Dana Bentley
Dana Bentley was born on February 11, 1965. She is an actress, known for Sorority House Massacre II (1990), Repo Jake (1990) and Bad Girls from Mars (1990).
Dana Berger
Dana Berger is known for Orange Is the New Black (2013) and Elementary (2012).
Dana Blackstone
Dana Blackstone is an Actor, Actor Trainer, Director, and Performing Research PhD student from Detroit, Michigan. She has operated in the film, television, and theatre industries internationally for over 25 years, and has been teaching acting professionally for 5. In both acting and academia Dana emphasizes community, connection, and compassion, and she is ever grateful to continue to grow as human being, teacher, and performance maker.
Dana Blankenberg
Dana Blankenberg is an actress, known for Aliens in America (2007), Mr. Young (2011) and Rags (2012).
Dana Brighton
Dana Brighton is known for Age of Ice (2014), Post-War (2015) and Grand Auto Theft: L.A. (2014).
Dana Brown
Dana Brown is a second generation filmmaker to his father, the legendary Bruce Brown. He is a writer and director known for Endless Summer 2 1994, Dust to Glory 2005, Highwater 2010, On Any Sunday: The Next Chapter 2014 and Dust 2 Glory 2018.
Dana Bunch
Dana Bunch is known for The Purge (2013), 24 (2001) and Fight Night Champion (2011).
Dana Burns Westburg
Dana Burns Westburg is known for Emmanuelle 5 (1987), Cold Fear (2005) and Platoon (2002).
Dana Burtin
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dana Burtin, also known as LyricalGenes, is an award winning artist and songwriter, producer, entrepreneur, author, and actor. With a relentless message and professional attitude that promotes more of a positive message, LyricalGenes creates material based on his experiences. He is the owner of independent record label Boyz II Business Entertainment in Cleveland, Ohio where he has managed to make music, act in movies, and do voice overs. Moreover, he also operates Boyz II Business PR where he covers emerging, underground, and mainstream talent for Google News integration. Notably, LyricalGenes has garnered over 1 million views on his YouTube beats channel. As a result, LyricalGenes collaborates with beat makers who have produced for artists like The Black Eyed Peas, Rod Wave, and Pop Smoke. Lastly, Burtin has worked with DraftKings and Universal Technical Institute as a model and spokesperson for their products/services.
Dana Carvey
One of SNL's most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including "Church Lady", "Garth" of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding "Hans" of Hans & Franz notoriety. This sharp and witty writer, actor and impressionist went on to hatch a modestly successful comedy career in films along with some of his SNL cohorts -- Mike Myers, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley did. The slightly-built, slightly dorky-looking funny guy was born on June 2, 1955 in Missoula, Montana, to Billie Dahl (McDonald) and Bud Carvey. He is of Norwegian, and smaller amounts of English, German, Swedish, and Irish, ancestry. Carvey was raised in San Carlos, California in typical middle class surroundings. His father taught high school business law and his mother, who was also a schoolteacher, had creative outlets as a painter and musician that inspired the young Dana. His gift for inducing laughter arrived at any early age. As young as 9 or 10, Dana was already mimicking characters he saw on TV, with one of his early icons being Jonathan Winters. His musical gifts came in the form of drums and guitar. While majoring in Communication Arts at San Francisco State, Dana sought out the comedy stage doing standard impressions of well-known personalities such as John Wayne, Howard Cosell and James Stewart. Within a few months he was beginning to win stand-up comedy awards. In time, however, he replaced his impersonations with self-created characterizations and such ripe forms as the Church ("Isn't that special!") Lady were the result. After playing various Bay Area comedy venues, Dana decided to relocate to Los Angeles in 1981 and give Hollywood a try. He quickly landed a development deal with NBC. While playing a straight foil to Mickey Rooney wasn't exactly his cup of tea, it did break him into series work as Rooney's grandson in the short-lived sitcom One of the Boys (1982). Mickey played a hip, energetic grandpa who is invited to move out of his retirement home and into the cool pad of his college-student grandson and his roommate (played by another up-and-comer, Nathan Lane). Dana joined the repertory company of Saturday Night Live (1975) in 1986, and the result was spectacular, helping to reverse the show's disastrous decline in popularity at the time. With his sharp, quicksilver characters and uncanny ability to exaggerate dead-on impersonations of the rich and famous -- from politicos George Bush and Ross Perot to entertainment's Johnny Carson, Woody Allen and Regis Philbin, Dana became the darling of the SNL set for six solid seasons. He was nominated six times for an Emmy Award, finally winning in 1993 for "Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program", and also won multiple American Comedy Awards. As expected, Dana began seeking comedy film vehicles to extend his stardom, following the pathway of many other successful post-SNL comics. In his first comedy vehicle Opportunity Knocks (1990), he unleashed his typical bag of tricks (dialects, impressions, etc.) in a tale about a con artist who falls for the daughter of one of his wealthy dupes. It was moderately received. His second, Clean Slate (1994), was merely a retread of Bill Murray's earlier Groundhog Day (1993) about a detective who awakens every morning without any recall. Given a thankless role in The Road to Wellville (1994), his third starring film comedy Trapped in Paradise (1994) this time had him joining former SNL link=nm0001484]. None kickstarted movie stardom. Dana's best results on film came in tandem with Mike Myers in which the duo recreated their memorable "party-on" dudes Wayne and Garth from the famous SNL sketches. Wayne's World (1992) and its sequel Wayne's World 2 (1993) were box-office smashes, but it strangely did not further Dana's film career. He had hopes that a self-titled TV comedy series, The Dana Carvey Show (1996) would connect with audiences but it faltered. As its host, he reprised a number of his popular characters and introduced a slew of future comedians, including Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert. The show was deemed too offensive and was canceled after only six airings. Into the millennium, Dana's starred in one last comedy vehicle to date. The Master of Disguise (2002), which he co-wrote and was executive-produced by Adam Sandler. Here he played a klutzy Italian waiter who inherits the familial power of disguise. As before, it was a letdown and did little to advance his movie career. Since then he has been seen as a featured player and has appeared in three of Adam Sandler's comedy vehicles (Little Nicky (2000), Jack and Jill (2011) and Sandy Wexler (2017)). He has also been utilized in animated films, voicing such projects as Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015), Udvikling: Ankomsten (1982) and its sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019). Dana's true brilliance is captured best on the live comedy stage and, in particular, his numerous TV cable specials and stand-up concert appearances. To see Dana perform live is to witness an ideal blend of wit, style, personality and unrestrained, racy humor, something he has not been afforded to do on film. He lives with second wife Paula in Southern California. They have two children.
