Inside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. 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] It is currently taped at the 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] and in some cases are internally inconsistent.[8] The numbering here is a complete and internally consistent list created from other available episode guides for the show.
Episodes
Season 1 (1994)
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Season 2 (1995)
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Season 3 (1996)
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Season 4 (1998)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
August 9, 1998 |
Harvey Keitel |
2 |
August 23, 1998 |
Shirley MacLaine |
3 |
September 6, 1998 |
Eli Wallach |
4 |
September 13, 1998 |
Anne Jackson |
5 |
September 20, 1998 |
Lauren Bacall |
6 |
September 27, 1998 |
Martin Short |
7 |
October 4, 1998 |
Anthony Hopkins |
8 |
October 11, 1998 |
Danny Glover |
9 |
October 18, 1998 |
Whoopi Goldberg |
10 |
October 25, 1998 |
Jack Lemmon |
11 |
November 1, 1998 |
Gary Sinise |
12 |
November 8, 1998 |
Kathy Bates |
13 |
November 15, 1998 |
Susan Sarandon |
Season 5 (1998-99)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
November 22, 1998 |
Meryl Streep |
2 |
November 29, 1998 |
John Hurt |
3 |
December 6, 1998 |
Laurence Fishburne |
4 |
December 13, 1998 |
Donald Sutherland |
5 |
January 3, 1999 |
Ron Howard |
6 |
January 10, 1999 |
Sharon Stone |
7 |
January 17, 1999 |
Sean Penn |
8 |
January 31, 1999 |
Robert De Niro |
9 |
February 14, 1999 |
Steven Spielberg |
10 |
Unknown |
Tim Robbins |
11 |
July 11, 1999 |
Jennifer Jason Leigh |
12 |
July 18, 1999 |
Kim Basinger |
13 |
July 25, 1999 |
Ellen Barkin |
14 |
August 8, 1999 |
Peter Falk |
15 |
August 15, 1999 |
Jerry Lewis |
Season 6 (1999-00)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
November 14, 1999 |
Billy Joel |
2 |
November 21, 1999 |
Mary Tyler Moore |
3 |
December 5, 1999 |
Sylvester Stallone |
4 |
December 12, 1999 |
Tom Hanks |
5 |
January 9, 2000 |
Michael Caine |
6 |
April 9, 2000 |
Geena Davis |
7 |
April 30, 2000 |
James Woods |
8 |
May 7, 2000 |
Andy Garcia |
9 |
July 2, 2000 |
Kevin Spacey |
10 |
June 4, 2000 |
Philip Seymour Hoffman |
11 |
August 6, 2000 |
Alan Alda |
12 |
August 20, 2000 |
Harrison Ford |
13 |
October 29, 2000 |
Sigourney Weaver |
Season 7 (2000-01)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
November 12, 2000 |
Bernadette Peters |
2 |
Unknown |
Val Kilmer |
3 |
November 19, 2000 |
James Caan |
4 |
December 3, 2000 |
Richard Dreyfuss |
5 |
December 10, 2000 |
Gabriel Byrne |
6 |
December 17, 2000 |
Spike Lee |
7 |
December 17, 2000 |
Ed Harris |
8 |
January 14, 2001 |
Ben Affleck |
9 |
January 28, 2001 |
Ned Beatty |
10 |
February 4, 2001 |
Mike Myers |
11 |
February 18, 2001 |
Michael Douglas |
12 |
March 11, 2001 |
Gwyneth Paltrow |
13 |
April 15, 2001 |
Helen Hunt |
14 |
May 6, 2001 |
Francis Ford Coppola |
15 |
June 10, 2001 |
Robin Williams |
16 |
July 15, 2001 |
Melanie Griffith |
17 |
July 22, 2001 |
Antonio Banderas |
18 |
August 6, 2001 |
Burt Reynolds |
19 |
August 19, 2001 |
Roseanne |
Season 8 (2001-02)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
September 30, 2001 |
Ben Stiller |
2 |
October 14, 2001 |
Gene Hackman |
3 |
October 21, 2001 |
Kevin Kline |
4 |
October 28, 2001 |
Bruce Willis |
5 |
November 25, 2001 |
Kevin Costner |
6 |
January 13, 2002 |
Will Smith |
7 |
January 27, 2002 |
Stockard Channing |
8 |
February 17, 2002 |
Debra Winger |
9 |
