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Adam Arkin

Adam Arkin (born 1956, Brooklyn) is an American actor and director, son of Alan Arkin. Known for Dr. Aaron Shutt on Chicago Hope, Northern Exposure, I Hate Hamlet (Tony nomination), and directing The Night Agent, Poker Face, and American Hostage.

Adam Baldwin

Adam Baldwin (born 1962, Chicago) is an American actor, no relation to the Baldwin brothers, known for Animal Mother in Full Metal Jacket, Jayne Cobb in Firefly and Serenity, John Casey in Chuck, and The Last Ship.

Adam Barlow

Adam Barlow is a Coronation Street character, son of Susan Barlow and Mike Baldwin, first appearing 14 January 2001, played by Iain De Caestecker then Sam Robertson, a solicitor and ex-husband of Sarah Platt.

Adam Beach

Adam Beach (born 1972) is a Saulteaux Canadian actor from Manitoba known for Smoke Signals, Windtalkers, Flags of Our Fathers, and his Golden Globe-nominated Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee role; distinct from other people named Adam Beach.

Adam Brody

Adam Brody (born 1979, San Diego) is an American actor famous as Seth Cohen on The O.C. (2003-2007), also known as Dave Rygalski on Gilmore Girls, Freddy in Shazam!, and rabbi Noah in Netflix's Nobody Wants This (2024), which earned him a Golden Globe nomination.

Adam Campbell (actor)

Adam Campbell (born Adam Jones, 1980, Bath, England) is an English actor known for Date Movie, Epic Movie, Greg Walsh on Great News, and playing young Ducky Mallard in NCIS and NCIS: Origins; married to Jayma Mays.

Adam Carter Rehmeier

Adam Carter Rehmeier, born 1976 in Nebraska City, Nebraska, is an American director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor known for The Bunny Game (2011), Dinner in America (2020), Snack Shack (2024), and Carolina Caroline (2026).

Adam Conover

Adam Conover (born 1983, Wading River, New York) is an American comedian and creator/host of truTV's Adam Ruins Everything and Netflix's The G Word, also host of the Factually! podcast, WGA negotiator, and stand-up behind the Dropout special Unmedicated.

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis, British BBC documentary filmmaker known for archive-footage montage essays such as The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, HyperNormalisation and Can't Get You Out of My Head; self-described journalist, never operates a camera, 98 percent BBC archive.

Adam Deacon

Adam Deacon (born 1983, Hackney, London) is a British actor, writer, and director, known as Jay in Kidulthood and Adulthood, winner of the 2012 BAFTA Rising Star Award for Anuvahood, and director-star of Sumotherhood (2023).

Adam Demos

Adam Demos (born 1985, Wollongong, Australia) is a Greek Australian actor known for August Walker in UnREAL, Brad Simon in Netflix's Sex/Life, and Jake Taylor in Falling Inn Love.

Adam DeVine

Adam DeVine (Adam Patrick DeVine, born 1983, Waterloo, Iowa) is an American comedian and actor, co-creator and star of Workaholics, Bumper Allen in Pitch Perfect, and Kelvin in The Righteous Gemstones.

Adam Driver

Adam Driver (born 1983, San Diego) is an American actor, former Marine, and Juilliard graduate known for Girls, Kylo Ren in Star Wars, and Oscar-nominated roles in BlacKkKlansman and Marriage Story.

Adam F. Goldberg

Adam F. Goldberg (born 1976, Philadelphia) is an American TV producer and writer, creator of ABC's The Goldbergs, based on his 1980s Jenkintown childhood home videos; also created Breaking In, Schooled, Imaginary Mary, and developed The Muppets Mayhem. Not the actor Adam Goldberg.

Adam G. Sevani

Adam G. Sevani (born Adam Manucharian, 1992) is an American actor and dancer known as Moose in Step Up 2, 3D, Revolution, and All In; later a selective actor and dance instructor.

