Birthplace: Kenosha, WI
You Know Him From: The Bickersons, The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1938), & Academy Award-winning performance in Cocoon (1986).

Birthplace: Racine, WI
You Know Her As: The woman with “man hands” in episode #137, "The Bizarro Jerry" on NBC’s Seinfeld.

Birthplace: Zion, IL
You Know Him As: Arnold Jackson of Diff’rent Strokes. Made famous the phrase, “Whatchu talkin’ bout Willis?”

Body Builder/Actress
Birthplace: Racine, WI
You Know Her As: Atlanta on TV’s Hercules, Ms. Olympia 1984-1989.

Birthplace: Waukegan , IL
You Know Him As: Garrett Wells on ABC’s Boston Legal.

Birthplace: Gurnee, IL
You Know Him As: The trusty drama professor in the Julia Roberts flick, Sleeping With The Enemy (1991).

Birthplace: Kenosha, WI
You Know Him As: Phillip Chancellor, III on The Young & the Restless, and “rowdy undergrad” in the film St. Elmo’s Fire (1985).

Birthplace: Racine, WI
You Know Her As: Grandma Walton on the TV series, "The Waltons."

Actor
Birthplace: Racine, WI
You Know Him As: An actor most active during the ‘20s-’40s for such movies as “The Best Years of Our Lives” (1946), “Inherit the Wind” (1960), “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” (1931), “The Iceman Cometh” (1973) and “A Star is Born” (1937).

Birthplace: Kenosha, WI
You Know Him As: Al on Happy Days, Murray the cop on The Odd Couple.