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Wren Zhawenim Gotts
Wren Zhawenim Gotts (born 2013) is an Anishinaabe child actress, enrolled Sokaogon Chippewa, discovered via Ojibwe-language YouTube videos; she plays young Bonnie in Marvel's Echo and Good Eagle in Netflix's Little House on the Prairie reboot.
Wrenn Schmidt
Wrenn Schmidt (Melinda Wrenn Schmidt) is an American actress known for Margo Madison in For All Mankind, Julia Sagorsky on Boardwalk Empire, Megan in Outcast, and voicing Marla McGivers in the Star Trek: Khan audio series.
Wunmi Mosaku
Wunmi Mosaku, British-Nigerian actress born 1986 in Zaria, Nigeria, raised in Manchester; RADA graduate known for His House, Lovecraft Country, Loki's Hunter B-15, and Sinners, winning BAFTAs in 2017 and 2026 and an Oscar nomination.
Wyatt Cenac
Wyatt Cenac (born 1976) is an Emmy-winning American comedian and writer, a Daily Show correspondent 2008-2012, creator and host of HBO's Problem Areas, star of People of Earth and Medicine for Melancholy, and Grammy-nominated stand-up album maker.
Wyatt Nash
Wyatt Nash, stage name of Matthew Wyatt Elrod (born 1988, Nashville, Tennessee), is an American actor and former Survivor: Redemption Island contestant who later played Nigel Wright, Kurt Fletcher, and Charles Smith on television.
Wyatt Russell
Wyatt Hawn Russell (born 1986) is an American actor and former professional hockey goaltender, son of Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn; known for Lodge 49, Overlord, and John Walker in the MCU's Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Thunderbolts.
Xander Berkeley
Xander Berkeley (Alexander Harper Berkeley, born 1955, Brooklyn) is an American character actor with 240+ credits, known as George Mason in 24, Percy in Nikita, Red John in The Mentalist, and Gregory in The Walking Dead.
Xaria Dotson
Xaria Dotson (born 1997, Portland, Oregon) is an American actress and artist known as Evie Grayson in The Birch, Tori Carucci in American Vandal season 2, and Jules Mathis in Netflix's Devil in Ohio; not the Austin comedian Xaria J'Stone Coleman.
Xavier Molyneux
Xavier Molyneux is an Australian actor known for playing Byron Stone in the Neighbours revival (2023–2025, 385 episodes), Young Michael in Netflix's Take My Hand (2024), and the lead Erik Bloodaxe in Prime Video's Bloodaxe (2027).
Xavier Samuel
Xavier Samuel (born 1983, Hamilton, Victoria) is an Australian film and theatre actor, a Flinders Drama Centre graduate known for Riley in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Fury, Elvis, Blonde, and Australian series such as Seven Types of Ambiguity.
Xavier Smalls
Xavier Smalls (born 1997) is an American actor from Sacramento, California, known as Angel in Tyler Perry's Netflix series Beauty in Black and Zavier in Madea's Destination Wedding (2025); also a short-film director and William Esper Studio graduate.
Xelia Mendes-Jones
Xelia Mendes-Jones is a British actor from London who plays Dane, an Aspirant of the Brotherhood of Steel in Prime Video's Fallout, and Renna in The Wheel of Time.
Xolo Maridueña
Xolo Maridueña (Ramario Xolo Ramírez, born 2001) is an American actor of Mexican, Cuban, and Ecuadorian descent, known as Miguel Diaz in Cobra Kai and the first Latino lead in a live-action DC film, Blue Beetle (2023).
Yael Grobglas (יעל גרובגלס)
Yael Grobglas (יעל גרובגלס), born in Paris in 1984, is a French-Israeli actress known for playing Petra Solano and her twin Anezka in Jane the Virgin (2014–2019).
Yael Stone
Yael Stone (born 1985) is an Australian actress, NIDA-trained, known for Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019, three SAG ensemble Awards), Australian theatre work, Geoffrey Rush allegations, and climate advocacy.
Yahoo Serious
Yahoo Serious (Gregory Gomez Pead, born 1953) is an Australian filmmaker who wrote, directed, produced and starred in Young Einstein (1988), Reckless Kelly (1993) and Mr Accident (2000), then left public life.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor born July 15 in New Orleans; Emmy winner as Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen, Black Manta in Aquaman, Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Marvel's Wonder Man; former city planner and Yale Drama graduate.
Yakov Smirnoff (Яков Наумович Похис)
Yakov Smirnoff (Яков Наумович Похис, born Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, 1951, Odessa) is a Soviet-born American comedian, 'What a country!' catchphrase, 1986–87 sitcom, Branson theater, Pepperdine doctorate 2019.
Yancy Butler
Yancy Butler (born 1970, New York City) is an American actress known for Witchblade (2000–2002), Hard Target (1993), Drop Zone (1994), and the Kick-Ass films; daughter of Lovin' Spoonful drummer Joe Butler.
Yani Gellman
Yani Gellman, Canadian actor born in Miami, Florida, known as Paolo Valisari in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) and Officer Garrett Reynolds in Pretty Little Liars; also Jason X, 47 Meters Down.
Yann Gael
Yann Gael (born 1986, Garoua, Cameroon) is a French-Cameroonian actor, CNSAD-trained, lead of Sakho & Mangane, Saloum, 1899, Gladiator II, and Hot Milk.
Yannick Bisson
Yannick Bisson (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor, director, and producer best known for playing Detective William Murdoch on Murdoch Mysteries since 2008.
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto (Yaphet Frederick Kotto, 1939-2021), American actor known as Bond villain Kananga/Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, Parker in Alien, and Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street; Emmy-nominated for Raid on Entebbe.
Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi (Yara Sayeh Shahidi), American actress and producer born 2000 in Minneapolis, plays Zoey Johnson on black-ish and grown-ish, founded 7th Sun Productions and WeVoteNext, and graduated from Harvard in 2022.
Yasmin Al-Khudhairi
Yasmin Al-Khudhairi (born 1995) is a British actress known for Rye Lane (2023), Fizza Akhtar in Ackley Bridge (2021–2022), and Naomi Ward in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
Yasmin Finney
Yasmin Finney (born 2003) is an English actress from Manchester known as Elle Argent in Netflix's Heartstopper and Rose Noble in BBC's Doctor Who; Black trans actress, TikTok personality, Emmy-nominated.
Yasmin Seky
Yasmin Seky (born 1998) is an Irish actress from Dublin, best known as Nikita Murphy in RTÉ's crime drama Kin, winner of the RTS Ireland Best Newcomer award, later a Dancing with the Stars contestant and Becky Baidwan in Channel 5's The Puzzle Lady.
Yasmine Akram
Yasmine Akram (born 1982, Sharjah) is an Irish-Pakistani actress, writer and comedian, known as Janine in Sherlock, Jonesy in Lovesick, Nora Garvey in Bad Sisters, and co-writer of Irish Micks and Legends.
Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Bleeth, full name Yasmine Amanda Bleeth, American actress and model born 1968 in New York City, known for Caroline Holden on Baywatch (1994–1997), Ryan Fenelli on Ryan's Hope, Caitlin Cross on Nash Bridges, and the film BASEketball.
Yaya DaCosta
Yaya DaCosta (Camara DaCosta Johnson, born 1982) is an American actress and model, ANTM Cycle 3 runner-up, known for April Sexton on Chicago Med, Whitney Houston in Lifetime's Whitney, Our Kind of People, and The Lincoln Lawyer.