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Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton (Margaret Ann Lipton, 1946–2019), American actress, model, and singer; played undercover cop Julie Barnes on The Mod Squad and Norma Jennings on Twin Peaks; Golden Globe winner, four Emmy nominations, mother of Rashida and Kidada Jones.
Ray Liotta
Ray Liotta (1954-2022), American actor famous as Henry Hill in Goodfellas and Shoeless Joe Jackson in Field of Dreams; Emmy winner for ER, voice of GTA Vice City's Tommy Vercetti.
Richard Libertini
Richard Libertini (1933–2016), American character actor from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Second City alumnus known for accents; played General Garcia in The In-Laws, Frank Walker in Fletch, and voiced Dijon in DuckTales.
Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe (Robert Hepler Lowe, born 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia) is an American actor: 1980s Brat Pack star of The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire, reinvented on TV in The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, and 9-1-1: Lone Star.
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia (Salvatore Loggia, 1930-2015), American character actor; Frank Lopez in Scarface, MacMillan in Big, Feech La Manna in The Sopranos; Oscar-nominated for Jagged Edge, two Emmy nominations.
Robert Sean Leonard
Robert Sean Leonard (born 1969), American actor; Tony winner for The Invention of Love; Neil Perry in Dead Poets Society; Dr. James Wilson on House (2004-12); also The Gilded Age.
Roberta Leighton (actress)
Roberta Leighton (birth name Roberta Leighton Weimar), American actress born 1953 in Minneapolis; known for Anita in Stripes (1981), Liza Williams in Barracuda, and soap roles Dr. Casey Reed on The Young and the Restless and Ginger Dawson on Days of Our Lives; married to actor Corey Young.
Robyn Lively
Robyn Lively (born 1972, Powder Springs, Georgia) is an American actress, half-sister of Blake Lively, best known as Louise Miller in Teen Witch (1989), Jessica Andrews in The Karate Kid Part III, and roles in Twin Peaks, Savannah, and Landman.
Ron Leibman
Ron Leibman (1937–2019), American stage, film, and television actor; Emmy winner for the CBS series Kaz (1979) and Tony winner as Roy Cohn in Angels in America; also Norma Rae and Friends' Dr. Leonard Green; distinct from lawyer Ron Liebman.
Ron Lester
Ron Lester (1970–2016) was an American actor best known for playing offensive lineman Billy Bob in Varsity Blues (1999) and Sugar Daddy on the WB series Popular.
Ron Livingston
Ron Livingston (born 1967, Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is an American actor known for Office Space, Band of Brothers (Golden Globe-nominated as Lewis Nixon), Sex and the City, and the lead in Loudermilk.
RonReaco Lee
RonReaco Lee (born 1976), American actor; played Tyreke Scott on Sister, Sister, Jamal Woodson on Let's Stay Together, Reggie Vaughn on Survivor's Remorse, and Gary Washington on First Wives Club.
Rosetta LeNoire
Rosetta LeNoire (1911–2002), American actress and producer, goddaughter of Bojangles Robinson, founder of AMAS Repertory Theatre, Mother Winslow on Family Matters, 1999 National Medal of Arts recipient.
Sacheen Littlefeather
Sacheen Littlefeather (Marie Louise Cruz, 1946-2022), American actress and activist who declined Marlon Brando's 1973 best actor Oscar in a Native American rights protest; later accused by her sisters of fabricating Apache and Yaqui identity.
Sam Lerner
Sam Lerner (born 1992) is an American actor, son of Ken Lerner, best known as Geoff Schwartz on ABC's The Goldbergs (2013–2023) and as the voice of Chowder in Monster House; also Envy, Project Almanac, Truth, or Dare.
Sam Lloyd
Sam Lloyd (1963–2020), also Samuel Lloyd Jr., American character actor and musician; played lawyer Ted Buckland in 95 episodes of Scrubs, Dr. Albert Goldfine on Desperate Housewives, nephew of Christopher Lloyd, singer with The Blanks.
Samm Levine
Samm Levine (Samuel Franklin Levine, born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor and comedian known for Neal Schweiber on Freaks and Geeks, Pfc. Hirschberg in Inglourious Basterds, and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.
Shannon Lee
Shannon Lee (Shannon Emery Lee, born 1969) is Bruce Lee's daughter, CEO of Bruce Lee Enterprises, founder of the Bruce Lee Foundation, executive producer of Warrior, and author of Be Water, My Friend.
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress; Diane Chambers on Cheers (1982–1987), Emmy winner 1983, two Golden Globes, later Irreconcilable Differences, Troop Beverly Hills, The Brady Bunch Movie, and Modern Family.
Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee (Sheryl Lynn Lee, born 1967, Augsburg, Germany) is an American actress, Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me; also Maddy Ferguson, Backbeat, Winter's Bone, Twin Peaks: The Return; distinct from Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Sondra Locke
Sondra Locke (Sandra Louise Smith, 1944-2018), American actress and director, Oscar-nominated for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, co-starred in six Clint Eastwood films, directed Ratboy, and fought Eastwood in palimony and fraud lawsuits.
Stanley Livingston
Stanley Livingston (born 1950), American actor, producer, and director, best known as Chip Douglas on My Three Sons (1960–1972); the only actor besides Fred MacMurray in all 12 seasons, later a filmmaker and founder of The Actor's Journey.
Susan Lucci
Susan Lucci (Susan Victoria Lucci), American actress known as "La Lucci," played Erica Kane on ABC's All My Children from 1970 to 2011, winning the Daytime Emmy in 1999 on her 19th nomination.
Ted Levine
Ted Levine (Frank Theodore Levine, born 1957, Bellaire, Ohio) is an American actor known as Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Capt. Stottlemeyer on Monk, with stage roots in Chicago theater.
Thomas Lennon
Thomas Patrick Lennon (born 1970, Oak Park, Illinois) is an American actor, comedian, and screenwriter, a member of The State, co-creator and star of Reno 911! as Lt. Jim Dangle, co-writer with Robert Ben Garant of the Night at the Museum films, and Felix Unger in CBS's The Odd Couple reboot.
Tommy Lister Jr.
Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr. (1958–2020), also known as Zeus and Deebo, was an American actor and former wrestler, 6'5", 1982 NCAA Division II shot put champion, famous for Friday and No Holds Barred.
Tony Lip
Tony Lip (Frank Anthony Vallelonga, 1930-2013), American character actor, Copacabana bouncer, Don Shirley's 1962 driver, Carmine Lupertazzi on The Sopranos, subject of Green Book.
Vicki Lewis
Vicki Lewis, born 1960 in Cincinnati, is an American actress and singer: Beth on NBC's NewsRadio, Deb/Flo in Finding Nemo, Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees, Velma Kelly in Chicago, Countess Lily in Anastasia, Ovation and Carbonell award winner, USC lecturer. Distinct from author Vicki Lewis Thompson.
William Lucking
William Lucking (Frederick William Lucking Jr., 1941–2021), American character actor from Vicksburg, Michigan; played Piney Winston on Sons of Anarchy and Colonel Lynch on The A-Team; over 150 screen credits; co-founded Santa Paula Theater Center.