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“The Summer I Turned Pretty” star Christopher Briney is set to receive the North Fork TV Festival’s 2025 Rising Star Award.

Created to celebrate emerging talent whose performances have captivated audiences and signaled a bold new force in television, the accolade will be presented to Briney at the 10th Annual North Fork TV Festival, which runs June 17-18 in Greenport, NY.

The event will feature a curated lineup of pilot screenings, panel discussions, exclusive receptions, and award spotlights, offering attendees a behind-the-scenes look at the evolving art of television storytelling.

Best known for his breakout role as Conrad Fisher in Amazon’s YA romance series “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” which will debut its third and final season this July, Briney recently starred as Aaron Samuel” in Paramount’s “Mean Girls.” Briney made his debut starring opposite Ben Kingsley in “Dalíland.” He graduated from Pace University where he received a...

Clint Eastwood is a man of few words -- at least, he tries to be. This is what makes his appearance on the sadly erstwhile television series "Inside the Actors Studio," hosted by the late, great James Lipton, such riveting television. On a talk show where Lipton encouraged interviewees to be open and loquacious, Eastwood often resisted the host's attempts to find parallels between his private and professional life. It's an incredibly good-natured conversation, but Eastwood lets Lipton know when he's ready to move on, or skip altogether, a subject he rather not discuss.

Moving on has been a central theme in Eastwood life. When he was a young man, his father told him, "You either progress or decay," a philosophy the star has long observed as an actor and a director. Eastwood has never had much truck for artistic indulgence. Having honed his craft as a performer over eight...

Johnny Depp Missed Ferris Role (Photo Credit – Instagram/Facebook)

Hold up, imagine Johnny Depp as Ferris Bueller. Crazy, right? That almost happened before Matthew Broderick took up the role. Back in the ‘80s, Depp was chosen for Ferris in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. The catch? A packed schedule forced him to turn it down. And just like that, Broderick became the charming troublemaker we know and love.

As Depp himself admitted on Inside the Actors Studio, “I was offered the part as Ferris, but couldn’t accept due to scheduling conflicts.” He wasn’t salty about it, though. In fact, he was all about giving props to Broderick.

Now, let’s hit rewind. Johnny Depp was still climbing the Hollywood ladder in A Nightmare on Elm Street days. Imagine him as Ferris Bueller—would Ferris have traded charm for a brooding edge? We’ll never know, but Matthew Broderick turned Ferris into the scheming,...

In just over two decades, Bradley Cooper has become one of the most acclaimed actors, producers and filmmakers of his peer group. Cooper – who famously studied at the Actors Studio in New York and once even asked two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn a question from the audience on “Inside the Actors Studio” – made his feature acting debut in 2001’s “Wet Hot American Summer,” and later broke out in comedies like “Wedding Crashers” and television hits like “Alias.”

But starting with 2012’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” Cooper reached another level. That film from David O. Russell landed Cooper his first Oscar nomination and put him on the map of serious filmmakers. In the nine years since the success of “Silver Linings,” Cooper has received seven additional Oscar nominations, including as co-writer and producer of “A Star Is Born” and producer of “American Sniper” and “Joker,” and worked with top filmmakers such as Russell,...

During his lifetime, James Lipton was a Guiding Light actor, a soap opera writer, a Broadway librettist and lyricist, a novelist, and Actors Studio dean — and it was in that lattermost capacity that the American public knew him best. From 1994 to his retirement in 2018, Lipton hosted Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo, asking Hollywood stars about their craft for the edification of his acting students and for his TV audience. “I am not sure that there had been a program prior to Inside the Actors Studio that gave such sustained, deep attention to the labor of screen performance,” Henry Svec, an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo, told NBC News in 2020 following Lipton’s death. “Celebrity culture is so often about the private deeds or misdeeds of the people behind the images, but on Inside the Actors Studio, especially those first few seasons, there was a foregrounding of the...

NBC bought Bravo in 2002, making the small, arts-focused network its first entertainment cable network. Fast forward to 2025, and Bravo — a very different kind of channel than it was two decades ago — will soon be the company’s only cable outfit.

