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JULY 10-12, 2026

Knoxville Convention Center

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FANBOY EXPO KNOXVILLE CELEBRITY GUESTS

All Celebrity Guests in attendance at Fanboy Expo’s Knoxville Comic Con will be appearing and signing autographs during show hours for all 3-Days, unless otherwise stated.

This your chance to get up close and personal with some of your favorite stars. Our celebrity guests in attendance will be signing autographs, taking photos with the fans and participating in Question and Answer panels.

Please note that the guests DO CHARGE for autographs. Some guests may take a picture with a purchase of an autograph, however most do charge an additional fee. These policies are up to the individual guests and their management and is not controlled by Fanboy Expo.

TERMINATOR REUNION

Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton can currently be seen on Stranger Things as Dr Kay, however, most of us remember her from her iconic role as Sarah Connor in Terminator franchise, including The Terminator, Terminator 2 (T2), Terminator dark fate. She can also be seen in resident alien, Dante’s Peak, Beauty and the Beast with Ron Perlman, Children of the Corn. Chuck, Defiance, and many, many more!

Michael Biehn

Michael Biehnis best known for his roles in mega-hits of the 80’s and 90’s, including Johnny Ringo from Tombstone, Kyle Reese from Terminator, cpl Hicks from Aliens, The Abyss, The Rock, Navy Seals , The Seventh Sign and many more!

Edward Furlong

Edward Furlong in best known for playing John Connor in Terminator 2 (T2). He will be joining Linda Hamilton and MICHAEL BIEHN for a Terminator franchise reunion.

Other credits include Pet Sematary 2, American History X, Detroit Rock City and many more!

DESIGNING WOMEN REUNION

Annie Potts

Annie Potts is best known for her iconic role as Janine Melnitz in the Ghostbusters franchise and as Mary Jo Shivley in Designing Women. Other roles include Corvette Summer, The Fosters, Any Day Now, Young Sheldon and as Bo Peep in Toy Story franchise! FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Delta Burke

Delta Burke is best known for her iconic role as the self-centered former Ms. Georgia beauty queen Suzanne Sugarbaker on the CBS Sitcom Designing Women. Other roles include HBO series 1st and Ten, Boston Legal, Touched by an Angel, The Love Boat, Filthy Rich, and many, many more!

MORTAL KOMBAT REUNION

Christopher Lambert is best known for his iconic role as Connor MacLeod in the Highlander franchise and Raiden in Mortal Kombat 1995 movie. Other roles include Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, GHOST RIDER..Spirit Of Vengeance.., Fortress, Nine Months and many, many more! FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Linden Ashby

Linden Ashby is best known for his role as Johnny Cage in the 1995 version of Mortal Kombat. He is also known for playing Sheriff Noah Stilinski in Teen Wolf and Brett Cooper on Melrose Place. Other roles include Resident Evil: Extinction, Days of our Lives, Mortal Kombat 11, Army Wives and many more!

ROBIN SHOU

Robin Shou is best known for his role as Liu Kang in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie. Other roles include Beverly Hills Ninja, Street Fighter The Legend of Chun-Li, Death Race and many more!

Chris Casamassa and Keith Cooke are best known for their roles as Scorpion and Reptile in the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie!

FEATURED GUESTS

Alan Tudyk

Alan Tudyk is a versatile actor who we first see on screen in Firefly, A Knights Tale: and Dodgeball. You can also see him on the Disney screen in Wreck-It Ralph, Moana, Zootopia and Frozen. Star Wars Rogue One, Superman, the horror classic Tucker & Dale vs Evil, resident alien, American Dad, Con Man, and many, many more!

Patrick Warburton

Patrick Warburton is best known for his roles in Family Guy, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Seinfeld, Emperor’s New Groove:, Buzz Lightyear Star Command, The Tick, Teen Titans GO!, Rules of Engagement, Zootopia 2, Kim Possible, Venture Bros Official and many many more!

Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen is best known for her iconic role as Jean Grey in the X-Men Movies. Other roles include James Bond 007 Goldeneye, Taken, Hemlock Grove, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Nip/Tuck TV, House on Haunted Hill, The Faculty, and many, many more! FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Laura Prepon

Laura Prepon is best known for her iconic role as Donna Pinciotti in the hit sitcom That ’70s Show (Official). She is also known for her role as Alex Vause in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler is best known for his iconic role as Arthur Fonzarelli “Fonzie” on the hit show Happy Days. Other key roles include The Lords of Flatbush, Night Shift, Here Comes The Boom, Scream, Royal Pains, Arrested Development, Barry, Monsters at Work and many many more!

Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin is best known for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Firefly and Serenity, The Last Ship, and Chuck. Other roles include Castle, My Bodyguard, The Patriot, Independence Day, Jackie Chan Adventures, Angel, The X-Files and many many more!

BEAUTY & THE BEAST REUNION

Linda Hamilton

Linda Hamilton can currently be seen on Stranger Things as Dr Kay, however, most of us remember her from her iconic role as Sarah Connor in Terminator franchise, including The Terminator, Terminator 2 (T2), Terminator dark fate. She can also be seen in resident alien, Dante’s Peak, Beauty and the Beast with Ron Perlman, Children of the Corn. Chuck, Defiance, and many, many more!

Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman is best known for his iconic role as Hellboy in the Guillermo del Toro movies. He is also known for his role as clay in Sons of Anarchy, Vincent in the 80s series Beauty and the Beast, as well as Batman: The Animated Series, Blade II, Teen Titans, Pacific Rim and many many more!

DOCTOR QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN REUNION

Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour is best known for her role as Dr Michaela Quinn in the 1990s series Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. She also played the role of Solitaire in the James Bond 007 1973 classic Live and Let Die. Other roles include Battlestar Galactica, Somewhere In Time with Christopher Reeve, East of Eden miniseries, Wedding Crashers, and many, many more! FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Joe Lando

Joe Lando is best known for playing the role of Byron Sully in the 1990s hit series Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. Other roles include Bold and The Beautiful, One Life to Live and many more!! FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

YELLOWSTONE REUNION

Jefferson White

Jefferson White is best known for playing Jimmy Hurdstrom in the hit series Yellowstone. Other credits include Hellboy The Crooked Man, A24 Civil War, The Americans, Chicago P.D. and many more!

Jen Landon

Jen Landon is best known for playing the wildly popular Teeter on the Paramount+ series Yellowstone. She can also be seen in The Young and the Restless, Animal Kingdom TNT, FBI Most Wanted and Days of our Lives.

Ian Bohen

Ian Bohen is best known for his role as Ryan in the hit series Yellowstone. Other roles include Teen Wolf, CHICAGO PD. Mad Men, Breakout Kings and more!

Denim Richards

Denim Richards is best known for his role as Colby in the Paramount+ series Yellowstone.

Aladdin REUNION

Voice-Over actors Linda Larkin and Jonathan Freeman will join us. Linda is best known for voicing Princess Jasmine and Jonathan for voicing Jafar in the 1992 Disney classic Aladdin.

MELROSE PLACE REUNION

Heather Locklear

Heather Locklear is best known for her iconic roles in the 1980s and 1990s, including Amanda Woodward in Melrose Place, Officer Sheridan in TJ Hooker and Sammy Jo Reece in Dynasty and Caitlin Moore in Spin City. Other roles include the 80s classics Firestarter and Return of Swamp Thing and shows like Franklin and Bash, Hot In Cleveland and many more!

Daphne Zuniga

Daphne Zuniga is best known for her role as Princess Vespa in the 1987 classic Spaceballs. She is also known for playing Jo Reynolds on 111 episodes of Melrose Place. Other roles include One Tree Hill, The Sure Thing, Vision Quest, Dynasty, The Fly II and many many more!

Grant Show

Grant Show is best known for playing Jake Hanson in 158 episodes of the Soap Opera Drama Melrose Place. He can also be seen in the Dynasty reboot, other projects include Devious Maids, Private Practice, Accidentally on Purpose, Ryan’s Hope, Swingtown and many more!

