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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Édouard Dermit

Édouard Dermit (Antoine Dhermitte, 1925-1995), French actor and painter, Jean Cocteau's companion and universal legatee; played Cégeste in Orphée and Paul in Les Enfants terribles.

Edward Albert

Edward Albert (Edward Laurence Albert, 1951–2006), American actor, son of Eddie Albert and Margo; Golden Globe-winning star of Butterflies Are Free (1972), later Guarding Tess, Beauty and the Beast, Port Charles, and a California environmental and Native American rights activist.

Edward Arnold (actor)

Edward Arnold, born Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider (1890–1956), American character actor in over 100 films, star of Diamond Jim and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Screen Actors Guild president 1940–1942.

Edward Bluemel

Edward Bluemel, born 1993 in Somerset, is a British actor known for Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane, and as Hercule Poirot in the BBC's Hercule, and for stage roles including Born With Teeth.

Edward Burns

Edward Burns (born 1968) is an American actor-writer-director whose debut, The Brothers McMullen, won the 1995 Sundance Grand Jury Prize; known for low-budget Irish-American New York films and Saving Private Ryan.

Edward Fox (actor)

Edward Fox (Edward Charles Morrice Fox, born 1937) is an English actor, OBE, famous as the assassin in The Day of the Jackal; brother of James Fox, husband of Joanna David, father of Emilia and Freddie Fox.

Edward Furlong

Edward Walter Furlong (born 1977) is an American actor discovered at a Pasadena youth club to play John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), later known for American History X and Pecker, with addiction troubles in the 2000s and a reported seven years sober by 2026.

Edward G. Robinson

Edward G. Robinson (Emanuel Goldenberg, 1893–1973), Romanian-born American actor; star of Little Caesar (1931), Double Indemnity, and Scarlet Street; blacklisted-era Hollywood tough-guy icon.

Edward Hardwicke

Edward Cedric Hardwicke (1932-2011), English actor, son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke; played Dr Watson opposite Jeremy Brett in Granada's Sherlock Holmes (1986-1994) and Captain Pat Grant in Colditz.

Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann (Edward Kirk Herrmann, 1943-2014), American stage, film, and television actor; Tony winner for Mrs. Warren's Profession, Emmy winner for The Practice, FDR in Eleanor and Franklin and Annie, and Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls.

Edward Hibbert

Edward Hibbert (born 1955) is an American-born English actor and literary agent, best known as food critic Gil Chesterton on Frasier (1994-2004, 29 episodes) and the 2024 revival, and an agent at Donadio & Olsen.

Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos (born 1947), American actor, director, and activist; Emmy winner for Miami Vice's Lt. Castillo, Oscar-nominated for Stand and Deliver, Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica, and Latino-visibility advocate.

Edward Mulhare

Edward Mulhare (1923–1997), Irish-born actor from Cork; Broadway's Henry Higgins after Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady; TV's Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Devon Miles in Knight Rider.

Edward Norton

Edward Norton, or Edward Harrison Norton, is an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter born in Boston in 1969, recognized for intense dramatic roles like in Fight Club.

Edward Platt

Edward Platt (Edward Cuthbert Platt, 1916–1974), American character actor and trained bass-baritone, best known as the Chief of CONTROL opposite Don Adams on Get Smart (1965–1970); distinct from the English travel writer Edward Platt born 1968.

Edward Tudor-Pole

Edward Tudor-Pole (Eddie Tenpole), English punk musician, actor and TV presenter born 1954; fronted Tenpole Tudor (Stiff Records, "Swords of a Thousand Men", UK No. 6), sang "Who Killed Bambi?" for the Sex Pistols, and hosted The Crystal Maze 1993-1995.

Edward Winter (actor)

Edward Dean Winter (1937-2001), American character actor born in Ventura, California; twice Tony-nominated for Cabaret and Promises, Promises, and best known as paranoid Colonel Flagg on M*A*S*H (1973-1979); died of Parkinson's disease at 63.

Edward Woodward

Edward Woodward (1930–2009), English actor and singer; star of Callan (1967–72), The Wicker Man (1973), Breaker Morant (1980), and The Equalizer (1985–89); BAFTA 1970, Golden Globe 1986, OBE 1978.

Edwin Lee Gibson

Edwin Lee Gibson (born 1964, Houston) is an American actor and playwright, Obie winner for The Seven, known as Ebraheim on The Bear, Dick Gregory in Turn Me Loose, and roles in Fargo, Winning Time, and Fallout.

Edwina Findley

Edwina Findley (Edwina Findley Dickerson), American actress born 1980 in Washington, D.C.; known for The Wire, If Loving You Is Wrong, Free In Deed, and as Sheila Cannon in Netflix's The Residence.

Edyll Ismail

Edyll Ismail, Somali Australian actress from Melbourne raised in Perth, WAAPA 2023 graduate, plays Leyla in La Brea season 3 and Zuri in Sam Raimi's Send Help (2026).

Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (1918–2014), American actor, played private detective Stu Bailey in 77 Sunset Strip (1958–64) and Inspector Lewis Erskine in The F.B.I. (1965–74), and voiced Alfred Pennyworth in Batman animation.

Efren Ramirez

Efren Ramirez (born 1973, Los Angeles) is an American actor, producer, and DJ, best known as Pedro Sanchez in Napoleon Dynamite (2004); also Crank, Walkout, Lightyear, Satanic Hispanics, Seven Cemeteries.

Ego Nwodim

Ego Nwodim (Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim, born 1988) is a Nigerian-American comedian and SNL cast member seasons 44–50 (2018–2025), seventh Black female cast member, known for Lisa from Temecula and Miss Eggy, now hosting the Thanks Dad podcast.

Eileen Atkins

Dame Eileen Atkins (born 16 June 1934, London) is an English stage, film and television actress and screenwriter, co-creator with Jean Marsh of Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott, winner of three Olivier Awards, a 2008 Emmy for Cranford, and four-time Tony nominee.

Eileen Brennan

Eileen Brennan (Verla Eileen Regina Brennen, 1932-2013), American character actress. Obie-winning Little Mary Sunshine star; Oscar-nominated as Capt. Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin, Emmy winner for its TV series, Mrs. Peacock in Clue.

Eileen Davidson

Eileen Davidson, born 1959, American soap opera actress and author; played Ashley Abbott on The Young and the Restless and five simultaneous characters on Days of Our Lives; two-time Daytime Emmy winner (2014, 2018), Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member, and mystery novelist.

Eileen Fulton

Eileen Fulton (Margaret Elizabeth McLarty, 1933–2025), American actress who played Lisa Grimaldi on As the World Turns from 1960 to 2010, daytime TV's first vixen, also Our Private World, cabaret singer, mystery novelist.

Eileen Heckart

Eileen Heckart (Anna Eileen Herbert, 1919-2001) was an American character actress of stage, film, and TV. Oscar winner for Butterflies Are Free (1972), Golden Globe for The Bad Seed, Emmy for Love & War (1994), special Tony (2000), final role The Waverly Gallery.

Eileen Ryan

Eileen Ryan was an American character actress who worked for over five decades. She died in 2022 and was the mother of actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn.