List of Inside the Actors Studio episodes

Inside the Actors Studio is a series on the Bravo cable television channel, first hosted by James Lipton from 1994 to 2018, and on Ovation for the show's 23rd and final season in 2019 with an alternating list of hosts. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz; the executive producer is James Lipton. The program, which premiered in 1994, is distributed internationally by CABLEready and is broadcast in 125 countries around the world reaching 89,000,000 homes. It is currently taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University's New York City campus.
Many of the available episode guides conflict with one another regarding the numbering of episodes and in some cases are internally inconsistent. The numbering here is a complete and internally consistent list created from other available episode guides for the show.

Episodes

Season 1 (1994)

Inside the Actors Studio premiered on Bravo on June 12, 1994. The first season was also the first-time host James Lipton appeared on the show without his trademark beard..

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	June 12, 1994	Paul Newman
2	June 18, 1994	Alec Baldwin
3	June 22, 1994	Stephen Sondheim
4	July 5, 1994	Sidney Lumet
5	July 12, 1994	Shelley Winters
6	July 18, 1994	Sally Field
7	July 23, 1994	Dennis Hopper
8	July 30, 1994	Arthur Miller
9	August 7, 1994	Arthur Penn
10	August 14, 1994	Estelle Parsons
11	August 21, 1994	Neil Simon
12	August 28, 1994	Sydney Pollack
13	September 4, 1994	Mary Stuart Masterson
14	September 11, 1994	Olympia Dukakis
15	September 18, 1994	William Goldman

Season 2 (1995)

Season 2 of Inside the Actors Studio was the last season where host James Lipton appeared on camera without a beard. Lipton's signature look was a full beard, and he sported it for the following season.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	March 12, 1995	Lee Grant
2	March 19, 1995	Faye Dunaway
3	March 26, 1995	Matthew Broderick
4	April 2, 1995	Glenn Close
5	April 9, 1995	Holly Hunter
6	April 16, 1995	Ellen Burstyn
7	April 23, 1995	Jessica Lange
8	April 30, 1995	Carol Burnett
9	May 7, 1995	Christopher Walken
10	May 14, 1995	Gene Wilder
11	May 21, 1995	Stanley Donen
12	May 28, 1995	Martin Landau

Season 3 (1996)

Beginning with this season, James Lipton began wearing a beard for the remainder of the series. This was a change from the clean-shaven look he had sported for the first two seasons.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	March 10, 1996	Mark Rydell
2	March 17, 1996	Norman Jewison
3	March 24, 1996	Nathan Lane
4	March 31, 1996	Anjelica Huston
5	April 7, 1996	Christopher Reeve
6	April 14, 1996	Matt Dillon
7	April 21, 1996	Tommy Lee Jones
8	April 28, 1996	Mike Nichols
9	May 5, 1996	Julia Roberts
10	May 12, 1996	Meg Ryan
11	May 19, 1996	Anthony Quinn
12	May 26, 1996	Willem Dafoe
13	June 2, 1996	Billy Crystal

Season 7 (2000–2001)

The 100th episode of Inside the Actors Studio aired on Bravo on August 19, 2001. In this episode, host James Lipton interviews actress Roseanne Barr.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	November 12, 2000	Bernadette Peters
2	November 16, 2000	Val Kilmer
3	November 19, 2000	James Caan
4	December 3, 2000	Richard Dreyfuss
5	December 10, 2000	Gabriel Byrne
6	December 17, 2000	Spike Lee
7	December 17, 2000	Ed Harris
8	January 14, 2001	Ben Affleck
9	January 28, 2001	Ned Beatty
10	February 4, 2001	Mike Myers
11	February 18, 2001	Michael Douglas
12	March 11, 2001	Gwyneth Paltrow
13	April 15, 2001	Helen Hunt
14	May 6, 2001	Francis Ford Coppola
15	June 10, 2001	Robin Williams
16	July 15, 2001	Melanie Griffith
17	July 22, 2001	Antonio Banderas
18	August 6, 2001	Burt Reynolds
19	August 19, 2001	Roseanne

Season 9 (2002–2003)

On February 9, 2003, the cast of The Simpsons appeared on Inside the Actors Studio. They talked about their lives as cast members and showed clips from episodes of The Simpsons.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	October 6, 2002	Sissy Spacek
2	October 27, 2002	Juliette Binoche
3	November 10, 2002	Jeanne Moreau
4	November 17, 2002	Pierce Brosnan
5	December 8, 2002	Ian McKellen
6	December 15, 2002	Martin Scorsese
7	December 22, 2002	Julianne Moore
8	January 12, 2003	Edward Norton
9	February 9, 2003	Cast of The Simpsons
10	February 16, 2003	Nicolas Cage
11	March 2, 2003	Drew Barrymore
12	March 9, 2003	Renée Zellweger
13	April 13, 2003	John Travolta
14	May 4, 2003	Jeremy Irons
15	May 11, 2003	Joanne Woodward
16	May 18, 2003	Martin Sheen
17	July 20, 2003	Jeff Bridges

