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Nora Arnezeder

Nora Arnezeder, French actress and singer born 1989 in Paris; breakthrough as Douce in Faubourg 36 (2008), Lumières and Étoile d'Or winner; later Safe House, Zoo, Mozart in the Jungle, Army of the Dead.

Nora Aunor

Nora Aunor, also known as Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, was a Filipino actress and producer. She rose to fame after winning Tawag ng Tanghalan in 1967 and starred in Himala.

Nora Dunn

Nora Dunn (born 1952, Chicago) is an American actress and comedian, an SNL cast member 1985–1990 known for Pat Stevens and the Sweeney Sisters, who boycotted the Andrew Dice Clay episode and later starred in Passion Fish, Three Kings, and Entourage.

Nora Miao (苗可秀)

Nora Miao (苗可秀), born 1952 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong actress who starred in all three of Bruce Lee's completed Hong Kong films, later co-starred with Jackie Chan and became a Toronto radio host.

Nora Zehetner

Nora Zehetner (Nora Angela Zehetner) is an American actress born 1981 in El Paso, Texas. Known for Brick (2005), Creative Control, and recurring roles in Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, Maron, and The Right Stuff.

Nora-Jane Noone

Nora-Jane Noone (born 1984, Galway) is an Irish actress; screen debut as Bernadette in The Magdalene Sisters (2002, Venice Golden Lion), also The Descent, Brooklyn, Wildfire, Hidden Assets, Bring Them Down, andIFTA-nominated performances.

Noriaki Sugiyama (杉山紀彰)

Noriaki Sugiyama (杉山紀彰, born 1974, Tokyo) is a Japanese voice actor known for Sasuke Uchiha in NARUTO, Uryu Ishida in BLEACH, Shirou Emiya in Fate/stay night, and England in Hetalia; agencies included Production Baobab, AXL-ONE, and Stay Luck.

Norio Wakamoto (若本 規夫)

Norio Wakamoto (若本 規夫, born 1945, Yamaguchi) is a Sigma Seven Japanese voice actor and narrator, the Japanese voice of Cell, Sazae-san's Ana-go, and Vicious, known for the "Wakamoto-bushi" delivery.

Norm Abram

Norm Abram, American master carpenter born in Rhode Island, was This Old House's master carpenter from 1979 to 2022 and hosted The New Yankee Workshop on PBS for 21 seasons, 1989 to 2009, building about 235 furniture projects.

Norma Crane

Norma Crane (Norma Anna Bella Zuckerman, 1928–1973), American stage, film, and television actress best known as Golde in Fiddler on the Roof (1971); also Tea and Sympathy and They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer (1902-1983), Canadian-born MGM star dubbed Queen of Hollywood; won the Best Actress Oscar for The Divorcee (1930), married Irving Thalberg, retired in 1942 after Her Cardboard Lover.

Norman Fell

Norman Fell (1924–1998), American character actor from Philadelphia, played landlord Stanley Roper on Three's Company and The Ropers, won a Golden Globe, and earned a 1976 Emmy nomination for Rich Man, Poor Man.

Norman Lear

Norman Lear (1922–2023), American TV writer-producer behind All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Sanford and Son, and The Jeffersons, who brought social controversy into the 1970s sitcom and founded People for the American Way.

Norman Lloyd

Norman Lloyd, born Norman Perlmutter (1914–2021), was an American actor, director, and producer known for falling from the Statue of Liberty in Hitchcock's Saboteur and for playing Dr. Daniel Auschlander on NBC's St. Elsewhere.

Norman Reedus

Norman Reedus (born 1969) is an American actor known as Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead and its spin-off Daryl Dixon, also the lead of Death Stranding, star of Ride with Norman Reedus, and Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints.

Norman Wisdom

Sir Norman Wisdom (1915–2010), English slapstick comedian, actor, and singer; creator of the Gump/Norman Pitkin little-man character; star of 19 Rank films including Trouble in Store; Chaplin's favourite clown and Albania's only permitted Western film star.

Noureen DeWulf

Noureen DeWulf (born 1984, New York City) is an American actress of Indian descent, also credited as Noureen Ahmed, known for Lacey in Anger Management and for starring in the Oscar-winning short West Bank Story (2005).

Nozomu Sasaki (佐々木 望)

Nozomu Sasaki (佐々木 望), born 1967 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese voice actor known for Yusuke Urameshi in YuYu Hakusho, Tetsuo in AKIRA, and Johan in MONSTER, and for graduating from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 2020.

NTR

NTR (Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, 1923–1996), Telugu film superstar famed as Krishna and Rama in mythological films, founded the Telugu Desam Party in 1982 and served three terms as Andhra Pradesh chief minister until his 1995 ouster by N. Chandrababu Naidu.

Nukâka Coster-Waldau

Nukâka Coster-Waldau (Sascha Nukâka Motzfeldt, born 1971) is a Greenlandic actress, singer, and composer, Miss Greenland 1990, wife of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau since 1998, known for Anori, Forbrydelsen, and Thin Ice.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 1959) is a Turkish director and photographer, Palme d'Or winner for Winter Sleep (2014), known for Uzak, Three Monkeys, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and About Dry Grasses.

Nyambi Nyambi

Nyambi Nyambi (born 1979, Norman, Oklahoma) is an American actor known as Samuel on Mike & Molly, Jay Dipersia on The Good Fight, Wyatt Shaw on NBC's Night Court reboot, and the voice of Martian Manhunter in DC animated films.

Nykiya Adams

Nykiya Adams is a British actress from Essex whose debut role as 12-year-old Bailey in Andrea Arnold's Bird (2024), in competition at Cannes, won her London Critics' Circle and National Film Awards newcomer honors.

Nymphia Wind

Nymphia Wind (妮妃雅), stage name of Leo Tsao, is a Taiwanese American drag queen who won RuPaul's Drag Race season 16 in 2024 as the show's first East Asian and first Taiwanese champion, known for yellow, banana motifs, and Taiwanese cultural costumes.

O-T Fagbenle

O-T Fagbenle (Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle), born 1981, is a British actor, writer, and director known for Luke in The Handmaid's Tale (2021 Emmy nomination), Maxxx, Black Widow, and The First Lady as Barack Obama.

O'Shea Jackson Jr.

O'Shea Jackson Jr. is an American actor and rapper, son of Ice Cube, who portrayed his father in his debut Straight Outta Compton (2015); later films include Den of Thieves, Just Mercy, and Cocaine Bear.

Obba Babatundé

Obba Babatundé (birth name Donald Cohen), American stage and screen actor born 1950 or 1951 in New York; Tony-nominated as C.C. White in Dreamgirls, Emmy-nominated for Miss Evers' Boys, Daytime Emmy winner 2016.

Octavia Red

Octavia Red is an American pornographic film actress specializing in girl/girl scenes, with over 300 scenes for roughly 20 major studios and AVN and XMA awards in 2025 and 2026.

Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer, born 1970 in Montgomery, Alabama, is an American actress who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Help (2011) and earned further nominations for Hidden Figures and The Shape of Water.

Octavio Ocaña

Octavio Ocaña (Octavio Augusto Pérez Ocaña, 1998-2021), Mexican actor famous as Benito Rivers in Televisa's Vecinos from 2005; also Lola... Érase una vez, Hermanos y detectives; died of a gunshot after a police chase in Cuautitlán Izcalli, later ruled a homicide; one officer sentenced in 2023.