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Lalo Salamanca

Lalo Salamanca (Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca, alias Jorge De Guzman) is the Salamanca cartel antagonist of Better Call Saul seasons 4-6, played by Tony Dalton; planted by a Breaking Bad name drop, killed by Gus Fring.

Lamarr Wilson

Lamarr Wilson (1977–2025), known as "That Unboxing Guy," was an American YouTuber and technology journalist from Chicago known for unboxing videos and product reviews of consumer electronics.

Lamb (2021 film)

Lamb (Dýrið) is a 2021 Icelandic supernatural drama, the debut feature of Valdimar Jóhannsson co-written with Sjón, starring Noomi Rapace as a farmer raising a lamb-human hybrid; it won Cannes Un Certain Regard's first Prize of Originality.

Lamb Chop (puppet)

Lamb Chop, the sock puppet sheep created by ventriloquist Shari Lewis, debuted on Captain Kangaroo, starred in The Shari Lewis Show and Lamb Chop's Play-Along, is now performed by Mallory Lewis, and became a viral Multipet dog toy.

Lambada

Lambada: Brazilian partner dance and music genre from Belém, Pará, mid-1970s, blending carimbó with merengue, cúmbia and bolero; not to be confused with the Kaoma 1989 hit or the LAMBADA NLP dataset.

Lambada (film)

Lambada (1990), also released as Lambada: Set the Night on Fire, is a Cannon Pictures dance film directed by Joel Silberg, starring J. Eddie Peck as a Beverly Hills math teacher who moonlights as a lambada dancer; it opened against The Forbidden Dance on March 16, 1990 and grossed $4.3 million.

Lambert Wilson

Lambert Wilson, French actor and singer born 1958 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, son of Georges Wilson; Merovingian in the Matrix films, Brother Christian in Of Gods and Men, Abbé Pierre, Cousteau, and de Gaulle, Prix Jean Gabin winner and Cannes master of ceremonies 2014.

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend

Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend, also released as Lamborghini: The Legend, is a 2022 biographical drama directed by Bobby Moresco, starring Frank Grillo as Ferruccio Lamborghini and Gabriel Byrne as Enzo Ferrari; loosely based on Tonino Lamborghini's book, it premiered in Rome and was panned by critics.

Lamhe

Lamhe (लम्हे, "Moments") is a 1991 Yash Chopra Hindi romantic drama starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi in a double role, a box-office flop that won five Filmfare Awards and became a cult classic.

Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار)

Lamis Ammar (لميس عمار), Palestinian actress, writer, and video artist born 1992, star of Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Sand Storm (2016), later a Berlin-based performer at the Maxim Gorki Theater.

Lamman Rucker

Lamman Rucker (born 1971, Pittsburgh) is an American actor known as Sheriff Troy in Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? films, Dr. Will Brown in Meet the Browns, and Jacob Greenleaf in OWN's Greenleaf; also an educator and co-founder of The Black Gents.

Lammbock

Lammbock (Lammbock – Alles in Handarbeit) is a 2001 German stoner comedy, Christian Zübert's directorial debut, starring Lucas Gregorowicz and Moritz Bleibtreu as Würzburg friends selling home-grown cannabis through a pizza service; sleeper hit followed by the 2017 sequel Lommbock.

LaMonica Garrett

LaMonica Garrett (born 1975, San Francisco) is an American actor and former pro SlamBall player known for Designated Survivor's Mike Ritter, the Arrowverse Monitor, Thomas in 1883, and Tucker in Lioness.

Lamont Bentley

Lamont Bentley (Artimus Lamont Bentley, 1973–2005), American actor and rapper, Hakeem Campbell on UPN's Moesha (1996–2001), Crazy K in Tales from the Hood, died in a 2005 car crash.

Lamorne Morris

Lamorne Morris (born 1983) is an American actor and comedian from Chicago, known as Winston on New Girl, Emmy-winning for Fargo season 5, and starring as Robbie Robertson in Spider-Noir.

