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Francesco Russo (actor)
Francesco Russo (born 1993, Caserta, Italy) is an Italian actor and documentary director; known for Bruno Soccavo in L'amica geniale, Fabrizio in A Classic Horror Story (2021), and Cesare Rossi in M - Il figlio del secolo, distinct from namesakes.
Franceska Mann
Franceska Mann (Franciszka Manheimer, Mannówna, 1917–1943), Polish Jewish dancer trained in Warsaw and placed 4th at the Brussels dance competition; credited with shooting SS officer Josef Schillinger in the Birkenau undressing room on 23 October 1943.
Franchesca Ramsey
Franchesca Ramsey, also known as Chescaleigh, is an American comedian, actress, and writer born 1983 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Known for the 2012 viral video "Sh*t White Girls Say...to Black Girls," MTV's Decoded, The Nightly Show, and the 2018 book Well, That Escalated Quickly. Distinct from Danielle Ramsey, Ramsey Solutions reviewers, and psychic advisor Francesca.
Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (Stanislas Pascal Franchot-Tone, 1905–1968), American stage and film actor, Group Theatre founding member and MGM leading man; Oscar-nominated for Mutiny on the Bounty (1935); first husband of Joan Crawford.
Francia Raisa
Francia Raisa (Francia Raisa Almendárez), American actress born 1988 in Los Angeles, of Mexican and Honduran descent; star of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, grown-ish, and How I Met Your Father; donated a kidney to Selena Gomez in 2017.
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont (1584/5-1616), English Jacobean playwright, best known for his collaboration with John Fletcher on Philaster, The Maid's Tragedy, and A King and No King, and for his solo comedy The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
Francis Benhamou
Francis Benhamou is an American actress, born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and raised in Miami. Known for Arranged (2007) and for winning the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards as Elodie in Prayer for the French Republic on Broadway in 2024.
Francis Bourgeois (trainspotter)
Francis Bourgeois, real name Luke Magnus Nicolson, is an English trainspotter and TikTok creator known for fisheye GoPro train videos, the 2021 authenticity controversy, The Trainspotter's Notebook, Channel 4 series, and presenting The Grand Tour.
Francis Coleman
Francis Coleman (1924–2008), Canadian-born conductor and television producer; first music director era of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, some 500 CBC programs, then BBC2, ITV, and Thames TV in Britain; Prix Italia 1977 for Saint Nicolas.
Francis Ellis (comedian)
Francis Ellis, American stand-up comedian and Barstool Sports podcaster; Harvard graduate, Barstool Idol season 1 winner (2016), fired 2019 over a blog, rehired; hosts Son of a Boy Dad, Barstool Radio, and Oops The Podcast; known for piano Game of Thrones songs and the 2019 special Bad Guy.
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (born 1939, Detroit) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of New Hollywood, creator of The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, and the self-financed Megalopolis, co-founder of American Zoetrope.
Francis Galluppi
Francis Galluppi is an American self-taught writer-director whose debut feature, the one-location crime thriller The Last Stop in Yuma County (2024), led to his hiring to write and direct Evil Dead Wrath (2028).
Francis Lawrence
Francis Lawrence (born 1971, Vienna) is an American film director known for Constantine, I Am Legend, and directing all Hunger Games films except the first, plus Red Sparrow, Slumberland, and The Long Walk.
Francis X. Bushman
Francis X. Bushman (1883-1966), American silent-film actor and director nicknamed King of the Movies; star of His Friend's Wife (1911) and Messala in Ben-Hur (1925); later radio and TV actor.
Francisco San Martín
Francisco San Martín (1985–2025), Spanish actor born in Mallorca, raised in Montana; played Dario Hernandez on Days of Our Lives, Mateo on The Bold and the Beautiful, and Fabian Regalo del Cielo on Jane the Virgin; died in Los Angeles at 39.
Franco Nero
Franco Nero (Francesco Sparanero, born 1941) is an Italian actor famous as the coffin-dragging gunslinger of Sergio Corbucci's Django (1966); over 200 films, Camelot, Buñuel's Tristana, Vanessa Redgrave, 2026 Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
François Arnaud (actor)
François Arnaud, born François Landriault-Barbeau in 1985 in Montreal, is a Canadian actor known for Cesare Borgia in The Borgias (2011–2013) and Scott Hunter in Heated Rivalry (2025).
François Chau
François Chau, Cambodian-American actor (born 1959, Phnom Penh), known as Dr. Pierre Chang on Lost, Jules-Pierre Mao on The Expanse, Shredder in TMNT II, and voice roles in Ghost of Tsushima and XCOM.
François Cluzet
François Cluzet, French film and stage actor born 1955 in Paris, César winner for Tell No One (2007) and star of Intouchables (2011), with 11 César nominations and frequent Chabrol collaborations.
François Ozon
François Ozon, French film director, screenwriter, and producer born 1967 in Paris; Fémis-trained auteur of Sitcom, Sous le sable, 8 femmes, Swimming Pool, and Grâce à Dieu; prolific genre-shifting queer-inflected cinema, six César nominations without a win.
François Truffaut
François Truffaut (1932–1984), French director and critic, founder of the French New Wave; author of the 1954 auteur polemic in Cahiers du cinéma; directed The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Day for Night, and The Last Metro.
Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Dorléac, French actress (1942-1967), elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, known for L'Homme de Rio, La Peau douce, Cul-de-sac, and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort; died aged 25 in a car crash near Nice.
Françoise Pascal
Françoise Pascal names two documented figures: a 17th-century Lyon playwright, author of Agathonphile martyr (1655) and Sésostris (1661), and a Mauritius-born actress (born 1949) known for Mind Your Language and The Iron Rose.
Francophone theatre in Canada
Francophone theater in Canada is the tradition of French-language stage work in Quebec, Acadian New Brunswick, and francophone Ontario, dating in its modern professional form from 1948.
Frank (film)
Frank (film) is a 2014 comedy-drama directed by Lenny Abrahamson, where Michael Fassbender stars as Frank, an enigmatic musician in an avant-garde band loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom.
Frank & Lola
Frank & Lola is a 2016 psychosexual noir romance, Matthew Ross's directorial debut, starring Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots as a Las Vegas chef and designer; premiered at Sundance, released December 9, 2016.
Frank & Louis
Frank & Louis is a 2026 Swiss-British prison drama, Petra Volpe's English-language debut, starring Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan. Inspired by California's Gold Coat prison caregiver program, it premiered at Sundance 2026 and won the Locarno Audience Award.
Frank and Percy
Frank and Percy is a British comedy-drama, also known as a 2023 two-hander play by Ben Weatherill, about two older dog walkers on Hampstead Heath who fall in love. Ian McKellen and Roger Allam starred in the play and its 2026 Sean Mathias film adaptation, released in UK cinemas in early 2027.
Frank Bonner
Frank Bonner, born Frank Woodrow Boers Jr., was an American actor and television director known for playing Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati from 1978 to 1982.
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (1894–1962) was an American film director who made more than 100 films and won the first Academy Award for Best Director, for 7th Heaven (1927).