TV Actor

Dawn Elberta Wells (born October 18, 1938, in Reno, Nevada) is an American actress, best known for her television work in the 1960s, particularly her role as Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom Gilligan's Island, which first ran on CBS from 1964-1967, and has been...

Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role as "movie star" Ginger Grant on the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. She was born in New York City, an only child, and attended the Miami University of Ohio in...

Natalie Schafer ( – ) was an America actress. Born to a Jew family in Red Bank, New Jersey, Schafer began her career as an actress on Broadway before moving to Los Angeles in 1941 to work in films. She played several supporting roles during the 1940s (such as a "Mrs....

James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913—July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III, of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a...

Russell David Johnson (born November 10, 1924, in Ashley, Pennsylvania), is an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island. He is a graduate of Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia...

Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver (January 9 1935 – September 2 2005) was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island. Prior to Gilligan's Island, he took on the role of Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik on the 1959...

Mathew St. Patrick (born March 17, 1968) is an American actor. He has starred in the television soap opera All My Children (1998-2000), starred (2001-2005) as Keith Charles on HBO drama Six Feet Under, was the first voice of Skulker (2004) on Danny Phantom and starred...

Rachel Anne Griffiths born on 18 December 1968) is an Australian Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated film and television actress known primarily for her roles in movies, soap opera, and television. She is perhaps best known for her...

Freddy Rodriguez (born January 17, 1975) is a Puerto Rican American actor known for playing sensitive Hector Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's Six Feet Under and El Wray in the 2007 movie Planet Terror. Currently, he is a regular cast member on the series Ugly Betty. ...

Lauren Ambrose (born Laura Anne D'Ambruoso, 20 February 1978) is an American film and television actress, best known for portraying the character Claire Fisher on the popular HBO drama Six Feet Under. Ambrose was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Italian descent on...

Frances Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe and SAG Award-winning American actress. Conroy was born in Monroe, Georgia to a business executive father and a mother who also worked in business. Conroy studied drama at the Neighborhood...

Michael Carlisle Hall (born February 1 1971) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, best known for his roles as David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and the title character of the Showtime series Dexter. Born in Raleigh, North...

Peter Krause (; born Peter William Krause, August 12 1965) is a Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American film and television actor and film producer. He is perhaps best known for his lead roles as Nate Fisher on the popular...

Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American comedian and actor known for his portrayal of the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television series Seinfeld, a role which earned him three Emmy Award. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first...

Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and SAG Award-winning actress and comedienne who gained popularity playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. She currently stars in the...

Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an award-winning American television, cinema and musical theatre comedic actor, perhaps best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series Seinfeld. Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark,...

Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born on April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. He is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in...

Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Lorelai Gilmore on the long-running television series Gilmore Girls. Graham, an Irish American, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Donna Grant, a fashion buyer, and...

Kimberly Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is known for her role in the television series Gilmore Girls, as well as the film Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She goes by...

Melissa McCarthy (born on August 26, 1970) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls. McCarthy, a cousin of actress Jenny McCarthy, was born in Plainfield, Illinois. Her career started with stand-up...

Christine Keiko Agena (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. She is known professionally as Keiko Agena. Keiko Agena (pronounced KAY-koh ah-GE-nah) was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is Japanese American. She began theatre acting at the age of ten. Agena has...

Elizabeth "Liz" Torres (born on September 27, 1947) is an actress, singer, and comedian of Puerto Rican descent. Torres' was born in the Bronx section of New York City) where her parents had settled after moving from Puerto Rico. There she received her primary and...

Yanic Truesdale, born on March 17, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in the TV series Gilmore Girls, a role that prompted Daily Variety to name him one of "10 Actors to Watch". Truesdale holds dual...

Scott Gordon Patterson (born September 11 1958) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Luke Danes in Gilmore Girls and Agent Strahm in Saw IV. Patterson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hope and Frank Patterson, an advertising executive;...

Kelly Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress. Bishop was born Carole Bishop in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the daughter of Jane Lenore (née Wahtola) and Lawrence Boden Bishop. She grew up in Denver, Colorado, where she trained to be a ballet dancer,...

Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943) is an American television and film actor. Herrmann was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Jean Eleanor (née O'Connor) and John Anthony Herrmann. He has German ancestry on his father's side. Herrmann grew up in Grosse Pointe...

Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. She was raised in Eustis, Florida. Two of her most high-profile roles were as Wade Welles in the science fiction series Sliders, and as Natalie Hurley in the ABC...

Joshua Charles (born September 15, 1971) is an American stage, film and television actor. Charles was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Allan Charles, an advertising executive, and Laura, a gossip columnist for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. Charles began his career...

Felicity Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. She is well known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC hit show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award. A year later, her role as a...

Robert Guillaume (born November 30, 1927) is an Emmy and Grammy Award- winning American stage and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV series Soap and the spin-off Benson, and voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and...