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Julia Barr
Julia Barr (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress who played Brooke English on All My Children for over 30 years from 1976, winning Daytime Emmys in 1990 and 1998, and reprised the role in the 2013 online revival.
Justine Bateman
Justine Bateman, American actress, writer, director, and author born 1966 in Rye, New York; played Mallory Keaton on Family Ties (1982–89), directed Violet (2021), wrote Fame and Face, and advises SAG-AFTRA on AI.
Kathy Baker
Kathy Baker, born Katherine Whitton Baker in Midland, Texas, is an American actress best known for playing Dr. Jill Brock on the Emmy-winning series Picket Fences.
Kathy Bates
Kathy Bates (Kathleen Doyle Bates, born 1948, Memphis) is an American actress who won the Best Actress Oscar for Misery (1990), two Emmys (Two and a Half Men, American Horror Story: Coven), and now stars in CBS's Matlock.
Kevin Bacon
Kevin Bacon, full name Kevin Norwood Bacon, is an American actor and musician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for Footloose (1984), Apollo 13, and Mystic River, and for inspiring the Six Degrees trivia game.
Lisa Banes
Lisa Banes (1955–2021), American stage and screen actress, Juilliard graduate, Theatre World Award 1981 for Look Back in Anger, Broadway's Arcadia and Rumors, films Cocktail and Gone Girl; died after a Manhattan scooter hit-and-run.
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Baxter, also billed as Meredith Baxter-Birney, American actress born 1947, in South Pasadena, California; starred in Bridget Loves Bernie, Family, and Family Ties as Elyse Keaton, became a TV-movie fixture, came out in 2009, and wrote the memoir Untied.
Obba Babatundé
Obba Babatundé (birth name Donald Cohen), American stage and screen actor born 1950 or 1951 in New York; Tony-nominated as C.C. White in Dreamgirls, Emmy-nominated for Miss Evers' Boys, Daytime Emmy winner 2016.
Pamela Bach
Pamela Bach (Pamela Ann Weissenbach, Pamela Bach-Hasselhoff), American actress born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for Kaye Morgan on Baywatch and Dr. Ellen Baskin on Sirens; ex-wife of David Hasselhoff (1989–2006); died March 5, 2025, in Los Angeles.
Priscilla Barnes
Priscilla Barnes, American actress (born December 7; sources give 1958 or 1955), Fort Dix, New Jersey; played Terri Alden on Three's Company (1981-84) and Della Churchill in Licence to Kill (1989), later Magda on Jane the Virgin.
Randall Batinkoff
Randall Batinkoff (born 1968, Monticello, New York) is an American actor, producer, and director, known for For Keeps, School Ties, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Christy, and directing 37: A Final Promise and Inside Game.
Raymond J. Barry
Raymond J. Barry (born March 14, 1939, Hempstead, NY) is an American character actor of over 100 screen titles, known for Born on the Fourth of July, Dead Man Walking, and Arlo Givens on Justified, with Obie Awards and a 2007 Independent Spirit nomination for Steel City.
Roger Bart
Roger Bart (born 1962, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American stage and screen actor and singer; Tony winner as Snoopy (1999), Tony nominee for The Producers and Back to the Future, singing voice of young Hercules, and Doc Brown's originator on stage.
Roseanne Barr
Roseanne Barr (born 1952) is an American comedian and actress who starred in the ABC sitcom Roseanne, canceled in 2018 over a racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett.
Scott Baio
Scott Baio (born September 22, Brooklyn; year disputed as 1960 or 1961) is an American actor, Chachi Arcola on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, star of Charles in Charge and Diagnosis Murder, later See Dad Run, now a Florida-based podcast host.
Scott Bakula
Scott Bakula (born 1954, St. Louis) is an American actor and Tony-nominated stage performer, known as Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, and Dwayne Pride in NCIS: New Orleans.
Stephen Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin (born 1966, Massapequa, New York) is an American actor, youngest of the Baldwin brothers, known for The Usual Suspects (1995), The Young Riders, born-again Christianity from 2001, faith-based films, and support for Donald Trump.
Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer (born Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson, 1956, Havana) is a Cuban-born American actor known for Manny Ribera in Scarface (1983), Don Eladio in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, and Avi in Ray Donovan.
Talia Balsam
Talia Balsam (born 1959, New York City) is an American character actress, daughter of Martin Balsam and Joyce Van Patten, known for Mona Sterling on Mad Men, HBO's Divorce, Homeland, The Good Wife, and Broadway's Jake's Women.
Tim Bagley
Tim (Timothy) Bagley, American character actor and Groundlings alumnus; over 170 TV credits including Will & Grace (Larry), Teachers, Hacks, and HBO's Somebody Somewhere (Brad Schraeder); openly gay actor and solo-show performer.
Vaitiare Bandera
Vaitiare Bandera, born Vaitiaré Eugenie Hirshon in Tahiti in 1964, is a French Polynesian actress and former model, also credited as Vaitiare Hirshon, best known as Sha're in Stargate SG-1.
William Baldwin
William (Billy) Baldwin, born 1963 in Massapequa, New York, American actor and producer, third Baldwin brother, known for Backdraft, Sliver, The Squid and the Whale, Dirty Sexy Money, and Northern Rescue.