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Vishesh Bansal (विशेष बंसल)
Vishesh Bansal (विशेष बंसल), born 2004 in Delhi, is an Indian actor known as child Karn in Suryaputra Karn and Shubh Joshi in Asur (2020–2023), with credits including Madaari, Yeh Meri Family, and Gutar Gu.
Vishwadev Rachakonda
Vishwadev Rachakonda (విశ్వదేవ్ రాచకొండ) is an Indian Telugu film actor and producer; debut Pittagoda (2016), breakthrough 35 – Chinna Katha Kaadu (2024), produced Pareshan and Double Engine with Waltair Productions.
Visu
Visu (Meenakshisundaram Ramasamy Viswanathan, விசு), 1945-2020, Tamil screenwriter, director, actor, and talk-show host; directed Samsaram Adhu Minsaram, the first Tamil film to win the National Award for Best Popular Film, and hosted Arattai Arangam.
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (1901–1974), Italian actor and director and, with Rossellini, a father of neorealism; made Shoeshine, Bicycle Thieves, Miracle in Milan, and Umberto D. with Cesare Zavattini and won four foreign-language film Oscars.
Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (born Gassmann, 1922-2000), Italian stage and film actor called il Mattatore; star of postwar theater, commedia all'italiana films with Dino Risi, Cannes 1975 and Leone d'oro 1996.
Viva (actress)
Viva (Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, born 1938) is an American actress, writer, and artist, a Warhol Superstar of the 1960s who starred in The Nude Restaurant, Tub Girls, and Blue Movie, later appearing in Midnight Cowboy, Play It Again, Sam, and Paris, Texas.
Viveca Lindfors
Viveca Lindfors (Elsa Viveka Torstensdotter Lindfors, 1920-1995), Swedish-born stage and screen actress; Hollywood contract with Warner Bros from 1946, Emmy winner for Life Goes On, Berlin Film Festival honoree, known for one-woman shows including I Am a Woman.
Vivek (actor)
Vivek (Vivekanandan, 1961-2021), Tamil film comedian and actor known as Chinna Kalaivanar, debuted in Manathil Urudhi Vendum (1987), won three Filmfare Best Comedian awards and the 2009 Padma Shri, and founded the Green Kalam tree-planting initiative.
Vivek Gomber
Vivek Gomber, Indian actor and independent producer (Zoo Entertainment), produced and acted in Court (2014) and produced The Disciple (2020); starred in Sir, A Suitable Boy, Lootere, and Jigra.
Vivek Shauq (ਵਿਵੇਕ ਸ਼ੌਕ)
Vivek Shauq (ਵਿਵੇਕ ਸ਼ੌਕ), Indian actor, comedian, writer, and singer (1963–2011) of Hindi and Punjabi cinema; known for Gadar: Ek Prem Katha and Jaspal Bhatti's Flop Show and Ulta Pulta; died after liposuction complications.
Vivian Dsena
Vivian Dsena, Indian Hindi television actor born 1988 in Ujjain; known as Abhay in Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani, RK in Madhubala, Harman in Shakti, and Bigg Boss 18 first runner-up.
Vivian Hsu (徐若瑄)
Vivian Hsu (徐若瑄, Bidai Syulan), born 1975 in Taichung, is a Taiwanese singer, actress, lyricist, and producer; Black Biscuits member in Japan, Seediq Bale and Little Big Women actress-producer.
Vivian Kubrick
Vivian Vanessa Kubrick (born 1960, Los Angeles), youngest daughter of Stanley Kubrick: composer and film-maker, director of Making The Shining, composer of Full Metal Jacket's electronic score as Abigail Mead, and uncredited cameo player in her father's films.
Vivian Nixon
Vivian N. Nixon (born 1984), American actress and dancer, daughter of Debbie Allen and Norman Nixon; voiced Millie in Helluva Boss, played Hannah Brody on Grey's Anatomy, starred as Kalimba in Broadway's Hot Feet. Distinct from justice-reform writer Vivian D. Nixon.
