Theda Bara, att. 1906-08

(1885-1955) (aka Theodosia Goodman as a UC student)
Actress who originated the movie image of a "vamp." Made more than 40 films.

• "A Fool There Was There" (1915 silent film starring Bara, which initiated her nickname "the Vamp")
• "Cleopatra" (1917)
• "The Unchastened Woman" ('25)
• "The Siren's Song" ('19)
• "When Men Desire" ('19)
• "Salome" ('18)
• "The Tiger Woman" ('17)
• "The Vixen" ('16)
• "Romeo and Juliet" ('16)
• "The Devil's Daughter" ('15)

LINKS

• See her photos in the alumnae sweethearts section for Valentine's Day.
  

Albert Hague, CCM '42

(1920-2001)
Actor, as well as Tony-winning composer and lyricist.

• "The Story of Us" ('99, w/Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer; played Dr. Siegler)
• "Space Jam" ('96, Looney Toons movie with Michael Jordan; played the psychiatrist)

LINKS

• Read how he landed the Grinch job with Dr. Seuss.
• See his off-screen movie credit.
  
• See his TV credits.
• See his Broadway credits.
• See his bio on the musicians page.
• Photo gallery of the late Al Hague, from the website he created.
  

Jane Froman, att. CCM late ‘20s

(1907-80)
Popular singing star on radio, Ziegfield Follies performer, opera singer, night club headliner and TV guest star. During WWII, she was one of the first performers to volunteer to bring entertainment to the troops, but it nearly cost her life.

• “With a Song in My Heart” ('52, story about Froman's life, starring Susan Hayward; Froman provided the vocal tracks)
• “Kissing Time” (1933)
• “Stars Over Broadway” (1935)
• “Radio City Revels” (1938)

LINKS

• Read more about her life and career.
  
• See her TV credits.
• See her Broadway credits.
  
• See her vocalist credits.
• See her photos in the alumnae sweethearts section for Valentine's Day.
  
• Watch a vintage video of her on “What’s My Line?”

Lee Roy Reams, CCM '64, MA (CCM) '82, HonDoc '98

Actor, dancer, choreographer.

• "Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age" (due out in '14, feature film documentary, playing himself)
• "Carol Channing: Larger Than Life" ('12, feature film documentary, playing himself)
• "Sweet Charity" ('69, w/Shirley MacLaine)

LINKS

• Read "UC Magazine" story about Reams at the Muny.
• See his numerous Broadway credits.
• See his TV credits.
• See his heartthrob photos.
• See video of Lee Roy Reams in 1970 dancing on the "Anne Bancroft Special" on TV. He is the first gentleman with whom she dances.
• See his photos in the alumni heartthobs section for Valentine's Day.
  

Teddi Siddall, CCM '75

Actress. (Married to actor Gary Cole.)

• "Prizzi's Honor" ('85, playing Beulah)
  

LINK

• See her TV credits.

Sarah Jessica Parker, CCM Prep School

Actress. Won 19 awards, including an Emmy, four Golden Globes and three from the Screen Actors Guild. Was also nominated for 34 awards.

• "Married and Cheating" (romantic comedy starring Parker and Brendan Fraser, as of February 2014 is "in development")
• "Escape from Planet Earth" (2013, animated film, starring the voice of Brendan Fraiser, Parker doing the vice of Kira Supernova)
• "Lovelace" ('12, playing Gloria Steinem in movie with Sharon Stone)
• "I Don't Know How She Does It" ('11, comedy starring Parker as Kate Reddy; also appearing Pierce Brosnan and Kelsey Grammer)
• "Sex and the City 2" ('10)
• "Did You Hear About the Morgans?" ('09, w/Hugh Grant, playing the role of Meryl Morgan)
  
• "Sex and the City: The Movie" ('08)

• "Failure to Launch" ('06, w/Matthew McConaughey)
• "The Family Stone" ('05, w/Diane Keaton, Claire Danes, Luke Wilson)
• "The First Wives Club" ('96, w/Bette Midler, Maggie Smith, Goldie Hawn, Diana Keaton)
• "Mars Attacks!" ('96, w/Jack Nicholson & featuring bodyless head of Sarah Jessica Parker)
• "Ed Wood" ('94, Tim Burton movie w/Johnny Depp)
• "LA Story" ('91, w/Steve Martin)
• "Footloose" ('84, w/Kevin Bacon)

LINKS

• See Broadway credits.
• See TV credits.
• See her photos in the magazine's alumnae sweerhearts section for Valentine's Day.
  

Lisa Howard, CCM '97

Actress.

• "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2" ('12, with Howard playing the role of Siobhan)

LINKS

• See her Broadway credits.
• See her TV credit.
• See her website.

Aaron Lazar, MFA (CCM) '00

Actor.

