List of Jewish American entertainers

This is a list of notable Jewish American entertainers. For other famous Jewish Americans, see List of Jewish Americans.

Actors (film and TV)

organized by birth decade

1990s–2000s

• Sofia Black D'Elia (born 1991), actress
• Jonah Bobo (born 1997), film actor (Around the Bend, Zathura)
• Cameron Boyce (born 1999), actor
• Max Burkholder (born 1997), actor
• Timothée Chalamet (born 1995), actor
• Emory Cohen (born 1990), actor
• Flora Cross (born 1993), film actress (Bee Season)
• Spencer Daniels (born 1992), actor
• Zoey Deutch (born 1994), actress
• Ansel Elgort (born 1994), actor (Jewish father)
• Julia Garner (born 1994), actress
• Zachary Gordon (born 1998), film actor ("Diary of a Wimpy Kid")
• Alexander Gould (born 1994), film/TV actor (Finding Nemo)
• Teo Halm (born 1999), actor
• Carter Jenkins (born 1991), film/TV actor
• Logan Lerman (born 1992), film/TV actor (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief)
• Jonathan Lipnicki (born 1990), film actor (Jerry Maguire, Like Mike)
• James Maslow (born 1990), actor/singer
• David Mazouz (born 2001), actor
• Blake Michael (born (1996), actor
• Ezra Miller (born 1992), film actor
• Ian Nelson, (born 1995), actor
• Nicola Peltz (born 1994), actress
• Ryan Potter (born 1995), actor
• Nathalia Ramos (born 1992), Spanish-born American actress (Bratz: The Movie)
• Sarah Ramos (born 1991), TV actress (American Dreams)
• Ben Rosenfield (born c. 1992/1993), actor
• Odeya Rush (born 1997), Israeli-born American
• Daryl Sabara (born 1992), actor (Spy Kids, Keeping Up with the Steins, Halloween)
• Halston Sage (born 1993), actress
• Max Schneider (born 1992), actor and musician
• Adiel Stein (born 1991), film actor (Stolen Summer)
• Hailee Steinfeld (born 1996), actor (True Grit, Ender's Game, Pitch Perfect 2 ) and singer of Love Myself
• Matt Weinberg (born 1990), film/TV actor (Haunted Lighthouse)
• Zoe Weizenbaum (born 1991), film actress (Memoirs of a Geisha)
• Nat Wolff (born 1994), actor/musician (Jewish father)

1980s

• Dianna Agron (born 1986), actress and singer
• Jonathan Ahdout (born 1989), actor (House of Sand and Fog, 24)
• Skylar Astin (born Skylar Astin Lipstein; 1987) is an American actor and singer.
• Justin Baldoni (born 1984), actor (Everwood)
• Alison Brie (born 1982), actress
• Rachel Bloom (born 1987), actress, singer and comedy writer (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)
• Amanda Bynes (born 1986), film actress and former show host on Nickelodeon (She's the Man)
• Lizzy Caplan (born 1982), film/TV actress (Mean Girls, Cloverfield)
• Lauren Cohan (born 1982), film/television actress (Supernatural)
• Matt Cohen (born 1982), film/TV actor
• Alexa Davalos (born 1982), actress
• John Francis Daley (born 1985), actor/director (Freaks and Geeks)
• Kat Dennings (born 1986), film/TV actress
• Zac Efron (born 1987), film/TV actor (Efron's paternal grandfather was Jewish, and Efron has referred to himself as Jewish)
• Alden Ehrenreich (born 1989), actor
• Jesse Eisenberg (born 1983), film actor (The Squid and the Whale)
• Sean Flynn-Amir (born 1989), TV actor (Zoey 101)
• Ben Foster (born 1980), actor
• Jon Foster (born 1984), film/TV actor (Stay Alive)
• Shayna Fox (born 1984), voice actress
• Dave Franco (born 1985), actor
• Seth Gabel (born 1981), American actor
• Andrew Garfield (born 1983), British and American actor
• Rafi Gavron (born 1989), British and American actor
• Gideon Glick (born 1988), actor
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt (born 1981), film/TV actor
• Max Greenfield (born 1980), film/TV actor
• Zena Grey (born 1988), film actress (Max Keeble's Big Move)
• Jake Gyllenhaal (born 1980), film actor (Brokeback Mountain)
• Armie Hammer (born 1986), actor (has identified himself as "half Jewish")
• Erin Heatherton (born 1989), model and actress
• Simon Helberg (born 1980), TV actor and comedian - (The Big Bang Theory)
• Jonah Hill (born 1983), film actor
• Scarlett Johansson (born 1984), film actress;
• Jeremy Jordan (born 1984), stage/musical film/television actor (Jewish mother)
• Ariana Jollee (born 1982), pornographic actress and pornographic film director
• Jonathan Keltz (born 1988), Canadian and American actor
• Mila Kunis (born 1983), TV actress (That '70s Show, Family Guy)
• Adam Lamberg (born 1984), actor (Lizzie McGuire)
• Adam Lambert (born 1982), singer and runner-up on "American Idol"
• Shia LaBeouf (born 1986), TV/film actor (Even Stevens, Holes, Disturbia, Transformers)
• Samm Levine (born 1982), film/TV actor
• Margarita Levieva (born 1980), actress and professional gymnast
• Alex D. Linz (born 1989), actor (Home Alone 3, Max Keeble's Big Move)
• Jessica Manley, actress (Anne Frank: The Whole Story).
• Eli Marienthal (born 1986), film actor (Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen)
• Scott Mechlowicz (born 1981), film actor (EuroTrip, Mean Creek)
• Sara Paxton (born 1988), actress (Darcy's Wild Life, Aquamarine)
• Josh Peck (born 1986), actor (Drake & Josh)
• Ashley Peldon (born 1984), film/TV actress
• Courtney Peldon (born 1981), film/TV actress
• Alisan Porter (born 1981), film and stage actress and singer
• Natalie Portman (born 1981), Israeli-born film actor (V for Vendetta)
• Laura Prepon (born 1980), film/TV actress (That '70s Show). .
• Nikki Reed (born 1988), film actress/screenwriter (Thirteen)
• Emmy Rossum (born 1986), actress, singer, and songwriter
• Jason Schwartzman (born 1980), actor and member of the band Phantom Planet
• Jason Segel (born 1980), film/TV actor
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler (born 1981), TV actress (The Sopranos)
• Jenny Slate (born 1982), actress/comedian
• Marla Sokoloff (born 1980), film/TV actress (Big Day)
• Shoshannah Stern (born 1980), TV actress
• Lauren Storm (born 1987), TV actress (Flight 29 Down)
• Khleo Thomas (born 1989), film actor (Holes)
• Ashley Tisdale (born 1985), actress and singer (High School Musical)
• Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), film/TV actress
• Joseph Trohman (born 1984), musician (Fall Out Boy)^{Joe Trohman}
• Raviv (Ricky) Ullman (born 1986), Israeli-born actor, teen idol (Phil of the Future)
• Anneliese van der Pol (born 1984), Dutch/American actress (That's So Raven)
• Mara Wilson (born 1987), film actress (Matilda)
• James Wolk (born 1985), actor
• Aubrey "Drake" Graham (born 1986) actor/singer/rapper (Jewish mother)
• Evan Rachel Wood (born 1987), film actress (Thirteen, The Upside of Anger)
• Mario Yedidia (born 1984), former child actor (Warriors of Virtue)
• Anton Yelchin (born 1989), Russian-born film/TV actor
• Joey Zimmerman (born 1986), film/TV actor (Halloweentown)

