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Leonard Whiting
Leonard Whiting (born 1950), British actor, Romeo in Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet opposite Olivia Hussey; Golden Globe New Star of the Year winner; later film, stage, and voice roles and the 2023 Paramount lawsuit.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974, Los Angeles) is an American actor and environmentalist, Oscar winner for The Revenant (2016), star of Titanic and Scorsese films, UN Messenger of Peace for climate, and founder of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
Leonardo Nam
Leonardo Nam (born 1979, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Australian actor known for Felix Lutz in Westworld, Morimoto in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Maddox Hatter in Disney's Descendants films, and founder of Good on Ya Productions.
Lera Abova
Lera Abova (Лера Абова), born Valeria Smirnova, 1992, Slavgorod, Siberia, is a Russian-German model and actress: David Sims discovery, Vogue covers, film debut as Maude in Anna (2019), and Nico Robin in Netflix's One Piece season 2.
Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946, New York) is an American actress and singer, star of 1965's Cinderella, Oscar-nominated for Victor/Victoria, Miss Scarlet in Clue, Golden Globe winner for 79 Park Avenue.
Lesley Joseph
Lesley Joseph is an English actress and broadcaster best known as Dorien Green in the sitcom Birds of a Feather, which she played from 1989 to 1998.
Lesley Manville
Lesley Manville (born 1956, Brighton) is an English stage, film, and TV actress, Mike Leigh's most-cast collaborator, Oscar-nominated for Phantom Thread, Princess Margaret in The Crown, and winner of two Oliviers and a Tony.
Lesley Nicol (actress)
Lesley Nicol (born 1953) is an English actress known as cook Mrs. Patmore in Downton Abbey (2010-2015) and its three films, a three-time SAG ensemble winner, with West End credits including Mamma Mia! and East Is East.
Lesley Sharp
Lesley Sharp (born 1960, Manchester) is a British actress known for Rita, Sue and Bob Too!, The Full Monty, Scott & Bailey, Afterlife, Before We Die, Red Eye, and Bergerac series 2.
Lesley-Anne Down
Lesley-Anne Down (born 1954, London) is an English actress known as Georgina Worsley in Upstairs, Downstairs, Madeline Fabray in North and South, and Jacqueline Marone in 779 episodes of The Bold and the Beautiful.
Leslie Ash
Leslie Ash (born 1960) is an English actress known as Deborah in Men Behaving Badly, Karen Buckley in Where the Heart Is, and Vanessa Lytton in Holby City; her career was interrupted by a 2004 MSSA hospital infection.
Leslie Bibb
Leslie Bibb (born 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American actress known for Popular, Talladega Nights, Iron Man, The White Lotus season 3, Palm Royale, and a 2026 Emmy nomination for Hacks.
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron (born 1 July 1931, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French-American actress and ballet-trained dancer discovered by Gene Kelly for An American in Paris (1951), later starring in Lili and Gigi, with two Oscar nominations and a 2007 Emmy.
Leslie David Baker
Leslie David Baker (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actor who played Stanley Hudson on NBC's The Office (2005-2013) after a Chicago city-administration career, and later co-owns a Honey Baked Ham shop.
Leslie Easterbrook
Leslie Easterbrook (born 1948 or 1949) is an American actress known as Sgt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy films (1984–1994) and as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), after playing Rhonda Lee on Laverne & Shirley.
Leslie Grantham
Leslie Grantham (1947–2018), English actor, played Dirty Den Watts in EastEnders 1985–1989 and 2003–2005; ex-soldier who served about a decade for a 1967 murder conviction in Germany.
Leslie Grossman
Leslie Erin Grossman (born 1971, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Mary Cherry on Popular and as Meadow Wilton, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, Margaret Booth, Ursula, and Barbara Read across American Horror Story seasons Cult through 13.
Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (Leslie Ann Hope) is a Canadian actress, director, and producer born in 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known for Teri Bauer on 24 season 1 and for directing episodes of Snowpiercer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lost in Space, and the One Piece season finale. Distinct from Bob Hope.
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 1893–1943), English stage and film actor, director, and producer, star of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pygmalion, and Gone with the Wind's Ashley Wilkes; killed when his airliner was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1943.
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan (1955–2022), American actor and comedian, Emmy winner as Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, Sordid Lives' Brother Boy, pandemic Instagram star, gospel album Company's Comin'.
Leslie Landon
Leslie Landon (Leslie Landon Matthews), born 1962, daughter of Michael Landon, played Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie, then became a psychologist and co-authored When Children Grieve.
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann, American comedy actress born 1972 in San Francisco, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40, and Blockers; wife of producer-director Judd Apatow, with daughters Maude and Iris Apatow.
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen (1926–2010), Canadian-born actor and comedian, spent three decades as a dramatic leading man before Airplane! (1980), Police Squad!, and the Naked Gun trilogy made him the master of deadpan parody.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. (born 1981, Queens, New York) is an American actor and singer, Tony and Grammy winner as Broadway's original Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Oscar-nominated for One Night in Miami….
Leslie Parrish
Leslie Parrish, born Marjorie Hellen, American actress known for Li'l Abner, The Manchurian Candidate, and Star Trek, later an activist and environmentalist who died in 2025.
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips (Leslie Samuel Phillips, 1924-2022) was an English comic actor of the Carry On and Doctor films, The Navy Lark radio star, voice of the Harry Potter Sorting Hat, and BAFTA-nominated for Venus.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams, American Tony Award-winning actress and singer born 1943 in New York City; star of Hallelujah, Baby!, Roots (as Kizzy), The Leslie Uggams Show, Empire, and Blind Al in the Deadpool films.
Letitia Wright
Letitia Michelle Wright (born 1993, Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese-British actress who plays Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, won the 2019 BAFTA Rising Star Award, and led Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton, American actor and literacy advocate: Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977), Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and host of PBS's Reading Rainbow 1983 to 2006; National Humanities Medal 2023.
Leven Rambin
Leven Alice Rambin is an American actress, born in 1990 in Houston, Texas, known for dual roles on All My Children and as Glimmer in The Hunger Games (2012).