Many residents of Mamaroneck and Larchmont, N.Y., in Westchester County in New York City's northern suburbs, have won fame in the entertainment world, or as writers, artists, athletes, or newsmakers. Some grew up here and others settled here after becoming famous.

Here are 50 celebrities past and present who have lived in Mamaroneck or Larchmont.

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This is part of a series on Mamaroneck-Larchmont notable residents. Find links to all the parts of the series at the bottom of this page.

Actors

Matt Dillon: actor discovered in Hommocks School hallway

Kevin Dillon: actor played Johnny Drama in Entourage

Michael O'Keefe: actor nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1980 for The Great Santini. O’Keefe also played Danny Noonan in Caddyshack, Darryl Palmer "The Slugger's Wife," and Fred in 35 episodes of TV's Rosanne.

Emily Wickersham: actress played Special Agent Ellie Bishop on TV’s NCIS from 2013 to 2021.

Jill Novick: actress who appeared in more than a dozen TV series and movies during the 1990s and early 2000s. She played Teenage Teddy Reed in Sisters in 1991-96 and Tracy Gaylian on Beverly Hills, 90210 in 1996-97.

Elizabeth Berridge: stage and screen actress, producer played Mozart's wife in Amadeus (1984) and Annie Oakley in Hidalgo (2004), and on TV played Officer Eve Eggers on The John Larroquette Show, from 1993-96. She has also had an extensive career in theater, including appearances on Broadway.

Claire Trevor: actress won 1948 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Key Largo as Gaye Dawn, boozy torch singer and mistress to a sadistic gangster. Trevor earned two other supporting actress nominations, in 1937 for the melodrama Dead End and in 1954 for The High and the Mighty, about an airplane in trouble.

Sal Mineo: slain actor who spent some of his teens in Mamaroneck. He played a psychotic juvenile delinquent in James Dean’s 1956 Rebel Without a Cause. On Feb. 12, 1976, Mineo was stabbed to death in a random robbery near his West Hollywood, California, apartment as he returned from a play rehearsal.

Ethel Barrymore: actress from famous theatrical family lived in Mamaroneck for many years. She started out on the stage and became an idol, with young girls copying her voice, walk and even the Ethel Barrymore droop. Later, she added film work, won an Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role in 1944 as Ma Mott in None but the Lonely Heart, with Cary Grant, and earned three other supporting role nominations in the 1940s. Ethel Barrymore was the great-aunt of actress Drew Barrymore.

Lillian and Dorothy Gish: stars in D.W. Griffth’s films made in Mamaroneck in early 1920s.

Entertainers, comedians, personalities

Joan Rivers: brassy comedian put Larchmont on the map and became the first woman to host a late-night broadcast talk show.

Jonathan Winters: comedian, actor lived on in Mamaroneck from the late 1950s until 1964.

Gene Rayburn: Match Game host lived in Mamaroneck from 1953 into the early 1960s.

Johnny Carson: Tonight Show host, lived in Mamaroneck for parts of 1957-1958 while he was hosting a game show, Who Do You Trust?, before taking over the Tonight Show in October 1962.

Paul Winchell: voice of Pooh’s Tigger and others, ventriloquist, inventor. He lived in Mamaroneck Town (Larchmont mailing address) in the 1950s as he gained fame as a ventriloquist in the early years of television with puppets he created, Jerry Mahoney and dimwitted sidekick Knucklehead Smiff.

Carol Reed: TV’s first female weather reporter in the United States. She appeared on WCBS-TV Channel 2 from 1952-64 and was known for her signoff “Have a Happy.” She lived in Mamaroneck.

Dan Daniel: radio DJ, WMCA ‘Good Guy’ lived in Larchmont.

Singers

Carly Rose Sonenclar: X-Factor runner-up in 2012 while she was a student in Rye Neck. Now living in Los Angeles, in fall 2024 she released the song “The Night When You Told Me Your Name.”

Ezio Pinza: Opera, Broadway star detained during World War II. Authorities arrested him at his home in Mamaroneck .

Tom Nelson: founder, guitarist, songwriter of folk band Heathcote Hill.

Directors, producers, screenwriters

Ang Lee: Multi-Oscar-winning movie director, resident of Mamaroneck Town, won the Best Director Oscar for 2005's Brokeback Mountain and 2012's Life of Pi. He has directed other notable films including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Hulk, Sense and Sensibility and The Ice Storm.

D.W. Griffth: movie director made Mamaroneck a movie-production mecca in early 1920s. From 1919-24, the studio generated more than a dozen films, many of them starring the Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy. Most notable were Orphans of the Storm, which takes place during the French Revolution and features hundreds of extras in period costume, and Way Down East, a melodrama starring Lillian Gish about a cad who deceives a country girl and gets her pregnant. Way Down East includes a blizzard scene that was filmed in Mamaroneck in an actual blizzard.

David O. Russell: film writer, director, and producer with 5 Oscar nominations, including writing and directing for Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013).

Bennett Miller: director, 2-time Oscar nominee, for Best Director for 2005's Capote, a Truman Capote bio pic, and 2014's Foxcatcher, about Olympic wrestlers.

Dan Futterman: Oscar-nominated screenwriter as well as a producer and actor. He was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for Capote (2005) and Best Original Screenplay (with E. Max Frye) for Foxcatcher (2014), about Olympic wrestlers and starring Steve Carrell.

