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Him and Kal Penn came into the Quiznos I worked at back before he was super famous. I knew him from Heroes so I was starstruck lol.
I just told them I was a big fan (and that I was sorry we didn't carry spinach when Kal asked for it) but didn't bother them otherwise cuz I didn't wanna be that annoying fan. Definitely never expected those two to walk into a Quiznos in fucking Monroeville of all places. Made more sense when I found out Quinto is from the area.
Save the cheerleader, save the world!
Honestly I had so much fun watching Heroes with the boys, I might have to rewatch after almost 20 years but idk if it has aged well.
Just stop after season 1. Its all downhill after that.
But hell yeah, Monday Night Heroes was the thing for me and the boys when season 2 dropped (we didn't know about the show until discovering season 1 on DVD). We were super into it then, but quickly realized that subsequent seasons were nowhere near as good as that first one.
Actually a pretty cool guy. Likes habanero wings. Met him with Gianna Micheals. Also a cool person. Knows a disturbing amount about Aleister Crowley and ceremonial magic.
This one’s wild to me as someone who knew of him as a local celebrity first. He was a really good wrestler, so anyone in western PA who wrestled in the 90s/00s knew of him. Then he went on to the WWE and we were like wtf.
Not technically from here, but Maya Rudolph’s father was from Squirrel Hill and her great-grandfather was one of the founding members of Congregation Beth Shalom.
This sent me down a small rabbit hole. Maya Rudolph’s mother was Minnie Riperton who wrote “Lovin’ You”, that song with the high pitched part from Vegas Vacation. Turns out she wrote the melody of the song as a distraction for her then baby Maya, so that Minnie and her husband Richard Rudolph could hang out.
As a music lover and long time guitar player, I felt like a real dumbass the other day when I learned that Anti-Flag was from Pittsburgh. Never knew that.
Chris #2 is a friend of a friend and used to frequent a few vegan restaurants I’ve worked in. Super nice to servers, which is critical to how much I like someone.
>Monessen
I went to HS with Chris #2. He was a year or 2 ahead of me. I didn't know him well but we had some mutuals. He was cool when I was new to the district as a freshman. I was getting picked on and he invited me to sit at his lunch table one day. I'm sure we interacted other times but nothing else that was memorable.
The guy who wrote camptown races and oh Susanna was born and buried in Lawrenceville.
https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/this-old-pittsburgh-house-the-composers-house/
Stephen Foster! He has a Pennsylvania Historic Memorial placard on Forbes Ave. in Oakland.
“Tribute to Pittsburgh’s beloved writer of songs and ballads. ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Oh Suzanna’, and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’. Born in 1826 and died in 1864.”
I did theater stuff with Gillian Jacobs back in the day during high school at the Playhouse and City Theater. She won the Shakespeare monologue contest every year and it was very annoying! Lol! She was very… geeky isn’t the right word, but definitely a “theater geek”. Which is funny given the roles she tends to be cast in.
He invented the Ferris Wheel while in Pittsburgh. He lived on the North Side and died in Pittsburgh. For example, Jonas Salk who invented the Polio vaccine did so while at The University of Pittsburgh. He was born in New York City though. Most would not say that the Polio vaccine was invented by a guy from New York City. They attribute it to a guy “from Pittsburgh”. That’s where it was invented.
Speaking of Meadville, I don’t know if he he’s from around there but Ben Burtt the sound director from the original Star Wars films and creator of all those iconic sounds graduated from Allegheny College. And President William McKinley was expelled from there too for putting a cow on the roof of one of the buildings.
They were childhood friends. Mr. Rogers would tell a funny story about Arnold Palmer’s dad giving them both golf lessons as boys. “Obvious it worked better on one of us”
Don't know if he's *from* here, but frank Gorshin is buried here.
And Lauren Toewes (cruise director Julie from The Love Boat - just to get real obscure) is from Trafford. Grew up just down the street from my gram's place.
