Inside the Actors Studio Bravo cable television channel, first hosted by James Lipton from 1994 to 2018, and on Ovation for the show's 23rd and final season in 2019 with an alternating list of hosts. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton. The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed internationally by CABLEready and is broadcast in 125 countries around the world reaching 89,000,000 homes.[ 1] Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University 's New York City campus.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Many of the available episode guides conflict with one another regarding the numbering of episodes[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8]
Episodes
Inside the Actors Studio premiered on Bravo on June 12, 1994. The first season was also the first-time host James Lipton appeared on the show without his trademark beard.. No. Air Date Guest 1 June 12, 1994 Paul Newman 2 June 18, 1994 Alec Baldwin 3 June 22, 1994 Stephen Sondheim 4 July 5, 1994 Sidney Lumet 5 July 12, 1994 Shelley Winters 6 July 18, 1994 [ 9] Sally Field 7 July 23, 1994 Dennis Hopper 8 July 30, 1994 Arthur Miller 9 August 7, 1994 [ 10] Arthur Penn 10 August 14, 1994 Estelle Parsons 11 August 21, 1994 [ 11] Neil Simon 12 August 28, 1994 Sydney Pollack 13 September 4, 1994 Mary Stuart Masterson 14 September 11, 1994 Olympia Dukakis 15 September 18, 1994 William Goldman
Season 2 of Inside the Actors Studio was the last season where host James Lipton appeared on camera without a beard. Lipton's signature look was a full beard, and he sported it for the following season. No. Air Date Guest 1 (16) March 12, 1995 [ 12] Lee Grant 2 (17) March 19, 1995 [ 13] Faye Dunaway 3 (18) March 26, 1995[ 14] Matthew Broderick 4 (19) April 2, 1995[ 15] Glenn Close 5 (20) April 9, 1995[ 16] Holly Hunter 6 (21) April 16, 1995[ 17] Ellen Burstyn 7 (22) April 23, 1995[ 18] Jessica Lange 8 (23) April 30, 1995[ 19] Carol Burnett 9 (24) May 7, 1995[ 20] Christopher Walken 10 (25) May 14, 1995 Gene Wilder 11 (26) May 21, 1995 Stanley Donen 12 (27) May 28, 1995 Martin Landau
Beginning with this season, James Lipton began wearing a beard for the remainder of the series. This was a change from the clean-shaven look he had sported for the first two seasons. No. Air Date Guest 1 (28) March 10, 1996 Mark Rydell 2 (29) March 17, 1996 Norman Jewison 3 (30) March 24, 1996[ 21] Nathan Lane 4 (31) March 31, 1996 Anjelica Huston 5 (32) April 7, 1996 Christopher Reeve 6 (33) April 14, 1996 Matt Dillon 7 (34) April 21, 1996 Tommy Lee Jones 8 (35) April 28, 1996[ 22] Mike Nichols 9 (36) May 5, 1996 Julia Roberts 10 (37) May 12, 1996 Meg Ryan 11 (38) May 19, 1996 Anthony Quinn 12 (39) May 26, 1996 Willem Dafoe 13 (40) June 2, 1996 Billy Crystal
No. Air Date Guest 1 (41) August 9, 1998 Harvey Keitel 2 (42) August 23, 1998 Shirley MacLaine 3 (43) September 6, 1998 Eli Wallach 4 (44) September 13, 1998 Anne Jackson 5 (45) September 20, 1998 Lauren Bacall 6 (46) September 27, 1998 Martin Short 7 (47) October 4, 1998 Anthony Hopkins 8 (48) October 11, 1998 Danny Glover 9 (49) October 18, 1998 Whoopi Goldberg 10 (50) October 25, 1998 Jack Lemmon 11 (51) November 1, 1998 Gary Sinise 12 (52) November 8, 1998 Kathy Bates 13 (53) November 15, 1998 Susan Sarandon
No. Air Date Guest 1 (54) November 22, 1998 Meryl Streep 2 (55) November 29, 1998 John Hurt 3 (56) December 6, 1998 Laurence Fishburne 4 (57) December 13, 1998 Donald Sutherland 5 (58) January 3, 1999 Ron Howard 6 (59) January 10, 1999 Sharon Stone 7 (60) January 17, 1999 Sean Penn 8 (61) January 31, 1999 Robert De Niro 9 (62) February 14, 1999 Steven Spielberg 10 (63) July 5, 1999 Tim Robbins 11 (64) July 11, 1999 Jennifer Jason Leigh 12 (65) July 18, 1999 Kim Basinger 13 (66) July 25, 1999 Ellen Barkin 14 (67) August 8, 1999 Peter Falk 15 (68) August 15, 1999 Jerry Lewis
