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TV Personality

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A TV Personality (in this context, anyway) is anyone who makes (or who has made) regular appearances in non-action roles on a television show.  This includes hosts (game show, talk show, etc.), announcers, newscasters, etc.  This should... more

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Conan O'Brien Topic Late Night with Conan O'Brien Host
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy Award-winning American television host and comedian, best known as host of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien. In 2009, he is scheduled to replace Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show. O'Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Ruth (née Reardon), an attorney, and Thomas Francis O'Brien, a professor of medicine and physician, both of Irish descent. He later served as managing editor of...
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Andy Richter Topic Late Night with Conan O'Brien Sidekick
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American comedian and actor. He is perhaps best known for his former role as comedian Conan O'Brien's sidekick on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Richter, the second of four children, was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His mother, Glenda Swanson, was a designer of kitchen cabinets, and his father, Laurence R. Richter, taught Russian at Indiana University for over 32 years. Richter was raised in Yorkville, Illinois, where he was elected...
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Max Weinberg Max Weinberg on the set of Late Night with Conan O'Brien Topic Late Night with Conan O'Brien Bandleader
Maxwell Sachel Weinberg (born April 13 1951) is an American drummer and television personality. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. Weinberg rose to success as the drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, joining in 1974 after answering a newspaper ad that famously requested "no junior Ginger Baker" in reference to Baker's long drum solo reputation. Weinberg's consistent beat solved the E Street Band's drumming instabilities. He suffered an acknowledged "drumming slump" around 1980, as...
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Ron Howard Ron Howard Signature Collection DVD cover, featuring Ron Howard Topic Arrested Development Narrator
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an award-winning American actor and Academy Award-winning director and producer. Howard came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's TV son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show (credited as Ronny Howard), and later in the 1970s as Howard Cunningham's son and Arthur Fonzarelli's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). Since retiring from acting, he has directed several successful films including...
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Tory Belleci   Person MythBusters    
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Kari Byron Topic MythBusters  
Kari Elizabeth Byron (born December 18, 1974) is a San Francisco-based artist and television personality, best known for her featured role on the Discovery Channel show MythBusters. Byron graduated from Los Gatos High School and went on to study film and sculpture at San Francisco State University, graduating magna cum laude in May 1998 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film and Sculpture. Byron spent the following year backpacking—mostly in South Asia, including the Himalayas—and was also...
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Grant Imahara Grant Imahara Topic MythBusters  
Grant Imahara (born October 23, 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is an American electronics and radio control expert, best known for his work as a Build Team member on the American television show MythBusters. He is credited in many feature films as a model maker for the visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), where he worked for nine years. In particular, he is credited for his work in updating the fleet of aging R2-D2 robots for the Star Wars prequel trilogy. As an official...
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Jamie Hyneman Hyneman, Jamie (Flickr) Topic MythBusters Co-host
James Earl Hyneman (born September 25 1956), known as Jamie Hyneman, is an American visual effects expert, best known for being the co-host of the television series MythBusters. He is also the founder of M5 Industries, a special effects workshop where MythBusters is filmed. He is also known in the BattleBots circles for his robot entry, Blendo, which, for a time, was deemed too dangerous for entry into the competition. A distinctive part of his appearance is his dark beret and white lab shirt....
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Adam Savage Adam Savage Topic MythBusters Co-host
Adam John Savage (born July 15, 1967) is an American television co-host on the program MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. Born on July 15, 1967 in New York City, Savage was raised in Westchester County, New York. The son of a painter/animator/director, Savage was a child actor, voicing animated character that his father produced for Sesame Street. He played Mr. Whipple's stockboy "Jimmy" in a Charmin commercial and a drowning young man saved by a lifeguard in the 1985 Billy Joel music video...
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Bruce Lee BruceLeecard Topic Longstreet  
Bruce Lee (; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was an American-born martial artist, philosopher, instructor, martial arts actor and the founder of the Jeet Kune Do martial arts concept, widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the twentieth century and a cultural icon. He was the father of actor Brandon Lee and of actress Shannon Lee. Lee was born in San Francisco, California and raised in Hong Kong. His Hong Kong and Hollywood-produced film elevated the traditional Hong Kong...
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Stephen Fry Film director QI Game show host
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, writer, actor, humorist, novelist, poet, columnist, filmmaker, television personality and technophile. As one half of the Fry and Laurie double act with his comedy partner, Hugh Laurie, he has appeared in A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster. He is also famous for his roles in Blackadder and Wilde, and as the host of QI. In addition to writing for stage, screen, television and radio he has contributed columns and articles...
