Category
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Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe is an American actress, producer, and screenwriter. She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi (2018–present) and the BET comedy series Boomerang (2019–20) and Twenties (2020–21). She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen & Slim (2019) and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them (2021–present).
L. Scott Caldwell
American actress
Marilu Henner
American actress (born 1952)
Kellita Smith
American actress
Clara Kimball Young
American actress (1890–1960)
Amy Landecker
American actress
Jessica Harper
American actress (born 1949)
Marla Gibbs
actress, entertainer, singer, writer, and producer (born 1931)
Julia Sweeney
American actress, author, comedian
Kathleen Freeman
American actress (1919–2001)
Kristin Cavallari
American actress
Frances Dee
American actress (1909–2004)
Justina Machado
American actress
Mary Philbin
American film actress of the silent film era (1903–1993)
Emily Bergl
British actress
Mimsy Farmer
American actress
Ann Cusack
American actress
Gloria Foster
American actress (1933–2001)
Gail Russell
actress (1924-1961)
Zoe Perry
American actress
Nora Dunn
American actress and comedian
Mariann Aalda
American television, stage and film actress
Dolores Gray
American actress (1924–2002)
Hillary Wolf
American actor and judoka
Lucille Ricksen
American child actress (1910-1925)
Carla Laemmle
American actress (1909-2014)
Landry Bender
American actress
Alley Mills
American actress
Myrna Hansen
American actress (born 1934)
Piper Curda
American actress
Madge Kennedy
American actress (1891-1987)
Darlene Conley
American actress (1934–2007)
Charmian Carr
American actress (1942–2016)
Virginia Rappe
Silent film actress, model (1891–1921)
Lynn-Holly Johnson
Figure skater, actress
Virginia Valli
American actress (1898-1968)
Lillian Russell
American opera singer and actress (1860-1922)

Morgan Saylor
American actress
Marina Squerciati
American actress
Rose Abdoo
American actress and comedian
Jessie Royce Landis
American actress (1896-1972)
Polly Moran
Actress, vaudevillian (1883-1952)
Lillian Adams
American actress (1922-2011)
Michelle Stafford
American actress (born 1965)
Jill Talley
American actress
Lisa Zane
American actress
Janet Hubert
American film and television actress
Cindy Morgan
American actress (1954–2023)
Sherry Lansing
American film studio executive and actress
Nina Siemaszko
American actress
Lisa Boyle
American model, actress and photographer
Julianne Phillips
American model and actress
Izabela Vidovic
American actress
Sue Carol
American actress, talent agent (1906–1982)

Jennifer Runyon
Jennifer Runyon was an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the slasher film To All a Goodnight (1980), and had supporting roles in the comedies Up the Creek (1984) and Ghostbusters (1984). She played the role of Gwendolyn Pierce in the 1984 sitcom Charles in Charge on CBS during its first season. In 1988, she portrayed Cindy Brady in a CBS television film, A Very Brady Christmas.
Da Brat
American rapper
Dorothy Dalton
American actress (1893–1972)

Tavi Gevinson
American writer
Helen Holmes
American actress (1893–1950)
Jean Wallace
American television and film actress (1923–1990)