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Leslie Bibb
Leslie Bibb (born 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American actress known for Popular, Talladega Nights, Iron Man, The White Lotus season 3, Palm Royale, and a 2026 Emmy nomination for Hacks.
Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron (born 1 July 1931, Boulogne-Billancourt) is a French-American actress and ballet-trained dancer discovered by Gene Kelly for An American in Paris (1951), later starring in Lili and Gigi, with two Oscar nominations and a 2007 Emmy.
Leslie Crowther
Leslie Crowther (Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther, 1933-1996), English comedian and presenter. Hosted Crackerjack, the original UK The Price Is Right (ITV 1984-88, 100 episodes) and Stars in Their Eyes; career ended by a 1992 car crash.
Leslie David Baker
Leslie David Baker (born 1958, Chicago) is an American actor who played Stanley Hudson on NBC's The Office (2005-2013) after a Chicago city-administration career, and later co-owns a Honey Baked Ham shop.
Leslie Easterbrook
Leslie Easterbrook (born 1948 or 1949) is an American actress known as Sgt. Debbie Callahan in the Police Academy films (1984–1994) and as Mother Firefly in Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects (2005), after playing Rhonda Lee on Laverne & Shirley.
Leslie Grantham
Leslie Grantham (1947–2018), English actor, played Dirty Den Watts in EastEnders 1985–1989 and 2003–2005; ex-soldier who served about a decade for a 1967 murder conviction in Germany.
Leslie Grossman
Leslie Erin Grossman (born 1971, Los Angeles) is an American actress known as Mary Cherry on Popular and as Meadow Wilton, Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, Margaret Booth, Ursula, and Barbara Read across American Horror Story seasons Cult through 13.
Leslie Hope
Leslie Hope (Leslie Ann Hope) is a Canadian actress, director, and producer born in 1965 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Known for Teri Bauer on 24 season 1 and for directing episodes of Snowpiercer, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Lost in Space, and the One Piece season finale. Distinct from Bob Hope.
Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 1893–1943), English stage and film actor, director, and producer, star of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Pygmalion, and Gone with the Wind's Ashley Wilkes; killed when his airliner was shot down over the Bay of Biscay in 1943.
Leslie Jordan
Leslie Jordan (1955–2022), American actor and comedian, Emmy winner as Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace, Sordid Lives' Brother Boy, pandemic Instagram star, gospel album Company's Comin'.
Leslie Landon
Leslie Landon (Leslie Landon Matthews), born 1962, daughter of Michael Landon, played Etta Plum on Little House on the Prairie, then became a psychologist and co-authored When Children Grieve.
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann, American comedy actress born 1972 in San Francisco, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40, and Blockers; wife of producer-director Judd Apatow, with daughters Maude and Iris Apatow.
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie Nielsen (1926–2010), Canadian-born actor and comedian, spent three decades as a dramatic leading man before Airplane! (1980), Police Squad!, and the Naked Gun trilogy made him the master of deadpan parody.
Leslie Odom Jr.
Leslie Odom Jr. (born 1981, Queens, New York) is an American actor and singer, Tony and Grammy winner as Broadway's original Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Oscar-nominated for One Night in Miami….
Leslie Parrish
Leslie Parrish, born Marjorie Hellen, American actress known for Li'l Abner, The Manchurian Candidate, and Star Trek, later an activist and environmentalist who died in 2025.
Leslie Phillips
Leslie Phillips (Leslie Samuel Phillips, 1924-2022) was an English comic actor of the Carry On and Doctor films, The Navy Lark radio star, voice of the Harry Potter Sorting Hat, and BAFTA-nominated for Venus.
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Stevens (1924–1998), American playwright, producer, writer, and director, creator of The Outer Limits, Stoney Burke, and Search; also wrote Marriage-Go-Round and the Esperanto film Incubus; distinct from the 1964-born actress, folk singer, and writer of the same name.
Leslie Uggams
Leslie Uggams, American Tony Award-winning actress and singer born 1943 in New York City; star of Hallelujah, Baby!, Roots (as Kizzy), The Leslie Uggams Show, Empire, and Blind Al in the Deadpool films.
Leslie Zemeckis
Leslie Zemeckis is an American author, actress, and documentary filmmaker, married to director Robert Zemeckis, known for Behind the Burly Q (2010) and books on burlesque and showgirl history.
Leslye Headland
Leslye Headland (born 1980) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and producer known for the Seven Deadly Plays, Bachelorette, Sleeping with Other People, co-creating Russian Doll, and creating Disney+'s The Acolyte.
Letitia Wright
Letitia Michelle Wright (born 1993, Georgetown, Guyana) is a Guyanese-British actress who plays Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, won the 2019 BAFTA Rising Star Award, and led Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Lev Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов)
Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov (Лев Владимирович Кулешов, 1899–1970) was a Soviet film director, montage theorist, and VGIK teacher; namesake of the Kuleshov effect and director of By the Law (1926).
Levan Uchaneishvili (ლევან უჩანეიშვილი)
Levan Uchaneishvili (ლევან უჩანეიშვილი), born 1958 in Tbilisi, is a Georgian and American actor known as Levani, star of Kukaracha (1982) and Hollywood films Air Force One, Blade, Independence Day, and 25th Hour.
LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton, American actor and literacy advocate: Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977), Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and host of PBS's Reading Rainbow 1983 to 2006; National Humanities Medal 2023.
Leven Rambin
Leven Alice Rambin is an American actress, born in 1990 in Houston, Texas, known for dual roles on All My Children and as Glimmer in The Hunger Games (2012).
Levi Brown (actor)
Levi Brown (born 1995) is a British actor from Halesowen, a Guildhall graduate known for lead Dante Williams in BBC's This Town, Christian in the RSC's Cyrano de Bergerac, Payback, and Paramount+'s Girl Taken.
Levi Johnston
Levi Keith Johnston (born 1990, Wasilla, Alaska) is an American model, actor, and author, Bristol Palin's former fiancé and father of her son Tripp; known for the 2008 RNC, Playgirl, and his 2011 memoir Deer in the Headlights.
Levy Tran
Levy Tran (Vy Le Tran, born 1983) is a Vietnamese-American actress and model from San Jose, known as Desi Nguyen on MacGyver (2019–2021), the Furious 7 race starter, Roenick in The First Purge, and Lash in Expend4bles.
Lew Ayres
Lew Ayres (Lewis Frederick Ayres, 1908-1996), American actor, star of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and MGM's Dr. Kildare series; WWII conscientious objector who served as Army medic; Oscar-nominated for Johnny Belinda.
Lewis Arquette
Lewis Arquette (1935–2001) was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian, father of Rosanna, Patricia, David, Alexis, and Richmond Arquette and son of Cliff Arquette; known as J.D. Pickett on The Waltons and for Waiting for Guffman, Scream 2, and Little Nicky.