Annette Bening
Annetta Bening is another actress who started her career in theatre, joining the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Company in 1980. Later she began taking acting roles on screen and got her debut with Manhunt for Claude Dallas, which helped launch her television and film career. In the 90s she was nominated for an Oscar and the Screen Actors Guild Award and is still acting today.
Jami Gertz
While Jami Gertz was studying theatre at NYU, she got discovered by a talent agent and landed her first film role for On the Right Track in 1981 with a small role, and got her real break with her role as Muffy in Square Pegs. She had many roles in television shows such as ER, Ally McBeal, and more recently Entourage.