Inside the Actors Studio

(1994)•

7.5

Fading Star

Average season ratings show a negative trend over time.

James Lipton sits down with some of the world's most accomplished actors and directors for penetrating, fascinating interviews.

Seasons

284

Episodes

Ended

Status

August 14, 1994

First Aired

Season Ratings

6.0→9.1

IMDb

Networks: Bravo

Genres: Talk

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Season 1

15 episodes • 1994

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Paul Newman	Aug 14, 1994
2	Stephen Sondheim	Sep 11, 1994
3	Alec Baldwin	Jun 12, 1994
4	Sidney Lumet	Oct 16, 1994
5	Shelley Winters	Nov 13, 1994
6	Sally Field	TBA
7	Dennis Hopper	TBA
8	Arthur Miller	TBA
9	Arthur Penn	TBA
10	Estelle Parsons	TBA
11	Neil Simon	Jul 9, 1995
12	Sydney Pollack	TBA
13	Mary Stuart Masterson	TBA
14	Olympia Dukakis	TBA
15	William Goldman	TBA

Season 2

13 episodes • 1995

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Lee Grant	Mar 12, 1995
2	Faye Dunaway	Mar 19, 1995
3	Matthew Broderick	Mar 26, 1995
4	Glenn Close	Apr 2, 1995
5	Holly Hunter	Apr 9, 1995
6	Ellen Burstyn	Apr 16, 1995
7	Jessica Lange	Apr 23, 1995
8	Carol Burnett	Apr 30, 1995
9	Christopher Walken	May 7, 1995
10	Gene Wilder	May 14, 1995
11	Stanley Donen	May 21, 1995
12	Martin Landau	May 28, 1995

Season 3

13 episodes • TBA

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Mark Rydell	TBA
2	Norman Jewison	TBA
3	Nathan Lane	TBA
4	Anjelica Huston	TBA
5	Christopher Reeve	TBA
6	Matt Dillon	TBA
7	Tommy Lee Jones	TBA
8	Mike Nichols	TBA
9	Julia Roberts	TBA
10	Meg Ryan	TBA
11	Anthony Quinn	May 19, 1996
12	Willem Dafoe	TBA
13	Billy Crystal	Jan 30, 1996

Season 4

13 episodes • 1998

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Harvey Keitel	Aug 9, 1998
2	Shirley MacLaine	Aug 23, 1998
3	Eli Wallach	Sep 6, 1998
4	Anne Jackson	Sep 13, 1998
5	Lauren Bacall	Sep 20, 1998
6	Martin Short	Sep 27, 1998
7	Sir Anthony Hopkins	Oct 4, 1998
8	Danny Glover	Oct 11, 1998
9	Whoopi Goldberg	Oct 18, 1998
10	Jack Lemmon	Oct 25, 1998
11	Gary Sinise	Nov 1, 1998
12	Kathy Bates	Nov 8, 1998
13	Susan Sarandon	Nov 15, 1998

Season 5

16 episodes • 1998

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Meryl Streep	Nov 22, 1998
2	John Hurt	Nov 29, 1998
3	Laurence Fishburne	Dec 6, 1998
4	Donald Sutherland	Dec 13, 1998
5	Ron Howard	Jan 3, 1999
6	Sharon Stone	Jan 10, 1999
7	Sean Penn	Jan 17, 1999
8	Robert De Niro	Jan 31, 1999
9	Steven Spielberg	Feb 14, 1999
10	Tim Robbins	TBA
11	Jennifer Jason Leigh	Jul 11, 1999
12	Kim Basinger	Jul 18, 1999
13	Ellen Barkin	Jul 25, 1999
14	Peter Falk	Aug 8, 1999
15	Jerry Lewis	Aug 15, 1999
19	Tom Hanks	Dec 12, 1999

Season 6

13 episodes • 1999

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Billy Joel	Nov 14, 1999
2	Mary Tyler Moore	Nov 21, 1999
3	Sylvester Stallone	Dec 5, 1999
4	Tom Hanks	Dec 12, 1999
5	Sir Michael Caine	Jan 9, 2000
6	Geena Davis	Apr 9, 2000
7	James Woods	Apr 30, 2000
8	Andy Garcia	May 7, 2000
9	Kevin Spacey	Jul 2, 2000
10	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Jun 4, 2000
11	Alan Alda	Aug 6, 2000
12	Harrison Ford	Aug 20, 2000
13	Sigourney Weaver	Oct 29, 2000

