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Ann Morgan Guilbert
Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928–2016), American character actress, played Millie Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Grandma Yetta on The Nanny; Stanford-trained, Helen Hayes Award winner, appeared in Please Give.
Arye Gross
Arye Gross (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American character actor known for Adam Green on Ellen, M.E. Sidney Perlmutter on Castle, Broadway's Brooklyn Boy, films like Big Eden and Minority Report, and Antaeus Theatre Company stage work.
Beth Grant
Beth Grant (born 1949, Gadsden, Alabama) is an American character actress known for Donnie Darko, Speed, Little Miss Sunshine, No Country for Old Men, The Mindy Project, and three Best Picture winners.
Bob Gunton
Bob Gunton (Robert Patrick Gunton Jr., born 1945) is an American character actor and Vietnam-era Bronze Star recipient. Known for Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption, Juan Perón in Broadway's Evita (Tony-nominated), Sweeney Todd, 24's Ethan Kanin, and Daredevil's Leland Owlsley.
Brian Austin Green
Brian Austin Green (born Brian Green, 1973) is an American actor, Knots Landing and Beverly Hills, 90210 David Silver for all 10 seasons, ex-husband of Megan Fox, One Stop Carnival rapper, BH90210 and DWTS alum.
Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin (Charles Grodinsky, 1935–2021), American deadpan comic actor of The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, and Beethoven; also Emmy-winning writer, CNBC talk-show host, 60 Minutes II commentator, and author.
David Alan Grier
David Alan Grier (born 1955, Detroit) is an American actor and comedian, Yale School of Drama graduate, In Living Color cast member 1990–1994, and 2020 Tony winner for A Soldier's Play; distinct from the GWU computer historian of the same name.
David Graf
David Graf (Paul David Graf, 1950–2001), American character actor, played Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in Police Academy and its six sequels; also Star Trek guest roles; died of a heart attack in 2001. Distinct from actor David Alan Graf.
Devon Gummersall
Devon Ryan Gummersall (born 1978, Durango, Colorado), American actor best known as Brian Krakow on My So-Called Life (1994-95); later Relativity, Roswell, The L Word, independent films, and directing Low Fidelity (2013).
Doris Grau
Doris Grau (1924–1995), American script supervisor, actress, and voice actress. Voiced Lunchlady Doris on The Simpsons and Doris the makeup lady on The Critic; script supervisor on Point Blank, Clue, Seinfeld pilot, and The Tracey Ullman Show.
Elizabeth Gracen
Elizabeth Gracen (Elizabeth Grace Ward, born 1961), Miss America 1982 as Elizabeth Ward, American actress best known as Amanda Darieux in Highlander: The Series and Highlander: The Raven, later a documentary director and Flapper Press publisher.
Ellen Greene
Ellen Greene is an American actress and singer, born in Brooklyn, best known as the original Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors on stage (1982) and in Frank Oz's 1986 film, with a 1977 Tony nomination for Threepenny Opera.
Erin Gray
Erin Gray (born 1950) is an American actress and former model, best known as Colonel Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979-1981) and Kate Summers Stratton in Silver Spoons (1982-1987); also known for Heroes for Hire, Act Right, and advocacy work.
Faye Grant
Faye Grant (Faye Elizabeth Yoe, born 1957) is an American actress known as Dr. Julie Parrish in the NBC miniseries V (1983), V: The Final Battle, and V: The Series, and for Rhonda Blake on The Greatest American Hero.
Fred Grandy
Fred Grandy (Frederick Lawrence Grandy), born 1948 in Sioux City, Iowa, is the American actor who played purser Gopher Smith on The Love Boat (1977-1986) and then served four terms as a Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa (1987-1995), later leading Goodwill Industries.
Gary Graham
Gary Graham (Gary Rand Graham, 1950-2024), American actor known as Detective Matthew Sikes in Alien Nation and Vulcan Ambassador Soval on Star Trek: Enterprise, distinct from Graham Greene and other namesakes.
Heather Graham
Heather Graham (Heather Joan Graham, born 1970, Milwaukee) is an American actress, director, and writer known for Boogie Nights, Austin Powers, and The Hangover, and for directing Half Magic and Chosen Family; distinct from the romance novelist of the same name.
Jasmine Guy
Jasmine Guy (born 1964, Boston) is an American actress, dancer, and director, best known as Whitley Gilbert on A Different World (1987–1993), a six-time NAACP Image Award winner, Alvin Ailey-trained dancer, R&B recording artist, and author of Evolution of a Revolutionary.
Jenna Leigh Green
Jenna Leigh Green (Jennifer Leigh Greenberg), American actress and singer known as Libby Chessler on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Ivy in Bare: A Pop Opera, and Nessarose in Wicked on Broadway, tour, and Los Angeles.
Jennifer Grant
Jennifer Grant (born 1966, Burbank, California) is an American actress and author, only child of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon; known for Beverly Hills 90210, Movie Stars, Babylon, the memoir Good Stuff, and producing the miniseries Archie.
Jennifer Grey
Jennifer Grey (born 1960) is an American actress, daughter of Joel Grey, known as Baby in Dirty Dancing (1987) and Jeanie in Ferris Bueller's Day Off; two 1990s rhinoplasties derailed her career; she won Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
Joel Gretsch
Joel Gretsch (Joel James Gretsch), American actor born 1963 in St. Cloud, Minnesota; lead roles as Tom Baldwin in The 4400 and Father Jack Landry in V, plus The Legend of Bagger Vance and Minority Report; married to Melanie Shatner.
Jon Gries
Jon Gries (Jonathan Francis Gries, born 1957, Glendale, California) is an American actor, writer, and director, son of director Tom Gries, known for Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite, Broots in The Pretender, Roger Linus in Lost, and Greg Hunt in The White Lotus.
Karen Grassle
Karen Grassle (born 1942, Berkeley, California) is an American actress, also known as Gabriel Tree, who played Caroline "Ma" Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie (1974–1982), co-wrote the TV film Battered, and wrote the 2021 memoir Bright Lights, Prairie Dust.
Kelsey Grammer
Kelsey Grammer (born 1955, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands) is an Emmy-winning American actor known as Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers and Frasier, the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons, and Beast in X-Men and Avengers: Doomsday.
Kerri Green
Kerri Lee Green (born 1967, Fort Lee, New Jersey) is an American actress and director, the cheerleader Andy in The Goonies (1985), also of Summer Rental, Lucas, Three for the Road, and the indie film Bellyfruit (1999), and distinct from therapist Keri Green and politician Jerri Green.
Leslie Grossman
Leslie Erin Grossman (born 1971, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Mary Cherry on Popular and as Meadow Wilton, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, Margaret Booth, Ursula, and Barbara Read across American Horror Story seasons Cult through 13.
Linda Gray
Linda Gray (born 1940), American actress and director, best known as Sue Ellen Ewing on CBS's Dallas (1978–1991) and its TNT revival; 1981 Emmy nominee, former model whose legs appeared on The Graduate poster.
Luis Guzmán
Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican American character actor born in Cayey, Puerto Rico, raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side; former social worker turned actor known for Carlito's Way, Boogie Nights, Traffic, and as Gomez Addams in Netflix's Wednesday.
Mary Gross
Mary Gross (Mary Margaret Gross, born 1953, Chicago) is an American actress and comedian, a Second City alumna and Saturday Night Live cast member 1981-1985, later a character and voice actress; sister of actor Michael Gross.