No. Air Date Guest 1 (69) November 14, 1999 Billy Joel 2 (70) November 21, 1999 Mary Tyler Moore 3 (71) December 5, 1999 Sylvester Stallone 4 (72) December 12, 1999 Tom Hanks 5 (73) January 9, 2000 Michael Caine 6 (74) April 9, 2000 Geena Davis 7 (75) April 30, 2000 James Woods 8 (76) May 7, 2000 Andy Garcia 9 (77) July 2, 2000 Kevin Spacey 10 (78) June 4, 2000 Philip Seymour Hoffman 11 (79) August 6, 2000 Alan Alda 12 (80) August 20, 2000 Harrison Ford 13 (81) October 29, 2000 Sigourney Weaver
No. Air Date Guest 1 (82) November 12, 2000 Bernadette Peters 2 (83) November 16, 2000 Val Kilmer 3 (84) November 19, 2000 James Caan 4 (85) December 3, 2000 Richard Dreyfuss 5 (86) December 10, 2000 Gabriel Byrne 6 (87) December 17, 2000 Spike Lee 7 (88) December 17, 2000 Ed Harris 8 (89) January 14, 2001 Ben Affleck 9 (90) January 28, 2001 Ned Beatty 10 (91) February 4, 2001 Mike Myers 11 (92) February 18, 2001 Michael Douglas 12 (93) March 11, 2001 Gwyneth Paltrow 13 (94) April 15, 2001 Helen Hunt 14 (95) May 6, 2001 Francis Ford Coppola 15 (96) June 10, 2001 Robin Williams 16 (97) July 15, 2001 Melanie Griffith 17 (98) July 22, 2001 Antonio Banderas 18 (99) August 6, 2001 Burt Reynolds 19 (100) August 19, 2001 Roseanne
No. Air Date Guest 1 (101) September 30, 2001 Ben Stiller 2 (102) October 14, 2001 Gene Hackman 3 (103) October 21, 2001 Kevin Kline 4 (104) October 28, 2001 Bruce Willis 5 (105) November 25, 2001 Kevin Costner 6 (106) January 13, 2002 Will Smith 7 (107) January 27, 2002 Stockard Channing 8 (108) February 17, 2002 Debra Winger 9 (109) March 3, 2002 Sarah Jessica Parker 10 (110) March 17, 2002 Ben Kingsley 11 (111) April 7, 2002 Dennis Quaid 12 (112) April 21, 2002 Ethan Hawke 13 (113) May 5, 2002 Richard Gere 14 (114) May 12, 2002 Hugh Grant 15 (115) June 2, 2002 Samuel L. Jackson 16 (116) June 30, 2002 Benicio del Toro 17 (117) August 4, 2002 Vanessa Redgrave 18 (118) August 18, 2002 Billy Bob Thornton 19 (119) September 8, 2002 Johnny Depp
On February 9, 2003, the cast of The Simpsons Inside the Actors Studio. They talked about their lives as cast members and showed clips from episodes of The Simpsons. No. Air Date Guest 1 (120) October 6, 2002 Sissy Spacek 2 (121) October 27, 2002 Juliette Binoche 3 (122) November 10, 2002 Jeanne Moreau 4 (123) November 17, 2002 Pierce Brosnan 5 (124) December 8, 2002 Ian McKellen 6 (125) December 15, 2002 Martin Scorsese 7 (126) December 22, 2002 Julianne Moore 8 (127) January 12, 2003 Edward Norton 9 (128) February 9, 2003 Cast of The Simpsons 10 (129) February 16, 2003 Nicolas Cage 11 (130) March 2, 2003 Drew Barrymore 12 (131) March 9, 2003 Renée Zellweger 13 (132) April 13, 2003 John Travolta 14 (133) May 4, 2003 Jeremy Irons 15 (134) May 11, 2003 Joanne Woodward 16 (135) May 18, 2003 Martin Sheen 17 (136) July 20, 2003 Jeff Bridges
Inside the Actors Studio celebrated its 10th anniversary season on Bravo . The season included a retrospective of the show's history and memorable moments, as well as in-depth interviews with actors. No. Air Date Guest 1 (137) September 14, 2003 John Goodman 2 (138) October 5, 2003 Clint Eastwood 3 (139) November 16, 2003 Cast of Will & Grace 4 (140) December 14, 2003 Cate Blanchett 5 (141) December 21, 2003 Jude Law 6 (142) December 28, 2003 Naomi Watts 7 (143) January 4, 2004 Russell Crowe 8 (144) January 11, 2004 Tom Cruise 9 (145) January 18, 2004 Charlize Theron 10 (146) February 8, 2004 Diane Lane 11 (147) February 15, 2004 Jay Leno 12 (148) March 7, 2004 Hugh Jackman 13 (149) March 14, 2004 Kate Winslet 14 (150) March 21, 2004 Barbra Streisand 15 (151) June 6, 2004 Bette Midler 16 (152) June 20, 2004 10th Anniversary Special
