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George Wendt
George Wendt (1948–2025), American actor and Second City alumnus, played Norm Peterson on all 11 seasons of Cheers, earning six Emmy nominations, and later performed on Broadway in Art, Hairspray, and Elf.
Heidi Vanderbilt
Heidi Lourdes Murray Vanderbilt (1948-2021), Vanderbilt-family daughter, Broadway debut 1965 as Heidi Murray in Ruth Gordon's A Very Rich Woman; Edgar Award 1983; author of The Scar Rule (2020); Arizona rancher.
Helene Udy
Helene Udy (born 1962, Albuquerque; raised in Montreal) is an actress, producer, director, and clown known for Sylvia in My Bloody Valentine (1981), the first female Ferengi Pel on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Myra on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Herta Ware
Herta Ware (Herta Ware Schwartz, 1917-2005), American character actress and activist, wife of blacklisted actor Will Geer, co-founder of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, best known as Rosie Lefkowitz in Cocoon (1985).
J. T. Walsh
J. T. Walsh, James Thomas Patrick Walsh, was an American character actor known for playing quietly sinister businessmen and villains in films of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Jack Wagner (actor)
Jack Wagner (Peter John Wagner II, born 1959) is an American actor and singer known as Frisco Jones on General Hospital, Dr. Peter Burns on Melrose Place, Nick Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart; his single "All I Need" hit number 2.
Jack Wallace (actor)
Jack Wallace (1933–2020) was an American character actor from Pekin, Illinois, a Chicago theater mainstay and Drama Desk Award ensemble winner for Glengarry Glen Ross; not the English dialect coach of Never Have I Ever.
James Urbaniak
James Urbaniak (born 1963, Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American character actor known as Simon Grim in Henry Fool, Robert Crumb in American Splendor, and the voice of Dr. Rusty Venture in The Venture Bros., with an Obie Award and a Drama Desk nomination for Thom Pain.
James Waterston
James Waterston (born 1969, New York City) is an American actor, son of Sam Waterston, known for Dead Poets Society, Little Sweetheart, Live from Baghdad, Red Oaks, the BBC's Oppenheimer, and extensive Off-Broadway and regional stage work.
Jamie Walters
Jamie Walters, born James Leland Walters Jr. in 1969, is an American actor and singer known for Ray Pruit on Beverly Hills, 90210 and the 1992 number one hit "How Do You Talk to an Angel".
Jan-Michael Vincent
Jan-Michael Vincent was an American film and television actor who rose to leading roles in 1970s films and starred as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the 1980s series Airwolf.
Jason Weaver
Jason Michael Weaver (J-Weav), American actor and singer born 1979 in Chicago; young Michael Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, singing voice of young Simba in The Lion King, Marcus Henderson on Smart Guy, and Shaad on The Chi.
Jay Underwood
Jay Underwood (born 1968) is an American actor and pastor, known for The Boy Who Could Fly, the Disney Channel Not Quite Human trilogy, Uncle Buck, and the 1994 unreleased Fantastic Four.
Jeffrey Weissman
Jeffrey Weissman (born 1958, Santa Monica, California) is an American character actor known as George McFly in Back to the Future Parts II and III and Teddy Conway in Pale Rider; his casting triggered the Crispin Glover likeness case and a SAG rule change.
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter (1941–2021), American actress, Emmy winner for Amy Prentiss, star of Play Misty for Me, voice of Malory Archer in Archer, and Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development.
Jimmie Walker
Jimmie Walker (James Carter Walker, born 1947, Bronx) is the American stand-up comedian and actor who played J.J. Evans on CBS's Good Times (1974–79) and coined "Dyn-o-mite!"; Time named him Comedian of the Decade.
Joe Urla
Joe Urla (Joseph Urla), American actor born 1958, in Pontiac, Michigan; known for Dugan on Seinfeld, roles in The Bodyguard, Sleepers, Deep Impact, The Wire, and a 1986 Theatre World Award.
John Ventimiglia
John Ventimiglia (born 1963) is an American actor, best known as Artie Bucco on The Sopranos and Dino Arbogast on Blue Bloods; unrelated to Milo Ventimiglia, born in Ridgewood, Queens.
Jon Voight
Jon Voight (born 1938, Yonkers, NY) is an American actor, Oscar winner for Coming Home (1978), Oscar-nominated for Midnight Cowboy, Runaway Train, and Ali, later Ray Donovan, and a Trump-appointed Hollywood special ambassador.
Julie Warner
Julie Warner (Juliet Mia Warner, born 1965, New York City) is an American actress known for Doc Hollywood (1991), Tommy Boy (1995), and starring as Danni Lipton on Family Law.
Karen Valentine
Karen Valentine (born 1947, Sebastopol, California) is an American actress, Emmy winner 1970 as Alice Johnson on ABC's Room 222 (1969–74); also starred in the sitcom Karen (1975) and many TV movies.
Kate Vernon
Kate Vernon (Katherine Elizabeth Vernon, born 1961, Toronto) is a Canadian-born American actress, daughter of John Vernon, known for Ellen Tigh on Battlestar Galactica, Pretty in Pink, Malcolm X, and Falcon Crest.
Kathryn Walker
Kathryn Walker (born 1943, Philadelphia) is an American stage, TV, and film actress; Emmy winner for The Adams Chronicles (1976), known for Slap Shot, Rich Kids, Neighbors, D.A.R.Y.L., James Taylor's ex-wife, and author of A Stopover in Venice.
Kellie Waymire
Kellie Waymire (1967-2003), American stage, TV, and film actress known for Elizabeth Cutler on Star Trek: Enterprise, Melissa on Six Feet Under, and her Drama-Logue-winning role in the play Sylvia; died of cardiac arrhythmia at 36.
Kelly Ward
Kelly Ward (born 1956, San Diego) is an American actor, voice director, and writer, famous as T-Bird Putzie in Grease (1978) and Pvt. Johnson in The Big Red One; he later voice-directed Disney Television Animation series and won an Emmy.
Ken Wahl
Ken Wahl (born Anthony Calzaretta, 1954, Chicago) is an American actor known for The Wanderers (1979) and as Vinnie Terranova on Wiseguy (1987–90), Golden Globe winner, retired after a 1992 broken neck.
Kim Wayans
Kim Wayans (born 1961, New York City) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and director, a star of In Living Color as Benita Butrell, a My Wife and Kids writer-director, acclaimed for Pariah (2011).
Lark Voorhies
Lark Voorhies (born 1974, Nashville) is an American actress best known as Lisa Turtle on Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved by the Bell (1989-93), with soap roles on Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful and a 2021 revival return.
Lauren Vélez
Lauren Vélez (Luna Lauren Vélez), American actress of Puerto Rican descent born 1964 in Brooklyn; known as Det. Nina Moreno on New York Undercover, Dr. Gloria Nathan on Oz, and Maria LaGuerta on Dexter, and as the voice of Rio Morales in the Spider-Verse films.
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946, New York) is an American actress and singer, star of 1965's Cinderella, Oscar-nominated for Victor/Victoria, Miss Scarlet in Clue, Golden Globe winner for 79 Park Avenue.