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Deon Cole
Deon Cole (born 1972, Chicago) is an American stand-up comedian, Emmy-nominated writer, and actor known for Conan O'Brien's shows, Charlie Telphy on black-ish, Average Joe, and Netflix specials Cole Hearted, Charleen's Boy, and Ok, Mister.
Derek Fowlds
Derek Fowlds (1937-2020), English actor known as Mr Derek in The Basil Brush Show, Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, and Oscar Blaketon in all 18 series of ITV's Heartbeat.
Derek Griffiths
Derek Griffiths (born 1946) is a British actor, presenter, and composer known for Play School and Play Away, the voice of SuperTed, The Black Mikado, RSC Shakespeare roles, Coronation Street, and an MBE.
Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek Jacobi (born 22 October 1938, Leytonstone, London) is an English classical actor, National Theatre founding member, BAFTA-winning star of I, Claudius, and winner of Tony, two Emmy, and two Olivier Awards.
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman (Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman, 1942–1994), English avant-garde filmmaker, painter, and gay rights campaigner; director of Sebastiane, Jubilee, Caravaggio, The Last of England, and Blue; diagnosed HIV in 1986 and went public.
Derek Luke
Derek Luke, American actor born 1974 in Jersey City, New Jersey; film debut as Antwone Fisher (2002) won him an Independent Spirit Award; known for Friday Night Lights, Glory Road, Catch a Fire, 13 Reasons Why.
Derek Mears
Derek Mears (born 1972, Bakersfield, California) is an American actor and stuntman known for Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th (2009), Swamp Thing (2019), Predators, and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Derek Ramsay
Derek Ramsay is a Filipino-British film and television actor in the Philippines, first known as an MTV VJ, who won the Metro Manila Film Festival Best Actor award twice, in 2014 and 2017.
Derek Theler
Derek Theler, American actor and model, best known as Danny Wheeler on Baby Daddy (2012-2017, 100 episodes); also 68 Whiskey, American Gods, and the unaired Marvel New Warriors pilot as Mister Immortal.
Derek Thompson (actor)
Derek Thompson (born 1948, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor who played nurse Charlie Fairhead in BBC's Casualty from 1986 to 2024, appeared in The Long Good Friday, and sang with twin sister Elaine as Elaine and Derek.
Derek Waters
Derek Waters (born 1979, Baltimore) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, co-creator and host of Comedy Central's Drunk History with Jeremy Konner; also known for Derek & Simon and roles in Hall Pass.
Deric Augustine
Deric Augustine (born 1990) is an American actor from New Orleans known as Muhammad Ali in Godfather of Harlem and Officer Miles Penn on The Rookie, promoted to series regular in Season 8; also author of the YA fantasy novel Nawlins.
Derk Cheetwood
Derk Cheetwood (born 1973, Bowling Green, Ohio) is an American actor, Max Giambetti on General Hospital from 2002, brother of Drew Cheetwood, films The Postman, U-571, Frailty.
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Joseph Crowley, Irish actor born 1947 in Cork, known as General Madine in Return of the Jedi, Martin Schenk in Luther and Luther: The Fallen Sun, and Kaganovich in The Death of Stalin.
Dermot Morgan
Dermot Morgan (1952–1998), Irish comedian, satirist and actor, star of Channel 4's Father Ted as Father Ted Crilly; earlier famous in Ireland for Father Trendy on The Live Mike and the radio satire Scrap Saturday.
Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney, American actor and cellist from Alexandria, Virginia, known for My Best Friend's Wedding, Young Guns, Longtime Companion, and Chicago Fire's Chief Dom Pascal.
Dermot O'Leary
Dermot O'Leary (Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, born 1973) is a British-Irish broadcaster known for hosting The X Factor (2007–2018), Big Brother's Little Brother, BBC Radio 2's Saturday show, and This Morning Fridays with Alison Hammond.
Derren Nesbitt
Derren Nesbitt, born Derren Michael Horwitz in 1935, is a British actor best known for playing the Gestapo officer Major von Hapen in Where Eagles Dare (1968).
Dervla Kirwan
Dervla Kirwan (born 1971, Churchtown, Dublin) is an Irish actress known for Phoebe in Goodnight Sweetheart, Assumpta in Ballykissangel, Smother, Ondine, True Detective: Night Country and House of Guinness.
Des O'Connor
Des O'Connor (1932–2020), English comedian, singer and TV presenter, hosted The Des O'Connor Show from 1963, Des O'Connor Tonight for 25 years, and Countdown 2007–2008; had the UK No. 1 single "I Pretend" in 1968 and 36 albums.
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and Desilu cofounder; Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy; pioneered the three-camera, film-based sitcom and reruns; won Emmys as producer, never as actor.
Desi Arnaz Jr.
Desi Arnaz Jr. (Desiderio Alberto Arnaz IV, born 1953), American actor and musician, son of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Dino, Desi & Billy member, Here's Lucy co-star, played his father in The Mambo Kings.
Desi Lydic
Desi Lydic is an American actress and comedian from Louisville, Kentucky, a Daily Show correspondent and rotating host since 2015 who also played Valerie Marks on MTV's Awkward.
Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan, American filmmaker, writer, and actress born in New York, creator of Appropriate Behavior (2014), The Bisexual (2018), and director of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner The Miseducation of Cameron Post.
Desiree Gruber
Desiree Gruber (born 1969) is an American producer and founder-CEO of Full Picture; co-creator and executive producer of Project Runway (2004–2017), 14 Emmy nominations, Peabody Award, wife of Kyle MacLachlan.
Desmond Eastwood
Desmond Eastwood (born 1994, Belfast) is a Northern Irish actor known as Niall in Normal People (2020, IFTA nomination) and DS Murray Canning in Blue Lights, with film roles alongside Brosnan and Neeson.
Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999), Welsh actor who played Q, James Bond's gadget-master, in 17 EON Bond films from From Russia with Love (1963) to The World Is Not Enough (1999); WWII Royal Welch Fusiliers POW; died in a car crash.
Destin Daniel Cretton
Destin Daniel Cretton (born 1978, Maui, Hawaii) is an American director of Short Term 12, Just Mercy, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day; second Asian-American MCU director after Ang Lee.
Dev Patel
Dev Patel, British actor and filmmaker born 1990 in Harrow, London; starred in Skins, Slumdog Millionaire (Jamal Malik), Lion (Saroo Brierley), and The Green Knight; BAFTA winner and Oscar nominee; directed Monkey Man (2024).
Deva Cassel
Deva Cassel, Italian-French model and actress (b. 2004, Rome), daughter of Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel; Dior and Cartier ambassador, film debut La bella estate (2023), Angelica in Netflix's The Leopard (2025), voice of Ennui in the Italian Inside Out 2.