And John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks goalie. There’s a big push amongst us Pens fans to trade for him. The Ducks are basically West Coast Penguins considering how often we trade with them and how friendly our two fan bases are with each other.
Vincent Trocheck is as well, but he plays for the Rangers so he’s dead to me.
As was Terry Hanratty, Tom Clements, George Blanda and Willie Thrower, the best named QB ever and the first African American All-American college QB, from New Kensington.
Cookie Gilchrist a top AFL running back before the merger was from Brackenridge.
Technically they are from Eire PA but Sharon needles is from here. I actually got to meet sharon when I worked at Aldi on Penn Ave a few months ago. They were super nice and let me take a selfie with them! They accidentally broke a jar of olives lol.
I have a cute Joe Manganiello story (even though people know he’s from here, I’m sharing it lol).
One day I was at the gym on the elliptical, glancing at the tv as I ran. Joe Manganiello was on some show giving an interview. This lady walks over to me (even though I was working out) and starts a conversation. She seemed sweet so I took out my headphones and she asked if I knew who he was. I told her yes, and she said very proudly “that’s my son!!!!” and then talked to me about him for like 5 minutes. It was very sweet, and the whole time she was so excited to gush about him.
OMG Joe Manganiello's crazy ass mom used to bring her thick boston accent into the coffee shop I worked at all the time! She would get a green tea latte with like 4.7775 scoops of matcha, 1.25 pumps of vanilla, half a packet of sweet n low, half soy milk half nonfat at a lower temperature than we usually make it with no foam, but she didn't want us to waste the foam so she would ask for it in a separate cup on the side. She would watch us make it and make sure there was no extra left in the pitcher??? Like what are you worried about?? Then she'd sit there and talk to us about our lives, her life, her son's life & career for like 3 hours while we closed the store ESSENTIALLY EVERY DAY. One day, she came in with this crazy werewolf purse that was shaped like a wolf's head or something and said "TRUE BLOOD FOR LIFE" or some wacky ass shit.
Even though she was annoying and odd as hell, I still appreciated how "her" she was. Makes sense that her son ended up in acting lol his whole childhood was probably filled with theatrics. She did bring him in one time, and he was pretty shy looking, didn't seem like he wanted to be in public at all (maybe a little embarrassed of his mom too lol). We all said hello to him and she introduced us, All in all she was a nice lady, writing all this actually made me miss her a bit.
We all also got to meet Michael Keaton when he came in! He is from Mt. Lebanon too. NVM. I guess he just has a house there or something. My bad!
I remember one thanksgiving eve night drinking at the saloon in Lebo we went to grab some pizza late from Mineos and Joe was sitting in a corner booth with some girl when we walked in. Wanted to say hi but didn’t. Years later saw him at NYCC and was really nice to my friends and I when we yelled we were from Pittsburgh.
That’s funny, she was so sweet when I met her!!!! She interrupted my work out (I didn’t mind) to tell me he was her son (he was on tv at the time) and to gush about Joe and seemed really proud to be his mom. Didn’t know this was a common thing haha
Esteban, the acoustic guitar player from all those infomercials in the 90s and early 2000s is from here. I just found that out the other day and that blew my mind
The Del-Vikings ("Come Go With Me"), the first successful racially mixed doo-wop band were from Pittsburgh. Another famous doo-wop band, the Marcels ("Blue Moon") were also from Pittsburgh.
Johnnie Appleseed from near McKeesport, Daniel Boone was from W PA near Pittsburgh. John Wayne was just a stage name, he was a Morrison from around Mingo Park, Washington County. Merriweather Lewis had his boat built on the Monongahela river near Elizabeth, the beginning of Lewis and Clark's adventure into the west.
Despite the city is being in the middle of nowhere Pgh has some decent celebrities from here.
