78 Notable alumni of
SUNY at Purchase College
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SUNY at Purchase College is 612th in the world, 225th in North America, and 207th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 78 notable alumni from SUNY at Purchase College sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Stanley Tucci
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- In 1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in acting
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorvoice actorstage actoractor
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Stanley Tucci Jr. is an American actor and author. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles ranging from menacing to sophisticated. Tucci has earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award.
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Josh Hartnett
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- stage actorenvironmentalistfilm produceractortelevision actor
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Joshua Daniel Hartnett is an American actor. He began his career on ABC's drama series Cracker (1997–1998), after which he became known as a teen idol through starring parts in films such as Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, The Faculty (both 1998), The Virgin Suicides (1999), Pearl Harbor, O, Black Hawk Down (all 2001), and 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002).
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Wesley Snipes
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- film actortaekwondo athletetelevision actorstage actoractor
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Wesley Trent Snipes is an American actor. In a film career spanning more than thirty years, Snipes has appeared in a variety of genres, such as numerous thrillers, dramatic feature films, and comedies, though he is best known for his action films. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his work in The Waterdance (1992) and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in the film One Night Stand (1997).
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Constance Wu
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- film actortelevision actorfilm directoractor
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Constance Wu is an American actress. Wu's breakthrough came with the ABC sitcom Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020), which earned her four nominations at the Critics' Choice Television Awards. For leading the romantic comedy-drama film Crazy Rich Asians (2018), she became the fourth Asian to be nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.
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Ving Rhames
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- stage actoractortelevision actorcharacter actorfilm actor
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Irving Rameses Rhames is an American actor. He is best known for portraying IMF Agent Luther Stickell in the Mission: Impossible film series (1996–present) and crime boss Marsellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction (1994).
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Edie Falco
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Edith Falco is an American actress. A prominent figure in American television, she is known for her roles both on stage and screen and has received numerous accolades including four Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and five Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as a nomination for a Tony Award.
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Alexandra Hedison
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- screenwriterphotographerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Alexandra Hedison is an American photographer, director, and actress. She is married to actress and filmmaker Jodie Foster.
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Moby
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- composerfilm screenwriterfilm actorsingersongwriter
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Richard Melville Hall, known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
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Parker Posey
- Occupations
- character actormusicianfilm actormandolinisttelevision actor
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Parker Christian Posey is an American actress. She was labeled "Queen of the Indies" for her roles in a succession of independent films throughout the 1990s, such as Dazed and Confused (1993), Party Girl, The Doom Generation, Kicking and Screaming (all 1995), The Daytrippers (1996), The House of Yes, Clockwatchers (both 1997), and Henry Fool (1998). She is the recipient of nominations for an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Satellite Award, and two Independent Spirit Awards.
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Melissa Leo
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- film actorvoice actortelevision actoractor
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Melissa Chessington Leo is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and two Critics' Choice Awards.
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Shea Whigham
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Shea Whigham is an American actor best known for portraying Elias "Eli" Thompson in the drama series Boardwalk Empire. He also appeared in the first season of True Detective and the third season of Fargo and in numerous films, including Wristcutters: A Love Story, Take Shelter, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, Kong: Skull Island, First Man, Vice, Joker, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. He has appeared as Agent Michael Stasiak in Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6, and F9.
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Mitski
- Occupations
- singer
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Mitsuki Miyawaki, known professionally as Mitski, is an American singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush (2012), and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business (2013), while studying studio composition at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music. The albums were originally made as her senior project. Her third studio album, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, was released in 2014 on the label Double Double Whammy.
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Regina Spektor
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- singer-songwritercomposerguitaristlyricistfilm director
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Regina Ilyinichna Spektor is a Russian-born American singer, songwriter, and pianist.
