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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Joanne Crawford

Joanne Crawford (born 1973) is an Irish actress known as Helen McNally in Blue Lights, Norma Sinnott in Small Things Like These, and for Chosen, Line of Duty, The Fall, and Rose Plays Julie.

Joanne Froggatt

Joanne Froggatt (born 1980) is an English actress known for Anna Bates in Downton Abbey, winner of a 2015 Golden Globe and the 2010 BIFA Most Promising Newcomer for In Our Name, a three-time Emmy nominee also seen in Liar, Dark Angel, and MobLand.

Joanne Linville

Joanne Linville (Beverly Joanne Linville, 1928-2021), American character actress; first female Romulan commander in Star Trek's 'The Enterprise Incident' (1968), romanced Spock; Twilight Zone, Scorpio; co-founded Stella Adler Academy.

Joanne Nail

Joanne Nail (Joanne Elizabeth Nail), American former actress born 1947 in Spokane, Washington; known for Switchblade Sisters (1975), The Gumball Rally (1976), The Visitor (1979), and Full Moon High (1981), plus Broadway roles in Scratch and Lysistrata.

Joanne Whalley

Joanne Whalley (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), English actress of Edge of Darkness, The Singing Detective, Scandal, Willow's Sorsha, and 1994's Scarlett O'Hara; born in Manchester, ex-wife of Val Kilmer.

Joanne Woodward

Joanne Woodward (born 1930, Thomasville, Georgia) is an American actress who won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve, earned four Oscar nominations and three Emmys, and was Paul Newman's wife for 50 years.

Joaquim de Almeida

Joaquim de Almeida (Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida), Portuguese actor born 1957 in Lisbon, trained at Lee Strasberg in New York; known for villain roles in Clear and Present Danger, Desperado, Fast Five, 24, and Queen of the South.

Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix (born 1974, San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American actor and Oscar winner for Joker (2020), also known for Gladiator, Walk the Line, The Master, and Napoleon.

JoBeth Williams

JoBeth Williams (born 1948, Houston) is an American actress known for Poltergeist, The Big Chill, and Stir Crazy, an Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Oscar-nominated for directing the short On Hope, and former president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.

Jocelyn Hudon

Jocelyn Hudon (born 1994) is a Canadian actress from Toronto, a former ballerina at the National Ballet School, known for When Hope Calls as Grace Bennett and as paramedic Lyla Novak on Chicago Fire.

Jock Mahoney

Jock Mahoney (Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney, 1919-1989), American stuntman-turned-actor who doubled for Flynn, Wayne, and Peck, starred in The Range Rider and Yancy Derringer, and played Tarzan in Tarzan Goes to India and Tarzan's Three Challenges.

Jocko Sims

Jocko Sims (born 1981) is an American actor known as Dr. Floyd Reynolds on New Amsterdam, Lt. Carlton Burk on The Last Ship, and Dr. George Tann in Netflix's 2026 Little House on the Prairie.

Jodelle Ferland

Jodelle Micah Ferland, Canadian actress born 1994 in Nanaimo, known as Jeliza-Rose in Tideland, Sharon/Alessa in Silent Hill, Bree Tanner in Twilight Eclipse, and Five in Dark Matter.

Jodhi May

Jodhi May (born 1975, Camden, London) is an English actress who won the 1988 Cannes Best Actress award at about age 12 for A World Apart, later known for The Last of the Mohicans, The Witcher, and Dune: Prophecy.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress and model born 1978 in Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey; known for Cassidy Bridges on Nash Bridges, Gretchen Morgan on Prison Break, and Jo Laughlin on The Vampire Diaries and Legacies.

Jodie Comer

Jodie Comer is an English actress from Liverpool known for Villanelle in Killing Eve (2019 Emmy and BAFTA winner), the BAFTA-winning TV drama Help, films Free Guy, The Last Duel, The Bikeriders, and 28 Years Later, and the one-person play Prima Facie.

Jodie Foster

Jodie Foster (born 1962) is an American actor and director, a two-time Best Actress Oscar winner for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs, Emmy winner for True Detective: Night Country, and director of Little Man Tate and Money Monster.

Jodie Sweetin

Jodie Sweetin, American actress (born 1982), best known as Stephanie Tanner on Full House (1987–1995) and Fuller House (2016–2020); memoir unSweetined, addiction-recovery advocate, podcast How Rude, Tanneritos.

Jodie Turner-Smith

Jodie Turner-Smith, British actress and model born in Peterborough to Jamaican parents, known for Queen & Slim (2019), the first Black actress to play Anne Boleyn on screen (2021), The Acolyte, The Agency, and Tron: Ares.

Jodie Whittaker

Jodie Whittaker is an English actress, also known as Jodie Auckland Whittaker, celebrated for playing Beth Latimer in Broadchurch and serving as the Thirteenth Doctor from 2018 to 2022.

Jody Latham

Jody Lee Latham (born 1983, Burnley, England) is an English actor and producer, best known as Lip Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless (2004-2013) and for roles in EastEnders, The Fixer, Coronation Street, and Waterloo Road.

Joe Alwyn

Joe Alwyn (Joseph Matthew Alwyn, born 1991) is an English actor from Royal Tunbridge Wells, not to be confused with Penn Badgley's character Joe in You. Debut lead in Ang Lee's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016); later The Favourite, Conversations with Friends, The Brutalist, Hamnet; William Bowery co-writer on Taylor Swift's Folklore and Evermore.

Joe Anders

Joe Anders (Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, born 2003, New York) is an American-British actor and screenwriter, son of Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes; known for 1917, Lee, Bonus Track, and writing Goodbye June (2025).

Joe Anderson (actor)

Joe Anderson (actor), born 1982, is an English actor and singer known for Across the Universe, Control, The Ruins, The Crazies, The Grey, Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2, and Hannibal; distinct from producer Joe Anderson and actor Joseph Lee Anderson.

Joe Armstrong (actor)

Joe Armstrong (born 1978, Hammersmith, London) is an English actor, son of Alun Armstrong, known for Allan-a-Dale in Robin Hood (2006), Hotspur in The Hollow Crown, Happy Valley, and A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story (2025).

Joe Baker (comedian)

Joe Baker (1928–2001), English comedian and impressionist born in London, starred in 1960s British TV sketch shows The Joe Baker Show and Baker's Half Dozen, then worked in Los Angeles films such as Bugsy, Dumb and Dumber, and Pocahontas.

Joe Dempsie

Joe Dempsie (Joseph Maxwell Dempsie) is an English actor, born in 1987 in Liverpool, best known for Chris Miles in Skins and Gendry in HBO's Game of Thrones.

Joe E. Brown

Joe E. Brown (Joseph Evans Brown, 1891 or 1892–1973), American actor and comedian of the 1930s–40s; circus-to-Broadway performer, star of Some Like It Hot's Osgood Fielding III, distinct from singer Joe Brown.

Joe Estevez

Joe Estevez (born 1946, Dayton, Ohio) is an American character actor, brother of Martin Sheen. Uncredited Willard voice and stand-in in Apocalypse Now; hundreds of credits in independent and cult film, and a regular on On Cinema.

Joe Flanigan

Joe Flanigan (born 1967, Los Angeles) is an American actor and writer, best known as Lt. Colonel John Sheppard on all five seasons of Stargate Atlantis (2004–2009), for which he also wrote two episodes; formerly a White House advance man and magazine writer.