1970s

• Dave Annable (born 1979), actor
• Shiri Appleby (born 1978), Israeli/American film/TV actress (Roswell)
• David Arquette (born 1971), film actor
• Eric Balfour (born 1977), actor
• Elizabeth Banks (born 1974), film actress (Invincible)
• Justin Bartha (born 1978), film actor (National Treasure,The Hangover)
• Amber Benson (born 1977), actress (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Elizabeth Berkley (born 1972), TV, film, and stage actress
• Jon Bernthal (born 1976), actor
• Mayim Bialik (born 1975), actress (Blossom)
• Michael Ian Black (born Michael Ian Schwartz, 1971–), actor, comedian and comedy writer
• Selma Blair (born Selma Bleitner, 1972–), film actress, raised w/ Jewish day school (Cruel Intentions)
• Alex Borstein (born 1971), actress, writer, and comedian
• Caprice Bourret (born 1971), English fashion model and actress, often known by her first name
• Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (Scrubs, Garden State)
• Tamara Braun (born 1971), soap opera actress
• Adam Brody (born 1979), actor (The O.C.)
• Adrien Brody (born 1973), film actor (The Pianist)
• Sarah Brown (born 1975), actress
• Brooke Burke (born 1971), TV personality and model
• Scott Caan (born 1976), film actor, son of James Caan
• Josh Charles (born 1971), stage, film, and TV actor
• Emmanuelle Chriqui (born 1977), film/TV actress
• Jennifer Connelly (born 1970), film actress
• Eric Dane (born 1972), actor
• Erin Daniels (born Erin Cohen, 1973–), actress
• Dustin Diamond (born 1977), actor (Saved by the Bell)
• Oded Fehr (born 1970), Israeli/American actor (The Mummy)
• Corey Feldman (born 1971), film actor, 1980s teen idol
• James Franco (born 1978), film actor (James Dean, Spider-Man)
• Soleil Moon Frye (born 1976), actress and director (Punky Brewster)
• Sarah Michelle Gellar (born 1977), actress, writer, director, film maker, comedian, singer (Buffy Summers)
• Elon Gold (born 1970), comedian, TV actor, writer, and producer
• Ginnifer Goodwin (born 1978), film/TV actress (Big Love)
• Seth Green (born 1974), actor, writer, and TV producer
• Bryan Greenberg (born 1978), film/TV actor (Prime)
• Maggie Gyllenhaal (born 1977), Golden Globe-nominated actress
• Corey Haim (1971–2010), Canadian-born film actor
• Chelsea Handler (born 1975), actress/comedian
• Alyson Hannigan (born 1974), actress ( Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Date Movie)
• Danielle Harris (born 1977), actress
• Samantha Harris (born Samantha Harris Shapiro, 1973–), actress and TV presenter
• Cole Hauser (born 1975), film actor
• Jason Hervey (born 1972), actor (The Wonder Years)
• Kate Hudson (born 1979), film actress (Almost Famous, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days)
• Oliver Hudson (born 1976), film/TV actor
• Rashida Jones (born 1976), actress, writer, model, and musician (The Office)
• Chris Kattan (born 1970), comedian (Saturday Night Live)
• Joel Kinnaman (born 1979), Swedish and American actor (Jewish mother)
• Alla Korot (born 1970), Ukrainian-born actress
• Lisa Kushell (born 1971), comedic actress (MADtv, co-host of Dinner and a Movie)
• David Krumholtz (born 1978), actor (NUMB3RS)
• Adam Levine (born 1979), musician (Maroon 5)
• Jenny Lewis (born 1976), musician and former child actress
• Michael Lucas (born 1972), Russian-born porn star
• Jamie Luner (born 1971), actress (Melrose Place)
• Natasha Lyonne (born Natasha Braunstein, 1979–), film/TV actress (American Pie)
• Gabriel Macht (born 1972), film actor
• Matisyahu (born Matthew Paul Miller, 1979), singer and rapper.
• Idina Menzel (born 1971), actress, singer and songwriter
• Gwyneth Paltrow (born 1972), actress and singer
• Adam Pascal (born 1970), actor (Rent)
• Amanda Peet (born 1972), film actress
• Joaquin Phoenix (born Joaquin Bottom, 1974–), film actor (Walk the Line)
• Rain Phoenix (born Rain Bottom, 1973–), actress/musician
• River Phoenix (born River Bottom, 1970–1993), film actor
• Summer Phoenix (born 1978), actress and model
• Pink (born Alecia Moore, 1979–), singer and actress
• Josh Radnor (born 1976), actor (How I Met Your Mother)
• Leah Remini (born 1970), actress (The King of Queens)
• Simon Rex (born 1974), actor and model
• Michael Rosenbaum (born 1972), film/TV actor (Smallvile)
• Tracee Ellis Ross (born Tracee Joy Silberstein, 1972–), actress, daughter of singer Diana Ross
• Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer
• Maya Rudolph (born 1972), actress/comedian (Saturday Night Live)
• Winona Ryder (born Winona Horowitz, 1971–), film actress
• Sarah Saltzberg (born 1976), Broadway theater actress
• Andy Samberg (born David Andrew Samberg, 1978–), comedian. Part of group The Lonely Island; Saturday Night Live
• Fred Savage (born 1976), actor and TV director (Wonder Years)
• Miriam Shor (born 1971), film/TV actress (Big Day)
• Sarah Silverman (born 1970), stand-up comedian, actress, and writer
• Alicia Silverstone (born 1976), actress and former fashion model (Clueless, Batman and Robin)
• Ione Skye (born Ione Skye Leitch, 1971–), English-born actress
• Lindsay Sloane (born Lindsay Sloane Leikin, 1977–), actress
• Bahar Soomekh (born 1975), Iranian-born actress (Crash)
• Tori Spelling (born 1973), actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
• Jordana Spiro (born 1977), TV actress (My Boys)
• Corey Stoll (born 1976), actor
• Matt Stone (born 1971), animator, film director, screenwriter, actor, voice actor, and creator of South Park
• Danny Strong (born 1974), film/TV actor
• Jonathan Togo (born 1977), actor (CSI: Miami, Mystic River)
• Mageina Tovah (born Mageina Tovah Begtrup, 1979–), actress
• Kevin Weisman (born 1970), film/TV actor
• Jennifer Westfeldt (born 1971), actress and writer (Kissing Jessica Stein)
• Marissa Jaret Winokur (born 1973), film, TV, and stage actress (Hairspray stage version)
• Noah Wyle (born 1971), film/TV actor
• Nikki Ziering (born Natalie Schiele, 1971–), model and actress
• Ethan Zohn (born 1973), Survivor: Africa winner and actor
• Arianne Zuker (born Arianne Zuckerman, 1974–), soap opera actress

