The following list of people from Hartford, Connecticut, includes people who were born in, lived in or are otherwise closely connected with the city: Actors Robert Ames (1889–1931), stage and screen actor Ben Cooper, best known for western films and television appearances in the 1960s and 70s Jenna Dewan (born 1980), actress Linda Evans (born 1942), actress, best known for Dynasty Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962), actor, martial artist, best known for playing Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), iconic Oscar-winning actress; buried in the Hepburn family plot in Cedar Hill Cemetery Elyse Knox (1917–2012), model and actress; wife of Tom Harmon and mother of Mark Harmon Eriq La Salle (born 1962), of the television show ER Charles Nelson Reilly (1931–2007), actor, director and TV personality Ed Begley Tony Todd, Broadway, film and television actor Others in arts and entertainment Amy Brenneman (born 1964), actress, best known for the television series Judging Amy Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality, model and dancer August Coppola, academic, film executive and father of Nicolas Cage Ann Corio (1914–1999), burlesque star Totie Fields (1930–1978), comedian Michael C. FitzGerald (born 1953), art historian and Picasso scholar at Trinity College in Hartford Kathleen Kucka, abstract painter Norman Lear (born 1922), television producer Stephanie McMahon, businesswoman, professional wrestling personality Ken Ober, host of Remote Control Ken Richters (born 1955), stage actor, playwright, and voice actor, known for impersonations of Mark Twain Phil Tonken (1919–2000), announcer at New York station WOR-AM-TV Wavy Gravy, hippie icon Emily Wright (born 1980), songwriter, producer and engineer Kim Zolciak (born 1978), star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, country music singer Scientists Barbara McClintock (1902–1992), cytogeneticist, awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Musicians Igor Buketoff (1915–2001), conductor Kurt Carr, gospel music composer and performer Fates Warning, progressive metal band formed in 1982 Charles Flores (1970–2012), jazz bassist and member of the Michel Camilo Trio Grayson Hugh, singer-songwriter Natália Kelly, singer Barbara Kolb (born 1939), composer Mark McGrath (born 1968), lead singer of Sugar Ray Jackie McLean (1931–2006), jazz alto saxophonist and educator Notch, R&B, dancehall and Reggaeton artist Gene Pitney (1940–2006), singer Jeff Porcaro (1954–1992), Mike Porcaro (1955–2015) and Steve Porcaro (born 1957), of the rock band Toto Joe Porcaro, jazz drummer; father of Jeff and Steve Porcaro Doobie Powell gospel musician and pastor Sophie Tucker (1884–1966), "last of the red-hot