** Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer and TV pundit

He made two guest appearances on the comedy-drama TV series Ally McBeal, as his music was often featured on the show in dream sequences.

Besides his music career, Jon Bon Jovi started an acting career in the 90s, starring roles in several movies include Moonlight and Valentino and U-571 and also made appearances on TV Series include Sex and the City and Ally McBeal

His TV series appearances include Sex and the City, 30 Rock, Las Vegas, The West Wing, and an extended stint on Ally McBeal as a plumber who was Ally's boyfriend for a short period of time.

She has directed numerous episodes for many TV series including Everybody Hates Chris, 30 Rock, Ally McBeal, The Practice, Dawson's Creek -- to name just a few.

After being released from the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in 2000 for drug charges, Downey joined the cast of the TV series Ally McBeal playing Calista Flockhart's love interest.

Schneider played a variety of roles in the 2005 TV special Back to Norm, starring another former SNL player Norm Macdonald, and appeared on episodes of the popular TV shows Seinfeld and Ally McBeal.

He starred in many made-for-TV movies, including Gramps ( 1995 ), co-starring with Andy Griffith, Rob Hedden's The Colony ( 1995 ) with Hal Linden, Stephen King's It, Danielle Steel's Heartbeat with Polly Draper, and It Came From the Sky in 1999 with Yasmine Bleeth, and made guest appearances on TV shows, such as " Felicity ", Ally McBeal, Scrubs, Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as an episode of Law & Order: SVU where the case involves the beating of a seven-months-pregnant woman, whose unborn child has been torn from her body via a primitive cesarean section.

She attracted international attention when she joined the main cast of the Ally McBeal TV series in 1998, playing lawyer Nelle Porter.

In 1997, " Tell Him " was included on the soundtrack for the Julia Roberts / Cameron Diaz movie, " My Best Friend's Wedding ," and the same song began to be featured in episodes of the TV series, " Ally McBeal.

Some fans derided Ezri Dax as " Ally McTrill " ( in reference to the title character on Ally McBeal ), and one TV Guide reviewer took a cue from the fans.

* Dulcinea is referenced frequently in the TV series Ally McBeal.

* Save Ally Pally: campaign to maintain the charitable status of the palace and preserve its TV studios, organ and Victorian theatre for the public

Dame Edna's new-found success in America led to many media opportunities, including a semi-regular role in the hit TV series Ally McBeal.

He also appeared on several infomercials and acted in small roles, including on the TV show Ally McBeal, during that time.

* Sun television columnist Ally Ross uses a parody of Test Card F, replacing Carole Hersee with himself, the blackboard text always referencing an event from that weeks popular TV programmes.

In 1994 MacNicol had a prominent role as Alan Birch for the first season and less than half of the second season of Chicago Hope before departing to take on a role on the TV series Ally McBeal which was also created by David E. Kelley the same person who created Chicago Hope.

Starting in the late 1990s, he served as producer for shows such as Tracey Takes On and has directed shows such as Ally McBeal, Boston Public, Friends, ER and Shaun Cassidy's cult favorite science fiction TV show Invasion.

* The Protector ( TV series ), a 2011 TV series starring Ally Walker

She is best known for playing the title character in the Fox comedy-drama series Ally McBeal for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

In 1997 Flockhart was requested to audition for the starring role in David E. Kelley's Fox television series, Ally McBeal.

He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and has had minor roles in Saved by the Bell, Ally McBeal, McMillan & Wife, and various other series since the 1970s.

A week after his 2000 release, Downey joined the cast of the hit television series Ally McBeal, playing the new love interest of Calista Flockhart's title character.

He also appeared as a writer and singer on Vonda Shepard's Ally McBeal: For Once in My Life album, and he sang with Sting a duet of " Every Breath You Take " in an episode of the series.

Films and television series made in the mid-1990s ( Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Ally McBeal, for example ) show how common the mini had become again.

In series two, he is working for a Newcastle upon Tyne gangster, Ally Fraser, to whom he is in debt.

On the comedy-drama Ally McBeal, lawyer John Cage portrayed by series lead Peter MacNicol would utter the city's name to break an attack of random stuttering.

Portia Lee James DeGeneres ( born Amanda Lee Rogers ; 31 January 1973 ), known professionally as Portia de Rossi (), is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and Lindsay Fünke on the sitcom Arrested Development.

Fonda was also offered the lead role in the television series Ally McBeal ( later accepted by Calista Flockhart ), but turned it down to focus on her film career.

David E. Kelley, creator of the television series Ally McBeal, created a character, Malcolm Wyatt, for Groban in the season finale aired in May 2001.

Cruz's other acting credits include the films Joyride ( 1996 ), All Over Me ( 1997 ), Supernova ( 2000 ), Party Monster ( 2003 ), Coffee Date ( 2007 ) and Margaret Cho's " Bam Bam & Celeste ( 2008 ) He's Just Not That Into You ( 2009 ); the television film The Perfect Pitch ( 2002 ); and guest appearances on the series Great Scott !, Sister, Sister, ER, Ally McBeal, The West Wing, Noah's Arc, and Grey's Anatomy.

It is often compared to Ally McBeal, another series created by Kelley, which ended in May 2002.

Loving characters Ally, Alex, Angie, Buck, Frankie, Jacob, Steffi, Jocelyn, and Tess moved to New York City's SoHo District and began a new series, The City, which would run until March 1997.

The five students — Allison Reynolds ( Ally Sheedy ), Andrew Clark ( Emilio Estevez ), John Bender ( Judd Nelson ), Brian Johnson ( Anthony Michael Hall ), and Claire Standish ( Molly Ringwald )— who seem to have nothing in common at first, come together at the high school library, where they are harangued and ordered not to speak or move from their seats or sleep by the antagonistic assistant principal, Richard Vernon ( Paul Gleason ), supervising them.

* Sparks ( novel ), a book by Ally Kennen

Outstanding contributions from Player of the Season winners Ally McCoist ( 1991 – 92 ), Andy Goram ( 1992 – 93 ), Mark Hateley ( 1993 – 94 ), Brian Laudrup ( 1994 – 95 and 1996 – 97 ) and Paul Gascoigne ( 1995 – 96 ), were crucial to maintaining success.

* Jane Krakowski ( born 1968 ), actress, best known for her roles on Ally McBeal and 30 Rock.

* Calista Flockhart, ( born 1964 ), actress best known for her title role as Ally McBeal.

While the Fox network, the previous destination for teen television ( with shows such as Beverly Hills, 90210 and Parker Lewis Can't Lose ), began to court older audiences with shows such as Ally McBeal, The WB began to craft its identity with teen-targeted programs.

* Ally ( novel ), a 2007 science fiction novel by Karen Traviss

* John Cage ( character ), a fictional character in the television show Ally McBeal

Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Ally Fraser ( played by Bill Paterson ), after building up large debts to him.

The show lasted five seasons, seven Emmys ( one for Outstanding Comedy Series for its second season ), mostly positive reviews and a barrage of criticism for its portrayal of women, with many journalists saying that the character Ally was a giant step backwards.

Designed to be " The People ’ s Palace " and later nicknamed " Ally Pally " ( allegedly by Gracie Fields ), in 1936 it became the headquarters of the world's first regular public " high-definition " television service, operated by the BBC.