James Lipton Biography

James Lipton biography

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NAME: James Lipton
OCCUPATION: Educator, Actor, Radio Talk Show Host, Television Producer, Writer
BIRTH DATE: September 19, 1926 (Age: 86)
EDUCATION: Central High School, Wayne State University
PLACE OF BIRTH: Detroit, Michigan
ZODIAC SIGN: Virgo

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Actor, writer and producer James Lipton founded the Actors Studio Drama School and has hosted Bravo TV's Inside the Actors Studio since 1994.

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The school connected the Actors Studio, known for teaching Method acting, with the New School University. That year Lipton also started hosting the Bravo TV show Inside the Actors Studio. Inside The Actors Studio has become a forum for Lipton's highly candid, up-close-and-personal interviews with more than 250 actors, screenwriters and directors, with an audience of drama students participating in their own Q&A session at the end of every episode. In 2002,

Lipton retired as dean of the school, but continued to host Inside the Actors Studio.

Personal Life

Lipton married actress Nina Foch in 1954. The couple divorced five years later. In 1970, Lipton remarried, to model and real estate broker Kedakai Turner.