* 1983 – Aziz Ansari, Indian-American comedian and actor

* 1966 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor

* 1849 – Maurice Barrymore, Indian-American actor ( d. 1905 )

** Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor ( b. 1924 )

* May 3 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor

* Danny Bravo ( born 1948 ), Indian-American child actor

* Aziz Ansari, Indian-American stand-up comedian and actor

* Kal Penn as Kumar Patel, a second generation Indian-American whose family thinks that he will become a doctor like his father and brother.

He is one of two players of Indian-American descent to ever play in the NFL next to Sanjay Beach.

Zinta played the role of Naina Catherine Kapur, an insecure and angry young Indian-American woman who falls in love with a man who has a fatal heart disease.

Indian-American journalist Asra Nomani states that while India itself is a secular state, Muslims are politically, culturally and economically marginalized when compared to Hindus in India as a whole.

Finally, from 2009 until his death, Forstmann was known to be dating Padma Lakshmi, the 38 year old Indian-American host and judge of Top Chef.

In the Democratic Primary for Congress on September 14, 2010, Maloney defeated a well-funded opponent, Reshma Saujani, a 34-year-old Indian-American hedge fund lawyer, by a landslide, 62-percentage point margin, racking up more than 81 % of the vote to Saujani's 19 percent.

Concerts have included performances by popular contemporary musicians such as REM, folk musician Laura Marling as part of her ‘ church tour ’, as well as collegiate Indian-American music group Penn Masala.

An adaptation by the Magis Theatre Company featuring the music of Indian-American composer Rudresh Mahanthappa had its premiere at La MaMa E. T. C.

Under intense pressure, and with Immigration Act of 1917 preventing fresh immigration to strengthen the fledgling Indian-American community, many Indians left the United States, leaving only half their original American population, 2, 405, by 1940.

* Opendra Narayan, Indian-American AIDS researcher

* 1970 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, screenwriter, and producer

It was named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-American astrophysicist who predicted it in 1930.

* 1940 – S. R. S. Varadhan, Indian-American mathematician

* 1961 – Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

** Kalpana Chawla, Indian-American astronaut ( d. 2003 )

Kalpana Chawla ( July 1, 1961 – February 1, 2003 ) was an Indian-American astronaut who, was a mission specialist on the space shuttle Columbia.

Lahiri later wrote, " When I first started writing I was not conscious that my subject was the Indian-American experience.

Indian-American author Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies ( 1999 ), and went on to write a well-received novel, The Namesake ( 2003 ), which was shortly adapted to film in 2007.

* Clay Tandoori-Clay Tandori is an Indian-American V. I. L. E.

Lov Kumar Grover ( born 1961, Meerut ) is an Indian-American computer scientist.

According to the West Indian-American Day Carnival Association, over 3. 5 million people participate in the colorful parade each year.

* Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ( 1910 – 1995 ), British Indian-American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate in physics.

British-Indian actor Satya Bhabha will play the role of Saleem Sinai while other roles will be played by Shriya Saran, Seema Biswas, Shabana Azmi, Anupam Kher, Siddharth Narayan, Rahul Bose, Soha Ali Khan, Shahana Goswami and Darsheel Safary.

Although there are some teachers who will encourage the improvisation as technique in order to free the actor of limitations in rehearsal.

English-speaking media commentators and journalists will sometimes refer to celebrities as belonging to the A-List or state that a certain actor belongs to the B-List, the latter being a disparaging context.

High-end fashion designers and jewelry designers are likely to become celebrities but will not garner the same and equal importance in the entertainment sphere compared to a successful film or television actor or a widely known musician.

The actor, usually the original actor from the set, is shown the scene in question along with the original sound, following which he or she will attempt to recreate the performance as closely as possible.

Over the course of multiple re-takes the actor will repeatedly perform the lines while watching the scene, and the most suitable take will make it to the final version of the scene.

The film will star Daniel Craig in his third portrayal of Bond: he is the sixth actor to play Bond in the Eon series.

Especially in daytime serials and those that are screened each weekday, there is some rotation of both storyline and actors so any given storyline or actor will appear in some but usually not all of a week's worth of episodes.

The British award-winning actor Chiwetel Ejiofor will star as Solomon Northup.

Michael Fassbender, a German-Irish actor, will play Edwin Epps, the slave's last master, while the first master-planter and Baptist preacher William Ford-will be played by British Olivier-award winning actor Benedict Cumberbatch.

He argues that it is possible to distinguish the moral impulse of utilitarianism, which is “ to define the right as good consequences and to motivate people to achieve these ” from our ability to correctly apply rational principles which will among other things “ depend on the perceived facts of the case and on the particular moral actor ’ s mental equipment .” The fact that the latter is limited and can change doesn ’ t mean that the former has to be rejected.

It will be the first instance of an actor portraying Walt Disney in film.

* Standby ( theater ), an actor or performer who will appear in a particular role if the regular performer is not present

Hanks will be the first actor to portray Disney in film.

Producer Irving G. Thalberg was nevertheless enthusiastic about working with the actor, telling journalist Louella Parsons: " Spencer Tracy will become one of MGM's most valuable stars.

* Knowingly: the actor is practically certain that his conduct will lead to the result.

Lighting setup can be a slow and tedious process ; during this time the actor will often be somewhere else.

Stand-ins do not necessarily look like the actor, but they must have the same skin tone, hair colour, height and build as the actor so that the lighting in a scene will be set up correctly.

Drawbacks to the repertoire system are increased production costs as each show will need separate sets, props, costumes and actors, ( although sometimes an actor will be engaged to play in more than one production ).

Here the action is undertaken for what one might call reasons intrinsic to the actor: some ethical, aesthetic, religious or other motive, independent of whether it will lead to success.

Lucas originally envisioned an American actor for the role of Qui-Gon, but ultimately cast Liam Neeson, who is Northern Irish, because he considered Neeson to have great skills and presence, describing him as a " master actor, who the other actors will look up to, who has got the qualities of strength that the character demands.