Become an Actor in Michigan!
Think major movies and TV shows are only filmed in Hollywood, CA or New York city? Think again. Mainstream motion pictures and television shows are filmed
across the country and around the world. No matter where you live, your chance to appear in a movie or on TV is closer than you might think.
Filmed in Michigan
The following films and/or television shows have been filmed in whole or in part in Michigan.
8 Mile (2002)
American Pie 2 (2001)
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Crossover (2006)
Die Hard 2 (1990)
Evil Dead II (1987)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Independence Day (1996)
Killshot (2006)
Presumed Innocent (1990)
Road to Perdition (2002)
RoboCop (1987)
The Fugitive (1993)
The Island (2005)
The Untouchables (1987)
The Upside of Anger (2005)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
True Romance (1993)
U.S. Marshals (1998)
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Michigan Film Commission / Film Office
Michigan Film Office
702 W. Kalamazoo Street
P.O. Box 30739
Lansing, Michigan 48909
Tel: 517-373-0638
Tel: 800-477-3456
jlockwood@michigan.gov
www.michigan.gov/filmoffice
Major Cities in Michigan
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Warren
Flint
Sterling Heights
Lansing
Ann Arbor
Livonia
Dearborn
Westland
Notable Citizens / Famous Celebrities
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A list of notable people from the U.S. state of Michigan. Bolding indicates
places in Michigan.
Actors
Tim Allen, actor best known for his role in the sitcom Home Improvement and such
movie roles as Disney films, such as The Santa Clause and Toy Story (born in
Denver, Colorado, raised in Birmingham)
Gillian Anderson, actress best known for her role in TV's The X-Files (born in
Chicago, moved to Grand Rapids)
Curtis Armstrong, actor best known for his role of "Booger" in the Revenge of
the Nerds movie and its sequels (born in Detroit; raised in Berkley)
Robert Armstrong, remembered for uttering one of the screen's most famous exit
quotes, "'Twas beauty killed the beast," at the end of in the 1933 version of
King Kong (born in Saginaw)
Justin Bartha, actor known for his role in the film National Treasure (2004)
(born in West Bloomfield)
Kristen Bell, TV's Veronica Mars (born in Detroit)
Elizabeth Berkley, TV (Saved by the Bell) and movie actress (born in Farmington
Hills)
George Bickel, silent film actor (born in Saginaw)
Selma Blair, actress (born in Southfield)
Mary Boland, actress (born in Detroit)
Olivia Brown, actress (born in Livonia)
Ellen Burstyn, actress, winner and four-time nominee of Academy Award for Best
Actress, and a Tony Award winner (born in Detroit)
David Burtka, Broadway and TV actor (born in Livonia, raised in Canton)
Timothy Busfield, director and Emmy Award-winning actor, best known for as Danny
Concannon on the TV series The West Wing (born in East Lansing)
Bruce Campbell, actor, writer (born in Royal Oak; raised in Birmingham)
Larry Joe Campbell, actor best known for his role as "Andy" on the ABC sitcom
According to Jim (born in Cadillac)
Dave Coulier, actor best known for role in TV series Full House (born in
Detroit)
Wally Cox, TV and film actor (born in (Detroit)
Terry Crews, actor and former football player for the Green Bay Packers (born in
Flint, Michigan)
Jeff Daniels, actor, writer, filmmaker (born in Athens, Georgia, raised in
Michigan, long-time resident of Chelsea, Michigan)
Pam Dawber, actress based known as Mindy on ABC's Mork & Mindy (born in
Farmington Hills)
Dana Elcar, TV, film and stage actor (born in Ferndale])
Chad Everett, actor (born in South Bend, Indiana, raised in Dearborn)
Sherilyn Fenn, actress best known as Audrey Horne on the cult TV series Twin
Peaks and for her roles such films as Boxing Helena (born in Detroit)
Dann Florek, film and TV actor best known for his roles in L.A. Law and Law &
Order (born in Flat Rock)
Max Gail TV actor best known as Detective Wojciehowicz on Barney Miller (born in
Detroit)
David Alan Grier, comedian and actor (born in Detroit)
Stacy Haiduk, actress best-known for her role as Lana Lang on the Superboy
television series (born in Grand Rapids)
Julie Harris, actress and recipient of more Tony Award nominations (10) and wins
(5) than any other performer, Academy Award for Best Actress nominee for The
Member of the Wedding (born in Grosse Pointe Park)
Ernie Hudson, actor best known for his role in Ghostbusters (born in Benton
Harbor)
Tom Hulce -- actor, Academy Award for Best Actor nominee for Amadeus, Tony Award
nominee for A Few Good Men (born in Whitewater, Wisconsin, raised in Plymouth)
Kim Hunter -- actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress winner for A
Streetcar Named Desire (born in Detroit)
Betty Hutton, actress and singer (born in Battle Creek)
Brian d'Arcy James, Broadway actor and musician (born in [[[Saginaw]]])
Arte Johnson, actor and comedian best known as a cast member of Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In (born in Benton Harbor)
James Earl Jones, actor and Academy Award for Best Actor nominee for The Great
White Hope, and well known for his roles as the voice of Darth Vader in Star
Wars and as the voice of Mufasa in Disney's The Lion King (born in Mississippi,
raised in Dublin)
