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Debbie Matenopoulos

Debbie Matenopoulos (Thespina "Despina" Matenopoulos, born 1974) is a Greek-American TV host, original co-host of The View (1997-1999), later E!, The Insider, and Home & Family, cookbook author, and October 2026 informal candidate for U.S. ambassador to Greece.

Debbie Rowe

Debbie Rowe (Deborah Jeanne Rowe, born 1958), former nurse at Dr. Arnold Klein's Beverly Hills dermatology office, Michael Jackson's 1996-2000 wife and mother of Prince and Paris Jackson; testified in his 2005 and 2013 trials, later lived privately in Palmdale, California.

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 Derryberry

Debi Derryberry (Deborah Sue Greenberg), American voice actress born 1960 in Indio, California; voice of Jimmy Neutron, Draculaura, Coco Bandicoot, and Zatch Bell, plus children's musician and author of Voice Over 101.

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.

Deborah Mailman

Deborah Mailman AM (born 1972, Mount Isa) is a Bidjara and Māori Australian actor; first Aboriginal woman to win the AFI Best Actress Award (Radiance, 1998), star of Total Control, and first Indigenous Logies Hall of Fame inductee.

Deborah Moore

Deborah Moore, also Deborah Barrymore, English actress born 1963 in Marylebone, daughter of Roger Moore and Luisa Mattioli; face of Scottish Widows ads 1986-1995, Lita Grey in Chaplin (1992), air hostess cameo in Die Another Day (2002).

Deborah Pratt

Deborah M. Pratt, born 1951 in Chicago, is an American writer, producer, and actress who co-created the science fiction series Quantum Leap (1989–1993) and voiced the computer Ziggy.

Deborah Raffin

Deborah Raffin (1953-2012), American film and TV actress and producer known for The Dove, Once Is Not Enough, Death Wish 3, and 7th Heaven, who co-founded the audiobook company Dove Books-on-Tape.

Deborah Walley

Deborah Walley (Deborah Edith Walley), American actress born 1941 in Bridgeport, Connecticut; Gidget in Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), Photoplay's Most Popular Actress of 1961, beach-party films, later Arizona children's theater; died 2001.

Deborra-Lee Furness

Deborra-Lee Furness (born 1955, Sydney) is an Australian actress, director, and producer known for Shame, Angel Baby, and Jindabyne, and a child advocate who founded National Adoption Awareness Week and Adopt Change, named 2015 NSW Australian of the Year; formerly married to Hugh Jackman.

Debra Jo Rupp

Debra Jo Rupp (born 1951) is an American actress known as Kitty Forman on That '70s Show (1998–2006) and That '90s Show, Mrs. Hart in WandaVision, and her Off-Broadway stage work.

Debra Messing

Debra Messing (born 1968, Brooklyn) is an American actress known for Grace Adler on NBC's Will & Grace (1998–2006, 2017–2020), Emmy winner 2003, also The Starter Wife, Smash, and The Mysteries of Laura.

Debra Monk

Debra Monk (born 1949, Middletown, Ohio) is an American actress, singer, and writer, Tony winner for Redwood Curtain, Emmy winner for NYPD Blue, co-author of Pump Boys and Dinettes, and known for New Amsterdam and The Gilded Age.

Debra Stephenson

Debra Stephenson (born 1972, Hull) is an English actress, comedian, singer and impressionist, known for Shell Dockley in Bad Girls, Frankie Baldwin in Coronation Street, The Impressions Show with Jon Culshaw, Newzoids, Dead Ringers, and voicing the 2020 deepfake Queen's Alternative Christmas Message.

Debra Wilson

Debra Wilson (born 1962), American actress and MADtv original cast member, later one of gaming's most prolific voice actors, known as Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi, Savathûn in Destiny 2, and Amanda Waller.

Debra Winger

Debra Winger is an American actress known for strong-willed women' portrayals in the 1980s, receiving Academy Award nominations and returning to feature films in 2001.

Debrah Farentino

Debrah Farentino, born Deborah Mullowney, is an American actress and producer who played Devon Adair on NBC's Earth 2 and Beverly Barlowe on Syfy's Eureka, after starting on Capitol.

Debralee Scott

Debralee Scott (1953–2005), American actress of 1970s television comedy; played Cathy Shumway on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and Hotsy Totsy on Welcome Back, Kotter; also American Graffiti and Police Academy films.

Declan Donnelly

Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly, known as Dec, English TV presenter and actor, one half of Ant & Dec with Ant McPartlin. Byker Grove actor turned PJ & Duncan pop star, host of Saturday Night Takeaway, I'm a Celebrity, and Britain's Got Talent; 21 consecutive NTA Best Presenter wins.

Dedee Pfeiffer

Dedee Pfeiffer (Dorothy Diane Pfeiffer), American actress born 1964 in Midway City, California, younger sister of Michelle Pfeiffer; known for Cybill, For Your Love, Vamp, and Big Sky's Denise Brisbane.

Dee Bradley Baker

Dee Bradley Baker is an American voice actor, born August 31 in Bloomington, Indiana, known for the Star Wars clone troopers, Perry the Platypus, Klaus, and unaltered creature and animal vocalizations.

Dee Wallace

Dee Wallace (Deanna Lee Bowers, born 1948, Kansas City, Kansas) is an American actress famous for The Howling, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Cujo, with over 90 film credits and work as an author and acting teacher.

Deena Nicole Cortese

Deena Nicole Cortese (born 1987, New Egypt, New Jersey) is an American reality TV personality who joined MTV's Jersey Shore in season 3 (2010) replacing Angelina Pivarnick, appeared on Snooki & JWoww and Couples Therapy, and stars in Jersey Shore: Family Vacation.

Deep Roy

Deep Roy (Mohinder Purba, born 1949, Nairobi) is a Kenyan-born actor, stuntman, and puppeteer who played all 165 Oompa-Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Yoda's stand-in in Star Wars, and Keenser in three Star Trek films.