Adam Garcia

Adam Garcia, Australian actor and tap dancer born 1973 in Wahroonga, NSW, of Colombian descent; starred as Tony Manero in London's Saturday Night Fever, played Fiyero in Wicked, and appeared in Coyote Ugly.

Adam Godley

Adam Godley (born 1964, Amersham, England) is a British-American actor, not to be confused with other Adam Godleys. Known for Mayer Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy (Tony-nominated), Elliott Schwartz in Breaking Bad, and Pogo in The Umbrella Academy.

Adam Goldberg

Adam Goldberg (Adam Charles Goldberg, b. 1970, Santa Monica) is an American actor, director, musician, and photographer known for Dazed and Confused, Eddie on Friends, Saving Private Ryan, Fargo, and The Equalizer; distinct from Adam F. Goldberg of The Goldbergs.

Adam Green's Aladdin

Adam Green's Aladdin is a 2016 DIY feature film, also known simply as Aladdin, written, directed by, scored by, and starring the former Moldy Peaches musician, with a 3D-printer lamp, papier-mâché sets, and Macaulay Culkin in the cast.

Adam Hicks

Adam Paul Nielson Hicks, American actor, rapper, and songwriter born 1992 in Las Vegas; played Luther in Zeke and Luther, Wen in Lemonade Mouth, King Boz in Pair of Kings; co-wrote 'Determinate'; later legal case and 2025 Stone Creek Killer.

Adam Hugill

Adam Hugill, born 1997 in London, is an English actor, LAMDA-trained, lead as Constable Carrot Ironfoundersson in The Watch, also 1917, Sherwood, Doctor Strange's Rintrah; 2019 Stage Debut Award winner.

Adam James (actor)

Adam James (actor), born 1972 in London, is a British actor trained at Guildhall, known for Doctor Foster, Vigil, Belgravia, I May Destroy You, and the Broadway King Charles III, unlike other Adam James actors.

Adam Joan

Adam Joan (ആദം ജോൺ) is a 2017 Malayalam mystery thriller, Jinu Abraham's directorial debut, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as a Kottayam planter whose daughter is kidnapped in Scotland by a satanic cult; released 1 September 2017, music by Deepak Dev.

Adam Levy (actor)

Adam Levy (born 1970) is a British RADA-trained actor known for Peter in A.D. The Bible Continues, Mousesack in The Witcher, and Charles Hanani in Industry; distinct from Judy Sheindlin's judge son.

Adam McArthur

Adam McArthur (born 1982, Alameda, California) is an American voice actor, English voice of Yuji Itadori in Jujutsu Kaisen and Marco Diaz in Star vs. the Forces of Evil, also Reno Ichikawa in Kaiju No. 8; first paid VO job in 1998, kung fu instructor, owner of The Booth and Bus Co.

Adam McKay

Adam McKay (b. 1968, Philadelphia), American director, screenwriter, and producer; Second City and SNL alumnus, Will Ferrell comedy partner, Oscar winner for The Big Short, founder of Hyperobject Industries.

Adam Nagaitis

Adam Nagaitis (Adam Matthew Nagaitis) is a British actor from Chorley, Lancashire, a Stella Adler and RADA graduate known for Cornelius Hickey in The Terror and Vasily Ignatenko in Chernobyl, now in Star City and Task season 2.

Adam Newman

Adam Newman (Victor Adam Newman Jr.) is a fictional character on CBS's The Young and the Restless, son of Victor Newman and Hope Adams, played by four adult actors, currently Mark Grossman since May 2019.

Adam Newport-Berra

Adam Newport-Berra, ASC is an American cinematographer from rural Oregon, an NYU Tisch graduate. Known for The Last Black Man in San Francisco, The Bear pilot, Euphoria, and The Studio, which won him a 2025 Emmy and ASC Award.

Adam Nimoy

Adam Nimoy (born 1956) is an American TV director, son of Leonard Nimoy; former entertainment lawyer, director of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes and the 2016 documentary For the Love of Spock, author of the 2024 memoir The Most Human.