List of Inside the Actors Studio episodes

Inside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton. The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed internationally by CABLEready and is broadcast in 125 countries around the world reaching 89,000,000 homes.[1] It is currently taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University's New York City campus.[2][3][4]

Many of the available episode guides conflict with one another regarding the numbering of episodes[5][6][7] and in some cases are internally inconsistent.[8] The numbering here is a complete and internally consistent list created from other available episode guides for the show.

Seasons: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Episodes

Season 1

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
1 1 1994-08-14 Paul Newman
1 2 1994-09-11 Stephen Sondheim
1 3 1994-06-12 Alec Baldwin
1 4 1994-10-16 Sidney Lumet
1 5 1994-11-13 Shelley Winters
1 6 Unaired Sally Field
1 7 Unaired Dennis Hopper
1 8 Unaired Arthur Miller
1 9 Unaired Arthur Penn
1 10 Unaired Estelle Parsons
1 11 Unaired Neil Simon
1 12 Unaired Sydney Pollack
1 13 Unaired Mary Stuart Masterson

Season 2

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
2 1 Unaired Lee Grant
2 2 Unaired Faye Dunaway
2 3 Unaired Matthew Broderick
2 4 Unaired Glenn Close
2 5 Unaired Holly Hunter
2 6 Unaired Ellen Burstyn
2 7 Unaired Jessica Lange
2 8 Unaired Carol Burnett
2 9 Unaired Christopher Walken
2 10 Unaired Gene Wilder
2 11 Unaired Stanley Donen
2 12 Unaired Martin Landau

Season 3

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
3 1 Unaired Mark Rydell
3 2 Unaired Norman Jewison
3 3 Unaired Nathan Lane
3 4 Unaired Anjelica Huston
3 5 Unaired Christopher Reeve
3 6 Unaired Matt Dillon
3 7 Unaired Tommy Lee Jones
3 8 Unaired Mike Nichols
3 9 Unaired Julia Roberts
3 10 Unaired Meg Ryan
3 11 Unaired Anthony Quinn
3 12 Unaired Willem Dafoe
3 13 Unaired Billy Crystal

Season 4

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
4 1 1998-08-09 Harvey Keitel
4 2 1998-08-23 Shirley MacLaine
4 3 1998-09-06 Eli Wallach
4 4 1998-09-13 Anne Jackson
4 5 1998-09-20 Lauren Bacall
4 6 1998-09-27 Martin Short
4 7 1998-10-04 Anthony Hopkins
4 8 1998-10-11 Danny Glover
4 9 1998-10-18 Whoopi Goldberg
4 10 1998-10-25 Jack Lemmon
4 11 1998-11-01 Gary Sinise
4 12 1998-11-08 Kathy Bates
4 13 1998-11-15 Susan Sarandon

Season 5

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
5 1 1998-11-22 Meryl Streep
5 2 1998-11-29 John Hurt
5 3 1998-12-06 Laurence Fishburne
5 4 1998-12-13 Donald Sutherland
5 5 1999-01-03 Ron Howard
5 6 1999-01-10 Sharon Stone
5 7 1999-01-17 Sean Penn
5 8 1999-01-31 Robert De Niro
5 9 1999-02-14 Steven Spielberg
5 10 Unaired Tim Robbins
5 11 1999-07-11 Jennifer Jason Leigh
5 12 1999-07-18 Kim Basinger
5 13 1999-07-25 Ellen Barkin
5 14 1999-08-08 Peter Falk
5 15 1999-08-15 Jerry Lewis

Season 6

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
6 1 1999-11-14 Billy Joel
6 2 1999-11-21 Mary Tyler Moore
6 3 1999-12-05 Sylvester Stallone
6 4 1999-12-12 Tom Hanks
6 5 2000-01-09 Michael Caine
6 6 2000-04-09 Geena Davis
6 7 2000-04-30 James Woods
6 8 2000-05-07 Andy Garcia
6 9 2000-07-02 Kevin Spacey
6 10 2000-06-04 Philip Seymour Hoffman
6 11 2000-08-06 Alan Alda
6 12 2000-08-20 Harrison Ford
6 13 2000-10-29 Sigourney Weaver