As Comcast spins off most of the NBCUniversal cable networks — USA, MSNBC, CNBC, E!, Oxygen, Syfy and Golf Channel — into a separate organization, it strikingly has decided to keep Bravo in the original company alongside NBC, Peacock and Telemundo.

Bravo isn’t NBCUniversal’s most-watched cabler — that would be MSNBC, whose shift to SpinCo raises a bunch of thorny issues, including potentially having to consider changing its name. It isn’t even NBCU’s top-rated entertainment cable channel, which is USA Network: Per Variety’s 2023 networks ranker, MSNBC averaged 1.22 million viewers last year, with USA at 688,000 and Bravo at 571,000.

So why Bravo? Quite simply, in a world of zombie cable networks,...

Picture this: A big-name actor strolls on stage to intro a screening of one of his classic flicks. So far, so good. But hold up – he’s rocking a dress? Wild. The crowd’s eating it up, but then some stagehands rush in to yank it off him. He doesn’t put up much of a fight, but the audience is not having it – they’re booing like crazy. It turns out that the dress was part of the gag all along, but maybe not the awkward strip show. Little did they know, this wacky moment was just a warm-up for what was coming: Richard Dreyfuss going off about kids changing genders, the parents that push them into it, women in Hollywood (including a dig at his old co-star Barbra Streisand), and the whole #MeToo thing. Talk about a plot twist.

Was this just another celeb crash-and-burn, Hollywood chewing up and spitting out another star?...

Although Richard Harris might have thought he was the target of a prank, Clint Eastwood was certain he wanted the legendary actor for one of his finest films.

Richard Harris passed away in 2002 after leading an extremely successful career as an actor. It has been over two decades since his passing but his legacy is still alive, especially in the hearts of Harry Potter fans. He played Professor Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films, the latter of which was released after his death.

Richard Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures

Despite being best known as our favorite Hogwarts professor, Richard Harris had many other iconic roles in his portfolio including Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels, King Arthur in Camelot, and so on. Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven is one such film that might be considered as the best work of his career.

Emilio Estevez chose to keep his birth name unlike his brother Carlos Sheen, to honor his parents and avoid prejudice in Hollywood. Martin Sheen used a stage name to avoid being typecast and inspired Emilio to keep his original last name in his successful career. The Estevez family proved that talent outweighs name changes, with Emilio succeeding in film and Martin making a heartfelt movie with his son.

Emilio Estevez is best recognized as a member of the Brat Pack, young actors in the 1980s who appeared in iconic coming-of-age films of the era. The group included Estevez, Molly Ringwald, and Anthony Michael Hall, among others. Estevez's most notorious role as a member was in the 1985 cult classic The Breakfast Club, as Andrew Clark, the jock in the wrestling program, alongside other Brat Pack members, including Judd Nelson as teenage rebel John Bender.

In addition to The Breakfast Club, Estevez...

Have you ever witnessed the transformative power of true acting prowess married with masterful direction? In the movie industry, Clint Eastwood’s real genius as a filmmaker crystallized in moments such as trusting the indomitable Richard Harris with his evocative vision in the 1992 Western flick, Unforgiven.

This is especially evident in the scene-stealing role of English Bob—an arrogant, pseudo-aristocratic gunslinger who is anything but what he seems. Harris, widely celebrated for his gravitas as Albus Dumbledore in the early Harry Potter flicks, went down the rabbit hole by delving deep into historical complexities to flesh out his character’s (in Unforgiven) deceptive nature.

Clint Eastwood as William Munny in Unforgiven | Warner Bros. Pictures

Eastwood’s count on Harris’ interpretation added a rich layer of authenticity to Unforgiven, a film that not only challenged the traditional tropes of Westerns but also reflected on the fables we cherish about our heroes & their legacies.

I spent the first 37 years of my life on the East Coast, and even there, I knew who Sam Rubin was.

The beloved Ktla Los Angeles entertainment reporter, who died May 10 at age 64, was a Hollywood fixture for over 30 years, beloved, trusted and respected. Drawing heartfelt tributes ranging from industry veterans like Tom Hanks and Henry Winkler and rising stars like Charmaine Bingwa, I’ve never seen such an outpouring for an entertainment journalist since perhaps Roger Ebert in 2013. Sam greeted everyone with the same infectious enthusiasm and genuine curiosity, whether they were industry stalwarts or nervous newcomers. He was synonymous with Los Angeles but he was also known well outside of Southern California through his reporting for ITV and Australia’s 9 Network.

