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American actors: 2000s onward

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Monica Raymund

Monica Raymund (born 1986, St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American actress, director, and producer, a Juilliard graduate known for Ria Torres on Lie to Me, Gabriela Dawson on Chicago Fire, Jackie Quiñones on Hightown, and directing Dexter episodes.

Monique Coleman

Monique Coleman (born 1980) is an American actress and youth advocate, best known as Taylor McKessie in Disney's High School Musical films and as the United Nations' first Youth Champion, appointed in 2010, later an FAO Champion and Gimme Mo' host.

Monique Gabriela Curnen

Monique Gabriela Curnen (born September 7; year given as 1970 or 1977 by different sources) is an American actress and producer known for Half Nelson, The Dark Knight's Detective Ramirez, Blanca Rodriguez in Power, and the 2005 Webby-winning Weapons of Misdirection.

Moon Bloodgood

Moon Bloodgood (Korinna Moon Bloodgood, born 1975) is an American actress and former Laker Girl known for Dr. Anne Glass in Falling Skies and Blair Williams in Terminator Salvation.

Morena Baccarin

Morena Baccarin (born 1979, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian-American actress known for Inara Serra in Firefly/Serenity, Jessica Brody in Homeland (2013 Emmy nomination), Vanessa in the Deadpool films, Dr. Leslie Thompkins in Gotham, and Sheriff Mickey Fox in Sheriff Country.

Morgan Saylor

Morgan Saylor (Morgan Frances Saylor, born 1994) is an American actress from Chicago and Atlanta, known as Dana Brody in Showtime's Homeland and for lead roles in the indies White Girl, Novitiate, and Blow the Man Down.

Morgan Spector

Morgan Spector (Morgan Michael Spector), American actor and producer born 1980 in Sonoma County, California; Reed College 2002 graduate, ACT-trained. Known for Herman Levin in HBO's The Plot Against America and George Russell in The Gilded Age; married to Rebecca Hall.

Morgana Ignis

Morgana Gwendolyn Ignis (born 1989) is an American transgender actress, writer, and puppeteer from Los Angeles, known for creature roles like Teeth in Moon Garden and voicing Sallie May in Helluva Boss.

Moses Brings Plenty

Moses "Mo" Brings Plenty (born 1969), Oglala Lakota actor, drummer with Brulé, and cultural advisor; plays Rainwater's right-hand man Mo on Yellowstone (2018–2024) and coordinates American Indian affairs across Taylor Sheridan's shows.

Moses Ingram

Moses Ingram (Monique Denise Ingram) is an American actress from Baltimore and a Yale School of Drama graduate, known as Jolene in The Queen's Gambit, Reva/Third Sister in Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Cleo Johnson in Lady in the Lake.

Ms. Pat

Ms. Pat (Patricia Williams-Lee), Atlanta-born comedian, author, podcaster, and actress; creator and star of BET+ sitcom The Ms. Pat Show; memoirs Rabbit and Ms. American Dream; Netflix special Y'all Wanna Hear Something Crazy?

Nadia Alexander

Nadia Alexander, American actress born 1994, in Columbia, South Carolina; won Best Actress in a U.S. Narrative Film at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival for Blame; also known for The Dark and Not Okay.

Nadia Bjorlin

Nadia Alexandra Bjorlin, American actress and singer born 1980 in Newport, Rhode Island; known for Chloe Lane on Days of Our Lives (1999-2023), Redline, Venice the Series, and daughter of composer Ulf Bjorlin.

Nadine Ellis

Nadine Ellis is an American actress and dancer from Queens, New York, best known for starring in the BET series Let's Stay Together and the Fox drama Our Kind of People.

Nadine Velazquez

Nadine Velazquez (Nadine E. Velázquez), American actress and model born 1978 in Chicago, known for Catalina on My Name Is Earl, Sofia on The League, Flight, Snitch, and Valeria on ABC's Queens.

Nafessa Williams

Nafessa Williams, born in 1989, is an American actress from Philadelphia, best known for playing Anissa Pierce, television's first Black lesbian superhero, on the CW's Black Lightning.

Naomi Grossman

Naomi Grossman (born 1975, Denver) is an American actress and solo performer, Emmy-nominated for Ctrl Alt Delete, best known as Pepper, the first crossover character in American Horror Story: Asylum and Freak Show.

Nasim Pedrad

Nasim Pedrad (نسیم پدراد) is an Iranian-American actress and comedian, an SNL cast member 2009–2014 known for her Kim Kardashian impression, later New Girl, Aladdin, and creator and star of TBS's Chad as a 14-year-old Persian-American boy.

Nat Faxon

Nat Faxon (Nathaniel Wales Faxon, born 1975) is an American actor, comedian, and Oscar-winning screenwriter who co-wrote The Descendants and co-directed The Way, Way Back and Downhill with Jim Rash.

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.

Natalee Linez

Natalee Linez (born 2000) is an American actress from Orange County, California, known for Nicole Martinez in Siren, Jessica Figueroa in Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Lydia Montgomery in Tell Me Lies, and CIA analyst Gina Gosian on CBS's CIA; she also hosts the podcast Ground Up with Natalee and founded The Lead Actor course.

Natalia del Riego

Natalia del Riego (Amber Álvares) is an American actress of Indigenous Salvadoran and Mexican descent, known for Promised Land, NCIS: Los Angeles, Hail Mary, and as Lilla Belle in Netflix's The Abandons (2025).

Natalia Dyer

Natalia Dyer (born 1995, Nashville) is an American actress known as Nancy Wheeler in Netflix's Stranger Things and as Alice in Yes, God, Yes, with indie film credits including I Believe in Unicorns.

Natalie Martinez

Natalie Martinez (born 1984, Miami) is a Cuban-American actress and former model, face of Jennifer Lopez's clothing line, known for Death Race, End of Watch, Under the Dome, Ordinary Joe, and Bad Monkey.

Natalie Morales (actress)

Natalie Morales (born 1985, Kendall, Florida) is an American actress, director, and writer of Cuban descent, known for The Middleman, Parks and Recreation, Abby's, Dead to Me, and Grey's Anatomy, and for directing Plan B and Language Lessons (2021). Not the Today show journalist of the same name.

Natalie Portman (נטלי פורטמן)

Natalie Portman (נטלי פורטמן), born Natalie Hershlag in Jerusalem in 1981, is an Israeli-American actress and director: Oscar winner for Black Swan, Queen Amidala in the Star Wars prequels, Harvard psychology graduate, 2018 Genesis Prize laureate, and Angel City FC co-founder.

Natalie Zea

Natalie Zea (born 1975, Texas) is an American actress known for Winona Hawkins on Justified, Eve Harris on La Brea, Robin Parker on The Detour, and Karen Darling on Dirty Sexy Money.

Natasha Halevi

Natasha Halevi, also Tasha Halevi, is an American actress, director, and producer (born 1982, Ventura, California), creator of the Roe v. Wade response anthology Give Me An A, a Fatale Collective founder, Anaconda in B.C. Butcher, and wife of Sean Gunn.

Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne (Natasha Bianca Lyonne Braunstein, born 1979) is an American actress, writer, and director, known for Pee-wee's Playhouse, But I'm a Cheerleader, Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll, and Poker Face.

Nate Corddry

Nate Corddry (Nathan Corddry, born 1977) is an American actor, younger brother of Rob Corddry, known for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Harry's Law, Mom, For All Mankind, Sugar, and The Testaments.