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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Blake Ritson

Blake Adam Ritson (born 1978, London) is an English actor, director, and screenwriter, partner of actress Hattie Morahan; known as Count Riario in Da Vinci's Demons, Brainiac in Krypton, and Oscar van Rhijn in The Gilded Age.

Blanca Suárez

Blanca Suárez (Blanca Martínez Suárez, born 1988, Madrid) is a Spanish actress known for El internado, El barco, Netflix's Las chicas del cable, and Almodóvar's La piel que habito; Goya-nominated, Platino and Ondas winner.

Blanche Baker

Blanche Baker (Blanche Garfein, born 1956, New York) is an American actress, Emmy winner for Holocaust (1978), known for Sixteen Candles, The Handmaid's Tale, Raw Deal, and Taking Chance, now a writer-director and NYFA senior faculty.

Blossom Rock

Blossom Rock, also known as Marie Blake, was an American actress best known for playing Grandmama in 64 episodes of The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966.

Blu del Barrio

Blu del Barrio (born 1997) is an American non-binary actor and LAMDA graduate, best known as Adira Tal on Star Trek: Discovery, the franchise's first non-binary character and first non-binary actor, later in Trap House and voice roles.

Blu Hunt

Blu Hunt, born 1995 in Sacramento, California, is an American actress of Lakota descent known for Inadu/The Hollow in The Originals, Danielle Moonstar in The New Mutants (2020), and August Catawnee in Netflix's Another Life.

Blythe Danner

Blythe Danner is an American actress whose stage-centered career includes a Tony for Butterflies Are Free and two Emmys for Huff; she is Gwyneth Paltrow's mother.

Bo Derek

Bo Derek, born Mary Cathleen Collins, is an American actress whose starring role in the 1979 romantic comedy 10 made her an international sex symbol.

Bo Hopkins

Bo Hopkins (William Mauldin Hopkins, 1938-2022), American character actor of The Wild Bunch, American Graffiti, The Getaway, and Dynasty; played greaser gang leader Joe and Crazy Lee; died in Los Angeles at 84.

Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban (Robert Elmer Balaban, born 1945, Chicago) is an American character actor, director, producer, and author of Close Encounters, Gosford Park, and Christopher Guest mockumentaries, from the Balaban theater family.

Bob Crane

Bob Crane (1928–1978), American actor and radio personality, star of Hogan's Heroes as Colonel Hogan; also KNX Los Angeles morning host; murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona in 1978 in a still-unsolved case.

Bob Denver

Bob Denver (Robert Osborne Denver, 1935–2005) was an American comedy actor who played Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis and Gilligan on Gilligan's Island.

Bob Einstein

Bob Einstein (Stewart Robert Einstein, 1942-2019), American Emmy-winning comedy writer, actor, and producer; created stuntman character Super Dave Osborne and played Marty Funkhouser on Curb Your Enthusiasm; brother of Albert Brooks.

Bob Grant (actor)

Bob Grant (Robert St Clair Grant) was an English actor and comedian best known as the womanizing bus conductor Jack Harper in the ITV sitcom On the Buses.

Bob Gunton

Bob Gunton (Robert Patrick Gunton Jr., born 1945) is an American character actor and Vietnam-era Bronze Star recipient. Known for Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption, Juan Perón in Broadway's Evita (Tony-nominated), Sweeney Todd, 24's Ethan Kanin, and Daredevil's Leland Owlsley.

Bob Hastings

Bob Hastings (Robert Francis Hastings, 1925–2014), American radio, TV, and voice actor; Lt. Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, Archie Andrews on radio, and the voice of Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.

Bob Hope

Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope, 1903–2003) was a British-born American comedian and actor in vaudeville, radio, film (the Road pictures with Bing Crosby), and TV, famous for over 50 years of USO tours entertaining American troops.

Bob Hoskins

Bob Hoskins (Robert William Hoskins, 1942-2014) was a British actor known for The Long Good Friday, Mona Lisa (Cannes and BAFTA winner, Oscar nominee), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Hook; he died of pneumonia in 2014 after a Parkinson's diagnosis.

Bob Odenkirk

Bob Odenkirk, born October 22 in Naperville, Illinois, is an American actor, comedian, and writer. Also known as co-creator of HBO's Mr. Show, two-time Emmy-winning writer for SNL and The Ben Stiller Show, star of Better Call Saul, and action lead of Nobody.

Bob Peck

Bob Peck (1945–1999), English stage, television, and film actor from Leeds. Won the 1986 BAFTA for Edge of Darkness as Ronald Craven; played Muldoon in Jurassic Park (1993); nine years with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Bobbie Eakes

Bobbie Eakes (Bobbie Diane Eakes), American actress and singer born 1961 in Warner Robins, Georgia; played Macy Alexander on The Bold and the Beautiful (1989–2003) and Krystal Carey on All My Children (2003–2011), with two Daytime Emmy nominations and double-platinum duet CDs with Jeff Trachta.

Bobby Campo

Bobby Campo (Robert Joseph Camposecco, born 1983), American actor from Wheeling, West Virginia. Known for Nick O'Bannon in The Final Destination (2009) and Seth Branson in Scream: The TV Series, plus Hallmark holiday movies.

Bobby Cannavale

Bobby Cannavale, American actor born 1970 in Union City, New Jersey; two-time Emmy winner (Will & Grace, Boardwalk Empire's Gyp Rosetti), Tony-nominated Broadway actor, partner of Rose Byrne, father of Jake Cannavale.

Bobby Davro

Bobby Davro (Robert Christopher Nankeville), English comedian, impressionist, and actor born 1958 or 1959, star of 1980s ITV shows Bobby Davro on The Box and TV Weekly, later EastEnders' Vinnie Monks and a prostate cancer awareness advocate.

Bobby J. Brown

Bobby J. Brown (1963-2026) was an American character actor and former professional boxer, known as Officer Bobby Brown on HBO's The Wire, Ira Weiner in The Corner, and Thomas Allers in We Own This City.

Bobby Moynihan

Bobby Moynihan (Robert Michael Moynihan Jr., born 1977) is an American actor and comedian, an SNL cast member 2008–2017 known for Drunk Uncle and Anthony Crispino, and a prolific voice actor in DuckTales, The Secret Life of Pets, and Hoppers.

Bobby Schofield

Bobby Schofield (born 1993) is an English actor from Kirkby, Liverpool, son of actor Andrew Schofield. Known for Dave Kershaw in SAS Rogue Heroes, Joe in Unforgivable (2025), Bonehead in This City Is Ours, and Neil Aspinall in Sam Mendes' 2028 Beatles films.

Bodhi Elfman

Bodhi Elfman (Bodhi Pine Elfman, born Bodhi Pine Saboff, 1969, Los Angeles) is an American actor, son of Richard Elfman and husband of Jenna Elfman, known as Mr. Scratch on Criminal Minds and for Mercury Rising and Collateral.

Bojana Novakovic (Бојана Новаковић)

Bojana Novakovic (Бојана Новаковић), Serbian-born Australian actress and filmmaker (born 1981, Belgrade), NIDA 2002; AFI Award for Marking Time; starred in Instinct and Love Me; directed The Forbidden Aunt (2026).

Bokeem Woodbine

Bokeem Woodbine (born 1973) is an American actor from Harlem, New York, known for Mike Milligan in Fargo season 2 (Emmy-nominated), Dead Presidents, Ray, Spider-Man: Homecoming's Shocker, Halo, and his rock band 13 Purple Dragons.