I was fortunate to spend time with Sam off-camera, serving with him on the board of the Critics Choice organization. On my first trip to Los...

Amid tributes from Brad Pitt, Carey Mulligan, and the 2024 Santa Barbara International Film Festival itself, “Maestro” director, co-writer, and star Bradley Cooper fit in his own send-ups to a few famous names he’s gotten to work with.

On Thursday evening, the multi-hyphenate was on hand to accept the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award, and the current Oscar nominee reflected on his career in conversation with Deadline’s Pete Hammond, including the period in which he was a student asking questions at tapings of “Inside the Actors Studio,” hosted by James Lipton.

Recalling when he got to query his future “Silver Linings Playbook” co-star Robert De Niro about whether an acting choice he made in the 1990 film “Awakenings” was inspired by someone he knew, or was organic, Cooper said, “I thought maybe he would laugh. You think all these weird things, that he was going to laugh at you.

There is a video of a young Bradley Cooper asking a deeply thoughtful question to Robert De Niro about his process for the film “Awakenings.” He was among those studying at The Actors Studio Drama School who were the audience for “Inside The Actors Studio” hosted by the late James Lipton. Bradley would guest on the show in 2011.

Through the 2000s, Cooper had great stints in television with a lead role on the Fox sitcom “Kitchen Confidential” which was cancelled after one season and a regular role in J.J. Abram’s “Alias.” It wasn’t until 2009’s “The Hangover” that he got his big break. Todd Philip’s chaotic buddy comedy was a box office smash, making just shy of $500 million worldwide on a $35 million budget. It even won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy in 2011. This spawned two successful sequels that took the box office total for the trilogy to nearly 1.5 billion dollars.

Heather Langenkamp remembers Johnny Depp being a dedicated and serious actor during their time working together on A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp initially thought Depp would go back to being a musician after the film, as she knew about his passion for music. Langenkamp is still close with some of her Nightmare co-stars, including Robert Englund and Amanda Wyss, and their friendships have grown over the years through conventions.

“I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.” A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) taunts Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp), with those famous words, before he sucks her boyfriend Glen into a bed and turns him into a bright-red fountain of blood! Glen was, of course, the first feature film appearance for Hollywood A-lister Johnny Depp, and Langenkamp recalls the famous actor being a pleasure to work with during the original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Langenkamp said during...

Over two decades, Bravo’s Top Chef has introduced viewers to nearly 300 food luminaries — making and breaking careers with what the culinary community has come to regard as the most prestigious (or at least the most taxing) cooking competition.

THR spent months speaking with dozens of the executives, producers, talent and chefs who’ve worked on the show over its 20-season run, and the result is a definitive oral history of the landmark reality competition. Previously untold anecdotes about that frantic first season and early days of “too much” reality drama and testimonials of its reshaping of food media — “Food Network should be paying Bravo residuals!” — and incalculable impact on American dining tell the story of how Top Chef elevated itself from mere genre TV to become an institution.

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Amid a flurry of mergers and acquisitions, Barry Diller’s Universal Television portfolio is...

Exclusive: The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has been celebrating the 75th anniversary of The Actors Studio with special screenings and in-person conversations on Sunday nights in August and September. Of course, the studio is the thespian mecca and home to so many in the profession looking to hone their craft and work out their approach to their art. The guru teacher most associated with it was the great Lee Strasberg, and it even had its own long-running TV series Inside The Actors Studio in which so many stars came back to share secrets of success that had to much to do with the teaching of Method acting, or at least that was how it was labeled.

Not every actor is a fan of the “Method,” and just this week there was a trade headline straight out of a Toronto Film Festival panel where Succession star Brian Cox minced no words,...

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The fourth season of this show, hosted by a legendary five-time Emmy winner, followed the first three to a nomination in this category — but a win this year would be its first. Featuring six in-depth interviews with celebrities from Will Smith to Cardi B, it dropped in May, as recently as any nominee in the category, but this is its sole nomination.

