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Lindsay Wagner
Lindsay Wagner (born 1949, Los Angeles) is an American actress and author, Emmy winner as Jaime Sommers in The Bionic Woman (1976–1978), later star of over 60 socially themed TV movies, and a holistic-health advocate.
Liza Weil
Liza Weil (Liza Rebecca Weil, born 1977) is an American actress known for Paris Geller on Gilmore Girls and Bonnie Winterbottom on How to Get Away with Murder, plus roles in Scandal, Bunheads, and The Cleaning Lady.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1970–2025), American actor, director, and musician; Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, lead of Malcolm & Eddie and The Resident, 1986 Emmy nominee, 2015 Grammy winner; drowned in Costa Rica.
Marcia Wallace
Marcia Wallace (1942–2013), American actress and comedian, known as Carol Kester on The Bob Newhart Show and the voice of Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons, with a 1992 Emmy.
Marcy Walker
Marcy Walker, also known as Marcy Lynn Walker, is an American former actress. She is best known for her roles on All My Children and Santa Barbara.
Megan Ward
Megan Ward (Megan Marie Ward, born 1969) is an American actress known for Encino Man, Joe's Apartment, and NBC's Dark Skies as Kimberly Sayers; she later played Kate Howard on General Hospital and modeled in Japan as a teen.
Michael T. Weiss
Michael T. Weiss (Michael Terry Weiss, born 1962, Chicago) is an American actor, director, and playwright, star of Jarod on The Pretender (1996–2000), formerly Dr. Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives, with film, voice, and Broadway credits.
Michael Warren (actor)
Michael Warren (Lloyd Michael Warren, born 1946) is an American actor, producer, and former UCLA All-American basketball player, best known as Officer Bobby Hill on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987, Emmy-nominated 1982) and as creator of Family Matters.
Milo Ventimiglia
Milo Ventimiglia (born 1977) is an American actor known as Jess Mariano in Gilmore Girls, Peter Petrelli in Heroes, and Jack Pearson in This Is Us, a role that earned three Emmy nominations; he also directs and runs DiVide Pictures.
Ming-Na Wen
Ming-Na Wen (溫明娜), born 1963 in Macau, is an American actress known for June in The Joy Luck Club, the voice of Disney's Mulan, Dr. Chen on ER, Agent May on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Fennec Shand in Star Wars; Disney Legend 2019.
Muse Watson
Muse Watson (Robert Gravel, born 1948, Alexandria, Louisiana) is an American character actor known as Ben Willis in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Charles Westmoreland on Prison Break, and Mike Franks on NCIS.
Nana Visitor
Nana Visitor (Nana Tucker, born 1957, New York) is the American actress who played Major Kira Nerys on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993-99); Broadway roots, later roles in Dark Angel, Wildfire, Torchwood, and author of Open a Channel: A Woman's Trek (2024).
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress, producer, and writer born 1970, daughter of Natalie Wood and Richard Gregson, stepdaughter of Robert Wagner; known for Lost Highway, Two Girls and a Guy, High Fidelity, and the HBO documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.
Patricia Wettig
Patricia Wettig (born 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actress and playwright who won three Emmys and a Golden Globe as Nancy Weston on Thirtysomething, later starring in Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters, married to Ken Olin.
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton (born 1964, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American actor known for David Puddy on Seinfeld, Jeff Bingham on Rules of Engagement, The Tick, and voice roles as Kronk, Joe Swanson, Brock Samson, Buzz Lightyear, and Lemony Snicket.
Paul Walker
Paul Walker (1973–2013), American actor, played undercover cop Brian O'Conner in The Fast and the Furious franchise; known for Varsity Blues, Running Scared, Hours, Reach Out Worldwide, and death in a 2013 Porsche crash.
Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actor, director, and Renaissance art historian, known for RoboCop (1987), Buckaroo Banzai, and Naked Lunch, and for a UCLA PhD in Italian Renaissance art history.
Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite (1928-2014), American actor, Presbyterian minister, and two-time congressional candidate, best known as John Walton Sr. on CBS's The Waltons (1972-1981) and as Jackson Gibbs on NCIS; Emmy-nominated for The Waltons and Roots.
Reginald VelJohnson
Reginald VelJohnson, born 1952 in Queens, New York, is an American actor famous as Sgt. Al Powell in Die Hard (1988, 1990) and Carl Winslow on the sitcom Family Matters (1989-1998), which was created as a vehicle for him after Die Hard; he is known for repeatedly playing police officers.
Robert Urich
Robert Urich (1946–2002), American TV actor from Toronto, Ohio; starred in Vega$, Spenser: For Hire, S.W.A.T., and Soap; diagnosed with synovial cell sarcoma in 1996.
Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)
Robert Walker Jr. (April 15, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was an American actor, son of Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones; known for The Ceremony, Ensign Pulver, Easy Rider, and Star Trek's 'Charlie X'.
Robert Wall
Robert Alan "Bob" Wall (1939–2022), American martial artist and actor, played O'Hara in Enter the Dragon (1973) and appeared in The Way of the Dragon and Game of Death; ninth-degree Tang Soo Do black belt under Chuck Norris.
Roberta Wallach
Roberta Wallach (born 1955, New York) is an American stage and screen actress, daughter of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson, Drama Desk nominee for The Model Apartment, with film credits from 1973 to 2018.
Sam Waterston
Sam Waterston (born November 15, 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American stage, film, and television actor, also credited as Samuel Atkinson Waterston, known for Jack McCoy on Law & Order (1994–2024, 405 episodes), the Oscar-nominated The Killing Fields, and Shakespeare stage work.
Scott Valentine (actor)
Scott Eugene Valentine (born 1958, Saratoga Springs, New York) is an American actor known as Nick Moore on Family Ties (1985–1989), star of My Demon Lover, and voice of the 24th Phantom in Phantom 2040; distinct from other people named Scott Valentine.
Scott Weinger
Scott Weinger (born 1975) is an American actor turned TV writer-producer: Steve Hale on Full House and Fuller House, speaking voice of Disney's Aladdin (1992), Harvard graduate, and Emmy-nominated co-executive producer of Hulu's Paradise.
Sela Ward
Sela Ward (Sela Ann Ward), American actress born 1956 in Meridian, Mississippi; two-time Emmy winner for Sisters and Once and Again, Golden Globe winner, star of The Fugitive and FBI, and founder of Hope Village for Children.
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver (born Susan Alexandra Weaver, 1949) is an American actress famous as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, with three Oscar nominations, two Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and roles in Avatar and The Mandalorian and Grogu.
Skeet Ulrich
Skeet Ulrich (Bryan Ray Trout, born 1970) is an American actor known as Billy Loomis in Scream (1996), Jake Green in Jericho, and FP Jones on Riverdale; recently Henry Emily in Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
Steven Weber
Steven Weber (born 1961) is an American actor known for Brian Hackett on NBC's Wings (1990-1997), Jack Torrance in The Shining (1997), Broadway's The Producers, and Dr. Dean Archer on Chicago Med.