Famous People you've met [Archive] - The Technodrome Forums

ThirdMarioBro

12-27-2004, 06:09 PM

The other thread gave me this idea. Who here has met anyone famous? I go to a lot of cons, both small and large, but here's my list (or at least what I can remember)

Natile Portman
William Shatner
Tom Brokaw
Lexa Doig
Leonard Nimoy
Bill Clinton

I'll think of more....

Jester

12-27-2004, 06:19 PM

Nicholas Brendon (Xander from Buffy) and Beverly Mitchel (Lucy from 7th Heaven) came to our school one year for a summer program when we were stationed in Italy, it was for Extreme Summer, a get out and play type thing. the questions asked were doozies, "is Willow really gay?" and the like. I asked Beverly, "are u anything like you character?" i hope she appriciated the non-goofy drama geeky question.
My grandparents were siting in the Tulsa airport terminal. They were talking with a guy who looked familar. Later they watch the news and found out that Jamie Farr (Klinger from M*A*S*H) had been talkling to them.

ThirdMarioBro

12-27-2004, 06:25 PM

Frank Oz
Nechele Nichols

*goes through autograph collection for more*

Jester

12-27-2004, 06:27 PM

Frank Oz.....to quote my new favorite movie Napoleon Dynamite, "Lucky!!"

azure turtle

12-27-2004, 06:35 PM

Hmm... People I've personally met:

Steve Niles (writer of the comic mini-series "30 Days of Night")
Debrah (former WWE diva, and Steve Austin's ex-wife)
Bob Backlund
Pat Patterson
Jerry Brisco
Viscera

Famous people I've spotted, but didn't get to speak with:

The Rock
Jay Leno
Elizabeth Berkley (Jesse from Saved by the Bell)
George Clooney
John Lithgow (3rd Rock)
Carrie Fisher

12-27-2004, 06:42 PM

err...i havn't really met any intersting people...but i have meet Steave Irwin when i was three or somethin' like that :roll:

That Matt Guy

12-27-2004, 09:05 PM

Dave Prowse, the actor that played Darth Vader.

Brodie

12-27-2004, 09:13 PM

The other thread gave me this idea. Who here has met anyone famous? I go to a lot of cons, both small and large, but here's my list (or at least what I can remember)

Tom Brokaw

I'll think of more....

I hate you so much, dude.

KROW

12-27-2004, 09:28 PM

So far, the only famous people I've met were pro wrestlers.

-- Angel (from ECW)
-- The Bushwhackers
-- The Big Bossman
-- Bob Backlund
-- Dustin Rhodes
-- Lex Luger
-- Macho Man
-- Marc Mero and Sable
-- Roddy Piper
-- Steve Corino
-- Tommy Dreamer
-- Maven
-- Sandman
-- Shawn Michaels
-- Bill Alphonso - He's a weird guy. Kept calling me, "Daddy." But then he calls everyone that.

Jo Dawn

12-27-2004, 10:16 PM

You met Shawn Michaels. You lucky....

..I really need to think of anyone famous that I've met. Which'll be, about, a few, at most.

KROW

12-27-2004, 10:22 PM

Yeah, Shawn's a really great guy. I talked to him at an autograph signing and we had a good chat about the business and life in general. Then in June I saw him wrestle live and after the match he walked up the ramp and clapped my hands. I congratulated him on it and he said, "Thanks, brother. God bless you."

Great guy.

Peanut

12-27-2004, 11:03 PM

I've met a ton of hockey players. Won't name them all. The biggest celebrity I met....

MR.T!!!!!

Wingnut

12-27-2004, 11:51 PM

I've met...

Albert Pujols and the guy that played the dad on The Wonder Years.

Kid Icarus

12-28-2004, 12:05 AM

the dude who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings.
Sean Astin.
The guy who played R2-D2.
The guy who played Darth Maul and Toad (Ray Parks, wasn't it?).

And, if things go well at E3, I'll have kidnaped Shiggy. Bwahahaha.

ThirdMarioBro

12-28-2004, 12:43 AM

And, if things go well at E3, I'll have kidnaped Shiggy. Bwahahaha.

Not if I beat you to it. :evilgrin:

Dr. Doom

12-28-2004, 05:32 AM

I've never met anybody famous. If I ever did, I'd probably clam up and not know what tto say in case I make an ass of myself.

Naminé

12-28-2004, 05:43 AM

Not sure if they're actually famous, probably only popular in the VA world. I've met Vic Mignona and Travis Willingham.... over AIM (and not fake SNs) -- English dub voice actors for Edward Elric and Roy Mustang of Fullmetal Alchemist.

Dr. Doom

12-28-2004, 05:49 AM

I did talk to Chris Patton over the phone once. He does various voice work for anime mostly. He called on my friend's phone and was acting all buddy-buddy while I was like "who the **** is this?". Not out loud, but when I eventually did admit that I didn't know who he was he started sobbing and handed the phone off to my friend, who informed me that I'd been duped. But yeah, I guess that's the best I've done.

ThirdMarioBro

12-28-2004, 10:32 AM

I had a long email conversation with Charles Martinet once. Working on getting one with David Wise.

Brodie

12-28-2004, 01:42 PM

Peanut met Rosey Palms one time.

A lot actually.

HA!

I'm priceless.
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Ookami Blue

12-29-2004, 04:19 PM

I met Michael Dorn and Lavar Burton

The guy that played Chewy in the Star Wars films... he was very tall...

The guy that played the little Robot on the old Lost in Space show

(I go to a lot of cons too *laughs*)

I ran into Huge Jackman on the streets of NYC, he was super sweet.

Voice Actors:

Mike Sinterniklaas
Marc Thompson
Mike Pollock
Lisa Ortiz
Richard Cox
Mike Coleman
Veronica Taylor

And a few other people that I know where vocie actors and I could tell you shows they have been in but I don't remember there names....

Mike S. is super cool!

ThirdMarioBro

12-29-2004, 06:22 PM

Ron Pearlman

Brodie

12-29-2004, 06:50 PM

.....You're the worst person, alive, EVER.

You really met him?

You know, just cause ya' saw Hellboy doesn't mean you met the guy....

You really met him, ya bastard?

damnhooligan

12-29-2004, 06:54 PM

Countless Star Trek (mostly original and Next Gen) actors - I grew up at Denver StarCons. My little brother and I got stuck in an elevator with George Takei and a buttload of Klingons. It was surreal, even for a kid.
Hundreds of well-known and not-so-well known fiction writers - Bob Crais, Nora Roberts, Jerry B Jenkins, Heather Graham, Jayne Ann Krentz, so on and so forth. Mom's a writer so I spent most of my life around these sorts.
Bruce Campbell - Once long before I knew who he was. (Age 8.) And the once later when I did know who he was. (Age 18. Hubba, hubba.)
Matthew Perry - He's a good friend of a [former] friend of mine. Said friend just shoved his cellphone in my hand, and I ended up talking with Matt and his girlfriend for about half an hour. Awkward for all parties involved.
Jessica Capshaw- Got to run around behind the scenes at the Practice/Boston Public lot in Manhattan Beach. She was kind enough to hang out with us between takes.
Hugh Grant - He was hanging out at a Pizzeria Unos in Chicago. Go figure.

My mom has way cooler stories about celebrity encounters. She sneaks into movie/production lots whenever she's in LA. George Clooney once hit her with a basketball and that made her day.

Anarky

12-29-2004, 10:33 PM

Michael SChumacher (the formula 1-dude) was about to move in about 3-4 km away from me. he wanted to build himself a nice farmhouse and keep some animals and stuff. but then some Swiss morons came along, charged him wih a lot of extra tax and told him that he'd have to bould his house elsewhere since the place he wants to do that now is not too good for the environment. He had a lot of **** to deal with, so we saw him a couple of times walking in the streets, seemed very worried about something.

Gian Simmen, swiss snowboard legend, winner of an olympics gold medal (Nagano, 2000) he bumped into one of my friends while we were snowboarding, we had a nice chat.

ThirdMarioBro

12-29-2004, 10:43 PM

.....You're the worst person, alive, EVER.

You really met him?

You know, just cause ya' saw Hellboy doesn't mean you met the guy....

You really met him, ya bastard?