Lan Hongchun

Lan Hongchun (蓝鸿春), born 1985 in Shantou, Guangdong, is a mainland Chinese director, screenwriter, and editor of Teochew-dialect Chaoshan films: Love & Swatow, Proud of Me, Back to Love, and the 2026 blockbuster Dear You.

Lan Yu (蓝宇) (2001 film)

Lan Yu (蓝宇, 2001) is a Stanley Kwan Hong Kong romance drama starring Hu Jun and Liu Ye, adapted from the anonymous internet novel Beijing Story; banned on the mainland, Golden Horse audience-voted Best Film, 4K-restored since 2021.

Lana Clarkson

Lana Jean Clarkson (1962-2003), American actress and model, star of Roger Corman's Deathstalker and Barbarian Queen; shot dead at Phil Spector's Alhambra mansion in 2003; Spector convicted of second-degree murder in 2009.

Lana Condor

Lana Condor (Trần Đồng Lan), Vietnamese-born American actress born 1997 in Can Tho, adopted at four months; known as Jubilee in X-Men: Apocalypse and Lara Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys trilogy, later Boo, Bitch and Coyote vs. Acme.

Lana Lang

Lana Lang is a DC Comics character, Clark Kent's Smallville childhood sweetheart, created by Bill Finger and John Sikela, debuting in Superboy #10 (1950); alter egos include Insect Queen and Superwoman, with screen versions played by Annette O'Toole, Kristin Kreuk, and Emmanuelle Chriqui.

Lana Lang (Smallville)

Lana Lang (Smallville) is the Smallville TV series version of Clark Kent's first love, played by Kristin Kreuk in 158 episodes over eight seasons; defined by the 1989 meteor that killed her parents, the Talon coffeehouse, a marriage to Lex Luthor, and a much-criticized, secret-burdened romance with Clark.

Lana Parrilla

Lana Parrilla, American actress of Italian and Puerto Rican descent born 1977 in Brooklyn, best known as Regina Mills/the Evil Queen on ABC's Once Upon a Time (2011–2018), with earlier roles in Spin City, Boomtown, and 24 and later work in Why Women Kill, Atlas, and The Rainmaker.

Lana Rhoades

Lana Rhoades (born Amara Maple, 1996, Chicago) is an American media personality and former adult film performer (2016-2017, 2017 XBIZ Best New Starlet) who became an Instagram creator, podcaster, fashion model, and OnlyFans entrepreneur.

Lana Turner

Lana Turner (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, 1921–1995), American MGM film star, Sweater Girl image, Oscar-nominated for Peyton Place, starred in The Postman Always Rings Twice and Imitation of Life; seven marriages and the 1958 Stompanato killing.

Lana Wood

Lana Wood (Svetlana Nikolaevna Gurdin, born 1946) is an American actress and producer, sister of Natalie Wood, known as young Debbie Edwards in The Searchers and Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Lance Barber

Lance Barber, American actor born 1973 in Battle Creek, Michigan; played Paulie G. on The Comeback, Bill Ponderosa on It's Always Sunny, and George Cooper Sr. on Young Sheldon (2017–2024, 141 episodes), later reprising the role in dream sequences on Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.

Lance Burton

Lance Burton (born 1960) is a retired American stage magician from Louisville, Kentucky, FISM Grand Prix winner 1982, who headlined Las Vegas for 30 years, including a record 13-year Monte Carlo contract, and retired in 2010.

Lance Gross

Lance Gross (Lance Darnell Gross), American actor, producer, and photographer born 1981 in Oakland, California; known as Calvin Payne on Tyler Perry's House of Payne, winner of four NAACP Image Awards, Howard University theater graduate, and creator of the I Turn My Camera On interview series.

Lance Henriksen

Lance Henriksen (born 1940), American character actor; android Bishop in Aliens and Alien3, Frank Black in Millennium (1996-99), Saturn Award winner for Hard Target (1994), later acclaimed in Viggo Mortensen's Falling (2020).

Lance Kerwin

Lance Kerwin (Lance Michael Kerwin, 1960–2023), American actor, teen star of NBC's James at 15/James at 16 and Mark Petrie in Salem's Lot (1979); later a youth pastor, died January 24, 2023 in San Clemente, California.