Season 10 (2003–2004)

Inside the Actors Studio celebrated its 10th anniversary season on Bravo. The season included a retrospective of the show's history and memorable moments, as well as in-depth interviews with actors.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	September 14, 2003	John Goodman
2	October 5, 2003	Clint Eastwood
3	November 16, 2003	Cast of Will & Grace
4	December 14, 2003	Cate Blanchett
5	December 21, 2003	Jude Law
6	December 28, 2003	Naomi Watts
7	January 4, 2004	Russell Crowe
8	January 11, 2004	Tom Cruise
9	January 18, 2004	Charlize Theron
10	February 8, 2004	Diane Lane
11	February 15, 2004	Jay Leno
12	March 7, 2004	Hugh Jackman
13	March 14, 2004	Kate Winslet
14	March 21, 2004	Barbra Streisand
15	June 6, 2004	Bette Midler
16	June 20, 2004	10th Anniversary Special

Season 13 (2006–2007)

On June 11, 2007, Bravo aired the 200th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. In the show's 200th episode, host James Lipton interviews Kyra Sedgwick.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	December 11, 2006	Forest Whitaker
2	December 18, 2006	Eddie Murphy
3	January 8, 2007	Matt Damon
4	February 19, 2007	Diana Ross
5	March 12, 2007	Chris Rock
6	March 19, 2007	Mark Ruffalo
7	June 4, 2007	Julia Louis-Dreyfus
8	June 11, 2007	Kyra Sedgwick
9	August 6, 2007	Michelle Pfeiffer
10	September 17, 2007	Charlie Sheen
11	October 8, 2007	Billy Crystal - second visit
12	October 15, 2007	Anthony Hopkins - second visit
13	October 22, 2007	Alec Baldwin - second visit
14	October 29, 2007	Halle Berry
15	December 3, 2007	John Cusack

Season 19 (2013–2014)

On May 29, 2013, Bravo aired the 250th episode of Inside the Actors Studio. The episode featured Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Barbara Walters, and Dave Chappelle.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	February 13, 2013	Hugh Jackman - second visit
2	March 19, 2013	Tina Fey
3	May 29, 2013	250th Special - Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken and Barbara Walters, Dave Chappelle, and more.
4	September 19, 2013	Jake Gyllenhaal
5	November 7, 2013	Cast of Arrested Development
6	December 26, 2013	Bruce and Laura Dern
7	February 19, 2014	Amy Adams

Season 20 (2014–2015)

Inside the Actors Studio celebrated its 20th anniversary on Bravo. The show debuted in 1994, and over the years has featured in-depth interviews with a wide range of actors.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	February 20, 2014	Matthew McConaughey
2	March 27, 2014	Cast of How I Met Your Mother
3	September 22, 2014	Mariska Hargitay
4	October 5, 2014	Sting
5	February 12, 2015	Neil Patrick Harris
6	June 18, 2015	Jim Parsons

Season 22 (2016–2018)

This was the last season that James Lipton hosted Inside the Actors Studio after the show premiered in 1994. It was also the last season to air on Bravo before Ovation picked up the show.

No.	Air Date	Guest
1	December 21, 2016	Jessica Chastain
2	January 5, 2017	Viola Davis
3	February 2, 2017	Cuba Gooding Jr.
4	February 9, 2017	Cast of Girls
5	June 22, 2017	Scarlett Johansson
6	December 21, 2017	Kristen Wiig
7	January 11, 2018	Ted Danson

Season 23 (2019)

The 23rd and final season of "Inside the Actors Studio" was the first and only season to air on Ovation. In this season, the host appeared in a rotating list of episodes.

No.	Air Date	Host	Guest
1	October 13, 2019	Alec Baldwin	Henry Winkler
2	October 20, 2019	Jane Lynch	David Oyelowo
3	October 27, 2019	Pedro Pascal	Willem Dafoe
4	November 3, 2019	Ellen Burstyn	Al Pacino
5	November 10, 2019	LaTanya Richardson Jackson	Alfre Woodard
6	November 17, 2019	Greta Gerwig	Laura Dern
7	December 6, 2019	Kelsey Grammer	James Burrows
8	December 15, 2019	Uzo Aduba	Lupita Nyong'o