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This rookie show, hosted by a 22-time Emmy winner returning to television for the first time in six years, featured eight episodes highlighting social issues such as veterans’ health problems caused by burn pits,...

Benedict Cumberbatch returns as surgeon-superhero Stephen Strange, now on a mission to protect a teen who can visit parallel universes

We are back in the bizarre rococo world – or actually now worlds – of Doctor Strange, Marvel’s mindbending surgeon-turned-superhero who is played with sonorous conviction by Benedict Cumberbatch. He strides unselfconsciously around in a velveteen outfit accessorised with pointy cloak, jet-black goatee and low hairline of pin-sharp definition – similar to the late James Lipton, presenter of TV’s Inside the Actors Studio. Sam Raimi takes over directing duties from the first film’s Scott Derrickson and brings to it essentially the same lite-scary/action aesthetic.

As ever, there is a pert tai chi discipline to the little circular sparkly shapes and mystical cosmic portholes that Dr Strange creates with swivelling hand-movements, and he flies through the air in the accepted style, not facing down flat with one fist out like Superman,...

In just 20 years, Bradley Cooper has become one of the most acclaimed actors, producers, and filmmakers of his peer group. Cooper – who famously studied at the Actors Studio in New York and once even asked two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn a question from the audience on “Inside the Actors Studio” – made his feature acting debut in 2001’s “Wet Hot American Summer,” and later broke out in comedies like “Wedding Crashers” and television hits like “Alias.”

But starting with 2012’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” Cooper reached another level. That film from David O. Russell landed Cooper his first Oscar nomination and put him on the map of serious filmmakers. In the nine years since the success of “Silver Linings,” Cooper has received seven additional Oscar nominations, including as co-writer and producer of “A Star Is Born” and producer of “American Sniper” and “Joker,” and worked with top filmmakers such as Russell, Clint Eastwood,...

AMC Networks chief operating officer Ed Carroll is stepping down after 34 years with the company.

Carroll will stay through year’s end. He’s the latest executive to leave the company that is seen as a prime acquisition target at a time of consolidation in media.

Carroll oversaw all business operations for the company and recent years focused on building out its portfolio of niche streaming services and the AMC Plus service.

“For decades, Ed has been the heart and soul of AMC Networks,” said Josh Sapan, former AMC Networks President and Chief Executive Officer and recently named AMC Networks Executive Vice Chairman, in a statement. “He has been at the center of the shows and movies that brought success to the company, and at the center of what has made AMC Networks a great place to work. In a business where credit for achievement can be actively sought, Ed looked for none,...

Ed Carroll, the longtime chief operating officer of AMC Networks, has decided to exit at the close of 2021 after 34 years at the company.

The exec, who had a key role in ushering in signature hits like Mad Men and Breaking Bad, was named COO in 2009. He has a five-year contract due to expire on December 31. His departure follows word last month that former CEO Josh Sapan was also stepping down after his own 26-year tenure. The company has installed former Showtime boss Matt Blank as interim CEO.

The Sapan-Blank news fueled speculation that after more than a decade as a publicly traded company, AMC Networks was perhaps taking a closer look at the vibrant M&a marketplace. The home of The Walking Dead has long been bruited about as a potential takeover target, but that decision rests with a small group of shareholders: the Dolan family, which controls the company.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which happens from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, television networks are unveiling slates of themed content including new campaigns, sports broadcasting, live specials and more.

Among this year’s programming options is NBCUniversal and Telemundo’s “Come With Us,” an initiative that includes special programming and digital elements designed to reach audiences in both English and Spanish. The campaign will kick off on “Today” and “Hoy Dia,” followed by an on-air roadblock during prime time. Telemundo will also incorporate social media initiatives, including “Latinos Imparables” and “Unstoppable Women.” NBCUniversal will incorporate segments and specials from NBC News and MSNBC, including “Generation LatinX,” “Dis(Owning) Hispanic” and “The New Latino Landscape.”

