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Hunter Carson
Hunter Carson (born 1975, Los Angeles) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director, son of Karen Black and L.M. Kit Carson; child star of Paris, Texas (1984) and Invaders from Mars (1986), later co-director of Single in South Beach.
Hunter Tylo
Hunter Tylo (born 1962, Deborah Jo Hunter) is an American actress who originated Dr. Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (1990–2019, with interruptions) and won a $4.8 million pregnancy-discrimination suit against Spelling over her 1996 Melrose Place firing.
Ian Gomez
Ian Gomez (born 1964, New York City) is an American comic character actor, a Second City alumnus, known for Javier on Felicity, Larry Almada on The Drew Carey Show, Andy Torres on Cougar Town, and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Ian Ziering
Ian Ziering (born 1964, Newark, New Jersey) is an American actor known as Steve Sanders on all ten seasons of Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000) and as Fin Shepard in the Syfy Sharknado film series (2013-2018), plus Dancing with the Stars and Chippendales Las Vegas.
Ilan Mitchell-Smith
Ilan Mitchell-Smith (born 1969) is an American academic and former actor, known as Wyatt Donnelly in Weird Science (1985) and for The Chocolate War, Superboy, and his CSULB medieval literature professorship.
Illeana Douglas
Illeana Douglas (Illeana Hesselberg), American actress, writer, producer, and director, granddaughter of Melvyn Douglas; discovered dubbing screams for Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, known for Cape Fear, Grace of My Heart, Ghost World, and the memoir I Blame Dennis Hopper.
Inga Swenson
Inga Swenson (1932–2023), American actress and lyric soprano, best known as Gretchen Kraus on Benson; Emmy- and Tony-nominated; born Omaha, died Los Angeles.
Ione Skye
Ione Skye (Ione Skye Leitch, born 1970, London) is a British-born American actress, painter, and author, known for Diane Court in Say Anything... (1989), River's Edge, Gas Food Lodging, Zodiac, her 2025 memoir Say Everything, and the Weirder Together podcast with Ben Lee.
Irene Bedard
Irene Bedard, also known as the voice of Disney's Pocahontas, is an Alaska Native actress born 1967, in Anchorage, enrolled in the Native Village of Koyuk, Golden Globe-nominated for Lakota Woman and known for Smoke Signals, Into the West, and Ralph Breaks the Internet.
Irene Cara
Irene Cara (Irene Cara Escalera, 1959-2022), American singer and actress, starred in Fame (1980) and co-wrote and sang Flashdance... What a Feeling, winning the 1984 Oscar, Golden Globe, and two Grammys; career later sidetracked by a royalty lawsuit.
Isabel Sanford
Isabel Sanford (Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford, 1917–2004), American actress, Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons; first Black woman to win the comedy lead actress Emmy, 1981.
Ivan Sergei
Ivan Sergei (Ivan Sergei Gaudio), American television actor born 1971 in Hawthorne, New Jersey; known for The Opposite of Sex, Jack & Jill, Crossing Jordan, and Charmed's Henry Mitchell.
J. August Richards
J. August Richards (Jaime Augusto Richards III, born 1973) is an American actor known as Charles Gunn on Angel and Mike Peterson/Deathlok on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., later Victor Dashkov in Vampire Academy, who came out as gay in 2020.
J. D. Williams
J. D. Williams, American actor (born 1978, Newark, New Jersey), birth name Darnell Williams; known for Kenny Wangler on Oz, Bodie Broadus on The Wire, Pootie Tang, Saints & Sinners, and BMF's J-Pusha.
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.
Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois (Jeannette Theresa Dubois, died February 17, 2020) was an American actress and singer-songwriter who played Willona Woods on Good Times, sang and co-wrote The Jeffersons theme 'Movin' On Up', and won two Emmys for The PJs.
Jace Alexander
Jace Alexander (Jason Edward Alexander, born 1964) is an American former television director and actor, son of Jane Alexander; directed 32 Law & Order episodes, piloted Burn Notice and Warehouse 13, later convicted in 2015-2016 child pornography case.
Jack Coleman (actor)
Jack Coleman (John MacDonald Coleman, born 1958) is an American actor known as Steven Carrington on Dynasty (1982-88) and Noah Bennet/HRG on Heroes (2006-10) and Heroes Reborn, with later recurring roles on The Office, Burn Notice, Scandal, and Chicago P.D.
Jack Garner
Jack Garner (Jack Edward Bumgarner, 1926-2011), American character actor, older brother of James Garner; appeared in Rockford Files, Bret Maverick; also the name of a Rochester film critic.
Jack Gilpin
Jack Gilpin (John Mitchell Gilpin, born 1951, Boyce, Virginia) is an American actor and Episcopal priest, the butler Mr. Church in HBO's The Gilded Age, father of Betty Gilpin, and grandson of Billy Mitchell.
Jack Klugman
Jack Klugman (Jacob Joachim Klugman, 1922–2012), American actor known as Oscar Madison on The Odd Couple (1970–75) and the title role of Quincy, M.E. (1976–83); three Primetime Emmys, Juror 5 in 12 Angry Men, 1960 Tony nomination for Gypsy.
Jack Nance
Jack Nance (Marvin John Nance, 1943-1996), American character actor, star of David Lynch's Eraserhead as Henry Spencer and Pete Martell in Twin Peaks; also Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway; died of subdural hematoma after a 1996 doughnut-shop fight.
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (John Joseph Nicholson, born 1937) is a retired American actor, a three-time Academy Award winner known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining.
Jack Riley (actor)
Jack Riley (John Albert Riley Jr., 1935-2016), American comic actor from Cleveland, played Elliot Carlin on The Bob Newhart Show and voiced Stu Pickles in Rugrats and All Grown Up!.
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.
Jackée Harry
Jackée Harry (born 1956), American actress known as Sandra Clark on 227 and Lisa Landry on Sister, Sister; first African-American woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (1987), now Paulina Price on Days of Our Lives.
Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley (born 1961) is an American actor and director, the child star of The Bad News Bears who left acting, then returned in 2006 to an Oscar-nominated turn in Little Children and Rorschach in Watchmen.
Jackie Swanson
Jackie Swanson (born 1963, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American actress, not the Gartner consultant or photographer of the same name, known as Kelly Gaines on Cheers (1989–1993) and for her film debut in Lethal Weapon (1987).
Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith, born Jacquelyn Ellen Smith, is an American actress best known as Kelly Garrett on Charlie's Angels, the only Angel to stay all five seasons.