Celebrities from Orange Co.

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Do you know which Celebrities were born and/or raised here in Orange Co.?


It doesn't matter if they are live or dead.





To start the ball rolling, I know the following 3:</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Ferrell">Will Ferrell


</a>Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, ...


(I heard him saying that he was a bank teller in Irvine, I can't picture him doing that, I see him and I start laughing just imaganing what is going to do next?)





<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Stefani">Gwen Stefani</a>


Gwen Stefani was born in Fullerton, California and raised in Anaheim, Cal. ...</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Keaton">Diane Keaton


</a>Keaton is a 1964 graduate of Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California ...


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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zack_de_la_Rocha">Zack de la Rocha</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Commerford">Tim Commerford</a> of Rage Against the Machine.
 
<p>Kevin Costner graduated from Villa Park High in 1973.</p>

<p>Cameron Diaz also has family in Villa Park and occassionally you might catch her with her family at the Orange Circle.</p>
 
There's a bunch of athletes and bands from OC, but I don't think we should count that. Are the brats in Laguna Beach and the wives of Real Housewives of OC considered celebrities?
 
<em>"i live in orange county."</em>





I was waiting for someone to say that.





Orange County is also the home of the infamous bubble blogger IrvineRenter.
 
<p>President Richard Nixon was born in Yorba Linda.</p>

<p>Here's a celebrity story from my suburban home town of Boston. A friend of mine was walking out of the grocery store with her mother when her mother pulled her pocketbook closer to herself as she noticed a disheveled man. Her mother told her to move over and watch out for the homeless man. It turned out to be Steven Tyler from Aerosmith - just looking his normal self. My friend told her mother that Steven Tyler didn't need her money - he had PLENTY of his own.</p>

<p>I do need to give props to Steven Tyler - he lived in my town and GENEROUSLY gave LOTS of money to our Community Christmas program for less fortunate families. He went ABOVE and BEYOND! </p>
 
Famous people who owned yachts in the Newport Harbor:



- Humphrey Bogart

- John Wayne

- Errol Flynn

- Dick Powell

- Shirley Temple

- James Cagney

- Mae West
 
more from Will Ferrell...the bank teller:








<p class="rdheadline">A moment with ... Will Ferrell, comedian</p>

<p class="rdbyline">SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF</p>

<p>The 34-year-old from Irvine, Calif., recently completed his seventh and final season on "Saturday Night Live." Yesterday, the USC graduate participated in the 2002 Basketball Challenge, benefiting breast cancer care and research at the UW Medical Center.</p>

<p><strong>What do you think of "Conquest," the tune played endlessly by the Trojans marching band? </strong>"Truth be told, I get sick of it, too. It starts putting me to sleep after a while."</p>

<p><strong>First jobs: </strong>Parked cars as a valet at Meridien Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif. "The second night, I took a van into a parking garage and didn't have enough clearance. The whole luggage rack came off. Somehow, I didn't get fired." He also worked as a bank teller: "The first day, I was $300 short, and the next, $280. So I lost the bank $580, but I honestly didn't take it. I just had a tough two days."</p>
 
<p>more from Will Ferrell...living in Irvine :</p>



<p>Irvine was a rather conservative place, very white, very middle-class, very Republican. But the Ferrells, Lee and wife Kay, a junior college English professor, were slightly outside the norm, living in the town's only apartment complex. Through his parents young Will was made aware of both the importance of education and the possibility of an "alternative" existence and, despite Lee and Kay's divorce in 1975 his natural intelligence and work ethic would make him a top student. He was also a big guy and a fine baseball - and football - player. At football he was a heavyweight defence specialist, always sent on to mark the opposition's top attackers. As the years passed, though, and the violence of the game grew ever more spectacular, he would switch to kicking duties, figuring that the best place for him was the one where opponents were actually penalised for hurting him. Further proof of that intelligence. It was also a worthwhile exercise as the many hours of kicking practice would teach him both to focus and "remain in the moment" - absolutely essential when he'd later move into onstage improv and live TV.</p>

<p>Ferrell's famed sense of humour was also much in evidence during his time at Irvine's University High School. Later describing himself as a "conscientious class clown", he recognised that comedy could boost his popularity, allow him to make friends more easily, and so perfected pratfalling and crashing into doors. And there were more public performances. Towards the end of his schooling, his class president was having trouble selling senior class teeshirts and asked Ferrell to boost sales by making a few announcements over the school's PA system. With a friend he wrote an ad and performed it using the voices of Hans and Franz, characters played by Dana Carvey and Kevin Nealon on Saturday Night Live (Ferrell was already a big comedy fan, loving Chevy Chase, but especially Steve Martin). Impressed by this success the school principal would now ask Ferrell and his buddy to work their magic on normal campus announcements, for which they invented a series of comedy characters. It wasn't standard procedure, reasoned the principal, but at least students were now listening. Consequently Ferrell and friend would be asked to perform live at school assemblies, usually in outlandish costumes.</p>

<p>Ferrell's senior year would bring another example of his advanced silliness. Along with his friends he wanted to form a club, something out of the ordinary, beyond reading or tennis or stamp-collecting. They thought of a lumberjack club, but eventually settled on a reptile club, where they would watch films about reptiles and each take the name of some scaly beast (Ferrell would be known as Gecko). Such was Ferrell's popularity that the club soon had a huge membership.</p>
 
<p>I thought Mark McGwire moved to a different house in Shady Canyon. He had 3 Redbird while he was building his estate. He sold 3 Redbird to a knife catcher.</p>

<p>My husband has seen him getting his haircut in Irvine.</p>
 
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