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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Helene Udy

Helene Udy (born 1962, Albuquerque; raised in Montreal) is an actress, producer, director, and clown known for Sylvia in My Bloody Valentine (1981), the first female Ferengi Pel on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Myra on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Heléne Yorke

Heléne Yorke (born 1985, Vancouver) is a Canadian-born actress known as Brooke Dubek on The Other Two and for Broadway roles in Bullets Over Broadway, American Psycho, and Wicked's tour as Glinda.

Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger (Helmut Steinberger, 1944–2023), Austrian actor, Luchino Visconti's muse and partner; star of The Damned, Ludwig, Conversation Piece, Dynasty, The Godfather Part III; died in Salzburg.

Henry Ashton (actor)

Henry Ashton (born 1991, Bletchley, England) is an English actor, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland graduate, known for Stan Dudley in My Lady Jane, Max Hastings in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, and Daeron Targaryen in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

Henry Cavill

Henry Cavill (born 1983, Jersey) is a British actor known as Superman in Man of Steel and Geralt in The Witcher; he left both roles in 2022 and now leads Amazon's Warhammer 40,000 series.

Henry Czerny

Henry Czerny (born 1959, Toronto) is a Canadian stage, film, and TV actor known for The Boys of St. Vincent, Mission: Impossible's Kittridge, Clear and Present Danger, and Revenge's Conrad Grayson.

Henry Darrow

Henry Darrow (Enrique Tomás Delgado, 1933-2021), Puerto Rican-born American actor; Manolito Montoya on The High Chaparral; first Latino TV Zorro, 1981-83, and Zorro's father 1990-93; 1990 Daytime Emmy; SAG Ethnic Minority Committee co-founder.

Henry Fonda

Henry Fonda (1905–1982), American stage and film actor born in Grand Island, Nebraska; star of The Grapes of Wrath, 12 Angry Men, and On Golden Pond; won the 1982 Best Actor Oscar and the 1978 AFI Life Achievement Award.

Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson (born James Bateman, 1935–2009), American character actor and comedian, Laugh-In's flower-holding poet; Altman's Nashville, The Blues Brothers, Boston Legal.

Henry Golding

Henry Golding, full name Henry Ewan Golding, is a British-Malaysian actor and former television presenter who became a star with his debut in 2018's Crazy Rich Asians.

Henry Goodman

Henry Goodman (born 1950, Whitechapel, London) is a British stage and screen actor, RADA-trained, a two-time Olivier Award winner for Assassins (1993) and Shylock in Trevor Nunn's Merchant of Venice (2000), known for The Producers sacking and Marvel's Dr. List.

Henry Ian Cusick

Henry Ian Cusick (born 1967, Trujillo, Peru) is a Peruvian-Scottish actor and director, Emmy-nominated as Desmond Hume on Lost, later Marcus Kane on The 100, Stephen Finch on Scandal, and Russ Taylor on MacGyver.

Henry Jones (actor)

Henry Jones (Henry Burk Jones, 1912–1999), American character actor; Tony winner for Sunrise at Campobello; known for The Bad Seed and the coroner in Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Henry Lloyd-Hughes (born 1985, London) is a British actor known for Mark Donovan in The Inbetweeners, Ralph Whelan in Indian Summers, Aaron Peel in Killing Eve, Genek Kurc in We Were the Lucky Ones, and Bogdan in The Thursday Murder Club; he also runs the sportswear label N.E. Blake & Co.

Henry Simmons

Henry Simmons (Henry Oswald Simmons, Jr., born 1970, Stamford, Connecticut) is an American actor known as Detective Baldwin Jones on NYPD Blue and Mack on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., distinct from same-named crew members.

Henry Thomas

Henry Thomas (Henry Jackson Thomas Jr.), American actor born 1971 in San Antonio, Texas; child star as Elliott in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), later a Mike Flanagan horror regular and musician with Farspeaker.

Henry Travers

Henry Travers (1874–1965) was an English stage and film character actor best known as Clarence the angel in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Henry Winkler

Henry Winkler (born 1945) is an American actor, producer, director, and author. Best known as Fonzie on Happy Days (1974-1984) and Emmy-winning Gene Cousineau on Barry (2018); dyslexia advocate and author of Hank Zipzer and Being Henry.

Henry Zebrowski

Henry Zebrowski (Henry Thomas Zebrowski Jr., born 1984, Florida) is an American actor and comedian, Sea Otter in The Wolf of Wall Street, Quentin in Heroes Reborn, Gary on Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell, and co-host of Last Podcast on the Left with Marcus Parks since 2011.

Hera Hilmar

Hera Hilmar (Hera Hilmarsdóttir, born 1988, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actress, LAMDA graduate, daughter of director Hilmar Oddsson; known for Da Vinci's Demons, Life in a Fishbowl, Mortal Engines, See, and two Edda Actress of the Year awards.

Herb Edelman

Herb Edelman (Herbert Edelman, 1933–1996), American character actor known as Stanley Zbornak on The Golden Girls and the Telephone Man in Barefoot in the Park on Broadway and film.

Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom (Herbert Karel Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru, 1917–2012) was a Czech-born, London-based character actor, best known as Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films and for playing Napoleon three times.

Herbert Marshall

Herbert Marshall (1890-1966), English stage, film, and radio actor; lost a leg in WWI yet starred in Trouble in Paradise, The Letter, and The Little Foxes, and played Ken Thurston on radio's A Man Called X.

Herbert Nordrum

Herbert Nordrum (born 1987) is a Norwegian actor known for Pornopung, The Worst Person in the World (Eivind), and The Hypnosis; Amandaprisen, Karlovy Vary, and Guldbagge winner, Nationaltheatret ensemble member.

Hermione Baddeley

Hermione Baddeley (1906–1986), born Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley, was an English character actress of revue, film, and TV, Oscar-nominated for 140 seconds in Room at the Top and known as Mrs. Naugatuck on Maude, sister of Angela Baddeley.

Hermione Corfield

Hermione Corfield (Hermione Isla Conyngham Corfield, born 1993) is an English actress, distinct from the Hermione Granger character, known for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rust Creek, and Outlander: Blood of My Blood.

Hermione Gingold

Hermione Gingold was a British actress and comedienne whose London and New York stage career ran from 1908 into the 1970s, best known for Gigi and The Music Man.

Hermione Norris

Hermione Jane Norris (born 1967) is an English actress known for Karen Marsden in Cold Feet, Ros Myers in Spooks, and Carol Jordan in Wire in the Blood.

Hero Fiennes Tiffin

Hero Fiennes Tiffin (born 1997, London) is an English actor, nephew of Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, known as young Tom Riddle in Harry Potter, Hardin Scott in the After films, and Sherlock Holmes in Prime Video's Young Sherlock.

Herta Ware

Herta Ware (Herta Ware Schwartz, 1917-2005), American character actress and activist, wife of blacklisted actor Will Geer, co-founder of the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon, best known as Rosie Lefkowitz in Cocoon (1985).