No. Air Date Guest 1 (153) October 10, 2004 Jennifer Lopez 2 (154) October 17, 2004 James Gandolfini 3 (155) October 24, 2004 William H. Macy 4 (156) October 31, 2004 George Carlin 5 (157) November 7, 2004 Jennifer Connelly 6 (158) November 14, 2004 Mark Wahlberg 7 (159) November 21, 2004 Natalie Portman 8 (160) November 28, 2004 Jamie Foxx 9 (161) December 5, 2004 Salma Hayek 10 (162) January 2, 2005 Morgan Freeman 11 (163) January 9, 2005 Cameron Diaz 12 (164) January 23, 2005 Kiefer Sutherland 13 (165) January 30, 2005 Robert Redford 14 (166) February 6, 2005 Colin Farrell 15 (167) February 13, 2005 Val Kilmer - second visit 16 (168) February 20, 2005 Owen Wilson 17 (169) April 10, 2005 David Duchovny 18 (170) April 24, 2005 Jane Fonda 19 (171) June 5, 2005 Angelina Jolie 20 (172) June 19, 2005 Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond 21 (173) September 25, 2005 Jodie Foster 22 (174) October 16, 2005 Elton John 23 (175) October 23, 2005 Rosie O'Donnell 24 (176) October 30, 2005 Michael J. Fox
No. Air Date Guest 1 (177) December 11, 2005 Cast of The Producers 2 (178) December 18, 2005 Barbara Walters 3 (179) January 8, 2006 Queen Latifah 4 (180) January 15, 2006 Ralph Fiennes 5 (181) January 22, 2006 Martin Lawrence 6 (182) February 5, 2006 Liza Minnelli 7 (183) February 12, 2006 Dave Chappelle 8 (184) May 7, 2006 Cast of Law & Order 9 (185) May 14, 2006 Tom Hanks - second visit 10 (186) May 21, 2006 Don Cheadle 11 (187) May 28, 2006 Tim Allen 12 (188) June 18, 2006 Dustin Hoffman 13 (189) July 9, 2006 Robert Downey Jr. 14 (190) July 31, 2006 Hugh Laurie 15 (191) September 18, 2006 Teri Hatcher 16 (192) October 2, 2006 Al Pacino
No. Air Date Guest 1 (193) December 11, 2006 Forest Whitaker 2 (194) December 18, 2006 Eddie Murphy 3 (195) January 8, 2007 Matt Damon 4 (196) February 19, 2007 Diana Ross 5 (197) March 12, 2007 Chris Rock 6 (198) March 19, 2007 Mark Ruffalo 7 (199) June 4, 2007 Julia Louis-Dreyfus 8 (200) June 11, 2007 Kyra Sedgwick 9 (201) August 6, 2007 Michelle Pfeiffer 10 (202) September 17, 2007 Charlie Sheen 11 (203) October 8, 2007 Billy Crystal - second visit 12 (204) October 15, 2007 Anthony Hopkins - second visit 13 (205) October 22, 2007 Alec Baldwin - second visit 14 (206) October 29, 2007 Halle Berry 15 (207) December 3, 2007 John Cusack
No. Air Date Guest 1 (212) November 3, 2008 Goldie Hawn 2 (213) November 10, 2008 Dave Chappelle 3 (214) December 1, 2008 Daniel Radcliffe 4 (215) January 5, 2009 Josh Brolin 5 (216) January 12, 2009 Laura Linney 6 (217) January 19, 2009 Ricky Gervais 7 (218) January 26, 2009 Conan O'Brien 8 (219) February 2, 2009 Anthony LaPaglia 9 (220) May 4, 2009 Denis Leary 10 (221) May 11, 2009 Danny DeVito 11 (222) July 27, 2009 Judd Apatow 12 (223) August 31, 2009 Mickey Rourke 13 (224) September 7, 2009 Jason Bateman 14 (225) September 14, 2009 Cast of Family Guy 15 (226) September 21, 2009 Amy Poehler
No. Air Date Guest 1 (244) February 13, 2013 Hugh Jackman - second visit 2 (245) March 19, 2013 Tina Fey [ 24] [ 25] 3 (246) May 29, 2013 250th Special - Bradley Cooper , Robert De Niro , Jennifer Lopez , Christopher Walken and Barbara Walters , Dave Chappelle , and more.[ 26] 4 (247) September 19, 2013 Jake Gyllenhaal 5 (248) November 7, 2013 Cast of Arrested Development 6 (249) December 26, 2013 Bruce and Laura Dern 7 (250) February 19, 2014 Amy Adams [ 27] [ 28]
Inside the Actors Studio celebrated its 20th anniversary on Bravo . The show debuted in 1994, and over the years has featured in-depth interviews with a wide range of actors.
