James Lipton

Viewers of Inside the Actors Studio know that Mr. Lipton is an avid horseman who has won numerous showjumping championships, and that he enjoys nothing more than talking flying with fellow pilots like Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie.

He lives in Manhattan with his wife, Kedakai Turner Lipton, who is a vice-president of the Corcoran Real Estate Group, and who, as the series' viewers know, will not allow him to have a tattoo. He insists that she is in every other respect a remarkable woman.

Mr. Lipton is the Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School, has received three honorary Ph.D.s, and is a recipient of the French Republic's Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres.