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Charisma Carpenter
Charisma Carpenter (born 1970, Las Vegas) is an American actress who played Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel; in 2021 she accused Joss Whedon of toxic on-set behavior.
Charithra Chandran
Charithra Chandran (Charithra Surya Chandran) is a Scottish-born British-Tamil actress known for Edwina Sharma in Bridgerton season 2, Alex Rider, One Piece's Miss Wednesday, and her West End debut.
Charity Shop Sue
Charity Shop Sue, aka Sue Tuke, is the fictional Bulwell, Nottingham charity shop manager played by Selina Mosinski in the 2019 YouTube mockumentary by Dead Sweet TV, later an LGBTQ+ icon and social media star.
Charity Wakefield
Charity Wakefield, full name Charity Rose Wakefield, is an English actress and producer known for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (2008) and Mary Boleyn in Wolf Hall (2015).
Charlbi Dean
Charlbi Dean (Charlbi Dean Kriek, 1990–2022), South African actress and model from Cape Town; Spud films, Black Lightning's Syonide, and Yaya in Cannes Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness; died of sepsis in New York.
Charle
Charle (Velmurugan Thangasamy Manohar, வேல்முருகன் தங்கசாமி மனோகர்), born 1960, Tamil film comedian and character actor, debut Poikkal Kudhirai (1983), 550-800+ films, PhD from Tamil University 2019.
Charlene Choi
Charlene Choi (蔡卓妍, Ah Sa), born 1982 in Vancouver, is a Hong Kong Canadian actress and singer, one half of Cantopop duo Twins with Gillian Chung, and a multi-nominated Hong Kong Film Award actress.
Charlene Holt
Charlene Holt (Verna Charlene Stavely, 1928-1996), American actress and former Miss Maryland; discovered by Howard Hawks via a lipstick commercial; played Maudie in El Dorado (1966), Tex Connors in Man's Favorite Sport?, and Hippolyte in the 1974 Wonder Woman TV movie.
Charlene McKenna
Charlene McKenna, Irish actress born 1984 in Glaslough, County Monaghan, known for Pure Mule, Raw, Ripper Street, Peaky Blinders, Vienna Blood, and Clean Sweep; 2009 IFTA and Golden Nymph winner, married to Adam Rothenberg.
Charlene Tilton
Charlene Tilton is an American actress and producer. She is best known for playing Lucy Ewing on Dallas from 1978 to 1990, and later returned for the 2012 revival.
Charles Baker (actor)
Charles Baker (born 1971, Washington, D.C.) is an American character actor, writer, and director, best known as Skinny Pete in Breaking Bad and El Camino, with stage roots in Fort Worth and later roles in The Pitt and The Mandalorian.
Charles Bickford
Charles Bickford (Charles Ambrose Bickford), 1891 to 1967, was an American character actor nominated for Academy Awards for The Song of Bernadette, The Farmer's Daughter, and Johnny Belinda.
Charles Bluhdorn
Charles Bluhdorn (Karl George Bluhdorn), Austrian-born American industrialist (1926–1983), founder-chairman of Gulf and Western Industries and owner of Paramount Pictures, builder of a $5.3 billion conglomerate.
Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer, French film actor (1899-1978) of the romantic-lead era, star of Algiers, Conquest, and Gaslight, four-time Oscar nominee, honorary Oscar 1943, co-founder of Four Star Television.
Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky, 1921–2003), American actor of Lithuanian descent, coal miner and WWII B-29 gunner turned star of The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, and Death Wish; distinct from the British prisoner Michael Peterson of the 2008 film Bronson.
Charles Burnett (director)
Charles Burnett (born 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is an American independent filmmaker of the L.A. Rebellion, maker of Killer of Sheep, To Sleep with Anger, and Nightjohn, MacArthur Fellow and 2017 honorary Oscar recipient.
Charles Chaplin Jr.
Charles Chaplin Jr. (Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 1925-1968) was an American actor, elder son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey; appeared in Limelight, High School Confidential!, and 1959 films, wrote My Father, Charlie Chaplin (1960).
Charles Coburn
Charles Coburn (1877-1961), American character actor and stage producer, Oscar winner for The More the Merrier (1943); Georgia-born, Broadway from 1901, Hollywood films from Boss Tweed (1933).
Charles Cyphers
Charles Cyphers (1939-2024) was an American character actor, Sheriff Leigh Brackett in John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), and Halloween Kills (2021), also in Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Escape from New York, and Major League.
Charles Dance
Charles Dance (born 1946) is an English actor, screenwriter, and director known for Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown, RSC Shakespeare roles, and directing Ladies in Lavender.
Charles Dera
Charles Dera (Charles Deraczunas, born 1978) is an American adult film performer, former Marine, Chippendales dancer, and model; AVN Hall of Fame 2022, over 1,100 videos, debut 2007.
Charles Dolan
Charles Francis Dolan (1926-2024), American cable television pioneer; founder of HBO (1972) and Cablevision (1973), creator of AMC and News 12; family controls Madison Square Garden, Knicks, Rangers, AMC Networks; sold Cablevision to Altice for $17.7 billion in 2016.
Charles Durning
Charles Durning (1923–2012), American character actor of over 200 films and shows; WWII D-Day and Malmedy survivor with Silver Star and three Purple Hearts; Tony winner, two Oscar and nine Emmy nominations.
Charles Esten
Charles Esten (Charles Esten Puskar III, b. 1965), American actor-singer-songwriter: Deacon Claybourne on ABC/CMT's Nashville, Ward Cameron on Outer Banks, Whose Line improv regular, 54-singles Guinness record, debut album Love Ain't Pretty (2024).
Charles Fleischer
Charles Fleischer (born 1950, Washington, D.C.) is an American comedian and voice actor, the voice of Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), also known for Welcome Back, Kotter and Zodiac.
Charles Foster Kane
Charles Foster Kane is the fictional newspaper tycoon at the center of Orson Welles's 1941 film Citizen Kane, modeled largely on William Randolph Hearst and partly on Joseph Pulitzer. His dying word "Rosebud" names his childhood sled, revealed only to the audience.
Charles Gray (actor)
Charles Gray (Donald Marshall Gray, 1928–2000) was an English character actor, Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever, narrator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Mycroft Holmes; distinct from other people named Charles Gray.
Charles Grodin
Charles Grodin (Charles Grodinsky, 1935–2021), American deadpan comic actor of The Heartbreak Kid, Midnight Run, and Beethoven; also Emmy-winning writer, CNBC talk-show host, 60 Minutes II commentator, and author.
Charles Haid
Charles Haid (Charles Maurice Haid III, born 1943, San Francisco) is an American actor and director, Officer Andy Renko on Hill Street Blues, later a DGA Award-winning TV director for ER.
Charles Hallahan
Charles Hallahan (1943–1997), American character actor; played Capt. Charlie Devane on Hunter and Norris in The Thing (1982); Philadelphia-born, Rutgers and Temple MFA, three L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards; died of a heart attack in Los Angeles in 1997.