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Layla Anna-Lee

Layla Anna-Lee (birth name Layla Machado) is an English TV presenter, born 1983 in London, known as the narrator of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony, for football interviews with Messi, Neymar, Ronaldo and Pele, UFC Connected and Cage Warriors MMA work, The Munch Box, and marriage to fighter Ian Garry.

Layla Taylor

Layla Taylor (born 2001) is an American reality TV personality, main cast member of Hulu's The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (2024), MomTok influencer, its youngest and only biracial cast member, and an executive producer as of 2026.

Laysla De Oliveira

Laysla De Oliveira (born 1992, Toronto) is a Brazilian-Canadian actress and model known as Dodge in Locke & Key and Cruz Manuelos in Taylor Sheridan's Paramount+ series Lioness (2023–2026).

Layton Williams

Layton Williams (born 1994, Manchester) is a British actor, dancer and singer, the first Black Billy Elliot on the West End, star of Bad Education and Everybody's Talking About Jamie, Strictly 2023 finalist, and 2025 Olivier winner for Titanique.

Laz Alonso

Laz Alonso (born 1974, Washington D.C.) is an American actor, a Howard University business graduate and former Merrill Lynch banker, known for Tsu'tey in Avatar, Fenix in Fast & Furious, the Budweiser Wassup ads, and Mother's Milk in The Boys. Not the Mexican League ballplayer Lazaro Alonso.

LazarBeam

LazarBeam, real name Lannan Neville Eacott (born 1994), is an Australian YouTuber from New South Wales with about 23 million subscribers, known for Madden challenges, Fortnite meme content, and his 2021 Fortnite Icon Series skin.

Lazareth

Lazareth is a 2024 American post-apocalyptic thriller directed and written by Alec Tibaldi, starring Ashley Judd as an aunt raising nieces (Katie Douglas, Sarah Pidgeon) in an isolated cabin during a pandemic; released by Vertical on May 10, 2024.

Lazarus (British TV series)

Harlan Coben's Lazarus is a 2025 six-episode British supernatural thriller on Prime Video, created by Coben and Danny Brocklehurst, starring Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy as psychiatrists investigating cold-case murders; distinct from the 2025 Watanabe anime Lazarus.

Lazarus (musical)

Lazarus is a musical with music and lyrics by David Bowie, book by Enda Walsh, premiering off-Broadway in 2015 and inspired by The Man Who Fell to Earth.

Lazer Team

Lazer Team is a 2016 science fiction comedy about four men who find an alien battle suit. It was financed by an Indiegogo campaign that raised over $2.4 million.

Lazwaal Ishq

Lazwaal Ishq (لازوال عشق, Eternal Love), also spelled Lazawal Ishq, is Pakistan's first Urdu reality dating show, adapted from Turkish Aşk Adası, hosted by Ayesha Omar, filmed in Istanbul, streamed on YouTube from 29 September 2025, blocked in Pakistan after 50 episodes.

Lazy Susan (drag queen)

Lazy Susan, drag persona of Robbie Sinclair Ten Eyck (born 1991), Melbourne (Naarm) drag queen and filmmaker; won Drag Race Down Under season 4 in December 2024; later judge on Drag Race Down Under vs The World (2026); distinct from Lazi Susan, DJ Lazy Susan, and Layla Zee Susan.

LazyTown

LazyTown (Icelandic: Latibær) is an Icelandic children's television series created by and starring aerobics champion Magnús Scheving as Sportacus, promoting physical activity and healthy eating.

Lazzi

Lazzi (singular lazzo) are rehearsed, repeatable comic routines of the commedia dell'arte: short mimetic or spoken interludes of stage business, acrobatics, or gags inserted into improvised scenarios, performed chiefly by zanni characters and cataloged by titles such as lazzo della mosca.

