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Gregg Henry
Gregg Henry (Gregg Lee Henry, born 1952, Lakewood, Colorado) is an American character actor and musician known for Payback's Val Resnick, Body Double, Scandal's Hollis Doyle, the Guardians of the Galaxy grandfather, and the song The Back of Your Hand.
Gregory Hines
Gregory Hines (1946-2003), American tap dancer, singer, and actor; Tony winner for Jelly's Last Jam (1992); starred in The Cotton Club, White Nights, and Tap; led the 1980s tap revival.
Helen Horton
Helen Virginia Horton (1923–2007), American actress based in Britain; voice of Mother, the Nostromo's computer, in Alien (1979); also Superman III, Phase IV, The Benny Hill Show; grandmother of actress Lily James.
Helen Hunt
Helen Hunt, born 1963 in Culver City, California, is an American actress and director who won four Emmys for Mad About You and the 1998 Best Actress Oscar for As Good as It Gets.
Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter, born 1958 in Conyers, Georgia, is an Oscar-winning American actress of stage, film, and TV. Known for Raising Arizona, Broadcast News, The Piano (Best Actress, 1993), The Incredibles' Elastigirl, Saving Grace, and Starfleet Academy's Captain Nahla Ake.
Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (1940–2022), American actor, was Dr. Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS, 1978–1982) and Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. Founding member of improv troupe The Committee; two Emmy nominations.
James Hong
James Hong (born 1929) is an American character actor with about 700 credits, known for Blade Runner, Big Trouble in Little China, and Kung Fu Panda.
Jan Hooks
Jan Hooks (Janet Vivian Hooks, 1957–2014), American comedian and actress, SNL cast member 1986–1991 known for Nancy Reagan, Tammy Faye Bakker, and the Sweeney Sisters; later Designing Women, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and 30 Rock.
Janet Hubert
Janet Hubert, also Janet Hubert-Whitten, is an American Juilliard-trained actress and dancer, the original Vivian Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-93), a Broadway Cats original cast member, later reconciled with Will Smith in 2020.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Jennifer Love Hewitt (born 1979, Waco, Texas), American actress and singer: Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer, The Client List, and Maddie Buckley on 9-1-1 since 2018.
Jermaine Hopkins
Jermaine "Huggy" Hopkins (born 1973, Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Thomas Sams in Lean on Me (1989) and Steel in Juice (1992), later Phat Beach, How to Be a Player, and independent films; distinct from a British actor of the same name.
Jessica Hecht
Jessica Hecht (born 1965) is an American actress and singer, Susan Bunch on Friends and Gretchen Schwartz on Breaking Bad, a three-time Tony nominee (A View from the Bridge, Summer 1976, Eureka Day) and Obie winner for Admissions.
Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson (born 1960, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American comedian and prop builder, creator and original host of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988, KTMA-TV), who left in 1993 and later revived the show via a record $5.7 million Kickstarter.
John Heard (actor)
John Matthew Heard (1945 or 1946 - 2017), American character actor; played Peter McCallister in Home Alone and Detective Vin Makazian in The Sopranos; Emmy-nominated 1999; Obie and Theatre World Award stage actor.
John Henton
John Henton (born 1960, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor and comedian, known as Overton Wakefield Jones on Living Single (1993-1998) and Milsap Morris on The Hughleys (1998-2002), after a stand-up career launched by a 1991 Johnny Carson appearance.
John Hillerman
John Hillerman (1932-2017), American character actor from Denison, Texas; Emmy-winning as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III on Magnum, P.I. (1980-88), also in Chinatown and Blazing Saddles.
John Houseman
John Houseman (Jacques Haussmann, 1902–1988), Romanian-born American producer, director, actor: Mercury Theatre co-founder with Orson Welles, Juilliard Drama Division founder, Oscar winner for The Paper Chase.
John Michael Higgins
John Michael Higgins (born 1963) is an American actor and game show host known for Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Pitch Perfect, The Late Shift as David Letterman, Great News, America Says, and Split Second.
Jon-Erik Hexum
Jon-Erik Hexum (1957-1984) was an American actor and model, lead of Voyagers! as Phineas Bogg and Cover Up as Mac Harper, who died after accidentally shooting himself with a blank-loaded prop gun on set.
Joyce Hyser
Joyce Hyser (Joyce Hyser Robinson), born 1957, New York, is an American actress best known as Terry Griffith in Just One of the Guys (1985), with early roles in This Is Spinal Tap and Staying Alive, later TV guest parts and writing.
Judd Hirsch
Judd Hirsch, born 1935 in the Bronx, is an American actor famous as Alex Reiger on Taxi (two Emmys), a two-time Tony winner, and an Oscar nominee for Ordinary People and The Fabelmans, 42 years apart.
Judith Hoag
Judith Hoag (Judith Woodward Hoag), American actress from Newburyport, Massachusetts; played April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Halloweentown films, and Tandy Hampton on Nashville.
Katharine Houghton
Katharine Houghton, American actress and playwright born 1945 in Hartford, Connecticut; niece of Katharine Hepburn; film debut as Joey Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); Golden Globe New Star nominee; Broadway credits include A Very Rich Woman and Our Town.
Katherine Helmond
Katherine Helmond (1929–2019), American actress, played Jessica Tate on Soap and Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss?, earning seven Emmy nominations, two Golden Globes, and a Tony nomination.
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes (Kate Noelle Holmes, born 1978, Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress and director known as Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek (1998-2003), Rachel Dawes in Batman Begins, and for directing All We Had, Alone Together, and the 2026 Tribeca film Happy Hours with Joshua Jackson.
Kelly Hu
Kelly Hu (胡凱莉), born 1968 in Honolulu, is an American actress and the first Asian American Miss Teen USA (1985), known for The Scorpion King, X2's Lady Deathstrike, Arrow, Phineas and Ferb, BMF, and AAPI representation advocacy.
Ken Howard
Ken Howard (Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr., 1944–2016), American actor, Tony winner for Child's Play, Emmy winner for Grey Gardens, star of The White Shadow, and first elected president of SAG-AFTRA.
Kene Holliday
Kene Holliday (Kenneth Earl Holliday, born 1949), American actor; Tyler Hudson on Matlock (1986–1989) and Sergeant Curtis Baker on Carter Country; voice of G.I. Joe's Roadblock; Independent Spirit-nominated for Great World of Sound.
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen (born 1940), American character actor; android Bishop in Aliens and Alien3, Frank Black in Millennium (1996-99), Saturn Award winner for Hard Target (1994), later acclaimed in Viggo Mortensen's Falling (2020).
Lauren Holly
Lauren Holly (born 1963) is an American actress known as Maxine Stewart on Picket Fences, Mary Swanson in Dumb and Dumber, NCIS Director Jenny Shepard, and Motive's Betty Rogers; based in Canada since the 2000s.