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American actors: 1970s to 1990s

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Samm Levine

Samm Levine (Samuel Franklin Levine, born 1982, Chicago) is an American actor and comedian known for Neal Schweiber on Freaks and Geeks, Pfc. Hirschberg in Inglourious Basterds, and Kevin Pollak's Chat Show.

Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson (Samuel Leroy Jackson, born 1948) is an American actor of Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, and Marvel's Nick Fury; over 150 films and the highest cumulative global box office of any actor.

Sandahl Bergman

Sandahl Bergman (born 1951, Kansas City) is an American dancer and actress, a Bob Fosse Broadway dancer who played Valeria in Conan the Barbarian (1982) and Queen Gedren in Red Sonja (1985), winning a 1983 Golden Globe and Saturn Award.

Sandra Dickinson

Sandra Dickinson (born Sandra Helen Searles, 1948, Washington, D.C.) is an American-British actress known as Trillian in the 1981 Hitchhiker's Guide TV series, for voice roles in Balto and Gumball, West End theatre, and her Doctor Who family connections.

Sandy Duncan

Sandy Duncan (Sandra Kay Duncan, born 1946, Texas) is an American actress, dancer, and singer known for her Tony-nominated Peter Pan on Broadway (1979, 554 performances), the sitcoms Funny Face and The Hogan Family, and an Emmy-nominated role in Roots, after losing sight in one eye to a brain tumor in 1971.

Sandy Helberg

Sandy Helberg, born 1949 in Frankfurt and raised in Toledo, Ohio, is an American actor and writer, original Groundlings member, Mel Brooks film actor (Spaceballs), Golden Girls sitcom writer, and father of Simon Helberg.

Sara Gilbert

Sara Gilbert, born Sara Rebecca Abeles (1975), American actress; Darlene Conner on Roseanne and The Conners, creator and co-host of CBS's The Talk.

Sara Rue

Sara Rue (born 1979, New York City; birth name Sara Schlackman) is an American actress known for Popular, Less Than Perfect, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and The Rookie; career began at age nine in Rocket Gibraltar.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker, born 1965 in Nelsonville, Ohio, is the American actress who played Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City (1998–2004), winning Golden Globes and Emmys; also a Broadway veteran, shoe designer, and Booker Prize judge.

Sarah Joy Brown

Sarah Joy Brown (born 1975, Eureka, California) is an American actress, the original Carly on General Hospital (1996-2001), winner of three Daytime Emmy Awards, later Claudia Zacchara on GH and star of Studio City.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Gellar, also legally Sarah Michelle Prinze, American actress born 1977; Emmy-winning All My Children star, lead of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Cruel Intentions and Scooby-Doo films, Foodstirs co-founder.

Saundra Santiago

Saundra Santiago (born 1957) is an American actress known as Detective Gina Calabrese on Miami Vice (1984–1989, 111 episodes), Carmen Santos on Guiding Light, and Broadway roles in A View From the Bridge and Nine.

Schuyler Grant

Schuyler Grant (Schuyler DeBarthe Ranson Grant, born 1971) is an American actress who played Diana Barry in the Anne of Green Gables films, and a yoga teacher who founded Kula Yoga Project and co-created Wanderlust.

Scoey Mitchell

Scoey Mitchell (Roscoe Mitchlll Jr., 1930–2022), American TV actor, writer, producer, and director; starred in Barefoot in the Park (1970), played Justin Culp on Rhoda, and was a Match Game and Tattletales panelist.

Scott Baio

Scott Baio (born September 22, Brooklyn; year disputed as 1960 or 1961) is an American actor, Chachi Arcola on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, star of Charles in Charge and Diagnosis Murder, later See Dad Run, now a Florida-based podcast host.

Scott Bakula

Scott Bakula (born 1954, St. Louis) is an American actor and Tony-nominated stage performer, known as Sam Beckett in Quantum Leap, Captain Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, and Dwayne Pride in NCIS: New Orleans.

Scott Caan

Scott Caan, born 1976, American actor, writer, director, and former rapper (The Whooliganz), son of James Caan; known as Turk Malloy in Ocean's Eleven and Danny 'Danno' Williams in Hawaii Five-0 (2010-2020), now Nick Schaeffer in NCIS: New York.

Scott Christopher

Scott Christopher (born Scott Christopher Claflin, 1967, Ferndale, Michigan) is an American actor and author, known for Granite Flats, The Best Two Years, NCIS guest roles, and the business book The Levity Effect.

Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn (Theodore Scott Glenn, born 1939) is an American character actor from Pittsburgh known for Urban Cowboy, The Right Stuff, The Silence of the Lambs, Stick in Daredevil, and a first Emmy nomination in 2025 for The White Lotus.

Scott Grimes

Scott Grimes (Scott Christopher Grimes), American actor and singer-songwriter born 1971 in Lowell, Massachusetts; voices Steve Smith on American Dad!, plays Lt. Gordon Malloy on The Orville and Dr. Archie Morris on ER, and released albums including Livin' On the Run.

Scott Lawrence

Scott Lawrence (born 1963, Los Angeles) is an American actor known as Cmdr. Sturgis Turner on JAG, the voice of Darth Vader in LucasArts Star Wars games, and roles in Avatar, Star Wars Resistance, and The Lincoln Lawyer; distinct from a 1980-born producer and a physicist of the same name.

Scott Newman (actor)

Scott Newman (Alan Scott Newman, 1950–1978), American actor and stuntman, only son of Paul Newman; appeared in The Towering Inferno, The Great Waldo Pepper, Breakheart Pass, and Fraternity Row; died of an accidental overdose in Los Angeles.

Scott Reeves

Scott Reeves (Gregory Scott Reeves, born 1966) is an American actor and country singer: Ryan McNeil on The Young and the Restless 1991-2001, Steve Webber on General Hospital 2009-13 and 2024, and Blue Country's "Good Little Girls" (No. 11 Billboard country). Distinct from Scott Eastwood's former stage name and the jazz trombonist of the same name.

Scott Valentine (actor)

Scott Eugene Valentine (born 1958, Saratoga Springs, New York) is an American actor known as Nick Moore on Family Ties (1985–1989), star of My Demon Lover, and voice of the 24th Phantom in Phantom 2040; distinct from other people named Scott Valentine.

Scott Weinger

Scott Weinger (born 1975) is an American actor turned TV writer-producer: Steve Hale on Full House and Fuller House, speaking voice of Disney's Aladdin (1992), Harvard graduate, and Emmy-nominated co-executive producer of Hulu's Paradise.

Scott William Winters

Scott William Winters (born 1965, New York) is an American actor known as Cyril O'Reily on HBO's Oz (45 episodes) and Clark in Good Will Hunting; brother of Dean Winters, former Wall Street trader, now also a nonprofit founder.

Scott Wilson (actor)

Scott Wilson (1942–2018) was an American character actor from Atlanta, Georgia, known as Richard Hickock in In Cold Blood (1967), Sam Braun in CSI, and Hershel Greene on The Walking Dead (2011–2014); Golden Globe nominee, Ralph Morgan Award recipient, died of leukemia.

Scott Wolf

Scott Wolf (Scott Richard Wolf, born 1968) is an American actor known for Bailey Salinger on Party of Five (1994-2000), films White Squall and Go, Broadway's Side Man, Nancy Drew, and Fox's Doc.

Sean Astin

Sean Astin (born 1971, Santa Monica) is an American actor known for The Goonies, Rudy, Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings, and Bob Newby in Stranger Things, and since September 2025 president of SAG-AFTRA, following his mother Patty Duke.

Sean Kanan

Sean Kanan (born Sean Perelman, 1966, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor, producer, and author, known as Mike Barnes in The Karate Kid Part III and Cobra Kai, AJ Quartermaine on General Hospital, and Deacon Sharpe on The Bold and the Beautiful.