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Zack Hudson

Zack Hudson, fictional EastEnders character played by James Farrar since 16 March 2021; son of Gavin Sullivan, half-brother of Sharon Watts; known for the 2023 HIV storyline, Whitney Dean, and Barney Mitchell paternity plots.

Zack Snyder

Zack Snyder (Zachary E. Snyder) is a film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer known for 300, Watchmen, Man of Steel, and the four-hour Zack Snyder's Justice League, with a hyper-stylized slow-motion visual style.

Zack Snyder's Justice League

Zack Snyder's Justice League, the "Snyder Cut", is Zack Snyder's 242-minute 2021 HBO Max director's cut of the 2017 film Justice League, released after the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut fan campaign, costing over $70 million with 1,000+ new VFX shots.

Zack Taylor

Zack Taylor (Zachary Taylor) is the original Black Ranger of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, played by Walter Emanuel Jones; first Black Ranger, Mastodon Power Coin, Hip Hop Kido, succeeded by Adam Park, later reprised in Once & Always.

Zack Ward

Zack Ward (Zacharias Ward), Canadian actor born 1970 in Toronto, played bully Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story (1983) and its 2022 sequel, Dave Scouvel on Titus, and the Postal Dude in Postal (2007); directed The Keepers of the 5 Kingdoms (2024).

ZAG Entertainment

ZAG Entertainment, also called Zagtoon or ZAG Heroez, is a French-founded independent kids and family entertainment studio created by Jeremy Zag in 2009, known for Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, distinct from the unrelated Zagtoons YouTube meme studio.

Zahan Kapoor (ज़ाहन पृथ्वीराज कपूर)

Zahan Kapoor (ज़ाहन पृथ्वीराज कपूर) is an Indian actor, grandson of Shashi Kapoor and Ramesh Sippy's grandson, who debuted with Hansal Mehta's Faraaz and broke out as Sunil Gupta in Netflix's Black Warrant (2025), while serving as a Prithvi Theatre trustee.

Zahid Ahmed (actor)

Zahid Ahmed, Pakistani TV and theatre actor (born 1984, Rawalpindi), star of Ishq Zahe Naseeb, Alvida, Daldal, Gentleman; Lux Style Best Actor Critics' Choice winner; distinct from the 1998-born Indian company director of the same name.

Zahn McClarnon

Zahn McClarnon (Zahn Tokiya-ku McClarnon), born 1966 in Denver, is a Hunkpapa Lakota and Irish American actor known for Longmire, Fargo's Hanzee Dent, Westworld's Akecheta, Reservation Dogs' Big, and starring as Joe Leaphorn in Dark Winds.

Zain Imam

Zain Imam is an Indian television actor born in 1988 in New Delhi, known for Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan, Tashan-E-Ishq (Yuvraj Luthra), Naamkarann (Neil Khanna), Fanaa: Ishq Mein Marjawan, and Suman Indori on Colors TV, with four award wins.

Zain Iqbal

Zain Iqbal is a British actor from Manchester, England, known for playing Ravi Singh in the BBC Three and Netflix series A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Zaira Wasim

Zaira Wasim is an Indian former actress from Srinagar who starred in Dangal (2016), Secret Superstar (2017), and The Sky Is Pink (2019), winning a National Film Award.

Zak Dingle

Zak Dingle, also known as Zachariah Bartholomew Dingle, is a fictional character in the British soap opera Emmerdale played by Steve Halliwell from 1994 until 2023.

Zak Ford-Williams

Zak Ford-Williams, British actor born near Manchester in 1999, distinct from Robin Williams's son Zak Williams; known for Bridgerton's Lord Remington, Better, The Hardacres, and playing Joseph Merrick as a disabled actor with cerebral palsy.

Zak Sutcliffe

Zak Sutcliffe (Zachary Sutcliffe), English actor born 2001 in Bradford, known for Peter Pan in Peter and Wendy, Luke in Grimsby, Evan in 4 O'Clock Club, Schuey Weever in Waterloo Road, and Bobby Costello in Hollyoaks.

