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Deal or No Deal Island

Deal or No Deal Island is an NBC reality competition (2024–2025), hosted by Joe Manganiello, reimagining Deal or No Deal on the Banker's private island in Panama, where 13 contestants hunt briefcases worth over $200 million; canceled after two seasons.

Dean Andrews

Dean Andrews (born 1963, Rotherham) is an English actor known as DS Ray Carling in Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, Robbie in Last Tango in Halifax, and Will Taylor in Emmerdale (2019–2024), after a 20-year singing career.

Dean Butler (actor)

Dean Butler (born 1956, Prince George, BC) is a Canadian-American actor and producer, best known as Almanzo Wilder on Little House on the Prairie (1979–1983), also Buffy's father Hank Summers, and producer of Feherty.

Dean Cain

Dean Cain, born Dean George Tanaka in 1966, is an American actor who played Superman in Lois & Clark (1993-97), a former Buffalo Bills player, later a Trump supporter and honorary ICE officer.

Dean Devlin

Dean Devlin (born 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director, co-creator with Roland Emmerich of Universal Soldier, Stargate, Independence Day, and Godzilla, and founder-CEO of Electric Entertainment.

Dean Fujioka (藤岡竜雄)

Dean Fujioka (藤岡竜雄, also 藤岡靛), born 1980 in Fukushima, is a Japanese actor, musician, and director who built a career across Hong Kong, Taipei, Jakarta, and Tokyo, broke through with NHK's Asa ga Kita (2015), and wrote History Maker for Yuri on Ice.

Dean Gaffney

Dean Martin Gaffney (born 1978, Hammersmith, London) is an English actor known for Robbie Jackson on BBC's EastEnders (1993–2019, on and off), I'm a Celebrity 2006 and 2023, and the film Reckless with Vinnie Jones.

Dean Geyer

Dean Geyer (Dean Stanley Geyer) is a South African-born Australian singer, actor, and martial artist, third on Australian Idol 2006, Ty Harper on Neighbours, Brody Weston on Glee, and Dr. Tristan Roberts on General Hospital from 2026.

Dean Jagger

Dean Jagger (1903–1991), American film, stage, and television actor; Oscar winner for Twelve O'Clock High; also Brigham Young (1940), White Christmas (1954). Distinct from the younger Yorkshire-born actor of the same name.

Dean Jones (actor)

Dean Carroll Jones (1931-2015), American actor, Disney Legend (1995), star of The Love Bug, That Darn Cat!, and other Disney family films; later Born Again, St. John in Exile, Beethoven; distinct from James Earl Jones and Ben Jones.

Dean Lennox Kelly

Dean Lennox Kelly (born 1975, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire) is an English actor, a Bristol Old Vic graduate known for Kev Ball in Shameless, Meredith Rutter in Jamestown, and Pekka Rollins in Shadow and Bone.

Dean McDermott

Dean McDermott (born 1966, Toronto) is a Canadian actor known as Constable Renfield Turnbull on Due South, Doc Barlow in Open Range, host of Chopped Canada, and Tori Spelling's former husband.

Dean Norris

Dean Joseph Norris (born 1963, South Bend, Indiana) is an American character actor known for DEA agent Hank Schrader on Breaking Bad, Big Jim Rennie on Under the Dome, and Uncle Daddy on Claws; Harvard 1985, RADA-trained.

Dean O'Gorman

Dean O'Gorman (born 1976, Auckland) is a New Zealand actor, director, and photographer, known as Fili in The Hobbit trilogy, Anders in The Almighty Johnsons, and for Bonjour Timothy, Trumbo, Pork Pie, Hillary, and After the Party.

Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (Robert Dean Stockwell, 1936–2021), American actor: MGM child star of the 1940s, Oscar-nominated for Married to the Mob, four-time Emmy nominee as Al Calavicci on Quantum Leap, later collage artist.

