20th-century American actresses

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American actress and pin-up girl (1916–1973)

American actress (1899–1985)

actress (1907-2004)

American actress

Linda Edna Cardellini is an American actress. In television, she is known for her starring roles in the teen drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), the medical drama ER (2003–2009), and the thriller Bloodline (2015–2017), as well as for her guest role as Sylvia Rosen on AMC's Mad Men (2013–2015). Her starring role in the Netflix dark comedy series Dead to Me (2019–2022) earned her a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

American actress (born 1970)

American actress

American actress (1921–2019)

Traci Elizabeth Lords is an American actress and singer. She has starred in TV series such as Tales from the Crypt, Roseanne, Profiler, and First Wave. She has also appeared in films such as Skinner (1993), Virtuosity (1995), Blade (1998), Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), and Excision (2012), which earned her a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actress, Fright Meter Award, and a CinEuphoria Award.

American actress (1915-1996)

American stage and film actress (1877-1957)

American actress and singer-songwriter (born 1975)

American actress

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American actress (1906–1985)

American actress (1944–2010)

Hungarian-American actress and socialite (1919–1995)

Laura Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress and comedian. Known for her complex and versatile roles across the stage and screen, she has received various accolades throughout a career spanning more than four decades, including four Primetime Emmy Awards and two Tony Awards, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.

American singer and actress (1959–2022)

Chinese-American actress and director

American actress

American actress, singer and model

American actress (1925–2013)

American actress (born 1963)

American actress and comedian

American actress and singer (1922–1965)

American actress

American actress

American actress and writer (born 1968)

American actress

American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer (1923–2017)

American actress

American actress (born 1939)

American actress (1900–1974)

American actress

American actress

Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress. Working mainly in dramatic television since the 1990s, she has received eight nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1999 for her lead role in the drama series Felicity, and has received six Primetime Emmy Award nominations and four additional Golden Globe Award nominations for her roles in The Americans and The Diplomat. In 2017, she was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to television.

Polish-Swedish model, actress and singer

Diane Ladd was an American actress. With a career spanning over 70 years, she appeared in over 200 films and television shows, receiving three Academy Award nominations for her roles in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990) and Rambling Rose (1991), the first of which won her a BAFTA Award. She was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards and four Golden Globe Awards, winning one for her role in the sitcom Alice (1980–1981).

American actress (1938–1979)

American actress

American actress (born 1954)

Maya Khabira Rudolph is an American actress and comedian. In 2000, she became a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL). During her tenure on the show, she appeared in supporting roles in the films 50 First Dates (2004), A Prairie Home Companion (2006), and Idiocracy (2006).

American actress and vaudevillian (1902-1969)

American singer-songwriter

Chinese American actress (1905-1961)

American actress (1937–2022)

American actress (1903-1990)

American actress

American actress

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American actress (born 1929)

American actress

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886 – September 27, 1961) was an American modernist poet, novelist, and memoirist who wrote under the name H.D. throughout her life. Her career began in 1911 after she moved to London and co-founded the avant-garde Imagist group of poets with American expatriate poet and critic Ezra Pound. During this early period, her minimalist free verse poems depicting Classical motifs drew international attention. Eventually distancing herself from the Imagist movement, she experimented with a wider variety of forms, including fiction, memoir, and verse drama. Reflecti

American gossip columnist and actress (1885–1966)

Irish-American actress (1911-1998)

American actress

American actress and singer (born 1948)

American actress who converted to Judaism