BIG IN MOVIES, LANDED ON TV

3. black actor with impressive movie credits (& 2 SAG Awards)also found success on tv, chiefly in 2 cable shows - a comedy about a financial crisis & a sneery political drama
6. diminutive Oscar winner was in a career slump but found tv success, primarily in 2 cable limited series; in one she was rich housewife involved in scandal, the other a studio reporter for an a.m. tv show
8. Oscar winner in film he also wrote, he is almost as great as a NY ex-con transplanted to OK where he has to work for former bosses
9. child actress won Best Young Actress Award but seamlessly went to tv in an 1897 NYC show playing 1st woman on NYPD, then 1st woman to open her own P.I agcy.; also starred in cable anthology series about wives of presidents show
10. Veteran actor known for men of violence roles, played fictional POTUS on tv as well as a real pres in a miniseries & that pres bro in another

1. son of fmous actor who starred in some 1980s classics before doing the CIA show that made him even more famous
2. child actress then ingenue in rom-coms, she left the big screen for a spot on afternoon tv
4. Oscar winner in Western, he is better as family patriarch & owner of immense cattle ranch in MT
5. Oscar winner for playing crippled Viet Nam Vet, was great as scheming ex-con who is unannounced, unwanted visitor to his Hollywood fixer son.
7. former Brat Pack heart-throb has had bigger career on small screen in ensemble comedy as gov't auditor, WH aide, and fireman