Season 7

19 episodes • 2000

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Bernadette Peters	Nov 12, 2000
2	Val Kilmer	TBA
3	James Caan	Nov 19, 2000
4	Richard Dreyfuss	Dec 3, 2000
5	Gabriel Byrne	Dec 10, 2000
6	Spike Lee	Dec 17, 2000
7	Ed Harris	Dec 17, 2000
8	Ben Affleck	Jan 14, 2001
9	Ned Beatty	Jan 28, 2001
10	Mike Myers	Feb 4, 2001
11	Michael Douglas	Feb 18, 2001
12	Gwyneth Paltrow	Mar 11, 2001
13	Helen Hunt	Apr 15, 2001
14	Francis Ford Coppola	May 6, 2001
15	Robin Williams	Jun 10, 2001
16	Melanie Griffith	Jul 15, 2001
17	Antonio Banderas	Jul 22, 2001
18	Burt Reynolds	Aug 6, 2001
19	Roseanne	Aug 19, 2001

Season 8

19 episodes • 2001

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Ben Stiller	Sep 30, 2001
2	Gene Hackman	Oct 14, 2001
3	Kevin Kline	Oct 21, 2001
4	Bruce Willis	Oct 28, 2001
5	Kevin Costner	Nov 25, 2001
6	Will Smith	Jan 13, 2002
7	Stockard Channing	Jan 27, 2002
8	Debra Winger	Feb 17, 2002
9	Sarah Jessica Parker	Mar 3, 2002
10	Sir Ben Kingsley	Mar 17, 2002
11	Dennis Quaid	Apr 7, 2002
12	Ethan Hawke	Apr 21, 2002
13	Richard Gere	May 5, 2002
14	Hugh Grant	May 12, 2002
15	Samuel L. Jackson	Jun 2, 2002
16	Benicio del Toro	Jun 30, 2002
17	Vanessa Redgrave	Aug 4, 2002
18	Billy Bob Thornton	Aug 18, 2002
19	Johnny Depp	Sep 8, 2002

Season 9

17 episodes • 2002

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Sissy Spacek	Oct 6, 2002
2	Juliette Binoche	Oct 27, 2002
3	Jeanne Moreau	Nov 10, 2002
4	Pierce Brosnan	Nov 17, 2002
5	Sir Ian McKellen	Dec 8, 2002
6	Martin Scorsese	Dec 15, 2002
7	Julianne Moore	Dec 22, 2002
8	Edward Norton	Jan 12, 2003
9	The Cast of The Simpsons	Feb 9, 2003
10	Nicolas Cage	Feb 16, 2003
11	Drew Barrymore	Mar 2, 2003
12	Renee Zellweger	Mar 9, 2003
13	John Travolta	Apr 13, 2003
14	Jeremy Irons	May 4, 2003
15	Joanne Woodward	May 11, 2003
16	Martin Sheen	May 18, 2003
17	Jeff Bridges	Jul 20, 2003

Season 10

17 episodes • 2003Avg: 7.8

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	John Goodman	Sep 14, 2003	0.0
2	Clint Eastwood	Oct 5, 2003	10.0
3	The Cast of Will & Grace	Nov 16, 2003	0.0
4	Cate Blanchett	Dec 14, 2003	0.0
5	Jude Law	Dec 21, 2003	8.0
6	Naomi Watts	Dec 28, 2003	0.0
7	Russell Crowe	Jan 4, 2004	6.0
8	Tom Cruise	Jan 11, 2004	10.0
9	Charlize Theron	Jan 18, 2004	0.0
10	Diane Lane	Feb 8, 2004	0.0
11	Jay Leno	Feb 15, 2004	5.0
12	Hugh Jackman	Mar 7, 2004	0.0
13	Kate Winslet	Mar 14, 2004	0.0
14	Barbra Streisand	Mar 21, 2004	0.0
15	Bette Midler	Jun 6, 2004	0.0
16	10th Anniversary Special	Jun 20, 2004	0.0
17	Episode 17	Jan 12, 2003	0.0