LBW: Love Beyond Wicket

LBW: Love Beyond Wicket is a Tamil-language coming-of-age sports drama series that premiered 1 January 2026 on JioHotstar Hotstar Specials. Directed by Ganesh Karthikeyan, written by Aruna Rakhee, it stars Vikranth as coach Rangan across 120 episodes.

Le Bonheur

Le Bonheur (Happiness) is Agnès Varda's 1965 French drama about carpenter François, his wife Thérèse, and his mistress Émilie; it won the 1965 Prix Louis-Delluc and Berlin Silver Bear and is read as a feminist visual-irony film.

Le Boucher

Le Boucher (The Butcher) is a 1970 French-Italian thriller by Claude Chabrol, starring Stéphane Audran and Jean Yanne, about a Périgord schoolmistress and a butcher-veteran linked to village knife murders.

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Le Bourgeois gentilhomme is Molière's five-act prose comédie-ballet with music by Lully, premiered 14 October 1670 at Chambord for Louis XIV. It satirizes bourgeois M. Jourdain's bid for nobility via the mamamouchi Turkish ceremony and Ballet des nations.

Le brothers

Le brothers: Andy Le and Brian Le, Vietnamese American self-taught martial artists and stunt performers from Orange County, founders of Martial Club; fight choreographers of Everything Everywhere All at Once, Andy played Death Dealer in Shang-Chi.

Le Cercle Rouge

Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 French-Italian heist film starring Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, and André Bourvil, named for a Buddhist epigraph about fated meetings.

Le Chat Noir

Le Chat Noir, the Black Cat cabaret of Montmartre, Paris, founded by Rodolphe Salis in November 1881 and closed in 1897; the first artistic cabaret, with its own weekly journal, shadow theatre by Henri Rivière, and Steinlen's 1896 poster.

Le Cid

Le Cid: five-act verse tragi-comédie by Pierre Corneille, premiered 7 January 1637 at the Théâtre du Marais, adapted from Guillén de Castro's Las Mocedades del Cid, sparking the Querelle du Cid.

Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau (The Raven) is Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1943 French thriller about anonymous poison-pen letters in an occupied provincial town, made for German-backed Continental Films, banned after the Liberation, and later recognized as the first classic French film noir.

Le Corniaud

Le Corniaud (The Sucker) is a 1965 French-Italian comedy road movie by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès; a gangster has a naive merchant drive a Cadillac of contraband from Naples to Bordeaux. It topped the 1965 French box office with 11.7 million admissions.

Le Coup de Foudre (我只喜欢你)

Le Coup de Foudre (我只喜欢你, I Only Like You) is a 2019 Chinese 35-episode youth romance drama on Tencent Video and Youku, adapted from Qiao Yi's real-life memoir I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You, starring Wu Qian and Zhang Yujian as Zhao Qiaoyi and Yan Mo.

Le Dîner de Cons

Le Dîner de Cons (The Dinner Game) is a 1998 French comedy by Francis Veber, adapted from his 1993 play, starring Thierry Lhermitte and Jacques Villeret. It sold over 9 million tickets in France, won three Césars in 1999, and inspired remakes including Dinner for Schmucks.

Le Doulos

Le Doulos, 1962 French-Italian film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville from Pierre Lesou's 1957 novel, starring Belmondo as suspected informer Silien and Reggiani as Faugel; released in France 8 February 1963.

Le Faux Soir

Le Faux Soir: a fake edition of the collaborationist Brussels daily Le Soir, produced by the Belgian resistance Front de l'Indépendance and distributed at kiosks on 9 November 1943; 50,000 satirical copies ridiculing the Nazi occupier.

Le Gendarme à New York

Le Gendarme à New York (The Gendarme in New York), 1965 French-Italian comedy by Jean Girault, second Gendarme film: Louis de Funès's Cruchot takes the Saint-Tropez brigade to a New York police congress while daughter Nicole stows away; 5.5 million admissions.

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French-Italian comedy by Jean Girault, starring Louis de Funès as gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. France's biggest 1964 hit and first of a six-film series (1964-1982), it launched de Funès as a star.