(born 1977), video game maker (Raleigh) Jaime Pressly (born 1977), actress, model (Kinston) Emily Proctor (born 1968), actress (Raleigh) Jim Rash (born 1970), actor, comedian (Charlotte) Peyton Reed (born 1964), film and television director (Raleigh) Jon Reep (born 1972), stand-up comedian (Hickory) Nina Repeta (born 1967), actress (Shelby) Tequan Richmond (born 1992), actor (Burlington) Britt Robertson (born 1990), actress (Charlotte) Marcy Rylan (born 1980), actress (Providence Township) Soupy Sales (1926–2009), comedian (Franklinton) Christoph Sanders (born 1988), actor (Arden / Hendersonville) Hunter Schafer (born 1999), actress (Raleigh) Paul Schneider (born 1976), actor (Asheville) Judith Scott, actress (Fort Bragg) Nick Searcy (born 1959), actor (Cullowhee) Amy Sedaris (born 1961), actress and comedian, spent childhood in NC, best known as the star of the television series Strangers with Candy (Raleigh) David Sedaris (born 1956), author and essayist (brother to Amy), spent childhood in NC (Raleigh) Matthew Settle (born 1969), actor (Hickory) J. B. Smoove (born 1964), actor (Plymouth) Arthur Smith (1921–2014), musician, composer, radio and television producer (Charlotte) Josef Sommer (born 1934), character actor, appeared in movies such as X-Men: The Last Stand, The Sum of All Fears, and Patch Adams (raised in North Carolina) Margo Stilley (born 1982), actress (Bear Creek) Jessica Stroup (born 1986), actress (Charlotte) Berlinda Tolbert, film and television actress (Charlotte) Skeet Ulrich (born 1970), actor (Concord) Liz Vassey (born 1972), actress (Raleigh) Reginald VelJohnson (born 1952), actor (Raleigh) Briana Venskus (born 1987), actress (Wilmington) Ben Vereen (born 1946), actor, entertainer (Laurinburg) Jill Wagner (born 1979), actress, model (Winston-Salem) Gregory Walcott (1928–2015), actor (Wendell) James Harvey Ward (born 1978), actor (Greenville) Lachlan Watson (born 2001), actor (Raleigh) Kevin Williamson (born 1965), screenwriter (New Bern) Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born 1984), actress (Rocky Mount) Evan Rachel Wood (born 1987), actress (Raleigh) Bellamy Young (born 1970), actress (Asheville) Government, military, and public figures A–I Alma Adams (born 1946), U.S. Congresswoman 2014–present (High Point) John Ashe (1725–1781), Brigadier General during the American Revolutionary War, in charge of North Carolina militia and state troops from 1776 to 1779 (New Hanover County) William Blount (1749–1800), first North Carolina signatory of United States Constitution; played a role in the creation of the State of Tennessee (Windsor) Erskine Bowles (born 1945), White House Chief of Staff under Bill Clinton, president of University of North Carolina system (Greensboro) William G. Boykin, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence under George W. Bush, retired lieutenant general for U.S. Army (New