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Jacqueline Jossa

Jacqueline Jossa, also known as Jac Jossa, is an English actress who has played Lauren Branning in the BBC soap EastEnders since 2010 and won I'm a Celebrity in 2019.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, born 1987 in Windsor, Ontario, is a Canadian actress who has played Steffy Forrester on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful since 2008, winning Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2019, 2021, and 2023; married to Elan Ruspoli, five sons.

Jade Armor

Jade Armor (L'armure de Jade) is a French TeamTO CGI animated series (2022– ) in which teenager Lan Jun dons jade armor and fights the Crimson Lord in Ban Tang with the Beasticons, across two 26-episode seasons.

Jadis (The Walking Dead)

Jadis, later Anne and Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes, is a Walking Dead universe character played by Pollyanna McIntosh: Scavengers junkyard leader, CRM people-trader who rescued Rick Grimes, and antagonist in World Beyond and The Ones Who Live.

Jadzia Dax

Jadzia Dax is a fictional Trill science officer in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by Terry Farrell for six seasons; eighth host of the Dax symbiont, killed in 'Tears of the Prophets', succeeded by Ezri Dax.

Jafaa (جفا) (TV series)

Jafaa (جفا) is a 2024 HUM TV Pakistani drama, 32 episodes, written by Samira Fazal, directed by Danish Nawaz, starring Mawra Hocane, Mohib Mirza, Sehar Khan, and Usman Mukhtar; it aired Fridays 8 PM from 24 May to 27 December 2024, distinct from Geo's Kaffara.

JAG (TV series)

JAG (Judge Advocate General) is an American military legal drama created by Donald P. Bellisario, starring David James Elliott and Catherine Bell. It ran 1995–2005, ten seasons and 227 episodes, canceled by NBC after one season then a CBS hit that spawned NCIS.

Jagadhatri (TV series)

Jagadhatri (জগদ্ধাত্রী), Zee Bangla Bengali romantic thriller drama premiering 29 August 2022, stars Ankita Mallick as undercover officer JAS and Soumyadeep Mukherjee; remade in Hindi on Zee TV in 2025 with Sonakshi Batra.

Jagriti: Ek Nayi Subah (जागृति: एक नई सुबह)

Jagriti: Ek Nayi Subah (जागृति: एक नई सुबह) is a Hindi Zee TV drama (premiered 16 September 2024, Guroudev Bhalla Productions) about a girl of the marginalized Chitta community fighting for education against Kalikant Thakur, with a 12-year leap and an off-air report in December 2025.

Jaguar (2021 TV series)

Jaguar is a 2021 Spanish Netflix historical action-drama series created by Ramón Campos and Gema R. Neira. Blanca Suárez stars as Mauthausen survivor Isabel Garrido hunting Nazi war criminal Otto Bachmann in 1960s Spain; one six-episode season, cancelled.

Jai Mahendran

Jai Mahendran is a 2024 Malayalam political drama web series, SonyLIV's first Malayalam original, created by Rahul Riji Nair, starring Saiju Kurup as a deputy tahsildar fighting a graft-case suspension across six episodes.

Jai Malhar

Jai Malhar (जय मल्हार), also Jai Malhaar, is a Marathi mythological Zee Marathi serial (2014–2017, 941 episodes) by Mahesh Kothare on the deity Khandoba, starring Devdatta Nage, distinct from the 1947 Marathi film of the same name.

Jake and Amir (web series)

Jake and Amir is an American comedy web series set in a New York office, created in 2007 by CollegeHumor writers Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld, who play exaggerated versions of themselves.

Jake and the Fatman

Jake and the Fatman is an American crime drama on CBS from 1987 to 1992, starring William Conrad as prosecutor J.L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles.

Jake and the Never Land Pirates

Jake and the Never Land Pirates (later Captain Jake and the Never Land Pirates) is Disney Television Animation's preschool series, Disney Junior's first original series, premiered February 14, 2011, following kid pirates Jake, Izzy, and Cubby aboard Bucky outwitting Captain Hook and Smee across four seasons ending 2016.

