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Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار)
Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار), Palestinian actress, writer, and video artist born 1992, star of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Sand Storm (2016), later a Berlin-based performer at the Maxim Gorki Theater.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker (born 1971, Pittsburgh) is an American actor known as Sheriff Troy in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, Dr. Will Brown in Meet the Browns, and Jacob Greenleaf in OWN's Greenleaf; also an educator and co-founder of The Black Gents.
LaMonica Garrett
LaMonica Garrett (born 1975, San Francisco) is an American actor and former pro SlamBall player known for Designated Survivor's Mike Ritter, the Arrowverse Monitor, Thomas in 1883, and Tucker in Lioness.
Lamont Bentley
Lamont Bentley (Artimus Lamont Bentley, 1973–2005), American actor and rapper, Hakeem Campbell on UPN's Moesha (1996–2001), Crazy K in Tales from the Hood, died in a 2005 car crash.
Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris (born 1983) is an American actor and comedian from Chicago, known as Winston on New Girl, Emmy-winning for Fargo season 5, and starring as Robbie Robertson in Spider-Noir.
Lana Clarkson
Lana Jean Clarkson (1962-2003), American actress and model, star of Roger Corman's Deathstalker and Barbarian Queen; shot dead at Phil Spector's Alhambra mansion in 2003; Spector convicted of second-degree murder in 2009.
Lana Condor
Lana Condor (Trần Đồng Lan), Vietnamese-born American actress born 1997 in Can Tho, adopted at four months; known as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse and Lara Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys trilogy, later Boo, Bitch and Coyote vs. Acme.
Lana Parrilla
Lana Parrilla, American actress of Italian and Puerto Rican descent born 1977 in Brooklyn, best known as Regina Mills/the Evil Queen on ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), with earlier roles in Spin City, Boomtown, and 24 and later work in Why Women Kill, Atlas, and The Rainmaker.
Lana Turner
Lana Turner (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, 1921–1995), American MGM film star, Sweater Girl image, Oscar-nominated for Peyton Place, starred in The Postman Always Rings Twice and Imitation of Life; seven marriages and the 1958 Stompanato killing.
Lana Wood
Lana Wood (Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin, born 1946) is an American actress and producer, sister of Natalie Wood, known as young Debbie Edwards in The Searchers and Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).
Lance Barber
Lance Barber, American actor born 1973 in Battle Creek, Michigan; played Paulie G. on The Comeback, Bill Ponderosa on It's Always Sunny, and George Cooper Sr. on Young Sheldon (2017–2024, 141 episodes), later reprising the role in dream sequences on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.
Lance Gross
Lance Gross (Lance Darnell Gross), American actor, producer, and photographer born 1981 in Oakland, California; known as Calvin Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne, winner of four NAACP Image Awards, Howard University theater graduate, and creator of the I Turn My Camera On interview series.
Lance Henriksen
Lance Henriksen (born 1940), American character actor; android Bishop in Aliens and Alien3, Frank Black in Millennium (1996-99), Saturn Award winner for Hard Target (1994), later acclaimed in Viggo Mortensen's Falling (2020).
Lance Kerwin
Lance Kerwin (Lance Michael Kerwin, 1960–2023), American actor, teen star of NBC's James at 15/James at 16 and Mark Petrie in Salem's Lot (1979); later a youth pastor, died January 24, 2023 in San Clemente, California.
Lance Reddick
Lance Solomon Reddick, American character actor (The Wire's Cedric Daniels, Fringe's Broyles, John Wick's Charon) and voice of Destiny's Zavala and Horizon's Sylens; born Baltimore, died March 17, 2023, Los Angeles, age 60.
Lane Davies
Lane Davies (born 1950), American actor known as Mason Capwell on Santa Barbara (1984-1989), with General Hospital roles, Shakespeare festival founding work in California and Tennessee, and Prague Shakespeare Company performances.
Lane Factor
Lane Factor (Steph Henry Lane Factor, born 2005) is a Creek-Seminole and Caddo American actor from Midwest City, Oklahoma, known for playing Cheese in Reservation Dogs, his first role, and for The Fabelmans.
Lane Garrison
Lane Garrison (born 1980) is an American actor and screenwriter from Dallas, Texas, best known for playing David "Tweener" Apolskis on Prison Break from 2005 to 2007.
Lane Smith
Lane Smith (1936–2005), American character actor born in Memphis, Tennessee; McMurphy in 650 off-Broadway performances of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Drama Desk winner for Glengarry Glen Ross, Nixon in The Final Days (1989), and Perry White on Lois & Clark (1993–97). Died of ALS, aged 69.
Langston Kerman
Langston Kerman, comedian, actor, and writer from Oak Park, Illinois, known as Jared on Insecure, co-creator and star of Bust Down, host of the podcast My Momma Told Me, and star of the 2024 Netflix special Bad Poetry directed by John Mulaney.
Lani O'Grady
Lani O'Grady (Lanita Rose Agrati, 1954–2001), American actress and talent agent, Mary Bradford on ABC's Eight Is Enough (1977–1981, 112 episodes); died of multiple drug intoxication at 46 in Valencia, California.
Lara Flynn Boyle
Lara Flynn Boyle (born 1970, Davenport, Iowa) is an American actress known as Donna Hayward in Twin Peaks, Helen Gamble in The Practice, and Serleena in Men in Black II; married Donald Ray Thomas in 2006.
Lara Jean Chorostecki
Lara Jean Chorostecki (born 1984, Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian actress known for Freddie Lounds on NBC's Hannibal, Krystina Breeland on X Company, and roles in Reacher, Chucky, and Nightmare Alley.
Lara Pulver
Lara Pulver (born 1980) is a British stage and screen actress, Olivier winner for Gypsy (2016), known as Irene Adler in BBC Sherlock, Erin Watts in Spooks, and Bella Harrigan in MobLand.
Laraine Day
Laraine Day, born La Raine Johnson, was an American MGM contract actress (Dr. Kildare series, Foreign Correspondent, Mr. Lucky, The Locket), later 'The First Lady of Baseball' as Leo Durocher's wife.
Laraine Newman
Laraine Newman, born 1952, is an American comedian, actress, and voice artist, a founding Groundlings member and original Saturday Night Live cast member (1975–1980) who created Connie Conehead and later built a prolific animation voice career.
Larenz Tate
Larenz Tate (born 1975, Chicago) is an American actor known for O-Dog in Menace II Society, Love Jones, Ray, Crash, and Councilman Rashad Tate in Power, and as Berry Gordy in Michael (2026).
Lark Voorhies
Lark Voorhies (born 1974, Nashville) is an American actress best known as Lisa Turtle on Good Morning, Miss Bliss and Saved by the Bell (1989-93), with soap roles on Days of Our Lives and The Bold and the Beautiful and a 2021 revival return.
Larry Bryggman
Larry Bryggman (born December 21, 1938) is an American actor best known as Dr. John Dixon on As the World Turns (1969–2010), with two Daytime Emmys, Tony nominations for Picnic and Proof, and an Obie Award.
Larry Drake
Larry Drake (Lawrence Richard Drake), American character actor born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known for Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law (two Emmys, 1988 and 1989), Darkman's Robert G. Durant, and Dr. Giggles; died 2016.