Inside the Actors Studio - Season 17

Bravo starts the year off on a high note as Golden Globe-winner Jim Carrey, one of the most sought-after guests in Inside the Actors Studio history, takes the hot seat on Monday, January 10th at 8pm et/pt. Host James Lipton first invited Carrey 17 years ago to appear on the show and on the night of the memorable taping, told the audience Carrey is worth the "17 years of foreplay."

Leaving no stone unturned, Lipton courses through Carrey's early days as a class clown in school to the janitorial job he had to take in order to support his family. Carrey talks about how he developed his character for Ace Ventura and reveals that his technique was similar to Anthony Hopkins method for creating Hannibal Lector. Carrey traverses his career from In Living Color, The Mask, The Truman Show, and his most recent blockbuster hit, I Love You, Phillip Morris, which was just nominated in the category of "Best Comedy" for the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards.

Bravo celebrates all things pop culture when recent SAG award winner, Colin Firth, appears on Inside the Actors Studio. Leading up to his anticipated Oscar win for The King's Speech, Firth sits down for an intimate interview on Bravo's Emmy nominated Inside the Actors Studio series on Monday, February 7th at 7pm et/pt. Host James Lipton courses through Firth's early days of playing hooky from school to his career that spans the arenas of theater, film, and television. Firth's memorable film roles include Pride and Prejudice, The English Patient, Love Actually and A Single Man.

In a series first, Bravo invites former student Bradley Cooper back to his Alma Mater for a milestone episode of Inside the Actors Studio on Monday, March 14 at 7pm et/pt. After 17 successful seasons and over 250 celebrity guests, host James Lipton welcomes the first graduate from the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University to join him on the legendary stage for one of the most emotional interviews in the series history.

After consistently being asked who his ideal guest would be, Lipton repeatedly answers, "the night that one of our graduated students has achieved so much that he or she walks out on this stage and takes that chair will be the moment I've waited for since we began the school and the series 17 years ago".

Bravo welcomes Emmy Award-winner and everyone's favorite "friend" Jennifer Aniston on Monday, July 11 at 8pm et/pt. Aniston has brought her talent for both comedic and serious roles to the large and small screen in fare as varied as Friends, which earned her five Emmy nominations and a Lead Actress Emmy, blockbusters such as Bruce Almighty, Office Space, The Breakup and Marley and Me and independent films including The Good Girl. Aniston has repeatedly been named one of People magazine's Most Beautiful People in the World, Woman of the Year by GQ magazine and has won four People's Choice awards as America's favorite television performer. In the interview, Aniston reflects on her career including her early days in the movie Leprechaun up to her current role in the summer movie Horrible Bosses.