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GK Barry

GK Barry, real name Grace Eleanor Keeling (born 1999), is a British TikTok creator, Saving Grace podcaster, and TV presenter; broke through on Loose Women, I'm a Celebrity, and Radio 1.

Gladiator (2000 film)

Gladiator (2000) is Ridley Scott's Roman epic starring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus; it won five Oscars including Best Picture and spawned Gladiator II (2024).

Gladiator (Kallark)

Gladiator (Kallark) is a Marvel Comics Strontian, Praetor of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, debuting in X-Men #107 (1977) by Claremont and Cockrum; a Superman homage whose power requires devotion to a cause.

Gladiator (Melvin Potter)

Gladiator (Melvin Potter) is a Marvel Comics character, a costume designer turned blade-armed Daredevil villain, created by Stan Lee and John Romita, debuting in Daredevil #18 (1966), later reformed and distinct from Marvel's Shi'ar Gladiator.

Gladiator II

Gladiator II (2024) is Ridley Scott's sequel to Gladiator, starring Paul Mescal as Lucius with Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal; it opened November 22, 2024, grossed about $462 million worldwide, and scored 64 on Metacritic.

Gladiators (1992 British TV series)

Gladiators (1992 British TV series), the ITV adaptation of American Gladiators, ran 1992-2000 at the National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, with Contenders facing costumed athletes across events ending in the Eliminator.

Gladiators (2023 British TV series)

Gladiators (2023 British TV series): BBC revival of the 1992 ITV sports entertainment show, premiering 13 January 2024 on BBC One, produced by Hungry Bear Media and MGM, hosted by Bradley and Barney Walsh, refereed by Mark Clattenburg, with Contenders facing elite Gladiators in events ending in the Eliminator.

Gladys Cooper

Dame Gladys Cooper (1888–1971), English actress and West End theatre manager at the Playhouse; WWI postcard beauty; three-time Oscar nominee for Now, Voyager, The Song of Bernadette, and My Fair Lady; DBE 1967.

Gladys Pearl Baker

Gladys Pearl Baker (Gladys Pearl Monroe, 1902–1984), mother of Marilyn Monroe; film negative cutter in Hollywood, married Jasper Baker, Martin Mortensen, and Eley; institutionalized with paranoid schizophrenia from 1934.

Glamorous

Glamorous is a 2023 Netflix comedy-drama, 10 episodes, created by Jordon Nardino, starring Miss Benny as queer makeup influencer Marco Mejia and Kim Cattrall as mogul Madolyn Addison; canceled after one season in November 2023.

Glass (2019 film)

Glass is a 2019 American superhero thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Samuel L. Jackson as the conclusion to the Unbreakable trilogy, grossing $247 million worldwide.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is Rian Johnson's 2022 Netflix whodunit, the second Knives Out film, with Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc investigating tech billionaire Miles Bron on a Greek island; 139 minutes, 91% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glassland

Glassland is a 2014 Irish drama directed by Gerard Barrett, starring Jack Reynor and Toni Collette as a Dublin taxi driver and his alcoholic mother; Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, 85% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Glauber Rocha

Glauber Rocha (1939-1981), Brazilian filmmaker of Cinema Novo, author of the 1965 manifesto A Estetica da Fome and director of Deus e o diabo na terra do sol, Terra em transe, and Antonio das Mortes, Cannes prize winner who went into exile in 1971.

Gleb Savchenko (Глеб Савченко)

Gleb Savchenko (Глеб Савченко), born 1983 in Moscow, is a Russian dancer, choreographer, model, and actor; a Dancing with the Stars pro in the US, UK, Australia, and Russia, absent from DWTS Season 35.

Glee (TV series)

Glee (TV series): American musical comedy-drama on Fox, 2009–2015, cocreated by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan; New Directions show choir at fictional McKinley High, Lima, Ohio; 121 episodes, Billboard Hot 100 record, Golden Globes, Peabody.

Gleipnir (グレイプニル) (manga)

Gleipnir (グレイプニル) is a completed 14-volume dark fantasy manga by Sun Takeda, serialized in Kodansha's Young Magazine the 3rd and Monthly Young Magazine from 2015 to April 2023, about high schooler Shuichi Kagaya, who transforms into a hollow monster suit, and Clair Aoki; adapted as a 13-episode anime in 2020.

Glen A. Larson

Glen A. Larson (1937–2014), American TV producer and Four Preps singer; created Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum P.I., Quincy M.E.; not the Wyoming test pilot Glen G. Larson.

Glen or Glenda

Glen or Glenda (1953), also released as I Led Two Lives and I Changed My Sex, is Ed Wood's directorial debut: a low-budget exploitation drama about cross-dressing and sex-change surgery, starring Wood as Glen/Glenda with Bela Lugosi, later a cult trans-representation milestone.

Glen Powell

Glen Powell (born 1988, Austin, Texas) is an American actor known for Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, Twisters, Hit Man, Chad Powers, and The Running Man; also a co-writer and producer with upcoming Apatow and Abrams projects.

Glenda Farrell

Glenda Farrell (1904-1971), American actress of Enid, Oklahoma, famous as wisecracking Torchy Blane in seven Warner Bros. B films, inspiration for Lois Lane, 1963 Emmy winner for Ben Casey.

Glenda Jackson

Glenda Jackson (1936–2023), English actress and Labour MP, won Oscars for Women in Love and A Touch of Class, played Elizabeth I in Elizabeth R, served in Parliament 1992–2015, and won a late-career Tony.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Glengarry Glen Ross is David Mamet's 1983 drama about cutthroat Chicago real estate salesmen; it won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize and was filmed in 1992 with Pacino and Lemmon, plus a 2025 Broadway revival.

Glengarry Glen Ross (film)

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), James Foley's film of David Mamet's Pulitzer-winning play, stars Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin as cutthroat real estate salesmen; Baldwin's added "always be closing" Blake scene and the $10.7M US gross distinguish it.

Glenn Close

American stage, film, and television actress (born 1947, Greenwich, Connecticut); eight Oscar nominations, three Tonys, three Emmys; known for Fatal Attraction, Dangerous Liaisons, 101 Dalmatians, Damages, and The Wife.

Glenn Corbett

Glenn Corbett (Glen Edwin Rothenburg, 1933-1993, birth year disputed) was an American actor known as Lincoln Case on Route 66, Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek's "Metamorphosis", and Paul Morgan on Dallas.

Glenn Fleshler

Glenn Fleshler (born 1968) is an American character actor known for George Remus in Boardwalk Empire, Errol Childress in True Detective, Orrin Bach in Billions, Goran Pazar in Barry, Randall in Joker, and Broadway roles including Fred Friendly in Good Night, and Good Luck.

Glenn Ford

Glenn Ford (Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford, 1916-2006), Canadian-born American actor of Hollywood's Golden Age; over 50 years and 106 films including Gilda, The Big Heat, Blackboard Jungle, 3:10 to Yuma, and Superman's Pa Kent; 1958's top box-office star, never Oscar-nominated, one Golden Globe win.

Glenn Howerton

Glenn Howerton (Glenn Franklin Howerton III, born 1976) is an American actor, Juilliard-trained, co-creator and star of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia as Dennis Reynolds.

Glenn Quagmire

Glenn Quagmire, also Glenn Quagglechek, is the sex-obsessed neighbor and airline pilot in Family Guy, voiced by Seth MacFarlane since the 1999 premiere, famous for the catchphrase "Giggity" and his feud with Brian Griffin.