page_title: List of University of Washington people
section_title: Television, film, and other arts
hierarchical_section_title: List of University of Washington people / Notable alumni / Television, film, and other arts
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Kyle MacLachlan au festival de Cannes
context_page_description: This page lists notable students, alumni and faculty members of the University of Washington.
context_section_description: Robert Armstrong – movie actor who portrayed Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong
  John Aylward – stage, TV, and movie actor, ER, The West Wing
  Stan Boreson – comedian and singer, the "King of Scandinavian Humor"
  Angus Bowmer – founder of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon
  David Brooks – Broadway star and stage director and producer
  Dylan Bruce – Canadian actor and model, known for his roles on As the World Turns and Orphan Black
  Luke Burbank (1988) – radio host and reporter
  Dyan Cannon – film and television actress and twice nominee for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  Loren Carpenter (1976) – co-founded Pixar Animation Studios; currently Chief Creative Officer of Disney
  James Caviezel – actor, played Jesus Christ in the controversial film The Passion of the Christ, plays one of the leads in the TV series Person of Interest
  Lee Shallat Chemel – TV director, Murphy Brown
  Queenie Chu – actress, first runner-up of Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2004
  Tristram Coffin – actor who played Thomas H. Rynning, commander of the Arizona Rangers, in the syndicated television series 26 Men (1957–1959)
  Earl Cole – first African-American male winner of Survivor
  Jeffrey Combs – horror film actor and Star Trek regular
  Larry Coryell – jazz guitarist
  Imogen Cunningham (1907) – photographer
  Garret Dillahunt – actor,  Raising Hope
  Patrick Duffy (1971) – TV actor, Dallas, Step by Step
  Anna Faris (1999) – film actress, Scary Movie, House Bunny
  Frances Farmer (1935) – film and theatre actress
  The Fung Brothers (Andrew Fung, 1988, and David Fung, 1988) – YouTube personalities, rappers, television actors in Broke Bites: What The Fung?!
  Leann Hunley – actress, Days of Our Lives, Dynasty, Dawson's Creek
  Ken Jennings – holds the record for the longest winning streak on Jeopardy!
  Richard Karn (1979) – television actor; Al Borland in Home Improvement
  Bruce Lee – martial artist and actor
  Kyle MacLachlan (1982) – film and television actor most famous for roles in Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives, Dune, and Sex and the City
  Mary Mapes – former producer of the CBS television show 60 Minutes
  Ernest Martin (1932) – theatre director and manager
  Joel McHale (1995, MFA 2000) – host of The Soup on E!; actor on NBC comedy Community
  Dennis Nyback (2008)  independent film archivist, found footage filmmaker
  Robert Osborne (1954) – film historian
  Dorothy Provine – actress with leading roles in The Bonnie Parker Story, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Good Neighbor Sam and the TV series The Alaskans
  Pamela Reed – actress
  Kelsey Schmidt (1989) – Miss Washington USA 2016
  Jean Smart (1974) – television actress, Designing Women, Kim Possible
  Manick Sorcar – artist, engineer, and entrepreneur
  Rick Steves (1978) – host, writer and producer of public television's Rick Steve's Europe; best-selling travel author
  Julia Sweeney (1982) – Saturday Night Live actress
  Robb Weller (1961) – Entertainment Tonight host and inventor of the wave
  Dawn Wells (1960) – Mary Ann of Gilligan's Island
  Steve Wiebe (1991) – primary subject of the documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and former world record holder for Donkey Kong
  Rainn Wilson – actor,  The Office, Six Feet Under
  Art Wolfe (1975) – nature photographer and star of PBS show Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe
caption: Kyle MacLachlan
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