Gage Skidmore · CC BY-SA 3.0

Co-creator and star of Mad About You, one of the defining sitcoms of 1990s American television, after breaking through as Modell in Diner and Detective Jeffrey Friedman across the Beverly Hills Cop films. He resurfaced for a new generation with dramatic turns in Whiplash and as Dr. Sam Owens in Stranger Things, and named his production company Nuance Productions after one of his own lines from Diner.