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Adam Wylie
Adam Augustus Wylie (born 1984) is an American actor, voice actor, and magician known as Zachary Brock on Picket Fences, Jack in the 2002 Broadway Into the Woods revival, and Panicky Smurf in Smurfs.
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard, American actress born 1952 in Tulsa, four-time Emmy winner (Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Miss Evers' Boys, The Practice), Oscar nominee for Cross Creek, Golden Globe winner, co-founder of Artists for a New South Africa.
Alicia Witt
Alicia Witt (born 1975, Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American actress, singer-songwriter, and pianist, discovered by David Lynch for Dune (1984) and Twin Peaks, known for Cybill, Urban Legend, and Longlegs (2024), also releasing albums including Revisionary History and Between Heaven and Earth.
Amanda Wyss
Amanda Wyss (born 1960) is an American actress from Manhattan Beach, California, known as Tina Gray, Freddy Krueger's first victim in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), and for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Better Off Dead, Silverado, and Highlander's Randi MacFarland.
Anson Williams
Anson Williams (Anson William Heimlich, born 1949) is the American actor who played Potsie Weber on all 11 seasons of Happy Days, later a prolific TV director of over 300 shows and second cousin of Henry Heimlich.
Barry Williams (actor)
Barry Williams, born 1954 as Barry William Blenkhorn, is the American actor and singer who played Greg Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969–1974), later a Broadway performer, bestselling author of Growing Up Brady, and continuing Brady nostalgia figure.
Betty White
Betty White (1922–2021), American actress, comedian, and TV pioneer, first woman to produce a sitcom; starred in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Golden Girls, and Hot in Cleveland, won eight Emmys, and held the record for the longest TV career.
Billy Dee Williams
Billy Dee Williams (William December Williams, born April 6, 1937) is an American actor and painter known for Lando Calrissian in Star Wars, Brian's Song, Lady Sings the Blues, Mahogany, and Batman's Harvey Dent.
Billy Wirth
Billy Wirth (William E. Wirth), American actor, model, producer and director born 1962 in New York City; best known as Dwayne in The Lost Boys (1987) and for directing MacArthur Park (2001).
Bokeem Woodbine
Bokeem Woodbine (born 1973) is an American actor from Harlem, New York, known for Mike Milligan in Fargo season 2 (Emmy-nominated), Dead Presidents, Ray, Spider-Man: Homecoming's Shocker, Halo, and his rock band 13 Purple Dragons.
Bradley Whitford
Bradley Whitford (born 1959, Madison, Wisconsin) is an American actor, Juilliard-trained, known as Josh Lyman on The West Wing, Commander Lawrence on The Handmaid's Tale, and Todd Penn on The Diplomat; three-time Emmy winner.
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis (born 1955) is the American actor known as David Addison on Moonlighting and John McClane in Die Hard; over $5 billion box office; retired in 2022 with aphasia, later diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia.
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams (Cynthia Jane Williams, 1947-2023), American actress known as Shirley Feeney on Laverne & Shirley and Laurie Henderson in American Graffiti; died January 25, 2023, aged 75.
Clarence Williams III
Clarence Williams III (1939-2021), American actor, played Linc Hayes on ABC's The Mod Squad (1968-73) and Prince's father in Purple Rain; Broadway Tony nominee for Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, later character actor in Deep Cover, Sugar Hill, and The Butler.
Cynda Williams
Cynda Williams, born 1966 in Chicago, is an American actress and singer known for Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues (1990), the #1 R&B single Harlem Blues, and One False Move.
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (born 1960, New York City) is an American actress known for Fletch, Tombstone, The Night We Never Met, Friday Night Lights, and Nashville; granddaughter of DC Comics founder Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, based in Austin, Texas since 2005.
Danny Woodburn
Danny Woodburn (born 1964) is an American actor, comedian, and disability rights activist with dwarfism, known as Mickey Abbott on Seinfeld, Zoltan Chivay in The Witcher, and creator of the Woodburn Ratio.
Dean Winters
Dean Winters (born 1964) is an American actor known as Ryan O'Reily on HBO's Oz, Dennis Duffy on 30 Rock, and Mayhem in Allstate's commercials since 2010; he survived a 2009 cardiac arrest and amputations.
Debra Winger
Debra Winger is an American actress known for strong-willed women' portrayals in the 1980s, receiving Academy Award nominations and returning to feature films in 2001.
Demond Wilson
Demond Wilson (Grady Demond Wilson, 1946–2026), American actor, played Lamont Sanford on NBC's Sanford and Son (1972–77), adapted from Steptoe and Son; later a minister, author of Second Banana, died of prostate cancer.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest, American actress born 1948 in Kansas City, Missouri; two-time Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner (Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway), two-time Emmy winner (In Treatment, Avonlea), longtime Woody Allen collaborator and New York stage veteran.
Donna Wilkes
Donna Wilkes (Donna Consuelos Wilkes) is an American actress known for Molly Stewart in Angel (1984) and Jackie Peters in Jaws 2 (1978); a cult scream queen with a 1991-2013 acting hiatus.
Dorien Wilson
Dorien Wilson (born 1963) is an American actor known as Professor Stanley Oglevee on UPN's The Parkers, Eddie Charles on HBO's Dream On, Terrence on Sister, Sister, and Jay Weaver on Bounce TV's In the Cut.
Edward Winter (actor)
Edward Dean Winter (1937-2001), American character actor born in Ventura, California; twice Tony-nominated for Cabaret and Promises, Promises, and best known as paranoid Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H (1973-1979); died of Parkinson's disease at 63.
Flip Wilson
Flip Wilson (Clerow Wilson, 1933–1998), American comedian and first Black superstar of network TV, hosted NBC's The Flip Wilson Show (1970–74), created Geraldine Jones, and won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, and a Grammy.
Frank Whaley
Frank Joseph Whaley (born 1963, Syracuse, New York) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director known for Ironweed, Field of Dreams, The Doors, Swimming with Sharks, and Pulp Fiction, and for Sundance-winning Joe the King.
Fred Willard
Fred Willard (1933 or 1939 – May 15, 2020) was an American comic actor and improviser, Jerry Hubbard on Fernwood 2 Night, star of Christopher Guest mockumentaries including Best in Show, and a four-time Emmy nominee.
Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder (Jerome Silberman, 1933-2016), American comic actor of Willy Wonka, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein; Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor collaborator, two-time Oscar nominee, later memoirist and novelist.
George Wyner
George Wyner (born 1945) is an American character actor best known for playing ADA Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues and Colonel Sandurz in Spaceballs.
Gregory Alan Williams
Gregory Alan Williams, also credited as GregAlan Williams, is an American actor born 1956 in Des Moines, Iowa, known for Garner Ellerbee on Baywatch, his 1992 LA riots rescue of Takao Hirata, the book A Gathering of Heroes, and roles in Greenleaf and The Righteous Gemstones.