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Jason Ralph
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- actortelevision actor
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Jason Ralph is an American actor and theater producer. Ralph began his career in theater, most notably performing in Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway and off-Broadway and producing The Woodsman. From 2015 to 2019, he starred as Quentin Coldwater in the Syfy television series The Magicians. He has also had recurring roles on shows including Aquarius and Younger.
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Kirk Acevedo
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Kirkland M. Acevedo is an American actor. He is primarily known for his work on television for the portrayals of Miguel Alvarez in the HBO series Oz, Joe Toye in Band of Brothers, and FBI Agent Charlie Francis in the science-fiction series Fringe. His best-known films are The Thin Red Line, Dinner Rush and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. He also portrayed the character of José Ramse on Syfy's 12 Monkeys (2015–2018), as well as comic book villain Ricardo Diaz / The Dragon on The CW's Arrow (2017–2019).
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David Graeber
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- writertrade unionistanthropologistcultural anthropologistuniversity teacher
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David Rolfe Graeber was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist. His influential work in economic anthropology, particularly his books Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2011), Bullshit Jobs (2018), and The Dawn of Everything (2021), and his leading role in the Occupy movement, earned him recognition as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
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Seth Gilliam
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Seth Gilliam is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayals of Ellis Carver on The Wire, Clayton Hughes on Oz, Dr. Alan Deaton on Teen Wolf, and Father Gabriel Stokes on The Walking Dead.
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Rochelle Aytes
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- actorfilm actormodeltelevision actorvoice actor
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Rochelle Aytes is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as April Malloy on ABC drama series Mistresses (2013–16) and as the voice of Rochelle in the critically acclaimed video game Left 4 Dead 2 (2009). Aytes also starred in the auto-biography story film of TLC titled CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story as Perri "Pebbles" Reid, short-lived series Drive and The Forgotten (2009–10), as well as Criminal Minds and Work It. In film, Aytes has appeared in White Chicks, Madea's Family Reunion and Trick 'r Treat. Aytes also had a recurring role as Agent Greer, an ex-CIA officer, on the CBS television series Hawaii Five-0. Since 2019, Aytes has played Nichelle Carmichael in the CBS action series S.W.A.T..
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Amanda Seales
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- authorpoetmedia personalityrapperactivist
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Amanda Ingrid Seales, formerly known by the stage name Amanda Diva, is an American actress. From 2017 to 2021, she starred in the HBO comedy series Insecure. In 2019, HBO released her first stand-up comedy special I Be Knowin. Then, in 2020, Seales launched Smart Funny & Black, a comedy gameshow that showcases Black culture, history, and experience. Seales was also one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show, The Real.
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Steven Weber
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- voice actorscreenwritertelevision directorfilm actorstage actor
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Steven Robert Weber is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Brian Hackett on the television series Wings, voicing Charlie B. Barkin in All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series, and portraying Jack Torrance in the TV miniseries adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. He had a recurring role on iZombie as Vaughn du Clark. He played Mayor Douglas Hamilton on NCIS: New Orleans in a recurring role and starred as Sergeant First Class Dennis Worcester in Hamburger Hill (1987).
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David Herman
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- film score composervoice actortelevision actorcomedian
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David Herman is an American actor and comedian. He was an original cast member on MADtv from 1995 to 1997, and played Michael Bolton in Office Space.
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Janel Moloney
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Janel Moloney is an American actress, best known for her role as Donna Moss on the television series The West Wing, a role for which she received nominations for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2002 and 2004. From 2014 to 2017, she starred on the HBO drama The Leftovers.
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Susie Essman
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- television writervoice actorfilm screenwriterfilm actorcomedian
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Susan Essman is an American actress, comedian, producer and writer. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bobbi Wexler on Broad City, and the voice of Mittens in Bolt.
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Jay O. Sanders
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- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
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Jay Olcutt Sanders is an American film, theatre and television actor and playwright. He frequently appears in plays off-Broadway at The Public Theatre. He has received a Drama Desk Award and a New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.
