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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Irène Jacob

Irène Jacob, born in 1966 in Suresnes, France, is a French-Swiss actress best known for Kieślowski's The Double Life of Véronique and Three Colours: Red.

Irene Papas (Ειρήνη Λελέκου)

Irene Papas (Ειρήνη Λελέκου, born Irene Lelekou) was a Greek actress and singer of stage and screen, known for Zorba the Greek, The Guns of Navarone, Z, and Cacoyannis's Greek tragedy films; died 14 September 2022.

Irene Ryan

Irene Ryan (1902–1973), American actress born in El Paso, Texas, best known as Granny (Daisy Moses) on The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971); Emmy nominee 1963–1964, Tony-nominated for Pippin, and namesake of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarships.

Iron Eyes Cody

Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti, 1904 or 1907–1999) was an Italian American actor who portrayed Native Americans in over 80 Hollywood westerns and starred as the "Crying Indian" in Keep America Beautiful's 1971 anti-pollution PSA; his Sicilian origins were exposed in 1996, which he denied.

Isa Briones

Isa Briones (Isabella Camille Briones), American-British actress born 1999 in London, known for Soji in Star Trek: Picard, Margot in Goosebumps, Dr. Trinity Santos in The Pitt, and Broadway roles in Hadestown and Just in Time.

Isaac Hempstead Wright

Isaac Hempstead Wright (born 1999) is an English actor best known as Bran Stark, the Three-Eyed Raven, on HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2019), which he joined at age 10; also voiced Eggs in The Boxtrolls and played Edward in Voyagers.

Isabel Cooley

Isabel (Isabelle) Cooley, born Jane Isabelle Cooley (1924-2000), American stage, film, and TV actress; Broadway Anna Lucasta and The Long Dream; Charmian in Cleopatra (1963) and Barbara Rice in Parenthood (1989).

Isabel Deroy-Olson

Isabel Deroy-Olson is a Canadian Indigenous actress of Tr'ondek Hwech'in and Anishinaabe heritage, best known for playing Roki in Fancy Dance (2024) opposite Lily Gladstone.

Isabel Gravitt

Isabel Gravitt (Isabel Marie Gravitt), American actress born 2003, known for Ellie Brannock in Netflix's The Watcher, April Jarvis in Little Fires Everywhere, and Tori Cooper in Apple TV's Your Friends & Neighbors; also American Housewife and Witch Mountain.

Isabel Jewell

Isabel Jewell (1907–1972) was an American stage and screen actress from Shoshoni, Wyoming, known for supporting roles in Gone with the Wind, Lost Horizon, and A Tale of Two Cities.

Isabel Lucas

Isabel Lucas (born 1985, Melbourne) is an Australian actress known as Tasha Andrews on Home and Away (2003–2006) and for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Daybreakers, Immortals, and Red Dawn, plus environmental advocacy.

Isabel May

Isabel May (born 2000, Santa Monica) is an American actress and producer known as Elsa Dutton, lead and narrator of Paramount+ western 1883 and narrator of 1923, and as Sidney Prescott's daughter Tatum in Scream 7 (2026), after debuting on Netflix's Alexa & Katie.

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford (Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford, 1917–2004), American actress, Louise 'Weezy' Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons; first Black woman to win the comedy lead actress Emmy, 1981.

Isabela Merced

Isabela Merced (born Isabela Yolanda Moner, 2001, Cleveland, Ohio) is a Peruvian American actress and singer. Known for Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Alien: Romulus, Hawkgirl in Superman, and Dina in The Last of Us.

Isabella Briggs

Isabella Briggs is an American actress, writer, and director known for playing Denise Russo in the final season of Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty (2025).

Isabella Brownson

Isabella Brownson (Isabella Kirby Brownson) is an English actress from Carlisle, Cumbria, a Guildhall graduate (2019) known as Hortense de Beauharnais in Napoleon (2023) and Katherine Grey in My Lady Jane (2024).

Isabella Calthorpe

Isabella Calthorpe (Isabella Amaryllis Charlotte Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe, born 1980, Winchester) is an English actress, model, and charity founder: West End Dirty Dancing lead, 13Hrs/Blooded films, Big Change co-founder, and wife of Sam Branson since 2013.

Isabella Roland

Isabella Roland, born 1994, is an American comedian, actor, and writer known as Izzy Roland; Dropout regular on Dimension 20 and Bigger!, Carla in The Sex Lives of College Girls, and writer-star of the crowdfunded dark comedy D(e)ad.

Isabelle Adjani

Isabelle Adjani (born 1955) is a French actress of Algerian and German descent, record five-time César Best Actress winner, twice Oscar-nominated, known for Possession, Camille Claudel, and La Reine Margot.

Isabelle Fuhrman

Isabelle Fuhrman (born 1997) is an American actress known as Esther in Orphan (2009) and Orphan: First Kill (2022), Clove in The Hunger Games, and Tribeca Best Actress winner for The Novice (2021).

Isabelle Huppert

Isabelle Huppert (born 1953, Paris) is a French film and stage actress with over 120 films, two Cannes Best Actress awards (Violette Nozière, The Piano Teacher), Césars for Valley of Love and Elle, and an Oscar nomination for Elle.

Isabelle McNally

Isabelle McNally (born 1989, New York City) is an American actress, daughter of restaurateur Keith McNally, known for Madeleine Loomis in Bates Motel season 5, Kendra Lee in House of Cards, and films Frances Ha, Before I Disappear, and The Song of Sway Lake.

Isabelle Smith

Isabelle Smith is a British actress who plays Frankie Osborne in Hollyoaks from 2024, after debuting as Sonya in Coronation Street (2022); she won Best Newcomer at the 2024 Inside Soap Awards and the 2025 British Soap Awards.

Isaiah Hill

Isaiah Rahsaan Hill (born 2002), American actor and former youth basketball guard, star of Apple TV+'s Swagger as Jace Carson (2021–2023); distinct from Purdue basketball recruit Isaiah Hill.

Isaiah Mustafa

Isaiah Mustafa (born 1974, Portland, Oregon) is an American actor and former NFL wide receiver, the Old Spice "Man Your Man Could Smell Like" pitchman, known for Shadowhunters, It Chapter Two, and Detective John Sampson in Cross. Distinct from musician Isaiah Mostafa.

Isaiah Washington

Isaiah Washington (born 1963, Houston) is an American actor known for Dr. Preston Burke on Grey's Anatomy (2005–2007), Spike Lee films, The 100, and his 2007 firing after an anti-gay slur.

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Isiah Whitlock Jr. (1954-2025), American character actor from South Bend, Indiana; played corrupt state senator Clay Davis on The Wire, Secretary of Defense George Maddox on Veep, and appeared in Spike Lee films including 25th Hour and Da 5 Bloods.

Isidora Goreshter

Isidora Goreshter (Isidora Miriam Goreshter) is an American actress, born 1981 in Long Beach, California, best known as Svetlana Yevgenivna on Shameless (2013–2018, 53 episodes), also in Paranoia, Clara's Ghost, and Condor.

Isla Blair

Isla Blair (Isla Blair Glover), British actress and singer born 1944 in Bangalore, India; RADA-trained, married to Julian Glover since 1968; known for Taste the Blood of Dracula, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and TV roles in When the Boat Comes In and The History Man.

Isla Fisher

Isla Fisher (Isla Lang Fisher, born 1976, Muscat, Oman) is an Australian actress and author known for Home and Away, Wedding Crashers, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Rango, and The Great Gatsby.