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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.

Daniel Lissing

Daniel Lissing (born 1981, Sydney) is an Australian actor known as Jack Thornton on When Calls the Heart (2014–2018) and Lt. James King on ABC's Last Resort (2012–2013), plus The Rookie, S.W.A.T., and Hallmark Christmas films.

Daniel Logan

Daniel Logan (born 1987, Auckland) is a New Zealand actor known as young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, The Clone Wars, and The Book of Boba Fett.

Daniel Maslany

Daniel Maslany (born 1988, Regina, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian actor, improviser, and sound designer, brother of Tatiana Maslany, best known as Detective Llewellyn Watts on CBC's Murdoch Mysteries since 2016.

Daniel Massey (actor)

Daniel Massey (1933–1998), English stage and screen actor, son of Raymond Massey, godson of Noël Coward; Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee for playing Coward in Star! (1968), Olivier winner for Man and Superman.

Daniel Mays

Daniel Mays (born 1978), also known as Danny Mays, is an English actor from Essex trained at Italia Conti and RADA. Known for Mike Leigh's All or Nothing and Vera Drake, Line of Duty's Danny Waldron (2017 BAFTA nomination), Rogue One, The Gold, Guys & Dolls (Olivier nomination), and 2025-2026 roles in The Thursday Murder Club, Shelter, Believe Me, and Berlin Noir.

Daniel McDonald (actor)

Daniel McDonald (1960–2007), American actor from Scranton, Pennsylvania; Broadway's Steel Pier (Tony-nominated), High Society, Mamma Mia!; films The Ice Storm and Blood in Blood Out; brother of Christopher McDonald.

Daniel Monks

Daniel Monks is an Australian actor and filmmaker from Perth, hemiplegic since age 11, known for Pulse, Teenage Dick at the Donmar, The Seagull opposite Emilia Clarke, Kaos, and All Her Fault.

Daniel Padilla

Daniel Padilla (Daniel John Ford Padilla, born 1995, Manila) is a Filipino actor-singer, half of the KathNiel love team with Kathryn Bernardo, FAMAS and FAP Best Actor winner known for The Hows of Us.

Daniel Palladino

Daniel Palladino (born 1960, Los Angeles) is an American TV writer, producer, and director, husband and partner of Amy Sherman-Palladino; four-time Emmy winner for Gilmore Girls, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Bunheads, and Étoile.

Daniel Peacock

Daniel Peacock, born in 1958 in Hammersmith, London, is an English actor, writer, and director known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Harry and Cosh.

Daniel Petrie

Daniel Petrie (1920-2004), Canadian film and television director from Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; directed A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Sybil, Eleanor and Franklin, and The Dollmaker; won three Emmys and four DGA Awards.

Daniel Quinn-Toye

Daniel Quinn-Toye (born 2002) is a Scottish actor, also credited as Daniel Quinn Toye, trained at LAMDA. Known for Paris in Jamie Lloyd's 2024 Romeo & Juliet, Jake in Sunny Dancer, the lead in Amazon MGM's Voltron, and Rory in Sterling Point; distinct from the American actor Daniel Quinn.

Daniel Radcliffe

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe, British actor born in London, played Harry Potter (2001–2011), then built a stage and indie-film career: Equus, How to Succeed, Merrily We Roll Along (Tony 2024), Swiss Army Man, Weird Al.

Daniel Rigby

Daniel Rigby (born 1982, Cheadle Hulme, England) is an English actor and comedian, RADA-trained, who won the 2011 BAFTA Leading Actor award for playing Eric Morecambe in Eric and Ernie and starred in One Man, Two Guvnors and Accidental Death of an Anarchist.

Daniel Ryan (actor)

Daniel Ryan (born 1968, Culcheth, England) is a British stage and screen actor trained at LAMDA, known for D.I. Tony Manning in The Bay, Dan Johnson in Mount Pleasant, and Home Fires; distinct from the Irish actor, filmmaker, and The Thrills musician of the same name.

Daniel Sharman

Daniel Sharman (born 1986, London) is an English actor known as Isaac Lahey on Teen Wolf, Kaleb/Kol Mikaelson on The Originals, Troy Otto on Fear the Walking Dead, Lorenzo de' Medici in Medici, and Kelly Lord in A Town Called Malice.

Daniel Stern (actor)

Daniel Jacob Stern (born 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American actor, director, and sculptor known as Marv in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, Phil in City Slickers, and the narrator of The Wonder Years; he directed Rookie of the Year and published the memoir Home and Alone in 2024.

Daniel Sunjata

Daniel Sunjata (Daniel Sunjata Condon), American actor born 1971, known as firefighter Franco Rivera on Rescue Me, FBI agent Paul Briggs on Graceland, the Tony-nominated Take Me Out role, and Detective Karadec on High Potential.

Daniel Truhitte

Daniel Truhitte (Daniel Lee Truhitte), American actor, singer, and dancer born 1943 in Sacramento, California; best known as Rolf Gruber in The Sound of Music (1965), singing "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" with Charmian Carr; later a Marine, Las Vegas performer, and North Carolina dance teacher.

Daniel von Bargen

Daniel von Bargen (1950-2015), American character actor from Cincinnati, played Mr. Kruger on Seinfeld and Commandant Spangler on Malcolm in the Middle; Theatre World Award winner for Mastergate, died March 1, 2015.

Daniel Webber (actor)

Daniel Webber (Daniel Peter Webber, born 1988, Gosford, Australia) is an Australian actor known for Lee Harvey Oswald in 11.22.63, Vince Neil in The Dirt, and Jesse Evans in Billy the Kid; distinct from inventors and executives of the same name.

Daniel Weyman

Daniel Weyman (born 1977, Newcastle upon Tyne) is a British actor and audiobook narrator, best known as the Stranger, revealed as Gandalf in The Rings of Power, with TV leads in Silent Witness, Foyle's War, and Gentleman Jack.

Daniel Wu (吴彦祖)

Daniel Wu (吳彥祖, Wu Yanzu) is a Chinese American actor, director, and producer born in 1974 in Berkeley, California, who became a Hong Kong film leading man from 1997's Bishonen onward and later starred in Into the Badlands, Tomb Raider, and American Born Chinese.

Daniel Zovatto

Daniel Zovatto, born 1991 in San José, Costa Rica, is a Costa Rican-American actor, distinct from the political analyst of the same name, known for It Follows, Don't Breathe, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, and as Rodney Alcala in Woman of the Hour (2023).

Daniela Bobadilla

Daniela Bobadilla (born 1993, Mexico City) is a Mexican-Canadian actress known as Sam Goodson on FX's Anger Management, Emma on Awake, Lexie Brooks on The Middle, and the voice of Miss Martian in Justice League vs the Fatal Five.

Daniela Denby-Ashe

Daniela Denby-Ashe (Daniela Jolanta Denby-Ashe), English actress of Polish descent born 1978 in London; known for Sarah Hills in EastEnders, Janey Harper in My Family, Margaret Hale in North & South, and Lorraine Donnegan in Waterloo Road.

Daniela Lavender

Daniela Lavender (Daniela Lavender Kingsley, born 1974, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian actress married to Ben Kingsley. Credits include Ali G Indahouse, Learning to Drive, Nomis, Tut, and Emotional Backgammon.