edgepedia

Screen and stage

62,279 articles

Ethan Embry

Ethan Embry (born Ethan Philan Randall, 1978, Huntington Beach, California) is an American actor known for Empire Records, That Thing You Do!, Vegas Vacation, Can't Hardly Wait, Brotherhood, and Grace and Frankie's Coyote Bergstein.

Ethan Hawke

Ethan Hawke (Ethan Green Hawke, born 1970, Austin, Texas), American actor, writer, director: Dead Poets Society breakthrough, six Richard Linklater films including the Before trilogy and Boyhood, four Oscar nominations, First Reformed critics' wins, novels and Broadway work.

Ethan Herisse

Ethan Herisse is an American actor known for his role as Yusef Salaam in the 2019 miniseries When They See Us. He also played Elwood in the 2024 film Nickel Boys.

Ethan Hunt

Ethan Hunt is the fictional IMF agent protagonist of the Mission: Impossible film series, played by Tom Cruise from 1996 to The Final Reckoning (2025); framed in the 1996 film, defined by loyalty, and last fighting the AI villain the Entity.

Ethan Juan (阮经天)

Ethan Juan (阮经天) is a Taiwanese actor and model known for his breakthrough in 2008 and his 47th Golden Horse Award win for Monga in 2010.

Ethan Peck

Ethan Gregory Peck (born 1986), American actor, grandson of Gregory Peck; child actor in Marshal Law and Passport to Paris, starred in 10 Things I Hate About You, and plays Spock in Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds.

Ethan Phillips

Ethan Phillips (John Ethan Phillips, born 1955) is an American character actor known as Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) and Pete Downey on Benson; also a Broadway actor and playwright of Penguin Blues.

Ethan Slater

Ethan Slater (born 1992, Washington, D.C.) is an American actor, singer, and writer, Tony-nominated for originating SpongeBob on Broadway and known as Boq in the Wicked films.

Ethan Suplee

Ethan Suplee, born 1976 in Manhattan, is an American actor known for Frankie on Boy Meets World, Mallrats, Louie Lastik in Remember the Titans, and Randy Hickey on My Name Is Earl; he lost about 300 pounds after peaking at 536 pounds in 2001.

Ethan Wayne

Ethan Wayne (John Ethan Wayne), born 1962 in Los Angeles, is John Wayne's youngest son; former actor and stuntman known for Big Jake, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Adam-12, and president of John Wayne Enterprises since 2003.

Ethan Zohn

Ethan Zohn (born 1973), American former pro soccer goalkeeper who won Survivor: Africa in 2002, co-founded Grassroot Soccer, survived Hodgkin lymphoma twice, and returned for All-Stars and Winners at War.

Etharkkum Thunindhavan (எதற்கும் துணிந்தவன்)

Etharkkum Thunindhavan (எதற்கும் துணிந்தவன்), also called ET, is a 2022 Tamil action thriller directed by Pandiraj, produced by Sun Pictures, starring Suriya as lawyer Kannabiran; released 10 March 2022, mixed reviews, box office failure, now on Netflix and Sun NXT.

Ethel Barrymore

Ethel Barrymore (Ethel Mae Blythe, 1879-1959), American stage, film, and radio actress of the Barrymore family; won the 1945 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for None But the Lonely Heart and had the Broadway Ethel Barrymore Theatre named for her in 1928.

Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, 1908–1984), American Broadway singer and actress, star of Girl Crazy, Anything Goes, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam, and Gypsy, famed for her unamplified belting voice.

Ethir Neechal (எதிர் நீச்சல்) (2013 film)

Ethir Neechal (எதிர் நீச்சல்), 2013 Tamil comedy directed by R. S. Durai Senthilkumar, Dhanush's first Wunderbar Films production, starring Sivakarthikeyan, Priya Anand, and Nandita Swetha; a man renamed Harish runs the Chennai Marathon. Distinct from the 1968 Balachander film of the same name.