1960s

• Paula Abdul (born 1962), singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer
• Steven Adler (born 1965), musician, songwriter, drummer (Guns N' Roses)
• Patricia Arquette (born 1968), Golden Globe-nominated actress
• Hank Azaria (born 1964), film/TV actor, director, comedian, and voice artist
• David Alan Basche (born 1968), actor
• Randall Batinkoff (born 1968), film/TV actor (For Keeps?)
• Mary Kay Bergman (1961–1999), voice actress (South Park)
• Troy Beyer (born 1964), film director, screenwriter, and actress
• Craig Bierko (born 1964), film/TV actor (Cinderella Man)
• Jack Black (born 1969), film actor and musician
• Lisa Bonet (born 1967), film/TV actress (The Cosby Show)
• Matthew Broderick (born 1962), film and stage actor (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Producers)
• Gabrielle Carteris (born 1961), actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
• Max Casella (born 1967), actor (Doogie Howser)
• Scott Cohen (born 1964), film/TV actor
• Mindy Cohn (born 1966), TV actress (The Facts of Life)
• David Cross (born 1964), actor/comedian
• Dean Devlin (born 1962), former actor, now producer and screenwriter
• Don Diamont (born Donald Feinberg, 1961–), soap opera actor (The Young and the Restless)
• Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), actor and musician (Iron Man)
• David Duchovny (born 1960), film/TV actor (The X-Files)
• Lisa Edelstein (born 1967), actress (House)
• Jon Favreau (born 1966), actor/director
• Dan Futterman (born 1967), actor and screenwriter
• Jeff Garlin (born 1962), comic actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
• Brad Garrett (born Bradley Harold Gerstenfeld, 1960–), actor and comedian
• Gina Gershon (born 1962), film actress
• Jami Gertz (born 1965), film/TV actress
• Melissa Gilbert (born 1964), former child actress, two terms as president of Screen Actors Guild
• Judy Gold (born 1962), stand-up comedian and actress
• Bill Goldberg (born 1966), former wrestler; wrestled for both World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), film/TV actor
• Jennifer Grey (born 1960), actress and dancer (Dirty Dancing)
• Arye Gross (born 1960), film/TV actor
• Greg Grunberg (born 1966), film/TV actor (Heroes)
• Annabelle Gurwitch (born 1961), comedic actress, hostess of TBS's Dinner and a Movie
• Jessica Hecht (born 1965), film/stage actress
• Cantor Steven Hevenstone (born 1962), Cantor/Composer/Arranger/Conductor. Organizer of The Southeast popular Jewish Rock Bands The Moody Jews (Atlanta, GA) and Rhythm 'n' Jews (South Florida)
• Monica Horan (born 1963), TV actress (Everybody Loves Raymond)
• Sean Kanan (born Sean Perelman, 1966–), soap opera actor (General Hospital)
• Lesli Kay (born Lesli Pushkin, 1965–), actress (As the World Turns); had first individual girl's bat mitzvah in West Virginia
• Heather Paige Kent (born 1969), TV actress
• Marc Kudisch (born 1966), stage actor
• Lisa Kudrow (born 1963), actress (Friends)
• Juliet Landau (born 1965), actress (Ed Wood), daughter of Martin Landau and Barbara Bain
• John Lehr (born 1967), actor/comedian (10 Items or Less)
• Jennifer Jason Leigh (born 1962), Hollywood film actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961), actress (Seinfeld)
• Joshua Malina (born 1966), film and stage actor
• Camryn Manheim (born 1961), actress (The Practice)
• Cindy Margolis (born 1965), actress/model; in 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as the "most downloaded" person in 1999
• Julianna Margulies (born 1966), film/TV actress (ER)
• Marc Maron (born 1963), comedian, film/TV actor
• Brett Marx (born 1964), actor (The Bad News Bears); great nephew of the Marx Brothers
• Marlee Matlin (born 1965), actress (Children of a Lesser God)
• Debra Messing (born 1968), actress (Will & Grace)
• Dina Meyer (born 1968), film/TV actress (Saw films)
• Ari Meyers (born 1969), actress (Kate & Allie)
• Rob Morrow (born 1962), actor (Northern Exposure, Numb3rs)
• Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965), Golden Globe, Emmy-winning actress
• Sean Penn (born 1960), film actor (Mystic River, Milk)
• Jeremy Piven (born 1965), actor (Entourage)
• Rain Pryor (born 1969), actress and comedian, daughter of Richard Pryor
• Ted Raimi (born 1965), actor, brother of Spider-Man director Sam Raimi
• Adam Rich (born 1968), child actor (Eight is Enough)
• Paul Rudd (born 1969), actor and screenwriter
• Adam Sandler (born 1966), actor, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, producer, and musician
• Rob Schneider (born 1963), actor, comedian, and screenwriter
• Bitty Schram (born 1968), Golden Globe-nominated actress
• Liev Schreiber (born 1967), Tony Award-winning actor
• Scott Schwartz (born 1968), child actor (A Christmas Story and The Toy)
• David Schwimmer (born 1966), Emmy-nominated actor and director (Friends)
• Sam Seder (born 1966), actor, comedian, writer, producer, director
• Kyra Sedgwick (born 1965), Emmy-nominated actress
• Ally Sheedy (born 1962), screen and stage actress ("Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire)
• Jonathan Silverman (born 1966), film/TV actor
• Helen Slater (born 1963), film actress and singer-songwriter, (title role in Supergirl)
• Rena Sofer (born 1968), actress
• Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, 1962–), stand-up comedian, actor, author; host, head writer, and producer of The Daily Show
• Ben Stiller (born 1965), Emmy Award-winning comedian, actor, and film director
• Michael Vartan (born 1968), French-born film/TV actor (Monster-in-Law)
• Steven Weber (born 1961), film/TV actor (Wings)
• Scott Wolf (born 1968), actor (Party of Five)
• Ian Ziering (born 1964), actor (Beverly Hills 90210)