Jake Quickenden

Jake Quickenden (Jacob Quickenden, born 1988, Scunthorpe) is an English singer and TV personality: X Factor 2012 and 2014, runner-up on I'm a Celebrity 2014, and Dancing on Ice 2018 champion.

Jake the Dog

Jake the Dog is the shapeshifting yellow magical dog of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time (2010), voiced by John DiMaggio, Finn's adoptive brother and best friend, biological son of Warren Ampersand, with stretchy powers limited by his body thinning out.

Jake Wood

Jake Dylan Wood (born 1972), British actor; Max Branning in EastEnders 2006-2021, reprised 2025; GEICO gecko voice; 2:22 A Ghost Story WhatsOnStage winner; Pound For Pound podcast.

Jalinan Terlarang

Jalinan Terlarang is a 2025 Indonesian Vidio Original drama series, 10 episodes, starring Marshanda, Dimas Anggara, and Maria Theodore, about a wife whose marriage unravels after taking in her brother's pregnant girlfriend; produced by Screenplay Films, premiered 2 October 2025.

Jamai No. 1 (जमाई नंबर 1)

Jamai No. 1 (जमाई नंबर 1) is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV on 9 December 2024, starring Abhishek Malik and Simaran Kaur.

Jamal Lyon

Jamal Lyon is the openly gay middle son of Lucious and Cookie Lyon on Fox's Empire, played by Jussie Smollett; named Lucious's successor in season 1, married Kai in primetime's first gay Black wedding, and was written out after Smollett's 2019 arrest.

James "Sawyer" Ford

James "Sawyer" Ford is a fictional con man on ABC's Lost (2004-2010), played by Josh Holloway. Real name James Ford, he took his alias from the con man who destroyed his family, became DHARMA head LaFleur in 1974, and evolved from audience-testing liability to fan favorite.

James Alexandrou

James Alexandrou (James Alekos Alexandrou), British actor and filmmaker born 1985 in Islington, London; played Martin Fowler in EastEnders 1996-2007 before James Bye took over in 2014; now a London writer-director, NFTS graduate, founder of Actors East and Playhouse East.

James at 15

James at 15 (later James at 16) is a 1977-1978 NBC drama starring Lance Kerwin as James Hunter, created by Dan Wakefield, known for "The Gift" episode and its birth-control censorship dispute.

James Bond Jr.

James Bond Jr.: 1991 American animated series of 65 daily episodes by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, sanctioned by Danjaq, about Bond's teenage nephew fighting SCUM at Warfield Academy; never released on DVD.

James Cook (Skins)

James Cook, called Cook, is a fictional character in the British teen drama Skins, played by Jack O'Connell. A Generation 2 anti-hero in Series 3–4 and protagonist of the 2013 finale Skins: Rise.

James Doakes

James Doakes is a fictional Miami Metro homicide sergeant in Showtime's Dexter and Jeff Lindsay's novels, played by Erik King. The only character to suspect Dexter Morgan, he is killed by Lila in the Season 2 finale and framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher; the book version, Albert Doakes, survives mutilation by Dr. Danco.

James Gunn's PG Porn

James Gunn's PG Porn is a 2008-2009 Spike.com comedy web series by James, Brian, and Sean Gunn: porn-film spoofs with no sex, tagline "For people who love everything about Porn...except the sex."

James May: Oh Cook

James May: Oh Cook is a British Prime Video cooking series (2020-2023, 14 episodes) in which Top Gear's James May, who says he cannot cook, makes simple recipes with home economist Nikki Morgan, tied to his cookbook.

James May: Our Man in...

James May: Our Man in... is a Prime Video travel documentary series (2020–2024) hosted by James May, covering Japan, Italy, and India, made by Plum Pictures and directed by Tom Whitter.