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Clara Blandick

Clara Blandick, born Clara Blanchard Dickey, was an American character actress of stage and screen whose five-decade career included Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Clara Bow

Clara Bow (1905-1965), American silent film star and the original "It Girl" from the 1927 film It, also starred in Wings, the first Best Picture winner; her voice did not end her career, a common myth.

Clara Lago

Clara Lago (Clara Lago Grau, born 1990, Madrid) is a Spanish actress known for El viaje de Carol, Ocho apellidos vascos, and Netflix's Clanes; Goya-nominated child actress turned box-office record holder.

Clara Lee

Clara Lee (born Lee Sung-min, 李成敏, 1986, Bern, Switzerland) is a Korean-British actress whose 2013 baseball first pitch made her famous in Korea; she later built a Chinese film career, including Some Like It Hot and The Wandering Earth II, and divorced Samuel Hwang in 2025.

Clara McGregor

Clara Mathilde McGregor, British-French actress, producer, and model born 1996 in London, eldest daughter of Ewan McGregor; co-wrote, produced, and starred in Bleeding Love (2023) with her father.

Clara Oswald

Clara Oswald, the "Impossible Girl", is a Doctor Who companion played by Jenna Coleman, traveling with the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, scattered across the Doctor's timeline to save him, and departing in her own TARDIS in "Hell Bent".

Clara Rosager

Clara Rosager (born 1996, Copenhagen) is a Danish actress and former model known for Netflix's The Rain and 1899, Morbius, Misbehaviour, and the Danish crime series Den som dræber.

Clara Stack

Clara Stack (born 2010), American actress, also credited for Disney's The Naughty Nine as Rose. Plays Lilly Bainbridge in HBO's It: Welcome to Derry (2025); young Kate Bishop in Hawkeye.

Clarabelle Cow

Clarabelle Cow: classic Disney anthropomorphic bovine created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, debuting around Plane Crazy (1928)/The Plow Boy (1929); paired with Horace Horsecollar, voiced by April Winchell, present in comics, TV, and parks.

Clare Bowen

Clare Bowen refers mainly to the Australian actress-singer (born 1984) who played Scarlett O'Connor on Nashville and performs as BOWEN * YOUNG; also a British plein air oil painter in Newlyn, Cornwall, and an Isle of Wight landscape painter.

Clare Crawley

Clare Crawley, born 1981 in Sacramento, California, is an American hairstylist and TV personality, a Bachelor franchise veteran and season 16 Bachelorette who left mid-season for Dale Moss and was replaced by Tayshia Adams.

Clare Grant

Clare Grant (born 1979, Memphis) is an American actress, producer, and voice actress known for Walk the Line, Black Snake Moan, the viral Saber short, Team Unicorn, and voicing Latts Razzi in Star Wars.

Clare Higgins

Clare Higgins (born 1955, Bradford, per IMDb; other sources say c. 1957, Norwich) is an English actress, three-time Olivier Award winner for Sweet Bird of Youth, Vincent in Brixton, and Hecuba, and Julia in Hellraiser. Not the MP Claire Hughes or the Burbank TV writer.

Clare Holman

Clare Holman (Clare Margaret Holman), British actress and director born 1964 in London; best known as Dr. Laura Hobson in Inspector Morse and Lewis, Olivier-nominated for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, married to director Howard Davies.

Clarence (American TV series)

Clarence is a Cartoon Network animated comedy created by former Adventure Time storyboard artist Skyler Page, premiering April 14, 2014. It follows optimistic nine-year-old Clarence Wendle and friends Jeff and Sumo in suburban Aberdale, Arizona, running three seasons to 2016.

Clarence Brown

Clarence Brown (1890-1987), American film director and producer, MGM's Garbo specialist who directed her in seven films; six Best Director Oscar nominations without a win; directed over 50 features from 1920 to 1953.

Clarence Gilyard

Clarence Gilyard Jr. (1955–2022), American actor and UNLV professor, played Sundown in Top Gun, Theo in Die Hard, Conrad McMasters on Matlock, and Jimmy Trivette on Walker, Texas Ranger.

Clarence Maclin

Clarence "Divine Eye" Maclin, Mount Vernon-born actor and co-writer, served over 15 years in Sing Sing for armed robbery, joined its RTA theater program, then played himself in A24's Sing Sing, earning a 2025 Oscar nomination for Adapted Screenplay.

Clarence Nash

Clarence "Ducky" Nash (1904-1985), American voice actor, the voice of Donald Duck from The Wise Little Hen (1934) to Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983); also voiced Huey, Dewey, Louie, Daisy, and Uncle Scrooge; Disney Legend 1993.

Clarence Williams III

Clarence Williams III (1939-2021), American actor, played Linc Hayes on ABC's The Mod Squad (1968-73) and Prince's father in Purple Rain; Broadway Tony nominee for Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, later character actor in Deep Cover, Sugar Hill, and The Butler.

Clarice (TV series)

Clarice: 2021 CBS psychological crime drama (one season, 13 episodes) created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, starring Rebecca Breeds as FBI agent Clarice Starling in 1993, a year after The Silence of the Lambs; Hannibal Lecter absent due to MGM/De Laurentiis rights split; cancelled after season 1.

Clarissa (2026 film)

Clarissa (2026) is a drama by Nigerian twin directors Arie and Chuko Esiri, adapting Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to contemporary Lagos. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight; Sophie Okonedo stars; Neon released it December 11, 2026.

Clarissa Explains It All

Clarissa Explains It All, a Nickelodeon teen sitcom (1991-1994) created by Mitchell Kriegman, starring Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa Darling; 65 episodes, five seasons, fourth-wall breaking, first Nick female lead, girl-power landmark.

Clark (2022 TV series)

Clark (2022) is a Swedish Netflix limited series, six episodes directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Bill Skarsgård as bank robber Clark Olofsson, whose 1973 Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis inspired the term Stockholm syndrome; loosely based on his autobiography.

Clark and Michael

Clark and Michael is a 2007 CBS Interactive mockumentary web series starring Michael Cera and Clark Duke as themselves, clueless Hollywood writers pitching a TV show; 10 episodes, thesis-film origin, TIME top viral video of 2007.

Clark Duke

Clark Duke (born 1985, Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American actor, comedian, and director known for Clark and Michael, Sex Drive, Kick-Ass, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Office, The Croods, and directing Arkansas (2020) and Stranglehold (2024).

Clark Gable

Clark Gable (1901-1960), born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio, American actor nicknamed the King of Hollywood; MGM leading man, Best Actor Oscar for It Happened One Night, Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, died after filming The Misfits.

Clark Gregg

Clark Gregg (Robert Clark Gregg Jr, born 1962, Boston) is an American actor-writer-director known as Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., an Atlantic Theater Company founder, and the writer-director of Choke and Trust Me.

Clark Johnson

Clark Johnson is an American actor and director, born in 1954, known for playing Detective Meldrick Lewis on Homicide: Life on the Street and directing The Wire.

Clark Middleton

Clark Middleton (Clark Tinsley Middleton, 1957-2020), American character actor with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, known as Glen 'Jelly Bean' Carter on The Blacklist, Charlie in Twin Peaks 2017, and in Kill Bill: Vol. 2.