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Audra Lindley
Audra Lindley (1918–1997), American actress, played landlady Helen Roper on Three's Company and The Ropers; two Golden Globe nominations, Broadway and soap opera veteran, died of leukemia.
Audrey Landers
Audrey Landers, born Audrey Hamburg, is an American actress, singer, and songwriter best known as Afton Cooper on Dallas from 1981 to 1989, with a successful recording career in Europe.
Austin Peck
Austin Peck (born 1971, Honolulu) is an American actor and director, best known as Austin Reed on Days of Our Lives (1995–2017) and Brad Snyder on As the World Turns, and for starring in The Blue Tooth Virgin (2008).
Austin Pendleton
Austin Pendleton (born 1940, Warren, Ohio) is an American actor, director, playwright, and HB Studio teacher; originated Motel in Fiddler on the Roof, Tony-nominated for directing The Little Foxes, Steppenwolf ensemble member since 1986.
Avery Brooks
Avery Franklin Brooks, born 1948 in Evansville, Indiana, is an American actor, operatic bass singer, and Rutgers professor; first Black lead of a Star Trek series as Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine, also known as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and for his one-man Paul Robeson show.
Azura Skye
Azura Skye (Azura Dawn Storozynski, born 1981) is an American actress known as Jane Cooper on Zoe, Duncan, Jack & Jane, for supporting roles in 28 Days, Bandits, and Red Dragon, and for Best Actress awards for The Swerve (2018).
Baldwin family
Baldwin family: the Massapequa, Long Island acting family of brothers Alec, Daniel, Billy, and Stephen Baldwin, sons of Alexander and Carol Baldwin, known for 30 Rock, The Usual Suspects, and the TLC show The Baldwins.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty (Paul Balthazar Getty, born 1975) is an American actor, musician, and fashion designer, great-grandson of J. Paul Getty; known for Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, and Brothers & Sisters.
Barbara Babcock
Barbara Babcock (born 1937) is an American retired character actress who won the 1981 Emmy for playing Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, and later Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Barbara Bach
Barbara Bach (Barbara Ann Goldbach), American actress and model, Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Force 10 from Navarone; married Ringo Starr in 1981; retired from acting in 1986.
Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (Barbara Ann Berman, born 1931) is an American actress and author, Cannes Best Actress winner for One Potato, Two Potato (1964), Oscar-nominated for Breaking Away, and the original Sarah in Company.
Barbara Colby
Barbara Colby (1939-1975), American stage, film, and TV actress; Broadway's The Devils, A Doll's House; Columbo's Lilly La Sanka; murdered in Venice, California. Not Barbara Heinzen Colby, CIA director's wife.
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948) is an American actress of Hannah and Her Sisters, Black Swan, and The Portrait of a Lady. She won Cannes Best Actress two years running (Shy People 1987, A World Apart 1988), an Emmy, and an Oscar nomination, and briefly used the stage name Barbara Seagull.
Barbara Rhoades
Barbara Rhoades (born 1946 or 1947, Poughkeepsie, New York), also credited as Barbara Rhodes, is an American actress known for Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), Donna in The Goodbye Girl, and Soap's Maggie Chandler.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham (Barbara Lynn Schilling, 1944-2013), American model and actress, cover model in London, played Daphne in Rollerball (1975), married John Cleese, mother of Camilla Cleese, died in Chicago of leukemia.
Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes, born Bernard Aloysius Kiernan Hughes (1915–2006), American character actor who won the 1978 Tony for Da, an Emmy for Lou Grant, and starred in Doc, Mr. Merlin, and The Lost Boys.
Barney Martin
Barney Martin (1923–2005), American character actor, NYPD detective turned performer; played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Amos Hart in Chicago's original Broadway cast, and appeared in The Producers and Arthur. Not the 1953 Cincinnati Redlegs pitcher.
Barry Bostwick
Barry Bostwick (Barry Knapp Bostwick), American actor and singer born 1945 in San Mateo, California; original Broadway Danny Zuko in Grease (1972), Tony winner for The Robber Bridegroom (1977), Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Golden Globe winner for War and Remembrance, and Mayor Randall Winston on Spin City.
Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin, born Leonard Barrie Corbin in Lamesa, Texas, in 1940, is an American character actor with over 200 roles, best known as Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure.
Barry Dennen
Barry Dennen (1938-2017), American actor and singer; Emcee in the original West End Cabaret and Pontius Pilate in the album, Broadway, and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar; memoirist of Barbra Streisand; video game voice actor.
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon (born 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actor, singer, attorney, and Screen Actors Guild president 1988–1995, known for "Nuttin' for Christmas," a Tony-nominated A Thousand Clowns, and voicing Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Barry Miller (actor)
Barry Miller (Barry Lee Miller, born 1958, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Bobby C. in Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married, and his 1985 Tony-winning Biloxi Blues role.
Barry Newman
Barry Foster Newman (1930–2023), American actor known for Kowalski in Vanishing Point (1971) and the NBC legal drama Petrocelli, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations; died May 11, 2023.
Barry Shabaka Henley
Barry Shabaka Henley, born Barry Joseph Henley (1954, New Orleans), American character actor; stage name from a 25th-Dynasty pharaoh. Known for Collateral, Miami Vice, The Terminal, Uncle Tunde on Bob Hearts Abishola, and Obie-winning Jitney.
Barry Watson (actor)
Barry Watson (Michael Barrett Watson, born 1974) is an American actor known as Matt Camden on 7th Heaven (1996–2006), later lead roles in What About Brian and Samantha Who?, and a 2002 Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.
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.
Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur (Bernice Frankel, 1922–2009), American Emmy and Tony-winning actress; Maude Findlay on Maude, Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls, Vera Charles in the 1966 original Broadway Mame.
Beatrice Alda
Beatrice Alda (born 1961, New York City), daughter of Alan Alda and Arlene Alda, is an American actress, producer, and director known for Lisa Callan in The Four Seasons (1981) and directing Out Late (2008).
Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges, born Lloyd Vernet Bridges III in 1941, is an American actor, the son of Lloyd Bridges and brother of Jeff, known for The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Bebe Drake
Bebe Drake, also credited as Bebe Drake-Hooks or Drake-Massey, is an American actress active from 1975 whose films include Boomerang, Bebe's Kids, Friday After Next, and Wild Hogs, with recurring TV roles on A Different World.