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American actors: 1970s to 1990s

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Jeff Daniels

Jeff Daniels (born 1955, Athens, Georgia; raised Chelsea, Michigan) is an American actor, playwright, and musician, Emmy winner for The Newsroom and Godless, founder of the Purple Rose Theatre Company, and star of Dumb and Dumber.

Jeff Fahey

Jeff Fahey (born 1952, Olean, New York) is an American actor known for Silverado, The Lawnmower Man, The Marshal, Frank Lapidus on Lost, Fire Country, and Horizon: An American Saga.

Jeff Goldblum

Jeff Goldblum (Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum, born 1952, Pittsburgh) is an American actor and jazz pianist known for The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Wicked, and leading the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, distinct from other actors of the same name.

Jeff Kober

Jeff Kober (born 1953, Billings, Montana) is an American character actor known for China Beach's Dodger, Sons of Anarchy's Jacob Hale Jr., Walking Dead's Joe, and Emmy-winning General Hospital role Cyrus Renault; also a Vedic meditation teacher.

Jeffrey DeMunn

Jeffrey DeMunn (born 1947) is an American character actor, Bristol Old Vic-trained, Tony-nominated for K2, a Frank Darabont regular (Shawshank, The Green Mile), Dale Horvath on The Walking Dead, and Chuck Rhoades Sr. on Billions.

Jeffrey Nordling

Jeffrey Richard Nordling (born 1962, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Jake Manning in Once and Again, Larry Moss in 24, Gordon Klein in Big Little Lies, and Flight 93.

Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Tambor (born 1944, San Francisco) is an American actor known as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent, for which he won Emmys before his 2018 firing.

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.

Jenette Goldstein

Jenette Goldstein, American actress born 1960, played Private Vasquez in Aliens, Diamondback in Near Dark, Janelle Voight in Terminator 2, and the Irish mother in Titanic, winning a 1987 Saturn Award, and later founded the boutique Jenette Bras.

Jenifer Lewis

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis, born 1957 in Kinloch, Missouri, is an American actress, singer, and memoirist known as "the Black Mother of Hollywood," for Ruby Johnson on black-ish, Flo in Cars, Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog, and her 2017 bipolar-disorder memoir.

Jenna Elfman

Jenna Elfman (Jennifer Mary Butala, born 1971) is an American actress, Golden Globe winner for Dharma & Greg (1997-2002), later June Dorie on Fear the Walking Dead and Eve Drake on Shifting Gears.

Jenna Leigh Green

Jenna Leigh Green (Jennifer Leigh Greenberg), American actress and singer known as Libby Chessler on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Ivy in Bare: A Pop Opera, and Nessarose in Wicked on Broadway, tour, and Los Angeles.

Jenna von Oÿ

Jenna von Oÿ (Jennifer Jean von Oy, born 1977) is an American actress, singer, and writer known as Six LeMeure on Blossom, Stevie Van Lowe on The Parkers, and for voice work in A Goofy Movie and Pepper Ann.

Jennie Garth

Jennie Garth (Jennifer Eve Garth, born 1972, Urbana, Illinois) is an American actress best known as Kelly Taylor on Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990-2000); later What I Like About You, TV movies, HGTV's The Jennie Garth Project, BH90210, and the I Choose Me podcast and memoir.

Jennifer Aspen

Jennifer Aspen (born 1973, Richmond, Virginia) is an American actress, producer, and writer known for Party of Five, Rodney, Glee, GCB, and Hallmark Christmas movies.

Jennifer Beals

Jennifer Beals (born 1963, Chicago) is an American actress, star of Flashdance (1983) as Alex Owens and Bette Porter on The L Word and Generation Q, now in NCIS: New York.

Jennifer Coolidge

Jennifer Coolidge (born 1961, Boston) is an American comedic character actress known as Stifler's mom in American Pie, Paulette in Legally Blonde, and Emmy-winning Tanya McQuoid in The White Lotus.

Jennifer Ehle

Jennifer Ehle (born 1969, Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an American actress, daughter of Rosemary Harris and John Ehle, known for Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC's 1995 Pride and Prejudice, two Tony Awards, and films including The King's Speech and Saint Maud.

Jennifer Elise Cox

Jennifer Elise Cox (born 1969, New York City) is an American actress, also credited as Jennifer Cox, best known as Jan Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel and for improv comedy roles on Web Therapy, Lovespring International, and 10 Items or Less.

Jennifer Grant

Jennifer Grant (born 1966, Burbank, California) is an American actress and author, only child of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon; known for Beverly Hills 90210, Movie Stars, Babylon, the memoir Good Stuff, and producing the miniseries Archie.

Jennifer Grey

Jennifer Grey (born 1960) is an American actress, daughter of Joel Grey, known as Baby in Dirty Dancing (1987) and Jeanie in Ferris Bueller's Day Off; two 1990s rhinoplasties derailed her career; she won Dancing with the Stars in 2010.

Jennifer Lien

Jennifer Lien (born 1974) is an American actress known for playing Kes on Star Trek: Voyager (1995-1997), voicing Agent Elle in Men in Black: The Series, and roles in American History X and SLC Punk! before retiring in 2002.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Jennifer Love Hewitt (born 1979, Waco, Texas), American actress and singer: Party of Five, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Ghost Whisperer, The Client List, and Maddie Buckley on 9-1-1 since 2018.

Jennifer O'Neill

Jennifer O'Neill (born 1948), Brazilian-born American actress and model, played Dorothy in Summer of '42 (1971) and was CoverGirl's spokeswoman for 30 years; also starred in Rio Lobo, The Innocent, and Scanners.

Jennifer Rubin (actress)

Jennifer Rubin (Jennifer Collene Rubin, born 1962, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and former Ford model, known for Taryn in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Bad Dreams, The Doors, The Crush, and Screamers.

Jennifer Runyon

Jennifer Runyon Corman (1960–2026), American actress of 1980s film and TV: Ghostbusters' ESP-test student, Gwendolyn Pierce on Charles in Charge, Cindy Brady in A Very Brady Christmas, and Up the Creek's Heather Merriweather; died of cancer at 65.

Jennifer Syme

Jennifer Maria Syme (1972–2001) was an American film production assistant and occasional actress who worked for director David Lynch and was Keanu Reeves's partner from 1998 to 2000.

Jennifer Tilly

Jennifer Tilly (born 1958, Jennifer Ellen Chan) is an American-Canadian actress and poker player: Oscar-nominated for Bullets Over Broadway, star of the Chucky franchise as Tiffany Valentine, voice of Bonnie Swanson on Family Guy, and 2005 WSOP bracelet winner with over $1 million in live earnings.

Jenny McCarthy

Jenny McCarthy (Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg), American actress, model, and TV host born 1972 in Chicago; Playboy 1994 Playmate of the Year, co-host of MTV's Singled Out, author of Belly Laughs, judge on The Masked Singer since 2019, and controversial vaccine-autism advocate.

Jenny O'Hara

Jenny O'Hara (Patricia Joanne O'Hara), American actress born 1942 in Sonora, California; Broadway debut in Dylan (1964), known for Mystic River, Devil, My Sister Sam, and Transparent.