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Malcolm Goodwin
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- television producertelevision directorfilm producerfilm actorfilm director
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Malcolm Goodwin is an American actor, known for his role as Clive Babineaux in The CW supernatural comedy-drama series iZombie (2015-2019).
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Mel Rodriguez
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Melvin Dimas Rodríguez is an American actor and comedian, best known for starring as Nurse Patsy de la Serda on the HBO comedy Getting On, as Todd Rodriguez on the Fox comedy The Last Man on Earth, and as Ernie Gomes on the Showtime drama On Becoming a God in Central Florida. Other notable works include recurring as Marco Pasternak on AMC's Better Call Saul and co-starring on the short-lived Fox sitcoms Running Wilde and Enlisted. In 2021, Rodriguez appeared in the crime television series CSI: Vegas.
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Terry Serpico
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- film actorstunt performertelevision actoractor
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Terry Serpico is an American film and television actor.
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Jonathan Cahn
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- religious writerpastor
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Jonathan David Cahn is an American Messianic Jewish Rabbi, author, and novelist known for his debut novel The Harbinger. He is the founder and leader of the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey.
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Mizuo Peck
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm actortelevision actor
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Mizuo Peck is an American actress. She is best known for playing Sacagawea in the Night at the Museum film series.
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Chris Wedge
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directordirectoractoranimator
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John Christian Wedge is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for co-founding of the defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, including directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards for winning Bunny and nominating Ice Age. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise.
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Bill Sage
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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William "Bill" Sage III is an American actor. He is known for his collaborations with director Hal Hartley. Sage has appeared in more than 90 movies, most notable American Psycho (2000), We Are What We Are (2013), Every Secret Thing (2014), and Wrong Turn (2021).
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Mike Maronna
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- actorfilm actorcinematographertelevision actorpodcaster
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Michael C. Maronna is an American actor, who has appeared in several television programs and films. He is best known for his roles as "Big Pete" Wrigley on the television series The Adventures of Pete & Pete and as Jeff McCallister in the movie Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).
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Hal Hartley
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- directorscreenwritertheatrical directorcomposerfilm producer
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Hal Hartley is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and composer who became a key figure in the American independent film movement of the 1980s and '90s. His films include The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), Simple Men (1992), Amateur (1994) and Henry Fool (1997), which are notable for deadpan humour and offbeat characters quoting philosophical dialogue. Hartley frequently scores his own films, sometimes under the pseudonym Ned Rifle, and his soundtracks regularly feature music by Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and PJ Harvey.
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Gregory Crewdson
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- photographeruniversity teacher
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Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who makes large-scale, cinematic, psychologically charged prints of staged scenes set in suburban landscapes and interiors. He directs a large production and lighting crew to construct his images.
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Dan Deacon
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- composermusician
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Daniel Deacon is an American composer and electronic musician based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Thorgy Thor
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- violinistdrag queen
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Thorgy Thor is the stage name of Shane Thor Galligan, an American drag queen and musician who came to international attention on the eighth season of RuPaul's Drag Race and on the third season of All Stars.
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Jamil Walker Smith
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- actorfilm actordub actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Jamil Walker Smith is an American actor, director, producer and writer. His best known role is as the voice of Gerald, a fourth grader and Arnold's best friend in the Nickelodeon animated TV series Hey Arnold!. He also appeared on several shows like Sister, Sister; Girlfriends; Bones; The X-Files; and The Bernie Mac Show. He is an actor by trade and writes, acts and directs his own short film projects. He played Master Sergeant Ronald Greer in both seasons of Stargate Universe.
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Jessica Valenti
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- 1996-2000 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in English and journalism
- Occupations
- editing staffopinion journalistwriterjournalistblogger
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Jessica Valenti is an American feminist writer. She was the co-founder of the blog Feministing, which she wrote for from 2004 to 2011. Valenti is the author of six books: Full Frontal Feminism (2007), He's a Stud, She's a Slut (2008), The Purity Myth (2009), Why Have Kids? (2012), Sex Object: A Memoir (2016), and Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win (2024). She also co-edited the books Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape (2008), Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the World (2020). Between 2014 and 2018, Valenti was a columnist for The Guardian. She currently runs the Abortion, Every Day newsletter on Substack. The Washington Post described her as "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation".
