A TV actor is anyone (including people and credited animals) who has portrayed a character on a TV show. The appearance could be minor, like a cameo appearance; unseen, like the work of a puppeteer; or typically uncredited, like a playback singer. People performing in "non-character" roles such as ...
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Joshua Malina
Joshua Charles Malina ( /mɛˈlinæ/; born January 17, 1966) is an American film and stage actor. He is perhaps most famous for portraying Will Bailey on the NBC drama The West Wing and Jeremy Goodwin on Sports Night.
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D. B. Sweeney
Daniel Bernard "D. B." Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American actor.
Sweeney was born on Long Island, New York and raised in Shoreham by an educator father and a municipal government employee mother. He attended Shoreham-Wading River High...
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Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis (born May 12, 1970) is an American actress. The daughter of actress Bibi Besch, Mathis made her film debut in Pump Up the Volume (1990), opposite Christian Slater. She has co-starred in the films Little Women (1994), The American...
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Laura Silverman
Laura Jane Silverman (born June 10, 1966, in Bedford, New Hampshire) is an American actress/voice actress, and the elder sister of actress/comedienne Sarah Silverman. She is best known for portraying a fictionalized version of herself alongside her...
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Greg Grunberg
Gregory Phillip "Greg" Grunberg (born July 11, 1966) is an American television actor. He is best known for starring as Matt Parkman on the NBC television series Heroes. Other notable roles include the characters Sean Blumberg on Felicity (1998–2002)...
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David Conrad
David Crawford Conrad (born August 17, 1967) is an American actor. From 2005 to 2010, he starred in the television series Ghost Whisperer alongside Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Conrad, the youngest of three boys, is the son of Jim Conrad, an engineer, and...
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Curtis Armstrong
Curtis Armstrong (born November 27, 1953) is an American actor best known for his portrayal as Booger in the Revenge of the Nerds movies, as Herbert Viola on Moonlighting, and as famed record producer Ahmet Ertegün in the film Ray.
Armstrong was...
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Howard Hesseman
Howard Hesseman (born February 27, 1940) is an American actor best known for playing disc jockey Johnny Fever on WKRP in Cincinnati and schoolteacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class.
Hesseman was born in Lebanon, Oregon, the son of Edna (née...
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Ethan Embry
Ethan Philan Randall (born June 13, 1978), although he is known and usually credited as Ethan Embry, is an American film and television actor. He is known for his role as Declan Giggs on the Showtime television series Brotherhood.
Embry was born in...
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Taraji P. Henson
Taraji Penda Henson (born September 11, 1970) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her roles as Yvette in Baby Boy (2001), Shug in Hustle and Flow (2005) and Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), for which she...
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Carmen Electra
Tara Leigh Patrick (born April 20, 1972), professionally known as Carmen Electra, is an American glamour model, actress, television personality, singer, and dancer. She gained fame for her appearances in Playboy magazine, on the MTV game show...
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Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born February 1, 1965) is an American actress. She came to international attention for her performance as Audrey Horne on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks. She is also known for her roles in Of Mice and Men, Ruby, Boxing Helena and...
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Sheryl Lee
Sheryl Lee (born April 22, 1967) is an American actress. She came to international attention for her performances as Laura Palmer and Maddy Ferguson on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks and in the 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. She is...
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Jack Guzman
Jack Guzman (born June 21, 1978) is an actor, originally hailing from Barranquilla, Colombia.
His most notable role to date is that of Danny Delgado, the Black Wild Force Power Ranger ("Iron Bison") on Power Rangers Wild Force. He also played a...
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Essence Atkins
Essence Uhura Atkins (born February 7, 1972) is an American actress. She is best known for the roles of Dee Dee Thorne on the UPN sitcom Half & Half and as Yvette Henderson on the The WB sitcom Smart Guy. She is currently starring in the TV series...
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Chloe Webb
Chloe Webb (born June 25, 1956) is an American actress.
Webb was born in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York. Her New York theater debut was in the original cast of the long-running musical satire Forbidden Broadway. She received Best Actress...
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Scott Foley
Scott Kellerman Foley (born July 15, 1972) is an American actor. He is known for roles in television shows such as The Unit and Felicity, and in films such as Scream 3. He has also guest starred in the series Dawson's Creek, House, Scrubs, and more...
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Jack Plotnick
Jack Stuart Plotnick (born October 30, 1968) is an American film and television actor.
Born in Worthington, Ohio, Plotnick is based in Hollywood. Plotnick is an openly gay actor, best known for performances on Ellen, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as the...
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Steve Valentine
Steven John Valentine (born October 26, 1966) is a Scottish actor and magician who has performed on stage and screen, but is best known for his role as the eccentric Nigel Townsend on NBC's crime drama Crossing Jordan. Currently he stars in the...
