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Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham (born 1986, New York City), American actress, writer, director, producer; creator of HBO's Girls (2012–2017); first woman to win the DGA Award for Best TV Comedy Director; later work: Sharp Stick, Catherine Called Birdy, Too Much.
Lena Góra
Lena Góra (born 1990, Gdańsk) is a Polish actress and screenwriter. Known for Król (2020), Roving Woman, Imago, The Eastern Gate (Przesmyk), and Erupcja with Charli xcx; Gdynia and Tofifest award winner.
Lena Hall
Lena Hall (Celina Consuela Gabriella Carvajal, born 1980), American actress and singer; 2014 Tony winner as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kinky Boots' original Nicola, Snowpiercer's Miss Audrey, and Ali Cooper in Apple TV+'s Your Friends & Neighbors.
Lena Headey
Lena Kathren Headey (born 1973, Hamilton, Bermuda) is a British actress known for Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones (2011–2019, five Emmy nominations), Gorgo in 300, Sarah Connor, Ma-Ma in Dredd, and The Abandons.
Lena Luthor
Lena Luthor, also Lena Thorul, is a DC Comics character: originally Lex Luthor's psychic sister created by Jerry Siegel and Kurt Schaffenberger (1961), later Lex's daughter, and reimagined as the L-Corp CEO sister in the Supergirl TV series.
Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olin, Swedish actress born 1955 in Stockholm; Bergman-trained Dramaten actress, breakthrough as Sabina in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Oscar-nominated for Enemies, a Love Story, Emmy-nominated for Alias, married to Lasse Hallström.
Lena Urzendowsky
Lena Urzendowsky (born 2000, Berlin) is a German actress and writer, sister of actor Sebastian Urzendowsky. Known for Das weiße Kaninchen, Kokon, Dark, How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast), and Cannes winner In die Sonne schauen; German Film Award Best Supporting Actress 2026.
Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe, born 1984 in Chicago, is an American writer, producer, and actor; first Black woman to win the comedy writing Emmy (2017, Master of None "Thanksgiving"), creator of The Chi, screenwriter of Queen & Slim, founder of Hillman Grad.
Lenfilm
Lenfilm (Ленфильм) is a film studio in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in 1914, which styles itself the country's oldest and has produced over 1,500 feature films.
Leni Riefenstahl
Leni Riefenstahl (Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl, 1902-2003), German dancer, actress, director, and photographer; maker of the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will (1935) and Olympia (1938), funded by Goebbels's ministry, later a Nuba photographer.
Lenin (film)
Lenin is a 2026 Telugu rural action drama directed by Murali Kishor Abburu, starring Akhil Akkineni and Bhagyashri Borse, released 10 July 2026; a fictional village story with Mahabharata parallels, not a Vladimir Lenin biopic.
Lennard Pearce
Lennard Pearce (1915–1984) was an English actor, trained at RADA, best known as Grandad in the first three series of the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses.
Lennie Briscoe
Lennie Briscoe is a fictional NYPD detective on Law & Order, played by Jerry Orbach from 1992 to 2004, who appeared in 274 episodes and retired in 2004.
Lennie James
Lennie James (born 1965, Nottingham) is a British actor and screenwriter, Morgan Jones in The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, creator-star of Save Me, and 2025 BAFTA Leading Actor winner for Mr Loverman.
Lennon Parham
Lennon Parham, American actress and improvisational comedian from Upright Citizens Brigade; co-created Best Friends Forever and Playing House with Jessica St. Clair; known for Veep's Karen Collins and Minx's Shelly; hosts Womp It Up!.
Lenny (film)
Lenny (1974) is Bob Fosse's black-and-white biographical drama of comedian Lenny Bruce, starring Dustin Hoffman and Valerie Perrine, adapted from Julian Barry's Tony-winning play, with a mock-documentary structure and six Oscar nominations including Best Picture.
Lenny Abrahamson
Lenny Abrahamson is a Dublin-born Irish director of Adam & Paul, Garage, Frank, the Oscar-nominated Room, The Little Stranger, and the Sally Rooney adaptations Normal People and Conversations with Friends.
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider, 1925–1966), American stand-up comedian and satirist whose freestyle material on sex, religion, and race led to obscenity arrests, a 1964 conviction, and a 2003 posthumous pardon, making him a free-speech landmark.
Lenny Clarke
Lenny Clarke, American stand-up comedian and actor born 1953 in Boston, rose from hosting open mikes at Cambridge's Ding Ho to TV roles as Uncle Teddy on Rescue Me, Officer Adam Hampton on The John Larroquette Show, and his own CBS sitcom Lenny.
Lenny Henry
Lenny Henry (Sir Lenworth George Henry) is an English comedian, actor, and Comic Relief co-founder born in Dudley in 1958, known for Tiswas, Three of a Kind, The Lenny Henry Show, Chef!, and acclaimed stage roles in Othello.
Lenny Rush
Lenny Rush (born 2009, Essex) is a British BAFTA-winning actor with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita; known for Ollie in Am I Being Unreasonable?, Morris Gibbons in Doctor Who, Children in Need's first child presenter, and Slow Horses season 6.
Lenny Von Dohlen
Lenny Von Dohlen (Leonard Harold Von Dohlen IV) was an American actor known for Miles Harding in Electric Dreams (1984) and Harold Smith in Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with Me; he died July 5, 2022, in Los Angeles.
Lenora Crichlow
Lenora Isabella Crichlow (born 1985, Westminster, London) is an English actress known as the ghost Annie Sawyer in BBC's Being Human, as Sugar in Sugar Rush, in Fast Girls, Black Mirror's "White Bear", and US series Avenue 5 and Deception.
Leo (2023 American film)
Leo (2023 American film): Netflix animated musical comedy, also called the Adam Sandler lizard movie, directed by Marianetti, Smigel, and Wachtenheim; 74-year-old class-pet lizard, 84% Tomatometer, 34.6M views in six days.
Leo (லியோ) (2023 Indian film)
Leo (லியோ) is a 2023 Tamil action crime thriller directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, starring Vijay as café owner Parthiban mistaken for gangster Leo Das; released 19 October 2023, a major box-office hit with mixed reviews, streaming on Netflix.
Leo Fitzpatrick
Leo Fitzpatrick (born 1978, Orange, New Jersey), also known as Lousy Leo, American actor, DJ, and gallerist; played Telly in Kids (1995) and Johnny in The Wire; founded Public Access gallery in New York.
Leo G. Carroll
Leo G. Carroll (1886-1972), English character actor, appeared in six Hitchcock films including Spellbound and North by Northwest, played Cosmo Topper on TV, and was Alexander Waverly, U.N.C.L.E.'s chief, in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.
Leo Gorcey
Leo Gorcey (1917-1969), American actor, original Dead End Kid, star of the East Side Kids as Muggs McGinnis and 41 Bowery Boys films as Slip Mahoney; quit the series in 1956 after his father Bernard's death.
Leo Gordon
Leo Gordon (Leo Vincent Gordon) was an American character actor and screenwriter who played villains in scores of Westerns and crime films from 1953 to 1994.
Leo Gregory
Leo Gregory (born 1978, Haverfordwest, Wales) is a British actor and producer known for Bovver in Green Street Hooligans, Brian Jones in Stoned, Tristan + Isolde, Top Dog, and 2025 Terra Di Siena acting awards.