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Alan Davies Alan Davies, as seen in the Jonathan Creek TV series Topic QI Contestant
Alan Davies (born 6 March 1966) is an English comedian and actor best known for starring as Jonathan Creek on the popular TV mystery series of the same name. More recently he has been the permanent panellist on the TV quiz show QI. Davies was born in Chingford, England in 1966. His childhood years were spent in Chingford and Loughton. Following his mother's death when he was only six, Alan was raised by his accountant father. He also has an older brother and younger sister. Davies went to...
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Fenton Keogh   Topic    
Fenton Brian Keogh (born December 21, 1971) is an Australia celebrity chef and winner of Lifestyle FOOD's Great BBQ Challenge in January 2007. He and his wife Lisa are the owners of Fentons Cafe Restaurant located in Ipswich, Queensland & his son Jacob helps run the restaurant. His signature dish, Aussie Pav with Boozy Summer Fruits, was featured on the Australia Day special on the Today Show 26.01.07 (Nine Network). Though not prepared the traditional way in an oven, the pavlova was all done...
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Jeanne Moos   Topic    
Jeanne Moos is a national news correspondent for CNN. She is based at the network's studios in New York City. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Moos originally wanted to pursue a career in print journalism, but while attending Syracuse University (where she earned a bachelor's degree in public communication), she decided to go into the television business instead. In 1976, she landed her first major job in television at WPTZ in Plattsburgh, New York, as the station's first female...
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Deborah Knight   Topic    
Deborah Knight,born Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, is the female nightly TEN-10 television news anchor in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She also occasionally reads Ten Late News. She studied at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales where she earned a degree in journalism, graduating in 1993. During her studies she was a broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM. She began her career in the media working for the radio station Mix 106.5 in Sydney before...
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Ric Romero Publicity shot of Ric Romero from ABC 7 website Topic    
Ric Romero is the consumer reporter for KABC, a television station in the U.S. city of Los Angeles. Born in Los Angeles, Romero graduated from San José State University with a degree in Broadcasting and Business and a minor in Theatre Arts. He was a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines in the 1970s and a professional performer until he took a job at KNTV-TV in San Jose, California in 1977. His first on-camera job came in 1982 as the host of PM Magazine at KUTV in Salt Lake City, Utah. In...
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Tony Guida   Topic    
Tony Guida (born 1941) is a New York-based local television and radio personality. He is currently a news anchor for WCBS Newsradio 880 and a business correspondent for CBS News. Guida's career in New York began in 1970 at New York television station WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) as a reporter and later in 1971 as co-anchor of that station's former 7pm newscast. In 1972, Guida went to WNBC as a weekend co-anchor, later becoming Chief Political Reporter for the station. In 1981, Guida joined WCBS-TV...
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Fredricka Whitfield   Topic CNN Newsroom  
Fredricka Whitfield is a weekend anchor and newsroom reporter for CNN who anchors the weekend versions of CNN Newsroom. Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported many major stories, including the Elián González affair, the death of Ronald Reagan, and the devastating Asian tsunami which occurred in December 2004. Whitfield also reported from the Persian Gulf region during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Whitfield was the first anchor to break the news of Reagan's death in 2004. Prior to...
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Matt Gallant Matt Gallant was the host of The Planet's Funniest Animals Topic The Planet's Funniest Animals  
Matt Gallant (born June 25 1964) is an American television host. He is well-known as the former host of the Emmy Award-winning The Planet's Funniest Animals on Animal Planet. He has also served as a guest judge on various other television shows featuring animals and pets. Gallant played the role of a reporter in Good Burger (1997), co-hosted Xbox Live: Launch Party and Game On (2002), and hosted Simon Cowell's American Inventor in 2006. Matt Gallant is now featured on Direct TV's Help...
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Antonio Sánchez Antonio Sanchez ("Gangster") with models Taína (left) and Glerysbeth (right) Topic    
Antonio Sánchez (born in 1958) is a Puerto Rican radio and television personality, show host and producer. Very famous across Puerto Rico for his crass humor, he is also known for his nickname: El Gangster. Sánchez caught the radio bug during the late 70's CB Radio craze. His handle was "Tony Toyota". He began to be known in the early and middle 1980s as a radio show host in Mayagüez for radio station Cosmo 94. Back then, he was known as "Moondance". In 1987, he and friend Hector Marcano were...