Vivian Sung
Vivian Sung (宋芸樺), Taiwanese actress born 1992, star of youth hits Cafe. Waiting. Love and Our Times (我的少女时代), Golden Horse Best Actress nominee; later worked in thriller 96 Minutes.
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (Vivian Roberta Jones, 1909-1979), American actress and singer, Emmy-winning Ethel Mertz on I Love Lucy (1951-58) and Vivian Bagley on The Lucy Show; Broadway veteran, 2012 Television Academy Hall of Fame inductee, distinct from JD Vance.
Vivian Wu (邬君梅)
Vivian Wu (邬君梅, Wu Jun-mei), Shanghai-born actress (born 1966) who played Wenxiu in The Last Emperor, starred in The Joy Luck Club and The Pillow Book, joined the Oscars Academy in 1995, and later led Chinese TV dramas such as Woju and Six Sisters.
Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley, was a British stage and film actress who won Best Actress Oscars for Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, a Tony for Tovarich, and married Laurence Olivier; she made fewer than twenty films.
Vivien Lyra Blair
Vivien Lyra Blair, also Vivien Blair, born 2012, American child actress known for Girl in Bird Box (2018), Guppy in We Can Be Heroes (2020), young Leia Organa in Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), and Sawyer Harper in The Boogeyman (2023).
Vivienne Medrano
Vivienne Medrano (Vivziepop), Salvadoran-American animator and creator of Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, and the Hellaverse; founded SpindleHorse, built the 2019 YouTube pilot to over 111 million views, moved to Prime Video in 2024, and will direct the feature Prehistoria for Warner Bros.
Vladimir Herzog
Vladimir Herzog, known as Vlado, was a Brazilian journalist and TV Cultura news director tortured and killed by the military dictatorship in São Paulo in 1975.
Vladimir Kulich
Vladimir Kulich (born 1956, Prague) is a Czech-born actor known as Buliwyf in The 13th Warrior (1999), The Beast in Angel, Tiberius in Ironclad, Erik in Vikings, and the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in Skyrim.
Voice acting
Voice acting: performing characters or narration using only the voice, also called voice over. Spans animation, games, commercials, audiobooks, dubbing; began with 1920s radio and Steamboat Willie (1928); now shaped by home studios and AI cloning disputes.
Voice acting in Japan
Voice acting in Japan (seiyū, 声優) is an independent voice-performance profession with its own training schools, agencies, and star system, centered on anime, games, and dubbing, with low rookie pay and active generative-AI disputes.
Vojislav Govedarica (Војислав Говедарица)
Vojislav Govedarica (Војислав Говедарица), stage name Voyo Goric, nickname Voja Krstarica; Serbian-American actor and Sylvester Stallone's bodyguard; played Sgt. Yushin in Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985); 1940–2023.
Volker Bruch
Volker Bruch (born 1980, Munich) is a German-Austrian actor, graduate of the Max Reinhardt Seminar Vienna, known for Gereon Rath in Babylon Berlin (Grimme-Preis, Goldene Kamera 2018) and Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter.
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Vondie Curtis-Hall (Vondi Curtis Hall), American actor, screenwriter, and director born in Detroit. Broadway's Dreamgirls and Lena Horne show, Chicago Hope's Dr. Dennis Hancock, Emmy-nominated for ER, and writer-director of Gridlock'd with Tim Roth and Tupac Shakur.
Vonetta McGee
Vonetta McGee (Lawrence Vonetta McGee, 1945-2010), American actress who began in Italian cinema with The Great Silence and Faustina, then starred in 1970s blaxploitation films including Blacula, Shaft in Africa, and Thomasine & Bushrod, later appearing in Repo Man and on television.
Vulgar auteurism
Vulgar auteurism (V.A.) is an early-2010s online film-critical tendency, coined skeptically by Andrew Tracy, applying auteur theory to dismissed genre directors like Paul W.S. Anderson, Michael Bay, and Tony Scott.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов)
Vyacheslav Tikhonov (Вячеслав Васильевич Тихонов, 1928–2009), Soviet and Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR. Played Andrei Bolkonsky in War and Peace and Stierlitz in Seventeen Moments of Spring; distinct from other actors named Tikhonov.