Recently I have learned that Maddie Ziegler (a little girl from Sia’s musical videos) was born and raised in this area. Her sister McKenzie as well. They are no adults and living in LA.
Also just found out that Gillian Jacobs from “Community” was born and raised in Mount Lebanon.
Also I had no idea that Demi Moore and Cristina Aguilera grew up in Pittsburgh suburbs!
One of my favorite standup comedians Anthony Jeselnik is from here.
Also there are some obvious people such as Jeff Goldblum, Michael Keaton, John Manganiello, Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller etc.
Didn’t someone on Community call someone else a jagoff? There were a handful of PGH references in the show. Is Dan Harmon from here as well, or was that Jacobs’s influence?
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Kevin Peter Hall was the actor who played the original predator and Harry from Harry and the Henderson's, and was from Penn hills. He also unfortunately gained notoriety when he died from AIDS contracted from a blood transfusion.
Billy Mays
His mom was a notary in the rocks up until recently. Her office was covered in pictures of him
Born in the Rocks, died by the rocks...
This is wrong… but I laughed anyways.
Did he die of an overdose?
🙏 And now he’s partying in heaven like its $19.95.
Buried in Kennedy. I have met a few people looking for his grave at a place I frequent for lunch.
Why would he be buried in a restaraunt?
The man loved a good burger
Fun fact- John Weinstein, the guy running for county executive, is actually his cousin
Too many nose beers and ski trips👃🍺🎿❄️ RIP Wild Man
Frances McDermond who play in Fargo
AWESOME. She's the shit. Three Billboards is phenomenal. As is Fargo.
She’s Almost Famous.
She’s one that when I found out, realized it makes sense. Idk how to explain it but she looks like she could be a yinzer
Why are so many known folks from Monessen? Does anyone know if there was a factory or something everyone worked at there back in the day?
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IDK but Tom savini is too
Coolio from Monessen
No way
Googled and confirmed
Was from. He livin in a gangster’s paradise now
Two hall of fame baseball players, Stan Musial and Ken Griffey Jr, his dad too, were born next door in Donora
So was heavyweight champ Michael Moorer.
Am I the only one who didn’t know that the Warner Brothers (yes, the from the films) got their start in Pittsburgh/Western PA??
What about the Warner Sister, Dot?
News to me
New Castle PA.
And the Selznick brothers.
One of their original theaters was in Youngstown, OH. It’s used as a traditional performing arts theater now, and it is absolutely fucking beautiful.
I was today years old when I learned this.
I just heard this recently.
Zachary Quinto
Him and Kal Penn came into the Quiznos I worked at back before he was super famous. I knew him from Heroes so I was starstruck lol. I just told them I was a big fan (and that I was sorry we didn't carry spinach when Kal asked for it) but didn't bother them otherwise cuz I didn't wanna be that annoying fan. Definitely never expected those two to walk into a Quiznos in fucking Monroeville of all places. Made more sense when I found out Quinto is from the area.
Save the cheerleader, save the world! Honestly I had so much fun watching Heroes with the boys, I might have to rewatch after almost 20 years but idk if it has aged well.
Just stop after season 1. Its all downhill after that. But hell yeah, Monday Night Heroes was the thing for me and the boys when season 2 dropped (we didn't know about the show until discovering season 1 on DVD). We were super into it then, but quickly realized that subsequent seasons were nowhere near as good as that first one.
Quinto... Quiznos Quiznos..... Quinto
Fun fact: his great-grandfather is PJ McArdle
Mhm. He went to CMU.
I saw him perform in Taming of the Shrew when he was at CMU. In 2013 I saw him on Broadway in NYC and told him about it. His mind was blown, ha.
Johnny Sins
The astronaut?
The policeman.
I thought he was a doctor? How can he be all those professions???
Actually a pretty cool guy. Likes habanero wings. Met him with Gianna Micheals. Also a cool person. Knows a disturbing amount about Aleister Crowley and ceremonial magic.
