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Ethan Embry
Ethan Embry (born Ethan Philan Randall, 1978, Huntington Beach, California) is an American actor known for Empire Records, That Thing You Do!, Vegas Vacation, Can't Hardly Wait, Brotherhood, and Grace and Frankie's Coyote Bergstein.
Evan Ellingson
Evan Ellingson (also Evan Taylor Ellingson) was an American child and teen actor of Titus, Complete Savages, 24, CSI: Miami, and My Sister's Keeper; died November 5, 2023, age 35.
Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher is an American actress, comedian, producer, and labor leader who co-created and starred in The Nanny. She served as SAG-AFTRA president and led the 118-day 2023 industry strike.
Gail Edwards
Gail Edwards, also Gail June Edwards, born 1952, American retired actress known as Dot Higgins on It's a Living, Sharon LeMeure on Blossom, and Vicky Larson on Full House and Fuller House; retired to Sedona, Arizona in 1994.
George Dzundza
George Dzundza (born 1945, Rosenheim, Germany) is a German-born American actor known as Sgt. Max Greevey on Law & Order season one and for The Deer Hunter, Basic Instinct, and Crimson Tide.
Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (1948-2019), American comic actress known as Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Pat MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond; five Emmy nominations, distinctive "half angel, half kitten" voice, Broadway and late-career stage roles.
Giancarlo Esposito
Giancarlo Giuseppe Alessandro Esposito, born 1958 in Copenhagen, is an American actor known for Gus Fring in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian, Stan Edgar in The Boys, and early Spike Lee roles including Buggin' Out.
Griffin Dunne
Griffin Dunne (Thomas Griffin Dunne, born 1955) is an American actor, producer, and director known for An American Werewolf in London, After Hours, Double Play Productions, Practical Magic, This Is Us, and his 2024 memoir The Friday Afternoon Club.
Guy Ecker
Guy Frederick Ecker (born 1959, São Paulo) is a Brazilian-born telenovela leading man: star of Café con aroma de mujer, La mentira, and Salomé, later NBC's Las Vegas and Telemundo's El Señor de los Cielos.
Héctor Elizondo
Héctor Elizondo (born December 22, 1936) is an American character actor, Emmy winner for Chicago Hope and star of Pretty Woman; not the UFO figure Luis Elizondo, a different person.
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas (Illeana Hesselberg), American actress, writer, producer, and director, granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas; discovered dubbing screams for Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, known for Cape Fear, Grace of My Heart, Ghost World, and the memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper.
Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois (Jeannette Theresa Dubois, died February 17, 2020) was an American actress and singer-songwriter who played Willona Woods on Good Times, sang and co-wrote The Jeffersons theme 'Movin' On Up', and won two Emmys for The PJs.
Jamie Donnelly
Jamie Donnelly (born 1947, Teaneck, New Jersey) is an American actress who played Jan in Broadway's Grease and the 1978 film, and originated Magenta/Usherette in the US Rocky Horror stage productions.
Jane Elliot
Jane Elliot (born 1947) is an American actress, not the diversity educator Jane Elliott, best known as Tracy Quartermaine on General Hospital since 1978, with a 1981 Daytime Emmy and roles on Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives, and Knots Landing.
Jenna Elfman
Jenna Elfman (Jennifer Mary Butala, born 1971) is an American actress, Golden Globe winner for Dharma & Greg (1997-2002), later June Dorie on Fear the Walking Dead and Eve Drake on Shifting Gears.
Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle (born 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress, daughter of Rosemary Harris and John Ehle, known for Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice, two Tony Awards, and films including The King's Speech and Saint Maud.
Jerry Van Dyke
Jerry Van Dyke (1931-2018), American comedian and actor, younger brother of Dick Van Dyke; starred in My Mother the Car (1965-66) and played Luther Van Dam on Coach (1989-97), earning four Emmy nominations.
Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry (born 1947, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actress, Ann Kelsey on NBC's L.A. Law (1986–94), wife of Michael Tucker, five Emmy nominations, 1989 Golden Globe winner, breast cancer advocate.
Joe Estevez
Joe Estevez (born 1946, Dayton, Ohio) is an American character actor, brother of Martin Sheen. Uncredited Willard voice and stand-in in Apocalypse Now; hundreds of credits in independent and cult film, and a regular on On Cinema.
John Ducey
John Ducey (John Joseph Ducey, born 1969, Endwell, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer; Harvard-educated, known as Tom Lucas on Disney's Jonas, Ford Lowell on Oh Grow Up, and writer of streaming films like I Believe in Santa.
John Dye
John Dye (John Carroll Dye, 1963-2011), American actor from Amory, Mississippi, best known as Andrew, the Angel of Death, on CBS's Touched by an Angel (1995-2003); also Tour of Duty and Campus Man.
Judyann Elder
Judyann Elder (born Judith Ann Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, director, writer, and producer; Negro Ensemble Company founding member, Broadway's I Have a Dream, TV roles on Murphy Brown, Martin, Family Matters, and director of A Private Act (2013).
Julia Duffy
Julia Duffy (born 1951) is an American actress, also Julia Margaret Hinds, best known as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart (1982–1990), earning seven Emmy nominations, with later roles in Baby Talk, Designing Women, Palm Royale, and The 'Burbs.
Karen Duffy
Karen Duffy (born 1962, New York City), American actress and TV personality known as MTV VJ "Duff"; roles in Blank Check, Dumb & Dumber, Fantastic Mr. Fox; author on neurosarcoidosis.
Kathryn Erbe
Kathryn Erbe (Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe), American actress born in Newton, Massachusetts; Steppenwolf ensemble member, 1991 Tony nominee for The Speed of Darkness, and Detective Alexandra Eames on Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Kevin Dobson
Kevin Dobson (1943–2020), American actor, played Det. Bobby Crocker on Kojak (1973–1978) and Mack MacKenzie on Knots Landing (1982–1993); five Soap Opera Digest Awards, 1983 Daytime Emmy nomination.
Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn (born 1956, Chicago) is an American character actor with over 100 film and TV credits, known as Ron Witwicky in the Transformers films and Ben Cafferty on HBO's Veep; also Mississippi Burning, Dave, Godzilla, King Richard.
Larry Drake
Larry Drake (Lawrence Richard Drake), American character actor born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law (two Emmys, 1988 and 1989), Darkman's Robert G. Durant, and Dr. Giggles; died 2016.
Lenny Von Dohlen
Lenny Von Dohlen (Leonard Harold Von Dohlen IV) was an American actor known for Miles Harding in Electric Dreams (1984) and Harold Smith in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me; he died July 5, 2022, in Los Angeles.
Leslie Easterbrook
Leslie Easterbrook (born 1948 or 1949) is an American actress known as Sgt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy films (1984–1994) and as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), after playing Rhonda Lee on Laverne & Shirley.