Neil is the father of actress Nicki Whitely. He started in musical theatre in Toronto productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, How to Suceed in Business Without Really Trying and Into the Woods. He then moved into film and television where he is known for his roles in feature films such as Red, Shimmer Lake and Repo Men and television series such as The Girlfriend Experience, Air Emergency, Bad Blood and Utopia Falls.
Neil Willenson is an actor, non-profit leader and corporate executive. As the Founder of Camp Heartland (now called One Heartland), Willenson led a national non-profit organization that makes a year-round and life-long difference for children impacted by HIV/AIDS. He is also Co-Founder of Camp Hometown Heroes, a national summer camp for children of fallen U.S. service members as well as Co-Founder of Camp Reunite, a groundbreaking program for children who have an incarcerated parent In order to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS, Willenson and the Camp Heartland program have been featured by the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline NBC, two episodes of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, TIME Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Progressive Magazine, USA Today, and other outlets. Willenson and Camp Heartland were profiled in the CBS Movie of the Week, "Angelie's Secret," in the Disney Channel film "Friends for Life," on Good Morning America, CBS Morning News and countless television talk shows, and the feature film, "Born with HIV: Little Warriors." In 2008, Willenson was named one of GQ Magazine's "Men of the Year." In July of 2001, Willenson was recognized by PEOPLE magazine as one of the "50 Top Bachelors" in their annual Most Eligible Bachelor issue. Now officially "off the market" Willenson is married to artist Adria Rosenthal Willenson. Under his leadership, Camp Heartland (now called One Heartland) has raised over 50 million dollars to support children with HIV/AIDS, has grown to become the largest organization of its kind, and now serves as a mentor to dozens of other camps throughout the world. Willenson is also an actor who has appeared in dozens of TV commercials, live theater productions (Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof most recently in May 2014 at the Next Act Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) and films.
Neil Williams is known for Sherlock Holmes (2010).
Neil Wilson is known for The Pacific War in Color (2018), Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022) and Extreme Houseboats (2012).
Neil Wolfman is known for Condor's Nest (2023), On the Market (2009) and In Critical Condition (2016).
Neil Young is an actor, known for The Souvenir (2019).
Neil Young is one of the most respected and prolific rock/folk guitarists of the late 20th century. Raised in Canada, he first became well-known as a guitarist and occasional vocalist for the band Buffalo Springfield. After the band's breakup, Young became a solo performer. However, he also has spent more than 30 years performing with the super-group Crosby Stills Nash & Young, as well as with the band Crazy Horse. He also recorded an album with the grunge band Pearl Jam in 1995. Besides his work as a musician, he has also been active in film. Young has produced and/or performed in such concert films as Rust Never Sleeps (1979), Year of the Horse (1997) and many more. He has also been involved with non-musical films, including Human Highway (1982) and Made in Heaven (1987).
Neil Young is an actor, known for Yield (2020).
Neil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Born and raised in New York City, Tyson became interested in astronomy at the age of nine after a visit to the Hayden Planetarium. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, where he was editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, he completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Harvard University in 1980. After receiving a master's degree in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin in 1983, he earned his master's (1989) and doctorate (1991) in astrophysics at Columbia University. For the next three years, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In 1994 he joined the Hayden Planetarium as a staff scientist and the Princeton faculty as a visiting research scientist and lecturer. In 1996, he became director of the planetarium and oversaw its $210-million reconstruction project, which was completed in 2000. From 1995 to 2005, Tyson wrote monthly essays in the "Universe" column for Natural History magazine, some of which were published in his book Death by Black Hole (2007). During the same period, he wrote a monthly column in Star Date magazine, answering questions about the universe under the pen name "Merlin". Material from the column appeared in his books Merlin's Tour of the Universe (1998) and Just Visiting This Planet (1998). Tyson served on a 2001 government commission on the future of the U.S. aerospace industry, and on the 2004 Moon, Mars and Beyond commission. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in the same year. In 2014, he hosted the television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. As a science communicator, Tyson regularly appears on television, radio, and various other media outlets.