Inside the Actors Studio
Guests / Season 8 
Ian McKellen
Season 8, Episode 817
Original Airdate: December 8, 2002
For decades, Sir Ian McKellen had been little known to American audiences despite being one of the leading talents of the London stage. All that changed in the '90s through a remarkable series of critically acclaimed roles. read more > >
Johnny Depp
Season 8, Episode 812
Original Airdate: September 8, 2002
Johnny Depp was born John Christopher Depp III on June 9, 1963 in the Ohio River town of Owensboro, KY. read more > >
Billy Bob Thornton
Season 8, Episode 810
Original Airdate: August 18, 2002
Billy Bob Thornton has seen success as an actor, director and screenwriter. Born August 4, 1955 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Thornton was raised by his mother, a psychic, and his father, a high school teacher and basketball coach, in rural Alpine, Arkansas. read more > >
Benicio Del Toro
Season 8, Episode 815
Original Airdate: June 30, 2002
Benicio Del Toro was born February 19, 1967 in Puerto Rico, where he spent his early childhood. When he was nine, his mother, an attorney, died after a battle with hepatitis and he moved with his family to Pennsylvania. read more > >
Samuel L. Jackson
Season 8, Episode 816
Original Airdate: June 2, 2002
Born December 21, 1948 in Washington, D.C., Samuel L. Jackson grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He graduated from Atlanta's Morehouse College in 1972, where he majored in drama and met his future wife LaTanya Richardson, a Spellman College student. read more > >
Hugh Grant
Season 8, Episode 813
Original Airdate: May 12, 2002
Born September 9, 1960, in London, England, Hugh Grant grew up in West London with his mother and father, a carpet salesman and a teacher respectively, and his older brother James. read more > >
Richard Gere
Season 8, Episode 814
Original Airdate: May 5, 2002
Born August 31, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Richard Gere grew up in upstate New York, where he spent much of his time studying music and learning to play the piano, guitar, and trumpet. read more > >
Ben Kingsley
Season 8, Episode 808
Original Airdate: April 28, 2002
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943. He lived with his parents, an Indian general practitioner and an English fashion model, in Yorkshire, England. read more > >
Ethan Hawke
Season 8, Episode 807
Original Airdate: April 21, 2002
Ethan Hawke was born on November 6, 1971 in Austin, Texas to teenage parents who split up shortly after he was born. When his mother remarried, the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey where Ethan began studying acting at the McCarter Theater. read more > >
Dennis Quaid
Season 8, Episode 811
Original Airdate: April 7, 2002
Dennis Quaid was born April 9, 1954 in Houston, Texas. He and older brother Randy were sons of an electrician father and housewife mother. read more > >
