1. Jeff Daniels
Born in: Athens, Georgia
Career Highlights: Dumb and Dumber, The Newsroom
2. Dakota Fanning
Born in: Conyers, Georgia
Career Highlights: The Secret Life of Bees, Twilight
3. David Cross
Born in: Atlanta, Georgia
Career Highlights: Arrested Development, Megamind
4. Cee Lo Green
Born in: Atlanta, Georgia
Career Highlights: The Voice, Lady Killer , The Odd Couple
5. Ed Helms
Born in: Atlanta, Georgia
Career Highlights: The Office, The Hangover
6. Ryan Seacrest
Born in: Atlanta, Georgia
Career Highlights: E! News, American Idol
7. Kanye West
Born in: Atlanta, Georgia
Career Highlights: Yeezus, Graduation
8. Hulk Hogan
Born in: Augusta, Georgia
Career Highlights: Professional Wrestler, Hogan Knows Best
9. Danny McBride
Born in: Statesboro, Georgia
Career Highlights: Eastbound & Down, Pineapple Express, This Is the End
10. Julia Roberts
Born in: Smyrna, Georgia
Career Highlights: Pretty Woman, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Erin Brockovich, Runaway Bride,
11. Britney Spears
Born in: McComb, Mississippi
Career Highlights: Blackout, In the Zone
12. Oprah Winfrey
Born in: Kosciusko, Mississippi
Career Highlights: The Oprah Winfrey Show
13. Lance Bass
Born in: Laurel, Mississippi
Career Highlights: ‘N Sync, No Strings Attached
14. Eva Mendez
Born in: Miami, Florida
Career Highlights: Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch
15. Ashley Greene
Born in: Jacksonville, Florida
Career Highlights: Twilight
16. Ariana Grande
Born in: Boca Raton, Florida
Career Highlights: Victorious, 7 Secrets with Victoria Justice
17. Chris Rock
Born in: Andrews, South Carolina
Career Highlights: Nurse Betty, Down to Earth, Madagascar
18. Aziz Ansari
Born in: Coumbia, South Carolina
Career Highlights: Parks & Rec, 30 Minutes or Less
19. Lil’ Wayne
Born in: New Orleans, Lousiana
Career Highlights: The Carter III, Rebirth, Lights Out
20. Ellen DeGeneres
Born in: Metairie, Lousiana
Career Highlights: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Ellen, Finding Nemo
21. Reese Witherspoon
Born in: New Orleans, Lousiana
Career Highlights: Walk the Line, Sweet Home Alabama, Election, Legally Blonde
22. Ian Somerhalder
Born in: Covington, Lousiana
Career Highlights: The Vampire Diaries, Lost
23. Selena Gomez
Born in: Grand Prairie, Texas
Career Highlights: Wizards of Waverly Place, Spring Breakers, Monte Carlo
24. Jennifer Garner
Born in: Houston, Texas
Career Highlights: Alias, 13 Going on 30, The Odd Life of Timothy Green
25. Beyonce
Born in: Houston, Texas
Career Highlights: Beyoncé, I Am…Sasha Fierce, Dangerously in Love, The Pink Panther
26. Leighton Meester
Born in: Fort Worth, Texas
Career Highlights: Gossip Girl, The Roommate
27. Kelly Clarkson
Born in: Fort Worth, Texas
Career Highlights: American Idol, Breakaway
29. Matthew McConaughey
Born in: Uvalde, Texas
Career Highlights: The Wedding Planner, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, Magic Mike
30. Jamie Foxx
Born in: Terrell, Texas
Career Highlights: Django Unchained, Ray, Collateral
31. Steve Martin
Born in: Waco, Texas
Career Highlights: Father of the Bride, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, ¡Three Amigos!
32. Eva Longoria
Born in: Corpus Christi, Texas
Career Highlights: Desperate Housewives
33. Usher
Born in: Dallas, Texas
Career Highlights: Looking 4 Myself, Confessions, My Way, She’s All That
34. Owen Wilson
Born in: Dallas, Texas
Career Highlights: Zoolander, Wedding Crashers, Midnight in Paris
35. George Clooney
Born in: Lexington, Kentucky
Career Highlights: Ocean’s Eleven, Three Kings, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Syriana
36. Johnny Depp
Born in: Owensboro, Kentucky
Career Highlights: Pirates of the Caribbean, Edward Scissorhands, Blow, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
37. Josh Hutcherson
Born in: Union, Kentucky
Career Highlights: The Hunger Games, The Kids Are Alright, Journey to the Center of the Earth
38. Jennifer Lawrence
Born in: Louisville, Kentucky
Career Highlights: The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, Winter’s Bone, X-Men: First Class
39. Sandra Bullock
Born in: Arlington, Virginia
Career Highlights: Speed, Miss Congeniality, The Proposal, Gravity
40. Pharrell Williams
Born in: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Career Highlights: In My Mind, In Search Of, N.E.R.D.
41. Jason Sudeikis
Born in: Fairfax, Virgini
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