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Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin (born 1956, Brooklyn) is an American actor and director, son of Alan Arkin. Known for Dr. Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, I Hate Hamlet (Tony nomination), and directing The Night Agent, Poker Face, and American Hostage.
Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, 1936) is an American actor, director, and science-communication advocate, famous as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972–1983), later Arnold Vinick on The West Wing, with six Emmys and an Oscar nomination for The Aviator.
Alan Autry
Alan Autry (Carlos Alan Autry, born 1952) is an American actor, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, and Republican mayor of Fresno, California, 2001–2009, best known as Bubba Skinner on In the Heat of the Night.
Alexis Arquette
Alexis Arquette (born Robert Arquette, 1969-2016), American actress, cabaret performer, and transgender activist of the Arquette acting family; known for Last Exit to Brooklyn, Pulp Fiction, The Wedding Singer, and the 2007 documentary She's My Brother.
Alison Arngrim
Alison Arngrim (born 1962), American actress and comedian, played Nellie Oleson on NBC's Little House on the Prairie (1974–1981); author of the NYT bestseller Confessions of a Prairie Bitch and child-protection and AIDS activist.
Allan Arbus
Allan Arbus (1918–2013), American actor and fashion photographer; ex-husband and studio partner of Diane Arbus; played psychiatrist Sidney Freedman in 12 M*A*S*H episodes, 1973–1983.
Amy Aquino
Amy Aquino (born 1957) is an American actress known as Lt. Grace Billets on Bosch, Dr. Janet Coburn on ER, and Phyllis Berger Silver on Brooklyn Bridge; Harvard biology graduate, Yale MFA, SAG-AFTRA Secretary-Treasurer.
Anne Archer
Anne Archer, born in 1947 in Los Angeles, is an American actress known for her Oscar-nominated role in Fatal Attraction (1987) and Patriot Games (1992).
Antony Alda
Antony Alda (Antonio Joseph D'Abruzzo, 1956-2009), American actor, director, and writer; son of Robert Alda and half brother of Alan Alda; known for Days of Our Lives, National Treasure, and writing and directing Role of a Lifetime.
Armand Assante
Armand Assante, born Armand Anthony Assante Jr. in 1949, is an American actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of mob boss John Gotti in HBO's 1996 film Gotti.
Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur (Bernice Frankel, 1922–2009), American Emmy and Tony-winning actress; Maude Findlay on Maude, Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls, Vera Charles in the 1966 original Broadway Mame.
Beatrice Alda
Beatrice Alda (born 1961, New York City), daughter of Alan Alda and Arlene Alda, is an American actress, producer, and director known for Lisa Callan in The Four Seasons (1981) and directing Out Late (2008).
Bess Armstrong
Bess Armstrong, born Elizabeth Key Armstrong in 1953, is an American actress known for The Four Seasons, High Road to China, Jaws 3-D, and as Patty Chase on My So-Called Life, with recent roles in Bosch and The Good Doctor.
Betty Aberlin
Betty Aberlin (born 1942, born Betty Kay Ageloff) is the American actress who played Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and also Betty of Betty's Little Theater; she appeared on Broadway in Sandhog and Stop the World and in Kevin Smith films.
Brooke Adams (actress)
Brooke Adams is an American actress born 1949 in New York City, star of Days of Heaven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Dead Zone; not the wrestler Brooke Adams or Brooke Lee Adams. Married to Tony Shalhoub.
Bruce Abbott
Bruce Paul Abbott (born 1954, Portland, Oregon) is an American actor, distinct from the software designer and businessman of the same name. Known for Dan Cain in Re-Animator (1985) and Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and as Judge Nicholas Marshall in Dark Justice.
Caroline Aaron
Caroline Aaron (Caroline Sidney Abady, born 1952, Richmond, Virginia) is an American character actress of Broadway, film, and TV, best known for Shirley Maisel on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, and Edward Scissorhands.
Cecily Adams
Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress and casting director, daughter of Don Adams of Get Smart; played Ishka (Moogie) on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and cast That '70s Show and 3rd Rock from the Sun; married Jim Beaver.
Chad Allen (actor)
Chad Allen (Chad Allen Lazzari), American actor and producer born 1974 in Cerritos, California; child star on St. Elsewhere and Our House, best known as Matthew Cooper on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998), later an out gay actor in the Donald Strachey films and Save Me.
Christina Applegate
Christina Applegate (born 1971) is an American actor known as Kelly Bundy on Married... with Children, an Emmy winner for Friends, and star of Dead to Me; in 2026 she revealed her 2021 MS diagnosis was a misdiagnosis.
Christopher Atkins
Christopher Atkins (Christopher Atkins Bomann), American actor born 1961 in Rye, New York; film debut as Richard Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon (1980), later The Pirate Movie, A Night in Heaven, and Dallas.
Curtis Armstrong
Curtis Armstrong (born 1953, Detroit) is an American character actor known as Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, Ahmet Ertegun in Ray, Metatron on Supernatural, and co-creator of King of the Nerds.
Dana Ashbrook
Dana Ashbrook (born 1967, San Diego) is an American actor known for playing Bobby Briggs in Twin Peaks (1990), Fire Walk with Me (1992), and The Return (2017), plus Dawson's Creek and Crisis Center.
Danny Aiello
Danny Aiello (Daniel Louis Aiello Jr., 1933–2019), American character actor of Italian descent; Oscar-nominated as Sal in Do the Right Thing; also Moonstruck, The Godfather Part II; late-blooming stage-to-screen New York tough-guy actor and singer.
David Anders
David Anders (David Anders Holt, born 1981, Grants Pass, Oregon) is an American TV and stage actor known for Julian Sark in Alias, Adam Monroe in Heroes, Blaine DeBeers in iZombie, and Dr. Whale in Once Upon a Time.
Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen (Deborah Kaye Allen, born 1950, Houston) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and producer known for Lydia Grant in Fame, A Different World, Grey's Anatomy, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and a 2025 honorary Oscar; not the actress of A Murder in Oakland (2025).
Denise Alexander
Denise Alexander (1939–2025), American soap opera actress, played Susan Hunter Martin on Days of Our Lives and Dr. Lesley Webber on General Hospital; distinct from British actress Denyse Alexander.
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, born 1953), American actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Dino, Desi & Billy member, Here's Lucy co-star, played his father in The Mambo Kings.
Donzaleigh Abernathy
Donzaleigh Abernathy (born 1957), daughter of civil rights leaders Ralph David and Juanita Abernathy and goddaughter of Martin Luther King Jr., is an American actress, author of Partners to History, Tanne Foundation award-winning playwright, and civil rights speaker.
Ed Asner
Ed Asner (1929-2021), American actor and Screen Actors Guild president, played Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Lou Grant, won a record seven acting Emmys, and voiced Carl Fredricksen in Up.