Mary-Louise Parker

John Turturro

Lauren Bacall

Ellen Barkin and Julianne Moore

Susan Sarandon

Eric Bogosian, Matthew Broderick, and Tim Robbins

Chita Rivera

Marian Seldes

Christopher Walken

Patricia Clarkson

Glenn Close

Edie Falco

James Earl Jones and Patti LuPone

Liev Schreiber

Anna Deavere Smith and John Cameron Mitchell

Sylvia Miles

Nathan Lane and John Leguizamo

Kevin Kline

Harvey Fierstein

S. Epatha Merkerson

Lypsinka

Jessica Lange

Steve Buscemi

Robert De Niro

John Lithgow

Mia Farrow

Sarah Jessica Parker

Ethan Hawke

Sigourney Weaver

2008

What is a New York actor?

For the magazine’s 40th anniversary, Dan Winters photographed dozens of them: singers, comics, dramatic actors, old folks and young folks, male and female, all unmistakably of this town.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAN WINTERS

Meryl Streep