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American actors: 1970s to 1990s, Surnames M to Ma

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A Martinez

A Martinez (Adolph/Adolfo Larrue Martinez III, born 1948) is an American actor and singer of Mexican, Apache, and Piegan Blackfeet heritage, known for Cruz Castillo on Santa Barbara (1990 Daytime Emmy), L.A. Law, Longmire, Dark Winds, and The Bay.

Ali MacGraw

Ali MacGraw (Elizabeth Alice MacGraw, born 1939) is an American actress and model, star of Goodbye, Columbus and Love Story, Oscar-nominated for Love Story, later author of Moving Pictures.

Amy Madigan

Amy Madigan (born 1950, Chicago) is an American actress who won the 2026 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Aunt Gladys in Weapons, 40 years after her 1986 nomination for Twice in a Lifetime; also known for Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck, and Roe vs. Wade.

Andie MacDowell

Andie MacDowell (Rosalie Anderson MacDowell), American actress and model born 1958 in Gaffney, SC; Elite model and L'Oréal face; star of Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Maid, and The Way Home.

Andrea Martin

Andrea Martin (Andrea Louise Martin, born 1947, Portland, Maine) is a Canadian-American actress and comedian of Armenian descent, an SCTV cast member and two-time Emmy-winning writer, two-time Tony winner (My Favorite Year, Pippin), and Aunt Voula in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Ann Magnuson

Ann Magnuson (born 1956, Charleston, West Virginia) is an American performance artist, actress, and singer; Club 57 cofounder, Bongwater frontwoman, star of Anything But Love and Making Mr. Right.

Barney Martin

Barney Martin (1923–2005), American character actor, NYPD detective turned performer; played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Amos Hart in Chicago's original Broadway cast, and appeared in The Producers and Arthur. Not the 1953 Cincinnati Redlegs pitcher.

Bill Macy

Bill Macy (born Wolf Martin Garber, 1922–2019), American character actor best known as Walter Findlay, Bea Arthur's husband, on the CBS sitcom Maude (1972–78); also Oh! Calcutta! original cast and films The Jerk and My Favorite Year. Distinct from William H. Macy.

Brandon Maggart

Brandon Maggart (Brandon Roscoe Maggart Jr., born December 12, 1933, Carthage, Tennessee) is an American stage, film, and television actor: Theatre World Award 1963, Tony nominee for Applause, roles in Dressed to Kill, Christmas Evil, and The World According to Garp, and Lou Waters on Showtime's Brothers; father of Fiona Apple, Maude Maggart, and Garett Maggart.

Chase Masterson

Chase Masterson, stage name of Christianne Carafano, is an American actress, singer, and producer born in 1963, best known for playing Leeta on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1995 to 1999.

Constance Marie

Constance Marie (Constance Marie Lopez, born 1965, Los Angeles) is an American actress and former dancer known for Angie Lopez on The George Lopez Show, Regina Vasquez on Switched at Birth, and Marcela Quintanilla in the 1997 film Selena.

D'Urville Martin

D'Urville Martin (1939–1984), American actor and director of 1970s blaxploitation films; played Rev. Rufus in Black Caesar and Toby in the Black Charley films, and directed Rudy Ray Moore's Dolemite (1975), also playing Willie Green.

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews (Melvin Richard Matthews, born 1940, Oakland) is an American character actor, Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and translator known for Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird and Rocky, and his Drama Desk-winning Henry IV adaptation.

Danny Masterson

Danny Masterson (Daniel Masterson) is an American actor known as Steven Hyde on That '70s Show (194 episodes, 1998–2006). Convicted in May 2023 of two counts of forcible rape, sentenced to 30 years to life; appeals and habeas petition pending.

David Marciano

David Marciano (born 1960, Newark, NJ) is an American character actor known as Ray Vecchio in Due South, Steve Billings in The Shield, and Virgil in Homeland.

David Margulies

David Margulies (1937-2016) was an American character actor known as Mayor Lenny Clotch in Ghostbusters (1984, 1989), lawyer Neil Mink on The Sopranos, and Roy Cohn in Angels in America on Broadway.

Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar, born 1964 in Queens, New York, is an American actress known for Goodfellas, Entourage's Shauna Roberts, and Younger's Maggie Amato, and for her friendship with Madonna, whom she met at Danceteria.

Dinah Manoff

Dinah Manoff, American actress and director (born 1956 or 1958), Tony winner for I Ought to Be in Pictures; played Marty in Grease and Carol Weston on Empty Nest (1988–1995).

Drea de Matteo

Drea de Matteo, American actress, played Adriana La Cerva on The Sopranos, winning the 2004 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress; later Gina on Joey, Wendy on Sons of Anarchy, and OnlyFans creator and Ultrafree podcast host.

Duane Martin

Duane Martin (born 1965, Brooklyn) is an American actor, producer, and writer known for All of Us, Above the Rim, Scream 2, L.A.'s Finest, and Bel-Air; distinct from the novelist Duane L. Martin and other namesakes.

Elizabeth Marvel

Elizabeth Marvel (born 1969, Los Angeles) is an American actress trained at Juilliard, known for Nancy Parras on The District, Heather Dunbar on House of Cards, President Elizabeth Keane on Homeland, and Obie-winning stage work.

Helen Martin

Helen Dorothy Martin (1909–2000), American actress, founding member of Harlem's American Negro Theater, Broadway debut in Welles's Native Son (1941), best known as Pearl Shay on 227.

James Marshall (actor)

James Marshall (James David Greenblatt, born 1967) is an American actor known for James Hurley in Twin Peaks and its 1992 and 2017 installments, and for Pfc. Louden Downey in A Few Good Men.

James Marsters

James Marsters (born 1962, Greenville, California) is an American actor and musician, also James Wesley Marsters, best known as vampire Spike on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; also Brainiac in Smallville, Captain John Hart in Torchwood, Ghost of the Robot frontman, and Dresden Files audiobook narrator.

Joe Mantegna

Joe Mantegna (Joseph Anthony Mantegna Jr., born 1947, Chicago) is an American actor, Tony winner for Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, star of Criminal Minds as David Rossi, and voice of Fat Tony on The Simpsons.

John Malkovich

John Malkovich (born 1953), American actor and Steppenwolf Theatre founding member, two-time Oscar nominee known for Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire, and starring as himself in Being John Malkovich (1999).

Joseph Mascolo

Joseph Mascolo (Joseph Peter Mascolo, 1929-2016), American actor famed as villain Stefano DiMera on Days of Our Lives (1982-2016, 1,623 episodes); also Metropolitan Opera clarinetist, Broadway actor, and Massimo Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful.

Joshua Malina

Joshua Charles Malina (born 1966, New York City) is an American film, stage, and TV actor known for Jeremy Goodwin in Sports Night, Will Bailey in The West Wing, David Rosen in Scandal, and Caltech President Siebert in The Big Bang Theory.

Julianna Margulies

Julianna Margulies, American actress born 1966 in Spring Valley, NY; Emmy-winning star of ER's Carol Hathaway and The Good Wife's Alicia Florrick; three Emmys, one Golden Globe.

Katherine MacGregor

Katherine MacGregor, also Scottie MacGregor (1925–2018), American actress born Dorlee Deane McGregor; played Harriet Oleson on NBC's Little House on the Prairie from 1974 to 1983, its entire run.