1950s

• Caroline Aaron (born 1957), actress and producer
• Jason Alexander (born Jay Greenspan, 1959–), actor, comedian, writer, director
• Adam Arkin (born 1956), film, TV, and stage actor
• Rosanna Arquette (born 1959), actress, film director, and film producer
• Ellen Barkin (born 1954), actress
• Robby Benson (born Robin David Segal, 1956–), actor, former teen idol
• Mike Binder (born 1958), screenwriter, film director, and actor
• Kate Capshaw (born 1953), actress (Indiana Jones)
• Jamie Lee Curtis (born 1958), Golden Globe-winning film actress, writer of books for children
• Danny Elfman (born 1953), musician, composer
• Wayne Federman (born 1959), comedian, actor, author (Maravich)
• Tovah Feldshuh (born 1952), actress, singer, and playwright
• Harvey Fierstein (born 1954), actor, author, and singer
• Carrie Fisher (born 1956), film actress, novelist (Star Wars)
• Al Franken (born 1951), comedian, actor, author, radio host, and U.S. Senator
• Jeff Goldblum (born 1952), film actor
• Steve Guttenberg (born 1958), actor
• Mary Hart (born 1950), actress and TV personality (Entertainment Tonight)
• Amy Irving (born 1953), actress
• Toni Kalem (born 1956), film/TV actress, screenwriter, and director
• Carol Kane (born 1952), actress
• Julie Kavner (born 1950), film/TV actress (voice of Marge on The Simpsons)
• Richard Kind (born 1956), actor
• John Landis (born 1950), actor, director, writer, and producer
• Carol Leifer (born 1956), comedian and actress
• Joan Lunden (born Joan Blunden, 1950–), broadcaster (Good Morning America)
• Bill Maher (born 1956)
• Melanie Mayron (born 1952), actress and director (Thirtysomething)
• Larry Miller (born 1953), stand-up comedian, actor
• Don Most (born 1953), actor (Happy Days)
• Bebe Neuwirth (born 1958), theater, TV, and film actress
• Laraine Newman (born 1952), comedian and actress
• Ken Olin (born 1954), actor, director and producer
• Mandy Patinkin (born 1952), actor of stage and screen, and singer/interpreter of Yiddish songs
• Lorna Patterson (born 1956), film, stage and TV actress
• Scott Patterson (born 1958), actor (Gilmore Girls)
• David Paymer (born 1954), character actor
• Ron Perlman (born 1950), film/TV actor (Hellboy)
• Kevin Pollak (born 1957), actor, impressionist, and comedian
• Paul Reiser (born 1957), actor, author, and stand-up comedian (Mad About You)
• Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld, 1952–), aka Peewee Herman
• Alan Rosenberg (born 1950), actor, 24th president of the Screen Actors Guild
• Katey Sagal (born 1954), actress, singer, and writer (Married... with Children)
• Bob Saget (born 1956), actor, stand-up comedian, and game show host
• Richard Schiff (born 1955), actor (The West Wing)
• Deb Filler (born 1954), actress, comic, singer and writer, born New Zealand.
• Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954), comedian, actor, and writer
• Jane Seymour (born Joyce Frankenberg, 1951–), English-born film/TV actress
• Wendie Jo Sperber (1958–2005), TV/movie actress
• Howard Stern (born 1954), radio/TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author
• Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951), actor
• Robert Trebor (born Robert Schenkman, 1953–), actor (Hercules, Xena)
• Debra Winger (born 1955), actress
• Mare Winningham (born 1959), film/TV actress

1940s

• Bob Balaban (born 1945), actor and director
• Richard Belzer (born 1944), stand-up comedian, writer, and actor
• Lewis Black (born 1948), stand-up comedian and actor
• Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein, 1947–), stand-up comedian, director, screenwriter, actor
• James Caan (born 1940), film, stage, and TV actor (The Godfather)
• Nell Carter (1948–2003), singer and film, stage, and TV actress
• Peter Coyote (born Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon, 1941–), actor and author
• Billy Crystal (born 1948), actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director (When Harry Met Sally...)
• Larry David (born 1947), Emmy-winning writer, director, comedian, actor, producer, co-creator of Seinfeld, and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Richard Dreyfuss (born 1947), actor (The Goodbye Girl)
• Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, 1941–), singer-songwriter, author, musician, and poet, also appeared in several films
• Bob Einstein (born 1942), writer and comedian known as Super Dave
• Richard Elfman (born 1949), film director, writer, and actor
• Donald Fagen (born 1948), musician, singer-songwriter, cultural critic, author, columnist, writer, and co-founder of the famous jazz-rock duo Steely Dan
• Harrison Ford (born 1942), actor
• Bonnie Franklin (1944–2013), actress
• Art Garfunkel (born 1941), singer & songwriter
• Paul Michael Glaser (born 1943), actor (Starsky & Hutch)
• Scott Glenn (born 1941), actor
• Christopher Guest (born 1948), comedian, screenwriter, composer, musician, film director, actor, and Spinal Tap member
• Goldie Hawn (born 1945), film actress, director, and producer
• Dan Hedaya (born 1940), character actor
• Sandy Helberg (born 1949), actor
• Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948–), actress
• Ricky Jay (born Richard Jay Potash, 1948–), professional sleight-of-hand artist, actor, and author
• Madeline Kahn (1942–1999), actress of film, TV, and theater
• Gabe Kaplan (born 1945), actor, comedian, and professional poker player
• Andy Kaufman (1949–1984), comedian; devout Jewish parents
• Judy Kaye (born 1948), singer and actress
• Lainie Kazan (born Lanie Levine, 1940–), actress and singer
• Robert Klein (born 1942), stand-up comedian and occasional actor
• Kevin Kline (born 1947), stage and film actor
• Richard Kline (born 1944), actor and TV director
• Sherry Lansing (born 1944), former CEO of Paramount Studios and actress
• Michael Lembeck (born 1948), actor and director
• Richard Lewis (born 1947), comedian and actor
• Judith Light (born 1949), actress (Who's the Boss?)
• Peggy Lipton (born 1947), TV actress and socialite (The Mod Squad)
• Stephen Macht (born 1942), actor
• Richard Masur (born 1948), actor
• Bette Midler (born 1945), singer, actress, and comedian, also known as The Divine Miss M
• David Proval (born 1942), actor (The Sopranos)
• Gilda Radner (1946–1989), comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live)
• Harold Ramis (1944–2014), director, actor, writer, and producer
• Lou Reed (1942-2013), musician, singer, and songwriter
• Rob Reiner (born 1947), actor, director, producer, writer
• Peter Riegert (born 1947), film/TV actor
• Garry Shandling (born 1949), comedian and actor
• Wallace Shawn (born 1943), actor and writer
• Harry Shearer (born 1943), actor, comedian, writer, and radio host
• Paul Simon (born 1941), singer, songwriter
• Brent Spiner (born 1949), actor (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Barbra Streisand (born 1942), two-time Academy Award-winning singer and actress
• Jeffrey Tambor (born 1944), film/TV actor (Hellboy, Arrested Development)
• Jessica Walter (born 1941), film/TV actress (Arrested Development)
• Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949), American-born English actress
• Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946), stage, film, and TV actress
• Anson Williams (born Anson William Heimlick, 1949–), actor (Happy Days)
• Henry Winkler (born 1945), actor, director, producer, and author (Happy Days)
• Jill St. John (born 1940), actress

