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Alexa Kenin
Alexa Kenin (Alexa Jordan Kenin), American actress born 1962, New York City; died September 10, 1985, Manhattan, age 23. Known for Little Darlings (1980), Honkytonk Man (1982), and posthumously Pretty in Pink (1986), which was dedicated to her memory.
Allan Kayser
Allan Joseph Kayser II (born 1963, Littleton, Colorado) is an American actor who played Bubba Higgins in 95 episodes of Mama's Family (1986–1990) and Brad in Night of the Creeps; not the Australian media-and-real-estate figure described in net-worth listicles.
Amy Irving
Amy Irving (born 1953, Palo Alto) is an American actress and singer, star of Carrie, The Fury, Yentl (Oscar-nominated), Crossing Delancey, and Micki & Maude; Obie winner, ex-wife of Steven Spielberg, later recording artist.
Amy Jo Johnson
Amy Jo Johnson (born 1970) is an American-Canadian actress and filmmaker, the original Pink Ranger Kimberly Hart on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, later Julie Emrick on Felicity and Jules Callaghan on Flashpoint, now a director of The Space Between and Tammy's Always Dying.
Andrew Keegan
Andrew Keegan (Andrew Keegan Heying, born 1979) is an American actor known for Joey Donner in 10 Things I Hate About You, Party of Five, and 7th Heaven, later co-founding the Full Circle spiritual community in Venice.
Ann Jillian
Ann Jillian (Ann Jura Nauseda, born 1950) is an American actress and singer, child star of Babes in Toyland and Gypsy, Broadway's Sugar Babies, It's a Living, Mae West, and Golden Globe winner for The Ann Jillian Story.
Anne-Marie Johnson
Anne-Marie Johnson (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American actress known for Althea Tibbs on In the Heat of the Night, In Living Color, What's Happening Now!!, and SAG's first African American national vice president.
Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson (Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, 1929-2019) was an American comedian and Emmy-winning cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968-1971), known for Wolfgang the German soldier, Tyrone F. Horneigh, and later voice work.
Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella, 1968) is an American actress and activist, daughter of Naomi Judd and half-sister of Wynonna Judd. Known for Ruby in Paradise, Heat, Kiss the Girls, Double Jeopardy; UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and first Weinstein accuser in #MeToo.
Brad Johnson (actor, born 1959)
Brad William Johnson (1959–2022), American actor and former Marlboro Man from Tucson, Arizona; starred in Always (1989), Flight of the Intruder (1991), Soldier of Fortune, Inc., and the Left Behind films; died of COVID-19 in Fort Worth, Texas. Distinct from other actors named Brad Johnson.
Brad Kane
Brad Kane (Bradley Caleb Kane, born 1973) is the American singer who provided the singing voice of Aladdin in Disney's 1992 film, later a TV writer-producer on Fringe, Black Sails, Warrior, Tokyo Vice, Welcome to Derry, and Crystal Lake.
Brian Kerwin
Brian Kerwin, born in 1949 in Chicago, is an American actor known for playing Ed in Torch Song Trilogy on Broadway and film, and Steve Heidebrecht in August: Osage County.
Camille Keaton
Camille Keaton (born 1947, Pine Bluff, Arkansas) is an American actress, aka star of the rape-revenge exploitation film I Spit on Your Grave (1978), also her Solange role, marriages to Sidney Luft and Meir Zarchi, and the 2019 sequel Deja Vu.
Carol Kane
Carol Kane (Carolyn Laurie Kane, born 1952, Cleveland) is an American character actress Oscar-nominated for Hester Street, a two-time Emmy winner as Simka on Taxi, known for The Princess Bride, Scrooged, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
Chelsea Kane
Chelsea Kane (born 1988, birth name Chelsea Kane Staub) is an American actress and singer known for Stella Malone on Disney's JONAS, Riley Perrin on Baby Daddy, and third place on Dancing with the Stars season 12.
China Kantner
China Kantner (China Wing Kantner, born 1971, San Francisco) is an American actress and former MTV VJ, credited as China Slick Kantner; daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane.
Christopher Judge
Christopher Judge (Douglas Christopher Judge) is an American actor from Los Angeles, known as Teal'c in Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007, ~211 episodes) and as the voice and motion-capture Kratos in God of War (2018) and Ragnarök (2022), winning a 2023 BAFTA Games Award; birth year 1964 or 1967 depending on source.
Clark Johnson
Clark Johnson is an American actor and director, born in 1954, known for playing Detective Meldrick Lewis on Homicide: Life on the Street and directing The Wire.
Dana Ivey
Dana Ivey (born 1941, Atlanta) is an American character actress, five-time Tony nominee, three-time Obie winner, creator of Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy, and film supporting player from The Color Purple to The Leisure Seeker.
Daniel Hugh Kelly
Daniel Hugh Kelly (Daniel Hugh-Kelly), American actor born in Elizabeth, New Jersey; starred as Mark "Skid" McCormick in Hardcastle and McCormick (1983-1986) and Frank Ryan in Ryan's Hope; Broadway revivals of Born Yesterday and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; films Cujo and Star Trek: Insurrection.
David Keith (actor)
David Keith (David Lemuel Keith, born 1954, Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American actor and director, not the scientist or Keith David. Known for An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Firestarter, Daredevil, and directing The Curse.
David Patrick Kelly
David Patrick Kelly (born 1951, Detroit) is an American character actor known as Luther in The Warriors (1979), Jerry Horne in Twin Peaks, T-Bird in The Crow, and an Obie-winning stage actor.
Don Johnson
Don Johnson (born 1949 in Flat Creek, Missouri) is an American actor known for Miami Vice (1984–1989) and starring in and executive producing Nash Bridges.
Eddie Jemison
Eddie Jemison (Edward Francis Jemison, Jr., born 1963, New Orleans) is an American actor known as Livingston Dell in the Ocean's trilogy, and for Hung, Chicago Med, iZombie, and Waitress; also a Chicago stage veteran, Love Kit band founder, and King of Herrings director.
Elaine Joyce
Elaine Joyce (Elaine Joyce Pinchot), American actress born 1945 in Kansas City, Missouri; Broadway's Sugar Kane in Sugar (1972), Mr. Merlin lead, Dating Game host, wife of Bobby Van and Neil Simon.
Gabe Kaplan
Gabe Kaplan (Gabriel Kaplan, born 1945, Brooklyn) is an American comedian, actor, and poker player: co-creator and star of Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–79) and longtime High Stakes Poker commentator who won the 1980 Superbowl of Poker Main Event.
Galina Jovovich
Galina Jovovich (Galina Loginova, born 1950) is a Soviet-born Russian-American actress, VGIK graduate and Dovzhenko studio player, known for Much Ado About Nothing (1973) and as the mother and former manager of actress Milla Jovovich.
Geri Jewell
Geri Jewell (Geraldine Ann Jewell, born 1956, Buffalo, NY) is an American comedian and actress with cerebral palsy, the first person with a visible disability in a recurring primetime TV role, as Cousin Geri on The Facts of Life (1980–84), later Jewel on HBO's Deadwood.
Gordon Jump
Gordon Jump (Alexander Gordon Jump, 1932-2003), American character actor, played Arthur Carlson on WKRP in Cincinnati and Soap's Chief Tinkler, and was Maytag's Ol' Lonely repairman from 1988/1989 until 2003.
Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939, Brooklyn) is an American actor of Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Bad Lieutenant, Reservoir Dogs, The Piano, and Pulp Fiction, Oscar-nominated for Bugsy and co-president of the Actors Studio.