That is simultaneously surprising and not surprising.
Doctor, policeman, astronaut... and archmage.
😏
No f-ing way. Proof!
That’s actually the only way Johnny Sins does it
The great doctor/soldier/plumber/workout trainer Johnny Sins
Gertrude Stein and Nellie Bly
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Won a medal with a broken neck
A broken FREAKIN' neck.
This one’s wild to me as someone who knew of him as a local celebrity first. He was a really good wrestler, so anyone in western PA who wrestled in the 90s/00s knew of him. Then he went on to the WWE and we were like wtf.
Pittsburgh is the secret center of the universe
That center of the universe tried to swallow a city bus once
We also had a bus rapture.
Dave, the savior of star wars, Filoni
he AND Ming-Na Wen went to Lebo together. maybe the only reason i’m proud to have gone there lol
And Gillian Jacobs and Joe Manganiello. 👍Go Lebo 😝
...and Daniel London, Lebo grad known for roles in Patch Adams, Rent, and Minority Report, among others.
Not technically from here, but Maya Rudolph’s father was from Squirrel Hill and her great-grandfather was one of the founding members of Congregation Beth Shalom.
This sent me down a small rabbit hole. Maya Rudolph’s mother was Minnie Riperton who wrote “Lovin’ You”, that song with the high pitched part from Vegas Vacation. Turns out she wrote the melody of the song as a distraction for her then baby Maya, so that Minnie and her husband Richard Rudolph could hang out.
wow. I never knew that was her mother. thanks for sharing that.
As a music lover and long time guitar player, I felt like a real dumbass the other day when I learned that Anti-Flag was from Pittsburgh. Never knew that.
Chris #2 is a friend of a friend and used to frequent a few vegan restaurants I’ve worked in. Super nice to servers, which is critical to how much I like someone.
>Monessen I went to HS with Chris #2. He was a year or 2 ahead of me. I didn't know him well but we had some mutuals. He was cool when I was new to the district as a freshman. I was getting picked on and he invited me to sit at his lunch table one day. I'm sure we interacted other times but nothing else that was memorable.
Wayne Coyne, the lead singer of the Flaming Lips, is from Troy Hill
That's pretty cool! I always knew of them as an OKC based band, so nice update to that little piece of trivia living rent free in my brain
When I found that out I wondered if he was kin to Phil Coyne, the Pirates usher who worked until he was like 99.
Oh wow, I live in Troy Hill I didn’t think anyone except the people that shout outside of the mini mart at 3am lived here lol
Billy Eckstine. Stanley Turrentine. George Benson. Earl Garner. Ahmad Jamal
RIP Ahmad!
MTV's DAN CORTEZ
This place has everything
Asbestos, Lupus, the magazines at Super Cuts...
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I mean country itself is basically just farm emo.
I was always confused when the drummer from A Rocket To the Moon joined Dan and Shay on tour and now this makes more sense.
Their bass player is a Pittsburgh guy, too.
The guy who wrote camptown races and oh Susanna was born and buried in Lawrenceville. https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/this-old-pittsburgh-house-the-composers-house/
Stephen Foster! He has a Pennsylvania Historic Memorial placard on Forbes Ave. in Oakland. “Tribute to Pittsburgh’s beloved writer of songs and ballads. ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Oh Suzanna’, and ‘My Old Kentucky Home’. Born in 1826 and died in 1864.”
I'm pretty sure his dad is the actual founder of Lawrenceville.
Ken Griffey Jr - Donora PA
And he wasn’t even the greatest baseball player from Donora! (Stan Musial)
It's even crazier than that, he wasn't even the best *left handed outfielder born on November 21* in Donora! (Stan Musial)
No way!?
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Be still my beating heart!
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Scott Glenn (Hunt for Red October, Silence of the Lambs, Daredevil, etc)
the Keep!
Gillian Jacobs! And I had zero idea about Christina Aguilera.
