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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Cynthia Watros

Cynthia Watros (born 1968, Lake Orion, Michigan) is an American actress, 1998 Daytime Emmy winner as Annie Dutton on Guiding Light, known as Kellie Newmark on The Drew Carey Show, Erin on Titus, Libby on Lost, and Nina Reeves on General Hospital since 2019.

Cynthy Wu

Cynthy Wu (born 1998) is an American actress of Vietnamese and Chinese descent known as Kelly Baldwin on For All Mankind and for roles in Before I Fall, Kong: Skull Island, The Happytime Murders, and Holidate.

Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack, full name Cyril James Cusack, was an Irish actor born in South Africa in 1910 who ran his own touring company and appeared in about ninety films.

D. B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeney (Daniel Bernard Sweeney, born 1961) is an American actor from Shoreham, Long Island, known for Eight Men Out, The Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Lonesome Dove, Strange Luck, and voiceover work including Mountain Men.

D. B. Woodside

D.B. Woodside (David Bryan Woodside), American actor born 1969 in Queens, New York; Yale School of Drama MFA known for Principal Wood in Buffy, Wayne Palmer in 24, Amenadiel in Lucifer, and Erik Monks in The Night Agent; distinct from the psychiatrist D. Blake Woodside.

D. J. Cotrona

D.J. Cotrona (Donald Joseph Cotrona, born 1980) is an American actor known as Flint in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Seth Gecko in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, and Super Hero Pedro in Shazam!, later co-writing Fight or Flight.

D. W. Moffett

D. W. Moffett (Donald Warren Moffett, born 1954) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for The Normal Heart, Friday Night Lights' Joe McCoy, Switched at Birth's John Kennish, Traffic, and as SCAD's film department chair.

D.C. Young Fly

D.C. Young Fly (John Whitfield, born 1992, Atlanta) is an American comedian, rapper, actor, and podcast host known for Wild 'N Out, the 85 South Show podcast, and albums Curb Music, Trap Soul, and Fly Womack.

D'Arcy Carden

D'Arcy Carden (née D'Arcy Beth Erokan, born 1980) is an American actress and comedian, Emmy-nominated as Janet on The Good Place, also known for Barry, A League of Their Own, and Broadway's The Thanksgiving Play.

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (born 2001, Toronto) is a Canadian Oji-Cree actor, Bear Smallhill in Reservation Dogs and Ray in Warfare (2025); first Indigenous lead comedy actor Emmy nominee (2024).

D'Urville Martin

D'Urville Martin (1939–1984), American actor and director of 1970s blaxploitation films; played Rev. Rufus in Black Caesar and Toby in the Black Charley films, and directed Rudy Ray Moore's Dolemite (1975), also playing Willie Green.

Da'Vinchi

Da'Vinchi (Abraham D. Juste, born 1995) is a Haitian-American actor from Brooklyn known as Terry "Southwest T" Flenory on Starz's BMF, Darnell Hayes on All American, and Cash Mooney on Grown-ish.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Da'Vine Joy Randolph is an American actress from Philadelphia, a Yale School of Drama graduate and trained opera singer. Known for Oda Mae Brown in Ghost the Musical (Tony nomination, 2012), Lady Reed in Dolemite Is My Name, and her Oscar-winning Mary Lamb in The Holdovers (2024).

Dabney Coleman

Dabney Coleman (1932–2024), American character actor from Austin, Texas, famous for comic villains in 9 to 5, Tootsie, and WarGames; Emmy and Golden Globe winner who played Merle Jeeter, Buffalo Bill, and Commodore Kaestner.

Dack Rambo

Dack Rambo (Norman Jay Rambo, 1941-1994), American TV actor, twin brother of Dirk Rambo; played Jeff Sonnett in The Guns of Will Sonnett and Jack Ewing on Dallas 1985-87; went public with HIV in 1991.

Dacre Montgomery

Dacre Montgomery (Dacre Kayd Montgomery-Harvey), Australian actor born 1994 in Perth, known as Billy Hargrove in Stranger Things and the Red Ranger in Power Rangers (2017), later in Elvis, Went Up the Hill, and Dead Man's Wire.

Daeg Faerch

Daeg Faerch (Daeg Neergaard Faerch, born 1995, San Diego) is an American actor known as the young Michael Myers in Rob Zombie's Halloween (2007), with credits in Hancock, Euphoria, and Josie.

Dafne Keen

Dafne Keen (Dafne Keen Fernández), Spanish-British actress born 2005 in Madrid; played X-23 in Logan, Lyra in His Dark Materials, and Jecki Lon in Star Wars: The Acolyte.

Dagmar (actress)

Dagmar, stage name of Virginia Ruth Egnor (1921–2001), also billed as Jennie Lewis, American TV comedienne who played the dumb blonde on NBC's Broadway Open House (1950–51) and hosted Dagmar's Canteen; namesake of Cadillac 'dagmar' bumpers.

Dagmara Domińczyk

Dagmara Domińczyk is a Polish-American actress and writer, born in 1976 in Kielce, Poland, known for playing Mercedes in The Count of Monte Cristo and Karolina Novotney in HBO's Succession.

Daisy and Violet Hilton

Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "Siamese Twins of Texas," were English-born conjoined twins (1908–1969) exhibited from childhood, emancipated by a 1931 San Antonio trial, and known for Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) and Chained for Life.

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Daisy Edgar-Jones (born 1998, London) is an English actress who broke out as Marianne in Normal People (2020) and led Where the Crawdads Sing, Twisters, and Sense and Sensibility (2026).

Daisy Haggard

Daisy Haggard (born 1978) is a British actress and writer, daughter of director Piers Haggard, known for Myra Licht in Episodes, creating and starring in Back to Life, Breeders, Boat Story, and the Channel 4 thriller Maya.

Daisy Head

Daisy Head (Daisy May Head), English actress born 1991 in Fulham, London; daughter of Anthony Head; known for Genya Safin in Shadow and Bone, Sofina in Dungeons & Dragons, and Guilt.

Daisy May Cooper

Daisy May Cooper (born 1986, Cirencester), English actor-writer, co-creator and star of BBC mockumentary This Country as Kerry Mucklowe, 2018 BAFTA winner, creator of Am I Being Unreasonable?, and lead of Rain Dogs.

Daisy Ridley

Daisy Ridley is a British actress known for Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019), cast in April 2014 from obscurity; later films include Chaos Walking, Young Woman and the Sea, We Bury the Dead, and Cleaner.

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews (Melvin Richard Matthews, born 1940, Oakland) is an American character actor, Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and translator known for Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird and Rocky, and his Drama Desk-winning Henry IV adaptation.

Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994) is an English actress known as Lyra Belacqua in The Golden Compass (2007), Franky Fitzgerald in Skins, and WPC Shirley Trewlove in Endeavour; also a screenwriter and director.

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning (Hannah Dakota Fanning), American actress born 1994 in Conyers, Georgia; child star of I Am Sam, youngest-ever SAG nominee and Academy member, now Emmy-nominated for Ripley and All Her Fault and co-founder, with sister Elle, of Lewellen Pictures.

Dakota Johnson

Dakota Mayi Johnson, American actress and TeaTime Pictures co-founder, daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith; famous for Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades of Grey, Suspiria, Madame Web, and Materialists.