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American actors: 1970s to 1990s

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Cheryl Ladd

Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor, 1951) is an American actress and singer who played Kris Munroe on Charlie's Angels from 1977, replacing Farrah Fawcett; also the singing voice of Melody in Josie and the Pussycats. Not related to Diane Ladd.

Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase, born Cornelius Crane Chase in 1943, is an American comedian and actor, original Saturday Night Live cast member and Weekend Update anchor, later star of Caddyshack, Fletch, and the Vacation films.

China Kantner

China Kantner (China Wing Kantner, born 1971, San Francisco) is an American actress and former MTV VJ, credited as China Slick Kantner; daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane.

Chip Fields

Chip Fields (Laverne Fields, born 1951, also credited as Chip Hurd) is an American singer, actress, and TV director known for Linella Gordon on Good Times, Rita Conway on The Amazing Spider-Man, and directing House of Payne and Young Dylan; mother of Kim and Alexis Fields.

Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny (born 1974) is an American actress, director, and designer, an indie-film figure since Kids (1995), Oscar-nominated for Boys Don't Cry, Golden Globe winner for Big Love, and Emmy-nominated for Monsters (2025).

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.

Chris Burke (actor)

Chris Burke (born 1965, Point Lookout, New York) is an American actor with Down syndrome, the Corky Thatcher of ABC's Life Goes On (1989–1993), later an NDSS Goodwill Ambassador, musician, and memoirist; distinct from other Chris Burkes in film, music, and medicine.

Chris Cooper

Chris Cooper (born 1951) is an American character actor from Kansas City, Missouri, known for Matewan, Lone Star, American Beauty, and his Oscar-winning turn as John Laroche in Adaptation.

Chris Eigeman

Chris Eigeman (born 1965, Denver) is an American actor known for Nick Smith in Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco, Kicking and Screaming, Gilmore Girls, and directing Turn the River.

Chris Elliott

Chris Elliott (Christopher Nash Elliott, born 1960, New York City) is an American comedic actor and writer, son of Bob Elliott of Bob and Ray, known for Late Night with David Letterman characters, Get a Life, Cabin Boy, Eagleheart, and Roland Schitt in Schitt's Creek.

Chris Lemmon

Chris Lemmon (Christopher Boyd Lemmon), American actor, musician, and author born 1954 in Los Angeles; son of Jack Lemmon and Cynthia Stone; known for Airport '77, Duet, Thunder in Paradise, the memoir A Twist of Lemmon, and the one-man play Jack Lemmon Returns.

Chris Noth

Chris Noth (born 1954) is an American actor known as Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order, Mr. Big on Sex and the City, and Peter Florrick on The Good Wife. Accused of sexual assault in 2021, which he denies.

Chris O'Donnell

Chris O'Donnell (born 1970, Winnetka, Illinois) is an American actor: Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Golden Globe nominee for Scent of a Woman, and G. Callen on NCIS: Los Angeles (2009-2022), now Captain Don Hart on 9-1-1: Nashville.

Chris Sarandon

Chris Sarandon (born 1942, Beckley, West Virginia) is an American actor known for Dog Day Afternoon (Oscar nomination), Prince Humperdinck in The Princess Bride, Jerry Dandridge in Fright Night, and voicing Jack Skellington; ex-husband of Susan Sarandon, husband of Joanna Gleason.

Christian Brando

Christian Devi Brando (1958-2008), eldest son of Marlon Brando and Anna Kashfi, welder and minor actor; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 1990 shooting of Dag Drollet, served five years, later pleaded to spousal abuse, died of pneumonia.

Christian LeBlanc

Christian Jules LeBlanc (born 1958) is an American actor, three-time Daytime Emmy-winning Lead Actor, who has played attorney Michael Baldwin on CBS's The Young and the Restless since 1991; not the lawyer Christian Leblanc of Fasken or actor Matt LeBlanc.

Christian Slater

Christian Slater (born 1969, New York City) is an American actor known for Heathers, Pump Up the Volume, True Romance, and his Golden Globe-winning role in Mr. Robot; he received a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2025.

Christina Applegate

Christina Applegate (born 1971) is an American actor known as Kelly Bundy on Married... with Children, an Emmy winner for Friends, and star of Dead to Me; in 2026 she revealed her 2021 MS diagnosis was a misdiagnosis.

Christina Ricci

Christina Ricci (born 1980, Santa Monica) is an American actress known as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family films, for indie roles in Buffalo '66 and The Opposite of Sex, and as Misty Quigley in Yellowjackets, an Emmy-nominated role.

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).

Christine Baranski

Christine Baranski (Christine Jane Baranski), born 1952, Buffalo, is a Juilliard-trained American actress: two-time Tony winner (The Real Thing, Rumors), Emmy winner for Cybill, and Diane Lockhart on The Good Wife/The Good Fight.

Christine Belford

Christine Belford, born Christina Riley, is an American actress. She is best known for her recurring roles as Carlie Kirkland on Banacek and Evelyn Stratton on Silver Spoons.

Christine Ebersole

Christine Ebersole (born 1953, Winnetka, Illinois) is an American actress and singer, two-time Tony winner for 42nd Street and Grey Gardens, an SNL 1981–82 cast member, and star of Amadeus and Bob Hearts Abishola.

Christine Elise

Christine Elise (Christine Elise McCarthy), American actress born 1965 in Boston; Emily Valentine on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Kyle in Child's Play 2, Cult of Chucky, and the Chucky series; also writer, photographer, novelist.

Christine Lahti

Christine Lahti, also Christine Ann Lahti, is an American actress and filmmaker born 1950 in Birmingham, Michigan; Oscar winner for the short film Lieberman in Love, Oscar nominee for Swing Shift, Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Chicago Hope.

Christine Lakin

Christine Lakin (Christine Helen Lakin) is an American actress, director and audiobook narrator, known as Al Lambert on 1990s sitcom Step by Step and later a TV director on The Goldbergs.

Christine Taylor

Christine Taylor (Christine Joan Taylor Stiller, born 1971) is an American actress from Allentown, Pennsylvania, known as Marcia Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and for Zoolander, DodgeBall, and Hey Dude, and married to Ben Stiller.

Christopher Atkins

Christopher Atkins (Christopher Atkins Bomann), American actor born 1961 in Rye, New York; film debut as Richard Lestrange in The Blue Lagoon (1980), later The Pirate Movie, A Night in Heaven, and Dallas.

Christopher Daniel Barnes

Christopher Daniel Barnes (born 1972, Portland, Maine) is an American actor and voice actor, known as the voice of Spider-Man in the 1994 animated series, Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid, Greg Brady in the 1995–96 Brady Bunch films, and Spider-Man Noir and 2099 in video games.

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.