Dean Wicks

Dean "Deano" Wicks, played by Matt Di Angelo, is a fictional EastEnders character (2006-2008, 2014-2016, 2023-2024), son of Shirley Carter, known for raping Linda Carter in 2014 and later receiving a nine-year prison sentence.

Dean Winchester

Dean Winchester is a fictional hunter and co-protagonist of Supernatural (2005-2020), played by Jensen Ackles. Born 1979, in Lawrence, Kansas, he is Sam Winchester's older brother, drives a 1967 Chevrolet Impala, and dies in the series finale.

Dean Winters

Dean Winters (born 1964) is an American actor known as Ryan O'Reily on HBO's Oz, Dennis Duffy on 30 Rock, and Mayhem in Allstate's commercials since 2010; he survived a 2009 cardiac arrest and amputations.

Deanna Dunagan

Deanna Dunagan (born May 25, 1940, Monahans, Texas) is an American actress, Tony winner as Violet Weston in August: Osage County (2008), also Nana in The Visit, based in Chicago theater.

Deanna Durbin

Deanna Durbin (Edna Mae Durbin, 1921–2013), Winnipeg-born American lyric soprano and actress; teenage star credited with saving Universal from bankruptcy; retired to France in 1949 after 21 films.

Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi, fictional half-Betazoid empath and ship's counselor of the Enterprise-D in Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Marina Sirtis across seven seasons, the films, Voyager, and Picard.

Deanne Bray

Deanne Bray (Deanne Bray-Kotsur), born 1971, deaf American actress; title role of Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002-2005), Emma Coolidge on Heroes, wife of Troy Kotsur.

DeAr

DeAr (டியர், Dear) is a 2024 Tamil family drama directed by Anand Ravichandran, starring G.V. Prakash Kumar and Aishwarya Rajesh as newlyweds whose marriage is strained by the wife's snoring; released 11 April 2024, later on Netflix.

Dear Basketball

Dear Basketball: 2017 American animated short film adapting Kobe Bryant's 2015 Players' Tribune retirement poem, directed and animated by Glen Keane, scored by John Williams, narrated by Bryant; won the 2018 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.

Dear Child

Dear Child (Liebes Kind) is a 2023 six-episode German Netflix psychological thriller miniseries based on Romy Hausmann's 2019 novel, directed by Isabel Kleefeld and Julian Pörksen, starring Kim Riedle, and winner of the 2024 International Emmy for TV Movie/Mini-Series.

Dear Comrade

Dear Comrade (డియర్ కామ్రేడ్), 2019 Telugu romantic action drama by debutant Bharat Kamma, starring Vijay Deverakonda and Rashmika Mandanna; strong opening (Rs 17.9 Cr day 1) but closed as a flop, later a streaming favorite.

Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター)

Dear Doctor (ディア・ドクター) is Miwa Nishikawa's 2009 Japanese drama starring Shofukutei Tsurubei in his film lead debut as a beloved rural village doctor who vanishes, exposing that he held no medical license; it won the Japan Academy Best Screenplay and Blue Ribbon Best Director awards.

Dear Edward

Dear Edward: Apple TV+ drama (2023) by Jason Katims, adapted from Ann Napolitano's 2020 novel; 12-year-old Edward Adler is sole survivor of a plane crash. 10 episodes, premiered February 3, 2023, canceled April 19, 2023; Metascore 61, 57% Tomatometer.

Dear England (TV series)

Dear England (2026) is a four-part BBC drama by James Graham adapting his National Theatre play about Gareth Southgate's England management, starring Joseph Fiennes and Jodie Whittaker, airing on BBC One and iPlayer from 24 May 2026.

Dear Evan Hansen (film)

Dear Evan Hansen (2021) is Stephen Chbosky's film adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical, starring Ben Platt as Evan Hansen, with Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams, and Julianne Moore; it scored 28% on Rotten Tomatoes against 88% audience approval.