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American actors: 1970s to 1990s, Surnames Co to C

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Nikki Cox

Nikki Cox (Nicole Avery Cox, born 1978) is an American actress and comedy writer known for Tiffany Malloy on Unhappily Ever After, her WB sitcom Nikki, and Mary Connell on Las Vegas; married Jay Mohr 2006-2018.

Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote (Robert Peter Cohon, born 1941) is an American actor, Emmy-winning narrator of Ken Burns documentaries, memoirist, and ordained Zen priest, known for E.T., Jagged Edge, and The Roosevelts.

Quinn Cummings

Quinn Cummings (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American former child actress, Oscar-nominated for The Goodbye Girl (1977), a star of TV's Family, later inventor of the Hip Hugger baby carrier and author of Notes From the Underwire.

Rachael Leigh Cook

Rachael Leigh Cook (born 1979, Minneapolis) is an American actress known for Laney Boggs in She's All That (1999), Josie and the Pussycats, and a Hallmark and Netflix producing career; not the Rachel Leigh of other credits.

Ronny Cox

Ronny Cox (Daniel Ronald Cox, born July 23, 1938, Cloudcroft, New Mexico) is an American character actor and singer-songwriter, known for Deliverance (1972), Beverly Hills Cop, RoboCop, Total Recall, Stargate SG-1, and his folk music career.

Suzanne Cryer

Suzanne Rossell Cryer, American stage and screen actress born 1967 in Rochester, New York; known as Marcy on Seinfeld's 'Yada Yada,' Ashley on Two Guys and a Girl, Laurie Bream on Silicon Valley, and Echidna on Percy Jackson.

Tim Conway

Tim Conway (1933–2019), American comedian and actor, played Ensign Charles Parker on McHale's Navy and created Mr. Tudball and the Oldest Man on The Carol Burnett Show, winning six Emmy Awards.

Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise (Thomas Cruise Mapother IV, born 1962, Syracuse, New York) is an American actor and producer, star of Top Gun, Jerry Maguire, and the Mission: Impossible franchise, with four Oscar nominations and a 2025 Academy Honorary Award.

Valerie Curtin

Valerie Curtin (born 1945 or 1941, New York City), American actress and screenwriter; Oscar-nominated co-writer of ...And Justice for All with ex-husband Barry Levinson; played Judy Bernly on 9 to 5 and Vera in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

Vondie Curtis-Hall

Vondie Curtis-Hall (Vondi Curtis Hall), American actor, screenwriter, and director born in Detroit. Broadway's Dreamgirls and Lena Horne show, Chicago Hope's Dr. Dennis Hancock, Emmy-nominated for ER, and writer-director of Gridlock'd with Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.

Zara Cully

Zara Cully, also known as Zara Frances Cully, was an American actress. She is best known for playing Olivia "Mother" Jefferson on The Jeffersons from 1974 to 1978.