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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Adrian Paul

Adrian Paul (Adrian Paul Hewett, born 1959, London) is a British actor best known as Duncan MacLeod in Highlander: The Series (1992–1998); also Tracker, Highlander: Endgame, The Peace Fund, and The Sword Experience.

Adrian Scarborough

Adrian Scarborough (Adrian Philip Scarborough, born 1968, Melton Mowbray) is an English actor known for Pete in Gavin & Stacey, DI Max Arnold in The Chelsea Detective, and two Olivier Awards (After the Dance 2011, Leopoldstadt 2020).

Adrian Zmed

Adrian Zmed (born 1954, Chicago) is an American actor and singer known as Officer Vince Romano on T.J. Hooker, Johnny Nogerelli in Grease 2, Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway, and host of Dance Fever.

Adriana Ugarte

Adriana Ugarte (Adriana Sofía Ugarte Pardal), Spanish actress born 1985 in Madrid, star of El tiempo entre costuras as Sira Quiroga, Almodóvar's Julieta, Mirage, and 2026's Tal vez as Pinito del Oro.

Adrianne Palicki

Adrianne Palicki (born 1983, Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress known for Tyra Collette on Friday Night Lights, Commander Kelly Grayson on The Orville, Bobbi Morse in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the unaired 2011 Wonder Woman pilot.

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody, born 1973 in Queens, is an American actor, youngest Best Actor Oscar winner at 29 for The Pianist, and two-time winner, adding a second Oscar for The Brutalist (2025).

Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945, Sacramento) is an American actress and author, the original Rizzo in Broadway's Grease, Carol on Maude, star of John Carpenter horror films, and voice of Catwoman.

Adrienne Corri

Adrienne Corri (Adrienne Riccoboni, 1930-2016), British Scottish-born actress; debut The Romantic Age (1949), The River (1951), Mrs. Alexander in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), Lara's mother in Doctor Zhivago, and author of The Search for Gainsborough.

Adrienne King

Adrienne King (born 1955) is an American actress known as Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980) and Part 2 (1981); after a stalking incident she became an ADR looper on Titanic and Melrose Place before returning to acting in 2009.

Adrienne Shelly

Adrienne Shelly (Adrienne Levine, 1966-2006) was an American indie film actress, writer, and director, star of Hal Hartley's The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, and writer-director of Waitress (2007), who was murdered in November 2006.

Afshan Azad

Afshan Azad, born 1988 in Manchester to a Bangladeshi family, is a British actress known for playing Padma Patil in the five Harry Potter films (2005–2011) and later for media and advocacy work.

Afton Williamson

Afton Williamson, American actress from Toledo, Ohio, known as Talia Bishop on The Rookie and Alison Medding on Banshee; left The Rookie in 2019 over harassment allegations that an eOne investigation dismissed.

Aggy K. Adams

Aggy K. Adams (born 1995) is a London-trained actress known as the elf Iskra in Netflix's The Witcher and The Rats: A Witcher Tale, as Mia in The Couple Next Door season 2, and for Oh, Ramona! Not related to Amy Adams.

Agnes Bruckner

Agnes Bruckner (born 1985, Hollywood) is an American actress and former child model, not to be confused with German namesakes. Known for Blue Car (Independent Spirit nomination), The Bold and the Beautiful, and the Lifetime biopic Anna Nicole (2013).

Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (1900–1974), American character actress of radio, stage, film, and television; Mercury Theatre member, Mary Kane in Citizen Kane, four Oscar nominations, Endora on Bewitched.

Ahna Capri

Ahna Capri (Anna Marie Nanasi, 1944–2010) was a Hungarian-born American actress best known as Tania in Enter the Dragon (1973) with Bruce Lee; child TV actress, also in Payday, Piranha, The Brotherhood of Satan; died after a car accident.

Ahney Her

Ahney Her (born 1992, Lansing, Michigan) is a Hmong American actress who debuted as Sue Lor in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino (2008) and later appeared in Night Club (2011) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016).

Aida Turturro

Aida Turturro (born 1962) is an American actress, cousin of John Turturro, best known as Janice Soprano on The Sopranos (2000–2007), with two Emmy nominations and health advocacy work.

Aidan Delbis

Aidan Delbis (born 2005 or 2006) is an American autistic actor from La Crescenta, California, whose feature debut is Don in Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia (2025) opposite Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

Aidan Gillen

Aidan Gillen (born Aidan Murphy, 1968), Irish actor known for Queer as Folk, The Wire's Tommy Carcetti, and Game of Thrones' Littlefinger; three-time IFTA winner and 2004 Tony nominee for The Caretaker.

Aidan McArdle

Aidan McArdle (born 1970, Dublin) is an Irish stage, film and television actor, RADA graduate and RSC associate artist known for playing Dudley Moore, Albert Einstein and Igor Stravinsky in TV biopics, Richard III for the RSC, and Lord Loxley in Mr Selfridge.

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn (born 1959, Chicago) is an American actor of Irish descent, known for Desperately Seeking Susan, Avalon, Legends of the Fall, and Michael Collins, with Emmy nominations for An Early Frost and dual US-Irish citizenship.

Aidan Turner

Aidan Turner (born 1983, Clondalkin, Dublin) is an Irish actor known as Mitchell in Being Human, Kíli in The Hobbit, Ross Poldark in Poldark (2015–2019), and Declan O'Hara in Rivals.

Aidy Bryant

Aidy Bryant is an American comedian, writer, and actress, born in Phoenix, Arizona, best known as a Saturday Night Live cast member 2012–2022 and as star, writer, and executive producer of Hulu's Shrill.

Aimé Donna Kelly

Aimé Donna Kelly is an American actress and playwright known as Captain Renee Curry on Law & Order: SVU since 2020, promoted to series regular for Season 27 in 2025.

Aimee Carrero

Aimee Carrero (Aimee Veronica Carrero Vila), Dominican-American actress born 1988 in Santo Domingo and raised in Miami, known for Sofia in Young & Hungry, voicing Disney's first Latina princess Elena of Avalor, and Adora in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.

Aimee Garcia

Aimee Garcia (Aimee Sandimés Garcia López de Ordóñez, born 1978) is an American actress from Chicago, known for Ella Lopez on Lucifer, Jamie Batista on Dexter, Veronica on George Lopez, and her Scrappy Heart Productions comics work.

Aimee Lou Wood

Aimee Lou Wood (born 1995, Stockport) is an English actress and writer, RADA graduate, BAFTA winner for Aimee Gibbs in Sex Education, Emmy-nominated as Chelsea in The White Lotus season 3, and co-writer and star of BBC Three's Film Club.

Aimee-Ffion Edwards

Aimee-Ffion Edwards (born 1987) is a Welsh actress from Newport, also credited Aimée-Ffion Edwards, known for Sketch in Skins, Esme Shelby in Peaky Blinders, Sophie in Detectorists, and Shirley Dander in Slow Horses, plus video-game voice roles including Xenoblade Chronicles 3.

Aisha Dee

Aisha Dee (born 1993) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter, also known as Kat Edison of The Bold Type. She leads Safe Home and Apple Cider Vinegar's Chanelle, won a 2024 Equity Ensemble Award, and is Lancôme's first Australian ambassador.