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Nat Wolff
Nat Wolff (Nathaniel Marvin Wolff), born 1994 in Los Angeles, is an American actor and singer-songwriter, star of Nickelodeon's The Naked Brothers Band (2007–2009), The Fault in Our Stars, and Paper Towns, and half of the duo Nat & Alex Wolff.
Olivia Wilde
Olivia Wilde (Olivia Jane Cockburn, born 1984) is an American actress and director known for House, Booksmart (2019), Don't Worry Darling (2022, 38% RT), and The Invite (2026, 97% RT).
Owen Wilson
Owen Cunningham Wilson, born in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, is an American actor and screenwriter known for comedies like Zoolander and Wedding Crashers and his work with Wes Anderson.
Patrick Wilson
Patrick Wilson, American actor and singer born 1973 in Norfolk, Virginia; Tony-nominated Broadway performer (The Full Monty, Oklahoma!), Emmy-nominated for Angels in America, horror-film lead in Insidious and The Conjuring, director of Insidious: The Red Door.
Persia White
Persia White is an American actress, musician, and animal-rights activist, best known as Lynn Searcy on Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Abby Bennett Wilson on The Vampire Diaries; co-producer of Earthlings, PETA ad subject, married to Joseph Morgan.
Philip Winchester
Philip Winchester (born 1981, Belgrade, Montana) is an American actor known as Sgt. Michael Stonebridge in Strike Back and prosecutor Peter Stone in the Dick Wolf universe, trained at LAMDA.
Rainn Wilson
Rainn Wilson, American actor born 1966, best known as Dwight Schrute on NBC's The Office (2005–2013, 190 episodes); three Emmy nominations, Six Feet Under, SoulPancake co-founder, author of Soul Boom.
Rebecca Wisocky
Rebecca Wisocky (born 1971, York, Pennsylvania) is an American actress, Obie winner for Amazons and Their Men, best known as Evelyn Powell in Devious Maids and Hetty Woodstone on CBS's Ghosts since 2021.
Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon, born Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (1976), American actress, producer, and Hello Sunshine founder; Oscar winner for Walk the Line, star of Legally Blonde, Election, Wild, Big Little Lies, and The Morning Show.
Rumer Willis
Rumer Willis (Rumer Glenn Willis, born 1988, Paducah, Kentucky) is an American actress and singer, eldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore; Dancing with the Stars season 20 winner and Broadway Chicago Roxie Hart (2015).
Sam Witwer
Sam Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer, born 1977) is an American actor and musician, the voice of Darth Maul since 2012 and of Starkiller in The Force Unleashed, also known for Being Human, Smallville, and Battlestar Galactica.
Samira Wiley
Samira Wiley (born 1987, Washington, D.C.) is an American actress, Juilliard graduate, known as Poussey in Orange Is the New Black and Emmy-winning Moira in The Handmaid's Tale.
Sarah Wright
Sarah Wright (Sarah Wright Olsen), American actress born 1983 in Louisville, Kentucky; former model, starred as Lucy Seal opposite Tom Cruise in American Made (2017), married to Eric Christian Olsen.
Shailene Woodley
Shailene Woodley, born 1991, is an American actress known for The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Descendants, Divergent, The Fault in Our Stars, and Big Little Lies, and an environmental activist arrested at the 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
Shannon Woodward
Shannon Woodward (Shannon Marie Woodward, born 1984) is an American actress known for Sabrina in Raising Hope, Elsie Hughes in Westworld, and voicing Dina in The Last of Us Part II, earning a BAFTA Games nomination.
Shea Whigham
Shea Whigham (Franklin Shea Whigham Jr., born 1969) is an American character actor known for Eli Thompson on Boardwalk Empire, Tigerland, First Man, Mission: Impossible, and F1.
Tommy Wiseau
Tommy Wiseau (Tomasz Piotr Wieczorkiewicz, born 1955 in Poznań per Polish National Library records) is the Polish-American filmmaker behind The Room (2003), a $6 million self-financed flop that became a midnight-screening cult phenomenon and the subject of The Disaster Artist.
Travis Van Winkle
Travis Van Winkle (born 1982, Victorville, California) is an American actor known for Accepted (2006), Friday the 13th (2009), Lt. Danny Green on The Last Ship (2014-2018), Cary Conrad on You, and Aldon on Netflix's FUBAR.
Tristan Wilds
Tristan Wilds, also Mack Wilds (Tristan Paul Mack Wilds), American actor-singer from Staten Island; Michael Lee on The Wire, Dixon on 90210, Red Tails; Grammy-nominated 2013 album New York: A Love Story.
Tyler James Williams
Tyler James Williams (born 1992) is an American actor from Westchester County, New York, known for young Chris Rock in Everybody Hates Chris and Gregory Eddie in Abbott Elementary, winning a 2023 Golden Globe with four Emmy nominations.
Tyriq Withers
Tyriq Withers (Tyriq Leshon Withers, born 1998, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American actor and former FSU walk-on wide receiver known for Atlanta's "Rich Wigga, Poor Wigga," Him (2025), I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025), and Reminders of Him (2026).
Virginia Williams
Virginia Williams (born 1978, Memphis) is an American TV actress known for dual roles in Netflix's Teenage Bounty Hunters, CJ on Fuller House, Lauren Reed on Fairly Legal, and Charity on Charmed; distinct from the documentary filmmaker of the same name.
Zach Woods
Zach Woods (born 1984) is an American actor and comedian known as Gabe Lewis on The Office and Jared Dunn on Silicon Valley, and as co-creator, director, and voice of Peacock's In the Know.
Zoë Winters
Zoë Winters is an American actress (born 1985, Santa Cruz, California) known for playing Kerry Castellabate on HBO's Succession and for Off-Broadway roles including Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which won her a 2020 Obie Award; also Jules, Materialists, and Walden.