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Ali Wentworth
Ali Wentworth (Alexandra Elliott Wentworth, born 1965) is an American actress, comedian, author, and producer of In Living Color, Head Case, and Nightcap, married to George Stephanopoulos.
Ally Walker
Ally Walker (Allene Damian Walker, born 1961) is an American actress, writer, and director known for Dr. Samantha Waters on Profiler, June Stahl on Sons of Anarchy, and films like Universal Soldier; distinct from the Syracuse mural artist and country singer of similar names.
Angela Watson
Angela Christine Watson (born 1975, Danville, Illinois) is an American former actress and model, known for Karen Foster on Step by Step (1991–1998, 160 episodes), Davis Rules, pageant titles, the CAST nonprofit, and her 2020s stage return.
Ann Wedgeworth
Ann Wedgeworth (Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth, 1934-2017) was a Texas-born American actress; she won the 1978 Tony for Chapter Two and the 1977 NSFC Best Supporting Actress award for Citizens Band, and played Lana Shields on Three's Company and Merleen Elldridge on Evening Shade.
Barry Watson (actor)
Barry Watson (Michael Barrett Watson, born 1974) is an American actor known as Matt Camden on 7th Heaven (1996–2006), later lead roles in What About Brian and Samantha Who?, and a 2002 Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.
Ben Vereen
Ben Vereen (Benjamin Augustus Vereen), born 1946 in Miami, is an American actor-singer-dancer who won the 1973 Tony for Pippin's Leading Player and played Chicken George in Roots, distinct from namesakes like neuroscientist Ben Rein.
Billy Warlock
Billy Warlock (William Alan Leming, born 1961, Gardena, California) is a retired American actor known as Eddie Kramer on Baywatch, Frankie Brady on Days of Our Lives (1988 Daytime Emmy), and A.J. Quartermaine on General Hospital; now a ski school supervisor.
Blair Underwood
Blair Erwin Underwood (born 1964, Tacoma, Washington) is an American actor, director, and producer known for Jonathan Rollins on L.A. Law, two Golden Globe nominations, Broadway's A Streetcar Named Desire and A Soldier's Play, and recent roles in Longlegs, Youngblood, and Fox's Doc.
Bruce Weitz
Bruce Weitz (born 1943, Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American actor, also credited as Bruce Peter Weitz, who won a 1984 Emmy for playing Sgt. Mick Belker on Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) and later played Anthony Zacchara on General Hospital.
Carol Wayne
Carol Wayne (1942–1985), American actress and comedian, the "Matinee Lady" of the Art Fern Tea Time Movie sketches on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, with 101 skit airings, film roles in The Party and Heartbreakers, and a 1985 drowning at Manzanillo, Mexico.
Celia Weston
Celia Weston, American character actress from Spartanburg, South Carolina; Jolene Hunnicutt on Alice, Broadway's The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony nomination), films Dead Man Walking, Junebug, The Talented Mr. Ripley; born 1951 (IMDb says 1947).
Chloe Webb
Chloe Webb (born 1956, New York) is an American actress, a star of Forbidden Broadway who debuted as Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy (1986), won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, and later played Monica Gallagher on Shameless. Distinct from the novelist Chloe Walsh and other namesakes.
Christina Vidal
Christina Vidal (Christina Vidal Mitchell), American actress and singer born 1981 in Whitestone, Queens. Known for Life with Mikey (1993), Nickelodeon's Taina, Freaky Friday, The Terminal List, and Freakier Friday (2025).
Christopher Evan Welch
Christopher Evan Welch (1965-2013), American character actor of stage and screen; Broadway in London Assurance, The Crucible, Festen; Obie winner; played Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley; died of lung cancer during filming.
Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken, born Ronald Walken in 1943 in Queens, New York, is an American actor with 100+ screen credits, an Oscar for The Deer Hunter (1979), the Weapon of Choice dance video, and recent roles in Severance and Dune.
Claudia Wells
Claudia Wells is an American actress who played Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future (1985), replacing Melora Hardin and later replaced by Elisabeth Shue; she left acting for her ill mother, runs Armani Wells, and returned via Still Waters Burn.
Countess Vaughn
Countess Vaughn (born 1978, Idabel, Oklahoma) is an American actress and singer, Star Search junior champion, best known as Kim Parker on Moesha and its spin-off The Parkers (1999-2004).
Courtney B. Vance
Courtney B. Vance (born 1960, Detroit) is an American stage, film, and television actor, a Harvard and Yale School of Drama graduate, Tony winner for Lucky Guy, two-time Emmy winner for The People v. O.J. Simpson and Lovecraft Country, and Angela Bassett's husband.
Cynthia Watros
Cynthia Watros (born 1968, Lake Orion, Michigan) is an American actress, 1998 Daytime Emmy winner as Annie Dutton on Guiding Light, known as Kellie Newmark on The Drew Carey Show, Erin on Titus, Libby on Lost, and Nina Reeves on General Hospital since 2019.
Danitra Vance
Danitra Vance (1954–1994), American comedian and actress; first Black woman in Saturday Night Live's regular cast (1985–86), Obie winner for Spunk, died of breast cancer.
Dee Wallace
Dee Wallace (Deanna Lee Bowers, born 1948, Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actress famous for The Howling, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Cujo, with over 90 film credits and work as an author and acting teacher.
Denzel Washington
Denzel Washington (Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr., born 1954, Mount Vernon, NY) is an American actor, director, and producer; two-time Oscar winner for Glory and Training Day, Tony winner for Fences, star of Gladiator II and 2025 Broadway Othello.
Diane Venora
Diane Venora (Diana Venora), born 1952, Hartford, Connecticut, American Juilliard-trained actress; first American woman to play Hamlet for Joseph Papp; known for Bird (1988, NYFCC Award), Heat (1995), and The Insider (1999).
Ethan Wayne
Ethan Wayne (John Ethan Wayne), born 1962 in Los Angeles, is John Wayne's youngest son; former actor and stuntman known for Big Jake, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Adam-12, and president of John Wayne Enterprises since 2003.
Frank Vincent
Frank Vincent (Frank Vincent Gattuso, 1937 or 1939 to 2017) was an American character actor and former drummer known for Billy Batts in Goodfellas, Frank Marino in Casino, and Phil Leotardo in The Sopranos.
Fred Ward
Fred Ward, born Freddie Joe Ward, was an American character actor best known for roles in Tremors, The Right Stuff, and Henry & June; he died in 2022.
Fred Weller
Fred Weller (Frederick Weller), American actor born in New Orleans, best known as Marshal Mann on USA's In Plain Sight; Broadway credits include Take Me Out, Glengarry Glen Ross, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Fritz Weaver
Fritz Weaver (1926-2016), American character actor; Tony winner 1970 for Child's Play, singing Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street, Emmy-nominated for Holocaust; 21 Broadway productions.
Garrett Wang
Garrett Wang (born 1968) is an American actor best known as Ensign Harry Kim on Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001), later a Dragon Con Trek Track director, convention moderator, and Delta Flyers podcast co-host.
Gary Valentine
Gary Valentine is the stage name of two American entertainers: Gary Joseph Knipfing, Kevin James's brother who played Danny Heffernan on The King of Queens, and Gary Lachman, Blondie's bassist from 1975 to 1977.