This was the last season that James Lipton hosted Inside the Actors Studio after the show premiered in 1994. It was also the last season to air on Bravo before Ovation picked up the show.
The 23rd and final season of "Inside the Actors Studio" was the first and only season to air on Ovation . In this season, the host appeared in a rotating list of episodes.
References ^ "Lipton takes readers inside 'Inside the Actors Studio' . Msnbc.com . October 19, 2007. Archived from the original on October 24, 2007.^ WARREN BERGER (March 14, 1999). "All the School's a Stage; Stars Talk Shop and the Film Community Listens" . The New York Times ^ JAMES BARRON (September 22, 1996). "The Studio, A Place Of Legends" . The New York Times ^ Carnicke, Sharon Marie (2008). Stanislavsky in focus: an acting master for the twenty-first century ISBN 978-0-415-77496-3 . ^ "Inside the Actors Studio (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)" . epguides.com. Retrieved January 26, 2011 .^ "Inside the Actors Studio episodes" . The Internet Movie Database . Retrieved January 26, 2011 .^ "Inside the Actors Studio — Episode Guide" . tv.com. Retrieved January 26, 2011 .^ "Official Site" . BravoTV.com. August 3, 2007. Retrieved January 26, 2011 .^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Sally Field [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed Lou Del Prete; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. May 3, 1995.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Arthur Penn [and] Estelle Parsons [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed by Lou Del Prete; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. March 30, 1995.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Neil Simon [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced by Mike Kostel and John Servidio; directed by Jeff Wurtz; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. July 9, 1995.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Lee Grant [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; directed and produced by Joshua White; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. March 12, 1997.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Faye Dunaway [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. January 17, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Matthew Broderick [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced & directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. June 5, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Glenn Close [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced & directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. January 24, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Holly Hunter [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. January 31, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Ellen Burstyn [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced by Mike Kostel and John Servidio; directed by Jeff Wurtz; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. December 25, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Jessica Lange [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced & directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. June 12, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Carol Burnett [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. June 19, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Christopher Walken [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced and directed by Joshua White; produced by Gina M. Angelone; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. October 23, 1996.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Nathan Lane [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced by Mike Kostel and John Servidio; directed by Jeff Wurtz; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. September 21, 1997.^ "Inside the Actors Studio. Mike Nichols [videorecording] / a co-production of the Actors Studio and Bravo, the Film and Arts Network; executive producer, James Lipton; produced by Mike Kostel and John Servidio; directed by Jeff Wurtz; written by James Lipton" . Actors Studio. May 18, 1997.^ Goldberg, Lesley (March 29, 2012). " . The Hollywood Reporter . ^ Eichel, Molly (March 13, 2013). "Tina Fey to appear on 'Inside the Actors Studio' . philly.com. Retrieved October 16, 2014 . ^ Lange, Maggie (March 22, 2013). "Inside the Actor's Studio Interview with Tina Fey's Sarah Palin [Video]" . Indie Wire . Retrieved October 18, 2014 . ^ "Inside the Actors Studio: 250th Episode " . Zap2it . 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