudegast in Kiel, Germany, during the Second World War, he was a superb athlete who excelled in track-and-field events. As a teenager, he immigrated to the ...
1992 : Favorite Male Performer in a Daytime Serial of 1991
90. Arsenio Hall
Actor | Coming to America
Arsenio Hall was born on February 12, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Coming to America (1988), Coming 2 America (2021) and Harlem Nights (1989).
1990 : Favorite Late Night Talk Show Host of 1989
91. Jamie Lee Curtis
Actress | Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of legendary actors Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis. She got her big break at acting in 1978 when she won the role of Laurie Strode in Halloween (1978). After that, she became famous for roles in movies like Trading...
1990 : Favorite Female Performer in a New TV Series of 1989
92. Cher
Actress | Moonstruck
The beat goes on ... and on ... and as strong as ever for this superstar entertainer who has well surpassed the half-century mark while improbably transforming herself from an artificial, glossy "flashionplate" singer into a serious, Oscar-worthy, dramatic actress ... and back again! With more ups ...
1989 : Favorite All-Around Female Star of 1988
93. John Ritter
Actor | Sling Blade
Jonathan Southworth Ritter was born in Burbank, California, on September 17, 1948. He was the son of legendary country singer/actor Tex Ritter (born Woodward Maurice Ritter) and his wife, actress Dorothy Fay (née Dorothy Fay Southworth). The couple married in 1941 and had their first child, Tom ...
1988 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1987
94. Keshia Knight Pulliam
Actress | The Cosby Show
Keshia Knight Pulliam was born on April 9, 1979 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Cosby Show (1984), House of Payne (2006) and Madea Goes to Jail (2009). She has been married to Brad James since September 25, 2021. They have one child. She was previously ...
1988 : Favorite Young TV Performer of 1987 (1 of 2)
95. Glenn Close
Actress | Fatal Attraction
Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.
Glenn was a noted ...
1988 : Favorite Motion Picture Actress of 1987
96. Michael Douglas
Actor | Wall Street
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...
1988 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1987
97. Andy Griffith
Actor | The Andy Griffith Show
Andy Griffith is best known for his starring roles in two very popular television series, The Andy Griffith Show (1960) and Matlock (1986). Griffith earned a degree in music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In the 1950s, he became a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) and ...
1987 : Favorite Male Performer in a New TV Program of 1986
98. Johnny Carson
Soundtrack | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Johnny Carson, the legendary "King of Late Night TV" who dominated the medium's nether hours for three decades, was born in Corning, Iowa, but moved with his family to nearby Norfolk, Nebraska when he was eight years old. He was the son of Ruth E. (Hook) and Homer Lloyd "Kit" Carson, a manager of ...
1987 : Favorite Talk Show Host of 1986
99. Pat Sajak
Producer | Wheel of Fortune
Pat Sajak was born on October 26, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Wheel of Fortune (1983), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) and The A-Team (1983). He has been married to Lesly Brown since December 31, 1989. They have two children. He was previously married to ...
1987 : Favorite Game Show Host of 1986
100. Sylvester Stallone
Actor | Rocky
Sylvester Stallone is an athletically built, dark-haired American actor/screenwriter/director/producer, the movie fans worldwide have been flocking to see Stallone's films for over 40 years, making "Sly" one of Hollywood's biggest-ever box office draws.
Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, ...
1986 : Favorite Motion Picture Actor of 1985
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