• "The Wolf of Wall Street" ('13, a Martin Scorsese film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey)
• "J. Edgar" ('11, playing prosecutor Wilentz, Clint Eastwood film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio)
• "Company" ('11, playing Paul in show with Patti LuPone)
  

LINKS

• Visit his website and see a clip from "J. Edgar."
• See a list of his TV credits. 
  
• See a list of his Broadway credits. 
  
• See his heartthrob photos.
• Read Lazar's Q&A in Playbill.

Karen Olivo, CCM '97

Actress. Tony Award winner on Broadway.

• "Rise" (due out in ’14, playing Robot Mother)
• "Generation Um ..." ('12, playing Carrie Hines, starring Keanu Reeves)
  

LINKS

• Visit her website.
  
• See Broadway credits.
  
• See her TV credits.
• Watch Olivo perform a song from the Broadway show "In the Heights."

Nicole Callender, CCM '92

Stuntwoman.

• "Birdman" (’14, with Emma Stone, Michael Keaton and Edward Norton
• "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (’13, with Ben Stiller)
• "The Dark Night Rises" (’12, Batman sequel with Christian Bale)
• "Winter’s Tale" (’14, with Colin Farrell)
• "The Dictator" ('12, w/Sacha Baron Cohen)
• "New Year's Eve" ('11, w/Michelle Pfeiffer)
• "Tower Heist" ('11, w/Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy)
• "The Adjustment Bureau" ('11, w/Matt Damon)
• "The Next Three Days" ('10, w/Russell Crowe)
• "The Other Guys" ('10, w/Will Ferrell)
• "Salt" ('10, w/Angelina Jolie)
• "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" ('10, w/Nicolas Cage)
• "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" ('10, w/Michael Douglas)
• "Zombieland" ('09, w/Woody Harrelson, as a stunt zombie)
• "The Rebound" ('09, w/Catherine Zeta-Jones)
• "Confessions of a Shopaholic" ('09, w/Joan Cusack, John Goodman)
• "Precious" ('09, w/Mo'Nique, film won three Oscars, including one for Best Picture of the Year)
• "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (’08, starring Harrison Ford)
• "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" ('08, w/Adam Sandler)
• "I Am Legend" ('07, w/Will Smith)
• "Enchanted" ('07, Disney film)
• "American Gangster" ('07, w/Denzel Washington, Russell Crowe)
• "Spider-Man 3" ('07, w/Tobey Maguire)
• "Inside Man" ('06, w/Denzel Washington, Jodie Foster)
• "Freedomland" ('06, Samuel L. Jackson)
• "War of the Worlds" ('05, w/Tom Cruise)
• "Alfie" ('04, w/Jude Law)
• "Ladder 49" ('04, w/Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta)

LINKS

• See her TV credits.
• Video of her stunt work.

(Ray) Cooper Thornton, M (CCM) '92

Actor. Received CCM's 2007 Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award.

• “Gone Girl” (’14, appearing as a doctor, starring Ben Affleck, Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry; art direcgtion by Dawn Swiderski, CCM '89)
  
• “Killing Happy” (’14, starring Thornton who is also the writer and producer; a short, true story in which a mother tells her son to kill her dog before the family dinner, selected to show at seven film festivals, where it won four awards, featuring Diana Maria Riva, M CCM '95)
• “The Congress” (’13, animated with Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti and Harvey Keitel)
• "A Good Day to Die Hard" ('13, starring Bruce Willis, Thornton plays S2)
• "The Inside Experience” ('11, billed as “the first interactive social horror film experience"; Cooper played agent McArthur) See link below.
  
• "Changeling" ('08, plays a prison guard)
• "Zodiac" ('07, w/Robert Downey Jr. and Jake  Gyllenhall)
• "Fracture" ('07, w/Sir Anthony Hopkins)
• "Flightplan" ('05, w/Jodie Foster)
• "The House of Sand and Fog" ('03, w/Ben Kingsley)

LINKS

• Read more about "The Inside Experience," Hollywood’s first interactive social film.
• See his TV credits.
• Read the lengthy UC Magazine story on him from 2007.

Dorian Harewood, CCM '72

Actor. More than 170 TV and film credits in all.

• "Major Cupcake" ('11, playing Albert Peach in this comedy drama starring Judd Nelson)
• "Gothika" ('03, w/Halle Berry)
• "Space Jam" ('96, Warner Bros. animated feature, doing voice of Monstar Bupkus)
• "Full Metal Jacket" (Stanley Kubrick's '87 film, playing Private Eightball)
• "The Falcon and the Snowman" ('85, w/Sean Penn; Harewood plays Gene)
• "Against All Odds" ('84, w/Jeff Bridges; Harewood plays Tommy)

LINKS

• See TV credits.
• See his younger heartthrob photos.

Diana Maria Riva, MFA (CCM) ’95

(aka Deanna Uhlenbrock as a UC student)
Actress. Received CCM's 2005 Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award. 