March 3, 2002 |
Sarah Jessica Parker |
10 |
March 17, 2002 |
Ben Kingsley |
11 |
April 7, 2002 |
Dennis Quaid |
12 |
April 21, 2002 |
Ethan Hawke |
13 |
May 5, 2002 |
Richard Gere |
14 |
May 12, 2002 |
Hugh Grant |
15 |
June 2, 2002 |
Samuel L. Jackson |
16 |
June 30, 2002 |
Benicio del Toro |
17 |
August 4, 2002 |
Vanessa Redgrave |
18 |
August 18, 2002 |
Billy Bob Thornton |
19 |
September 8, 2002 |
Johnny Depp |
Season 9 (2002-03)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
October 6, 2002 |
Sissy Spacek |
2 |
October 27, 2002 |
Juliette Binoche |
3 |
November 10, 2002 |
Jeanne Moreau |
4 |
November 17, 2002 |
Pierce Brosnan |
5 |
December 8, 2002 |
Ian McKellen |
6 |
December 15, 2002 |
Martin Scorsese |
7 |
December 22, 2002 |
Julianne Moore |
8 |
January 12, 2003 |
Edward Norton |
9 |
February 9, 2003 |
Cast of The Simpsons |
10 |
February 16, 2003 |
Nicolas Cage |
11 |
March 2, 2003 |
Drew Barrymore |
12 |
March 9, 2003 |
Renée Zellweger |
13 |
April 13, 2003 |
John Travolta |
14 |
May 4, 2003 |
Jeremy Irons |
15 |
May 11, 2003 |
Joanne Woodward |
16 |
May 18, 2003 |
Martin Sheen |
17 |
July 20, 2003 |
Jeff Bridges |
Season 10 (2003-04)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
September 14, 2003 |
John Goodman |
2 |
October 5, 2003 |
Clint Eastwood |
3 |
November 16, 2003 |
Cast of Will & Grace |
4 |
December 14, 2003 |
Cate Blanchett |
5 |
December 21, 2003 |
Jude Law |
6 |
December 28, 2003 |
Naomi Watts |
7 |
January 4, 2004 |
Russell Crowe |
8 |
January 11, 2004 |
Tom Cruise |
9 |
January 18, 2004 |
Charlize Theron |
10 |
February 8, 2004 |
Diane Lane |
11 |
February 15, 2004 |
Jay Leno |
12 |
March 7, 2004 |
Hugh Jackman |
13 |
March 14, 2004 |
Kate Winslet |
14 |
March 21, 2004 |
Barbra Streisand |
15 |
June 6, 2004 |
Bette Midler |
16 |
June 20, 2004 |
10th Anniversary Special |
Season 11 (2004-05)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
October 10, 2004 |
Jennifer Lopez |
2 |
October 17, 2004 |
James Gandolfini |
3 |
October 24, 2004 |
William H. Macy |
4 |
October 31, 2004 |
George Carlin |
5 |
November 7, 2004 |
Jennifer Connelly |
6 |
November 14, 2004 |
Mark Wahlberg |
7 |
November 21, 2004 |
Natalie Portman |
8 |
November 28, 2004 |
Jamie Foxx |
9 |
December 5, 2004 |
Salma Hayek |
10 |
January 2, 2005 |
Morgan Freeman |
11 |
January 9, 2005 |
Cameron Diaz |
12 |
January 23, 2005 |
Kiefer Sutherland |
13 |
January 30, 2005 |
Robert Redford |
14 |
February 6, 2005 |
Colin Farrell |
15 |
February 13, 2005 |
Val Kilmer - second visit |
16 |
February 20, 2005 |
Owen Wilson |
17 |
April 10, 2005 |
David Duchovny |
18 |
April 24, 2005 |
Jane Fonda |
19 |
June 5, 2005 |
Angelina Jolie |
20 |
June 19, 2005 |
Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond |
21 |
September 25, 2005 |
Jodie Foster |
22 |
October 16, 2005 |
Elton John |
23 |
October 23, 2005 |
Rosie O'Donnell |
24 |
October 30, 2005 |
Michael J. Fox |
Season 12 (2005-06)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
December 11, 2005 |
Cast of The Producers |
2 |
December 18, 2005 |
Barbara Walters |
3 |
January 8, 2006 |
Queen Latifah |
4 |
January 15, 2006 |
Ralph Fiennes |
5 |
January 22, 2006 |
Martin Lawrence |
6 |
February 5, 2006 |
Liza Minnelli |
7 |
February 12, 2006 |
Dave Chappelle |
8 |
May 7, 2006 |
Cast of Law & Order |
9 |
May 14, 2006 |
Tom Hanks - second visit |
10 |
May 21, 2006 |
Don Cheadle |
11 |
May 28, 2006 |
Tim Allen |
12 |
June 18, 2006 |
Dustin Hoffman |
13 |
July 9, 2006 |
Robert Downey, Jr. |
14 |
July 31, 2006 |
Hugh Laurie |