Yes, I met him at a Si-Fi con here in Tulsa this last Summer. I talked to him for awhile about voice acting since it's kind of a hobby of mine. And I didn't see Hellboy for another two weeks until after that. I'm glad cuz I enjoyed the movie a lot more because of it. *pets unrated DVD*

zkarlette

12-30-2004, 02:33 PM

recently I met Sean Astin :D

ThirdMarioBro

12-30-2004, 08:19 PM

MrPliggins

12-30-2004, 11:09 PM

Mr. T
adam west
matthew broderick
rupert everet
michele trachtenburg
stan lee
kevin smith
lou ferrigno

Hannah

12-31-2004, 03:24 PM

Besides saying "hi" to the guy who does Michelangelo's voice in the new show at a thread at Mikey's, I've met no one.

Edit:
No, wait, I personally know a comic book artist. ^^;

Anarky

01-01-2005, 05:46 AM

Edit:
No, wait, I personally know a comic book artist. ^^;

Lemme guess... Shadow?

Hannah

01-01-2005, 09:06 AM

Um, no.

o_O

An actual comic book artist- he works with Marvel. ^_^ His daughter and I were friends when we were younger.

Dr. Doom

01-01-2005, 09:16 AM

.......name?

Hannah

01-01-2005, 09:38 AM

Wayne Faucher

Dr. Doom

01-01-2005, 09:47 AM

Never heard of him.

sensei#me

01-01-2005, 10:42 AM

steve sansweet(starwars), angelina jolie.

Whitewolf89

01-01-2005, 11:30 AM

I've personally met John Schneider (Bo Duke from the Dukes of Hazzard TV series; he was performing at a concert in Branson, MO, and getting to go to it was a belated b-day present for me that year. Lucky, lucky me! :D ) and "King" Richard Petty (#43) of NASCAR fame. Both are true gentleman. Very sweet, and nice.

Peace.

That Matt Guy

01-01-2005, 09:21 PM

Never heard of him.

He's done some Spider-Man stuff.

Hannah

01-01-2005, 09:26 PM

He's done some Spider-Man stuff.
He's currently working on the Nightcrawler comic.

Zachatello00

01-04-2005, 11:20 PM

Just last night I met a guy in my parent's Bible study who used to play for the Dodgers. I can't remember his name though. Larry something.

Irfit

01-07-2005, 07:52 PM

I met erick avila and Alejandro silva..both guitar players from here (chile)

Cascadia

01-07-2005, 10:14 PM

Hakeem
Roger Metzger

Hono'o Hime

01-07-2005, 10:21 PM

OK famous people
well depending on what you consider famous

Voice Actors
Veronica Taylor
Lisa Ortiz
Lauren Goodnight
Richard Cox
Marc Thompson
Mike Pollock
Mike Sinterniklaas
Mike Coleman

Comics
Peter Laird
Eric Talbot
Lesean
Jim Lawson

TV
Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel)
Chad Michael Murrey (One Tree Hill)
Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill)

Music
The Glengarry Bhoys
Seamus Kennedy

Cascadia

01-19-2005, 10:27 AM

I also have met Michelle who is former miss-Texas in the mid or late 1990s. She was first runner-up to Miss USA. Roger is a former Houston Astro in the 1970s. I also know Billy Hatcher, another former Houston Astro in the 1980s.

Andrew NDB

08-20-2026, 03:35 PM

In terms of big names that are legit famous, probably these:

* Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Bruce Campbell
* Ralph Macchio
* Patrick Stewart
* William Shatner
* Norman Reedus
* Stephen Amell
* Thomas Jane
* Anne Rice
* Jon Bernthal (Twice)
* Jeffrey Dean Morgan
* Vincent D'Onofrio
* Charlie Cox
* Giancarlo Esposito

Definitely several prestigious supporting cast type folks I could add to the list, as well as big comic folks but I wouldn't QUITE call "famous." Maybe like a Dennis O'Neil or Geoff Johns, Dan Jurgens.

ToTheNines

08-20-2026, 03:53 PM

Just Tara Strong :lol:

CyberCubed

08-20-2026, 04:45 PM

* Patrick Stewart
* William Shatner
.

Between Patrick Stewart and Shatner, who was friendlier? And what years did you meet them since their age would factor into this?

