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Edward Albert
Edward Albert (Edward Laurence Albert, 1951–2006), American actor, son of Eddie Albert and Margo; Golden Globe-winning star of Butterflies Are Free (1972), later Guarding Tess, Beauty and the Beast, Port Charles, and a California environmental and Native American rights activist.
Erika Alexander
Erika Alexander (born 1969, Winslow, Arizona) is an American actress, writer, producer, and activist known for Maxine Shaw on Living Single, Cousin Pam on The Cosby Show, Get Out, and American Fiction, and co-founder of Color Farm Media.
F. Murray Abraham
F. Murray Abraham (Fahrid Murray Abraham, born 1939) is an American actor who won the 1985 Best Actor Oscar as Salieri in Amadeus, with a five-decade stage and screen career including Homeland, Mythic Quest, and The White Lotus.
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson (born 1968, Chicago) is an American-British actress known for Dana Scully in The X-Files, The Fall, The Crown's Thatcher, and Sex Education; based in London since 2002, two-time Emmy winner.
Grant Aleksander
Grant Aleksander (Grant Aleksander Kunkowski), American actor born 1959 or 1960 in Baltimore, best known as Phillip Spaulding on Guiding Light (1983–2009), also All My Children, Capitol, and As the World Turns director.
Greg Antonacci
Greg Antonacci (1947–2017), American TV actor, director, producer, writer; played Johnny Torrio in Boardwalk Empire and Butch DeConcini in The Sopranos; created the sitcom Brothers.
Harry Anderson
Harry Anderson (1952–2018), American actor, comedian, and magician; star of Night Court as Judge Harry Stone, con man Harry the Hat on Cheers, Dave's World lead, Richie Tozier in It; Magician of the Year 1988.
Jace Alexander
Jace Alexander (Jason Edward Alexander, born 1964) is an American former television director and actor, son of Jane Alexander; directed 32 Law & Order episodes, piloted Burn Notice and Warehouse 13, later convicted in 2015-2016 child pornography case.
James Avery
James La Rue Avery (1945 or 1948-2013), American actor known as Uncle Phil (Philip Banks) on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (140+ episodes, NBC 1990-1996) and the voice of Shredder in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Shakespeare-trained stage actor, Navy veteran, died of open-heart surgery complications.
Jane Adams (actress, born 1965)
Jane Adams, born 1965, is an American actress who won a Tony Award for An Inspector Calls and starred in Happiness and HBO's Hung and Hacks.
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander (born Jane Quigley, 1939) is an American actress, author, and conservationist, Tony winner for The Great White Hope, four-time Oscar nominee, and the first artist to chair the National Endowment for the Arts (1993-97).
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (Jay Scott Greenspan, born 1959, Newark) is an American actor, Tony winner for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and Emmy-nominated star of George Costanza on Seinfeld (1989-1998), also a director.
Jed Allan
Jed Allan (Jed Allan Brown, 1935–2019), American soap opera actor; Don Craig on Days of Our Lives (1971–1985), C.C. Capwell on Santa Barbara (1986–1993), Rush Sanders on Beverly Hills, 90210; also hosted Celebrity Bowling.
Jeff Anderson
Jeff Anderson (Jeffrey Allan Anderson, born 1970) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter, best known as Randal Graves in Kevin Smith's Clerks (1994), Clerks II, and Clerks III; Independent Spirit Award nominee; directed Now You Know (2002). Distinct from the Vikings executive and the NYPD-detector actor of the same name.
Jennifer Aspen
Jennifer Aspen (born 1973, Richmond, Virginia) is an American actress, producer, and writer known for Party of Five, Rodney, Glee, GCB, and Hallmark Christmas movies.
Jerry Adler
Jerry Adler (1929–2025) was an American character actor known for playing Hesh Rabkin on The Sopranos and Howard Lyman on The Good Wife and The Good Fight.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen (born 1956, Rochelle, Illinois) is an American actress, Steppenwolf ensemble member and 1988 Tony winner for Burn This, with three Oscar nominations for Nixon, The Crucible, and The Contender, and no Oscar win.
Joan Van Ark
Joan Van Ark (born 1943) is an American actress known as Valene Ewing on Dallas and Knots Landing (1979-1993), a Yale-trained stage actress with a 1971 Tony nomination, voice of Spider-Woman, and podcast host of We're KNOT Done Yet!.
JoAnne Astrow
JoAnne Astrow, born June 24, 1938, is an American comedian, producer, and actress from Brooklyn who co-owns the World Famous Improvisation and produced HBO's Lewis Black specials.
Joey Lauren Adams
Joey Lauren Adams (born 1968), Arkansas-born American actress and director, best known as Alyssa in Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997), which earned a 1998 Golden Globe nomination; also Big Daddy and Dazed and Confused, and writer-director of Come Early Morning (2006).
John Amos
John Amos (John Allen Amos Jr., 1939–2024), American actor known as James Evans Sr. on Good Times and the adult Kunta Kinte in Roots; Emmy-nominated 1977; also The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The West Wing, Coming to America.
John Asher
John Asher (John Mallory Asher, born 1971) is an American actor-director known as Gary Wallace in Weird Science and for directing Kounterfeit, Dirty Love, Somebody Marry Me, and A Boy Called Po.
John Ashton (actor)
John David Ashton (1948–2024), American character actor from Springfield, Massachusetts; played Sergeant John Taggart in Beverly Hills Cop (1984, 1987, 2024) and Marvin Dorfler in Midnight Run; died of cancer in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Karan Ashley
Karan Ashley (Karan Ashley Jackson), American actress, singer, and producer born 1975 in Odessa, Texas; former K.R.U.S.H. singer and the second Yellow Power Ranger, Aisha Campbell, in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and its 1995 film.
Karen Allen
Karen Allen is an American film and stage actress best known as Marion Ravenwood in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), with her breakthrough in Animal House (1978).
Kevin Anderson (actor)
Kevin Anderson (born 1960, Gurnee, Illinois) is an American actor and Steppenwolf ensemble member known for Orphans, Sleeping with the Enemy, Nothing Sacred, and his Tony-nominated Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman; distinct from Matthew Kevin Anderson and Kevin J. Anderson.
Khandi Alexander
Khandi Alexander (born 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress, a Broadway performer in Dreamgirls and Chicago, choreographer for Whitney Houston, and star of NewsRadio, ER, CSI: Miami, The Corner, Treme, and Scandal.
Kirk Acevedo
Kirk Acevedo (Kirk M. Acevedo), American actor born 1971 in Brooklyn, known for Miguel Alvarez on Oz, Sgt. Joseph Toye in Band of Brothers, Charlie Francis on Fringe, and José Ramse in 12 Monkeys.
Kirstie Alley
Kirstie Alley (1951–2022), American actress, played Rebecca Howe on Cheers (1987–1993), winning a 1991 Emmy and Golden Globe, starred in Look Who's Talking, Veronica's Closet, and Fat Actress, and died of colon cancer in Tampa, Florida.
Kristian Alfonso
Kristian-Joy Alfonso (born 1963, Brockton, Massachusetts) is an American actress, former figure skater and model, known for Hope Williams Brady on Days of Our Lives (1983-2020) and Beyond Salem.