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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Dawn Steele

Dawn Steele (born 1975, Glasgow) is a Scottish actress known as Lexie in Monarch of the Glen, Ange Godard in Holby City, and DCI Cora MacMillan in Granite Harbour.

Dawn Wells

Dawn Wells (1938-2020), American actress born in Reno, Nevada, best known as Mary Ann Summers on Gilligan's Island (CBS, 1964-1967); Miss Nevada 1959, University of Washington drama graduate, later Wishing Wells clothing designer; died in Los Angeles.

Dawnn Lewis

Dawnn Lewis (born 1961, Brooklyn) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter who played Jaleesa Vinson on A Different World (1987-1992), co-composed its theme, voiced LaBarbara Conrad in Futurama and Captain Freeman in Star Trek: Lower Decks, and runs Morning Jewel Inc.

Dax Flame

Dax Flame (Theodore Madison Patrello, born 1991, Dallas) is an American YouTuber and actor; his 2007 deadpan video diaries made him the 16th-most-subscribed YouTuber, and he acted in Project X and 21 Jump Street.

Dax Shepard

Dax Shepard (born 1975, Milford, Michigan) is an American actor, writer, director, and host of the Armchair Expert podcast with Monica Padman; known for Punk'd, Parenthood, CHIPS, and Spotify and Wondery podcast deals.

Dayo Koleosho

Dayo Koleosho (Oludayo Koleosho, born 1984) is an English autistic actor, an Access All Areas associate artist, known for Kojo Asare in EastEnders since 2024, Jitney, and Faith, Hope and Charity.

Dean Andrews

Dean Andrews (born 1963, Rotherham) is an English actor known as DS Ray Carling in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, Robbie in Last Tango in Halifax, and Will Taylor in Emmerdale (2019–2024), after a 20-year singing career.

Dean Butler (actor)

Dean Butler (born 1956, Prince George, BC) is a Canadian-American actor and producer, best known as Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie (1979–1983), also Buffy's father Hank Summers, and producer of Feherty.

Dean Cain

Dean Cain, born Dean George Tanaka in 1966, is an American actor who played Superman in Lois & Clark (1993-97), a former Buffalo Bills player, later a Trump supporter and honorary ICE officer.

Dean Gaffney

Dean Martin Gaffney (born 1978, Hammersmith, London) is an English actor known for Robbie Jackson on BBC's EastEnders (1993–2019, on and off), I'm a Celebrity 2006 and 2023, and the film Reckless with Vinnie Jones.

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger (1903–1991), American film, stage, and television actor; Oscar winner for Twelve O'Clock High; also Brigham Young (1940), White Christmas (1954). Distinct from the younger Yorkshire-born actor of the same name.

Dean Jones (actor)

Dean Carroll Jones (1931-2015), American actor, Disney Legend (1995), star of The Love Bug, That Darn Cat!, and other Disney family films; later Born Again, St. John in Exile, Beethoven; distinct from James Earl Jones and Ben Jones.

Dean Lennox Kelly

Dean Lennox Kelly (born 1975, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire) is an English actor, a Bristol Old Vic graduate known for Kev Ball in Shameless, Meredith Rutter in Jamestown, and Pekka Rollins in Shadow and Bone.

Dean McDermott

Dean McDermott (born 1966, Toronto) is a Canadian actor known as Constable Renfield Turnbull on Due South, Doc Barlow in Open Range, host of Chopped Canada, and Tori Spelling's former husband.

Dean Norris

Dean Joseph Norris (born 1963, South Bend, Indiana) is an American character actor known for DEA agent Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad, Big Jim Rennie on Under the Dome, and Uncle Daddy on Claws; Harvard 1985, RADA-trained.

Dean O'Gorman

Dean O'Gorman (born 1976, Auckland) is a New Zealand actor, director, and photographer, known as Fili in The Hobbit trilogy, Anders in The Almighty Johnsons, and for Bonjour Timothy, Trumbo, Pork Pie, Hillary, and After the Party.

Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (Robert Dean Stockwell, 1936–2021), American actor: MGM child star of the 1940s, Oscar-nominated for Married to the Mob, four-time Emmy nominee as Al Calavicci on Quantum Leap, later collage artist.

Dean Winters

Dean Winters (born 1964) is an American actor known as Ryan O'Reily on HBO's Oz, Dennis Duffy on 30 Rock, and Mayhem in Allstate's commercials since 2010; he survived a 2009 cardiac arrest and amputations.

Deanna Dunagan

Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940, Monahans, Texas) is an American actress, Tony winner as Violet Weston in August: Osage County (2008), also Nana in The Visit, based in Chicago theater.

Deanne Bray

Deanne Bray (Deanne Bray-Kotsur), born 1971, deaf American actress; title role of Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002-2005), Emma Coolidge on Heroes, wife of Troy Kotsur.

Debbi Morgan

Debbi Morgan (Deborah Morgan), born 1956 in Dunn, North Carolina, is an American actress famous as Angie Baxter Hubbard on All My Children, a Daytime Emmy winner also known for Eve's Bayou, Power, and her memoir The Monkey on My Back.

Debbie Allen

Debbie Allen (Deborah Kaye Allen, born 1950, Houston) is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and producer known for Lydia Grant in Fame, A Different World, Grey's Anatomy, the Debbie Allen Dance Academy, and a 2025 honorary Oscar; not the actress of A Murder in Oakland (2025).

Debbie Lee Carrington

Debbie Lee Carrington (Deborah Lee Carrington, 1959-2018), American little-person actress and stuntwoman born in San Jose; ewok in Return of the Jedi, Thumbelina in Total Recall, Alien Father in Men in Black, Chucky's stunt double.

Debby Ryan

Debby Ryan, full name Deborah Ann Ryan, is an American actress and singer born in 1993, known for Disney's The Suite Life on Deck and Jessie and Netflix's Insatiable.

Debi Mazar

Debi Mazar, born 1964 in Queens, New York, is an American actress known for Goodfellas, Entourage's Shauna Roberts, and Younger's Maggie Amato, and for her friendship with Madonna, whom she met at Danceteria.

Deborah Ann Woll

Deborah Ann Woll (born 1985, Brooklyn) is an American actress known as Jessica Hamby in True Blood and Karen Page in Daredevil, The Defenders, The Punisher, and Daredevil: Born Again, plus tabletop gaming series Relics and Rarities and Children of Éarte.

Deborah Findlay

Deborah Findlay is an English stage and screen actress born 1947 in Surrey. Known for Top Girls, the Olivier-winning Stanley, Tony-nominated The Children, and Ruth Defoe in The Split.

Deborah Foreman

Deborah Foreman (Deborah Lynn Foreman), American actress born 1962 in Montebello, California; star of Valley Girl (1983) as Julie Richman opposite Nicolas Cage, April Fool's Day (1986) dual lead, ShoWest Most Promising New Star 1986; retired from acting in 1991 to teach yoga and Pilates.

Deborah Kara Unger

Deborah Kara Unger (also billed Deborah Unger), Canadian actress born in Vancouver, trained at Australia's NIDA; known for Crash (1996), The Game (1997), Payback, Sunshine, White Noise, and Silent Hill's Dahlia Gillespie.

Deborah Kerr

Deborah Kerr (born 1921), Scottish-born film and stage actress, CBE, star of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Black Narcissus, From Here to Eternity, and The King and I; six Best Actress Oscar nominations without a win, honorary Academy Award 1994, BFI Fellowship 1986.