Season 7

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
7 1 2000-11-12 Bernadette Peters
7 2 Unaired Val Kilmer
7 3 2000-11-19 James Caan
7 4 2000-12-03 Richard Dreyfuss
7 5 2000-12-10 Gabriel Byrne
7 6 2000-12-17 Spike Lee
7 7 2000-12-17 Ed Harris
7 8 2001-01-14 Ben Affleck
7 9 2001-01-28 Ned Beatty
7 10 2001-02-04 Mike Myers
7 11 2001-02-18 Michael Douglas
7 12 2001-03-11 Gwyneth Paltrow
7 13 2001-04-15 Helen Hunt
7 14 2001-05-06 Francis Ford Coppola
7 15 2001-06-10 Robin Williams
7 16 2001-07-15 Melanie Griffith
7 17 2001-07-22 Antonio Banderas
7 18 2001-08-06 Burt Reynolds
7 19 2001-08-19 Roseanne

Season 8

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
8 1 2001-09-30 Ben Stiller
8 2 2001-10-14 Gene Hackman
8 3 2001-10-21 Kevin Kline
8 4 2001-10-28 Bruce Willis
8 5 2001-11-25 Kevin Costner
8 6 2002-01-13 Will Smith
8 7 2002-01-27 Stockard Channing
8 8 2002-02-17 Debra Winger
8 9 2002-03-03 Sarah Jessica Parker
8 10 2002-03-17 Ben Kingsley
8 11 2002-04-07 Dennis Quaid
8 12 2002-04-21 Ethan Hawke
8 13 2002-05-05 Richard Gere
8 14 2002-05-12 Hugh Grant
8 15 2002-06-02 Samuel L. Jackson
8 16 2002-06-30 Benicio del Toro
8 17 2002-08-04 Vanessa Redgrave
8 18 2002-08-18 Billy Bob Thornton
8 19 2002-09-08 Johnny Depp

Season 9

Season Episode Original airdate Guest(s)
9 1 2002-10-06 Sissy Spacek
9 2 2002-10-27 Juliette Binoche
9 3 2003-11-10 Jeanne Moreau
9 4 2002-11-17 Pierce Brosnan
9 5 2002-12-08 Ian McKellen
9 6 2002-12-15 Martin Scorsese
9 7 2002-12-22 Julianne Moore
9 8 2003-01-12 Edward Norton
9 9 2003-02-09 Cast of The Simpsons
9 10 2003-02-16 Nicolas Cage
9 11 2003-03-02 Drew Barrymore
9 12 2003-03-09 Renee Zellweger
9 13 2003-04-13 John Travolta
9 14 2003-05-04 Jeremy Irons
9 15 2003-05-11 Joanne Woodward
9 16 2003-05-18 Martin Sheen
9 17 2003-07-20 Jeff Bridges

Season 10

Season Episode Original airdate Guest(s)
10 1 2003-09-14 John Goodman
10 2 2003-10-05 Clint Eastwood
10 3 2003-11-16 Cast of Will & Grace
10 4 2003-12-14 Cate Blanchett
10 5 2003-12-21 Jude Law
10 6 2003-12-28 Naomi Watts
10 7 2004-01-04 Russell Crowe
10 8 2004-01-11 Tom Cruise
10 9 2004-01-18 Charlize Theron
10 10 2004-02-08 Diane Lane
10 11 2004-02-15 Jay Leno
10 12 2004-03-07 Hugh Jackman
10 13 2004-03-14 Kate Winslet
10 14 2004-03-21 Barbra Streisand
10 15 2004-06-06 Bette Midler
10 16 2004-06-20 10th Anniversary Special

Season 11

Season Episode Original airdate Guest(s)
11 1 2004-10-10 Jennifer Lopez
11 2 2004-10-17 James Gandolfini
11 3 2004-10-24 William H. Macy
11 4 2004-10-31 George Carlin
11 5 2004-11-07 Jennifer Connelly
11 6 2004-11-14 Mark Wahlberg
11 7 2004-11-21 Natalie Portman
11 8 2004-11-28 Jamie Foxx
11 9 2004-12-05 Salma Hayek
11 10 2005-01-02 Morgan Freeman
11 11 2005-01-09 Cameron Diaz
11 12 2005-01-23 Kiefer Sutherland
11 13 2005-01-30 Robert Redford
11 14 2005-02-06 Colin Farrell
11 15 2005-02-13 Val Kilmer - second visit
11 16 2005-02-20 Owen Wilson
11 17 2005-04-10 David Duchovny
11 18 2005-04-24 Jane Fonda
11 19 2005-06-05 Angelina Jolie
11 20 2005-06-19 Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond
11 21 2005-09-25 Jodie Foster
11 22 2005-10-16 Elton John
11 23 2005-10-23 Rosie O'Donnell
11 24 2005-10-30 Michael J. Fox

Season 12

Season Episode Original airdate Guest(s)
12 1 2005-12-11 Cast of The Producers
12 2 2006-09-18 Teri Hatcher
12 3 2005-12-18 Barbara Walters
12 4 2006-10-02 Al Pacino
12 5 2006-01-08 Queen Latifah
12 6 2006-01-15 Ralph Fiennes
12 7 2006-01-22 Martin Lawrence
12 8 2006-02-05 Liza Minnelli
12 9 2006-02-12 Dave Chappelle
12 10 2006-05-07 Cast of Law & Order
12 11 2006-05-14 Tom Hanks - second visit
12 12 2006-05-21 Don Cheadle
12 13 2006-05-28 Tim Allen
12 14 2006-06-18 Dustin Hoffman
12 15 2006-07-09 Robert Downey, Jr.
12 16 2006-07-31 Hugh Laurie

Season 13

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
13 1 2006-12-11 Forest Whitaker
13 2 2006-12-18 Eddie Murphy
13 3 2007-01-08 Matt Damon
13 4 2007-02-19 Diana Ross
13 5 2007-03-12 Chris Rock
13 6 2007-03-19 Mark Ruffalo
13 7 2007-06-04 Julia Louis-Dreyfus
13 8 2007-06-11 Kyra Sedgwick
13 9 2007-08-06 Michelle Pfeiffer
13 10 2007-09-17 Charlie Sheen
13 11 2007-10-08 Billy Crystal - second visit
13 12 2007-10-15 Anthony Hopkins - second visit
13 13 2007-10-22 Alec Baldwin - second visit
13 14 2007-10-29 Halle Berry
13 15 2007-12-03 John Cusack

Season 14

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
14 1 2008-05-19 Sarah Jessica Parker - second visit
14 2 2008-06-16 Mike Myers - second visit
14 3 2008-09-22 Brooke Shields

Season 15

Season Episode Original airdate Guest(s)
15 1 2008-11-03 Goldie Hawn
15 2 2008-11-10 James Lipton - with Dave Chappelle as host
15 3 2008-12-01 Daniel Radcliffe
15 4 2009-01-05 Josh Brolin
15 5 2009-01-12 Laura Linney
15 6 2009-01-19 Ricky Gervais
15 7 2009-01-26 Conan O'Brien
15 8 2009-02-02 Anthony LaPaglia
15 9 2009-05-04 Denis Leary
15 10 2009-05-11 Danny DeVito
15 11 2009-07-27 Judd Apatow
15 12 2009-08-31 Mickey Rourke
15 13 2009-09-07 Jason Bateman
15 14 2009-09-14 Cast of Family Guy
15 15 2009-09-21 Amy Poehler

Season 16

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
16 1 2009-11-09 Hilary Swank
16 2 2009-11-16 Bon Jovi
16 3 2009-12-21 Kate Hudson
16 4 2010-03-01 James Cameron
16 5 2010-05-25 Sean Combs
16 6 2010-09-28 Betty White

Season 17

Season Episode Original airdate Guest
17 1 2010-12-07 James Franco
17 2 2011-01-10 Jim Carrey
17 3 2011-02-07 Colin Firth
17 4 2011-03-14 Bradley Cooper
17 5 2011-06-07 Cast of Modern Family
17 6 2011-07-11 Jennifer Aniston

References

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  2. ^ WARREN BERGER (March 14, 1999). "All the School's a Stage; Stars Talk Shop and the Film Community Listens". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/tv/all-the-school-s-a-stage-stars-talk-shop-and-the-film-community-listens.html. 
  3. ^ JAMES BARRON (September 22, 1996). "The Studio, A Place Of Legends". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/22/tv/the-studio-a-place-of-legends.html. 
  4. ^ Carnicke, Sharon Marie (2008). Stanislavsky in focus: an acting master for the twenty-first century. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). p. 52. ISBN 0415774969. http://books.google.com/?id=gM6d8UpwkjwC&pg=PT66&dq=Inside+The+Actors+Studio&cd=15#v=onepage&q=Inside%20The%20Actors%20Studio&f=false. 
  5. ^ "Inside the Actors Studio (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)". epguides.com. http://epguides.com/InsidetheActorsStudio/. Retrieved 2011-01-26. 
  6. ^ "Inside the Actors Studio episodes". The Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0169455/episodes. Retrieved 2011-01-26. 
  7. ^ "Inside the Actors Studio - Episode Guide". tv.com. http://www.tv.com/inside-the-actors-studio/show/1931/episode.html?tag=list_header;paginator;All&season=All. Retrieved 2011-01-26. 
  8. ^ "Official Site". BravoTV.com. http://www.bravotv.com/inside-the-actors-studio. Retrieved 2011-01-26. 

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