Zakhm

Zakhm (ज़ख़्म, "Wound") is Mahesh Bhatt's 1998 Hindi drama, produced by Pooja Bhatt, starring Ajay Devgn, about a Muslim mother's burial wish during the 1993 Bombay riots; autobiographical, National Award winner.

Zakir Hussain (ज़ाकिर हुसैन) (actor)

Zakir Hussain (ज़ाकिर हुसैन), Hindi film, TV and streaming character actor, NSD-trained, distinct from the tabla maestro; known for Sarkar, Johnny Gaddaar, Andhadhun and Farzi (2023).

Zakir Khan (ज़ाकिर ख़ान) (comedian)

Zakir Khan (ज़ाकिर ख़ान), born 1987 in Indore, is an Indian Hindi-language stand-up comedian, writer, and poet, winner of Comedy Central India's Best Stand-up Comedian 2012, with six specials including Tathastu and Papa Yaar, and the first Indian comedian to perform entirely in Hindi at Madison Square Garden.

Zal Batmanglij

Zal Batmanglij, American film director and screenwriter born in France to Iranian parents; co-writer with Brit Marling of Sound of My Voice (2011), The East (2013), The OA (2016–19), and A Murder at the End of the World (2023).

Zama (2017 film)

Zama (2017) is Lucrecia Martel's fourth feature, an adaptation of Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 novel, premiering at Venice. It stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as a colonial magistrate waiting for a royal transfer that never comes.

Zamasu (ザマス)

Zamasu (ザマス), also rendered Zamas, is a Dragon Ball Super villain: Universe 10's North Kaiō who swaps bodies with Goku via the Super Dragon Balls to become Goku Black and runs the Human Zero Plan.

Zameer (ज़मीर)

Zameer (ज़मीर) is a 1975 Hindi action-drama directed by Ravi Chopra, produced by B.R. Chopra, starring Shammi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, and Saira Banu; a criminal poses as a horse-breeder's lost son. Distinct from the 1997 film of the same name.

Zamolxe

Zamolxe, Zalmoxis in English, is a 1921 dramatic poem in three acts by Romanian poet and philosopher Lucian Blaga, his debut play, centered on the god of the Geto-Dacians.

Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर) (1973 film)

Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर), 1973 Hindi action film directed by Prakash Mehra, written by Salim-Javed, starring Amitabh Bachchan as Inspector Vijay Khanna; established the Angry Young Man persona and was a blockbuster.

Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर) (2013 film)

Zanjeer (ज़ंजीर), also Thoofan in Telugu, is Apoorva Lakhia's 2013 remake of the 1973 Amitabh Bachchan classic, starring Ram Charan in his Bollywood debut with Priyanka Chopra, Sanjay Dutt, and Prakash Raj; released 6 September 2013 to mixed-to-negative reviews.

Zanni

Zanni (from Venetian Zani, Gianni, from Giovanni) is the comic servant stock character of commedia dell'arte, originating among Bergamasque porters in the Po Valley; it split into the cunning first zanni (Brighella) and foolish second zanni (Arlecchino), and gave English the word "zany".

Zapatlela (झपाटलेला)

Zapatlela (झपाटलेला) is a 1993 Marathi horror comedy directed, written, and produced by Mahesh Kothare, inspired by Child's Play, starring Laxmikant Berde and Dilip Prabhavalkar as Tatya Vinchu; a 2013 3D sequel followed.

Zapped!

Zapped! is a 1982 American teen sex comedy directed by Robert J. Rosenthal, starring Scott Baio as a student who gains telekinetic powers from a lab accident.

Zapruder film

The Zapruder film, also called the Zapruder movie, is Abraham Zapruder's 26-second, 486-frame 8mm home movie of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963, sold to Life for $150,000, bought by the US government for $16 million in 1999, and held at the National Archives with copyright at the Sixth Floor Museum.

Zara Cully

Zara Cully, also known as Zara Frances Cully, was an American actress. She is best known for playing Olivia "Mother" Jefferson on The Jeffersons from 1974 to 1978.