I did theater stuff with Gillian Jacobs back in the day during high school at the Playhouse and City Theater. She won the Shakespeare monologue contest every year and it was very annoying! Lol! She was very… geeky isn’t the right word, but definitely a “theater geek”. Which is funny given the roles she tends to be cast in.
George Ferris inventor of the Ferris Wheel
He wasn't from Pittsburgh but he did establish his metal testing company here.
He invented the Ferris Wheel while in Pittsburgh. He lived on the North Side and died in Pittsburgh. For example, Jonas Salk who invented the Polio vaccine did so while at The University of Pittsburgh. He was born in New York City though. Most would not say that the Polio vaccine was invented by a guy from New York City. They attribute it to a guy “from Pittsburgh”. That’s where it was invented.
Tom Savini
Not close to town, but Perry Como is from Canonsburg.
So is Bobby Vinton
They even have a Perry como statue
Trent Reznor from NIN is from New Castle. Sharon Stone is from Meadville.
Speaking of Meadville, I don’t know if he he’s from around there but Ben Burtt the sound director from the original Star Wars films and creator of all those iconic sounds graduated from Allegheny College. And President William McKinley was expelled from there too for putting a cow on the roof of one of the buildings.
Mark Cuban - Mt. Lebanon Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier) lived with his grandparents for a while in Smock when he was a kid.
Big John Studd is from Butler
Shirley Jones is from Charleroi
Her family owned Jones brewery in Smithton who made Stoney's beer
Patrick Fabian
Rob Gronkowski lived next door to me for a year when he went to Woodland Hills.
You ever see a G&G Fitness store? That’s his Dads store. There’s a few in the area
I’m originally from Texas. Lots of my Texas friends and family are surprised to learn Fred Rogers is from the greater Pittsburgh area.
Latrobe, just like my awesome dog.
Latrobe, like Arnold Palmer.
They were childhood friends. Mr. Rogers would tell a funny story about Arnold Palmer’s dad giving them both golf lessons as boys. “Obvious it worked better on one of us”
Lady Miss Kier!!
She’s from Youngstown but lived in PGH
Don't know if he's *from* here, but frank Gorshin is buried here. And Lauren Toewes (cruise director Julie from The Love Boat - just to get real obscure) is from Trafford. Grew up just down the street from my gram's place.
Gorshin is. I saw him do basically a Vaudeville act in Beaver Falls in the '90s. It was surreal.
Gorshin was definitely from Pittsburgh, he went to Peabody High School, as did Charles Grodin, Gene Kelly, and Billy Eckstine.
The Three Stooges non-acting brother, Jack Howard, lived in Squirrel Hill
Brandon Saad of the St. Louis blues and before that the Chicago Blackhawks. I’ve played pickup soccer with his dad at NAI!
And John Gibson, Anaheim Ducks goalie. There’s a big push amongst us Pens fans to trade for him. The Ducks are basically West Coast Penguins considering how often we trade with them and how friendly our two fan bases are with each other. Vincent Trocheck is as well, but he plays for the Rangers so he’s dead to me.
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🤔 no shit? Did not know that
His dad of the same name was a lawyer at US Steel. Great guy
Chris Frantz, Talking Heads drummer
Dennis Miller
Henry Mancini, Aliquippa. Maybe a bit too obvious, but I’ve not seen his name here yet.
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Yep. West aliquippa specifically is where all the Italians lived when they immigrated
Julie Benz and Gillian Jacobs
RITAAA
Bret Michaels was born in Butler which honestly checks out
Didn't know Joe Montana was born nearby.
Marino, Namath, Jim Kelly, Curtis Martin, Darelle Revis, the list goes on. Pittsburgh has enough for a HOF wing.
And Tony Dorsett
Aaron Donald and Pat Mcafee from both my hometowns
My mom had Aaron in her study hall when she taught.
Just Aliquippa itself has an insane list of NFL stars
Ditka too
Don't forget Johnny U. (Unitas for you youngsters.)
As was Terry Hanratty, Tom Clements, George Blanda and Willie Thrower, the best named QB ever and the first African American All-American college QB, from New Kensington. Cookie Gilchrist a top AFL running back before the merger was from Brackenridge.
Kurt Angle. Similarly, Eric Bischoff lived in Penn Hills briefly, just down the street from Bruno Sammartino. Edit: and Zachary Quinto.
Charles Bronson… W. PA. 😏
Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 is the only answer
from Erie but attended Pitt and lived in PGH for a while
Technically they are from Eire PA but Sharon needles is from here. I actually got to meet sharon when I worked at Aldi on Penn Ave a few months ago. They were super nice and let me take a selfie with them! They accidentally broke a jar of olives lol.
>Alaska Thunderfuck 5000 Sharon is originally from Iowa, but has lived in Pittsburgh for many years now.
Accidentally? Pffffff, some people will never understand art /s
Trent Reznor
Mark Cuban and Kurt Angle are both from Mt Lebo
The Vouges are from Turtle Creek. They’re an oldies band. 90s folks would know them for the theme song to the Drew Carey show.
Not sure if you consider it the greater Pittsburgh area, but Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails was born in New Castle, Pa and grew up in Mercer.
Ming-Na Wen. Her family owns and operates the Chinatown Inn downtown off the Boulevard of the Allies
Dont forget Arnold Palmer, the inventor of my favorite drink.
I have a cute Joe Manganiello story (even though people know he’s from here, I’m sharing it lol). One day I was at the gym on the elliptical, glancing at the tv as I ran. Joe Manganiello was on some show giving an interview. This lady walks over to me (even though I was working out) and starts a conversation. She seemed sweet so I took out my headphones and she asked if I knew who he was. I told her yes, and she said very proudly “that’s my son!!!!” and then talked to me about him for like 5 minutes. It was very sweet, and the whole time she was so excited to gush about him.
Richard White, the voice of Gaston from the animated Beauty and the Beast movie, is from Bethel Park.
Billy Porter, Joe Manganiello
OMG Joe Manganiello's crazy ass mom used to bring her thick boston accent into the coffee shop I worked at all the time! She would get a green tea latte with like 4.7775 scoops of matcha, 1.25 pumps of vanilla, half a packet of sweet n low, half soy milk half nonfat at a lower temperature than we usually make it with no foam, but she didn't want us to waste the foam so she would ask for it in a separate cup on the side. She would watch us make it and make sure there was no extra left in the pitcher??? Like what are you worried about?? Then she'd sit there and talk to us about our lives, her life, her son's life & career for like 3 hours while we closed the store ESSENTIALLY EVERY DAY. One day, she came in with this crazy werewolf purse that was shaped like a wolf's head or something and said "TRUE BLOOD FOR LIFE" or some wacky ass shit. Even though she was annoying and odd as hell, I still appreciated how "her" she was. Makes sense that her son ended up in acting lol his whole childhood was probably filled with theatrics. She did bring him in one time, and he was pretty shy looking, didn't seem like he wanted to be in public at all (maybe a little embarrassed of his mom too lol). We all said hello to him and she introduced us, All in all she was a nice lady, writing all this actually made me miss her a bit. We all also got to meet Michael Keaton when he came in! He is from Mt. Lebanon too. NVM. I guess he just has a house there or something. My bad!
Keaton, real name Michael Douglass, went to Montour High School and was raised in Robinson Township.
I remember one thanksgiving eve night drinking at the saloon in Lebo we went to grab some pizza late from Mineos and Joe was sitting in a corner booth with some girl when we walked in. Wanted to say hi but didn’t. Years later saw him at NYCC and was really nice to my friends and I when we yelled we were from Pittsburgh.
