Category
page 1Actresses from Florida
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

Faye Dunaway
American actress
Kate Upton
American model and actress (born 1992)

Leighton Meester
Leighton Marissa Meester is an American actress, singer, and model. She is known for her starring role as Blair Waldorf on the CW television series Gossip Girl (2007–2012). She has also appeared in films such as Killer Movie (2008), Country Strong (2010), The Roommate (2011), Monte Carlo (2011), The Oranges (2011), The Judge (2014), The Weekend Away (2022), and EXmas (2023). She portrayed Angie D'Amato on the ABC sitcom Single Parents (2018–2020). Meester made her Broadway debut in Of Mice and Men (2014). For her leading role in the CW/Stan comedy drama series Good Cop/Bad Cop (2025–present), Meester was nominated for the Australian Logie Award for Best Actress.

Haley Bennett
American singer and actress
Lake Bell
American actress, director and screenwriter (born 1979)

Danielle Harris
American actress
Stefanie Scott
American actress and singer
Jorja Fox
American actress

Megan Boone
American actress
Kathryn Joosten
American actress (1939–2012)

Faith Evans
Faith Renée Evans is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 in pursuit of a recording career. Evans initially performed as a backing vocalist for R&B singers Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, and by the age of 20, signed with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records as the label's first female artist in 1994. Following her uncredited appearance on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance", she released her debut studio album, Faith (1995), to critical acclaim and moderate commercial reception. Evans then guest performed alongside 112 on Combs' 1997 single "I'll Be Missing You," which won Best Rap Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards and became the first hip hop song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. Her second and third albums, Keep the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001), peaked at numbers six and 14 on the Billboard 200, respectively, and saw further critical praise.

Abigail Spencer
American actress

Elizabeth Ashley
American actress
Leah Lewis
American actress (born 1996)
Gloria Hendry
American actress
Shannon Woodward
American actress
Sarah Jones
American actress (born 1983)
Frances Langford
American singer and actress (1913–2005)
Gina Philips
American actress
Beth Littleford
American actress, comedian and television personality
Jackie Sandler
American actress
Mary Woronov
American actress and author
Robia LaMorte
American actress
Sabrina Lloyd
American actress
Karley Scott Collins
American actress and voice actress
Jennifer Schwalbach Smith
American actress
Jennifer Sky
American actress
Brooklynn Prince
American child actress
Pam Tillis
American country music singer-songwriter and actress
Trish Goff
American fashion model, actress, real estate broker
Lauren Miller
American actress
Mary Birdsong
American actress
Erica Ash
American actress and comedian (1977–2024)
Vanessa Baden
American actress
Gabriella Pession
Italian actress

LaChanze
LaChanze Sapp-Gooding, known professionally as LaChanze (; born December 16, 1961), is an American actress, theater producer, singer, and dancer. She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical in 2006 for her role as Celie Harris Johnson in The Color Purple. LaChanze has subsequently received four more Tony Awards for co-producing Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, The Outsiders, and Purpose.
Linsey Godfrey
American actress
Maia Campbell
American film, television actress and model
Cassidy Rae
American actress
Judy Canova
American comedian, actress, singer, and radio personality (1913-1983)
Shirley Grey
actress (1902-1981)

Elizabeth Kemp
American actress

Cristina Raines
American actress
Kayli Carter
American actress
Halley Gross
American actress, screenwriter and voice actor
Patricia Dane
actress (1919-1995)
Louella Maxam
American actress (1891-1970)
Lala Sloatman
model, actress, costumer
Castille Landon
American actress and filmmaker
Christie Lynn Smith
actress
Alexa Nisenson
American actress
Patterson Dial
American actress (1902-1945)
Ashley Brown
American actress, singer
Nancy Walters
American model, actress and minister (1933-2009)
Tammy Lynn Leppert
American actress and model
Alexandra Cheron
American actress and model (1983-2011)
Sally Wheeler
American actress
Rosalind Marquis
American actress (1915-2006)
Tessa Ludwick
actress