15 |
September 18, 2006 |
Teri Hatcher |
16 |
October 2, 2006 |
Al Pacino |
Season 13 (2006-07)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
December 11, 2006 |
Forest Whitaker |
2 |
December 18, 2006 |
Eddie Murphy |
3 |
January 8, 2007 |
Matt Damon |
4 |
February 19, 2007 |
Diana Ross |
5 |
March 12, 2007 |
Chris Rock |
6 |
March 19, 2007 |
Mark Ruffalo |
7 |
June 4, 2007 |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
8 |
June 11, 2007 |
Kyra Sedgwick |
9 |
August 6, 2007 |
Michelle Pfeiffer |
10 |
September 17, 2007 |
Charlie Sheen |
11 |
October 8, 2007 |
Billy Crystal - second visit |
12 |
October 15, 2007 |
Anthony Hopkins - second visit |
13 |
October 22, 2007 |
Alec Baldwin - second visit |
14 |
October 29, 2007 |
Halle Berry |
15 |
December 3, 2007 |
John Cusack |
Season 14 (2008)
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Season 15 (2008-09)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
November 3, 2008 |
Goldie Hawn |
2 |
November 10, 2008 |
James Lipton (interview conducted by Dave Chappelle) |
3 |
December 1, 2008 |
Daniel Radcliffe |
4 |
January 5, 2009 |
Josh Brolin |
5 |
January 12, 2009 |
Laura Linney |
6 |
January 19, 2009 |
Ricky Gervais |
7 |
January 26, 2009 |
Conan O'Brien |
8 |
February 2, 2009 |
Anthony LaPaglia |
9 |
May 4, 2009 |
Denis Leary |
10 |
May 11, 2009 |
Danny DeVito |
11 |
July 27, 2009 |
Judd Apatow |
12 |
August 31, 2009 |
Mickey Rourke |
13 |
September 7, 2009 |
Jason Bateman |
14 |
September 14, 2009 |
Cast of Family Guy |
15 |
September 21, 2009 |
Amy Poehler |
Season 16 (2009-10)
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Season 17 (2010-11)
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Season 18 (2012)
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Season 19 (2013-14)
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No. |
Air Date |
Guest |
1 |
February 13, 2013 |
Hugh Jackman - second visit |
2 |
March 19, 2013 |
Tina Fey[10][11] |
3 |
May 29, 2013 |
250th Special - Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken and Barbara Walters, Dave Chappelle, and more.[12] |
4 |
September 19, 2013 |
Jake Gyllenhaal |
5 |
November 7, 2013 |
Cast of Arrested Development |
6 |
December 26, 2013 |
Bruce and Laura Dern |
7 |
February 19, 2014 |
Amy Adams[13][14] |
Season 20 (2014-15)
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Season 21 (2015-16)
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References
- ↑ "Lipton takes readers inside 'Inside the Actors Studio'". Msnbc.com. Oct 19, 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. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). p. 52. ISBN 0-415-77496-9.
- ↑ "Inside the Actors Studio (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". epguides.com. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ↑ "Inside the Actors Studio episodes". The Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ↑ "Inside the Actors Studio — Episode Guide". tv.com. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ↑ "Official Site". BravoTV.com. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
- ↑ Goldberg, Lesley (2012-03-29). "'Glee' Gang Going 'Inside the Actors Studio' (Video)". 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. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
- ↑
- 1 2 Ng, Philiana (January 30, 2014). "Matthew McConaughey, Amy Adams Set 'Inside the Actors Studio' Specials". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
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