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x Dawn Wells Gilligan's Island Mary Ann Summers  
Dawn Elberta Wells (born October 18, 1938, in Reno, Nevada) is an American actress best known for playing Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom Gilligan's Island from 1964 until 1967. Wells attended Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, where she majored...
Gilligan's Planet    
x Tina Louise Ginger Grant as portrayed by Tina Louise Gilligan's Island Ginger Grant  
Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is the stage name of Tatiana Blacker, an American model, singer and actress. She is known for her role as "movie star" Ginger Grant on the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. Louise was born Tatiana Josivovna Chernova...
x Natalie Schafer Natalie Schafer in Dishonored Lady Gilligan's Island Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell  
Natalie Schafer (November 5, 1900(1900-11-05) – April 10, 1991) was an American actress. Born to a Jewish 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...
Gilligan's Planet    
The New Adventures Of Gilligan    
x Jim Backus Gilligan's Island Thurston J. Howell III  
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,...
Gilligan's Planet    
The New Adventures Of Gilligan    
I Married Joan    
Blondie    
x Russell Johnson Russell Johnson as The Professor on Gilligan's Island Gilligan's Island The Professor  
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...
Gilligan's Planet    
The New Adventures Of Gilligan    
Black Saddle    
x Bob Denver Denver Gilligan's Island Gilligan  
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 played Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik, on...
Far Out Space Nuts    
The Good Guys    
Dusty's Trail    
Gilligan's Planet    
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x Mathew St. Patrick Mathew St. Patrick as Keith Charles Six Feet Under Keith Charles  
Mathew St. Patrick (born March 17, 1968) is an American actor. He has starred as Adrian Sword 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 ...
Reunion    
x Rachel Griffiths Rachel Griffiths as Brenda Chenowith Six Feet Under Brenda Chenowith  
Rachel Anne Griffiths (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian film and television actress known primarily for her roles in films and television. Among her many notable roles, she is best known for her portrayal of Brenda Chenowith in the TV series...
Brothers & Sisters    
x Freddy Rodriguez Freddy Rodriguez by David Shankbone Ugly Betty Gio  
Freddy Rodriguez (born January 17, 1975) is an American actor known for playing the characters Hector Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's Six Feet Under and El Wray in Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. Recently, he was a recurring cast member on the...
Six Feet Under Federico Diaz  
Teen Titans    
Oh, Grow Up    
x Lauren Ambrose Lauren Ambrose Six Feet Under Claire Fisher  
Lauren Ambrose (born February 20, 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 Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso in New Haven, Connecticut, the...
The Return of Jezebel James    
x Frances Conroy Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher in Six Feet Under Six Feet Under Ruth Fisher  
Frances Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an 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 Playhouse and the Juilliard School...
x Michael C. Hall Michael C. Hall as David Fisher in Six Feet Under Six Feet Under David Fisher  
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 Dexter Morgan of the Showtime series Dexter. Michael C....
Dexter Dexter Morgan  
x Peter Krause Peter Krause as Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under Six Feet Under Nate Fisher  
Peter William Krause (pronounced /ˈkraʊzə/; born August 12, 1965) is an 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...
Sports Night Casey McCall  
Dirty Sexy Money    
The Lost Room    
x Michael Richards Seinfeld Cosmo Kramer  
Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his portrayal of the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on Seinfeld. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first stepping into a national spotlight when...
Fridays    
The Michael Richards Show    
Marblehead Manor    
x Julia Louis-Dreyfus Seinfeld Elaine Benes  
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian best known for her roles as Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and as Christine Campbell on the current CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old...
Watching Ellie    
The New Adventures of Old Christine    
Day by Day    
x Jason Alexander Seinfeld George Costanza  
Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an American actor, comedian and singer, best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld. Alexander was born Jason Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Ruth Minnie...
Bob Patterson    
Duckman    
Everything's Relative    
x Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld  
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American comedian, actor and writer, whose style is often described as observational comedy. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the situation comedy, Seinfeld...
Benson    
x Lauren Graham Gilmore Girls Lorelai Gilmore  
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress, best known for her starring role as Lorelai Gilmore on the WB Network dramedy series Gilmore Girls. Graham, an Irish American, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Donna...