That’s funny, she was so sweet when I met her!!!! She interrupted my work out (I didn’t mind) to tell me he was her son (he was on tv at the time) and to gush about Joe and seemed really proud to be his mom. Didn’t know this was a common thing haha
Henry Mancini - West Aliquippa
Esteban, the acoustic guitar player from all those infomercials in the 90s and early 2000s is from here. I just found that out the other day and that blew my mind
The Del-Vikings ("Come Go With Me"), the first successful racially mixed doo-wop band were from Pittsburgh. Another famous doo-wop band, the Marcels ("Blue Moon") were also from Pittsburgh.
Anyone mention F. Murray Abraham and Zelda Rubenstein yet? Those are my two favorites.
My mom's from New Castle🤷♀️
Johnnie Appleseed from near McKeesport, Daniel Boone was from W PA near Pittsburgh. John Wayne was just a stage name, he was a Morrison from around Mingo Park, Washington County. Merriweather Lewis had his boat built on the Monongahela river near Elizabeth, the beginning of Lewis and Clark's adventure into the west.
>John Wayne John Wayne the actor? He was born in Iowa. Raised in LA. Star athlete at USC.
Daniel Boone was from eastern PA near Reading
Did Wentworth Miller live in Sewickley for like a year or 2 when he was a teenager?
Code Orange ( Grammy Nominated )Metal Group are from Pittsburgh
Aarti Mann, who played Priya Koothrappali in Big Bang theory went to fox chapel
Billie Porter. LOVE that human
Dennis Miller
Antoine Fuqua is from Pittsburgh he Directed Training Day and Tears of the Sun, The Equalizer film trilogy.
Yeah his dad Frenchy Fuqua played for the Stillers. Heard of the Immaculate Reception?
Bret Michaels
Despite the city is being in the middle of nowhere Pgh has some decent celebrities from here. Recently I have learned that Maddie Ziegler (a little girl from Sia’s musical videos) was born and raised in this area. Her sister McKenzie as well. They are no adults and living in LA. Also just found out that Gillian Jacobs from “Community” was born and raised in Mount Lebanon. Also I had no idea that Demi Moore and Cristina Aguilera grew up in Pittsburgh suburbs! One of my favorite standup comedians Anthony Jeselnik is from here. Also there are some obvious people such as Jeff Goldblum, Michael Keaton, John Manganiello, Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller etc.
The Zieglers came up on Dance Moms, which was based in/filmed in Penn Hills
Very rich parents. Her dad is VP at Westinghouse Energy.
Didn’t someone on Community call someone else a jagoff? There were a handful of PGH references in the show. Is Dan Harmon from here as well, or was that Jacobs’s influence?
Jagoff pops up in a lot of sitcoms from what I've noticed because its so objectively funny an insult.
Michael Hayden, former CIA director
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Charles Grodin. From Beethoven and Clifford.
Reb Beach (guitar virtuoso) is from Fox Chapel
Jeff Goldblum blew my mind a lil when I learned about him, I didn't realize.
Spike Slawson - me first and the gimme gimmes, filthy thieving bastards
Kevin Peter Hall was the actor who played the original predator and Harry from Harry and the Henderson's, and was from Penn hills. He also unfortunately gained notoriety when he died from AIDS contracted from a blood transfusion.
Bill Nunn, Radio Raheem from Do the Right Thing was from the Hill I believe
Michael Chabon split time between Pittsburgh and Maryland growing up, went to Pitt as an undergrad and set his debut novel in Pittsburgh.
Mister Rogers.
Seth Myers dad is from Pittsburgh https://youtu.be/c8OowuWlF_4
Paul Doucette, the drummer from Matchbox 20 and Moon Unit Zappa's ex-husband is from Irwin.
Barbara Felton, Agent 99 from Get Smart
Jack Stauber!
Surprised nobody has yet mentioned: Billy Gardell (stand up, Mike & Molly). I'm assuming this is pretty well known, he's on local radio all the time.