Inside the Actors Studio
Unvarnished is an American talk show with James Lipton. The existing longest mission of the cable network Bravo has existed since 1994 and since then eleven times nominated for an Emmy. The scene is the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts on the campus of Pace University in New York City. In Germany, the format is shown on 3sat and EinsFestival.
Layout
After the interview with Lipton followed by an open question period, the actors and filmmakers can consult on their own issues in the graduates of the Actors Studio and New School University for each guest.
Since its founding more than 200 guests were in the studio guest, 74 of them Oscar winners:
- 62 actresses and actors
- 8 directors
- 4 Writers
- 2 musicians
After a chronological survey of the cinematic CV score followed by ten always the same questions. They come from Bernard Pivot, a French television personality:
- Ben Affleck
- Alan Alda
- Tim Allen
- Jennifer Aniston
- Lauren Bacall
- Alec Baldwin
- Antonio Banderas
- Ellen Barkin
- Roseanne Barr
- Drew Barrymore
- Kim Basinger
- Kathy Bates
- Ned Beatty
- Halle Berry
- Juliette Binoche
- Cate Blanchett
- Jeff Bridges
- Matthew Broderick
- Pierce Brosnan
- Carol Burnett
- Ellen Burstyn
- Steve Buscemi
- Gabriel Byrne
- James Caan
- Nicolas Cage
- Michael Caine
- George Carlin
- Jim Carrey
- Stockard Channing
- Dave Chappelle
- Don Cheadle
- Glenn Close
- Jennifer Connelly
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Kevin Costner
- Russell Crowe
- Tom Cruise
- Billy Crystal
- John Cusack
- Willem Dafoe
- Geena Davis
- Robert De Niro
- Johnny Depp
- Cameron Diaz
- Matt Dillon
- Stanley Donen
- Michael Douglas
- Robert Downey Jr.
- Julia Louis -Dreyfus
- Richard Dreyfuss
- David Duchovny
- Olympia Dukakis
- Faye Dunaway
- Clint Eastwood
- Peter Falk
- Sally Field
- Ralph Fiennes
- Laurence Fishburne
- Jane Fonda
- Harrison Ford
- Jodie Foster
- Michael J. Fox ( with Tracy Pollan )
- Jamie Foxx
- Morgan Freeman
- James Gandolfini
- Andy García
- Richard Gere
- Danny Glover
- Whoopi Goldberg
- William Goldman
- John Goodman
- Hugh Grant
- Lee Grant
- Melanie Griffith
- Gene Hackman
- Tom Hanks
- Ed Harris
- Teri Hatcher
- Ethan Hawke
- Salma Hayek
- Dustin Hoffman
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Anthony Hopkins
- Dennis Hopper
- Ron Howard
- Helen Hunt
- Holly Hunter
- John Hurt
- Anjelica Huston
- Jeremy Irons
- Hugh Jackman
- Anne Jackson ( with Eli Wallach )
- Samuel L. Jackson
- Norman Jewison
- Billy Joel
- Elton John
- Angelina Jolie
- Tommy Lee Jones
- Harvey Keitel
- Val Kilmer
- Ben Kingsley
- Kevin Kline
- Martin Landau
- Diane Lane
- Nathan Lane
- Jessica Lange
- Queen Latifah
- Hugh Laurie
- Jew Law
- Martin Lawrence
- Spike Lee
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jack Lemmon
- Jay Leno
- Jerry Lewis
- Jennifer Lopez
- Julia Louis -Dreyfus
- Sidney Lumet
- Shirley MacLaine
- William H. Macy
- Mary Stuart Masterson
- Ian McKellen
- Bette Midler
- Arthur Miller
- Liza Minnelli
- Julianne Moore
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Jeanne Moreau
- Eddie Murphy
- Mike Myers
- Paul Newman
- Mike Nichols
- Edward Norton
- Rosie O'Donnell
- Al Pacino
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Sarah Jessica Parker
- Estelle Parsons
- Arthur Penn
- Sean Penn
- Bernadette Peters
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Sydney Pollack
- Tracy Pollan ( with Michael J. Fox)
- Natalie Portman
- Dennis Quaid
- Anthony Quinn
- Robert Redford
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Christopher Reeve
- Burt Reynolds
- Tim Robbins
- Julia Roberts
- Chris Rock
- Diana Ross
- Mark Ruffalo
- Meg Ryan
- Mark Rydell
- Susan Sarandon
- Martin Scorsese
- Kyra Sedgwick
- Charlie Sheen
- Martin Sheen
- Martin Short
- Neil Simon
- Gary Sinise
- Will Smith
- Stephen Sondheim
- Sissy Spacek
- Kevin Spacey
- Steven Spielberg
- Sylvester Stallone
- Ben Stiller
- Sharon Stone
- Meryl Streep
- Barbra Streisand
- Donald Sutherland
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Charlize Theron
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Benicio del Toro
- John Travolta
- Mark Wahlberg
- Christopher Walken
- Eli Wallach ( with Anne Jackson)
- Barbara Walters
- Naomi Watts
- Sigourney Weaver
- Forest Whitaker
- Gene Wilder
- Robin Williams
- Bruce Willis
- Debra Winger
- Kate Winslet
- Shelley Winters
- James Woods
- Joanne Woodward
- Renée Zellweger
Groups as guests
- Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond ( Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, and Peter Boyle )
- Cast of Law & Order ( creator Dick Wolf, Chris Noth ( Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent ), S. Epatha Merkerson ( Law & Order ), Christopher Meloni ( Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) )
- Cast of The Producers ( directors: Susan Stroman, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick )
- Cast of The Simpsons (Nancy Cartwright, Hank Azaria, Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Harry Shearer, and Yeardley Smith)
- Cast of Will & Grace ( Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes, and Megan Mullally )
- Cast of Family Guy ( Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green and Mike Henry)
- Music band Bon Jovi