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Jean Genet
Jean Genet (1910–1986), French poet, novelist, playwright, and activist; author of Our Lady of the Flowers, The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks, and The Screens; ex-convict pardoned in 1949, later Black Panther and Palestinian supporter.
Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (Jean Shirley Verhagen, 1923–1977), American actress; Lina Lamont in Singin' in the Rain (1952), Oscar-nominated supporting actress; Doll Conovan in The Asphalt Jungle; Danny Thomas's TV wife on Make Room for Daddy.
Jean Hale
Jean Hale (Carol Jean Hale, 1938-2021), American actress of 1960s film and TV, known for In Like Flint, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and Batman's Mad Hatter episodes; ex-wife of Dabney Coleman.
Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter, 1911-1937), American film actress and pre-Code Hollywood sex symbol known as the Platinum Blonde; MGM star of Red Dust, Red-Headed Woman, and Bombshell; died at 26 of kidney failure.
Jean Johansson
Jean Johansson (born Jean Anderson, 1981) is a Scottish TV presenter and journalist, host of Channel 4's A Place in the Sun and BBC's Animal Park, married to footballer Jonatan Johansson.
Jean Kasem
Jean Kasem (born 1954, Jean Charlotte Thompson) is an American retired actress, Loretta Tortelli on Cheers and The Tortellis, and widow of radio host Casey Kasem, later central to disputes over his care, burial in Oslo, and estate.
Jean Louisa Kelly
Jean Louisa Kelly (born 1972) is an American actress and singer from Worcester, Massachusetts, also known as Jean Pitaro. Known for Tia Russell in Uncle Buck, Rowena Morgan in Mr. Holland's Opus, Luisa in The Fantasticks, Kim Warner on Yes, Dear, and Sarah Kazansky in Top Gun: Maverick.
Jean Marais
Jean Marais (1913–1998), pseudonym of Jean Alfred Villain-Marais, French stage and film actor, singer and sculptor; Cocteau's partner and star of La Belle et la Bête, Orphée, Le Bossu and the Fantômas trilogy; César d'honneur 1993.
Jean Marsh
Jean Marsh (1934–2025), British actress and writer, co-created Upstairs, Downstairs with Eileen Atkins and won a 1975 Emmy as parlour maid Rose Buck; also The House of Eliott and Doctor Who's Sara Kingdom.
Jean Peters
Jean Peters (Elizabeth Jean Peters, 1926–2000) was an American film actress of Captain from Castile, Niagara, and Pickup on South Street fame who left acting in 1957 to marry Howard Hughes, divorced him in 1971, and later returned to television.
Jean Pormanove
Jean Pormanove, alias of French streamer Raphaël Graven (1979–2025), died live on Kick after a 12-day abusive broadcast; his death sparked trials of streamers Naruto and Safine and French court action against Kick.
Jean Racine
Jean Racine, also known as Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist born at La Ferté-Milon in 1639 whose classical tragedies include Phèdre and Britannicus.
Jean Reno
Jean Reno (Juan Moreno y Herrera-Jiménez), French actor born 1948 in Casablanca to Andalusian Spanish parents; Luc Besson collaborator (Le Grand bleu, Nikita, Léon) with a parallel Hollywood career (Ronin, The Da Vinci Code); also novelist.
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894–1979), French film director, son of painter Auguste Renoir; maker of La Grande Illusion and La Règle du jeu, pioneer of deep-focus staging in depth, Hollywood exile in the 1940s, honorary Oscar 1975.
Jean Renoir filmography
Jean Renoir filmography: the films of French director Jean Renoir (1894–1979), from silent Catherine (1924) through Grand Illusion (1937), The Rules of the Game (1939), Hollywood's The Southerner (1945), color films, and The Little Theatre (1969).
Jean Rollin
Jean Rollin (1938-2010), French director of dreamlike erotic vampire films such as Le Viol du vampire, Fascination, and Requiem for a Vampire; also made hardcore films under pseudonyms like Michel Gentil to fund personal work.
Jean Seberg
Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress from Marshalltown, Iowa, star of Godard's Breathless (1960) and Preminger's Saint Joan; FBI COINTELPRO target for Black Panther support; died in Paris 1979; portrayed by Kristen Stewart (2019) and Zoey Deutch (2025).
Jean Shepherd
Jean Shepherd, full name Jean Parker Shepherd Jr., was an American humorist who delivered improvised late-night radio monologues on WOR-AM in New York from 1955 to 1977.
Jean Simmons
Jean Simmons (Jean Merilyn Simmons, 1929–2010) was a British actress and singer known for Estella in Great Expectations, Ophelia in Hamlet (Oscar-nominated), Guys and Dolls (Golden Globe), and The Happy Ending (Oscar-nominated), married to Stewart Granger and Richard Brooks.
Jean Smart
Jean Smart (born 1951, Seattle) is an American actress, Emmy record holder as Deborah Vance on Hacks, formerly Charlene on Designing Women, with three Golden Globes and a Tony nomination.
Jean Spangler
Jean Elizabeth Spangler (September 2, 1923 – disappeared October 7, 1949) was an American actress and dancer, also known as Jean Benner, who vanished from Los Angeles; her torn purse with a note to "Kirk" was found in Griffith Park, and the case was never solved.
Jean Speegle Howard
Jean Speegle Howard (1927–2000), American character actress from Duncan, Oklahoma; mother of Ron and Clint Howard and wife of Rance Howard. Known for Mrs. Claus in Scrooged and Blanch Lovell in Apollo 13.
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (Jeanne Murray, 1923-2013), American character actress famous as Edith Bunker on All in the Family; three Emmys, two Golden Globes, Television Academy Hall of Fame 2002, stage career in Damn Yankees and Funny Girl.
Jean Vander Pyl
Jean Vander Pyl (1919-1999), American radio and voice actress born in Philadelphia, was the voice of Wilma Flintstone for all of The Flintstones (1960-1966) and also Pebbles, Mrs. Slate, and Rosie the Robot on The Jetsons.
Jean Yoon
Jean Yoon, born 1962 in Champaign, Illinois, is a Korean-Canadian actor and playwright known as Umma in CBC's Kim's Convenience (2016-2021), winner of ACTRA and Canadian Screen Awards, and a cultural equity advocate who criticized the show's writers room.
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme (Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg, born 1960, Brussels), Belgian actor and martial artist, 'Muscles from Brussels', star of Bloodsport, Universal Soldier, Timecop, JCVD.
Jean-Claude Van Johnson
Jean-Claude Van Johnson is a 2016–2017 Amazon Prime Video action-comedy series created by Dave Callaham, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a retired action star whose film career covered his black-ops agent work; six episodes, cancelled after one season.
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (1930-2022), French actor of restrained style; star of And God Created Woman, A Man and a Woman, Z, The Conformist, Three Colours: Red, and Amour; Cannes and Berlin best-actor winner, 2013 Cesar recipient.
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard (1930–2022), French-Swiss director and Cahiers du cinéma critic, led the French New Wave; his Breathless (1960) revolutionized film language, and he made over 100 films including Histoire(s) du cinéma.
Jean-Luc Picard
Jean-Luc Picard is the fictional Starfleet captain played by Patrick Stewart, lead of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) commanding the USS Enterprise-D, later the Enterprise-E, and the series Star Trek: Picard.