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James Brown Topic    
James Brown (born February 25, 1951), commonly called "J.B.", is an American sports announcer known for being the host of the FOX network's NFL pregame show FOX NFL Sunday. Beginning with the 2006 NFL season, Brown hosted The NFL Today on CBS, and returned to play-by-play of CBS coverage of NCAA basketball, along with co-hosting the Saturday Early Show. Born in Bethesda, Maryland, Brown's involvement in sports began while playing basketball at DeMatha Catholic High School in nearby Hyattsville...
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Jane Pauley   Topic    
Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American television journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975. She is most known for her 13 year tenure on NBC's "Today" program and later 12 years of "Dateline NBC," and has acknowledged publicly her struggle with mental health and bipolar disorder. Pauley competed in debate and public speaking tournaments while enrolled at Warren Central High School in Indianapolis. Pauley graduated from Warren...
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Audrina Patridge   Topic    
Audrina Cathleen Patridge (born May 9 1985) is an American reality television participant, best known as one of the cast members, along with Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port, on the MTV reality show The Hills. Audrina Patridge was Lauren Conrad and Heidi Montag's first friend upon their 2005 arrival in Los Angeles. She lived in the same apartment complex as the girls. She briefly dated Shannon Leto, from the band 30 Seconds to Mars. She briefly dated Brian Drolet, a supporting cast...
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John Fugelsang   Topic    
John Fugelsang (b. September 3 1969, Long Island, New York) is an American actor, television personality and stand-up comedian, best known for his show Junk Male on VH1. He was also on America's Funniest Home Videos (usually as co-host) for four seasons from 1997 to 2000, and co-hosted John McEnroe's short-lived CNBC talk show in 2004. Fugelsang was the co-host of the 2006 World Series of Blackjack and the World Blackjack Tour on GSN. Fugelsang, along with Debra Wilson, currently co-hosts TV...
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John Johnson   Topic    
John Johnson is an American television news reporter. He had been a fixture in New York City television news for many years. He is best known for his long run at WABC, where he served as a rotating anchor of the 6 p.m. newscast in the aftermath of Roger Grimsby's firing (he had been working on Eyewitness News since the 1970s). In the 1990s he switched to reporting, and was one of WABC's original reporters at the O.J. Simpson murder trial in 1994. During that time, Johnson left WABC for WCBS,...
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Marcia Kramer Marcia Kramer on Kirtzman & Kramer on WCBS in June of 2006 Topic    
Marcia Kramer is currently a political reporter and anchor for WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City. She has for the past decade hosted the Sunday morning political show "Sunday Edition with Marcia Kramer". In 2006 the show became "Kirtzman & Kramer" where she co-hosts with Andrew Kirtzman. The show features interviews with reporters and politicians. She joined WCBS-TV in 1990 from the New York Daily News where she was the City Hall bureau chief. Kramer, MarciaKramer, MarciaKramer, MarciaKramer,...
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Tim Webster   Topic    
Tim Webster (born 15 December 1951) is an Australia television and radio personality. He currently works for Network Ten both as a news anchor on the Perth edition of Ten News at Five and the sports presenter on the Sydney edition of the program. He also occasionally fills in as a substitute news anchor on Ten's Late News as well as Sydney's 5pm bulletin and Sports Tonight. In 2008, Webster replaced Steve Price who moved to John Laws' former timeslot. Webster is currently presenting Afternoons ...
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Alan Connor   Topic    
Alan Connor (born Alan Hamilton February 4, 1974) is a British writer, journalist and television presenter. First seen on Channel 4's youth entertainment programme The Word in 1995, he later appeared on The Big Breakfast and BBC Radio Five Live. Currently, Connor is working as a BBC News correspondent, appearing on BBC News 24 and The Daily Politics. As well as his presenting work, he has written for The Guardian, BBC News Magazine and the BBC News website. In 2002, with Charlie Skelton, he...
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Jackie Warner   Topic    
Jackie Warner (b. August 17, 1968, in Fairborn, Ohio) is an American fitness trainer best known for her participation in the Bravo reality show Work Out. She owns Sky Sport and Spa, a gym and spa in Beverly Hills, California. Warner moved to California at the age of 18. She founded and co-owned a company in the cellular phone industry and by the age of 22, this company was the third top-grossing cellular phone company in Southern California. She has worked as a model, actor, and a script...
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Rolonda Watts Rolonda Watts Topic    
Rolonda Watts (born July 12, 1959 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an African-American actress and former television talk show host. She was the host of the eponymous Rolonda, a syndicated talk show which aired from 1995 to 1999. Currently, she announces the game show Temptation, which debuted in September 2007. She is also the announcer of the courtroom show Judge Joe Brown. Watts was born in a family of educators. Her mother, Velma Gibson Watts, was an associate dean at Wake Forest...
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