Additionally, NBC Sports will highlight Latino artists contributing to mural paintings with “On Her Turf” highlighting Latina athletes participating in social roadblocks; CNBC Digital will spotlight prominent business leaders from the Latinx community; Universal Kids will...

March honors the trailblazing women of history, and television is joining in by highlighting their triumphs and life stories.

Each day of March, Msg Networks will showcase a legendary woman in sports, including the University of Hawaii’s historic volleyball team from the early ‘70s and tennis icon Billie Jean King, for example, while Syfy is airing a series of autobiographical video shorts about female animators.

HBO Max, meanwhile, will debut a limited series about best-selling author Isabel Allende and a documentary about powerhouse Tina Turner. The streamer also curated several lists of their titles that feature unforgettable, on-screen women characters, such as Michaela Coel’s “Chewing Gum” and “I May Destroy You.”

Ovation is also recognizing Women’s History Month through a curated on-demand programming lineup, which includes documentaries “Beyonce: Queen B” and “Dolly Parton: Queen of Country” and episodes of “Inside the Actors Studio” and “Stars of the Silver Screen.

Producers at Levity Live consider themselves lucky. The shows they were working on — like Food Network’s “Restaurant: Impossible,” Adult Swim’s “Black Jesus” and Hgtv’s “House Hunters” — had all wrapped principal photography by March when the pandemic hit. There was only one problem: Post-production needed to be completed.

But the company was also prepared. In the weeks before the coronavirus forced the closure of many offices throughout the entertainment industry, Levity Live preordered huge hard drives to transfer more than 520Tb of footage per day that enabled it to move its 140 post workers from the office to their homes.

John Bravakis, executive VP and chief operating officer at Triage Entertainment, a production company owned by Levity Live that also produces Ovation’s “Inside the Actors Studio,” notes that early planning — along with the good fortune to not have any serialized reality shows in its pipeline — meant Levity and...

Throughout 2020, Gold Derby continues to update our photo gallery above with major celebrity deaths from film, television, theater and music. Tour through our pictures so far with the following 11 people currently featured:

Max von Sydow died on March 8 at age 90. The Swedish actor often worked with Ingmar Bergman, including in “The Seventh Seal,” “The Passion of Anna” and “Shame.” He received Oscar nominations for “Pelle the Conqueror” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” plus Emmy bids for “Red King, White Knight” and “Game of Thrones.”

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James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” is dead at the age of 93 on March 2. He received 20 Emmy nominations for that Bravo program and won the award in 2013. He was also nominated in 1988 for an original song on a Bob Hope comedy special.

Actor Robert Conrad died on February 8 at age 84. He was the...

Roscoe Born, a veteran soap actor who appeared on “One Life to Live” and “Santa Barbara” has died at the age of 69.

“It is with a heavy heart that I share the news of Roscoe Born’s passing,” Born’s friend and business partner Deanna Lynne wrote in a Facebook post on Friday. “He was an incredibly talented actor and songwriter. Many who knew him know how dedicated he was to social and political causes. He will be missed forever.”

A cause of death has not been disclosed.

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Born appeared on numerous daytime soaps and was a favorite among soap fans. Although he was best known for starring as arch-villain Mitch Laurence on ABC’s “One Life to Live” on multiple separate occasions between 1985 and the show’s cancellation in 2012, he also played a villain on CBS...

Laurence Fishburne is the Tony-winning and Oscar-nominated star of such films as Apocalypse Now, The Color Purple, What’s Love Got to Do With It and the Matrix. He appeared on James Lipton's Inside the Actors Studio in 1998.

I was a little apprehensive about doing it at first. I think I may have turned down the invitation the first time. But then, after seeing the show a bunch of times, seeing many of my friends and people I’ve worked with doing it, I was like, "Oh, yeah, I can get into that." And when I got a ...

In today’s TV news roundup, MTV announced the premiere date and cast for the 35th season of “The Challenge,” and the CW announces premiere dates for three summer shows.

