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Jamie Luner

Jamie Luner (Jamie Michelle Luner, born 1971, Palo Alto, California) is an American actress known for Cindy Lubbock on Just the Ten of Us, Peyton Richards on Savannah, Lexi Sterling on Melrose Place, Rachel Burke on Profiler, and Liza Colby on All My Children.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Jamie Lynn Spears (Jamie Lynn Marie Spears), American actress and singer born 1991 in McComb, Mississippi; star of Nickelodeon's Zoey 101 and Netflix's Sweet Magnolias, younger sister of Britney Spears, country songwriter and memoirist.

Jamie Parker

Jamie Parker (born 1979, Middlesbrough) is an English actor and singer, RADA-trained, known as original Scripps in The History Boys and the original Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, winning the 2017 Olivier Award and earning a 2018 Tony nomination. Not to be confused with the 2013 film Parker or Jamie Parker-Smith.

Jamie Quinn (actor)

Jamie Quinn is a Scottish actor known for playing Fergie in Still Game (2002–2016), Private Kevin "Mac" McDowell in Bluestone 42 (2013–2015), and Ian in the sitcom Two Doors Down from 2016, with film credits including On the Road (2016) and The Party's Just Beginning (2018).

Jamie Roy

Jamie Roy (Jamie Brian Roy, born 1993) is a Scottish actor from Greenock, raised in Glasgow, who plays Brian Fraser in Starz's Outlander prequel Blood of My Blood (2025) after TV-movie roles.

Jamie Walters

Jamie Walters, born James Leland Walters Jr. in 1969, is an American actor and singer known for Ray Pruit on Beverly Hills, 90210 and the 1992 number one hit "How Do You Talk to an Angel".

Jamie Ward (actor)

Jamie Ward is an Australian actor and singer from Yokine, Perth, a WAAPA graduate known as Father Gomez in His Dark Materials season 3, Romeo in Juliet & Romeo (2025), and the lead singer of the pop band Balcony.

Jamie Waylett

Jamie Waylett (Jamie Michael Colin Waylett), English actor born 1989 in London, played Vincent Crabbe in the first six Harry Potter films before being dropped after a 2009 cannabis conviction and a 2012 sentence for the 2011 London riots.

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

Jamie-Lee O'Donnell (born 1987) is a Northern Irish actor from Derry, known as Michelle Mallon in Derry Girls (2018–2022), Rose Gill in Screw, The Real Derry documentary, and Leonard and Hungry Paul.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, also credited Jamie-Lynn DiScala, American actress born 1981, played Meadow Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos (1999-2007); diagnosed with relapsing MS at 20, disclosed 2016, memoir And So It Is (2026), MeSsy podcast with Christina Applegate.

Jamison Newlander

Jamison Newlander (born 1970) is an American actor, writer, and director best known as Alan Frog, one of the vampire-hunting Frog Brothers, in The Lost Boys (1987), later reprising the role in Lost Boys: The Thirst (2010).

Jan Francis

Jan Francis (Janet Stephanie Francis, born 1947, Westminster, London) is an English actress, former Royal Ballet dancer, best known as Penny Warrender in Just Good Friends (1983–1986) and Lisa Colbert in Secret Army, also Mina in Dracula (1979).

Jan Hooks

Jan Hooks (Janet Vivian Hooks, 1957–2014), American comedian and actress, SNL cast member 1986–1991 known for Nancy Reagan, Tammy Faye Bakker, and the Sweeney Sisters; later Designing Women, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and 30 Rock.

Jan Sterling

Jan Sterling (Jane Sterling Adriance, 1921–2004), American actress of film noir and 1950s drama; Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning supporting actress for The High and the Mighty, memorable in Ace in the Hole.

Jan-Michael Vincent

Jan-Michael Vincent was an American film and television actor who rose to leading roles in 1970s films and starred as helicopter pilot Stringfellow Hawke on the 1980s series Airwolf.

Jane Adams (actress, born 1965)

Jane Adams, born 1965, is an American actress who won a Tony Award for An Inspector Calls and starred in Happiness and HBO's Hung and Hacks.

Jane Alexander

Jane Alexander (born Jane Quigley, 1939) is an American actress, author, and conservationist, Tony winner for The Great White Hope, four-time Oscar nominee, and the first artist to chair the National Endowment for the Arts (1993-97).

Jane Asher

Jane Asher (born 1946, London) is an English actress, author, and entrepreneur, sister of Peter Asher and former girlfriend of Paul McCartney; known for Mandy, Alfie, Deep End, Festen, and her Party Cakes business.

Jane Badler

Jane Badler (born 1953) is an American and Australian actress and singer, best known as the villainous alien leader Diana in NBC's 1983 miniseries V and its sequels.

Jane Birkin

Jane Birkin (1946–2023), British-born singer and actress based in France, famous for duets with Serge Gainsbourg including "Je t'aime… moi non plus," films such as Blow-Up and La Belle Noiseuse, and as namesake of the Hermès Birkin bag.

Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin (born 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress and comedian, an original Saturday Night Live cast member (1975–1980), first female Weekend Update anchor, two-time Emmy winner for Kate & Allie, and star of 3rd Rock from the Sun.

Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell (1879–1967), born Patti Woodard, was an American character actress who won the Academy Award for playing Ma Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

Jane Elliot

Jane Elliot (born 1947) is an American actress, not the diversity educator Jane Elliott, best known as Tracy Quartermaine on General Hospital since 1978, with a 1981 Daytime Emmy and roles on Guiding Light, Days of Our Lives, and Knots Landing.

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda (born 1937, New York City) is an American actress and activist, daughter of Henry Fonda, two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for Klute and Coming Home, infamous as 'Hanoi Jane' from a 1972 North Vietnam photo, and creator of the 1982 Jane Fonda's Workout videos.

Jane Greer

Jane Greer (born Bettejane Greer, 1924–2001), American actress, queen of film noir and star as Kathie Moffat in Out of the Past (1947); discovered and stymied by Howard Hughes.

Jane Horrocks

Jane Horrocks (born 1964) is an English actress from Rawtenstall, Lancashire, known for Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous and Little Voice, with Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Oscar nominations.

Jane Kaczmarek

Jane Kaczmarek (born 1955, Milwaukee) is an American actress, Lois on Malcolm in the Middle (2000–2006), seven consecutive Emmy nominations, two TCA Awards, and Lois again in the 2026 Hulu revival Life's Still Unfair.

Jane Krakowski

Jane Krakowski (born Jane Krajkowski, 1968) is an American actress and singer: Tony winner for Nine (2003), Olivier winner for Guys and Dolls, Elaine on Ally McBeal, Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock, Jacqueline on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!.

Jane Lapotaire

Jane Lapotaire (1944–2026) was a British classical actress, CBE, famous as Édith Piaf in Pam Gems's Piaf, winning the Olivier and Tony Awards; RSC and National Theatre lead, BAFTA-nominated Marie Curie, The Crown's Princess Alice.

Jane Leeves

Jane Leeves (born 1961) is an English actress known as Daphne Moon on Frasier (1993-2004), Joy Scroggs on Hot in Cleveland (2010-2015), and Dr. Kitt Voss on The Resident; Emmy-nominated, author of the 2026 memoir Daphne & Me.