• “McFarland USA” (due out February ’15, as Senora Diaz, starring Kevin Costner, Disney sports drama about a Hispanic high school track team ohm their way to be champions)
• “Killing Happy” (’14, as Annie, starring Copper Thornton, M CCM '92, who is also the writer and producer; a short, true story in which a mother tells her son to kill her dog before the family dinner, selected to show at seven film festivals, where it won four awards)
• “Love and Mercy” (due out Dec. 27, 2014; about the life of Brian Wilson of the BeachBoys, starring Paul Giamati, Luke Wilson, John Cusak, filmed in Australia)
• "Our Family Wedding Pact" ('10, plays Sonia Ramirez w/Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera)
• "17 Again" ('09, plays the judge in movie w/Matthew Perry, Zac Efron)
• “What Women Want” (’00, w/Mel Gibson)
• “The Third Wheel” (’02, w/Ben Affleck)

LINKS

• UC Magazine feature on Riva in 2007.
• Riva recalls dream-job offer.
• Riva talks about working on “The Good Guys.”
• See TV credits.

Dominic Bogart, CCM ’00

Actor. Received CCM's 2011 Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award. 

• “I Am Not A Hipster” (’12, Sundance Film Festival selection)

LINK: See his TV credits.

Mikhail Roberts, CCM '08

Actor. Artist. Also a musician with the LA-based hybrid hip-rock group 513 Elevators.

• "Saki" ('11, portraying Ben; also worked as an artist in the art department on the film)
• "A Better Place" ('11, as a guard)

LINKS

• See TV credits.
• See his musician credit for his band.

Philip Solomon, CCM ’93

Stunt performer. Received CCM's 2010 Julia Winter Cohen Career Excellence Award.

• "A Thousand Words" (‘09, w/ Eddie Murphy)
• "Rush Hour 3" (’07, principal stunt performer w/Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker)
• "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" ('99, as a fire-breathing stunt performer, with Mike Myers)
• "Being John Malkovich" ('99, hand artist for John Cusack)

LINKS

• See his musician credits. 
• See his movie credits off the screen.
• Read stories about Solomon and watch two videos.

Sara Gettelfinger, CCM ’99

Actress. Led a UC master class in '12 (see photo at left).

• "Sex and the City" ('08 movie, playing a flight attendant and starring Sarah Jessica Parker, CCM Prep)

LINKS

• See list of Broadway credits.
  
• See her TV credits.

Tyler Maynard, CCM '01

Award-winning actor. 

• "Dark Horse" ('11, playing Jiminy w/ Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow)
• "Red Doors" ('05, played Trent in this award-winning film)
• "Palindromes" ('04, playing Jiminy)

LINKS

• See his Broadway credits.
• See his TV credits.

Kim Criswell, CCM '79

Vocalist, recording artist, actress living in London. Her '92 London appearance in "Annie Get Your Gun" earned her a Laurence Olivier Award nomination as Best Actress in a Musical. In 1989, she received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance in "Side By Side By Sondheim" in Washington. Two of her albums earned Grammy nominations.

• "Hysteria" ('11 w/Maggie Gyllenhaal, playing Mrs. Castellari)
• "True Colors" ('91 w/John Cusack, playing a campus radical)

LINKS

• See her TV credits.  
  
• See her Broadway credits. 

Tory Ross, CCM '02

Actress.

• "Sex and the City 2" ('10, w/Sarah Jessica Parker, CCM prep)
  
• "The Producers" ('05, playing a misfit showgirl, w/Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick) 

LINKS

• Visit Ross' website.
• See her Broadway credits.
  
• See photos from Tory's career.
• See all of her TV credits.

Jason Matthew Smith, CCM ’96

Actor.

• "Star Trek" ('09, as "burly cadet," w/ Simon Pegg, Winona Ryder)

Jason Packham, CCM '95

Actor. 

• "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" ('09, plays "Comet," a robber)

LINK: See TV credit.

Daniel Wisler, CCM '04

Actor. (Wisler and Ashley Brown — of Broadway fame, CCM ’04 — were married in November 2011 in Pensacola, Fla.)

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (as an Army fighter pilot, '08, w/ Keanu Reeves)

LINK: See TV credits.

Julia Carpenter, CCM '95

Actress.

• "Surfer, Dude" ('08, starring Matthew McConaughey)

LINKS

• See her TV credit.
• Watch video clips on her website.

Justin Bohon, CCM '00

Award-winning Broadway actor.

• "The Good Shepherd" ('06, w/Robert De Niro, Angelina Jolie and Alec Baldwin)

LINKS

• See his Broadway credits.
• See his TV credit.

Jason Graae, CCM '80

An actor, singer and dancer whose career has spanned Broadway, opera, television and film.

• "Home on the Range" (’04, Disney film with Steve Buscemi; Graae doing the voice of Willie Brother #2)
• “Edge” (‘091, w/Jason Alexander; Graae playing Bradley Bryce)

LINKS

• Read the UC Magazine feature on Graae.
• See his TV credits. 
  
• See his Broadway credits.
• See his vocalist/opera credits.
• Visit his website.