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David Strathairn
David Strathairn (born 1949, San Francisco) is an American character actor, Oscar-nominated as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck., an Emmy winner for Temple Grandin, and a longtime John Sayles collaborator.
David Strickland
David Strickland (1969-1999), American actor, also known as Todd Stities on NBC's Suddenly Susan; played Steve Montgomery in Forces of Nature; distinct from voice actor David L. Strickland of Poppy Playtime.
David Suchet
Sir David Suchet (born 1946) is a British actor, LAMDA-trained and an RSC alumnus, famous for playing Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in 70 ITV episodes from 1989 to 2013, plus stage roles like Iago and Lady Bracknell.
David Sutcliffe
David Sutcliffe (born 1969, Saskatoon) is a Canadian former actor, best known as Christopher Hayden on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007) and in Cracked and Proof; he retired from acting in 2019 to practice somatic psychotherapy.
David Tennant
David Tennant, born David John McDonald in 1971 in Bathgate, Scotland, is a Scottish actor known as the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctor in Doctor Who, DI Alec Hardy in Broadchurch, Kilgrave in Jessica Jones, and Crowley in Good Omens.
David Thewlis
David Thewlis (born David Wheeler, 1963, Blackpool) is an English actor, writer, and director; Cannes best actor winner for Naked (1993), Remus Lupin in the Harry Potter films, Emmy-nominated for Fargo, and author of two novels.
David Threlfall
David Threlfall (born 1953, Burnage, Manchester) is an English actor and director, Olivier and RTS Award winner, famed as Smike in the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby and as Frank Gallagher in Channel 4's Shameless.
David Tom
David Tom (Charles David Tom, born 1978) is an American actor, Emmy-winning Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (1999–2002, 2014), twin of Nicholle Tom, brother of Heather Tom, also of Pleasantville and Swing Kids.
David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson (1917-2000), English character actor, George Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins, also The Love Bug and Bedknobs and Broomsticks; RAF veteran, Disney Legend 2002, distinct from the Canadian actor of the same name.
David Troughton
David Troughton (born 1950, London), English RSC actor and son of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton; known for Bob Buzzard in A Very Peculiar Practice, Richard III, and The Archers.
David Visentin
David Visentin (born 1965, Toronto) is a Canadian realtor and HGTV personality, co-host of Love It or List It since 2008 with Hilary Farr and later Page Turner; licensed agent since 1987.
David Wain
David Wain (born 1969, Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American director, writer, actor and comedian of The State and Stella, known for Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models, Childrens Hospital and Netflix Wet Hot series.
David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Edward Williams, 1971) is an English comedian, actor, and children's author, co-creator of Little Britain with Matt Lucas, a former Britain's Got Talent judge, and author of over 60 million children's books, dropped by HarperCollins in 2025.
David Warner (actor)
David Warner (1941–2022), English stage and screen actor, RSC Hamlet of 1965; known for villains in The Omen, Time Bandits, Tron, and Titanic; Emmy winner for Masada. Not the Australian cricketer of the same name.
David Wayne
David Wayne (Wayne James McMeekan, 1914–1995), American stage, film, and TV character actor; two-time Tony winner for Finian's Rainbow and Teahouse of the August Moon; Mad Hatter on Batman; distinct from the country singer and younger filmmakers of the same name.
David Wenham
David Wenham names a British New Testament scholar (born 1945), Wycliffe Hall and Trinity College Bristol, author of Paul: Follower of Jesus or Founder of Christianity?, and an Australian actor (born 1965) who played Faramir in The Lord of the Rings.
David White (actor)
David White (Daniel David White, 1916–1990) was an American character actor and WWII Marine veteran, trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, famous as Larry Tate on ABC's Bewitched (1964–1972). Distinct from actor-producer David A.R. White.
David Wilmot (actor)
David Wilmot is an Irish actor from Dublin, Tony-nominated as Padraic in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, IFTA winner for Intermission, known for The Guard, Calvary, Ripper Street, Black Sails, Station Eleven, and Hamnet; distinct from the 1929–2022 American actor of the same name.
David Woiwod
David Woiwod is an Australian television presenter and journalist who co-hosts Weekend Sunrise on the Seven Network, after five years as 7NEWS US Bureau Chief.
David X. Cohen
David X. Cohen (born David Samuel Cohen, 1966) is an American TV writer, Harvard physics graduate and UC Berkeley computer science master's, co-creator of Futurama with Matt Groening and former Simpsons writer; four-time Emmy winner who adopted the initial X for Writers Guild registration.
David Yost
David Harold Yost (born 1969, Council Bluffs, Iowa) is an American actor and producer, the original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, who left citing harassment, later produced TV, and returned for 2023's Once & Always and Cosmic Fury.
David Zayas
David Zayas (born 1962, Ponce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican-American actor, ex-NYPD officer and Air Force veteran, known as Angel Batista in Dexter and Enrique Morales in Oz, later in Gotham, The Bear, and Dexter: Resurrection.
David Zepeda
David Zepeda (David Anastasio Zepeda Quintero), Mexican actor, singer, model, and lawyer born 1973 in Nogales, Sonora; telenovela lead in Sortilegio, Abismo de pasión, Mi fortuna es amarte, and Tan cerca de ti, nace el amor.
David Zucker
David Zucker (born 1947, Milwaukee) is an American comedy filmmaker of the ZAZ trio; with Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams he made Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun films, and Scary Movie 3 and 4, and teaches the MasterCrash comedy course.
Davika Hoorne
Davika Hoorne (ดาวิกา โฮร์เน่, "Mai"), Thai-Belgian actress born 1992 in Bangkok; star of Pee Mak, Thailand's highest-grossing film; Gucci ambassador and Friend of UNICEF.
Davina Karamoy
Davina Karamoy, full name Davina Tesalonika Karamoy, is an Indonesian actress and singer known for playing Rani in the 2024 film Ipar Adalah Maut, after first being known as Nelly in 7 Hari Sebelum 17 Tahun.
Davina McCall
Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an English television presenter, author, and fitness personality. She notably hosted Channel 4's Big Brother and focuses on menopausal health advocacy.
Dawn (drag queen)
Dawn is the stage name of drag performers, chiefly a Brooklyn queen with a computer science degree who reached the top six of RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 (2024) without a challenge win, and a separate Brighton performer, Dawn the Drag Queen.
Dawn French
Dawn French (Dawn Roma French), British comedian and actress born 1957 in Holyhead, Wales; half of French and Saunders with Jennifer Saunders, star of The Vicar of Dibley, BAFTA Fellow 2009, author and solo touring performer.
Dawn Greenhalgh
Dawn Greenhalgh (born 1934, Shanghai, China) is a Canadian actress, a member of the Stratford Festival's original acting company with roles in Antony and Cleopatra, Love's Labour's Lost, and Pericles, and screen credits from Slings & Arrows to Stealing the Sky (2025).