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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Josie Lawrence

Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, 1959, Old Hill, Dudley) is an English actor, writer and comedian, a Comedy Store Players member and Whose Line Is It Anyway? regular, also an RSC and West End musical actor with three Olivier nominations.

Josie Lloyd

Josie Lloyd names two figures: a British romantic-comedy and women's fiction author who writes as Joanna Rees with husband Emlyn Rees (Come Together), and an American 1960s actress, Norman Lloyd's daughter, known for The Andy Griffith Show.

Josie Loren

Josie Loren (Josie Loren Lopez, born 1987, Miami) is an American attorney and former actress, known as Kaylie Cruz on Make It or Break It and Michelle Vega on The Mentalist, married to Matt Leinart since 2018.

Josie Maran

Josie Maran (Johanna Selhorst Maran, born 1978) is an American model, actress, and founder of Josie Maran Cosmetics, the clean beauty brand built on argan oil, launched at Sephora in 2007.

Josie Totah

Josie Totah (born 2001, Sacramento, California), formerly J.J. Totah, is an American actress, writer, and producer who came out as a transgender woman in a 2018 Time essay; known for Lexi in Saved by the Bell, Mabel in The Buccaneers, and the 2026 Carrie series.

Joss Ackland

Joss Ackland (Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland, 1928-2023), English character actor of 200-plus film and TV roles, known for Lethal Weapon 2, The Hunt for Red October, White Mischief, Evita, and Shadowlands.

Jovan Adepo

Jovan Adepo, British-American actor born 1988 in Oxfordshire, England, known for The Leftovers, Fences, Watchmen (Emmy-nominated as Hooded Justice), Babylon, 3 Body Problem, and It: Welcome to Derry.

Joy Bryant

Joy Bryant (born 1974, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and former model known for Jasmine Trussell on Parenthood and Cheryl in Antwone Fisher; also For Life, Good Girls Revolt, and The Spiderwick Chronicles.

Joy Harmon

Joy Harmon (Patricia Joy Harmon), American actress and baker, played Lucille in Cool Hand Luke's 1967 car wash scene, appeared in Village of the Giants, retired in 1973, and founded Burbank's Aunt Joy's Cakes in 2003; died April 2026.

Joy McAvoy

Joy McAvoy (born 1982, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress, younger sister of James McAvoy, known as Michelle in BBC sitcom Two Doors Down and for The Angels' Share, Filth, and Avengers: Endgame.

Joyce Bulifant

Joyce Bulifant (born 1937, Newport News, Virginia) is an American actress, Marie Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a Match Game panelist, Mrs. Davis in Airplane!, and author of My Four Hollywood Husbands.

Joyce DeWitt

Joyce DeWitt (born 1949, Wheeling, West Virginia) is the American actress who played Janet Wood on ABC's Three's Company (1977–1984), later a 15-year hiatus and a stage-centered career, with 2026 John Ritter Foundation appearances.

Joyce Hyser

Joyce Hyser (Joyce Hyser Robinson), born 1957, New York, is an American actress best known as Terry Griffith in Just One of the Guys (1985), with early roles in This Is Spinal Tap and Staying Alive, later TV guest parts and writing.

Joyce Jameson

Joyce Jameson (Joyce Beverly Kingsley), American actress born September 26, 1927, in Chicago; died January 16, 1987. Broadway star of Billy Barnes revues and films The Apartment, Tales of Terror, and Death Race 2000.

Joyce Randolph

Joyce Randolph, born Joyce Virginia Sirola (1924-2024), American actress who played Trixie Norton on The Honeymooners; last surviving member of the Classic 39 cast; died January 13, 2024.

Joyce Van Patten

Joyce Benignia Van Patten (born March 9, 1934) is an American character actress of stage, film, and television, sister of Dick Van Patten, known for The Bad News Bears, The Good Guys, and seven decades of Broadway and TV work.

Juan Diego Botto

Juan Diego Botto, Spanish-Argentine actor, playwright, and director born in Buenos Aires in 1975; breakthrough in Historias del Kronen, Premio Nacional de Teatro 2021, directing debut En los márgenes.

Juanita Moore

Juanita Moore (1914-1915 birth records conflict; died January 1, 2014), American actress Oscar-nominated for Imitation of Life (1959); third African American supporting-actress nominee, fifth Black Oscar nominee overall; received a posthumous Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2024. Not the San Francisco drag performer Juanita MORE!.

Judd Hirsch

Judd Hirsch, born 1935 in the Bronx, is an American actor famous as Alex Reiger on Taxi (two Emmys), a two-time Tony winner, and an Oscar nominee for Ordinary People and The Fabelmans, 42 years apart.

Judd Nelson

Judd Nelson (born 1959, Portland, Maine) is an American actor, also called a Brat Pack member, known for John Bender in The Breakfast Club (1985), St. Elmo's Fire, New Jack City, and Suddenly Susan.

Jude Law

Jude Law (David Jude Heyworth Law, born 1972) is a British actor known for The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, Sherlock Holmes, Dumbledore, The Young Pope, and 2025's Black Rabbit and The Wizard of the Kremlin.

Judge Reinhold

Judge Reinhold (Edward Ernest Reinhold Jr., born 1957, Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actor known for Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the Beverly Hills Cop films as Billy Rosewood, Ruthless People, and The Santa Clause trilogy.

Judi Bowker

Judi Bowker (born 1954, Shawford, Hampshire) is an English actress known for Clare in Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972), Andromeda in Clash of the Titans (1981), and Mina in Count Dracula (1977); married to Harry Meacher since 1979.

Judi Dench

Dame Judi Dench (born 9 December 1934, York) is a British stage, film, and TV actress; RSC Shakespearean lead, M in James Bond from GoldenEye (1995), Oscar winner for Shakespeare in Love (1998), multiple BAFTA and Olivier winner.

Judi Evans

Judi Evans Luciano (born 1964) is an American soap opera actress: Beth Raines on Guiding Light (1984 Daytime Emmy), Adrienne and Bonnie on Days of Our Lives, Paulina on Another World, and a funeral-home sales director.

Judith Anderson

Dame Judith Anderson (Frances Margaret Anderson, 1897-1992), Australian-born stage, film, and television actress; Broadway star of Medea and Mrs Danvers in Hitchcock's Rebecca; Oscar-nominated, two-time Emmy winner, first Australian-born Dame.

Judith Chapman

Judith Chapman (born Judith Shepard) is an American soap opera actress, best known as Gloria Bardwell on The Young and the Restless since 2005, with earlier roles on General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Ryan's Hope, As the World Turns, and One Life to Live.

Judith Godrèche

Judith Godrèche (born 1972, Paris) is a French actress, screenwriter, and director known for La Désenchantée, Ridicule, and The Overnight, and as the leading figure of French #MeToo; she directs Icon of French Cinema, Moi aussi, and Mémoire de fille.

Judith Hoag

Judith Hoag (Judith Woodward Hoag), American actress from Newburyport, Massachusetts; played April O'Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), Gwen Cromwell Piper in the Halloweentown films, and Tandy Hampton on Nashville.

Judith Ivey

Judith Ivey (Judith Lee Ivey), American actress and theater director born 1951 in El Paso, Texas; two-time Tony winner for Steaming and Hurlyburly, known for Designing Women's B.J. Poteet and Women Talking.