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Rex Harrison

Rex Harrison, born Reginald Carey Harrison (1908 to 1990), was an English actor who won a Tony and an Academy Award for playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady.

Rex Lee (actor)

Rex Lee (born 1969, Warren, Ohio) is a Korean-American actor known as Lloyd on HBO's Entourage (2005-2011), Mr. Wolfe on Suburgatory, and Elliot Park on Young & Hungry; distinct from a younger Taiwanese-American actor-playwright of the same name.

Rex Linn

Rex Maynard Linn (born 1956, Texas) is an American character actor, ex-banker, known for Detective Frank Tripp on CSI: Miami, Cliffhanger, Better Call Saul, Young Sheldon, and Emmett on Happy's Place.

Rex Smith

Rex Smith, born 1955 in Jacksonville, Florida (some sources say 1956), is an American actor and singer: teen idol behind "You Take My Breath Away," Jesse Mach in Street Hawk, first live-action Daredevil, and Broadway star of Pirates of Penzance and Sunset Boulevard.

Rhashan Stone

Rhashan Stone, born 1969 in New Jersey, is an American-born British actor, comedian, singer, and writer known for Desmond's, Mutual Friends, Strike Back, RSC and National Theatre stage work, and Headlong writer residency.

Rhea Perlman

Rhea Perlman (born 1948, Brooklyn) is an American actress, four-time Emmy winner as Carla Tortelli on Cheers (1982–1993), wife of Danny DeVito, later in Matilda, Barbie, Poker Face, and Too Much.

Rhea Seehorn

Rhea Seehorn (born 1972, Norfolk, Virginia) is an American actress and director known as Kim Wexler on Better Call Saul and Carol Sturka on Pluribus; she won the 2026 Emmy for lead actress in a drama and the 2026 Golden Globe.

Rhenzy Feliz

Rhenzy Feliz (born 1997) is an American actor known for Alex Wilder in Marvel's Runaways, voicing Camilo Madrigal in Encanto, and Victor Aguilar in HBO's The Penguin.

Rhona Mitra

Rhona Mitra, born Rhona Natasha Mitra, is a British actress best known for modeling the live-action Lara Croft in Tomb Raider promotions and appearing in television roles.

Rhonda Fleming

Rhonda Fleming (born Marilyn Louis, 1923–2020) was an American film and TV actress and singer nicknamed the "Queen of Technicolor," known for Spellbound, Out of the Past, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and later UCLA cancer-support philanthropy.

Rhys Coiro

Rhys Coiro, full name John Rhys Coiro, is an American actor known for playing director Billy Walsh on Entourage and FBI analyst Sean Hillinger on 24.

Rhys Darby

Rhys Darby (born 1974, Auckland) is a New Zealand stand-up comedian and actor, known as Murray in Flight of the Conchords, Stede Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death, Nigel in the Jumanji films, and for physical, sound-effect-driven comedy.

Rhys Ifans

Rhys Ifans (born Rhys Owain Evans, 1967) is a Welsh actor and musician, briefly lead vocalist of Super Furry Animals. Known for Spike in Notting Hill, BAFTA-winning Peter Cook in Not Only But Always, The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man, and Otto Hightower in House of the Dragon.

Ricardo Medina Jr.

Ricardo Medina Jr. (Rick Medina), American actor born 1979, played Cole Evans the Red Wild Force Ranger and Deker in Power Rangers Samurai; convicted of voluntary manslaughter in 2017 for stabbing roommate Joshua Sutter.

Riccardo Scamarcio

Riccardo Scamarcio (born 1979, Trani) is an Italian actor and producer, star of Tre metri sopra il cielo, Romanzo criminale, and John Wick: Chapter 2; Silver Ribbon 2018 for Loro, Venice Orizzonti Best Actor 2026 for I figli della scimmia.

Rich Fulcher

Rich Fulcher (born 1968) is an American comedian, actor and writer, best known as Bob Fossil in The Mighty Boosh and co-creator, with Matt Berry, of the BBC Three sketch show Snuff Box; also voice actor in Disenchantment and Wonka's Larry Chucklesworth.

Rich Sommer

Rich Sommer (born 1978, Toledo, Ohio) is an American actor known as Harry Crane on Mad Men (2007–2015), Doug in The Devil Wears Prada, and Henry in Firewatch; two SAG ensemble Awards.

Richard Anderson

Richard Anderson (1926–2017), American actor, played Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman simultaneously (1976–78); MGM contract player, Paths of Glory, Perry Mason, three daughters.

Richard Armitage (actor)

Richard Crispin Armitage (born 1971, Leicester) is an English actor known for John Thornton in North & South, Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit, Dolarhyde in Hannibal, and Netflix's The Stranger.

Richard Attenborough

Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough (1923–2014), English actor, Oscar-winning director and producer of Gandhi (1982), star of Brighton Rock, The Great Escape and Jurassic Park, BFI chairman, knighted 1976, life peer 1993.

Richard Ayoade

Richard Ellef Ayoade (born 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and author, Cambridge Footlights president and 2001 Perrier winner, known as Moss in The IT Crowd (2014 BAFTA), for Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and for directing Submarine (2010) and The Double (2013).

Richard Basehart

Richard Basehart (John Richard Basehart, 1914–1984) was an American actor, star of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea as Admiral Nelson, the Fool in Fellini's La strada, and Wilton Knight in Knight Rider.

Richard Beckinsale

Richard Beckinsale (1947–1979), English comedy actor; Lennie Godber in Porridge and Going Straight, Alan Moore in Rising Damp; trained at RADA, husband of Judy Loe, father of Kate Beckinsale; died of a heart attack at 31.

Richard Belzer

Richard Belzer (1944-2023), American stand-up comedian and actor, best known as Detective John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU, a role he played across 10 or 11 series from 1993 to 2016; also SNL warm-up comic, author of conspiracy books.

Richard Benjamin

Richard Benjamin (born May 22, 1938, New York City) is an American actor and director, husband of Paula Prentiss, Golden Globe winner for The Sunshine Boys, star of Westworld and Roth adaptations, and director of My Favorite Year.

Richard Beymer

Richard Beymer, American actor and filmmaker known as Tony in West Side Story (1961) and Benjamin Horne in Twin Peaks (1990–91, 2017); born in Avoca, Iowa, later an independent documentary and experimental filmmaker living in Iowa.

Richard Boone

Richard Allen Boone (1917–1981), American actor born in Los Angeles, starred as Paladin in Have Gun—Will Travel (1957–63), led Medic and The Richard Boone Show, earned five Emmy nominations, and died in St. Augustine, Florida.

Richard Briers

Richard Briers (1934–2013), English actor, CBE, star of The Good Life, Marriage Lines, and Ever Decreasing Circles; later played Shakespearean roles in Kenneth Branagh's films and voiced Fiver in Watership Down.

Richard Brooks (actor)

Richard Brooks (Richard Lee Brooks, born 1962) is an American actor, singer, and director from Cleveland, Ohio, known as ADA Paul Robinette on Law & Order, Jubal Early on Firefly, and Chief Simpson on 9-1-1, distinct from the Oscar-winning screenwriter of the same name.

Richard Burgi

Richard Burgi (Richard William Burgi, born 1958, Montclair, New Jersey) is an American actor known as Det. Jim Ellison on The Sentinel and Karl Mayer on Desperate Housewives, with soap roles on Another World, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, and The Young and the Restless.