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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Dana Elcar

Dana Elcar (Ibson Dana Elcar, 1927-2005), American character actor and director, best known as Peter Thornton on MacGyver (1985-1992); his real glaucoma blindness was written into the show; over 150 screen credits including The Sting and 2010.

Dana Ivey

Dana Ivey (born 1941, Atlanta) is an American character actress, five-time Tony nominee, three-time Obie winner, creator of Daisy Werthan in Driving Miss Daisy, and film supporting player from The Color Purple to The Leisure Seeker.

Dana Plato

Dana Plato (Dana Michelle Strain, 1964-1999), American actress who played Kimberly Drummond on Diff'rent Strokes 1978-1984; later legal troubles, low-budget films, and a 1999 overdose ruled suicide.

Dana Reeve

Dana Reeve, born Dana Charles Morosini, was an American actress and caregiver advocate, widow of Christopher Reeve, who chaired his paralysis foundation until her death in 2006.

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson (born 1960, New York City) is an American actress known for Fletch, Tombstone, The Night We Never Met, Friday Night Lights, and Nashville; granddaughter of DC Comics founder Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, based in Austin, Texas since 2005.

Dana Wynter

Dana Wynter (Dagmar Winter, 1931–2011), Berlin-born English actress; starred as Becky Driscoll in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Fox contract player, films Sink the Bismarck! and Airport, later TV work.

Danai Gurira

Danai Gurira (Danai Jekesai Gurira, born 1978) is a Zimbabwean-American actress and playwright: Michonne in The Walking Dead, Okoye in Marvel's Black Panther films, and author of Eclipsed, The Convert, and In the Continuum.

Dane DeHaan

Dane DeHaan (Dane William DeHaan) is an American actor born 1986 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, known for Chronicle, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Life, Valerian, Oppenheimer, and the upcoming Neuromancer series.

Dane DiLiegro

Dane DiLiegro (born 1988, Lexington, Massachusetts) is an American creature actor and former pro basketball player, best known as the Predator in Prey (2022), with credits including American Horror Stories, Running Point, River, and Seasons.

Dani Crayne

Dani Crayne (Darlyne Danielle Goldman, born 1934), American actress of 1950s films including Written on the Wind and Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend; four marriages, including David Janssen and Hal Needham; later famed as Oscar party hostess Dani Janssen.

Dani Harmer

Dani Harmer (Danielle Jane Harmer, born 1989) is an English actress famous for playing Tracy Beaker across CBBC series, plus Dani's House, Strictly 2013 finalist, pantomime and directing work.

Danica McKellar

Danica McKellar (born 1975) is an American actress and mathematician, Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, UCLA math graduate 1998, co-author of the Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem, and bestselling math-book author.

Daniel Auteuil

Daniel Auteuil, French stage and screen actor born 1950 in Algiers; two Césars, 1988 BAFTA, 1996 Cannes Best Actor for Le Huitième Jour; breakthrough Jean de Florette; five films as director including Le Fil.

Daniel Baldwin

Daniel Baldwin (Daniel Leroy Baldwin, born 1960, Massapequa, New York) is an American actor, producer, and director, one of the four Baldwin brothers; known for Detective Beau Felton on Homicide: Life on the Street, films like Vampires, and public addiction-recovery advocacy.

Daniel Bernhardt

Daniel Bernhardt (born 1965, Worblaufen, Switzerland) is a Swiss actor, stuntman, and martial artist; star of Bloodsport II and III, Agent Johnson in The Matrix Reloaded and Resurrections, Kirill in John Wick, and lead of Deathstalker (2025).

Daniel Brühl

Daniel Brühl (Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo), German-Spanish actor, director, and producer born 1978 in Barcelona, raised in Cologne; known for Good Bye, Lenin!, Rush as Niki Lauda, Zemo, and All Quiet on the Western Front.

Daniel Craig

Daniel Craig (born 1968, Chester, England) is a British actor who played James Bond in five films from Casino Royale (2006) to No Time to Die (2021) and stars as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out series.

Daniel Cudmore

Daniel Cudmore (born 1980) is a Canadian actor and stuntman who played Colossus in three X-Men films, Felix in the Twilight Saga, and Master Chief in Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn; he declined Deadpool (2016).

Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957, London) is a British knighted actor and the only performer with three Best Actor Oscars, for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln; known for immersive method preparation, he retired in 2017 after Phantom Thread and returned in 2025's Anemone, directed by his son Ronan.

Daniel Ezra

Daniel Ezra, born in 1991 in Birmingham, England, is an English actor best known for the lead role of Spencer James in The CW's All American.

Daniel Franzese

Daniel Franzese (born 1978) is an American actor and comedian known as Damian in Mean Girls (2004) and Eddie in HBO's Looking; he came out in 2014 via a viral letter to Damian and works with the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation.

Daniel Gillies

Daniel Gillies (born 1976, Winnipeg) is a Canadian-born New Zealand actor known as Elijah Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries and The Originals, Dr. Joel Goran in Saving Hope, and the villain Mandrake in Coming Home in the Dark (2021).

Daniel Henney

Daniel Henney (다니엘 헤니), born 1979 in Carson City, Michigan, is a Korean American actor and model who broke out in Korea's My Lovely Sam Soon, played Agent Zero in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Matt Simmons in Criminal Minds, and Lan Mandragoran in The Wheel of Time.

Daniel Henshall

Daniel Edwin Henshall (born 1982, Sydney) is an Australian actor known for his award-winning film debut as John Bunting in Snowtown, The Babadook, TURN: Washington's Spies, Okja and Mickey 17.

Daniel Hugh Kelly

Daniel Hugh Kelly (Daniel Hugh-Kelly), American actor born in Elizabeth, New Jersey; starred as Mark "Skid" McCormick in Hardcastle and McCormick (1983-1986) and Frank Ryan in Ryan's Hope; Broadway revivals of Born Yesterday and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; films Cujo and Star Trek: Insurrection.

Daniel Ibáñez (actor)

Daniel Ibáñez (born 1995, Madrid) is a Spanish actor known for Segundo premio (Goya Best New Actor nominee 2025), El Caracas in the Carmen Mola thrillers, Terminator: Dark Fate, and the Miguel Hernández musical Para la libertad.

Daniel Ings

Daniel Ings (born 1985) is a British actor known as Luke in Lovesick, Mike Parker in The Crown, Freddy Horniman in The Gentlemen, and Ser Lyonel Baratheon in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms; not the footballer Danny Ings.

Daniel J. Travanti

Daniel J. Travanti (Daniel Giovanni Travanti, born March 7, 1940, Kenosha, Wisconsin) is an American actor, two-time Emmy winner as Capt. Frank Furillo on Hill Street Blues (1981-1987), later in Adam, Murrow, and Missing Persons.

Daniel Kaluuya

Daniel Kaluuya (born 1989) is a British actor from Camden, London, of Ugandan descent, known for Skins, Get Out, and his Oscar-winning Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah; also a director of The Kitchen.

Daniel Lapaine

Daniel Lapaine (born 1971, Sydney) is an Australian actor, writer, and director based in London, known for Muriel's Wedding, Catastrophe, Black Mirror, Zero Dark Thirty, and The 10th Kingdom.