Danny Jacobson: writer, producer who co-created TV's Mad About You, earned four Emmy nominations

Fred Berger: producer of La La Land (2016), which took home six Oscars, including Emma Stone for best actress.

Robert Ripley, created ‘Believe It or Not’ radio and television shows, and “Odditoriums,” featuring odd and amazing facts and artifacts. He showed off mastodon tusks, javelins, skeletons, and exotic canoes and other collection items at his 28-room mansion on an island in Mamaroneck Village.

Spyros Skouras: Greenhaven resident led 20th Century-Fox from the 1940s through the 1960s but stumbled when Cleopatra (1963) starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton cost twice as much as planned and led to big losses for the studio. These and losses on other pictures prompted Skouras to resign as president but he remained chairman until 1969.

Lee Shubert: Broadway theater owner, producer. A major figure in the theater world for half a century as an owner of theaters on Broadway and elsewhere and a producer of shows, had a home in Mamaroneck’s Shore Acres.

Philip H. Reisman Jr.: screenwriter of movies, documentaries, television He was best known for All the Way Home (1963) a film adaptation of James Agee’s novel A Death in the Family that starred Robert Preston and Jean Simmons.

Writers

Edward Albee: Virginia Woolf playwright grew up in Larchmont. “Albee’s plays have long had a corner on a particular style of upper-class, suburban sophistication – whose roots obviously go back to his Larchmont upbringing,” Journal News theater critic Jacques le Sourd wrote in 2005.

Lila Rose Kaplan: fell in love with playwriting as Mamaroneck High student. Her more than 20 plays “shine light on the stories we don’t tell about women,” according to her biography.

Gail Sheehy: author, groundbreaking journalist who grew up in Mamaroneck explored mid-life crises and turning points in her bestselling 1976 book Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life.

Al Giordano: Activist journalist, organizer. Giordano spent years in Mexico running Narco News, a pro-drug-legalization website that carried reporting by Giordano and Mexican journalists on the drug war. A Mexican bank sued over its reporting, leading to a landmark 2000 ruling giving online journalists the same legal protections as traditional print journalists.

James Fenimore Cooper: Last of the Mohicans and Leatherstocking Tales novelist (1789-1851) married into Mamaroneck’s prominent DeLancey family. While living locally, Cooper wrote The Spy, set partly in Westchester County, including Scarsdale, during the American Revolution.

Jean Kerr: humorist chronicled family’s Larchmont life in Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Walter Kerr: Pulitzer Prize-winning drama critic

Marie Killilea: Karen author fought for daughter, others with cerebral palsy

John Dickson Carr: master of the locked-room mystery, lived in Mamaroneck after World War II and at least through the 1950s. He wrote 120 mystery novels featuring two main detectives, Dr. Gideon Fell, an Oxford don, and Sir Henry Merrivale, a curmudgeon.

Samm Sinclair Baker: self-improvement book author

Clayton Rawson: The Great Merlini magician, mystery writer, who hosted magicians and mystery writers at his Mamaroneck home. The magicians gathered for a picnic every summer from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s and performed magic for Rawson’s neighbors on a backyard stage.

Artists

Norman Rockwell: renowned illustrator for the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. Rockwell (1894-1978) spent many of his early years in Mamaroneck. Norman attended Mamaroneck High School but he was not a good student and left school after his junior year to study art.

Carl Paul Jennewein: noted sculptor’s works adorn public buildings in Washington, D.C., elsewhere

Mimi Jennewein: artist, creator of Mamaroneck James Fenimore Cooper biographical murals

Warren Chase Merritt: painted Mamaroneck library’s historic murals

Newsmakers

Timothy Geithner (born in 1961): U.S. Secretary of the Treasury in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013 and led efforts to avoid global economic collapse during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. His family had moved to Larchmont when he was in college, and he and his family were living on Maple Hill Drive in Mamaroneck Town when Obama nominated him. Recently, Geithner has been co-chairman of Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, and a visiting lecturer at Yale University and chair of its Program on Financial Stability.

Andrew Maloney (1931-2022): As U.S. Attorney won conviction of mobster John Gotti Gotti in a 1992 murder and racketeering trial. Maloney had been appointed U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island) under President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and headed the office until 1992. Born in Brooklyn, he lived in Larchmont before moving to Mamaroneck.

Albert Shanker (1928-1997), union leader who helped turn the United Federation of Teachers in New York City into a powerful force. In 1968, he called three New York City-wide teacher strikes over decentralization plans. The schools were closed for 55 days. Shanker had a home in Mamaroneck from 1976 on.

Henry Morrison Flagler (1830-1913): co-founder of Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller and a Florida visionary who built railroads and hotels to lure the wealthy to its warmth and sunshine. When he reached his 50s, Flagler rented and later bought a 32-acre estate called Satan's Toe at the tip of Orienta Point in Mamaroneck as a summer home. After his death, his Satan's Toe estate was sold to another visionary, movie director D.W. Griffith, who turned it into a movie studio.

Athletes

Scott Leius: Ex-Mamaroneck High star hit 1991 World Series game-winning homer for the Minnesota Twins

Lou Gehrig: Yankees’ ‘Iron Man’ spent some of his final years in Larchmont. He and his wife, Eleanor, were living in Larchmont as the progressive neurological disorder that would come to be known as Lou Gehrig’s disease set in and at the time he gave his “Luckiest Man” farewell speech.