Ethirneechal (எதிர்நீச்சல்) (TV series)

Ethirneechal (எதிர்நீச்சல்) is a Tamil-language family drama broadcast on Sun TV from 7 February 2022 and directed by Thiruselvam, built around educated women resisting the patriarch Adhi Gunasekaran.

Ethnic pornography

Ethnic pornography is pornography organized around performers' race, ethnicity, or nationality, from 1920s race porn stag films to tagged categories on modern platforms; scholarship documents racial stereotypes, fetishization, industry stratification, and debates over harm versus agency.

Ethos

Ethos (Turkish: Bir Başkadır) is a Turkish Netflix drama series written and directed by Berkun Oya, first released 12 November 2020 in eight Istanbul-set episodes about Meryem, a religious cleaner, and psychiatrist Peri, exploring Turkey's secular-religious divide; a four-episode second season premiered 12 November 2026.

Étienne Decroux

Étienne Decroux (1898–1991), French actor and mime teacher, creator of corporeal mime, also called mime corporel dramatique. Student of Jacques Copeau, teacher of Marcel Marceau and Barrault, author of Paroles sur le mime (1963), known for the counterweight-based 'gymnastique dramatique' technique distinct from Lecoq's and Marceau's mime.

Etika

Etika, real name Desmond Daniel Amofah (born 1990), was a Brooklyn-born YouTuber (EWNetwork) famous for loud Nintendo Direct and Smash Bros. reaction videos; his Mewtwo reaction was retweeted by Sakurai; he died in June 2019 at 29.

Étoile (TV series)

Étoile (French for "star") is a 2025 Prime Video ballet comedy-drama by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino: New York and Paris companies swap dancers; 8 episodes, canceled after one season despite a two-season order.

Etrigan the Demon

Etrigan the Demon, Jack Kirby's rhyming DC demon bound to Jason Blood by Merlin at Camelot's fall; first appeared in The Demon #1 (1972), with runs by Wagner, Grant, Ennis, and a 2026 James Harren series.

Etta Candy

Etta Candy is a DC Comics character and Wonder Woman's best friend since Sensation Comics #2 (1942); originally the Holliday Girls sorority leader, later an A.R.G.U.S. commander and Lucy Davis's film role.

Euan Morton

Euan Morton, born Iain Douglas George Middleton, is a Scottish actor and singer known for playing Boy George in the musical Taboo and King George III in Hamilton.

Eugene (김유진) (actress)

Eugene (유진, Kim Yoo-jin, 김유진), born 1981, is a South Korean actress and former S.E.S. member (1997 debut, 'I'm Your Girl'). Known for Loving You, King of Baking Kim Tak Goo, Penthouse (SBS Top Excellence 2020), and First Lady (MBN, 2025).

Eugene Byrd

Eugene Byrd (born 1975) is an American actor from Philadelphia known for Sesame Street, Dead Man, 8 Mile as Wink, Anacondas, and Dr. Clark Edison on Bones, plus voice roles in Spider-Man animation.

Eugene Chaplin

Eugene Chaplin (Eugene Anthony Chaplin, born 1953, Switzerland), son of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill; RADA-trained recording engineer for the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, and Queen, maker of Charlie Chaplin: A Family Tribute and the musical Smile.

Eugene Cordero

Eugene Cordero, American actor, comedian, and writer of Filipino descent, born in Detroit; known for Pillboi in The Good Place, Casey in Loki, and voicing Sam Rutherford in Star Trek: Lower Decks.

Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco (Eugen Ionescu, 1909-1994), Romanian-born French playwright of the Theatre of the Absurd; wrote La Cantatrice chauve (1950) and Rhinocéros (1959); elected to the Académie française in 1970.

Eugene Lee Yang

Eugene Lee Yang (born 1986) is an American producer, actor, writer, director, and co-founder of The Try Guys at BuzzFeed in 2014; he came out in the 2019 video "I'm Gay" and left the group in 2024 for film and literary work.