1930s

• Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, 1935–), film director, writer, actor, and stand-up comedian
• Alan Arkin (born 1934), film actor, director
• Barbara Barrie (born 1931), actress and author of children's books
• Richard Benjamin (born 1938), actor and film director
• Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen, 1937–), film/TV actress, editor, producer, and director
• Eddie Carmel (1936–1972), entertainer known as "The Jewish Giant"
• Jerry Douglas (born Gerald Rubenstein, 1932–), TV actress (The Young and the Restless)
• Elliott Gould (born Elliot Goldstein, 1938–), film/TV actor
• Charles Grodin (born 1935), actor and former cable talk show host
• Estelle Harris (born Estelle Nussbaum, 1928–), actress (Seinfeld)
• Judd Hirsch (born 1935), actor (Taxi, NUMB3RS)
• Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), two-time-Oscar-winning actor
• Tony Jay (1933–2006), English/American actor
• Harvey Keitel (born 1939), actor
• Walter Koenig (born 1936), actor, writer, teacher, and director (appeared in original Star Trek)
• Yaphet Kotto (born 1937), African-American actor (son of Cameroonian Crown Prince), (role in Alien)
• Martin Landau (born 1931), film/TV actor
• Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz, 1936–1991), actor, producer, and director
• Louise Lasser (born 1939), stage/film/TV actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)
• Piper Laurie (born Rosetta Jacobs, 1932–), actress
• Linda Lavin (born 1937), stage, film, and TV actress
• Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz, 1935–), singer and actor (The Carol Burnett Show)
• Shari Lewis (born Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz, 1933–1998), ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's TV show host
• Hal Linden (born Harold Lipshitz, 1931–), actor and TV director (Barney Miller)
• Tina Louise (born 1934), model, singer, and film/TV actress
• Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza, 1931–), stand-up comedian/actor
• Paul Mazursky (born 1930), film director and actor
• Barry Newman (born 1931), actor
• Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015), film director, actor; played Spock on Star Trek
• Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008), actress (The Bob Newhart Show)
• Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director
• Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky Sanger Rosenberg, 1933–2014), comedian, actress, talk show host
• George Segal (born 1934), film and stage actor
• William Shatner (born 1931), actor and writer, portrayed James T. Kirk on Star Trek.
• Susan Strasberg (1938–1999), actress (In Praise of Older Women)
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932—2011), Oscar-winning English/American film actress and sex symbol
• Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman, 1933–), actor and comedian

1920s

• Marty Allen (born 1922), stand-up comedian and actor
• Marilyn Tyler (born 1926), opera singer
• Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick, 1927–), singer and actor
• Beatrice Arthur (born Bernice Frankel, 1925–2009), actress
• Ed Asner (born 1929), actor
• Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske, 1924–2014), film and stage actress
• Julian Beck (1925–1985), actor, director, poet, and painter
• Shelley Berman (born 1926), comedian, writer, teacher, and actor
• Herschel Bernardi (1923–1986), film, Broadway, and TV actor
• Theodore Bikel (born 1924), character actor, folk singer, and musician
• Larry Blyden (1925–1975), actor
• Tom Bosley (1927–2010), film/TV actor (Happy Days)
• Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, 1926–), director, writer, actor, and stand-up comedian
• Lenny Bruce (born Leonard Schneider, 1925–1966), stand-up comedian, writer, social critic, satirist
• Susan Cabot (1927–1986), actress
• Sid Caesar (1922–2014), comic actor and writer
• Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman, 1926–), French-born actor, published author, and lecturer
• Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz, 1925–2010), film actor
• Rodney Dangerfield (born Jacob Cohen, 1921–2004), comedian and actor
• Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925–1990), (converted to Judaism) entertainer, member of the "Rat Pack"
• Peter Falk (1927–2011), actor
• Fyvush Finkel (born 1922), actor
• Eddie Fisher (1928–2010), singer and father of Carrie Fisher
• Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, 1927–), theater, film, and TV actress, and film director
• Buddy Hackett (born Leonard Hacker, 1924–2003), stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and producer
• Monty Hall (born Monte Halperin, 1921–), Canadian-born actor, singer, and sportscaster (Let's Make a Deal)
• Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne, 1928–1973), Lithuanian-born actor; British and American films
• Steven Hill (born Solomon Krakovsky, 1922–), film/TV actor
• Judy Holliday (born Judith Tuvim, 1921–1965), actress, singer
• Werner Klemperer (1920–2000), comedic actor
• Jack Klugman (1922-2012), actor
• Harvey Korman (1927–2008), actor
• Al Lewis (born Albert Meister, 1920–2006), actor (Grandpa Munster)
• Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch, 1926–), comedian, actor, and charity fund-raising telethons
• Bill Macy (born 1922), actor
• Ross Martin (born Martin Rosenblatt, 1920–1981), [Jewish family] Polish-born film/TV actor (Wild Wild West)
• Walter Matthau (1920–2000), actor
• Anne Meara (1929–2015), comedian and actress, partner and wife of Jerry Stiller
• Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), actress, singer, and model
• Vic Morrow (1929–1982), actor
• Charlotte Rae (born 1926), actress from The Facts of Life
• Tony Randall (born Arthur Leonard Rosenberg, 1920–2004), comic actor
• Carl Reiner (born 1922), actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedian
• Regina Resnik (born 1922), opera singer and actress
• Don Rickles (born 1926), stand-up comedian, actor; pioneer of insult comedy
• Fred Sadoff (1926–1994), actor in South Pacific
• Mort Sahl (born 1927), stand-up comedian and actor
• Rod Serling (1924–1975), screenwriter and actor (The Twilight Zone)
• Simone Signoret (1921–1985), Academy Award-winning French actress
• Jerry Stiller (born 1927), comedian and actor
• Mel Tormé (1925–1999), actor, musician, known as "The Velvet Fog", jazz singer and songwriter
• Abe Vigoda (born 1921), film/TV actor (The Godfather)^Vigoda
• Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift, 1920–2006), two-time Academy Award-winning actress

1910s

• Mason Adams (1919–2005), character actor
• Martin Balsam (1919–1996), actor; won an Academy Award for A Thousand Clowns
• John Banner (1910–1973), Austrian/American actor (Hogan's Heroes)
• Red Buttons (born Aaron Chwatt, 1919–2006), Academy Award-winning comedian and actor
• Lee J. Cobb (born Leo Jacob, 1911–1976), Academy Award-nominated film actor
• Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch, 1916), actor (Spartacus)
• John Garfield (born Jacob Garfinkle, 1913–1952), actor
• Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy, 1910–1999), Oscar-nominated film and theatre actress
• Kitty Carlisle Hart (born Catherine Conn, 1910–2007), singer, actress, and spokeswoman for the arts
• Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky, 1913–1987), film actor, singer and comedian
• Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler, 1914–2000), actress, invented early form of spread spectrum communications technology, a key to modern wireless communication
• Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, 1910–2005), character actor
• Zero Mostel (born Samuel Mostel, 1915–1977), stage and film actor
• Jan Murray (born Murray Janofsky, 1916–2006), stand-up comedian, actor
• Luise Rainer (1910–2014), German-born American two-time Academy Award-winning film actress
• Lillian Roth (born Lillian Rutstein, 1910–1980), singer and actress, noted performer on Broadway
• Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore, 1916–1994), singer and actress
• Sylvia Sidney (born Sophia Kosow, 1910–1999), film actress
• Phil Silvers (1911–1985), entertainer and comedy actor
• Harold J. Stone (born Harold Hochstein, 1913–2005), film/TV character actor
• Mike Wallace (born Myron Wallace, 1918–2012), journalist, briefly acted during the 1940s
• Eli Wallach (1915–2014), film, TV and stage actor
• Sam Wanamaker (1919–1993), actor and director
• Keenan Wynn (1916–1986), character actor