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MTV has revealed the lineup for season 35 of the reality-competition series “The Challenge,” dubbed “The Challenge: Total Madness.” To commemorate the landmark season, the 28-member cast features a mix of series veterans and newcomers competing in challenges for a million-dollar prize. Among the veterans are Mattie Breaux, Tula “Big T” Fazakerley and Jennifer West, each back for their second-ever challenge; third-time challengers Josh Martinez, Dee Nguyen, Melissa Reeves, Rogan O’Connor and Stephen Bear; fourth-time challenger Tori Deal; fifth-time challengers Kailah Casillas and Kyle Christie; sixth-time challengers Nelson Thomas and Jordan Wisely; seventh-time challengers Ashley Mitchell and Cory Wharton; and eighth-time challenger Jenna Compono. Additionally, mega-veterans such as 13-time challengers Aneesa Ferreira and Wes Bergmann, 17-time challenger Ct Tamburello; and Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio,...

Ellen Burstyn is the Oscar-winning actress who serves as co-president of the Actors Studio and has been co-host of Inside the Actors Studio since James Lipton retired in 2019.

First of all, I knew him as a writer. He wrote that incredible book Exaltation of Larks, so I knew him from that. And then he came to the Actors Studio to the playwright-directors unit after Lee Strasberg had died and I learned that he was so much more than a writer. He produced, he directed, he studied ballet dancing and had been a choreographer at one point.

Jim came up with the idea of ...

Bernard Pivot is the renowned journalist and TV personality whose talk shows were a fixture of French television for several decades. He talked to The Hollywood Reporter two days after James Lipton, a fixture on American television for as many decades, died at the age of 93 of bladder cancer.

One day I received a letter from James Lipton — who I hadn’t yet met — asking me if he could use the 10-question format from my show Bouillon de culture on his new program Inside the Actors Studio. Apparently he had seen Bouillon de culture, as well as my literary interview show ...

It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of James Lipton, the creator, executive producer and longtime host of Bravo’s interview series Inside the Actors Studio. News of Lipton's death broke early Monday afternoon, when Lipton's wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, announced that the Hollywood icon had died of bladder cancer in his Manhattan home. He was 93. During…...

James Lipton‘s impact on Hollywood is being felt in the wake of his death at 93.

The executive producer, writer and host of Inside The Actors Studio died on Monday at his Manhattan home from bladder cancer, his wife Kendekai Turner, told The New York Times.

Lipton created the memorable and iconic Bravo show in 1994 and worked on it for 25 years until he stepped down in September 2018.

Memorable friends of his, including guests and those who took over hosting duties after he stepped away, shared their tributes on social media, remembering his legacy, his wit and his love for the craft of acting.

Tributes to James Lipton rolled in from celebrities and entertainment industry elites Monday after news broke that the former host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” has died at the age of 93.

“He was interested in the actor’s process, which was so refreshing,” Barbra Streisand tweeted.

“The Simpsons” co-creator Al Jean, Donald Trump Jr., former “America’s Got Talent” judge Piers Morgan, former CNN and Fox News host Greta Van Susteren and “Pose” co-creator Steven Canals led the chorus of voices who took to Twitter to remember Lipton.

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The president’s son posted a photo of Lipton along with a memory of befriending the late host during the filming of “The Apprentice.” “Very sad to hear of the passing of my friend and great guy James Lipton,” Trump Jr. wrote. “We got to know each other...

The late James Lipton was asked in 2017 who among the many legendary stars and thespians he’s interviewed over the years was his absolute favorite interview, and it wasn’t some Old Hollywood icon but Bradley Cooper.

Cooper, it turns out, was a student in the Actors Studio and auditioned with Lipton when the “Inside the Actors Studio” host was Dean of the school for 10 years. Lipton had personally accepted Cooper into the program. Both he and Cooper got emotional at seeing how far Cooper had come in his career since his days in the acting school.

“The night that one of my students has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in that chair next to me will be the night I’ve waited for since we started this thing 23 years, and it turned out to be Bradley Cooper,” Lipton told Larry King in 2017. “I auditioned him.

James Lipton, the longtime host of the acclaimed interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died Monday, The New York Times reports. He was 93.

Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, confirmed his death and said the cause was bladder cancer.

Lipton created and launched Inside the Actors Studio in 1994 and hosted the Bravo series for 24 years, finally stepping down in 2018 (it now airs on Ovation with rotating guest hosts). The show garnered acclaim and popularity as Lipton, with a pile of blue notecards, guided renowned actors and entertainers through in-depth interviews...

