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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Judy Carne

Judy Carne (Joyce Audrey Botterill, 1939-2015), English actress and comedian, the "sock it to me" girl on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In 1968-1970, first wife of Burt Reynolds.

Judy Cornwell

Judy Valerie Cornwell (born 22 February 1940, Hammersmith, London) is an English actress and novelist, best known as Daisy in Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995), Anya Claus in Santa Claus: The Movie, and a 1975 BAFTA nominee for Cakes and Ale.

Judy Davis

Judy Davis (born 1955, Perth) is an Australian actress, a two-time Oscar nominee for A Passage to India and Husbands and Wives, winner of three Emmys, two BAFTAs, two Golden Globes, and eight AACTA Awards, known for My Brilliant Career and Life with Judy Garland.

Judy Geeson

Judy Geeson (Judith Amanda Geeson, born 1948, Arundel, Sussex) is an English actress known for Pamela Dare in To Sir, with Love (1967), Maggie Conway on Mad About You, and Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem and 31.

Judy Holliday

Judy Holliday (Judith Tuvim, 1921-1965), American comedy actress and singer, Oscar winner as Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday, Tony winner for Bells Are Ringing, noted for her 172 IQ and 1950s blacklist-era HUAC testimony.

Judy Landers

Judy Landers (Judy Hamburg, born 1958, Philadelphia) is an American actress known for Vega$, B.J. and the Bear, and Madame's Place, 1980s sitcom guest roles, and co-creating PBS's The Huggabug Club with sister Audrey Landers.

Judy Lewis

Judy Lewis (1935–2011), American actress, TV writer/producer and psychotherapist; biological daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable, concealed until her 1994 memoir Uncommon Knowledge; also producer of the soap Texas.

Judy Parfitt

Judy Parfitt (born 7 November 1935, Sheffield) is an English RADA-trained actress known for Gertrude in Hamlet (1969), Dolores Claiborne, Girl with a Pearl Earring, two BAFTA nominations, and Sister Monica Joan in Call the Midwife.

Judy Reyes

Judy Reyes, born 1967 in the Bronx, is a Dominican American actress known as Carla Espinosa on Scrubs, Zoila on Devious Maids, Quiet Ann on Claws, and Selena Soto on High Potential.

Judyann Elder

Judyann Elder (born Judith Ann Johnson, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress, director, writer, and producer; Negro Ensemble Company founding member, Broadway's I Have a Dream, TV roles on Murphy Brown, Martin, Family Matters, and director of A Private Act (2013).

Juhaim Rasul Choudhury

Juhaim Rasul Choudhury (born 2005, Brent, London) is an English actor who has played Davinder "Nugget" Gulati in BBC One's EastEnders since August 2022, including the character's 2026 epilepsy storyline.

Julia Barr

Julia Barr (born 1949, Fort Wayne, Indiana) is an American actress who played Brooke English on All My Children for over 30 years from 1976, winning Daytime Emmys in 1990 and 1998, and reprised the role in the 2013 online revival.

Julia Chan

Julia Chan, also known as Julia Taylor Ross, is a British actress born 1983 in Cheshire, England, known for Dr. Maggie Lin in Saving Hope, Pepper Smith in Katy Keene, Archive 81, and co-hosting The Great Canadian Baking Show.

Julia Davis

Julia Davis, English actress, comedian, writer and director born 1966 in Bath, Somerset; creator and star of Nighty Night, Hunderby, Camping and Sally4Ever, BAFTA-winning for Hunderby. Distinct from the Australian artist and the Russian-media journalist of the same name.

Julia Duffy

Julia Duffy (born 1951) is an American actress, also Julia Margaret Hinds, best known as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart (1982–1990), earning seven Emmy nominations, with later roles in Baby Talk, Designing Women, Palm Royale, and The 'Burbs.

Julia Foster

Julia Foster is an English actress born in Lewes, Sussex, in 1943, known for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Alfie, Half a Sixpence, the BBC Henry VI/Richard III cycle, and as Ben Fogle's mother.

Julia Fox

Julia Fox (born 1990) is an Italian-American actress, model, and author known for her debut in Uncut Gems (2019), her Franziska Fox fashion label, her 2023 memoir Down the Drain, and the E! show OMG Fashun.

Julia Garner

Julia Garner, born 1994 in the Bronx, is the American actress who won three Emmys as Ruth Langmore in Ozark and played Anna Delvey in Inventing Anna, now leading The Altruists and Guilty Creatures.

Julia Goldani Telles

Julia Goldani Telles, born 1995 in Los Angeles, is an American actress and ballet dancer known as Sasha Torres on Bunheads and Whitney Solloway on The Affair, with films including Slender Man and Beacon.

Julia Jones

Julia Jones refers mainly to the American actress born 1981 (Twilight Saga's Leah Clearwater, Dexter: New Blood), the British TV writer Julia Marian Jones (1923–2015, Take Three Girls), and a British opera conductor.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (born 1961) is an American actress and comedian, an Elaine Benes on Seinfeld and Selina Meyer on Veep, holder of 11 Emmys, nine SAG Awards, and the 2018 Mark Twain Prize.

Julia McKenzie

Julia McKenzie (Julia Kathleen Nancy McKenzie, born 1941) is an English actress, singer, and theatre director, a multiple Olivier winner for Sondheim musicals and ITV's Miss Marple from 2008 to 2013.

Julia Ormond

Julia Ormond (Julia Karin Ormond), British actress born 1965 in Epsom, Surrey; star of Legends of the Fall, First Knight, and Sabrina; Emmy winner for Temple Grandin; UNODC Goodwill Ambassador against trafficking.

Julia Rehwald

Julia Rehwald (born 1995, Sacramento, California) is an American actress known as Kate Schmidt in Netflix's Fear Street trilogy (2021) and Lizzie in 1666, later voicing Celesta Kami in Young Jedi Adventures and playing Tashigi in One Piece season 2.

Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts (born 1967, Atlanta) is an American actress and Oscar winner for Erin Brockovich (2001), famous for Pretty Woman, Notting Hill, and Runaway Bride; four Oscar nominations and three Golden Globes.

Julia Sawalha

Julia Sawalha (born 1968, Wandsworth, London) is an English actress, daughter of actor Nadim Sawalha and sister of Nadia; Saffy in Absolutely Fabulous, Lynda Day in Press Gang, Lydia Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1995), voice of Ginger in Chicken Run, and Dorcas Lane in Lark Rise to Candleford, with an RTS Best Actress win.

Julia Stiles

Julia Stiles, American actress born 1981 in New York City, known for Kat in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), Nicky in the Bourne films, Dexter, Riviera, and her 2025 directorial debut Wish You Were Here.

Julia Sweeney

Julia Sweeney (born 1959, Spokane) is an American actress, comedian, and author, an SNL cast member 1990-1994 known for the androgynous Pat, and creator of the monologues God Said, Ha!, In the Family Way, and Letting Go of God.

Julian Glover

Julian Wyatt Glover (born 27 March 1935), English classical stage and screen actor, RSC associate, 1993 Olivier winner for Henry IV, and franchise villain in Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, and Game of Thrones.

Julian Holloway

Julian Holloway (24 June 1944 – 16 February 2025), English actor and son of Stanley Holloway, appeared in eight Carry On films, Doctor Who's Survival, Broadway's My Fair Lady, and voiced Death in Regular Show; father of Sophie Dahl.