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Ellen Holly

Ellen Virginia Holly (1931-2023), American stage and television actress; first African American lead on daytime TV as Carla Gray on One Life to Live from 1968, created by Agnes Nixon; Broadway work in Too Late the Phalarope; autobiography One Life (1996).

Ellen Muth

Ellen Anna Muth is an American actress, born in 1981, best known for playing Georgia "George" Lass in the Showtime series Dead Like Me and its 2009 film follow-up.

Ellen Pompeo

Ellen Pompeo (born 1969, Everett, Massachusetts), American actress and producer, Dr. Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy since 2005; $20 million-a-year deal made her TV drama's highest-paid actress; stars in Good American Family (2025).

Ellen Ripley

Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, is the fictional warrant officer protagonist of Alien (1979), Aliens, Alien3, and Alien: Resurrection; an iconic action heroine who survives Xenomorph encounters, is cloned as Ripley 8, and inspires the franchise.

Ellen Robertson

Ellen Robertson refers to several people: a British actress, writer and comedian of the sketch duo Britney (Vladimir, Mickey 17, Black Mirror); Ellen M. Robertson, an anatomical education researcher at Randolph-Macon College; Ellen P. Robertson, a USGS wildlife ecologist; and chemist Ellen J. Robertson.

Ellen Travolta

Ellen Travolta, American actress born in Englewood, New Jersey (sources differ: 1939 or 1940), sister of John Travolta; played Chachi's mother Louisa on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi and Lillian on Charles in Charge.

Ellen Wong

Ellen Wong (born 1985) is a Canadian actress from Scarborough, Ontario, of Cambodian descent, known as Knives Chau in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Mouse in The Carrie Diaries, and Jenny Chey in GLOW.

Ellen's Game of Games

Ellen's Game of Games, also Game of Games, was an NBC primetime game show hosted by Ellen DeGeneres from December 2017 to May 2021, with supersized Ellen Show games, Know or Go, Hot Hands, a $100,000 prize, and four seasons before cancellation.

Elli AvrRam

Elli AvrRam, born Elisabet Avramidou Granlund in 1990, is a Swedish-Greek actress known in India since Bigg Boss season 7 and her 2013 debut Mickey Virus.

Ellie & Natasia

Ellie & Natasia is a British sketch show written by and starring comedians Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou, broadcast on BBC Three and BBC Two.

Ellie Bamber

Ellie Bamber (Eleanor Elizabeth Bamber, born 1997, Surrey) is a British actress known for Nocturnal Animals, Les Misérables, Willow, Red White & Royal Blue, and playing Kate Moss in Moss & Freud.

Ellie de Lange

Ellie de Lange (born 1997) is a British-Dutch actress and director known for The Serpent, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Arcadia, Netflix's Run Away, and her short film Verdomme.

Ellie Haddington

Ellie Haddington, born 1955 in Aberdeen, is a Scottish actress trained at Bristol Old Vic, known for Bad Girls, Foyle's War, Motherland, Fantastic Beasts, Enola Holmes, and Operation Mincemeat.

Ellie Harrison (journalist)

Ellie Harrison (Eleanor Harrison, born 1977) is an English ecologist, journalist and TV presenter, Countryfile presenter 2009–2023, BAFTA-winning Michaela's Wild Challenge host, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust president; distinct from the Glasgow artist and Independent editor of the same name.

Ellie Kemper

Ellie Kemper (Elizabeth Claire Kemper, born 1980), American actress and comedian; Erin Hannon on The Office, star of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019), Bridesmaids and 21 Jump Street, two-time Emmy nominee, author of My Squirrel Days.

Ellie Kendrick

Ellie Kendrick (Eleanor Lucy V. Kendrick, born 1990) is an English actress and playwright known for Anne Frank in the BBC's 2009 The Diary of Anne Frank, Meera Reed in Game of Thrones, and the Royal Court play Hole.

Ellie White

Ellie White (born 1989) is an English actress, writer and comedian; star of Ellie & Natasia with Natasia Demetriou, Princess Beatrice in The Windsors, Katia in Stath Lets Flats, and leads in The Other One and Dick Turpin.

Elliot Cowan

Elliot Cowan (born 1976, London) is a British actor known as Mr. Darcy in Lost in Austen, Daron-Vex in Krypton, Lewis Pirenne in Foundation, Jack Smurl in The Conjuring: Last Rites, and an award-winning classical stage performer.

Elliot Fletcher

Elliot Fletcher (born 1996) is an American transgender actor from Los Angeles, known as Noah in Faking It, Aaron Baker in The Fosters, and Trevor in Shameless, plus voice roles in Tekkonkinkreet and World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.

Elliot Knight

Elliot Knight, English actor born 1990 in Birmingham, trained at Manchester School of Theatre; starred in Sinbad (2012), played Merlin in Once Upon a Time, and voices Kyle 'Gaz' Garrick in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, also starring in The Boys (2024) and Countdown (2025).

Elliot Page

Elliot Page, formerly Ellen Page, is a Canadian actor born 1987 in Halifax, known for Juno (Oscar-nominated), Hard Candy, X-Men, Inception, and The Umbrella Academy; came out as trans in 2020, Time cover 2021, memoir Pageboy 2023.

Elliot Reid

Elliot Reid is the fictional internal-medicine doctor in Scrubs (2001-2010 and the 2026 ABC revival), played by Sarah Chalke; J.D. Dorian's on-off love interest, later his wife and then amicable ex-wife.

Elliot Stabler

Elliot Stabler is a fictional NYPD detective played by Christopher Meloni, the hot-headed lead of Law & Order: SVU for its first 12 seasons and star of Organized Crime.

Elliott Gould

Elliott Gould (born Elliott Goldstein, 1938, Brooklyn) is an American actor, Oscar-nominated for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, star of Altman's M*A*S*H and The Long Goodbye, later Jack Geller on Friends and Reuben Tishkoff in Ocean's Eleven.

Elliott Taylor

Elliott Taylor is the fictional boy protagonist of Steven Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, created with screenwriter Melissa Mathison and played by Henry Thomas; a lonely middle child of divorce who shares a psychic bond with the alien.

Ellis (TV series)

Ellis, also Inspector Ellis, is a 2024 British crime drama starring Sharon D Clarke as DCI Ellis, who takes over failing murder investigations across northern England with DS Harper (Andrew Gower); three series-1 films plus a 2026 four-episode series 2 on Channel 5 and Acorn TV.

Ellis Howard

Ellis Howard (Ellis Francis Howard) is a Liverpool-born English actor and writer, BAFTA-nominated for playing Byron in the BBC's What It Feels Like for a Girl (2025); also known for Red Rose, Help, and Catherine the Great.

Elmer Bernstein

Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004), American film composer of over 150 movie scores and nearly 80 TV scores; 14 Oscar nominations, winning for Thoroughly Modern Millie; known for The Magnificent Seven, The Man with the Golden Arm, and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Elmer Fudd

Elmer Fudd (Elmer J. Fudd), Warner Bros. Looney Tunes hunter and Bugs Bunny's foil, assembled from Egghead, named in A Feud There Was (1938), voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan, known for "Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting wabbits."

Elmer Gantry (film)

Elmer Gantry (1960), Richard Brooks's United Artists drama adapted from Sinclair Lewis's 1927 novel, stars Burt Lancaster as a revivalist con man with Jean Simmons and Oscar winner Shirley Jones; it won three Academy Awards.