Famous American Musical And Dramatic Academy Alumni

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People on this list must have gone to American Musical and Dramatic Academy and be of some renown.

List of famous alumni from American Musical and Dramatic Academy, with photos when available. Prominent graduates from American Musical and Dramatic Academy include celebrities, politicians, business people, athletes and more. This list of distinguished American Musical and Dramatic Academy alumni is loosely ordered by relevance, so the most recognizable celebrities who attended American Musical and Dramatic Academy are at the top of the list. This directory is not just composed of graduates of this school, as some of the famous people on this list didn't necessarily earn a degree from American Musical and Dramatic Academy.

This list below has a variety of graduates in it, from Jason Mraz to Natalie Zea.

This list answers the questions “Which famous people went to American Musical and Dramatic Academy?” and “Which celebrities are American Musical and Dramatic Academy alumni?”
  • Jason Mraz

    Jason Mraz

    Musician, Singer-songwriter, Actor
    • Age: 46
    • Birthplace: USA, Virginia, Mechanicsville
    Jason Thomas Mraz (; born June 23, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and actor who first came to prominence in the San Diego coffee shop scene in 2000. In 2002 he released his debut studio album, Waiting for My Rocket to Come, which contained the hit single "The Remedy (I Won't Worry)". With the release of his second album, Mr. A-Z, in 2005, Mraz achieved major commercial success. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and sold over 100,000 copies in the US. In 2008 Mraz released his third studio album, We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. It debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and was an international commercial success primarily due to the hit "I'm Yours". The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his first top ten single, and spent a then-record 76 weeks on the Hot 100. His fourth album, Love Is a Four Letter Word, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200, his highest-charting album to date. Mraz has won two Grammy Awards and received two additional nominations, and has also won two Teen Choice Awards, a People's Choice Award and the Hal David Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. He has earned Platinum and multi-Platinum certifications in over 20 countries, and has toured in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and parts of Africa. As of July 2014 Mraz has sold over seven million albums, and over 11.5 million downloaded singles. His musical style, from rhythmic feeling to his use of nylon string guitars, has been heavily influenced by Brazilian music.
  • Gretchen Mol

    Gretchen Mol

    Usher, Model, Actor
    • Age: 50
    • Birthplace: Deep River, Connecticut, USA
    Gretchen Mol (born November 8, 1972) is an American actress and former model. She is known for her role as Gillian Darmody in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. She also appeared in the films Rounders (1998), Celebrity (1998), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Notorious Bettie Page (2005), in which she played the title character, 3:10 to Yuma (2007) and Manchester by the Sea (2016).
  • Tyne Daly

    Tyne Daly

    Actor, Voice acting
    • Age: 77
    • Birthplace: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
    Ellen Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American actress. She has won six Emmy Awards for her television work and a Tony Award, and is a 2011 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. Daly began her career on stage in summer stock in New York, and made her Broadway debut in the play That Summer – That Fall in 1967. She is best known for her television role as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey (1982–88), for which she is a four-time Emmy Award winner as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. In 1989, she starred in the Broadway revival of Gypsy and won the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.Her other TV roles include Alice Henderson in Christy (1994–95), for which she won an Emmy in 1996 and Maxine Gray in Judging Amy (1999–2005), which won her a sixth Emmy in 2003. Her other Broadway credits include The Seagull (1992), her Tony-nominated role in Rabbit Hole (2006) and her Tony-nominated role in Mothers and Sons (2014). She played Maria Callas, both on Broadway and in London's West End, in the play Master Class (2011–12). She also plays Anne Marie Hoag in Marvel Studios' Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017).
  • Paul Sorvino

    Paul Sorvino

    Opera Singer, Sculptor, Activist
    • Age: Dec. at 83 (1939-2022)
    • Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
    Paul Anthony Sorvino (April 13, 1939 – July 25, 2022) was an American actor, opera singer, businessman, writer, and sculptor. He often portrayed authority figures on both sides of the law and was known for his roles as Paulie Cicero (based on Paul Vario) in the 1990 gangster film Goodfellas, and NYPD Sergeant Phil Cerreta on the TV series Law & Order. He took on supporting roles in A Touch of Class, Reds, The Rocketeer, Nixon, and Romeo + Juliet. He was the father of actors Mira Sorvino and Michael Sorvino.
  • Angela Bettis

    Angela Bettis

    Film Producer, Actor, Film Director
    • Age: 50
    • Birthplace: Texas, USA, Austin
    Angela Marie Bettis (born January 9, 1973) is an American film and stage actress, film producer, and director best known for her lead roles in the 2002 TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel Carrie, May (2002), and Girl, Interrupted. In addition to her work in film, Bettis also starred in two Broadway productions: The Father in 1996 with Frank Langella, and as Abigail Williams in a 2002 revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible alongside Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
  • Marissa Jaret Winokur

    Marissa Jaret Winokur

    Actor, Voice acting, Singer
    • Age: 50
    • Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
    Marissa Jaret Winokur (born February 2, 1973), sometimes credited as Marissa Winokur, is an American actress known for her Tony-winning performance as Tracy Turnblad in the highly successful Broadway musical Hairspray, an adaptation of John Waters's film, as well as her work on the Pamela Anderson sitcom Stacked. Some of her other TV credits include Curb Your Enthusiasm, Moesha, The Steve Harvey Show, Just Shoot Me!, Felicity, and Dharma & Greg. She was a contestant on the popular reality competition series Dancing With the Stars and went on to host the similar Dance Your Ass Off. From 2010-2011 she served as a co-host on the daily daytime talk show The Talk, ultimately leaving to focus on her clothing line and a new cable TV show. The cable TV show in question, when it premiered, proved to be a late-night talk show titled All About Sex, whose co-hosting duties she shared with Margaret Cho, Heather McDonald, and Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry, and which TLC transmitted at 11:00 PM Eastern time on Saturday nights. In 2018, Winokur participated in the first U.S. season of Celebrity Big Brother, where she was crowned the winner.