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George Stevens

George Stevens (1904–1975) was an American film director and cinematographer of Swing Time, Gunga Din, A Place in the Sun, Shane, and Giant, a two-time Best Director Oscar winner who filmed D-Day and Dachau in color during World War II.

George Stults

George Stults (George Sheehy Stults, born 1975) is an American actor, brother of Geoff Stults, best known as police officer Kevin Kinkirk on 7th Heaven (2002–2007, 114 episodes) and later TV movies.

George Takei

George Takei (born 1937, Los Angeles) is an American actor and activist, Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek, incarcerated as a child in WWII Japanese American camps, later a civil rights, LGBTQ+, and remembrance advocate.

George Tobias

George Tobias (1901-1980), American character actor of Broadway and Hollywood; Warner Bros. films Sergeant York and Yankee Doodle Dandy, and Abner Kravitz on the sitcom Bewitched from 1964 to 1971.

George Wallace (American comedian)

George Wallace (born 1952, Atlanta) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, not the Alabama governor; known for clean observational comedy, Las Vegas residencies at the Flamingo and Westgate, the 1995 American Comedy Award, and the 2025 sitcom Clean Slate with Laverne Cox.

George Webster (presenter)

George Webster (presenter), born 2000 in Rawdon, West Yorkshire, English CBeebies presenter, actor and author; first BBC children's presenter with Down's syndrome (2021), BAFTA Best Children's Presenter winner, Strictly 2022 Christmas contestant.

George Wendt

George Wendt (1948–2025), American actor and Second City alumnus, played Norm Peterson on all 11 seasons of Cheers, earning six Emmy nominations, and later performed on Broadway in Art, Hairspray, and Elf.

George Wyner

George Wyner (born 1945) is an American character actor best known for playing ADA Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues and Colonel Sandurz in Spaceballs.

George Young (actor)

George Young (吴宇卫, born George Ng, 1980, London) is a British actor, writer, and presenter; former lawyer, ELLE award winner, host of Million Dollar Money Drop Singapore, and actor in Containment, Malignant, and Falling for Christmas.

Georges Franju

Georges Franju (1912-1987), French filmmaker, co-founder of the Cinémathèque française, documentarist of Le Sang des bêtes, and director of Les Yeux sans visage, Judex, and Thérèse Desqueyroux.

Georges Méliès

Georges Méliès (Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, 1861–1938), French illusionist and film pioneer, founder of Star Film (1896), creator of about 500 films including A Trip to the Moon (1902), and inventor of early special effects such as the stop trick, multiple exposures, and hand-painted color.

Georgetown (film)

Georgetown (2021) is Christoph Waltz's directorial debut crime drama, also starring Vanessa Redgrave and Annette Bening, adapted from Franklin Foer's 2012 article on the Albrecht Muth murder of Viola Drath.

Georgia Engel

Georgia Bright Engel (1948-2019), American comic actress known as Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Pat MacDougall on Everybody Loves Raymond; five Emmy nominations, distinctive "half angel, half kitten" voice, Broadway and late-career stage roles.

Georgia Flood

Georgia Flood (born 1992, Phillip Island) is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter; known for Wentworth, ANZAC Girls, American Princess, and 2024 leads in Apples Never Fall (Savannah) and Nautilus (Humility Lucas).

Georgia Groome

Georgia Groome (born 1992, Nottingham) is an English actress known for London to Brighton (2006), Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) as Georgia Nicolson, Tusk Tusk at the Royal Court, Double Date (2017), and her partnership with Rupert Grint since 2011.

Georgia Hirst

Georgia Hirst (Georgia Octavia Hirst), English actress born 1994, best known as shield-maiden Torvi in Vikings (2014–2020, 62 episodes); daughter of creator Michael Hirst, sister of Maude Hirst; also Ravers, Five Dates, To England with Love.

Georgia Jay

Georgia Jay is the stage name of English actress Georgina Philipps (born 1992), who plays Steph Miligan in Emmerdale from November 2024; also the name of a country singer and a New Zealand handbag label.

Georgia King

Georgia King (Georgia May King), Scottish actress born 1986 in Edinburgh, daughter of Jonathan Hyde and Isobel Buchanan; known for Goldie in The New Normal, Amanda Snodgrass in Vice Principals, Wild Child, and her directing and writing work.

Georgia May Foote

Georgia May Foote (born 1991, Bury, England) is an English actress and model known for Alison Simmons in Grange Hill and Katy Armstrong in Coronation Street (2010–2015), and runner-up on Strictly Come Dancing 2015 with Giovanni Pernice.

Georgia Miller (character)

Georgia Miller, born Mary Reilly, is the fictional mother in Netflix's Ginny & Georgia, played by Brianne Howey (Nikki Roumel as teen Georgia): an abuse survivor, serial alias-user, and murderer acquitted in Season 3 and revealed pregnant.

Georgia Oakley

Georgia Oakley (born 1988, Basingstoke, England) is a British director and writer, BAFTA-nominated for her debut feature Blue Jean (2022) about Section 28, and director of Sense and Sensibility (2026).

Georgia Rule

Georgia Rule is a 2007 American comedy-drama film directed by Garry Marshall. It stars Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, and Felicity Huffman as three generations of a dysfunctional family.

Georgia Taylor

Georgia Taylor, born Claire Marie Jackson in 1980, is an English actress known for playing Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street, and for roles in Casualty and Law & Order: UK.

Georgia Tennant

Georgia Tennant (née Moffett, born 1984) is an English actress and producer, daughter of Peter Davison and wife of David Tennant, known for Doctor Who's Jenny and Staged.

Georgia Toffolo

Georgia "Toff" Toffolo (Georgia Valerie Toffolo), English TV personality born 1994 in Devon; Made in Chelsea cast member 2014-2018, winner of I'm a Celebrity 2017, author of Always Smiling and the Meet Me romance series, and co-founder of Social Tip, married to BrewDog co-founder James Watt since 2025.

Georgian drama

Georgian drama (ქართული დრამატურგია) is the tradition of dramatic literature and theater in the Georgian language, whose written form began in the late 18th century.

Georgian Film Studio (ქართული ფილმი)

Georgian Film Studio (Kartuli Pilmi) was the main state film studio of Soviet Georgia, based in Tbilisi. It produced most of the country's films from the 1920s onward.

Georgiana Young

Georgiana Young (born Georgiana Paula Belzer) was an American actress and model, half-sister of Loretta Young, who was married to actor Ricardo Montalbán from 1944 until her death in 2007.

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage

Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage is a CBS multi-camera sitcom (premiered October 17, 2024) by Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro, and Steve Holland; a sequel to Young Sheldon and prequel to The Big Bang Theory starring Montana Jordan and Emily Osment as young married parents in 1990s Texas.

Georgie Glen

Georgie Glen (born 1956, Helensburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish character actress, ex-graphic designer, Bristol Old Vic graduate, known for Miss Higgins in Call the Midwife, Audrey McFall in Waterloo Road, and Lady Fermoy in The Crown.