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Adam Goldberg
Adam Goldberg (Adam Charles Goldberg, b. 1970, Santa Monica) is an American actor, director, musician, and photographer known for Dazed and Confused, Eddie on Friends, Saving Private Ryan, Fargo, and The Equalizer; distinct from Adam F. Goldberg of The Goldbergs.
Alice Ghostley
Alice Ghostley (Alice Margaret Ghostley, 1923-2007) was an American character actress who won the 1965 Tony Award for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window and played Esmeralda on Bewitched and Bernice Clifton on Designing Women.
Allen Garfield
Allen Garfield (born Allan Goorwitz; November 22, 1939 – April 7, 2020) was an American character actor from Newark, New Jersey, trained at the Actors Studio, known for villains and corrupt officials in The Conversation, Nashville, The Stunt Man, and Beverly Hills Cop II; he died of COVID-19 in Woodland Hills, California.
Ana Gasteyer
Ana Gasteyer (born 1967) is an American actress, comedian, and singer, an SNL cast member 1996–2002 (Culps, Delicious Dish, Martha Stewart) and a Broadway veteran of Wicked, Once Upon a Mattress, and Tony-nominated Schmigadoon!.
Andy García
Andy García (Andrés Arturo García Menéndez), Cuban-American actor born 1956 in Havana, exiled to Miami as a child; Oscar-nominated for The Godfather Part III, star of The Untouchables and Ocean's Eleven, director of The Lost City and Diamond.
Angela E. Gibbs
Angela E. Gibbs (Angela Elayne Gibbs, born 1954, Detroit) is an American actress, writer, director, and acting coach, daughter of Marla Gibbs; known for Ms. Tudi on Black Jesus, Doris in Straight Outta Compton, Cricket on Not Dead Yet, and producing the play 227.
Angela Goethals
Angela Goethals (Angela Bethany Goethals) is an American actress, born 1977 in New York City, known as Linnie in Home Alone (1990), Maya Driscoll on 24, Taylor Gentry in Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, and for Broadway work and an Obie Award.
Annabeth Gish
Annabeth Gish (Anne Elizabeth Gish, born 1971, Albuquerque) is an American actress known for Kat Araujo in Mystic Pizza (1988) and Special Agent Monica Reyes on The X-Files (2001–2002). Not related to Lillian Gish; later roles include Brotherhood, Halt and Catch Fire, and Mike Flanagan's horror series.
Annie Golden
Annie Golden, born 1951 in Brooklyn, is an American actress and singer who fronted punk band The Shirts at CBGB, debuted on Broadway and film in Hair, originated Squeaky Fromme in Assassins, and played Norma on Orange Is the New Black.
Anthony Geary
Anthony Geary (1947-2025), American actor, Luke Spencer on General Hospital 1978-2015; record eight Daytime Emmys; Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding drew 30 million viewers; died in Amsterdam.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty (Paul Balthazar Getty, born 1975) is an American actor, musician, and fashion designer, great-grandson of J. Paul Getty; known for Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, and Brothers & Sisters.
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon (born 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actor, singer, attorney, and Screen Actors Guild president 1988–1995, known for "Nuttin' for Christmas," a Tony-nominated A Thousand Clowns, and voicing Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Ben Gazzara
Ben Gazzara (Biagio Anthony Gazzara, 1930-2012), American stage, film, and TV actor; original Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, star of Run for Your Life and three Cassavetes films, Emmy winner 2003.
Clarence Gilyard
Clarence Gilyard Jr. (1955–2022), American actor and UNLV professor, played Sundown in Top Gun, Theo in Die Hard, Conrad McMasters on Matlock, and Jimmy Trivette on Walker, Texas Ranger.
Crispin Glover
Crispin Hellion Glover (born 1964) is an American actor, filmmaker, and publisher known for George McFly in Back to the Future, Willard, and Charlie's Angels, and for touring his self-directed It trilogy personally rather than releasing them to streaming.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. (born 1968, The Bronx) is an American actor who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Jerry Maguire (1996), broke out in Boyz n the Hood, and earned an Emmy nomination as O.J. Simpson.
Cynthia Gibb
Cynthia Gibb (born 1963) is an American actress and former model known for Search for Tomorrow, Fame, The Karen Carpenter Story, and Gypsy opposite Bette Midler, plus Triple Threat Academy.
Danny Glover
Danny Glover (born 1946, San Francisco) is an American actor, producer, and activist, known as Roger Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon, a 2022 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award honoree, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador 1998–2004, and Louverture Films co-founder.
David Gail
David Gail (1965–2024), American actor from Tampa, Florida; played Stuart Carson on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Dr. Joe Scanlon in 216 episodes of Port Charles; also starred in Robin's Hoods and Savannah; died January 16, 2024, aged 58.
David Garrison
David Garrison (born 1952, Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American actor, Steve Rhoades on Married... with Children and a Broadway musical performer with a 1980 Tony nomination for A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine.
Don Galloway
Don Galloway (Donald Poe Galloway) was an American actor best known for playing Detective Sergeant Ed Brown on the NBC crime drama Ironside from 1967 to 1975.
Ellen Geer
Ellen Geer (born 1941), American actress, director, and writer, daughter of Will Geer and Herta Ware; artistic director of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon since 1978, known for Harold and Maude and UCLA classical acting teaching.
Elliott Gould
Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein, 1938, Brooklyn) is an American actor, Oscar-nominated for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, star of Altman's M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, later Jack Geller on Friends and Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven.
Erica Gimpel
Erica Gimpel (born 1964, New York) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter known for originating Coco Hernandez on Fame, then Angel Brown on Profiler and roles in ER, God Friended Me, and The Night Agent.
Estelle Getty
Estelle Getty (Estelle Scher-Gettleman, 1923–2008), American actress and comedian; Broadway's Mrs. Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy, Emmy-winning Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls, Disney Legend 2009.
Galyn Görg
Galyn Görg (1964–2020), American actress and dancer; Nancy O'Reilly in Twin Peaks, Lt. Leora Maxwell on M.A.N.T.I.S., RoboCop 2 and Point Break; died of cancer in Hawaii.
Gil Gerard
Gil Gerard (1943–2025), American actor, starred as Captain William 'Buck' Rogers in the 1979 film and NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century; former industrial chemist, The Doctors soap star, died of cancer at 82.
Grant Goodeve
Grant Goodeve is an American actor, born in 1952, best known as David Bradford on the ABC series Eight Is Enough from 1977 to 1981.
Greg Germann
Greg Germann (Gregory Andrew Germann, born 1958, Houston) is an American actor known for Richard Fish on Ally McBeal and Dr. Tom Koracick on Grey's Anatomy, with Broadway credits including Biloxi Blues and Boeing-Boeing.
Harold Gould
Harold Gould, born Harold Vernon Goldstein, was an American character actor known for playing Martin Morgenstern on Rhoda and Miles Webber on The Golden Girls.