James Lipton, longtime host of “Inside the Actors Studio,” is dead at the age of 93 on March 2. He received 20 Emmy nominations for that Bravo program and won the award in 2013. He was also nominated in 1988 for an original song on a Bob Hope comedy special. Tour our memoriam photo gallery featuring celebrity deaths from 2020.

After 250 interviews on his own show, Gold Derby turned the tables for a lengthy 17-minute chat with Lipton in 2017. That evening was his final time at the Emmy Awards as a nominee. Watch the exclusive video above.

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In the chat, he exclaimed, “That was extraordinary! It did take a long time and was the sweet 16th nomination when we won the Emmy!” He added, “I was sitting in my seat without any particular hope. I’m honored as always to be nominated. Imagine to be nominated...

James Lipton, a veteran television writer and host of the TV series Inside the Actors Studio, has passed away. The news was confirmed by Lipton's wife, Kedakai Turner, who tells TMZ the beloved television personality died peacefully at his home on Monday morning at the age of 93. "There are so many James Lipton stories but I'm sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with," Turner says of her late husband.

Lipton was born in 1926 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He began working as a performer in the early '50s, starring in the Broadway rendition of The Autumn Garden and appearing in the 1953 movie The Big Break. While working as an actor, Lipton also found steady work writing for soap operas, and would later publish multiple books as an author in subsequent years.

Actor and television personality James Lipton has died at the age of 93. Lipton was best known as the creator and host of the long-running TV series Inside the Actors Studio, which he hosted for 22 seasons. He won an Emmy for his work on the show, was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award […]

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The actor, writer and host was best known for the long-running series where he interviewed famous actors

James Lipton, who was best known for hosting the TV series Inside the Actors Studio, has died at 93.

Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner, confirmed to TMZ that he died on Monday morning at his home from bladder cancer. “There are so many James Lipton stories but I’m sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with.”...

James Lipton, who was best known for creating and hosting Inside the Actors Studio, has died at the age of 93. His wife Kedakai Turner told TMZ that Lipton died Monday morning at his New York City home after a battle with bladder cancer.

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James Lipton, the acclaimed wordsmith, theater historian, radio star, and long-time host of “Inside the Actors Studio” has passed away at the age of 93. The news was confirmed by both TMZ and Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner.

He created “Inside the Actors Studio” in 1994 wherein students of the Actors Studio Drama School could listen to successful performers discuss their craft with Lipton. Paul Newman was the inaugural guest and from there Lipton interviewed nearly 300 award-winning actors. The series was one of Bravo’s longest-running series and won a Primetime Emmy. The series also garnered a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Daytime Emmys in 2016 and a Critics Choice award for best reality show host. In 2018 the series moved from Bravo onto Ovation, a move coinciding with Lipton’s retirement from the program.

The young James Lipton began his writing employment as a teenager, where he was a copyboy for “The Detroit Times.

Hollywood is mourning the loss of James Lipton. The creator and host of the hit Bravo series Inside the Actors Studio has died, his wife Kedakai Turner confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter. According to Kedakai, James passed away at his home in Manhattan on Monday morning from bladder cancer. He was 93. Many pop culture fans will remember James' work with Inside the Actors Studio, which was created to serve as a master class for students of the Actors Studio Drama School. It later became one of cable's longest-running series. "#JamesLipton was a warm, meticulous man with a great appreciation of the arts and wicked sense of humor.  He was the face of Bravo who delivered us...

The late James Lipton absolutely loved Will Ferrell’s “Saturday Night Live” impression of his “Inside the Actors Studio” interviews, giant stack of blue question cards and all.

“I have never been so grateful in my life as I am to Will Ferrell,” Lipton told fellow TV host Andy Cohen a few years back when asked for his first reaction to the impersonation.

Watch that conversation via the video above.

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And remember Ferrell-as-Lipton in a select “SNL” sketch below.



That’s Kate Hudson playing Drew Barrymore — the skit is from Season 26, way back in 2000.

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Lipton, who suffered from bladder cancer, died Monday in his Manhattan home.