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Langhorne Slim
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- musicianguitarist
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Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter. He attended high school at Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system.
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Jeffrey Lewis
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- musiciansinger-songwritercomics artistsinger
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Jeffrey Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and comic book artist.
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Adetokumboh M'Cormack
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- film directoractortelevision actor
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Frederick Adetokumboh M'Cormack, sometimes credited as Ade McCormack, Frederick McCormack, or Adetokumoh McCormack, is a Sierra Leonean-born American actor, known for his roles in the television series Lost and Heroes.
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Philip Anthony-Rodriguez
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- actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Philip Anthony-Rodriguez is an American actor known for his roles on Jake 2.0 as Kyle Duarte, the voice of disc jockey Maurice Chavez in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and as Jetstream Sam in the 2013 video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
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Nomi Prins
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- businesspersonjournalistwriter
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Nomi Prins is an American economist, author, journalist, and public speaker who writes about Wall Street and the US economy.
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Todd Graff
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- screenwriterfilm directorstage actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Todd Graff is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing the musical comedy films Camp (2003), for which he was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Bandslam (2009), and Joyful Noise (2012). Graff is also known for his supporting roles in the science fiction films The Abyss (1989) and Strange Days (1995), as well as the black comedy crime film Death to Smoochy (2002).
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Danny Leiner
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision directorfilm producer
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Daniel Leiner was an American film and television director. He was best known for directing the stoner comedy films Dude, Where's My Car? and Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle.
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Mal Blum
- Years
- 1988-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- songwriter
- Biography
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Mal Blum is an American songwriter, musician, writer and performer from New York. Blum has released six full-length albums, most recently Pity Boy in 2019.
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Görel Crona
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- screenwriterfilm directoractor
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Görel Elisabeth Crona is a Swedish film director, actress and singer/songwriter. She had her first role in the Sveriges Television series Varuhuset.
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Imani Coppola
- Occupations
- musicianrapperviolinistsinger
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Imani Francesca Coppola is an American singer-songwriter and violinist. Her debut single "Legend of a Cowgirl" reached the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart in 1997. Her debut album, Chupacabra, released by Columbia Records, was praised by critics and appeared on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2001, Coppola appeared as a guest artist on the Baha Men single "You All Dat", which broke the top 10 in Australia and gave Coppola her second entry on the Billboard Hot 100 to date.
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Jenny Owen Youngs
- Occupations
- podcastercomposersinger-songwritersinger
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Jenny Owen Youngs is an American singer-songwriter. She has released four albums and a handful of EPs both independently and via Nettwerk Records, and has toured worldwide. Youngs is also a songwriting collaborator whose cuts include the 2018 Panic! at the Disco single "High Hopes," as well as songs with Brett Dennen, Ingrid Michaelson, Shungudzo, Pitbull, and others.
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Azazel Jacobs
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Azazel Jacobs is an American film director and screenwriter. He is the son of experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. His short films include Kirk and Kerry (1997) and Message Machine (2002), and his features include well reviewed The GoodTimesKid (2005), Momma's Man (2008), Terri (2011), The Lovers (2017), French Exit (2020), and His Three Daughters (2023).
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Bill Charlap
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- composerjazz musicianpianist
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William Morrison Charlap is an American jazz pianist and educator.
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Dwight Ewell
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Dwight Edward Ewell, also known as Mustafa Obafemi is an American actor known for his roles in films such as Chasing Amy, Amateur, Party Girl and The Guru.