Andrew NDB

08-21-2026, 12:02 AM

Between Patrick Stewart and Shatner, who was friendlier? And what years did you meet them since their age would factor into this?

Patrick Stewart. Patrick Stewart seemed a bit disengaged (no pun intended) but still smiled warmly and would shake your hand and greet you kind of mock-warmly. We had a brief moment as I was about to go up when I was "inside the curtain." Someone shouted "something something Patrick!!!" from outside kind of menacingly and he suddenly seemed alarmed. As I walked up and he was kind of still looking around I told him "Don't worry, sir, I got your back!" And he gave a big smile and an "Oh thank you!"

William Shatner just sat on a stool drunk. You just kind of stood next to him and he'd smile, kind of squinty-eyed. Oddly he seems way better in more recent cons.

Both were over 10 years ago now. Shatner in about 2010 and Stewart around 2012. Shatner was here in Seattle and Stewart was when I went to Chicago to spend a weekend with Frank Fosco.

A year ago I actually "met" Shatner again at Summercon in Puyallup. I was asking him a question and he side-stepped so I tried to redirect him on point and he told me "You shut up!!" in front of the crowd and everyone laughed.

FredWolfLeonardo

08-21-2026, 01:54 AM

Just Winston Peters, the Foreign Minister of New Zealand.

Not many famous people in a country so obscure.

ToTheNines

08-21-2026, 04:37 AM

Just Winston Peters, the Foreign Minister of New Zealand.

Not many famous people in a country so obscure.

Can’t believe you’d leave out N3on

Coola Yagami

08-21-2026, 05:52 AM

hmm when it comes to wrestling

Scott Hall and Kevin Nash
Brit Baker while she was champ
Miro/Rusev during his TNT title reign
Orange Cassidy
Darby Allin
Alistair/Malakai Black

others
Judith Hoag
Billy West
Rob Paulson (that one really got me starstruck)
Billy from the Power Rangers
Sonny Straight
Brad Swaile
Vic Mignona (lol)
Laura Bailey (back when she still voiced Chun Li SF4 era)
Kyle Hebert (voice of Ryu)
Tara Strong
Kelly Hu

James O'Barr -The Crow creator
Steve Stern the creator of Zen the Intergalactic Ninja

Not sure if counts but
Nostalgia Critic, twice

Never got to meet The Nerd just yet. Would have liked to have met him sooner before he started losing his hair and started using the beard. On a semi-related note, I met the Critic before he went bald.

FredWolfLeonardo

08-21-2026, 11:21 AM

Can’t believe you’d leave out N3on

:lol::lol::lol:

The funny part is, I know for a fact that me and N3on met as kids because my parents took me over to his parents' house in Pakistan quite a few times.

This was loooong before his YouTube though so he was unrecognisable back then. So unrecognisable that I cannot remember actually meeting him, though I know that it happened statistically.

I've never talked to N3on as adult, but his parents did attend my wedding.

Autbot_Benz

08-21-2026, 02:43 PM

Mick Foley
Rob Paulsen
Bruce Campbell
Karan Ashley ( second yellow mmpr ranger)
Steve Cardanaes (second red mmpr ranger)
Jason Narvy (skull from mmpr)

Mad Dog McMutt

08-22-2026, 05:38 PM

The Aquabats (I got to fight their singer on stage while wearing a costume)
Tim Armstrong from Rancid (he put his arm around me while talking to me)
Singer of the Urge
The Bouncing Souls
The Casualties
MarK from the Unseen
Eric Melvin from Nofx
Singer of Mustard Plug
Singer of Hed PE

My neighbor was in a band with the singer of Shadows Fall so I met him, but I am not a fan of Metal-core.

A lot of bands that never got too big like the River City Rebels and the Koffin Kats

I thought I saw Brad Pitt at a gas station but I couldn't remember his name so I didn't talk to him.

