University of California, Irvine alumni

Daniel Paul Fredinburg (September 8, 1981 – April 25, 2015) was an American Google executive, climate activist, inventor, explorer, and entrepreneur. He died on April 25, 2015, of head injuries incurred in an avalanche at Mount Everest's South Base Camp triggered by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Nazanin Boniadi (Persian: نازنین بنیادی born 1980) is a British actress and activist. Born in Tehran and raised in London, she went to university in the United States, where she landed her first major acting role as Leyla Mir in the medical drama General Hospital (2007–2009) and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift (2007). Since then, Boniadi has played Nora in the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2011), Fara Sherazi in the spy thriller series Homeland (2013–2014), Esther in the historical drama film Ben-Hur (2016), Clare Quayle in the sci-fi thriller series Counterpart (2017–2018), Zahra Kashani in the action thriller film Hotel Mumbai (2018), and Bronwyn in the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022–present).

Jonathan Michael Lovitz (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor, comedian and singer. He is best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. He starred as Jay Sherman in The Critic and has appeared in numerous other television series and films.

Crista Flanagan (born February 24, 1976) is an American actress and comedian, best known for her work as a cast member on the Fox sketch comedy series MADtv from 2005 to 2009, various roles in films made by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, and for her recurring role as Lois Sadler on the AMC series Mad Men.

Joseph McGinty Nichol (born August 9, 1968), known professionally as McG, is an American director, producer, and former record producer.

Sophie Tamiko Oda (born October 23, 1991) is an American actress. She is Japanese American and is also a professional singer and performer. She was nominated in 2007 by the Young Artist Awards as a guest starring young actress.

David Friedman ( ; born September 25, 1970), better known by his pen name David Benioff, is an American screenwriter and television producer, writer, and director. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known as co-creator, showrunner, and writer of Game of Thrones (2011–2019), the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series of books A Song of Ice and Fire. He is also known for writing Troy (2004) and co-writing X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009).

Coco Lee (Chinese: 李玟; pinyin: Lǐ mín; born Ferren Lee, 17 January 1975 – 5 July 2023) was a Chinese-American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Lee's career began in Hong Kong and then expanded to Taiwan. Her single, "Do You Want My Love" also entered the US music charts. Her first English-language album was Just No Other Way (1999) . At the Oscars, she performed the Best Original Song nominated, "A Love Before Time" from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Kelly Lin or Lin Hsi-Lei (Chinese: 林熙蕾; pinyin: Lín Xīlěi) is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.

Grace Byers (née Gealey; born July 26, 1984) is a Caymanian-American actress, known for her role as Anika Calhoun in the Fox music-industry drama, Empire.