1900s

• Stella Adler (1901–1992), actress and acting teacher
• Jack Albertson (1907–1981), actor (Chico and the Man)
• Leon Askin (born Leon Aschkenasy, 1907–2005), Austrian American actor
• Milton Berle (born Milton Berlinger, 1908–2002), comedian and actor; pioneered vaudeville and stand-up comedy art forms
• Joe Besser (1907–1988), comedian (Three Stooges)
• Mel Blanc (1908–1989), voice actor and comedian, "The Man of a Thousand Voices", created voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Wile E. Coyote, Barney Rubble.
• Ben Blue (born Benjamin Bernstein, 1901–1975), Canadian American actor and comedian
• Howard Da Silva (born Howard Silverblatt, 1909–1986), film actor
• Melvyn Douglas (born Melvyn Hesselberg, 1901–1981), actor, won all three of the entertainment industry's highest awards (two Oscars, a Tony, and an Emmy)
• Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg, 1902–1975), comedian and actor (Three Stooges)
• Joseph Green (1900-1996) Polish-American film actor and director
• John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann, 1902–1988), actor; won an Academy Award for The Paper Chase
• Curly Howard (born Jerome Horwitz, 1903–1952), one of the Three Stooges
• Sam Levene (1905–1980), Russian/American stage and film actor
• Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein, 1904–1964), Austria-Hungary-born American stage and screen actor (M)
• Zeppo Marx (1901–1979), member of the Marx Brothers
• Sandy Meisner, (1905–1997), actor and acting coach; developed acting methodology known as the "Meisner Technique"
• Ritz Brothers (Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz, 1901–1965, 1904–1985, 1907–1986), Jewish comedy team
• Natalie Schafer (1900–1991), actress (Gilligan's Island)
• Lee Strasberg (born Israel Strassberg, 1901–1982), actor, director, and acting teacher in theater and film, who according to author Mel Gussow "revolutionized the art of acting"

1890s

• Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky, 1894–1974), comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, TV, and film actor
• Gertrude Berg (born Tilly Edelstein, 1899–1966), radio/TV actress
• Fanny Brice (born Fania Borach, 1891–1951), comedian, singer, and entertainer
• George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum, 1896–1996), comedian and actor
• Eddie Cantor (born Israel Iskowitz, 1892–1964), comedian, singer, actor, songwriter
• Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Krantz, 1899–1977), Austrian-born American silent film star, known as a "Latin lover" type
• Hermione Gingold (1897–1987), British-born actress
• Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz, 1897–1975), "leader" of the Three Stooges
• Shemp Howard (born Samuel Horwitz, 1895–1955), member of the Three Stooges
• Sam Jaffe (born Shalom Jaffe, 1891–1984), Academy Award-nominated film and stage actor
• Irving Kaufman (born Isidore Kaufman, 1890–1976), singer, recording artist, and vaudeville performer
• Francis Lederer (1899–2000), Czech-born American actor
• Philip Loeb (1892–1955), stage, film, and TV actor
• Paul Lukas (1895–1971), Hungarian American film actor
• Groucho Marx (born Julius Marx, 1890–1977), comedian, working both with his siblings, the Marx Brothers, and on his own
• Gummo Marx (born Milton Marx, 1893–1977), one of the Marx Brothers
• Paul Muni (born Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund, 1895–1967), Austrian-born American Academy Award and Tony Award-winning actor
• Carmel Myers (1899–1980), silent film actress
• Molly Picon (born Małka Opiekun, 1898–1992), actor of stage, screen, and TV
• Edward G. Robinson (born Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893–1973), stage and film actor
• Mae West (born Mary Jane West, 1893–1980), actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol

1880s

• Broncho Billy Anderson (born Maxwell Aronson, 1880–1971), actor, writer, director, and producer; first star of the Western film genre
• Theda Bara (born Theodosia Goodman, 1885–1955), silent film actress; the first screen "Vamp"
• Douglas Fairbanks (born Douglas Ullman, 1883–1939), actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his silent films
• Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson, 1886–1950), singer and actor
• Chico Marx (born Leonard Marx, 1887–1961), one of the Marx Brothers
• Harpo Marx (born Adolph Marx, 1888–1964), one of the Marx Brothers
• Sophie Tucker (born Sonya Kalish, 1884–1966), actress, singer, and comedian
• Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), Austrian-born American filmmaker and actor
• Louis Wolheim (1880–1931), character actor in silent films during the 1920s; also appeared on stage and in early sound films (All Quiet on the Western Front)
• Ed Wynn (born Isaiah Edwin Leopold, 1886–1966), comedian and actor

Pre–1880s

• Alla Nazimova (born Miriam Leventon, 1879–1945), theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer
• Boris Thomashefsky (1868–1939), Ukrainian-born American singer, actor, Yiddish theater icon
• Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (1855–1926), Russian-born American actor, Yiddish theater
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), actress, dancer, painter, and poet; converted to Judaism upon marrying the first of her four husbands

Actors (theater)

Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asterisk (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.

• Red Buttons (1919–2006), see "Actors" above
• Eddie Cantor (1892–1964), see "Actors" above
• Billy Crystal (born 1947), see "Actors" above
• Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), see "Actors" above
• Danny Kaye (1913–1987), see "Actors" above
• Miriam Shor (born 1971), actress
• Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), see "Actors" above
• Ed Wynn (1886–1966), comedian and actor

Comedians

• Dan Ahdoot, finalist Last Comic Standing, 2004
• Dave Attell (born 1965), stand-up comedian; host of Insomniac with Dave Attell
• Victor Borge (born Børge Rosenbaum, 1909–2000), humorist and concert pianist
• Andrew Ginsburg (born 1979), comedian, actor, and three-time champion bodybuilder
• Tom Lehrer (born 1928), satirist, musician
• Ritz Brothers (Al Ritz, Jimmy Ritz, Harry Ritz), see "Actors"
• Robert Schimmel (1950–2010), stand-up comedian; often X-rated and controversial

Dance

Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are winners of the Tony Award for Best Choreography.

• Paula Abdul, singer, songwriter, dancer, and choreographer.

