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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Anita Ekberg

Anita Ekberg (Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, 1931–2015) was a Swedish actress and model, Miss Sweden and star of Fellini's La dolce vita (1960); her Trevi Fountain scene with Marcello Mastroianni made her a cinema icon.

Anita Harris

Anita Harris (Anita Madeleine Harris, born 1942) is an English singer and actress known for the 1967 hit Just Loving You and Carry On films Follow That Camel and Carry On Doctor; later a variety and pantomime performer.

Anita Morris

Anita Morris, also Anita Rose Morris, American actress, dancer, and singer (1943-1994) from Durham, North Carolina; Tony-nominated and Drama Desk-winning for Carla in Broadway's Nine, also known for Ruthless People and The Hotel New Hampshire.

Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg, German-Italian actress, model, and Rolling Stones muse; partner of Brian Jones then Keith Richards; starred in Performance (1970), Barbarella, and Candy; died 2017 aged 73.

Anjelica Huston

Anjelica Huston (born 1951) is an American actress and director, daughter of John Huston and granddaughter of Walter Huston, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Prizzi's Honor (1985) as Hollywood's first third-generation Oscar winner.

Anjli Mohindra

Anjli Mohindra is a British actress and writer best known as Rani Chandra in The Sarah Jane Adventures, and later for Bodyguard, Vigil, and The Lazarus Project.

Ann Akinjirin

Ann Akinjirin, formerly credited as Ann Akin, is a British actress of Nigerian descent known for Bobbi in Moon Knight (2022) and DS Vanessa Ekwensi in Strike.

Ann B. Davis

Ann B. Davis (Ann Bradford Davis) was an American actress who played secretary Schultzy on The Bob Cummings Show and housekeeper Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch.

Ann Blyth

Ann Blyth (Anne Marie Blythe, 1928-2026), American actress and singer, Oscar-nominated at 17 as Veda in Mildred Pierce (1945), later MGM musical soprano with Mario Lanza and Howard Keel; last film The Helen Morgan Story (1957).

Ann Cusack

Ann Cusack (born 1961) is an American actress and singer, eldest sibling of John and Joan Cusack. Known for A League of Their Own (1992), Better Call Saul's Rebecca Bois, The Boys, and Sully (2016).

Ann Dowd

Ann Dowd (born 1956, Holyoke, Massachusetts) is an American actress, Emmy winner as Aunt Lydia in The Handmaid's Tale, known for Compliance, The Leftovers, Hereditary, Mass, and The Testaments.

Ann Dvorak

Ann Dvorak (Anna McKim, 1911-1979), American pre-Code film actress famous as Cesca in Scarface (1932) and Three on a Match; known for her Warner Bros. contract rebellion, WWII London ambulance service, and Hawaii retirement.

Ann Jillian

Ann Jillian (Ann Jura Nauseda, born 1950) is an American actress and singer, child star of Babes in Toyland and Gypsy, Broadway's Sugar Babies, It's a Living, Mae West, and Golden Globe winner for The Ann Jillian Story.

Ann Magnuson

Ann Magnuson (born 1956, Charleston, West Virginia) is an American performance artist, actress, and singer; Club 57 cofounder, Bongwater frontwoman, star of Anything But Love and Making Mr. Right.

Ann Morgan Guilbert

Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928–2016), American character actress, played Millie Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Grandma Yetta on The Nanny; Stanford-trained, Helen Hayes Award winner, appeared in Please Give.

Ann Prentiss

Ann Prentiss, born Ann Elizabeth Ragusa, was an American actress who played supporting film and television roles from the 1960s to the 1980s, including in California Split.

Ann Rutherford

Ann Rutherford (Therese Ann Rutherford, 1917–2012), Canadian-born American actress; played Polly Benedict in MGM's Andy Hardy series and Carreen O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939); also starred in Republic Westerns with Gene Autry and John Wayne.

Ann Ryerson

Ann Ryerson is an American actress and writer whose career spans five decades. She is known for roles in Caddyshack, Minority Report, and her recurring part on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Ann Sheridan

Ann Sheridan (Clara Lou Sheridan, 1915-1967), American film actress, Warner Bros.' "Oomph Girl"; star of Kings Row, They Drive by Night, Nora Prentiss, I Was a Male War Bride; died of cancer during Pistols 'n' Petticoats.

Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, was an American film and television actress known for the Maisie films and the 1950s sitcoms Private Secretary and The Ann Sothern Show.

Ann Wedgeworth

Ann Wedgeworth (Elizabeth Ann Wedgeworth, 1934-2017) was a Texas-born American actress; she won the 1978 Tony for Chapter Two and the 1977 NSFC Best Supporting Actress award for Citizens Band, and played Lana Shields on Three's Company and Merleen Elldridge on Evening Shade.

Ann-Margret

Ann-Margret (Ann-Margret Olsson, born 1941, Sweden) is a Swedish-born American actress, singer, and dancer known for Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas with Elvis Presley, and Oscar-nominated roles in Carnal Knowledge and Tommy.

Anna Akana

Anna Akana (Anna Kay Napualani Akana, born 1989) is an American actress, comedian, YouTuber, musician, and author known for Big City Greens, Jupiter's Legacy, her album Casualty, and mental health advocacy.

Anna Baryshnikov

Anna Katerina Baryshnikov, American actress born 1992 in New York, daughter of Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lisa Rinehart; known for Manchester by the Sea, Dickinson's Lavinia, and her first lead role in Idiotka.

Anna Belknap

Anna Belknap (born 1972) is an American actress from Damariscotta, Maine, known for Detective Lindsay Monroe on CSI: NY (2005–2013, 172 episodes) and Eva Rossi on Medical Investigation; Middlebury BA, ACT MFA.

Anna Brewster

Anna Brewster (born 1986, Birmingham) is an English actress known as Madame de Montespan in Versailles, Bazine Netal in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Anita in Anita and Me; former model, first film lead in The Last Days of American Crime (2020).

Anna Camp

Anna Camp (Anna Ragsdale Camp), born 1982 in Aiken, South Carolina, is an American actress known for Aubrey Posen in Pitch Perfect, Sarah Newlin in True Blood, Broadway work, and twins in You.

Anna Cathcart

Anna Cathcart is a Canadian actress from Vancouver known as Kitty Song Covey in To All the Boys I've Loved Before and its Netflix spin-off XO, Kitty, and as Dizzy Tremaine in Disney's Descendants films.

Anna Chancellor

Anna Theodora Chancellor, British actor born 1965 in Richmond, best known as Duckface in Four Weddings and a Funeral and Caroline Bingley in BBC's Pride and Prejudice; also Lix Storm in The Hour and stage roles at the National Theatre.

Anna Chlumsky

Anna Chlumsky, American actress, child star of My Girl (1991) as Vada Sultenfuss, University of Chicago graduate, and six-time Emmy nominee as Amy Brookheimer on HBO's Veep; later starred in Inventing Anna.