A writer and producer, Lipton joined the Actors Studio in 1992 and went on to create “Inside the Actors Studio,” a series of seminars for...

James Lipton, best known for his many years as host of the interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died Monday at the age of 93. Per TMZ, Lipton passed away at his home after a battle with bladder cancer.

“There are so many James Lipton stories, but I’m sure he would like to be remembered as someone who loved what he did and had tremendous respect for all the people he worked with,” Lipton’s wife, Kedakai Turner, told TMZ.

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James Lipton, executive producer, writer and host of Inside the Actors Studio, has died. He was 93.

Lipton’s wife Kendekai Turner told The New York Times that he died at his Manhattan home Monday from bladder cancer.

In 1994, he created Inside the Actors Studio and served as the host and executive producer from its inception until he stepped down in September 2018 after nearly 25 years. The show was one of cable’s longest-running series. He had also served as the Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City for several years.

Born in Detroit on Sept.

James Lipton, the creator, executive producer and longtime host of Bravo’s interview series Inside the Actors Studio, died today of bladder cancer at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.

His wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, announced his death.

From 1994 until his retirement last year, Lipton interviewed seemingly countless actors about their careers, training and the acting life on the Emmy-winning talk show. Known for his extensive research – detailed on the collection of index cards he kept at the ready – the genial, professorial and ever-curious Lipton was known for for the extensive pre-show research that would fill up the many blue cards he carried onto the set.

Lipton announced his retirement from the show in 2018, timed to coincide with the show’s 2019 move from its longstanding home on Bravo to Ovation TV. The latest incarnation of Inside The Actors Studio – part of the master’s degree program at the Actors Studio...

James Lipton, who created, hosted and executive produced the Bravo series “Inside the Actors Studio” and served as dean (and then dean emeritus) of the Actors Studio Drama School at New York City’s Pace University, has died. He was 93.

“Inside the Actors Studio” had run for more than two decades and more than 240 episodes on Bravo beginning in 1994. It moved to Ovation TV in its 23rd season, which premiered last October.

Ovation issued a statement saying, “We celebrate and honor the great legacy of James Lipton. James is beloved around the world for his passion, insight, and dedication to the craft of acting. With ‘Inside the Actors Studio,’ James has created a long-lasting impact on the acting world. Ovation mourns his loss and offers deepest condolences to his family, friends and fans.”

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James Lipton, the host and creator of “Inside the Actors Studio” has died at the age of 93.

Lipton died in his Manhattan home on Monday after a battle with bladder cancer, his wife Kedakai Mercedes Lipton said.

A writer and producer, Lipton joined the Actors Studio in 1992 and went on to create “Inside the Actors Studio,” a series of seminars for drama students consisting of lengthy one-on-one conversations with performers dissecting their craft and experience. The series debuted in 1994 on Bravo and featured hundreds of guests including Paul Newman, Halle Berry, Meryl Streep, and Robin Williams.

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“Inside the Actors Studio” went on to earn 21 Primetime Emmy nominations, winning in 2013 for outstanding informational series or special.

Lipton left the show when it moved from Bravo to Ovation in 2019. The show employs the same format, with a rotating series of guests in place of a set host.

One of Will Ferrell's most well-known and beloved routines from his stint on Saturday Night Live was his parody of James Lipton, host of Inside the Actors Studio.

Fans could not seem to get enough of the reoccurring sketch — and it appears that included Lipton himself, who died Monday at the age of 93.

Lipton told CNN in 2012 that he got a kick out of Ferrell's over-the-top take on his personality and interview delivery.

"I love it, I love it," he said. "It's flattering."

Lipton said the two had actually become friends,...

James Lipton, the elegant, articulate wordsmith and theater academic whose desire to give his acting students a greater insight into their art led to the popular Bravo series Inside the Actors Studio, has died. He was 93.

Lipton died early Monday at his home in Manhattan from bladder cancer, his wife, Kedakai Mercedes Lipton, told The Hollywood Reporter.

"He lived each day as if it were his last," Kedakai Lipton said in a statement to THR. "His work was his passion, loved what he did and all the people he worked with. He empowered people to do their best, and ...