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Anna Anthropy
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United States - Occupations
- journalisthistorianelectronic literature writerwritervideo game developer
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Anna Anthropy is an American video game designer, role-playing game designer, and interactive fiction author whose works include Mighty Jill Off and Dys4ia. She is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media.
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Donald Margulies
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- writerplaywright
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Donald Margulies is an American playwright and academic. In 2000, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play Dinner with Friends.
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Gabriel Garzon-Montano
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermulti-instrumentalist
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Gabriel Lorenzo Garzón-Montano is a Colombian-French-American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. After earning a spotlight by opening for Lenny Kravitz's European tour in 2014 and being sampled in the Drake song "Jungle" in 2015, part of a Grammy nominated and double platinum album, Garzón-Montano released his debut album, Jardín in 2017 through Stones Throw Records. Garzón-Montano has performed at major U.S. and international venues. His music style blends R&B, soul, funk, and as of 2020, urban-reggaeton.
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Carl Safina
- Occupations
- ecologistoceanographerbiologistwriterresearcher
- Biography
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Carl Safina is an American ecologist and author of books and other writings about the human relationship with the natural world. His books include Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace; Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel; Song for the Blue Ocean; Eye of the Albatross; The View From Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World; Alfie and Me; and others. He is the founding president of the Safina Center, and is inaugural holder of the Carl Safina Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity at Stony Brook University. Safina hosted the PBS series Saving the Ocean with Carl Safina.
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Brian Gaskill
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Brian Richard Gaskill is an American actor.
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Jenny O
- Occupations
- singer-songwritercomposer
- Biography
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Jennifer Ognibene, known by her stage name Jenny O., is an American singer-songwriter, based in Los Angeles, California.
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Victor Axelrod
- Occupations
- composermusicianrecord producer
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Victor Axelrod is an American musician, producer, and audio engineer from Brooklyn, New York. Since the mid-1990s, he has worked primarily in the genres of reggae, Afrobeat and soul, recording and producing under his own name and using the alias Ticklah.
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Katherine Bradford
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- painter
- Biography
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Katherine Bradford, née Houston, is an American artist based in New York City, known for figurative paintings, particularly of swimmers, that critics describe as simultaneously representational, abstract and metaphorical. She began her art career relatively late and has received her widest recognition in her seventies. Critic John Yau characterizes her work as independent of canon or genre dictates, open-ended in terms of process, and quirky in its humor and interior logic.
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John Treacy Egan
- Occupations
- stage actoractor
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John Treacy Egan is an American actor and singer known for starring in the Broadway productions of The Producers and The Little Mermaid.
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Michelle Beck
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- stage actorfilm directoractor
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Michelle Beck is an American actress based in New York City known for her performances in Shakespeare plays and other stage works. She has also appeared in film and television.
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Wooden Wand
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Wooden Wand is the stage name of singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth, who has recorded under his given name as well as the name WAND. The style of music recorded by Toth and his many incarnations has drawn on a variety of both conventional and experimental folk and rock influences, including psychedelic folk, freak folk and indie. Though he was a significant player in the New Weird America trend of the early to mid-2000s along with Devendra Banhart, Akron/Family, Joanna Newsom, and collaborators The Vanishing Voice, Toth has been difficult to pigeonhole in one genre; recent releases have been identified as acid folk, free jazz, outlaw country, and country-tinged rock. Toth has appeared on labels including Kill Rock Stars, Ecstatic Peace!, Rykodisc, and Young God.
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Edward W. Hardy
- Enrolled in SUNY at Purchase College
- Graduated with Bachelor of Music
- Occupations
- playwrightcomposeractorinstrumentalistviolinist
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Edward W. Hardy is an American composer, music director, violinist and violist. He is known as the composer, co-conceiver, music director, and violinist of the Off-Broadway show The Woodsman and is the owner of The Black Violin.
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Kaori Ito
- Occupations
- choreographerfilmmakerdancertheatrical directorcreator
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Kaori Ito (born 1979) is a Japanese dancer and choreographer who is active in France. She founded the dance company Hime.