Season 11

24 episodes • 2004Avg: 7.5

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Jennifer Lopez	Oct 10, 2004	0.0
2	James Gandolfini	Oct 17, 2004	0.0
3	William H. Macy	Oct 24, 2004	0.0
4	George Carlin	Oct 31, 2004	0.0
5	Jennifer Connelly	Nov 7, 2004	0.0
6	Mark Wahlberg	Nov 14, 2004	6.0
7	Natalie Portman	Nov 21, 2004	0.0
8	Jamie Foxx	Nov 28, 2004	0.0
9	Salma Hayek	Dec 5, 2004	0.0
10	Morgan Freeman	Jan 2, 2005	0.0
11	Cameron Diaz	Jan 9, 2005	0.0
12	Kiefer Sutherland	Jan 23, 2005	0.0
13	Robert Redford	Jan 30, 2005	0.0
14	Colin Farrell	Feb 6, 2005	0.0
15	Val Kimer	Feb 13, 2005	0.0
16	Owen Wilson	Feb 20, 2005	0.0
17	David Duchovny	Apr 10, 2005	0.0
18	Jane Fonda	Apr 24, 2005	0.0
19	Angelina Jolie	May 8, 2005	0.0
20	The Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond	Jun 19, 2005	10.0
21	Jodie Foster	Sep 25, 2005	0.0
22	Elton John	Oct 16, 2005	10.0
23	Rosie O'Donnell	Oct 23, 2005	4.0
24	Michael J. Fox	Oct 30, 2005	0.0

Season 12

20 episodes • 2005Avg: 8.0Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Jodie Foster	Sep 25, 2005	0.0
2	Elton John	Oct 16, 2005	10.0
3	Rosie O'Donnell	TBA	0.0
4	Michael J. Fox	Oct 30, 2005	0.0
5	The Cast of the Producers	Dec 11, 2005	0.0
6	Barbara Walters	Dec 18, 2005	0.0
7	Queen Latifah	Jan 8, 2006	0.0
8	Ralph Fiennes	Jan 15, 2006	0.0
9	Martin Lawrence	Jan 22, 2006	0.0
10	Liza Minnelli	Feb 5, 2006	0.0
11	Dave Chappelle	Feb 12, 2006	2.0
12	The Casts of Law & Order	May 7, 2006	0.0
13	Tom Hanks (II)	May 14, 2006	0.0
14	Don Cheadle	May 21, 2006	0.0
15	Tim Allen	Jun 6, 2006	0.0
16	Dustin Hoffman	Jun 25, 2006	10.0
17	Robert Downey Jr.	Jul 9, 2006	0.0
18	Hugh Laurie	Jul 31, 2006	0.0
19	Teri Hatcher	Sep 18, 2006	0.0
20	Al Pacino	Oct 2, 2006	10.0

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Season 13

15 episodes • 2006Avg: 9.1Golden Era

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Forest Whitaker	Dec 11, 2006	0.0
2	Eddie Murphy	Dec 18, 2006	0.0
3	Matt Damon	Jan 8, 2007	6.0
4	Diana Ross	Feb 19, 2007	0.0
5	Chris Rock	Mar 12, 2007	0.0
6	Mark Ruffalo	Mar 19, 2007	10.0
7	Julia Louis-Dreyfus	Jun 4, 2007	0.0
8	Kyra Sedgwick	Jun 11, 2007	0.0
9	Michelle Pfeiffer	Aug 6, 2007	10.0
10	Charlie Sheen	Sep 17, 2007	0.0
11	Billy Crystal (II)	Oct 8, 2007	10.0
12	Sir Anthony Hopkins (II)	Oct 15, 2007	10.0
13	Alec Baldwin (II)	Oct 22, 2007	8.0
14	Halle Berry	Oct 29, 2007	0.0
15	John Cusack	Dec 3, 2007	10.0

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Season 14

4 episodes • 2008

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Sarah Jessica Parker	May 19, 2008
2	Mike Myers	Jun 16, 2008
3	Brooke Shields	Sep 22, 2008
4	Christian Slater	Oct 13, 2008