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Clare Carey
Clare Carey (born June 11, 1967) is a film and television actress.
Carey was born at a Catholic mission in Zimbabwe where her father (a doctor) and mother (a teacher) were serving. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.
Though...
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Kadeem Hardison
Kadeem Hardison (born July 24, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Dwayne Wayne on A Different World, a spin-off of the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
Hardison was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, the...
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John Cho
John Cho (born June 16, 1972) is a Korean-American actor and musician, best known for his roles in the American Pie films (1999–2012) and the Harold & Kumar films (2004–present). He also starred in the critically acclaimed hit film Better Luck...
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Marin Hinkle
Marin Elizabeth Hinkle (born March 23, 1966) is an American actress, known for playing the role of Judith Harper-Melnick, Alan Harper's ex-wife on the hit series Two and a Half Men and her role as Judy Brooks the sister of the series lead Lily...
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Damon Wayans
Damon Kyle Wayans ( /ˈdeɪmən ˈweɪ.ənz/; born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor, one of the Wayans family.
Wayans was born in New York City, New York, the son of Elvira, a homemaker and social worker, and Howell...
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Meagan Good
Meagan Monique Good (born August 8, 1981) is an American film and television actress and occasional film producer. Beginning her career at the age of four, Good has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows, feature films, and music videos....
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Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), better known as Hugh Laurie /ˈhjuː ˈlɒri/, is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. He first became well known in the media as one half of the...
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Alan Rosenberg
Alan Rosenberg (born October 4, 1950) is an American actor of both stage and screen. From 2005 to 2009, he was president of the Screen Actors Guild, the principal motion picture industry on-screen performers' union.
Rosenberg was born and raised in...
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Mimi Kennedy
Mimi Kennedy (born September 25, 1948) is an American actress, author and activist.
Kennedy was born Mary Claire Kennedy in Rochester, New York, the daughter of Nancy Helen (née Colgan) and Daniel Gerald Kennedy. She got her start in theater with...
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Jay Karnes
Jay Karnes (born June 27, 1963) is an American actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska. He attended the University of Kansas (class of '89). He is well known for his role as L.A.P.D. Det. Holland "Dutch" Wagenbach on the FX hit drama The Shield, which...
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Michelle Clunie
Michelle Renee Clunie (born November 7, 1969) is an American film, stage and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Melanie Marcus on Showtime's Queer as Folk and as Ellen Beals on Make It or Break It.
Clunie attended the...
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Evan Peters
Evan Peters (born January 20, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his roles as Tate Langdon in American Horror Story, Jesse Varon in the ABC TV series Invasion and as Cooper Day in The Days, also on ABC. He also had a recurring role in Disney...
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John Larroquette
John Bernard Larroquette (born November 25, 1947) is an American film, television and stage actor. His roles include Dan Fielding on the series Night Court, Mike McBride in the Hallmark Channel series McBride, John Hemingway on The John Larroquette...
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Lee Tergesen
Lee Allen Tergesen (born July 8, 1965) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Tobias Beecher in HBO’s prison drama Oz and as Evan Wright in Generation Kill.
Tergesen was born in Ivoryton, Connecticut and graduated from Valley...
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Tom Verica
Tom Verica (born May 13th, 1964) is an American actor and director, known for his role of Jack Pryor on the NBC drama American Dreams. He played Astronaut Dick Gordon in the HBO miniseries From The Earth To The Moon. Verica also had a role as Grace...
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Greg Cipes
Gregory Michael Cipes (born January 4, 1980) is an American voice and film actor. He is also a singer, musician, composer, and professional surfer.
Cipes was born in Coral Springs, Florida, the son of Robin Mrasek and Geoff Cipes.
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Ray Abruzzo
Ray Abruzzo is an Italian-American actor, noted for his appearances on television.
He made regular appearances in the following series: Dynasty (as police sergeant John Zorelli), The Practice (as Detective Michael McGuire) and The Sopranos (as ...
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Chi McBride
Kenneth "Chi" (pronounced "shy") McBride (born September 23, 1961) is an American actor. He starred as Steven Harper on the series Boston Public, as Emerson Cod on Pushing Daisies, and recently appeared in Fox's drama Human Target.
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Carter Jenkins
Carter Mark Jenkins (born September 4, 1991) is an American actor.
Jenkins began performing in community theatre, and then on local and national commercials. He has starred in television shows such as Surface, Viva Laughlin, CSI: Miami, House, CSI:...
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Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph (born December 30, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and activist.
Raised between Mandeville, Jamaica, and Long Island, New York, Sheryl Lee Ralph was born in Waterbury, Connecticut to an African American father and a Jamaican...
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Patrick Bauchau
Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor.
