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Currie Graham

Currie Graham (born 1967, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian actor, distinct from the evangelist Billy Graham, writer Graham Greene, or actor Graham Greene. Known for Lt. Thomas Bale on NYPD Blue, DA Mario Siletti on Murder in the First, Calvin Chadwick on Agent Carter, and Kliner Sr. in Reacher.

Curry Barker

Curry Barker (born 1999, Mobile, Alabama) is an American filmmaker and actor behind the YouTube channel That's a Bad Idea, the $800 found-footage hit Milk & Serial, and the 2026 horror blockbuster Obsession, sold to Focus Features for $15 million.

Curtis Armstrong

Curtis Armstrong (born 1953, Detroit) is an American character actor known as Booger in Revenge of the Nerds, Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, Ahmet Ertegun in Ray, Metatron on Supernatural, and co-creator of King of the Nerds.

Cush Jumbo

Cush Jumbo, British actress and writer (born 1985), known as Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife and The Good Fight, Ian Charleson Award winner, Josephine and I author, Hamlet at the Young Vic, and lead of Apple TV+'s Criminal Record.

Cy Endfield

Cy Endfield (Cyril Raker Endfield, 1914–1995) was an American film director, screenwriter, magician, and inventor. Blacklisted by HUAC in 1951, he exiled to Britain, directed Hell Drivers and Zulu (1964), and later invented a pocket computer typewriter.

Cybill Shepherd

Cybill Shepherd, born 1950 in Memphis, Tennessee, is an American actress, model, and singer known for The Last Picture Show, Moonlighting with Bruce Willis, and her sitcom Cybill, with Golden Globe wins and four Emmy nominations.

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse (Tula Ellice Finklea, 1922-2008), American dancer and MGM musical film star of Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon, partner of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, National Medal of Arts 2006.

Cynda Williams

Cynda Williams, born 1966 in Chicago, is an American actress and singer known for Spike Lee's Mo' Better Blues (1990), the #1 R&B single Harlem Blues, and One False Move.

Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Cynthia Addai-Robinson (born 1985, London) is an American actress known as Naevia in Spartacus, Amanda Waller in Arrow, Marybeth Medina in The Accountant films, and Queen Regent Míriel in The Rings of Power.

Cynthia Bailey

Cynthia Bailey (born 1967, Tuscumbia, Alabama) is an American model, actress, and reality TV personality, an 11-season cast member of The Real Housewives of Atlanta, founder of the Bailey Agency School of Fashion, and now a scripted-TV actress.

Cynthia Daniel

Cynthia Daniel, born 1976 in Gainesville, Florida, is an American former actress and model, twin sister of Brittany Daniel; she played Elizabeth Wakefield on Sweet Valley High (1994–1997) and appeared in The Basketball Diaries.

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo (born 1987) is an English actress, singer, and producer of Nigerian descent; Tony winner for The Color Purple, Oscar nominee for Harriet, and Elphaba in Universal's Wicked films (2024–2025).

Cynthia Gibb

Cynthia Gibb (born 1963) is an American actress and former model known for Search for Tomorrow, Fame, The Karen Carpenter Story, and Gypsy opposite Bette Midler, plus Triple Threat Academy.

Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Nixon (born 1966) is an American actress and activist, best known as Miranda Hobbes in Sex and the City and for two Tony Awards (Rabbit Hole, The Little Foxes), two Emmys, a Grammy, and her 2018 run for New York governor.

Cynthia Rhodes

Cynthia Rhodes (born 1956, Nashville) is an American retired actress, singer, and dancer, known as Penny in Dirty Dancing, Tina Tech in Flashdance, Jackie in Staying Alive, and Karen Thompson in Runaway; Animotion member, ex-wife of Richard Marx.

Cynthia Stevenson

Cynthia Stevenson, American actress born 1962 in Oakland, California, known for The Player, Hope & Gloria, Oh Baby, Dead Like Me, Men in Trees, and the Air Bud films.

Cynthia Watros

Cynthia Watros (born 1968, Lake Orion, Michigan) is an American actress, 1998 Daytime Emmy winner as Annie Dutton on Guiding Light, known as Kellie Newmark on The Drew Carey Show, Erin on Titus, Libby on Lost, and Nina Reeves on General Hospital since 2019.

Cynthy Wu

Cynthy Wu (born 1998) is an American actress of Vietnamese and Chinese descent known as Kelly Baldwin on For All Mankind and for roles in Before I Fall, Kong: Skull Island, The Happytime Murders, and Holidate.

Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack, full name Cyril James Cusack, was an Irish actor born in South Africa in 1910 who ran his own touring company and appeared in about ninety films.

Cyrus Broacha

Cyrus Broacha, Indian TV anchor, comedian, and podcaster known for MTV Bakra, The Week That Wasn't, and the long-running Cyrus Says podcast; MTV VJ, author, Bigg Boss OTT 2 contestant.

D. A. Pennebaker

D. A. Pennebaker (Donn Alan Pennebaker, 1925-2019), American documentary filmmaker and direct cinema pioneer; made Dont Look Back (1967) on Bob Dylan, Monterey Pop, and with wife Chris Hegedus the Oscar-nominated The War Room; honorary Oscar 2013.

D. B. Sweeney

D. B. Sweeney (Daniel Bernard Sweeney, born 1961) is an American actor from Shoreham, Long Island, known for Eight Men Out, The Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky, Lonesome Dove, Strange Luck, and voiceover work including Mountain Men.

D. B. Weiss

D. B. Weiss (Daniel Brett Weiss, born 1971) is an American TV writer and producer who co-created and showran HBO's Game of Thrones (2011–2019) with David Benioff and later Netflix's 3 Body Problem (2024) with Alexander Woo.

D. B. Woodside

D.B. Woodside (David Bryan Woodside), American actor born 1969 in Queens, New York; Yale School of Drama MFA known for Principal Wood in Buffy, Wayne Palmer in 24, Amenadiel in Lucifer, and Erik Monks in The Night Agent; distinct from the psychiatrist D. Blake Woodside.

D. J. Cotrona

D.J. Cotrona (Donald Joseph Cotrona, born 1980) is an American actor known as Flint in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Seth Gecko in From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, and Super Hero Pedro in Shazam!, later co-writing Fight or Flight.

D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith (1875–1948), American silent-film pioneer; directed 450-plus Biograph shorts and The Birth of a Nation (1915), first American blockbuster, whose racism made him film history's most contested director.

D. W. Moffett

D. W. Moffett (Donald Warren Moffett, born 1954) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for The Normal Heart, Friday Night Lights' Joe McCoy, Switched at Birth's John Kennish, Traffic, and as SCAD's film department chair.

D.C. Young Fly

D.C. Young Fly (John Whitfield, born 1992, Atlanta) is an American comedian, rapper, actor, and podcast host known for Wild 'N Out, the 85 South Show podcast, and albums Curb Music, Trap Soul, and Fly Womack.

D'Arcy Carden

D'Arcy Carden (née D'Arcy Beth Erokan, born 1980) is an American actress and comedian, Emmy-nominated as Janet on The Good Place, also known for Barry, A League of Their Own, and Broadway's The Thanksgiving Play.

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai

D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (born 2001, Toronto) is a Canadian Oji-Cree actor, Bear Smallhill in Reservation Dogs and Ray in Warfare (2025); first Indigenous lead comedy actor Emmy nominee (2024).