MUSIC INDUSTRY GUESTS

Debbie Gibson

Debbie Gibson was just 16 in 1987 when she released her debut album Out of the Blue. That album has been certified 3x platinum. He second album, Electric Youth, is double platinum. Debbie is the primary songwriter on all of the singles that reached the Billboard top 20. FRIDAY & SATURDAY ONLY!

Stephen Pearcy

Stephen Pearcy is best known as the frontman and songwriter for RATT! Ratt has sold more than 20 million records, including their breakout record Out of the Cellar, which is 5x certified platinum.

Tommy Thayer

Tommy Thayer is best known for his long tenure as the lead guitarist of the iconic hard rock band KISS. He officially joined KISS in 2002, taking on the “Spaceman” persona originally created by Ace Frehley, and performed with the band through their farewell tours into the early 2020s. Before KISS, he played in the glam metal band Black ’n Blue and even worked behind the scenes with KISS as a crew member and songwriter. Throughout his career, he’s been recognized for his musicianship, dedication to the band’s legacy, and his role in helping keep KISS’s classic sound alive onstage.

Too Close for Comfort REUNION

Lyndia Cornell

Lyndia Cornell is best known for her role as Sarah Rush in the 1980s sitcom Too Close For Comfort. Lydia joins Jim J Bullock and Deborha Van Valkenburgh for a TCFC reunion.

Jim J Bullock

Jim J Bullock is best known for his sitcom roles in Too Close For Comfort and Alf as well as his role as Prince Valium in the 80s classic Spaceballs. Other roles include Ned’s Declassified, Seinfeld, The Bold and the Beautiful and many more!

The Pirate Movie REUNION

Kristy McNichol

Kristy McNichol is known for her roles in series like Family and Empty Nest as well as movies like Little Darlings and guest roles on Love Boat and ABC’s Afterschool Special. And of course, for starring in The Pirate Movie!

Christopher Atkins

Christopher Atkins is best known for his role in the 1980 movie Blue Lagoon, the 1981 animated Swan Lake, his epic role in the 1982 masterpiece The Pirate Movie and for his role as Peter Richards on DALLAS TV Series.

OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS

Jason Priestley

Jason Priestley is best known for his iconic role as Brandon Walsh in the 1990s hit series Beverly Hills 90210. Other roles include Tombstone, Calendar Girl, Call Me Fitz, Private Eyes, Wild Cards and many many more! reunion.

Joel David Moore

Joel David Moore is best known for his roles in Dodgeball, Avatar, Hatchet, Bones, Grandma’s Boy and many more!

Kate Jackson

Kate Jackson is best known for her iconic role as Sabrina Duncan in the 1970s hit series Charlie’s Angels. Other iconic roles include Amanda King in Scarecrow and Mrs King, Dark Shadows, The Rookies and many many more!

Deborah Van Valkenburgh

Deborah Van Valkenburgh made a spectacular screen debut as Mercy in the 1979 cult classic The Warriors and then played the role of Jackie Rush in the 80s sitcom Too Close For Comfort. Other roles include Streets of Fire, Sorcerers, Road to Hell and The Devil’s Rejects.

Patrick Renna

Patrick Renna is best known for his iconic role as Ham Porter in the 1993 baseball classic The Sandlot. Other credits include Son In Law, The Big Green and many others.

Angie Harmon

Angie Harmon is best known for her role as Jane Rizzoli in the Rizzoli&Isles as well as her roles in Baywatch Nights, Law & Order, Agent Cody Banks, Batman Beyond, and many many more!

Mackenzie Phillips

Mackenzie Phillips is the daughter of John Phillips of the folk-rock band The Mamas and the Papas. She began her career early and can be seen in the 1970s classic American Graffiti. Other roles include One Day At A Time, Disney Channel‘s So Weird, Orange Is the New Black, the new One Day At A Time and many many more!

Cancellations are sometime unavoidable due to production and schedule changes. 

*Please note that all guests are subject to change without notice.

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