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Jeffrey Hayden

Jeffrey Hayden (1926-2016), American television and stage director, husband of Eva Marie Saint; directed over 60 series including The Andy Griffith Show, Peyton Place, Quincy M.E., and Knight Rider.

Jeffrey Hunter

Jeffrey Hunter (Henry Herman McKinnies Jr.), 1926-1969, American actor known for The Searchers, King of Kings as Jesus, and Captain Pike in Star Trek's first pilot.

Jeffrey Nordling

Jeffrey Richard Nordling (born 1962, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American actor known for Jake Manning in Once and Again, Larry Moss in 24, Gordon Klein in Big Little Lies, and Flight 93.

Jeffrey Pierce

Jeffrey Pierce, born Jeffrey Douglas Plitt, is an American actor born in Denver in 1971, known for Charlie Jade and voicing Tommy in The Last of Us games.

Jeffrey Tambor

Jeffrey Tambor (born 1944, San Francisco) is an American actor known as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show, George and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development, and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent, for which he won Emmys before his 2018 firing.

Jeffrey Weissman

Jeffrey Weissman (born 1958, Santa Monica, California) is an American character actor known as George McFly in Back to the Future Parts II and III and Teddy Conway in Pale Rider; his casting triggered the Crispin Glover likeness case and a SAG rule change.

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright is an American actor known for Angels in America, Basquiat, Westworld, and three James Bond films, earning an Oscar nomination for American Fiction (2023).

Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim (born 1974, Cairo) is an Egyptian-American documentary filmmaker known for Startup.com, Control Room, the Oscar-nominated The Square (2013), which won the Sundance Audience Award and three Emmys, and The Great Hack (2019).

Jemaine Clement

Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement, born 1974 in Masterton, New Zealand, is an actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker: half of Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie, co-creator of What We Do in the Shadows, voice of Moana's Tamatoa, and Dr. Ian Garvin in the Avatar sequels.

Jemima Kirke

Jemima Kirke, born 1985 in London, is a British-American actress and painter. Known for Jessa Johansson on HBO's Girls, RISD painting degree, and later roles in Sex Education, Conversations with Friends, and City on Fire, plus solo portrait exhibitions.

Jemima Rooper

Jemima Rooper, British actress born in Hammersmith, London, child star as George in The Famous Five, known for As If, Lost in Austen, Atlantis, Flowers in the Attic: The Origin, Geek Girl, and West End theatre work.

Jemma Moore

Jemma Moore (born 1992) is a Hong Kong-born British actor of mixed Chinese and English heritage, known for Jess Li in ITV's Red Eye, Host (2020), Lockwood & Co, and neurodiversity advocacy.

Jemma Redgrave

Jemma Redgrave (Jemima Rebecca Redgrave, born 1965) is a British actress of the Redgrave acting family, known for Bramwell's Dr Eleanor Bramwell, Kate Stewart in Doctor Who, Howards End, and Silent Witness.

Jen Flanz

Jen Flanz, also known as Jennifer Flanz, is an American television producer who rose from production assistant to executive producer and showrunner of The Daily Show since 1998.

Jen Lilley

Jen Lilley (born 1984, Roanoke, Virginia) is an American actress, singer, and philanthropist who played Maxie Jones on General Hospital and Theresa Donovan on Days of Our Lives, starred in The Artist, and leads Hallmark and Great American Family TV movies.

Jen Shah

Jen Shah, Jennifer Shah, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star convicted of telemarketing wire fraud; arrested 2021, sentenced 2023 to 78 months, released 2026.

Jena Malone

Jena Malone (born 1984) is an American actor and musician, also known as Jena Laine Malone. Breakthrough in Bastard Out of Carolina (1996); known for Donnie Darko, The Neon Demon, Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games, and the 2026 album Flowers for Men.

Jenette Goldstein

Jenette Goldstein, American actress born 1960, played Private Vasquez in Aliens, Diamondback in Near Dark, Janelle Voight in Terminator 2, and the Irish mother in Titanic, winning a 1987 Saturn Award, and later founded the boutique Jenette Bras.

Jenifer Lewis

Jenifer Jeanette Lewis, born 1957 in Kinloch, Missouri, is an American actress, singer, and memoirist known as "the Black Mother of Hollywood," for Ruby Johnson on black-ish, Flo in Cars, Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog, and her 2017 bipolar-disorder memoir.

Jenji Kohan

Jenji Kohan (born 1969), American television showrunner and creator of Weeds and Orange Is the New Black; Emmy-winning writer-producer, Columbia graduate, daughter of Buz Kohan, and Netflix original-programming pioneer.

Jenn Lyon

Jenn Lyon (Jennifer Lyon), American actress born 1980 in High Point, North Carolina; UNCSA graduate known for Claws, Dead Boy Detectives, Justified, and as lead Courteney Potter on NBC's Stumble, distinct from the Survivor contestant of the same name.

Jenn Tran

Jenn Tran (born 1997, Hillsdale, New Jersey) is an American reality TV personality and physician assistant, first Asian American lead of The Bachelorette season 21, later a Dancing with the Stars season 33 contestant; not to be confused with a same-named Melbourne animator.

Jenna Boyd

Jenna Boyd, born 1993, in Bedford, Texas, is an American actress known for The Missing, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and Paige Hardaway on Atypical.

Jenna Coleman

Jenna Coleman (Jenna-Louise Coleman), English actress from Blackpool known for Clara Oswald in Doctor Who and Queen Victoria in ITV's Victoria; also The Serpent, The Sandman, The Jetty, and Emmerdale's Jasmine Thomas.

Jenna Dewan

Jenna Dewan is an American actress and dancer who broke out as Nora Clark in the 2006 film Step Up and plays Lt. Bailey Nune on The Rookie.

Jenna Elfman

Jenna Elfman (Jennifer Mary Butala, born 1971) is an American actress, Golden Globe winner for Dharma & Greg (1997-2002), later June Dorie on Fear the Walking Dead and Eve Drake on Shifting Gears.

Jenna Fischer

Jenna Fischer (Regina Marie Fischer, born 1974) is an American actress known as Pam Beesly on NBC's The Office (2005–2013), Emmy-nominated in 2007, SAG ensemble winner, Office Ladies podcast co-host, author of The Actor's Life.

Jenna Haze

Jenna Haze (Jennifer Maria Corrales, born 1982, Fullerton, California) is a retired American adult film actress, 2003 AVN Best New Starlet and 2009 Female Performer of the Year, founder of Jennaration X Studios, now a psychotherapist-in-training.

Jenna Leigh Green

Jenna Leigh Green (Jennifer Leigh Greenberg), American actress and singer known as Libby Chessler on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Ivy in Bare: A Pop Opera, and Nessarose in Wicked on Broadway, tour, and Los Angeles.

Jenna Ortega

Jenna Ortega (Jenna Marie Ortega), American actress born 2002 in La Quinta, California, of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage; star of Netflix's Wednesday (Emmy-nominated 2023), Scream, X, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and Klara and the Sun (2026).