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Season 15

15 episodes • 2008Avg: 8.2

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Goldie Hawn	Nov 3, 2008	0.0
2	James Lipton	Nov 10, 2008	10.0
3	Daniel Radcliffe	Dec 1, 2008	0.0
4	Josh Brolin	Jan 5, 2009	10.0
5	Laura Linney	Jan 12, 2009	0.0
6	Ricky Gervais	Jan 26, 2009	10.0
7	Conan O'Brien	Jan 27, 2009	0.0
8	Anthony LaPaglia	Jan 26, 2009	10.0
9	Denis Leary	May 4, 2009	0.0
10	Danny DeVito	May 11, 2009	10.0
11	Judd Apatow	Jul 27, 2009	0.0
12	Mickey Rourke	Aug 31, 2009	7.0
13	Jason Bateman	Sep 7, 2009	6.0
14	The Cast of Family Guy	Sep 14, 2009	9.0
15	Amy Poehler	Sep 21, 2009	2.0

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Season 16

6 episodes • 2009Avg: 7.7

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Hilary Swank	Nov 9, 2009	10.0
2	Bon Jovi	Nov 16, 2009	4.0
3	Kate Hudson	Dec 21, 2009	6.0
4	James Cameron	Mar 1, 2010	10.0
5	Sean Combs	May 25, 2010	10.0
6	Betty White	Sep 28, 2010	6.0

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Season 17

8 episodes • 2010

#	Episode	Air Date
1	James Franco	Dec 17, 2010
2	Jim Carrey	Jan 10, 2011
3	Colin Firth	Feb 7, 2011
4	Bradley Cooper	Mar 14, 2011
5	Cast of Modern Family	Jun 7, 2011
6	Jennifer Aniston	Jul 6, 2011
7	George Clooney	Jan 31, 2012
8	Brad Pitt	Feb 10, 2012

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Season 18

6 episodes • 2012

#	Episode	Air Date
1	George Clooney	Jan 31, 2012
2	Brad Pitt	Feb 10, 2012
3	Cast of Glee	Apr 9, 2012
4	Cast of Mad Men	May 14, 2012
5	Jennifer Aniston	Feb 13, 2012
6	Liam Neeson	Oct 2, 2012

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Season 19

13 episodes • 2013

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Hugh Jackman	Feb 13, 2013
2	Tina Fey	Mar 19, 2013
3	250th Special	May 29, 2013
4	Jake Gyllenhaal	Sep 19, 2013
5	Cast and Creator of Arrested Development	Nov 7, 2013
6	Bruce Dern and Laura Dern	Dec 26, 2013
7	Amy Adams	Feb 19, 2014
8	Matthew McConaughey	Feb 20, 2014
9	How I Met Your Mother	Mar 27, 2014
10	Robin Williams	Aug 21, 2014
11	Mariska Hargitay	Sep 22, 2014
12	Sting	Oct 23, 2014
13	Jim Parsons	Jun 18, 2015

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Season 20

6 episodes • 2014Avg: 6.0Valley of Despair

#	Episode	Air Date	Rating
1	Matthew McConaughey	Feb 20, 2014	6.0
2	The Cast of How I Met Your Mother	Mar 27, 2014	0.0
3	Mariska Hargitay	Sep 22, 2014	0.0
4	Sting	Oct 23, 2014	0.0
5	Neil Patrick Harris	Feb 12, 2015	0.0
6	Jim Parsons	Jun 18, 2015	0.0

Season 21

6 episodes • 2015

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Sarah Silverman	Oct 22, 2015
2	Bryan Cranston	Nov 25, 2015
3	Steve Carell	Dec 17, 2015
4	Jeff Daniels	Jan 7, 2016
5	The Cast of The Walking Dead	Feb 11, 2016
6	Christopher Meloni	Mar 31, 2016

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Season 22

7 episodes • 2016

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Jessica Chastain	Dec 21, 2016
2	Viola Davis	Jan 5, 2017
3	Cuba Gooding Jr.	Feb 2, 2017
4	The Cast of Girls	Feb 9, 2017
5	Scarlett Johansson	Jun 22, 2017
6	Kristen Wiig	Dec 21, 2017
7	Ted Danson	Jan 11, 2018

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