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Aisha Hinds
Aisha Jamila Hinds (born 1975, Brooklyn) is an American actress; plays Henrietta "Hen" Wilson on 9-1-1 and was acclaimed as Harriet Tubman in Underground, later directing for 9-1-1.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler (Aisha Nilaja Tyler, born 1970, San Francisco) is an American actress, comedian, director, and host: Lana Kane on Archer (14 seasons), The Talk co-host (Daytime Emmy), Whose Line host, and director of AXIS.
Aisling Loftus
Aisling Loftus (born 1990, Nottingham) is an English actress known for Sonya Rostova in War and Peace, Agnes Towler in Mr Selfridge, and Queenie in Small Island; IFTA-nominated for Property of the State.
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón (Aitana Sánchez-Gijón de Angelis), Spanish actress born in Rome in 1968; star of Bajarse al moro, La camarera del Titanic, and Volavérunt; first woman president of Spain's Film Academy (1998-2000), Silver Shell 1999, Gold Medal 2015, Honorary Goya 2025.
AJ Michalka
AJ Michalka (Amanda Joy Michalka, born 1991, Torrance, California) is an American actress and singer, half of the duo Aly & AJ ('Potential Breakup Song') and star of The Goldbergs, Schooled, and The White Lotus season 4.
Aja Naomi King
Aja Naomi King (born 1985) is an American actress known as Michaela Pratt on How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020), Cherry in The Birth of a Nation, and Emmy-nominated Harriet Sloane in Lessons in Chemistry.
Ajay Naidu
Ajay Naidu (Ajay Kalahastri Naidu, born 1972) is an American actor, Samir in Office Space and Spirit Award nominee for SubUrbia; also director of Ashes, trained at Harvard's ART institute.
Aksel Hennie
Aksel Hennie (born 1975, Oslo) is a Norwegian actor, director, and screenwriter. Known for Max Manus, Headhunters, The Martian, and Sisu; winner of four Amanda Awards, including three for Best Actor.
Akshay Khanna (British actor)
Akshay Khanna is a British Indian actor trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Polite Society (2023), Red, White & Royal Blue (2023), Critical Incident, and Ratthi in Apple TV+'s Murderbot (2025); distinct from Bollywood's Akshaye Khanna.
Akshay Kumar (British actor)
British actor Akshay Kumar (born 1994, East London), distinct from the Bollywood star, trained at Drama Centre London; known for Homeland, Pandora, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Virdee, and Double Blind.
Al Molinaro
Al Molinaro (Umberto Francesca Molinaro, 1919-2015) was an American character actor who played Al Delvecchio, owner of Arnold's Drive-In, on Happy Days and Murray the cop on The Odd Couple.
Al Pacino
Al Pacino (Alfredo James Pacino, born 1940), American actor of the Actors Studio and Method tradition; Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Oscar winner for Scent of a Woman, nine-time Oscar nominee, two-time Emmy winner, named 62nd SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement recipient.
Al Weaver
Al Weaver (born 1981, Bolton, England; full name Alex Weaver) is an English actor, writer, and director, known for Leonard Finch in ITV's Grantchester, Coram Boy at the National Theatre, and films including Marie Antoinette and Colette.
Alain Delon
Alain Delon (1935–2024), French actor and producer, star of Plein soleil, Le Samouraï, The Leopard, and Mr. Klein; César winner 1985, Palme d'Honneur 2019, icon of impassive screen cool.
Alain-Fabien Delon
Alain-Fabien Delon, born in 1994 in Gien, France, is a French actor and writer, the youngest son of the actor Alain Delon and model Rosalie van Breemen.
Alaina Reed Hall
Alaina Reed Hall (Bernice Ruth Reed, 1946–2009), American actress and singer; Olivia on Sesame Street 1976–1988 and Rose Lee Holloway on NBC's 227; also Broadway Chicago, Hair, Eubie!; died of breast cancer in Santa Monica.
Alan Alda
Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, 1936) is an American actor, director, and science-communication advocate, famous as Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H (1972–1983), later Arnold Vinick on The West Wing, with six Emmys and an Oscar nomination for The Aviator.
Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (1934–2023), American character actor; Oscar winner for Little Miss Sunshine, nominated for The Russians Are Coming and Argo; Second City and Tarriers alumnus, Tony winner for Enter Laughing, final major role in The Kominsky Method.
Alan Autry
Alan Autry (Carlos Alan Autry, born 1952) is an American actor, former Green Bay Packers quarterback, and Republican mayor of Fresno, California, 2001–2009, best known as Bubba Skinner on In the Heat of the Night.
Alan Barinholtz
Alan Barinholtz (born 1951) is an American attorney and actor, also known as Judge Alan Rosen of Jury Duty. A Chicago personal-injury lawyer of about 40 years and father of Ike and Jon Barinholtz, he won the 2023 Freevee role via audition tape.
Alan Bates
Alan Bates: chiefly Sir Alan Arthur Bates (1934–2003), English stage and film actor of Look Back in Anger, Butley, Zorba the Greek and Women in Love; also the subpostmaster knighted in 2024 for exposing the Post Office Horizon scandal, and a Monckton Chambers barrister.
Alan Cox (actor)
Alan Cox (born 1970, London) is a British actor, son of Brian Cox; young Watson in Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), RSC and National Theatre stage actor, Broadway's Translations and Frost/Nixon, and Tony Crosland in The Gang of Three. Distinct from the Cleveland radio host of the same name.
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming, Scottish stage and screen actor; Olivier winner for Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Eli Gold on The Good Wife, Emmy-winning host of The Traitors US, memoirist and cabaret performer.
Alan Ford (actor)
Alan Ford (born 23 February 1938, London) is an English character actor known for Brick Top in Guy Ritchie's Snatch and for narrating Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; also The Long Good Friday, EastEnders, and the Hitchhiker's Guide radio Roosta.
Alan Ladd
Alan Ladd (1913–1964), American film star of the 1940s and 1950s, aka Alan Walbridge Ladd; famous for This Gun for Hire, The Blue Dahlia, and Shane; father of producer Alan Ladd Jr.
Alan Lake
Alan Lake (1940–1984), English RADA-trained character actor and third husband of Diana Dors; played Jack Daniels in Slade In Flame and John Merrick in The Sweeney. Distinct from the Australian film editor Alan Lake (1934–2017).
Alan Napier
Alan Napier (Alan William Napier-Clavering, 1903–1988), English character actor and Neville Chamberlain's cousin; RADA-trained, Hollywood from 1939, best known as Alfred Pennyworth in all 120 episodes of the 1966–68 Batman TV series.
Alan Oppenheimer
Alan Oppenheimer (born April 23, 1930) is an American actor and voice artist, the voice of Skeletor, Man-at-Arms, and Cringer in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Ming in Flash Gordon, Vanity Smurf, and Falkor in The NeverEnding Story, distinct from the physicist Oppenheimers.
Alan Rachins
Alan Rachins (Alan Leonard Rachins, 1942-2024), American actor of L.A. Law's Douglas Brackman Jr. and Dharma & Greg's Larry Finkelstein, 1988 Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, also Showgirls' Tony Moss; died of heart failure November 2, 2024.
Alan Rickman
Alan Rickman (1946–2016), British stage and film actor; RSC Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Hans Gruber in Die Hard, and Severus Snape in all eight Harry Potter films; BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Emmy winner, never Oscar-nominated.