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Adam Rafferty
- Occupations
- musicianjazz musician
- Biography
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Adam Rafferty is a guitarist and composer. He is known for his arrangements of pop songs by Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, and the Beatles and for the use of beatboxing while playing guitar.
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Dean Haspiel
- Occupations
- comics writercaricaturistillustrator
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Dean Edmund Haspiel is an American comic book artist, writer, and playwright. He is known for creating Billy Dogma, The Red Hook, and for his collaborations with writer Harvey Pekar on his American Splendor series as well as the graphic novel The Quitter, and for his collaborations with Jonathan Ames on The Alcoholic and HBO's Bored to Death. He has been nominated for numerous Eisner Awards, and won a 2010 Emmy Award for TV design work.
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Champian Fulton
- Occupations
- musicianpianistsinger
- Biography
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Champian Fulton is an American jazz singer and pianist.
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The Potash Twins
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Adeev and Ezra Potash professionally known as The Potash Twins are American identical twin musicians and television personalities from Omaha, Nebraska. The twins have hosted several TV shows on Food Network, Bravo TV and Travel Channel. They have performed with John Legend, Diplo, Snoop Dogg, Lil Baby, Jon Batiste, Robert Glasper, Major Lazer and Wynton Marsalis.
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Joel Rubin
- Occupations
- musician
- Biography
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Joel Rubin is an American clarinetist, klezmer musician, ethnomusicologist, and scholar of Jewish music. Since becoming involved in the klezmer revival in the late 1970s, he has been researching, teaching and performing klezmer music and related genres. He has been a member of, or performed with, such groups as Brave Old World, the Joel Rubin Ensemble, and Veretski Pass.
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Brian MacDevitt
- Occupations
- lighting designer
- Biography
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Brian MacDevitt is a lighting designer and educator. He has worked extensively on Broadway and Off Broadway, as well as touring, Regional theatre, and Industrial productions. He won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for his work on the 2002 Broadway revival of Into The Woods. He also won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Play three times and the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design in a Musical twice, most recently in 2024 for The Outsiders.
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Nicholas Benson
- Years
- 1964-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- designertypographerlithographer
- Biography
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Nicholas Waite "Nick" Benson is a third generation American stone carver, stone letterer and owner of The John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island. He was named a 2010 MacArthur Fellow.
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Jordan McLean
- Occupations
- composermusic educatorbandleaderuniversity teachertrumpeter
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Jordan McLean is a New York City-based composer, arranger, bandleader, trumpeter, producer and educator. McLean has been active in the professional music world since 1995.
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Nasreen Pervin Huq
- Occupations
- nutritionistactivist
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Nasreen Pervin Huq was a prominent women's activist and campaigner for women's rights and social justice. She died in an accident at her home in Dhaka, when she was crushed by a vehicle. The vehicle was driven by her chauffeur, who was picking her up to go to work as Director of the UK non-governmental organisation Action Aid. Though her death was ruled accidental, some think the driver was paid off by a foreign figure.
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Jeanne Darst
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jeanne Darst is an American author. She is a regular contributor to This American Life and has written for The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue. Her memoir, Fiction Ruined My Family, was published in October 2011 by Riverhead Books.
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Ingrid Calame
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- artistpainterdraftsperson
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Ingrid Calame is an American artist based in Los Angeles, known for her abstract, map-like paintings inspired by human detritus. Her works are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, as well as many private collections. Calame was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial.
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Jill Bargonetti
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- scientist
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Jill Bargonetti is an American professor at the City University of New York with dual appointments at Hunter College and The Graduate Center. Her research is focused on tumor suppressor protein p53 and its role as an oncogene when it is mutated in breast cancer.
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Mary Ruth Ray
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- musician
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Mary Ruth Ray was an internationally known classical musician who received critical acclaim throughout the United States, Europe and Russia.
