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Joan Rivers
American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)
Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, comedian, producer, dancer, and singer. She achieved stardom and acclaim for playing lighthearted comedic roles in film and television. In a career spanning six decades, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award as well as nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Valerie Kudrow is an American actress and writer. She rose to international fame for her role as Phoebe Buffay in the American television sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. The series earned her Primetime Emmy, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite, American Comedy and TV Guide awards. Phoebe has since been named one of the greatest television characters of all time and is considered to be Kudrow's breakout role, spawning her successful film career.
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler has received numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.
Jenny Slate
American actress and comedian (born 1982)
Julie Kavner
American actress
Judy Holliday
American actress, comedian and singer (1921-1965)
Estelle Harris
American actress (1928–2022)
Bea Arthur
American actress and comedienne (1922–2009)
Sarah Silverman
American comedian, actress, and writer
Rashida Jones
American actress, writer, and producer (born 1976)
Roseanne Barr
American actress and comedian (born 1952)
Amy Schumer
American comedian and actress (born 1981)
Maya Rudolph
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).
Dyan Cannon
American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer (born 1937)
Alex Borstein
American actress
Doris Roberts
American actress (1925–2016)
Rhea Perlman
American actress
Madeline Kahn
American actress, singer (1942-1999)
Gilda Radner
American actress and comedian (1946–1989)
Pamela Adlon
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.
Estelle Getty
American actress (1923–2008)
Elaine May
American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian (b. 1932)
Susie Essman
American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television producer, and voice artist
Anne Meara
American comedian and actress (1929–2015)
Miriam Margolyes
British-Australian actress
Sandra Bernhard
American actress (born 1955)
Fanny Brice
American actress, singer and comedian (1891–1951)
Chelsea Handler
American comedian, actress, author and talk show host
Nika Futterman
American actress (born 1969)
Tiffany Haddish
American comedian and actress (born 1979)
Elizabeth Daily
American actress
Eden Sher
American actress (born 1991)
Sophie Tucker
Russian-born American singer, comedian, actress and radio personality
Carrie Brownstein
American musician and actress
Rachel Bloom
American actress, singer, and producer
Beanie Feldstein
American actress
Laraine Newman
American actress, writer and comedian
Rachel Dratch
American actress and comedian
Charlotte Rae
American actress (1926–2018)
Renée Taylor
American actress and writer
Gertrude Berg
American actress, screenwriter (1899-1966)
Tamsin Greig
British actress (born 1966)
Abbi Jacobson
American comedian and actress
Rita Rudner
American comedian
Hana Laszlo
Israeli actress and comedian
Arleen Sorkin
American actress (1955–2023)
Gillian Vigman
American actress
Frances Bay
Canadian actress
Vanessa Bayer
American actress and comedian
Vicki Lawrence
American actress, comedian, and pop singer (born 1949)
Molly Picon
American actress (1898–1992)
Chloe Fineman
American actress, writer, and comedian
Milana Vayntrub
Soviet Uzbekistan-born American actress
Michaela Watkins
American actress
Hannah Einbinder
Hannah Einbinder is an American actress and stand-up comedian. She is best known for her starring role as struggling comedy writer Ava Daniels in the HBO Max dramedy series Hacks, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award and a Critics' Choice Television Award, as well as four Golden Globe Award nominations.
Iliza Shlesinger
American comedian and actress
Natasha Leggero
American actress and comedian
Mindy Cohn
American actress
Allyce Beasley
American actress