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Mark Deklin
Mark Deklin (born 1967, Pittsburgh) is an American actor and fight director known for GCB, Lone Star, Devious Maids, Designated Survivor, Broadway fight direction for Sweet Smell of Success and Cyrano de Bergerac, and NCIS: Origins.
Matt Dallas
Matt Dallas (Matthew Joseph Dallas, born 1982) is an American actor, star of ABC Family's Kyle XY (2006-2009). Came out in 2013, married musician Blue Hamilton, later produced and starred in the veteran drama Sheepdog.
Matthew Daddario
Matthew Quincy Daddario (born 1987, New York) is an American actor known as Alec Lightwood on Freeform's Shadowhunters; also Why Women Kill, Wild Game, Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story, and Chicago Fire season 15; brother of Alexandra Daddario.
Matthew Davis
Matthew Wadsworth Davis (Matt Davis), American actor born 1978 in Salt Lake City; Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde and Alaric Saltzman in The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies.
Melonie Diaz
Melonie Diaz, American actress born 1984 in New York City, indie-film lead in Raising Victor Vargas and Fruitvale Station, two Spirit Award nominations, and star of Mel Vera on Charmed (2018–2022).
Merle Dandridge
Merle Dandridge (born 1975, Okinawa, Japan) is an American actress and singer known as Grace Greenleaf in Greenleaf, Alyx Vance in Half-Life 2, and Marlene in The Last of Us games and the HBO series, with Broadway roles in Aida, Tarzan, Spamalot, and Once on This Island.
Nathan Darrow
Nathan Darrow (born 1976, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American actor known as Edward Meechum on House of Cards (2013–2016) and Mr. Freeze on Gotham, with stage credits including Richard III, Summer and Smoke, and (Un)Conditional.
Naya Desir-Johnson
Naya Desir-Johnson is a Haitian-American child actress from New York City, known for The Equalizer, Pose, A Thousand and One, and her breakout lead as Sarah Rector in Sarah's Oil (2025), an NAACP Image Award winner.
Nicholas D'Agosto
Nicholas D'Agosto, American actor born 1980 in Omaha, Nebraska; known for Heroes (West Rosen), Masters of Sex (Dr. Ethan Haas), Gotham (Harvey Dent), Trial & Error (Josh Segal), and Final Destination 5.
Nikki DeLoach
Nikki DeLoach (Ashlee Nicole DeLoach, born 1979, Waycross, Georgia) is an American actress, writer, and producer, a 1993 Mickey Mouse Club cast member, former Innosense singer, Lacey Hamilton on Awkward., and Hallmark Channel movie lead since 2015.
Noureen DeWulf
Noureen DeWulf (born 1984, New York City) is an American actress of Indian descent, also credited as Noureen Ahmed, known for Lacey in Anger Management and for starring in the Oscar-winning short West Bank Story (2005).
Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born 1966, Lewiston, Maine) is an American actor and racing driver, known as Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy (2005-2015), for films including Enchanted and Ferrari, for Dempsey Racing, and for founding Maine's Dempsey Center.
Paul Dano
Paul Dano (born 1984) is an American actor and director known for L.I.E., Little Miss Sunshine, There Will Be Blood's Eli Sunday, Love and Mercy, The Batman, and his directorial debut Wildlife (2018).
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage (born 1969, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American actor with achondroplasia, 4 ft 5 in, famous as Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones, winner of four Emmys and a Golden Globe, breakthrough in The Station Agent (2003).
Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson (born 1979) is an American actress and activist, discovered at 15 for Kids; known for Sin City, Rent, Claire Temple in Netflix Marvel shows, and Jedi Ahsoka Tano in live-action Star Wars; co-founded Voto Latino and Studio 189.
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rosemarie DeWitt, American actress born in Flushing, Queens (sources differ: 1971 or 1974), known for Rachel Getting Married, Mad Men's Midge, United States of Tara, granddaughter of boxer Jimmy Braddock, wife of Ron Livingston.
Ryan Destiny
Ryan Destiny Irons (born 1995, Detroit) is an American actress and singer-songwriter, formerly of the group Love Dollhouse, known as Alexandra Crane on Star, Jillian on Grown-ish, and Claressa Shields in The Fire Inside (2024).
Sinclair Daniel
Sinclair Daniel (born 1997, New York) is an American actress, lead as Nella Rogers in Hulu's The Other Black Girl (2023) and Chris Winslow in Insidious: The Red Door, now starring as Parker in Peacock's The Copenhagen Test.
Thomas Dekker (actor)
Thomas Dekker (actor), born 1987 in Las Vegas, is an American actor and musician known for John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Zach in Heroes, Adam Conant in The Secret Circle, and Littlefoot voice work; distinct from the Dutch cyclist and the Elizabethan dramatist of the same name.
Tim DeKay
Tim DeKay (Timothy Robert DeKay, born 1963) is an American actor known as FBI agent Peter Burke on USA's White Collar (2009-14), Bizarro Jerry on Seinfeld, and Clayton Jones on HBO's Carnivàle.
Torrey DeVitto
Torrey DeVitto (born 1984), full name Torrey Joel DeVitto, is an American actress and former model known as Dr. Natalie Manning on Chicago Med, Melissa Hastings in Pretty Little Liars, and Dr. Meredith Fell in The Vampire Diaries; daughter of Billy Joel drummer Liberty DeVitto.
Vin Diesel
Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair, born 1967, Alameda County, California) is an American actor and producer, star of the Fast & Furious franchise as Dominic Toretto, the Riddick films, and the voice of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis, American actress and producer born 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina; EGOT winner (Emmy 2015, Tony 2001 and 2010, Oscar 2017, Grammy 2023), JuVee Productions founder, memoirist of Finding Me.
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe (born 1955, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American actor and Wooster Group co-founder; four-time Oscar nominee (Platoon, Shadow of the Vampire, The Florida Project, At Eternity's Gate) and Venice Biennale Theatre artistic director for 2025-2028.
Yaya DaCosta
Yaya DaCosta (Camara DaCosta Johnson, born 1982) is an American actress and model, ANTM Cycle 3 runner-up, known for April Sexton on Chicago Med, Whitney Houston in Lifetime's Whitney, Our Kind of People, and The Lincoln Lawyer.
Zoey Deutch
Zoey Deutch is an American actress and producer born 1994 in Los Angeles, daughter of Lea Thompson and Howard Deutch, known for Set It Up, Not Okay, The Politician, Juror #2, and as Jean Seberg in Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague.
Zooey Deschanel
Zooey Claire Deschanel (born 1980, Los Angeles) is an American actress and singer known for Almost Famous, Elf, (500) Days of Summer, and Jess Day in New Girl (2011–2018), plus the duo She & Him with M. Ward.