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John Cleese
John Cleese (born 1939) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, a founding member of Monty Python, co-creator and star of Fawlty Towers, star of A Fish Called Wanda, and co-founder of the Video Arts training-film company.
John Drew Jr.
John Drew Jr. (1853–1927), American stage actor, son of John Drew and Louisa Lane Drew; leading man in Augustin Daly's company with Ada Rehan, then a Charles Frohman star, uncle of the Barrymores.
John Drew Sr.
John Drew Sr. (1827–1862), Irish-born American stage actor and Philadelphia theater manager, husband of Louisa Lane Drew, father of John Drew Jr., and grandfather of the Barrymores; not the NBA player or pastor John Drew Sheard Sr.
John Gielgud
Sir John Gielgud (1904–2000), English actor and director, one of the twentieth century's great Shakespeareans alongside Olivier and Richardson; famed for Hamlet and Richard II, directed Burton's 1964 Hamlet, and completed an EGOT in 1991.
John Lahr
John Lahr (born 1941), American theater critic and biographer, son of Bert Lahr; longtime New Yorker senior drama critic, author of Prick Up Your Ears and the NBCC-winning Tennessee Williams biography, and first critic to win a Tony.
Jonah Platt
Jonah Platt (born 1986) is an American actor, singer, writer, and Jewish advocate; Broadway's Fiyero in Wicked (2015-2016), host of the Being Jewish with Jonah Platt podcast, son of producer Marc Platt and brother of Ben Platt.
Jonathan Miller
Sir Jonathan Miller (1934–2019), British polymath: physician, Beyond the Fringe satirist with Cook, Moore, and Bennett, and leading opera and theatre director known for ENO's mafia Rigoletto and The Mikado.
Jordan Roth
Jordan Roth is an American Broadway producer and theater owner who won seven Tony Awards for shows including Hadestown, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, and Angels in America.
Josephine Dillon
Josephine Dillon (1884-1971), American actress, drama coach, and author of Modern Acting: A Guide for Stage, Screen and Radio (1940); coached and married Clark Gable, 1924-1930.
Joy Woods
Joy Woods (born 1999) is an American musical theater actress from Chicago, a 2025 Tony nominee as Louise in Gypsy, known for Six, The Notebook, Little Shop of Horrors, and her West End debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
Judith Malina
Judith Malina (1926-2015), German-born American actress, director, and anarchist-pacifist, co-founded The Living Theatre with Julian Beck in 1947, directed The Connection, The Brig, and Paradise Now, endured jail and exile, and published celebrated diaries.
Julia Knitel
Julia Nicole Knitel is an American stage actress and singer who earned a 2025 Tony nomination for Dead Outlaw and led the tour of Beautiful as Carole King.
Julia Pastrana
Julia Pastrana (1834–1860), Mexican Indigenous singer and dancer with hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, exhibited across Europe and Russia, mummified after death, and finally buried in Sinaloa in 2013.
Julian Beck
Julian Beck (1925–1985), American painter, poet, and director, co-founded The Living Theatre with Judith Malina in 1947; anarcho-pacifist creator of Paradise Now, jailed 12 times, author of The Life of the Theatre and Theandric.
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor is an American theater, opera, and film director, first woman to win the Tony for directing a musical. Known for The Lion King (1997), films Titus, Frida, and The Glorias, and Met Opera Magic Flute.
Justin Collette
Justin Collette is a Canadian actor, writer, and musician from Moncton, New Brunswick, known for Beetlejuice on Broadway and as Dewey Finn in School of Rock.
Kashinath Ghanekar (काशिनाथ घाणेकर)
Kashinath Ghanekar (काशिनाथ घाणेकर) was a Marathi stage and film actor and dentist, remembered as the first superstar of Marathi theater from the 1960s through the early 1980s.
Kate Firth
Kate Firth, born 1962 in Nigeria, is a British voice coach and sister of actors Colin and Jonathan Firth, who helped coach Colin for The King's Speech.
Kate Mulvany
Kate Mulvany (born 1978, Geraldton, Western Australia) is an Australian actor, playwright and screenwriter, creator of The Seed, adapter of Medea and Mary Stuart, and star of Hunters, The Twelve and Elvis.
Kate Reinders
Kate Reinders (born 1980, Seattle) is an American Broadway actress and singer: June in Gypsy (2003), Glinda in Wicked (Chicago and Broadway), Portia in Something Rotten!, and Miss Jenn in High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
Kathryn Gallagher
Kathryn Gallagher (born 1993, New York City), American actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Peter Gallagher. Tony-nominated as Bella in Jagged Little Pill; Broadway debut in Deaf West Spring Awakening; starred in All Nighter (2025); TV roles in You and Gossip Girl.
Katrina Lenk
Katrina Lenk, American actress and singer, Tony winner as Dina in The Band's Visit; Broadway roles include Arachne in Spider-Man, Réza in Once, Indecent, and Bobbie in Company.
Kaya Chakrabortty (チャクラボルティ雅)
Kaya Chakrabortty (チャクラボルティ雅), born 2001 in Kobe, Japan, is a Japanese-Bangladeshi figure skater, EMT, and Miss Universe Japan 2024 who placed Top 30 at Miss Universe 2024; first titleholder of Bangladeshi heritage.
Kaziah Liz Mejo
Kaziah Liz Mejo (Kezia Liz Majo), born 2007, is an Indian law student and model from Mavelikkara, Kerala, raised in Abu Dhabi. She won Miss Universe India 2026 on 23 August 2026 in Jaipur, the first Keralite to hold the title, and represents India at Miss Universe 2026 in Puerto Rico.
Keala Settle
Keala Settle, full name Keala Joan Settle, is an American actress and singer known for Broadway roles and for singing "This Is Me" in The Greatest Showman (2017).
Kecia Lewis
Kecia Lewis (also Kecia Lewis-Evans), born 1965, Bronx; American Broadway actress and Atlantic Acting School teacher. Broadway debut at 18 in Dreamgirls; won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical as Miss Liza Jane in Hell's Kitchen.
Ken Page
Ken Page (Kenneth Page, 1954–2024), St. Louis-born Broadway actor and cabaret singer; originated Old Deuteronomy in Cats, won a 1978 Drama Desk Award for Ain't Misbehavin', and voiced Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Kenneth Halliwell
Kenneth Halliwell (1926-1967), English actor, writer, and collage artist, partner of playwright Joe Orton; defaced Islington library books with him, imprisoned six months, killed Orton in 1967.
Kenneth Tynan
Kenneth Peacock Tynan (1927–1980) was an English theater critic and writer, the National Theatre's first literary manager, celebrated for championing John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Kenny Ireland
Kenny Ireland (George Ian Kenneth Ireland, 1945-2014) was a Scottish actor and theatre director, known for Benidorm's Donald Stewart, Acorn Antiques, and as Royal Lyceum Edinburgh artistic director 1993-2003.