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Jack Shepherd (actor)
Jack Shepherd (John Shepherd, 1940–2025), English actor, playwright, and director; star of ITV's Wycliffe and Trevor Griffiths' Bill Brand; won a 1984 Olivier Award for Glengarry Glen Ross.
Jack Smethurst
Jack Smethurst (John Smethurst, 1932-2022), English actor, starred as bigot Eddie Booth in ITV's Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76), also For the Love of Ada, Coronation Street, Chariots of Fire.
Jack Soo
Jack Soo (Goro Suzuki, 1917–1979), Japanese American actor and comedian, interned at Topaz, star of Broadway's Flower Drum Song and Detective Nick Yemana on Barney Miller; first Japanese American in the Smithsonian's entertainment collections.
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson AM (born 31 August 1940, John Hadley Pain) is an Australian actor of the 1970s film renaissance, star of Spyforce, Wake in Fright, Sunday Too Far Away, and Breaker Morant, winner of AFI and Cannes acting awards, later a UNHCR ambassador and AM.
Jack Wagner (actor)
Jack Wagner (Peter John Wagner II, born 1959) is an American actor and singer known as Frisco Jones on General Hospital, Dr. Peter Burns on Melrose Place, Nick Marone on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Bill Avery on When Calls the Heart; his single "All I Need" hit number 2.
Jack Wallace (actor)
Jack Wallace (1933–2020) was an American character actor from Pekin, Illinois, a Chicago theater mainstay and Drama Desk Award ensemble winner for Glengarry Glen Ross; not the English dialect coach of Never Have I Ever.
Jack Warden
Jack Warden (John Warden Lebzelter Jr., 1920–2006), American character actor and former welterweight boxer and 101st Airborne paratrooper; Oscar-nominated for Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait, Emmy winner for Brian's Song.
Jack Warner (actor)
Jack Warner (1895–1981), born Horace John Waters, English actor; played PC George Dixon in The Blue Lamp and 432 episodes of Dixon of Dock Green (1955–1976), and Joe Huggett in the Huggett films; distinct from the Warner Bros. mogul Jack L. Warner.
Jack Webb
Jack Webb, born John Randolph Webb (1920–1982), was an American actor, producer, and director best known for creating Dragnet and starring as Los Angeles police Sergeant Joe Friday.
Jack Weston
Jack Weston (1924-1996), born Jack Weinstein in Cleveland, was an American character actor of stage, film, and TV, known for Wait Until Dark, Dirty Dancing, The Four Seasons, and a Tony-nominated turn in The Floating Lightbulb.
Jack Wild
Jack Wild (1952-2006), English actor and singer, Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! (Oscar-nominated) and Jimmy in H.R. Pufnstuf; died of oral cancer aged 53.
Jackée Harry
Jackée Harry (born 1956), American actress known as Sandra Clark on 227 and Lisa Landry on Sister, Sister; first African-American woman to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (1987), now Paulina Price on Days of Our Lives.
Jacki Weaver
Jacki Weaver (Jacqueline Ruth Weaver), born 1947 in Sydney, is an Australian actress, a household name at home for four decades, twice Oscar-nominated for Animal Kingdom (2010) and Silver Linings Playbook (2012).
Jackie Burch
Jackie Burch (1951–2025) was an American casting director for Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Die Hard, Predator, and Hidden Figures; Emmy-nominated for Bessie (2015), she won a 2017 Artios Award and worked from Atlanta.
Jackie Chan (成龙)
Jackie Chan (成龙), born Chan Kong-sang in 1954, is a Hong Kong actor, director, and martial artist who popularized kung fu comedy and received an honorary Oscar in 2016.
Jackie Chung
Jackie Chung is an American actress known for playing Laurel Park in Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022–2025) and for the film Coming Home Again (2019); distinct from Jackie Chan and Jacky Chung the researcher.
Jackie Cruz
Jackie Cruz, also known by her legal surname Chavez, is a Dominican-American actress, singer, and former model, best known as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on Orange Is the New Black, with albums Hollywood Gypsy and Hija de Chavez.
Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley (born 1961) is an American actor and director, the child star of The Bad News Bears who left acting, then returned in 2006 to an Oscar-nominated turn in Little Children and Rorschach in Watchmen.
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason (Herbert John Gleason, 1916-1987), American comedian, actor, and mood-music recording artist; star of The Jackie Gleason Show and The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden; $11 million CBS contract, 42.4 Nielsen rating, Oscar-nominated in The Hustler.
Jackie Joseph
Jackie Joseph (Sammie Jacqueline Joseph), American character actress, voice artist, and writer born in Los Angeles; Audrey in The Little Shop of Horrors, Sheila Futterman in the Gremlins films, Melody in Josie and the Pussycats, Jackie Parker on The Doris Day Show.
Jackie Swanson
Jackie Swanson (born 1963, Grand Rapids, Michigan) is an American actress, not the Gartner consultant or photographer of the same name, known as Kelly Gaines on Cheers (1989–1993) and for her film debut in Lethal Weapon (1987).
Jackie Tohn
Jackie Tohn (Jaclyn Tohn), American actress, comedian, and musician born 1980 in Oceanside, New York; plays Melrose on GLOW and Esther Roklov on Netflix's Nobody Wants This, promoted to series regular for Season 2; also American Idol season 8 Top 36 contestant and Do, Re & Mi co-creator.
Jackson Beck
Jackson Beck (1912–2004), American radio announcer and voice actor, narrator of The Adventures of Superman and voice of Bluto in over 300 Popeye cartoons, also The March of Time and G.I. Joe.
Jackson Galaxy
Jackson Galaxy, American cat behaviorist, host of Animal Planet's My Cat from Hell (2011-2020), two-time NYT bestselling author, founder of the Jackson Galaxy Project and jacksongalaxy.com cat product store.
Jackson Rathbone
Jackson Rathbone (Monroe Jackson Rathbone V, born 1984, Singapore) is an American actor and musician known as Jasper Hale in the Twilight Saga and Sokka in The Last Airbender, formerly of 100 Monkeys and now of Starmother.
Jackson Robert Scott
Jackson Robert Scott (born 2008), American actor, Georgie Denbrough in It (2017), Bode Locke in Netflix's Locke & Key (28 episodes), Miles Blume in The Prodigy (2019); birthplace reported as Los Angeles or Phoenix.
Jaclyn Jose
Jaclyn Jose (Mary Jane Santa Ana Guck, 1963-2024) was a Filipino actress and Cannes 2016 Best Actress winner for Ma' Rosa, the first Filipino and Southeast Asian so honored, known for her 'no acting' style.
Jaclyn Linetsky
Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (1986-2003), Canadian actress from Montreal, the English voice of Caillou and Megan O'Connor on 15/Love, who died at 17 in a highway collision en route to that show's set.
Jaclyn Smith
Jaclyn Smith, born Jacquelyn Ellen Smith, is an American actress best known as Kelly Garrett on Charlie's Angels, the only Angel to stay all five seasons.
Jacob Anderson
Jacob Anderson (born 1990), also known as Raleigh Ritchie, is a British actor and musician: Grey Worm in Game of Thrones and Louis de Pointe du Lac in AMC's Interview with the Vampire.