Bauchau was born in Brussels, the son of Mary (née Kozyrev), a Russian-born school administrator and publisher, and Henry Bauchau, a school administrator,...
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Michelle Trachtenberg
Michelle Christine Trachtenberg (born October 11, 1985) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Dawn Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2000–03) and as Georgina Sparks in Gossip Girl (2008–present). She...
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John Kapelos
John Kapelos (born March 8, 1956) is a Canadian actor from London, Ontario. He is best known for his portrayals of janitor Carl Reed in The Breakfast Club and Detective Donald Schanke in Forever Knight.
An alumnus of The Second City, Chicago, John...
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Anne Dudek
Anne Louise Dudek (born March 22, 1975; Boston, Massachusetts) is an American actress, known for her role as Dr. Amber Volakis on the television show House and her leading role on UK television series The Book Group as well as playing Francine...
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Michael Michele
Michael Michele (born August 30, 1966) is an American film and television actress. She played Dr. Cleo Finch on the medical drama ER and Det. Rene Sheppard on the police procedural Homicide: Life on the Street. Her films include the Academy Award...
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Andre Braugher
Andre Braugher (born July 1, 1962) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Thomas Searles in the film Glory, as the fiery detective Frank Pembleton on Homicide: Life on the Street from 1993 to 1998 and again in the 2000 made...
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Carla Gallo
Carla Gallo (born June 24, 1975) is an American actress notable for roles in the television series Undeclared, Carnivàle, and Bones, and in the indie film Spanking the Monkey.
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Harry J. Lennix
Harry Joseph Lennix III (born November 16, 1964) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Terrence "Dresser" Williams in the Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats and as "Boyd Langton" in the Joss Whedon television show Dollhouse....
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Andy Milder
Andy Milder (born August 16, 1968) is an American actor and voice actor. He has appeared in such films as Apollo 13, Armageddon, Rumor Has It…, Frost/Nixon, Transformers and Domino. He was a Series Regular on Fame L.A and Weeds, and appeared on such...
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Lindsey McKeon
Lindsey Johnson McKeon (born March 11, 1982 in Summit, New Jersey) is a two-time Daytime Emmy-nominated American actress, and distant relative of Australian celebrity, Harry McKeon. She is best known for her roles as Marah Lewis on Guiding Light and...
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Thomas Mikal Ford
Thomas Mikal Ford (born June 15, 1962), known and credited also as Tommy Ford, is an American actor who is best known for his character Tommy Strawn in the sitcom Martin. He was born in Yonkers, New York.
In Martin, Ford played Tommy Strawn who was,...
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Joe Morton
Joseph Thomas "Joe" Morton, Jr. (born October 18, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor.
Morton was born in The Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York. He is the son of Evelyn, a secretary, and Joseph Thomas Morton, Sr., a U.S....
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Wendy Makkena
Wendy Makkena (born October 4, 1958) is an American actress.
Born in New York City, Makkena started her acting career in 1986 and appeared in the TV show Santa Barbara. She later landed her first movie role in Eight Men Out. She has made various...
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Abbey McBride
Abbey DiGregorio (née McBride) is an American voice actress who is best known for portraying the voice of Ling-Ling on Drawn Together. She is a member of the sketch comedy group The Mechanicals. She also appears in Richard Kelly's film Southland...
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Peter Graves
Peter Aurness (March 18, 1926 – March 14, 2010), known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973. His elder...
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Hedy Burress
Hedy Burress (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress.
She was born Heather Elizabeth Burress in Edwardsville, Illinois, to teacher parents. She attended Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, before relocating to Los Angeles, California, in...
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Katherine La Nasa
Katherine LaNasa (born December 1, 1966) is an American actress, who originally trained as a ballet dancer.
She has appeared in guest roles on numerous television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, Justice, Two and a Half Men, and...
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Jon Seda
Jonathan Seda (born October 14, 1970) is an American actor, possibly best known for his role as Detective Paul Falsone on NBC's: Homicide: Life on the Street.
Seda was an amateur boxer who in 1992, auditioned for and was given a role in the film...
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Michael Dietz
Michael Dietz (born February 10, 1971) is an American actor and producer who is best known for the roles of Dr. Mark MacClaine on CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful and Joe Scanlon on Port Charles.
Prior to joining the cast of B&B; in 2002...
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Keone Young
Keone J. Young (born September 6, 1947) is an American character actor. His father is Chinese and his mother is Japanese.
He has been prolific in his character work and has made numerous guest appearances on such varied television series as Diff...
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Anne Ramsay
Anne Elizabeth Ramsay (born September 11, 1960) is an American actress best known for her role as Lisa Stemple on Mad About You, for which she shared a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Best Ensemble in a Comedy series.
Ramsay was born in Los...
