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L. Scott Caldwell

L. Scott Caldwell (Laverne Scott, born 1950, Chicago) is an American actress; Tony winner 1988 for Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Rose Nadler on Lost, Broadway credits Home and Proposals, films The Fugitive and Bingo Hell.

La'Myia Good

La'Myia Good (born 1979, Panorama City, California), also known as La'Myia Good–Bellinger, is an American singer and actress, older sister of Meagan Good; former Isyss Arista group member, Killzone 3 voice of Jammer, and actress in The Wood and Death Saved My Life.

Lacey Chabert

Lacey Chabert (Lacey Nicole Chabert, born 1982) is an American actress known as Claudia Salinger on Party of Five, Gretchen Wieners in Mean Girls, and star of more than 40 Hallmark films.

Laci Mosley

Laci Mosley (born 1991), American comedian, actress, and podcaster; creator of Scam Goddess; plays Harper in iCarly reboot and Dana Conway in Going Dutch.

Laëtitia Hollard

Laëtitia Hollard, also credited as Laetitia Hollard, is an American actress born in 2003, a Juilliard Group 54 graduate raised in Wisconsin, known for playing Nurse Emma Nolan in The Pitt season 2 and Cassandra in Trauma Or, Monsters All.

Lake Bell

Lake Bell, born Lake Siegel Bell in 1979, is an American actress, screenwriter, and director known for Boston Legal, In a World..., and voicing Poison Ivy in Harley Quinn.

LaKeith Stanfield

LaKeith Stanfield (born 1991, San Bernardino, California) is an American actor and rapper, also recording as Moors. Known for Darius in Atlanta, Get Out, Sorry to Bother You, Crown Heights, and his Oscar-nominated William O'Neal in Judas and the Black Messiah.

Lalaine

Lalaine (born 1987, Burbank, California) is an American actress and singer known as Miranda Sanchez on Disney Channel's Lizzie McGuire (2001–2004); she missed the 2003 film for Radio Disney tours and You Wish!, later recorded Inside Story and starred in Definition Please (2020).

Lamman Rucker

Lamman Rucker (born 1971, Pittsburgh) is an American actor known as Sheriff Troy in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, Dr. Will Brown in Meet the Browns, and Jacob Greenleaf in OWN's Greenleaf; also an educator and co-founder of The Black Gents.

LaMonica Garrett

LaMonica Garrett (born 1975, San Francisco) is an American actor and former pro SlamBall player known for Designated Survivor's Mike Ritter, the Arrowverse Monitor, Thomas in 1883, and Tucker in Lioness.

Lamorne Morris

Lamorne Morris (born 1983) is an American actor and comedian from Chicago, known as Winston on New Girl, Emmy-winning for Fargo season 5, and starring as Robbie Robertson in Spider-Noir.

Lana Condor

Lana Condor (Trần Đồng Lan), Vietnamese-born American actress born 1997 in Can Tho, adopted at four months; known as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse and Lara Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys trilogy, later Boo, Bitch and Coyote vs. Acme.

Lana Parrilla

Lana Parrilla, American actress of Italian and Puerto Rican descent born 1977 in Brooklyn, best known as Regina Mills/the Evil Queen on ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), with earlier roles in Spin City, Boomtown, and 24 and later work in Why Women Kill, Atlas, and The Rainmaker.

Lance Barber

Lance Barber, American actor born 1973 in Battle Creek, Michigan; played Paulie G. on The Comeback, Bill Ponderosa on It's Always Sunny, and George Cooper Sr. on Young Sheldon (2017–2024, 141 episodes), later reprising the role in dream sequences on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.

Lance Gross

Lance Gross (Lance Darnell Gross), American actor, producer, and photographer born 1981 in Oakland, California; known as Calvin Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne, winner of four NAACP Image Awards, Howard University theater graduate, and creator of the I Turn My Camera On interview series.

Lance Reddick

Lance Solomon Reddick, American character actor (The Wire's Cedric Daniels, Fringe's Broyles, John Wick's Charon) and voice of Destiny's Zavala and Horizon's Sylens; born Baltimore, died March 17, 2023, Los Angeles, age 60.

Lane Factor

Lane Factor (Steph Henry Lane Factor, born 2005) is a Creek-Seminole and Caddo American actor from Midwest City, Oklahoma, known for playing Cheese in Reservation Dogs, his first role, and for The Fabelmans.

Lane Garrison

Lane Garrison (born 1980) is an American actor and screenwriter from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing David "Tweener" Apolskis on Prison Break from 2005 to 2007.

Langston Kerman

Langston Kerman, comedian, actor, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois, known as Jared on Insecure, co-creator and star of Bust Down, host of the podcast My Momma Told Me, and star of the 2024 Netflix special Bad Poetry directed by John Mulaney.

Larry Joe Campbell

Larry Joe Campbell (Larry Joseph Campbell), American actor and comedian born 1970 in Pontiac, Michigan; best known as Andy on ABC's According to Jim (2001–2009, 182 episodes), with film roles in Wedding Crashers, Hall Pass, and Pacific Rim.

Larsen Thompson

Larsen Thompson, born in 2000, is an American dancer, model, and actress who went viral in 2016 dancing to Beyoncé and played the title role in Pearl.

LaToya Tonodeo

LaToya Tonodeo (born 1997) is an American actress and producer, best known as Diana Tejada in the Starz series Power Book II: Ghost from 2020 to 2024.

Laura Allen

Laura Allen (born 1974, Portland, Oregon) is an American actress known for Lily Tyler on The 4400, Julia Mallory on Dirt, Katie Nichols on Terriers, and the lead in Clown (2014); distinct from a Cleveland background actress, a makeup artist, and an author of the same name.

Laura Bell Bundy

Laura Bell Bundy (Laura Ashley Bell Bundy), born 1981 in Lexington, Kentucky, is an American actress and country singer who originated Elle Woods in Broadway's Legally Blonde (2007 Tony nomination) and Amber Von Tussle in Hairspray, with albums Achin' and Shakin' and Another Piece of Me.

Laura Harrier

Laura Harrier (born 1990, Chicago) is an American actress and model known as Liz Allan in Spider-Man: Homecoming, Patrice Dumas in BlacKkKlansman, and Suzanne de Passe in Michael (2026).

Laura Harring

Laura Harring (Laura Elena Martínez Herring), born 1964 in Los Mochis, Mexico, is an actress and former beauty queen; first Latina Miss USA (1985), best known as Rita in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001).

Laura Linney

Laura Linney (Laura Leggett Linney, born 1964, New York) is an American film, television, and theater actress with three Oscar nominations, four Emmys, and roles in You Can Count on Me, John Adams, The Big C, and Ozark.

Laura Wright

Laura Wright (born Laura Alice Sisk, 1970) is an American actress; since November 4, 2005 she has played Carly on General Hospital, after roles on Loving, The City, and Guiding Light, winning a 2011 Daytime Emmy.

Laurel Holloman

Laurel Holloman (born 1971, Chapel Hill, NC) is an American actress and painter, known as Randy Dean in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love and Tina Kennard on The L Word; since 2010 a full-time abstract painter.

Laurel Marsden

Laurel Marsden (born 2001) is an American actress known as Zoe Zimmer in Ms. Marvel (2022) and Amy in The Pope's Exorcist (2023); debut in Contempt (2019), later Dead of Winter (2025).