IMJ

08-22-2026, 07:17 PM

triplexxx

08-22-2026, 08:19 PM

Game Show Celebrities
*Alex Trebek
*Pat Sajak
*Vanna White
*Jim Thornton
*Harry Friedman
*Drew Carey
*George Gray
*Mark Lewis Walberg
*Clay Aiken
*Maggie Sajak
*Elizabeth Banks

TMNT Celebrities
*Rob Paulsen
*Cam Clarke
*Barry Gordon
*Townsend Coleman
*Renae Jacobs
*Robbie Rist
*Brian Tochi
*Maurice LaMarche
*Peter Cullen
*Kenn Scott
*Matt Hill
*François Chau
*Ernie Reyes Jr.
*Sean Astin

Other Celebrities
*Bruce Springsteen
*William Shatner
*Carl Weathers
*Bill Farmer
*Don Bluth
*Michael Bell
*Dan Molina
*Samuel Vincent
*Tony Sampson
*Chad Lindberg
*Jason Griffith
*Ben Schwartz
*Colleen O'Shaughnessey
*Ryan Drummond
*Pete Capella
*Kirk Thornton
*Michelle Ruff
*David Hayter
*Bill Clinton
*Henry Winkler
*Ewan McGregor
*Catherine Cavadini
*Marty Grabstein
*Jason Lee
*Tony Todd
*Temuera Morrison
*Rose McGowan
*Elijah Wood
*Adam Pally
*Gabriel Damon
*Candace Hutson
*Allison Moore
*Candi Milo
*Bret Iwan

Mad Dog McMutt

08-23-2026, 11:42 AM

Game Show Celebrities
*Alex Trebek
*Pat Sajak
*Vanna White
*Jim Thornton
*Harry Friedman
*Drew Carey
*George Gray
*Mark Lewis Walberg
*Clay Aiken
*Maggie Sajak
*Elizabeth Banks

TMNT Celebrities
*Rob Paulsen
*Cam Clarke
*Barry Gordon
*Townsend Coleman
*Renae Jacobs
*Robbie Rist
*Brian Tochi
*Maurice LaMarche
*Peter Cullen
*Kenn Scott
*Matt Hill
*François Chau
*Ernie Reyes Jr.
*Sean Astin

Other Celebrities
*Bruce Springsteen
*William Shatner
*Carl Weathers
*Bill Farmer
*Don Bluth
*Michael Bell
*Dan Molina
*Samuel Vincent
*Tony Sampson
*Chad Lindberg
*Jason Griffith
*Ben Schwartz
*Colleen O'Shaughnessey
*Ryan Drummond
*Pete Capella
*Kirk Thornton
*Bill Clinton
*Henry Winkler
*Ewan McGregor
*Catherine Cavadini
*Marty Grabstein
*Jason Lee
*Tony Todd
*Temuera Morrison
*Rose McGowan
*Elijah Wood
*Adam Pally
*Gabriel Damon
*Candace Hutson
*Allison Moore
*Candi Milo

That is a lot of celebrities. Do you live in California or something?

Prowler

08-26-2026, 01:55 PM

Former Portuguese footballer Nuno Gomes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Gomes

I met him when I was 18. He was very nice to me and my family.

Just Tara Strong :lol:

Is she as hot irl as she looks in photos and videos?

Hamato Yoshi

08-31-2026, 11:56 AM

Batman TAS : Slater,Warner+,Barbeau

007 : Lazenby,Rigg+,Blackman+,Dor+,Lonsdale+,Schell,Henr iques,Munro,Mountain,writer Sims+,Robinson+,d'Abo,Paluzzi,Rimmer+,de Souza,stunts Michaels (GE bungee jump) , Berkoff , MR girls (Bochenko, Lonnberg)

Melrose : Leighton,Rutherford

Neal Adams
Brenda Strong
Pam Anderson
RD Anderson (MacGyver)
Thiessen

Xfiles : Anderson,Pileggi,Lea,B Davis

Robinson (Dirty Harry)

SW : Baker+,Mayhew+,Bulloch+,Lando

Batman 60s : West+,Ward,Newmar,Meriwether

Tracey Walter (Batman 89)

Motu 87 : Dolph,de Longis,Fields,MegFoster

BH Cop : Ashton+ & Reinhold

Lazenby & Meriwether have dementia now :(

Coola Yagami

09-18-2026, 06:29 PM

Former Portuguese footballer Nuno Gomes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuno_Gomes

I met him when I was 18. He was very nice to me and my family.

Is she as hot irl as she looks in photos and videos?

She rocked his world. In fact he calls himself ToTheNines cause that's how many positions she did with him. In a single night.