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Jayma Mays

Jayma Mays (Jayma Suzette Mays, born 1979, Grundy, Virginia) is an American actress known as Emma Pillsbury on Glee, and for Red Eye, Epic Movie, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, The Smurfs, Trial & Error, and Disenchanted.

Jaymes Vaughan

Jaymes Vaughan (born 1983), American TV host and singer, former Chippendales MC in Las Vegas; runner-up with James Davis on The Amazing Race 21, host of Celebrity Page, and husband of actor Jonathan Bennett.

Jayne Atkinson

Jayne Atkinson (born 1959, Bournemouth, England) is a British-American actress, twice Tony-nominated on Broadway, known as Karen Hayes on 24, Erin Strauss on Criminal Minds, and Catherine Durant on House of Cards.

Jayne Brook

Jayne Brook (Jane Anderson Terlesky, born 1960 or 1962, Northbrook, Illinois) is an American actress known for Dr. Diane Grad on Chicago Hope, Mary Ann Mitchell on The District, and Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell on Star Trek: Discovery.

Jayne Eastwood

Jayne Eastwood, born 1946 in Toronto, is a Canadian character actress and comedian known for Goin' Down the Road, SCTV, Hairspray, Chicago, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and the 1972 Toronto Godspell cast.

Jayne Mansfield

Jayne Mansfield, born Vera Jayne Palmer, was an American actress and singer, one of Hollywood's leading blonde sex symbols of the late 1950s, who died in a 1967 car crash.

Jayne Marie Mansfield

Jayne Marie Mansfield (born 1950, Dallas, Texas) is an American actress, eldest daughter of Jayne Mansfield and Paul Mansfield; credits include Olly, Olly, Oxen Free (1978) and the 2025 documentary My Mom Jayne.

Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows (Jane Meadows Cotter, 1919-2015), American actress and game-show panelist, wife of Steve Allen, sister of Audrey Meadows; Emmy-nominated for Meeting of Minds, St. Elsewhere, High Society.

Jayne Middlemiss

Jayne Middlemiss (born 1971) is an English television and radio presenter who fronted BBC music shows including The O-Zone and now hosts weekday afternoons on Virgin Radio UK.

Jayshree T.

Jayshree T., also known as Jayashree Talpade, is an Indian actress and dancer who appeared in more than 500 Hindi films from the 1950s onward.

Jaz Sinclair

Jaz Sinclair (Jasmine Sinclair Sabino, born 1994, Dallas, Texas) is an American actress and musician known as Roz in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and as hemokinetic Marie Moreau in Gen V, the Prime Video Boys spin-off, and a 2025 Golden Nymph Most Promising Talent recipient.

Jazbaa (जज़बा)

Jazbaa (जज़बा) is a 2015 Hindi action thriller directed by Sanjay Gupta, a remake of the South Korean film Seven Days, starring Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Irrfan Khan.

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi

Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, American actress and singer, eldest daughter of Prince Albert II of Monaco and Tamara Rotolo; recognized by her father in 2006, excluded from succession, records as JAZMIN.

Jazmyn Simon

Jazmyn Simon (born 1980), American actress and children's book author; Dr. Julie Greane on HBO's Ballers, Kat Neese on Raising Dion, Selene in the Psych films; married to Dulé Hill; wrote Most Perfect You and Repeat After Me.

Jazz City

Jazz City is a 2026 Bengali-language Sony LIV web series created, written, and directed by Soumik Sen, starring Arifin Shuvoo as 1971 Calcutta jazz club owner Jimmy Roy during the Bangladesh Liberation War; 10 episodes, premiered March 19, 2026.

Jazz dance

Jazz dance: American dance forms from African-American vernacular roots of the 1910s–1940s, spanning Charleston, Lindy Hop, and authentic jazz to Jack Cole's theatrical jazz, Fosse, and modern studio styles.

Jazz Emu

Jazz Emu is a British musical comedy character, a delusional electro-funk pop star created and performed by ex-Cambridge Footlights comedian Archie Henderson. Known for online videos since 2018 and Fringe shows You Shouldn't Have, Knight Fever and The Pleasure Is All Yours.

Jazz on a Summer's Day

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1959) is Bert Stern's color documentary of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, featuring Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O'Day, and Mahalia Jackson; a National Film Registry concert-film landmark.

Jazz Raycole

Jazz Raycole, stage name of Jazzmine Raycole Dillingham, is an American actress and dancer from Stockton, California, known as Claire Kyle on My Wife and Kids, Allison Hawkins on Jericho, and Izzy Letts on Netflix's The Lincoln Lawyer.

JB Blanc

JB Blanc (Jean-Benoît Blanc, born 1969, Paris) is a French-born, Los Angeles-based actor, voice actor, and voice director: Dr. Barry Goodman in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Vander in Arcane, Caustic in Apex Legends, and 400+ game characters.

JB Tadena

JB Tadena (born 1983) is a Filipino American actor, voice actor, and producer from Los Angeles, known as Sebastian on Kung Fu, Paolo Belleza in The Cleaning Lady, voice roles in Raya and the Last Dragon and Ghost of Yōtei, and upcoming roles in The Pitt season 3 and The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.

JD McCrary

JD McCrary, also known as JayDon, is an American singer, dancer, and actor born 2007 in Granada Hills, California, the voice of Young Simba in Disney's 2019 The Lion King, a former Hollywood Records signee, and now an R&B artist on Usher and L.A. Reid's Mega label.

Je t'aime je t'aime

Je t'aime, je t'aime (I Love You, I Love You) is a 1968 French science-fiction drama by Alain Resnais, written with Jacques Sternberg, starring Claude Rich as a suicide survivor trapped in oscillating memories after a time travel experiment malfunctions; it competed at the disrupted 1968 Cannes festival and influenced Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Jean Alexander

Jean Alexander (Jean Margaret Hodgkinson, 1926–2016), English actress who played Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street (1964–1987) and Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine; RTS Award 1985, BAFTA nominee 1988, retired 2012, never married.

Jean Arthur

Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene (1900–1991), was an American actress and comedian famed for her husky voice and roles in comedies like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.

Jean Butler

Jean Butler, Irish-American dancer and choreographer born in Mineola, New York, co-choreographed and originated the female principal role of Riverdance at Eurovision 1994, later pursued contemporary dance, and founded the Our Steps Irish dance archive.

Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) was a French poet, painter, playwright, and filmmaker of the Orphic trilogy (Le Sang d'un poète, La Belle et la Bête, Orphée), also author of Parade and Les Enfants terribles, and Académie française member elected in 1955.

Jean Dujardin

Jean Dujardin (born 1972), French actor, star of Un gars, une fille, Brice de Nice and the OSS 117 parodies, and the first French winner of the Best Actor Oscar for The Artist (2012).

Jean Fergusson

Jean Fergusson (1944-2019), English actress, played Marina in BBC's Last of the Summer Wine 1985-2010 (216 episodes), appeared in Coronation Street, and was Olivier-nominated for her Hylda Baker show She Knows You Know!.

Jean Gabin

Jean Gabin, the stage name of Jean-Alexis Moncorgé (1904–1976), was a French film actor who became the emblematic star of poetic realism in 1930s and 1940s French cinema.