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Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin (born 1954, Bronx, New York) is an American actress and producer known for Diner, The Big Easy, Sea of Love, and Animal Kingdom; she won a 1998 Emmy for Before Women Had Wings and a 2011 Tony for The Normal Heart.

Ellen Burstyn

Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932, Detroit) is an American actress and Triple Crown of Acting winner: Oscar for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tony for Same Time Next Year, two Emmys, Actors Studio co-president, and 2026 Venice Golden Lion honoree.

Ellen Corby

Ellen Corby (Ellen Hansen, 1911–1999), American character actress and screenwriter; Grandma Esther Walton on The Waltons, three Emmys, Oscar nominee for I Remember Mama.

Ellen Geer

Ellen Geer (born 1941), American actress, director, and writer, daughter of Will Geer and Herta Ware; artistic director of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga Canyon since 1978, known for Harold and Maude and UCLA classical acting teaching.

Ellen Greene

Ellen Greene is an American actress and singer, born in Brooklyn, best known as the original Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors on stage (1982) and in Frank Oz's 1986 film, with a 1977 Tony nomination for Threepenny Opera.

Ellen Hollman

Ellen Hollman (born 1983, Detroit) is an American actress, producer, and writer known for Saxa in Spartacus, Echo in The Matrix Resurrections, and Brenner Baker in Army of One, plus NCIS: New Orleans and Visual Impact Now charity work.

Ellen Holly

Ellen Virginia Holly (1931-2023), American stage and television actress; first African American lead on daytime TV as Carla Gray on One Life to Live from 1968, created by Agnes Nixon; Broadway work in Too Late the Phalarope; autobiography One Life (1996).

Ellen Muth

Ellen Anna Muth is an American actress, born in 1981, best known for playing Georgia "George" Lass in the Showtime series Dead Like Me and its 2009 film follow-up.

Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo (born 1969, Everett, Massachusetts), American actress and producer, Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy since 2005; $20 million-a-year deal made her TV drama's highest-paid actress; stars in Good American Family (2025).

Ellen Robertson

Ellen Robertson refers to several people: a British actress, writer and comedian of the sketch duo Britney (Vladimir, Mickey 17, Black Mirror); Ellen M. Robertson, an anatomical education researcher at Randolph-Macon College; Ellen P. Robertson, a USGS wildlife ecologist; and chemist Ellen J. Robertson.

Ellen Travolta

Ellen Travolta, American actress born in Englewood, New Jersey (sources differ: 1939 or 1940), sister of John Travolta; played Chachi's mother Louisa on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi and Lillian on Charles in Charge.

Ellen Wong

Ellen Wong (born 1985) is a Canadian actress from Scarborough, Ontario, of Cambodian descent, known as Knives Chau in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Mouse in The Carrie Diaries, and Jenny Chey in GLOW.

Ellie Bamber

Ellie Bamber (Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber, born 1997, Surrey) is a British actress known for Nocturnal Animals, Les Misérables, Willow, Red White & Royal Blue, and playing Kate Moss in Moss & Freud.

Ellie de Lange

Ellie de Lange (born 1997) is a British-Dutch actress and director known for The Serpent, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Arcadia, Netflix's Run Away, and her short film Verdomme.

Ellie Haddington

Ellie Haddington, born 1955 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish actress trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Bad Girls, Foyle's War, Motherland, Fantastic Beasts, Enola Holmes, and Operation Mincemeat.

Ellie Kemper

Ellie Kemper (Elizabeth Claire Kemper, born 1980), American actress and comedian; Erin Hannon on The Office, star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019), Bridesmaids and 21 Jump Street, two-time Emmy nominee, author of My Squirrel Days.

Ellie Kendrick

Ellie Kendrick (Eleanor Lucy V. Kendrick, born 1990) is an English actress and playwright known for Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 The Diary of Anne Frank, Meera Reed in Game of Thrones, and the Royal Court play Hole.

Ellie White

Ellie White (born 1989) is an English actress, writer and comedian; star of Ellie & Natasia with Natasia Demetriou, Princess Beatrice in The Windsors, Katia in Stath Lets Flats, and leads in The Other One and Dick Turpin.

Elliot Cowan

Elliot Cowan (born 1976, London) is a British actor known as Mr. Darcy in Lost in Austen, Daron-Vex in Krypton, Lewis Pirenne in Foundation, Jack Smurl in The Conjuring: Last Rites, and an award-winning classical stage performer.

Elliot Fletcher

Elliot Fletcher (born 1996) is an American transgender actor from Los Angeles, known as Noah in Faking It, Aaron Baker in The Fosters, and Trevor in Shameless, plus voice roles in Tekkonkinkreet and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.

Elliot Knight

Elliot Knight, English actor born 1990 in Birmingham, trained at Manchester School of Theatre; starred in Sinbad (2012), played Merlin in Once Upon a Time, and voices Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, also starring in The Boys (2024) and Countdown (2025).

Elliot Page

Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, is a Canadian actor born 1987 in Halifax, known for Juno (Oscar-nominated), Hard Candy, X-Men, Inception, and The Umbrella Academy; came out as trans in 2020, Time cover 2021, memoir Pageboy 2023.

Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein, 1938, Brooklyn) is an American actor, Oscar-nominated for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, star of Altman's M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, later Jack Geller on Friends and Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven.

Ellis Howard

Ellis Howard (Ellis Francis Howard) is a Liverpool-born English actor and writer, BAFTA-nominated for playing Byron in the BBC's What It Feels Like for a Girl (2025); also known for Red Rose, Help, and Catherine the Great.

Élodie Yung

Élodie Yung (born 1981, Paris) is a French actress of Cambodian descent, a karate black belt and Sorbonne law graduate, known for Elektra in Netflix's Daredevil and The Defenders, The Cleaning Lady, and returning in Daredevil: Born Again season 3.

Eloise Mumford

Eloise Mumford (born 1986) is an American actress from Olympia, Washington, a 2009 NYU Tisch graduate, known for Lone Star, The River, The Right Stuff, Cross, and as Kate Kavanagh in all three Fifty Shades films.

Elsa Lanchester

Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986), British-born actress and wife of Charles Laughton, played Mary Shelley and the Bride in Bride of Frankenstein (1935); also ran the Cave of Harmony nightclub and appeared in Mary Poppins.

Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli (Elisa Tia, 1935-2017), Italian model turned actress; Silver Bear winner for Donatella (1956), star of The Indian Fighter, Hatari!, and The Trial.

Elsa Pataky

Elsa Pataky (Elsa Lafuente Medianu), Spanish actress born in Madrid in 1976, known for Raquel in Al salir de clase, Elena Neves in Fast & Furious, Netflix's Interceptor, and SkyShowtime's Matices and El Homenaje; married to Chris Hemsworth, lives in Byron Bay.

Elva Guerra

Elva Guerra (born 2004, McAlester, Oklahoma) is a two-spirit Ponca and Indigenous Mexican American actor known as Jackie in Reservation Dogs and Sally Growing Thunder in Dark Winds.