Film/television directors

• J. J. Abrams (born 1966), screenwriter, director, film/TV producer
• Woody Allen (born 1935), Oscar-winning screenwriter, director and actor
• Eleanor Antin (born 1935) photographer, author, and artist working with video, film, performance, and drawing
• Judd Apatow (born 1968), screenwriter, director, film/TV producer
• Alan Arkin (born 1934), Academy Award-nominated film actor, director
• Darren Aronofsky (born 1969), film director, screenwriter and producer
• Ralph Bakshi (born 1938), film director and animator
• Noah Baumbach (born 1969), film screenwriter and director
• Henry Bean (born 1945)
• Richard Benjamin (born 1938), actor/film director
• Curtis Bernhardt (born 1899, Germany)
• Mike Binder (born 1958), director, writer and actor in film and TV
• Peter Bogdanovich (born 1939), film actor, writer and director
• Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• John Brahm (born 1893, Germany)
• Albert Brooks (born 1947), film actor, writer and director
• James L. Brooks (born 1940), TV and film writer, producer and director
• Mel Brooks (born 1926), writer, director and actor of film, TV and stage
• Richard Brooks (born 1912), film director and producer
• William Castle (born 1914), film director and producer
• Joel Coen (born 1954) and Ethan Coen (born 1957), Academy Award-winning film writers, directors, producers and editors
• David Cronenberg (born 1943), film writer and director
• George Cukor (born 1899), Academy Award-winning film director and producer
• Michael Curtiz (born 1886), Academy Award-winning film director
• Jules Dassin (born 1911), Once blacklisted writer and director of film
• Maya Deren (born 1917), Film writer, director and actress
• Cecil B. DeMille (born 1881), Academy Award-winning film director and producer
• Stanley Donen (born 1924), film producer and director
• Richard Donner (born 1930), film director, producer and sometimes actor
• Robert Downey Sr (born 1935), film writer and director
• Samuel Fuller (born 1911), film writer, director and actor
• Keith Gordon (born 1966), film actor, director and writer
• Lee Grant (born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal, 1927–), theater, film, and TV actress, and film director
• James Gray (born 1969), film writer and director
• Joseph Green (1900-1996) Polish-American film director and actor
• Bud Greenspan (born 1926), director of documentaries on sports
• Christopher Guest (born 1948), see "Actors" above
• Todd Haynes (born 1961), film writer and director
• Amy Heckerling (born 1954), film director
• Marshall Herskovitz (born 1952), film producer and director
• Arthur Hiller (born 1923), film director and producer
• Agnieszka Holland (born 1948 in Poland)
• Nicole Holofcener (born 1960), writer and director in film
• Henry Jaglom (born 1941), writer, director and actor in Independent film
• Andrew Jarecki (born 1960), film director and producer, musician, and entrepreneur; brother of Eugene Jarecki and half-brother of Nicholas Jarecki
• Eugene Jarecki (born 1964), film director, writer, and producer, and author; brother of Andrew Jarecki and half-brother of Nicholas Jarecki
• Miranda July (born Miranda Jennifer Grossinger, 1974) Jewish father
• Jeremy Paul Kagan (born 1945), film writer and director
• Jake Kasdan (born 1975), film writer and director
• Lawrence Kasdan (born 1949), film writer and director
• Jeffrey Katzenberg (born 1950), film producer, director and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG
• Philip Kaufman (born 1936) film director and screenwriter
• Henry Koster (born 1905), film director
• Stanley Kramer (born 1913), director
• Stanley Kubrick (born 1928)
• John Landis (born 1950), movie actor, director, writer, and producer
• Fritz Lang (born 1890, Austria, mother born Jewish)
• Norman Lear (born 1923) film and television director.
• Mervyn LeRoy (born 1900), film director
• Barry Levinson (born 1942), producer, writer and director of film and TV
• Shawn Levy (born 1967), film producer and director
• Albert Lewin (born 1894), film writer, producer and director
• Jerry Lewis (born 1925), film actor, writer and director
• Doug Liman (born 1965), film and TV producer and director
• Lynne Littman (born June 26, 1941) film and television director and producer
• Ernst Lubitsch (born 1894), film director originally from Germany
• Michael Lucas (born 1972, USSR)
• Sidney Lumet (born 1924), film writer, producer and director
• David Mamet (born 1947), writer and director of stage and screen
• Michael Mann (born 1943), film director, screenwriter, producer
• Elaine May (born 1932), film, TV and stage writer, director and actress
• Paul Mazursky (born 1930), see "Actors" above
• Lewis Milestone (born 1895), film director and producer
• John Milius (born 1944)
• Meredith Monk (born 1942) composer, performer, theater director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer
• Errol Morris (born 1948), documentary filmmaker
• Mike Nichols (born 1931), Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning film and stage director
• Leonard Nimoy, film director, actor, writer, singer, songwriter, poet, and photographer
• Ken Olin (born 1954), see "Actors" above
• Marcel Ophüls (born 1927), documentary filmmaker, son of Max Ophüls
• Max Ophüls (born 1902 in Germany), father of Marcel Ophüls
• Frank Oz (born 1944), writer, actor and director of film and TV
• Alan J. Pakula (born 1928), film director and producer
• Larry Peerce (born 1930), film writer and director
• Arthur Penn (born 1922), film director and producer
• Sydney Pollack (born 1934), film producer, director, actor and writer
• Abraham Polonsky (born 1910), film writer and director
• Otto Preminger (born 1906), film producer, director and actor
• Bob Rafelson (born 1933), film writer-director
• Irving Rapper (born 1888), British-born film director
• Brett Ratner (born 1969)
• Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director
• Jay Roach (born 1957), film director, producer and screenwriter, converted to Judaism
• Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer
• Julian Schnabel (born 1951)
• Steve Sekely (1899-1979) Hungarian-born film director
• George Sidney (1916–2002), film director, known for MGM films
• Joan Micklin Silver (born 1935)
• Bryan Singer (born 1965)
• Curt Siodmak (born 1902)
• Robert Siodmak (born 1902)
• Barry Sonnenfeld, director
• Steven Spielberg (born 1946)
• Edgar Ulmer (born 1904, Austria-Hungary)
• Josef von Sternberg (born 1894, Austria)
• Erich von Stroheim (born 1885, Austria)
• Robin Washington (born 1956)
• Claudia Weill (born 1947) film and theater director, educator, cinematographer
• Billy Wilder (born 1906)
• William Wyler (born 1902, Germany)
• Fred Zinnemann (born 1907, Austria) )
• David Zucker & Jerry Zucker (born 1950), parody directors, producers

Models

• Yael Markovich, Israeli/American model/beauty queen
• Brooke Burke, TV personality and model
• Lindsey Vuolo, model/Playboy Playmate

TV and radio presenters

• Mary Hart (born 1950), see "Actors" above
• Daryn Kagan (born 1963), host of CNN Live Today
• Al Michaels
• Amy Wynn Pastor (born 1976), carpenter on Trading Spaces
• Joan Rivers (1933–2014), talk show host, stage actress/writer, comedian, and celebrity
• Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), journalist covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for National Public Radio
• Jerry Springer (born 1944), host of The Jerry Springer Show
• Mike Wallace (1918–2012), journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent
• Barbara Walters (born 1929), media personality, regular fixture on morning TV shows (Today and The View), evening news magazines (20/20), and on The ABC Evening News, as the first female evening news anchor

Producers and directors (theater)

Persons listed with a double asterisk (**) are producers who have won the Tony Award for Best Musical and/or the Tony Award for Best Play. Those listed with a triple asterisk (***) have won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and/or Play. Those listed with a quadruple asterisk (****) have won the Tony Award for Best Actor or Best Actress in a Musical or Play.

• Herb Alpert, producer, and composer, songwriter, lead singer, and horn player with Tijuana Brass
• Boris Aronson, set designer, costume designer and lighting designer
• George Axelrod, producer & director
• Julian Beck and Judith Malina, founders of Living Theatre
• David Belasco, producer & director
• Michael Bennett, director & producer, choreographer, dancer **
• Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), opera impresario, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972
• Robert Brustein, producer, writer, director, critic, educator
• Abe Burrows, director ***
• Joseph Chaikin & Peter Feldman, founders of Open Theatre
• Paddy Chayefsky, director
• Heinrich Conried, theatre owner/operator & producer
• Norman Corwin, director
• Clive Davis, producer
• Cy Feuer, producer, director & theatre owner/operator **
• Ron Field, director ***
• David Geffen, producer **
• Leonard Goldberg, producer
• Arthur Hammerstein, producer & director (uncle of Oscar Hammerstein II)
• Oscar Hammerstein I, producer & theater director/operator (grandfather of Oscar Hammerstein II)
• Oscar Hammerstein II, producer & director
• Ben Hecht, idiosyncratic screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Known as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood".
• Sidney Howard, producer & director
• George Jessel, see "Actors (Theater)" above
• Robert Kalfin, producer, director, writer **
• Mickey Katz, see "Actors (Theater)" above
• George S. Kaufman, producer, director, and theater owner/operator
• Michael Kidd, director and producer
• Alan King, see "Actors (Theater)" above
• James Lapine, director & librettist
• Norman Lear, creator, head screenwriter, and producer of taboo breaking sitcom All in the Family, which was a big influence on South Park; also created Maude and The Jeffersons
• Ernest Lehman, producer
• Sam Levene, see "Actors (Theater)" above
• Lucille Lortel, Off-Broadway producer, Lucille Lortel Theatre named after her
• Sanford Meisner, founder of Neighbourhood Playhouse
• David Merrick, producer & director **
• Lorne Michaels, comedian, writer, director, producer, the sole creator, writer, director and producer of Saturday Night Live; also produced film and TV projects that spun off from it
• Arthur Miller, playwright
• Mitch Miller, producer
• Isaac Mizrahi (born 1961), fashion designer
• Mike Nichols (born 1931), Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning film and stage director
• Joseph Papp a.k.a. Joe Papp, founded the non-profit NYC Public Theater **
• Marc Platt, producer
• Harold Prince, director **, ***
• Elmer Rice, director & producer
• Jerome Robbins, producer & director ***
• Billy Rose, director, producer, and theater operator
• Morrie Ryskind, director
• Rebecca Schull, actress
• Shubert family, producers & theater owners **
• Anna Sokolow, director
• Steven Spielberg, film director, producer,
• Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, co-founders of Group Theatre
• Julie Taymor, director ***
• Bob Weinstein, producer, screenwriter
• Harvey Weinstein, producer
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr., see "Actors (Theater)" above
• David Zippel, director

Circus

• Abe Goldstein, was regarded as "the Greatest Irish Cop Clown" in the business and worked for Ringling Bros. and other circuses
• Paul Binder, co-founder, ringmaster and artistic director of the Big Apple Circus

External links

• Jews in the American Media
• Jewish Celebrities

• http://www.whowhatwear.com/interview-sofia-black-delia-2015
• http://www.jweekly.com/includes/print/68996/article/celebrity-jews22/
• http://jewishworldreview.com/0613/jewz_newz060713.php3
• http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/73292/cele1128/
• http://ethnicelebs.com/timothee-chalamet
• http://jewishexponent.com/stars-david-week-4192012
• http://www.juf.org/tweens/celebrity.aspx?id=427935&source=module
• http://www.fanbolt.com/12505/thomas-mann-and-zoey-deutch-talk-southern-stereotypes-in-beautiful-creatures/
• http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/23901/breakthrough-jew-ansel-elgort/?PageSpeed=noscript
• http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/17783/top-20-under-40-los-angeles-zachary-gordon/?PageSpeed=noscript
• http://www.filmysphere.com/teohalm
• Mentioned he was Jewish at the premier of Keeping Up with the Steins in an interview on WireImage; May 8, 2006 – http://video.wireimage.com/mvMediaPlayer.asp?ItemI=8555865
• Miller, Geri. "Fall TV Preview: Carter Jenkins", American Jewish Life Magazine, September 4, 2007. Accessed August 5, 2011. "Tampa, Florida native Jenkins is best known for the sci-fi series Surface and movie Keeping Up With the Steins, which came along at the time he was moving to L.A. and supposed to be studying for his bar mitzvah. 'So I consider the move my bar mitzvah. I got to work with some good actors, but no gifts.'"
• http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2014/04/james-maslow-interview-dancing
• http://www.jewishjournal.com/the_ticket/item/gotham_star_talks_life_on_set_as_young_batman
• http://ethnicelebs.com/blake-michael
• https://mobile.twitter.com/ianmnelson95/status/584064758011142144
• http://www.juf.org/tweens/celebrity.aspx?id=412947
• https://twitter.com/RyankPotter/status/277565887509315584
• http://www.jewreview.net/article.php?id=1538
• http://www.teenagefilm.com/archives/teenage-film/ben-rosenfield-as-tommie-scheel/
• http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-11-20/features/sfe-sfp-odeya-rush_1_odeya-rush-cj-adams-film
• http://www.juf.org/tweens/celebrity.aspx?id=422886
• http://www.stljewishlight.com/features/article_94bc9ad4-2a8d-11e5-a343-539b04018a8f.html
• http://www.crescentcityjewishnews.com/michael-wolff-returns-to-nawlins-at-snug-harbor/
• Bynes mentioned that she is Jewish on Jimmy Kimmel Live! (March 7, 2006) and Rove Live (March 28, 2006)
• http://www.interfaithfamily.com/arts_and_entertainment/popular_culture/Interfaith_Celebrities_Oscar_Time_2009.shtml
• http://ca.eonline.com/news/532975/zac-efron-shows-his-beautiful-circumcised-penis-to-prove-he-s-jewish-watch-the-hilarious-clip
• http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/19322/breakthrough-jew-alden-ehrenreich/?PageSpeed=noscript
• http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/23273/dave-franco-and-conan-obrien-discuss-shalom-lifes-jilf-list-video/?PageSpeed=noscript
• http://digital.modernluxury.com/publication/?i=10052&p=80
• http://www.indielondon.co.uk/Film-Review/lions-for-lambs-andrew-garfield-interview
• http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/leisure/entertainment/film/features/3968226.Breaking_into_Hollywood/
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• https://mobile.twitter.com/JeremyMJordan/status/305793310092558337?p=v
• http://www.shalomlife.com/culture/15326/jonathan-keltz-and-his-canadian-prom/
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