# List of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni

This is a list of alumni of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.
* Shane Acker, filmmaker, 9
* Corey Allen, actor, film director, writer, television director, and producer, Rebel Without a Cause
* Ana Lily Amirpour, filmmaker, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
* Allison Anders, filmmaker, Gas, Food, Lodging
* MK Asante, author, Buck: A Memoir, filmmaker, The Black Candle, executive producer, While Black with MK Asante
* Jacoba Atlas, television executive, senior producer at NBC News and TBS, vice president at CNN and PBS
* Danilo Bach, writer, Beverly Hills Cop
* Carroll Ballard, director, Fly Away Home
* Beth Behrs, actress, 2 Broke Girls, The Neighborhood
* Harve Bennett, producer, Star Trek
* Corbin Bernsen, actor, Psych, L.A. Law
* Jeff Berry, historian and author
* Bruce Bilson, director, Get Smart
* Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter, J. Edgar, Milk
* Jack Black, actor, Kung Fu Panda, School of Rock
* Shane Black, writer/director, Lethal Weapon, Iron Man 3
* Thomas Bliss, producer
* Carol Burnett, comedian
* Charles Burnett, filmmaker, To Sleep with Anger
* Stephen H. Burum, cinematographer, Mission: Impossible
* Giacun Caduff, producer of La femme et le TGV
* Sheila Callaghan, writer/producer, Shameless
* Patricia Cardoso, filmmaker, Real Women Have Curves
* Nancy Cartwright, voice actress, The Simpsons
* Kerem Çatay, film producer, Ay Yapim
* Migdia Chinea, writer, The Incredible Hulk
* Bert Convy, game show host, Tattletales, Super Password, actor and singer
* Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker, The Godfather franchise
* Alex Cox, filmmaker, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
* Steve Cuden, screenwriter, Jekyll & Hyde musical
* Dean Cundey, cinematographer, Apollo 13
* Julie Dash, filmmaker, Daughters of the Dust
* Jonathan Dayton, director, Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks
* James Dean, actor, Rebel Without a Cause
* Joyce DeWitt, actress, Three's Company
* Jesse Draper, actress, talk show host, The Valley Girl Show
* Moctesuma Esparza, producer, Gettysburg
* Jamaa Fanaka, filmmaker, Penitentiary
* Valerie Faris, director, Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks
* Teshome Gabriel, cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, expert on cinema in Africa and the developing world
* Ayn Carrillo Gailey, writer, Nice Girl Like You
* Sacha Gervasi, filmmaker, Hitchcock
* Alex Gibney, filmmaker, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
* Geoffrey Gilmore, director, Tribeca Film Festival
* Maria Giese, director, activist for women directors, When Saturday Comes
* Joanna Gleason, actress, The Wedding Planner
* Dan Gordon, screenwriter, The Hurricane
* Christopher Gorham, actor, Covert Affairs
* Alex Hakobian, filmmaking teacher at Grant High School in Los Angeles
* Kristin Hanggi, Broadway director, Rock of Ages
* Catherine Hardwicke, director, Twilight
* Mariska Hargitay, actress, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
* Marielle Heller, director, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
* Felicia D. Henderson, writer/producer, Fringe, Gossip Girl
* Jim Herzfeld, screenwriter, Meet the Fockers
* Colin Higgins, screenwriter, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
* Michael Hitchcock, actor/writer, Glee
* Todd Holland, showrunner, Malcolm in the Middle
* Usmar Ismail, director, Lewat Djam Malam
* Randall Jahnson, screenwriter, The Doors
* Anne-Marie Johnson, actress, What's Happening Now!!
* Laeta Kalogridis, writer/producer, Terminator Genisys
* Judy Kaye, Broadway actress
* Nietzchka Keene, director, The Juniper Tree
* Gil Kenan, director, Poltergeist
* Matthew Kennedy, writer, Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s
* Russ Kingston, actor, film editor
* David Koepp, screenwriter, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission Impossible
* Scott Kosar, writer, The Machinist
* Neil Landau, writer, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
* Deborah Nadoolman Landis, costume designer, Coming to America, Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
* Janet Leahy, executive producer, Mad Men
* Justin Lin, filmmaker, Fast & Furious 6
* Erica Lindbeck, voice actress
* Russell Mael, singer-songwriter, Sparks
* SJ Main Muñoz, television and film director, American Horror Stories
* Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, The Doors
* Courtney Marsh, filmmaker, Chau, Beyond the Lines
* Steve Martin, actor/writer, It's Complicated, L.A. Story
* Jim Morrison, lead singer and lyricist, The Doors
* Gregory Nava, filmmaker, American Family
* Victor Nuñez, filmmaker, Ulee's Gold
* Alexander Payne, filmmaker, Nebraska, The Descendants
* Nasim Pedrad, comedian, Saturday Night Live
* Robert Roy Pool, writer, Armageddon
* Doug Pray, filmmaker, Levitated Mass
* Gina Prince-Bythewood, filmmaker, Beyond the Lights, The Secret Lives of Bees
* John Rando, Broadway director, On the Town
* Rob Reiner, actor/writer/producer, New Girl, Flipped, The Bucket List
* Tim Robbins, actor, The Brink, Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption
* Scott Rosenberg, producer/writer, Zoo, October Road, Con Air
* Eric Roth, writer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
* Pietro Scalia, editor, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Good Will Hunting
* Paul Schrader, writer, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver
* Tom Shadyac, filmmaker, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty
* Chuck Sheetz, animation director, The Simpsons, Recess
* Brad Silberling, filmmaker, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
* David Silverman, animation producer, The Simpsons
* Tom Skerritt, actor, Ted, Picket Fences, Top Gun
* Penelope Spheeris, director, Wayne's World
* Ben Stiller, actor/writer/director, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander
* Michael Stuhlbarg, actor, Boardwalk Empire
* Joel Surnow, writer, 24
* Jorma Taccone, writer, Saturday Night Live
* George Takei, actor, Star Trek
* Ham Tran, director, The Anniversary
* Kevin Tsai, television host/writer, Kangsi Coming
* Gore Verbinski, director, Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean
* David S. Ward, writer, Sleepless in Seattle, The Sting
* Aron Warner, producer, Shrek franchise
* Kevin Weisman, actor, Alias
* Marianne Wibberley, writer, National Treasure franchise
* Gregory Widen, writer, Highlander
* Cress Williams, actor, Prison Break
* Hoyt Yeatman, visual effects, Jack the Giant Slayer
* Chih-yen Yee, writer/director, Blue Gate Crossing
* Daphne Zuniga, actress, One Tree Hill, Melrose Place