Lush Life    
NewsRadio    
Townies Denise Garibaldi Callahan  
Celebrity Poker Showdown    
x Alexis Bledel Alexis Bledel 2008 Gilmore Girls Rory Gilmore  
Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American actress and fashion model. She is most widely known for her role as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls. Kimberly Alexis Bledel was born in Houston, Texas. Her mother, Lupe, is...
x Melissa McCarthy   Gilmore Girls Sookie St. James  
Melissa McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls. She currently plays the role of Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who? McCarthy, a cousin of actress...
Samantha Who?   Samantha Who? (Season 1)
Samantha Who? (Season 2)
x Keiko Agena Gilmore Girls Lane Kim  
Christine Keiko Agena (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. She is known professionally as Keiko Agena. Agena was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is Japanese American. She began acting at the age of 10. She has attended Mid-Pacific Institute...
x Liz Torres Liz Torres Gilmore Girls Miss Patty  
Elizabeth "Liz" Torres (born September 27, 1947) is an actress, singer and comedienne of Puerto Rican descent. Torres was born in the Bronx borough of New York City where her parents had settled after moving from Puerto Rico. There she received her...
The New Odd Couple    
The John Larroquette Show    
City    
x Yanic Truesdale Gilmore Girls Michel Gerard  
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"....
x Scott Patterson Luke Danes (as played by Scott Patterson) Gilmore Girls Luke Danes  
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 and Saw V. Patterson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hope, a homemaker, and...
Aliens in America    
x Kelly Bishop   Gilmore Girls Emily Gilmore  
Carole “Kelly” Bishop (born February 28, 1944) is an American actress, who may be best-known for her role as matriarch Emily Gilmore on the series Gilmore Girls. Bishop was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Jane Lenore (née Wahtola, of Finnish...
x Edward Herrmann   Gilmore Girls Richard Gilmore  
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...
The Practice    
St. Elsewhere    
History's Lost & Found    
Eleanor and Franklin    
x Sabrina Lloyd Sliders Wade Welles  
Sabrina Lloyd (born November 20, 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American film and television actress. She has played the roles of Wade Welles in the science fiction series Sliders, and Natalie Hurley in the ABC sitcom Sports Night. Sabrina Lloyd...
Sports Night Natalie Hurley  
Ed    
Madigan Men    
x Josh Charles Joshcharles.jpg Sports Night Dan Rydell  
Joshua Aaron 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 and has...
Stella    
Six Degrees    
In Treatment    
The Good Wife    
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x Felicity Huffman Felicity Desperate Housewives Lynette Scavo  
Felicity Kendall Huffman (born December 9, 1962) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Lynette Scavo, the hectic busy Super-Mom on the ABC show Desperate Housewives, which earned her an Emmy Award. A year later, her role as a...
Sports Night Dana Whitaker  
x Robert Guillaume Robert Guillaume in 1980 Benson Benson DuBois  
Robert "Bob" Guillaume (born November 30, 1927) is an American stage and television actor, best known for his role as Benson Du Bois on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King, as Isaac Jaffe on...
Soap Benson DuBois  
Sports Night Isaac Jaffe  
Pacific Station    
Fish Police    
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x Joshua Malina Joshua Malina as Will Bailey on The West Wing Sports Night Jeremy Goodwin  
Joshua Charles Malina (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. Malina was born and raised in New Rochelle,...
The West Wing Will Bailey  
Big Shots    
Celebrity Poker Showdown    
x Kristen Bell Kristen Bell-D Gossip Girl Gossip Girl  
Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. Although her first film role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky...
Heroes    
Veronica Mars Veronica Mars Veronica Mars Season 1
Heroes Elle Bishop Veronica Mars Season 2
Veronica Mars Season 3
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x Jason Dohring Veronica Mars Logan Echolls Veronica Mars Season 1
Jason William Dohring (born March 30, 1982) is an American actor who is perhaps best known for the role of Logan Echolls on the television show Veronica Mars. Dohring was born in Toledo, Ohio, the son of former Neopets chairman Doug Dohring and wife...
Moonlight   Veronica Mars Season 2
100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd   Veronica Mars Season 3
Body Politic    
 
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x Percy Daggs III   Veronica Mars Wallace Fennel Veronica Mars Season 1
Percy Daggs III (born July 20, 1982) is an American actor best known for his role as Wallace Fennel in the Rob Thomas television series Veronica Mars. He is also known for starring in a television commercials for Hot Pockets and Orbit Gum. He has...
Veronica Mars Season 2
Veronica Mars Season 3
x Enrico Colantoni Colantoni Veronica Mars Keith Mars Veronica Mars Season 1
Enrico "Rico" Colantoni (born February 14, 1963) is a Canadian actor, probably best known for portraying Elliot DiMauro in the sitcom Just Shoot Me!, and Keith Mars on the television series Veronica Mars. He has also had supporting roles in such...
Just Shoot Me!   Veronica Mars Season 2
Sniper   Veronica Mars Season 3
Flashpoint    
 
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x Francis Capra Francis Capra as Eli "Weevil" Navarro Veronica Mars Eli "Weevil" Navarro Veronica Mars Season 1
Francis Capra (born April 22, 1983) is an American actor. He's perhaps best known for the roles of Max Connor in Kazaam and Eli "Weevil" Navarro in the TV series Veronica Mars. Capra was born in the Bronx, New York City, New York, and is of Italian...
Veronica Mars Season 2
Veronica Mars Season 3
x Ed Begley, Jr. Ed Begley Six Feet Under    
Edward James Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor, game show panelist and environmentalist. Begley is perhaps best known for his role as Dr. Mark Craig's intern, Dr. Victor Ehrlich on the television series St. Elsewhere, for...
St. Elsewhere    
Kingdom Hospital    
Battlestar Galactica    
Roll Out    
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x Matt Czuchry   Gilmore Girls Logan Huntzberger Gilmore Girls Season 6
Matthew Charles Czuchry (pronounced /ˈzʊkri/; born May 20, 1977) is an American actor. Czuchry was born in Manchester, New Hampshire and grew up in Johnson City, Tennessee. His father, Andy, is a professor at East Tennessee State University and his...
The Good Wife   Gilmore Girls Season 7
 
x Christina Hendricks Christina Hendricks.jpg Mad Men Joan Holloway  
Christina Hendricks (born May 3, 1975) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Joan Holloway in the AMC cable television series Mad Men, and as Saffron in Fox's short lived series Firefly. Hendricks was born in Knoxville,...
Kevin Hill    
Firefly Saffron Firefly Season 1
x Nathan Fillion Firefly Malcolm Reynolds Firefly Season 1
Nathan Fillion (born March 27, 1971) is a Canadian actor known for his lead role as Captain Malcolm Reynolds in the television series Firefly and its film continuation, Serenity, his role as Joey Buchanan in One Life to Live and his current lead...
Drive    
Two Guys and a Girl    
Miss Match    
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog Captain Hammer Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog Acts 1, 2, & 3
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x Gina Torres   Firefly Zoë Washburne Firefly Season 1
Gina Torres (born April 25, 1969) is an American television and movie actress. She is known for her roles in science fiction and fantasy. She has appeared in many television series, including MADtv, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (as Nebula), Xena...
Standoff    
Cleopatra 2525    
Angel Jasmine Angel Season 4
x Alan Tudyk Alan Tudyk 2 Firefly Hoban Washburne Firefly Season 1
Alan Wray Tudyk (born March 16, 1971) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Simon in the black comedy Death at a Funeral, as Steve the Pirate in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, as Sonny in the Sci-Fi Drama I, Robot, and as Hoban "Wash...
x Morena Baccarin Morena Baccarin 2005 flanvention 1 Firefly Inara Serra Firefly Season 1
Morena Baccarin (born June 2, 1979) is an actress best known for her roles as Inara Serra in the sci-fi television series Firefly, and as Adria in Stargate SG-1. Morena was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her mother is Brazilian stage and TV actress...
Stargate SG-1 Adria  
Heartland    
x Adam Baldwin Adam Baldwin close Firefly Jayne Cobb Firefly Season 1
Adam Baldwin (born February 27, 1962) is an American actor, not related to the Baldwin brothers. He is known for his roles as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket, Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard, Knowle Rohrer in The X-Files, and...
Men in Black: The Series    
The Inside    
The Cape    
Day Break    
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x Jewel Staite Firefly Kaylee Frye Firefly Season 1
Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982) is a Canadian actress, who portrayed Kaylee Frye in Firefly and Serenity, and Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis. Staite was born in White Rock, British Columbia. The youngest of seven children, she...
