Celebrities Born in the Great State of Wisconsin Quiz

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- Ellen Corby (Racine) was an American actress and screenwriter. She spent 11 years as an unpaid script assistant at Poverty Row Pictures before becoming an actress (her mother prepared all the lunches for staff). She replaced Jessica Tandy as Aunt Trina in "I Remember Mama" (1948) after Tandy dropped out of the project in order to pursue "A Woman's Vengeance" (1948).

- Tyne Daly (Madison) is an American actress whose six-decade career included many leading roles in movies and theater. The Daly family (Tyne, Tim Daly, and father James Daly) are one of the most successful families in television history, with four series lasting at least six seasons. She won Broadway's 1990 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for a revival of "Gypsy".

- Orson Welles (Kenosha) was an American director, actor, writer, and producer remembered for his innovative film, radio, and theatre work. Along with Lord Laurence Olivier, Woody Allen, Warren Beatty, Sir Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Costner, Clint Eastwood and Roberto Benigni, he is one of only eight men to receive Academy Award nominations for both Best Actor and Best Director for the same film: Welles for "Citizen Kane" (1941), Olivier for "Hamlet" (1948), Allen for "Annie Hall" (1977), Beatty for both "Heaven Can Wait" (1978) and "Reds" (1981), Branagh for "Henry V" (1989), Costner for "Dances with Wolves" (1990), Eastwood for both "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), and Benigni for "Life Is Beautiful" (1997).

- Laura Ingalls Wilder (Pepin County) was an American writer. She was 65 when the first of her "Little House" books, "Little House in the Big Woods", was published. It was 11 years later, when she was 76, that the 8th and final book in the series was published. In the summer of 2017, she was sculpted in butter (in her young pig-tailed girl persona) at the Iowa State Fair in honor of the 150th anniversary of her birth.

- Gena Rowlands (Madison) was an American actress, whose film, stage, and television career spanned nearly seven decades. She made her Broadway breakthrough at 26 in Paddy Chayefsky's romantic drama "Middle of the Night" (1956) and soon after signed her first Hollywood studio contract. Her performance as Mabel Longhetti in "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974) is ranked #63 on the "Premiere Magazine" list of 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).

- Chris Farley (Madison) was an American actor and comedian. He was said to have idolized John Belushi. His life story bears a striking similarity to that of Belushi: both Farley and Belushi were regulars at "The Second City" in Chicago, both then went on to become cast members on "Saturday Night Live" (1975) and then later do feature films, both had obesity problems, both had a reputation for having an out-of-control lifestyle, and both died from drug overdoses at the age of thirty-three.

- Willem Defoe (Appleton) is an American actor - the only actor to ever be nominated for an Academy Award for playing a vampire, in his role as Max Schrek in "Shadow of the Vampire" (2000). He has appeared in six films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: "Platoon" (1986), "Mississippi Burning" (1988), "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989), "The English Patient" (1996), "The Aviator" (2004) and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (2014). "Platoon" and "The English Patient" were winners.

- Bob Uecker (Milwaukee) was an American former professional baseball catcher who was the primary broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers of Major League Baseball. Johnny Carson must've been a big Bob Uecker fan because the broadcast legend was a guest of Carson's more than 100 times. Uecker starred in the TV series "Mr. Belvedere," which lasted for six seasons in the late '80s and played Harry Doyle in the movie "Major League".

- Spencer Tracy (Milwaukee) was an American actor and one of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. He twice earned Best Actor Oscar nominations for playing foreign fishermen: as Manuel in "Captains Courageous" (1937) for which he won his first Oscar, and then as The Old Man in "The Old Man and the Sea" (1958), almost 20 years later. The American Film Institute named him the #9 Greatest Actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends List.

- Frank Lloyd Wright (Richland Center) was an American architect, designer, writer, and educator. He believed in designing in harmony with humanity and the environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was exemplified in Fallingwater (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture". His second eldest son, John Lloyd, followed in his father's footsteps to a career in architecture, inventing the still-prolific Lincoln Logs in 1916.

- Thornton Wilder (Madison) was an American playwright and novelist (and occasional actor in his plays). He was one of Alfred Hitchcock's favorite screenwriters; Hitchcock even added a special dedication to the credits of "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943) for his screenplay. His works often contain derivations (some would say plagiarization) from the novels of James Joyce.

- Jeanne Dixon (Medford) was one of the best-known American psychics and astrologers of the 20th century, notably predicting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. John Allen Paulos, a mathematician at Temple University, coined what he called the "Jeane Dixon effect", which refers to the tendency of the mass media to hype or exaggerate a few correct predictions while forgetting or ignoring the much more numerous incorrect predictions.

- Liberace (West Milwaukee) was an American pianist, singer and actor. He was so vain about his baldness that he would go to bed wearing one of his hairpieces, even on hot nights. He owned a 1961 Rolls-Royce Phantom V one of only seven built by coach builder James Young that year. It is the only one with left-hand drive (the steering wheel on the American side), making it even more rare.

- Woody Herman (Milwaukee) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. The name of his band was the Thundering Herd. The first side Woody Herman recorded was "Laura", the theme song of the 1944 movie. As a young man, Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, played sax in Woody's band.

- Eric Heiden (Madison) is an American physician and a former long-track speed skater, road cyclist and track cyclist. He won an unprecedented five individual gold medals and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Shortly after his history-making feat, Heiden launched a second career racing bicycles, eventually competing in the Tour de France.