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American actors: 1970s to 1990s, Surnames Gr to G

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Melanie Griffith

Melanie Griffith, American actress born 1957 in New York City, daughter of Tippi Hedren and mother of Dakota Johnson; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee as Tess McGill in Working Girl (1988), later also an expressionist painter.

Michael Gross (actor)

Michael Edward Gross (born 1947, Chicago) is an American actor known as Steven Keaton on Family Ties (1982-89) and Burt Gummer in the Tremors films; Yale School of Drama MFA, UIC alumnus, distinct from the writer Michael Gross.

Moses Gunn

Moses Gunn (1929-1993), American stage, film, and TV actor; Negro Ensemble Company founding resident member, Bumpy Jonas in Shaft, Emmy-nominated for Roots, and Shakespearean performer.

Nancy Lee Grahn

Nancy Lee Grahn (born 1956, Skokie, Illinois), American soap opera actress, also known for her Santa Barbara role as Julia Wainwright. Alexis Davis on General Hospital since 1996, winning three Daytime Emmys (1989, 2012, 2025).

Nicholas Guest

Nicholas Guest (Nicholas Haden-Guest, born 1951, New York City) is an English-American actor, primarily a voice actor in Frozen, Tangled, Big Hero 6, and Rio, brother of Christopher Guest, and Todd Chester in Christmas Vacation.

Richard Grieco

Richard Grieco (born 1965, Watertown, New York) is an American actor known as Officer Dennis Booker on 21 Jump Street and its spin-off Booker, later an indie film actor, director, and musician.

Robert Guillaume

Robert Guillaume (born Robert Peter Williams, 1927–2017) was an American actor and singer who played butler Benson DuBois on Soap and the spin-off Benson, won two Emmys, voiced Rafiki in The Lion King, and earned a 1977 Tony nomination for Guys and Dolls.

Rodney A. Grant

Rodney A. Grant (Rodney Arnold Grant, born 1959) is an Omaha-tribe American actor, best known as Wind In His Hair in Dances with Wolves, with Western roles such as Crazy Horse and Mangas.

Schuyler Grant

Schuyler Grant (Schuyler DeBarthe Ranson Grant, born 1971) is an American actress who played Diana Barry in the Anne of Green Gables films, and a yoga teacher who founded Kula Yoga Project and co-created Wanderlust.

Scott Grimes

Scott Grimes (Scott Christopher Grimes), American actor and singer-songwriter born 1971 in Lowell, Massachusetts; voices Steve Smith on American Dad!, plays Lt. Gordon Malloy on The Orville and Dr. Archie Morris on ER, and released albums including Livin' On the Run.

Steve Guttenberg

Steve Guttenberg (born 1958, Brooklyn) is an American actor, star of 1980s comedies Police Academy, Cocoon, Short Circuit, and Three Men and a Baby; he left films 1990-1995 and later wrote the memoir The Guttenberg Bible.

Thomas Ian Griffith

Thomas Ian Griffith (born 1962) is an American actor, writer, and martial artist best known as Terry Silver in The Karate Kid Part III (1989) and Netflix's Cobra Kai seasons 4-6, after retiring post-2007's The Kidnapping.

Zach Grenier

Zach Grenier, American character actor born 1954 in Englewood, New Jersey; Tony-nominated as Beethoven in 33 Variations, known as David Lee on The Good Wife and in Fight Club, Zodiac, and Devs.