Ella Joyce, stage actress (born in Chicago, raised in Detroit)
Brian Kelly, actor best known as the father in the TV series Flipper (born in
Detroit)
Richard Kiel, actor best known for his role as Jaws in the James Bond movies The
Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker (born in Detroit)
Nancy Kovack, 1960's actress and wife of conductor Zubin Mehta (born in Flint)
Christine Lahti, Golden Globe and Emmy winning actress best known as Dr. Kate
Austin on Chicago Hope (born in Birmingham)
Piper Laurie, actress and two-time Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
nominee for Carrie and Children of a Lesser God (born in Detroit)
Matthew Lillard, actor (born in Lansing)
William Lucking, actor (born in Vicksburg)
Lee Majors, actor most noted as The Six Million Dollar Man (born in Wyandotte)
Chester Marcol, Former NFL placekicker for the Green Bay Packers
Dick Martin, comedian and cohost of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (born in Battle
Creek)
Tim McCoy, actor of Western films (born in Saginaw)
Tim Meadows, comedian, actor, Saturday Night Live cast member (born in Highland
Park)
Colleen Moore, silent movie era actress (born in Port Huron)
Harry Morgan, actor best known as Colonel Sherman T. Potter the TV series
M*A*S*H (born in Muskegon)
Michael Moriarty, Emmy Award-winning TV actor (born in Detroit)
Terry O'Quinn, television actor (born in Newberry)
George Peppard, film and TV actor (born in Detroit)
Susan May Pratt, actress (born in East Lansing)
Richard Quine, actor and director (born in Detroit)
Gilda Radner, comedian and cast member of Saturday Night Live (born in Detroit)
Ted Raimi, actor (born in Detroit)
Joyce Randolph, actress best known as "Trixie" on The Honeymooners (born in
Detroit)
Della Reese, actress and singer (born in Detroit)
Burt Reynolds, actor (born in Lansing)
Jason Robards, Sr., actor (born in Hillsdale)
George C. Scott, actor, director and producer (born in Wise, Virginia; raised in
Detroit)
Steven Seagal, actor (born in Lansing)
Tom Selleck, TV and film actor (born in Detroit)
Grant Show, actor (born in Detroit)
Douglas Sills. stage actor (born in Detroit; raised in Franklin)
Sinbad (David Adkins), actor / comedian
Nancy Skinner, radio personality and talk show host
Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter and producer
Tom Sizemore, film and TV actor (born in Detroit)
David Spade, actor and Saturday Night Live cast member (born in Birmingham)
Elaine Stritch, actress with four Tony Award nominations (born in Detroit)
William Talman, actor best known for his role as D.A. Hamilton Burger on the TV
series Perry Mason (born in Detroit)
Ray Teal, actor best known as the sheriff on Bonanza but played in 250 movies
and 90 television shows (born in Grand Rapids)
Danny Thomas, actor (born in Deerfield and moved to Detroit)
Marlo Thomas, actress (born in Detroit)
Lily Tomlin, actress and comedian, Tony Award winner for The Search for
Intelligent Signs of Life in the Universe, Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actress-nominee for Nashville and Saturday Night Live cast member (born in
Detroit)
Courtney B. Vance, actor best known as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver on
NBC's Law & Order (born in Detroit)
Harvey Vernon, best known for his role as Jasper DeWitt in the television series
Carter Country(born in Flint)]
Robert Wagner, film actor (born in Detroit)
David Wayne, actor best known for his roles in Adam's Rib, The Andromeda Strain
and as the "Mad Hatter' on the 1960's The Batman (TV series) (born in Traverse
City)
Tom Welling, actor best known as Clark Kent on the TV series Smallville (born in
Putnam Valley, New York, raised in Okemos)
Billy West, cartoon voice-over actor, best known as Stimpy in Ren and Stimpy
(born in Detroit)
Grace Lee Whitney, actress best known as Yeoman Janice Rand on Star Trek: The
Original Series (born in Ann Arbor)
Robin Williams, actor, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor winner for Good
Will Hunting (born in Chicago, raised in Bloomfield Hills)
Max Wright, actor best known as the father on ALF (born in Detroit)
Directors, Filmmakers, and Producers
Mike Binder, director, screenwriter and actor (born in Birmingham)
Kerry Conran, screenwriter and director (born in Flint)
Jerry Bruckheimer, movie and TV producer (born in Detroit)
Robert J. Flaherty, filmmaker best known his Nanook of the North the first
commercially successful documentary film (born in Iron Mountain)
Francis Ford Coppola, film director, screen writer, publisher and vintner,
three-time Academy Award winner for Best Picture, first director to have two
films competing for Best Picture at the same time -- The Conversation and (The
Godfather, Part II (born in Detroit)
John Hughes, director and writer of the Brat Pack films (born in Lansing)
McG, film director (born in Kalamazoo)
Michael Moore, filmmaker and writer (born in Flint)]
Sam Raimi, filmmakeron
Rich Robins(II), Emmy-winning television producer for Fox and [[Comedy Central]
(born in Howell, Michigan)
Terry Rossio, screenwriter and film producer (born in Kalamazoo)
Paul Schrader, film director (born in Grand Rapids)
Wilbur Scott, low budget filmmaker (born in Jackson)
Robert Shaye, co-CEO of New Line Cinema (born in Detroit)
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