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Stephen McKinley Henderson
Stephen McKinley Henderson (born 1949, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American character actor famed for August Wilson roles, Jim Bono in Fences, Thufir Hawat in Dune, and Pops in Between Riverside and Crazy, with two Tony nominations and 2023 lifetime achievement honors.
Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant (born 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and director who co-created The Office and Extras with Ricky Gervais, later directing Fighting With My Family.
Stephen Moore (actor)
Stephen Moore (1937–2019), English actor, voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio and TV series; Olivier-winning stage veteran of the National Theatre and RSC. Distinct from Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Conrad Moore, and the economist.
Stephen Moyer
Stephen Moyer (born 1969, born Stephen John Emery) is an English actor and director, best known as vampire Bill Compton in HBO's True Blood (2008-2014) opposite Anna Paquin; LAMDA-trained, RSC alumnus, later director of The Parting Glass and A Bit of Light.
Stephen Mulhern
Stephen Mulhern (born 1977, Stratford, London) is an English TV presenter, magician, and children's author known for ITV's Catchphrase, Britain's Got More Talent, In for a Penny, and Deal or No Deal.
Stephen Nichols
Stephen Earl Nichols (born 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American soap opera actor, Steve "Patch" Johnson on Days of Our Lives since 1985, also Stefan Cassadine on General Hospital and Tucker McCall on The Young and the Restless.
Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea, born 1946 in Belfast, is a Northern Irish actor Oscar-nominated for The Crying Game (1992), co-founder of Field Day Theatre Company with Brian Friel (1980), winner of a 2015 BAFTA TV Award and the 2024 IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award; distinct from the Belfast author of the same name.
Stephen Root
Stephen Root (born 1951) is an American character actor known for Milton Waddams in Office Space, Jimmy James on NewsRadio, and voicing Bill Dauterive and Buck Strickland on King of the Hill; he won his first Emmy in 2026 for Widow's Bay and voices Brian Heder in Grand Theft Auto VI.
Stephen Schnetzer
Stephen Schnetzer (born 1948) is an American actor known for Cass Winthrop on Another World (1982–1999), Steve Olson on Days of Our Lives, and Broadway roles in Filumena and The Goat.
Stephen Shin
Stephen Shin is a DC Comics marine biologist created by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, debuting in Aquaman Vol. 7 #2 (2011). A friend of Tom Curry who trained young Arthur Curry, he later betrayed Aquaman over Atlantis's location; Randall Park plays him in the DCEU films.
Stephen Sommers
Stephen Sommers (born 1962, Indianapolis) is the American director-writer of The Mummy (1999), The Mummy Returns, Van Helsing, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and Odd Thomas (2014), his last feature to date.
Stephen Strange (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Stephen Strange, Doctor Strange, MCU sorcerer played by Benedict Cumberbatch since 2016; a neurosurgeon whose injured hands led him to Kamar-Taj, where he became the Sorcerer Supreme, wielded the Time Stone, and opened the MCU's multiverse.
Stephen Stucker
Stephen Stucker (1947–1986), American comic actor; played manic controller Johnny Henshaw-Jacobs in Airplane! (1980) and its sequel, Kentucky Fried Theater member, died of AIDS at 38.
Stephen Talbot
Stephen Talbot (born 1949), American documentary filmmaker and former child actor (Gilbert on Leave It to Beaver); Emmy, DuPont, and Peabody winner known for Frontline films and The Movement and the "Madman" (2023).
Stephen Tobolowsky
Stephen Tobolowsky (born 1951, Dallas) is an American character actor with over 200 screen credits, known for Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, Sammy Jankis in Memento, and his podcast The Tobolowsky Files.
Stephen Tompkinson
Stephen Tompkinson (born 1965, Stockton-on-Tees) is an English actor known for Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey, Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel, Wild at Heart, DCI Banks, and Brassed Off.
Stephen Tredre
Stephen Ralph Tredre (1963–1997) was a British actor and television writer, RADA graduate 1987, with credits on Dark Season, EastEnders, Maisie Raine, and Fish, and the first partner of actress Kate Winslet.
Stephen Walters
Stephen Walters (Stephen Martin Walters, born 1975, Merseyside) is an English actor known for Angus Mhor in Outlander, Thomas Malone in Shetland, Zeppo in Slow Horses, and RTS-nominated roles in Ragged and Anne.
Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick
Stephenie LaGrossa Kendrick, American reality-TV competitor, four-time Survivor contestant (Palau, Guatemala, Heroes vs. Villains, season 50), famous as Ulong's tribe of one and Guatemala runner-up, also The Traitors.
Stephnie Weir
Stephnie Weir (Stephnie Carmel Weir), American actress, comedian, and writer born 1967 in Odessa, Texas; MADtv cast member and writer 2000-2006, creator of Dot Goddard and Anna Nicole Smith impression, Second City and WeirDass improviser.
Stepin Fetchit
Stepin Fetchit was the stage name of Lincoln Perry, an American comedian and film actor who became Hollywood's first Black movie star in the late 1920s.
Stepmom (1998 film)
Stepmom is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Chris Columbus, in which Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon play a girlfriend and ex-wife who move from hostility to cooperation after a cancer diagnosis.
Steptoe and Son
Steptoe and Son is a 1962-1974 BBC sitcom by Galton and Simpson about rag-and-bone men Albert (Wilfrid Brambell) and Harold (Harry H. Corbett) Steptoe of Oil Drum Lane, basis of Sanford and Son.
Stereo (1969 film)
Stereo (1969) is David Cronenberg's first feature, a Canadian experimental black-and-white sci-fi film about surgically induced telepathy at the Canadian Academy of Erotic Inquiry, shot for $3,500 at Scarborough College without sync sound.
Stereoscopy
Stereoscopy, also called stereoscopic 3D, creates depth perception by showing slightly different images to each eye, fusing them via stereopsis; invented with Wheatstone's 1838 stereoscope, it spans anaglyph, polarized, and shutter-glass displays, 3-D cinema, and medical stereo endoscopy.
Sterling Archer
Sterling Archer is the fictional superspy protagonist of the FX adult animated comedy Archer (2009–2023), voiced by H. Jon Benjamin, created by Adam Reed, and known as code name Duchess at his mother's agency ISIS.
Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden, also Sterling Walter Hayden, born Sterling Relyea Walter: American actor, sailor, OSS agent and author, star of The Asphalt Jungle, Dr. Strangelove and The Godfather, who named names before HUAC.
Sterling K. Brown
Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown), American actor born 1976 in St. Louis; Emmy winner for American Crime Story and This Is Us, Golden Globe first for Black actors in TV drama, Oscar nominee for American Fiction, star of Hulu's Paradise.
Sterling Knight
Sterling Knight (Sterling Sandmann Knight, born 1989, Houston, Texas) is an American actor and musician known for Chad Dylan Cooper in Sonny with a Chance, Christopher Wilde in StarStruck (2010), and Alex in 17 Again.
Sterling Point
Sterling Point is a 2026 Prime Video coming-of-age drama created by Megan Park, starring Ella Rubin as Annie Jacobson, a New York teen who inherits a mysterious Canadian island; renewed for season 2 in August 2026.