Actresses from Manhattan

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

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010. She also starred in the 1992 TV film Miss Rose White, which won an Emmy Award. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1995 film Something to Talk About. Sedgwick's other film credits include Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Cameron Crowe's Singles (1992). She also had a recurring role as Chief Madeline Wuntch on the sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

American actress (born 1966)

American actress (1903-1990)

American actress, singer, model and activist (1935–2019)

American actress

American actress (1910–1999)

American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress

American actress (born 1944)

American screenwriter, playwright, author, actress and television producer (1888-1981)

American actress, model, and entrepreneur

American actress (1902-1972)

Bonnie Bedelia is an American actress. After beginning her career in theatre in the 1960s, Bedelia starred in the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and made her film debut in The Gypsy Moths. Bedelia subsequently appeared in the films They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Lovers and Other Strangers, Heart Like a Wheel, The Prince of Pennsylvania, Die Hard, Presumed Innocent, Sordid Lives, and Needful Things.

American actress (1914-2001)

American actress (1933-2003)

Teyana Me Shay Jacqueline Taylor is an American singer, songwriter, actress, model, dancer, choreographer, and music video director. Her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, two Critics Choice Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award, two Actor Awards, a British Academy Film Award, and a Grammy Award. She was named one of Time's 2026 Women of the Year.

American actress (born 1982)

Pamela Adlon is an American actress, writer, and director. She is known for voicing Bobby Hill in the animated comedy series King of the Hill, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. She also voiced Baloo in Jungle Cubs (1996–1998), the title role in the Pajama Sam video game series (1996–2001), Lucky in 101 Dalmatians: The Series (1997–1998), Margaret "Moose" Pearson in Pepper Ann (1997–2001), Ashley Spinelli in Recess (1997–2001), Otto Osworth in Time Squad (2001–2003), Vidia in the Tinker Bell franchise and Brigette Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law (2016–2019), among numerous others.

German-American actress

American actress (1925–2001)

American actress (1910–2006)

American actress

American actress (1923–2008)

American actress (1922–2014)

American actress and singer (1915–1998)

American actress (1923-1988)

American actress

American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and writer (1924-2019)

American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)

American actress and acting teacher (1901–1992)

American actress (1934–1983)

American actress and director

Martha Plimpton is an American actress. She started her career as a teen actress in film before transitioning to adult roles on stage and screen. She has received several awards including a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Tony Awards. Her feature-film debut was a supporting role in the political thriller Rollover (1981), and she rose to prominence in the adventure film The Goonies (1985). She later took roles in The Mosquito Coast (1986), Shy People (1987), Running on Empty (1988), Parenthood (1989), Samantha (1991), Beautiful Girls (1996), Small Town Murder Songs (2011), Frozen 2 (2019), and Mass (2021). She is a member of the Carradine family.

American actress (1923–2013)

Barbara "Barbie" Seppe Ferreira is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Kat Hernandez in the HBO series Euphoria (2019–2022).

Princess Caroline Lee Radziwill, previously known as Lee Canfield and Lee Ross, was an American socialite, public relations executive, and interior designer. She was the younger sister of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy.

American actress

Grace Van Patten is an American actress. She has appeared in two films distributed by Netflix, Tramps (2016) and The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and in the Hulu original series Nine Perfect Strangers (2021), Tell Me Lies (2022), and The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox (2025).

American actress

Frances Ann Lebowitz is an American author, public speaker, cultural critic, and actor. She is known for her sardonic social commentary on American life as filtered through her New York City sensibilities and her association with many prominent figures of the New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s, including Andy Warhol, Martin Scorsese, Jerome Robbins, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz, Candy Darling, and the New York Dolls.

American actress

American actress (1924-2019)

American actress

American actress and singer

American singer, actress, and television personality

American burlesque performer, actress and author (1911–1970)

American actress and model

American actress (1942–2019)

American actress

American stage, film, radio, and television actress (1928–2014)

American actress

American actress and talk show host

American actress

Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality

actress

American television and film actress (born 1970)

Berinthia "Berry" Berenson-Perkins was an American actress, model and photographer. She was the wife of actor Anthony Perkins.

American TV and film actress

American actress

American actress (1955-2017)