Stargate Atlantis Jennifer Keller Stargate Atlantis Season 5
Space Cases    
Just Deal    
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show    
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x Sean Maher Sean Maher at 2005 flanvention 1 Firefly Simon Tam Firefly Season 1
Sean Maher (born April 16, 1975 in Pleasantville, New York) is an American actor, best known for his role as Simon Tam in the short-lived science fiction television series Firefly. Graduating from Byram Hills High School, Maher trained at New York...
The $treet    
x Summer Glau Firefly River Tam Firefly Season 1
Summer Lyn Glau (born July 24, 1981) is an American dancer and actress, known for playing River Tam in the short-lived science fiction series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor...
The 4400 Tess Doerner  
The Unit    
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Cameron Phillips  
x Ron Glass Ron Glass Serenity premiere 1 Firefly Derrial Book Firefly Season 1
Ron Glass (born July 10, 1945) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as the witty Detective Ron Harris in the television sitcom Barney Miller (1975-1982), and as the spiritual Shepherd Derrial Book in the science fiction series Firefly and...
Barney Miller    
Teen Angel    
The New Odd Couple Felix Unger  
The Odd Couple    
x Tonea Stewart   In the Heat of the Night Aunt Etta Kibbe  
Dr. Tonea Stewart (born February 3, 1947) is an American actress and University Professor best known for her role as Aunt Etta on the television series In the Heat of the Night. Stewart was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, the daughter of Hattie...
x William Conrad Jake and the Fatman Jason McCabe  
William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994) was an American film and television director and an actor and narrator in radio, film, and television known for his baritone voice, as well as his sizable girth. Conrad was born William Cann in...
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century    
Cannon    
Nero Wolfe    
Manimal    
x Joe Penny Joe Penny 1 Jake and the Fatman Jake Styles  
Joe Penny (born June 24, 1956, in London, England) is an actor. He is known for his role as Nick Ryder in the detective series Riptide from 1984 to 1986 and for his role as Jake Styles in William Conrad's CBS television series Jake and the Fatman...
Riptide    
x Julie Sommars   Matlock Julie March    
x Kyra Sedgwick kyra_sedgwick2.jpg The Closer Brenda Leigh Johnson  
Kyra Minturn Sedgwick (born August 19, 1965) is an American actress. In 2007, Sedgwick won Best Actress for lead role in a dramatic TV series at the Golden Globes for her role in The Closer. Sedgwick was born in New York City, the daughter of...
Queens Supreme    
x Walt Kelly Pogo as drawn by Walt Kelly.  Copyright 1952, 2005 OGPI The Pogo Special Birthday Special Howland Owl  
Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913–October 18, 1973), known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Kelly was born in Philadelphia,...
The Pogo Special Birthday Special Albert Alligator  
The Pogo Special Birthday Special P. T. Bridgeport  
x Sarah Michelle Gellar Buffy the Vampire Slayer Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2
Sarah Michelle Prinze, (born April 14, 1977) better known by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar, is an Emmy Award Winning American actress. She is best known for her role as the character Buffy Summers in the television series Buffy the Vampire...
Swans Crossing   Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3
The Wonderful Maladys   Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 4
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 5
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6
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x Andy Griffith The Headmaster Andy Thompson  
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is an American actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-gospel singer, and writer. He gained prominence in the starring role in director Elia Kazan's epic film A Face in the Crowd (1957)...
Salvage 1 Harry Broderick  
The Andy Griffith Show Sheriff Andy Taylor  
Matlock Ben Matlock  
The New Andy Griffith Show    
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x Jason Bateman Bateman (background) in The Simpsons episode Home Away from Homer The Hogan Family    
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. After starring in several 1980s sitcoms, Bateman became known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development. Since the show's end, he has also appeared in...
Little House on the Prairie James Cooper Ingalls  
Silver Spoons    
The Jake Effect    
Arrested Development Michael Bluth  
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x Michael Cera Arrested Development George Michael Bluth  
Michael Austin Cera (pronounced /ˈsɛrə/; born June 7, 1988) is a BAFTA award-nominated Canadian actor. His roles have included George Michael Bluth in Arrested Development, Evan in Superbad, Paulie Bleeker in Juno and Nick in Nick and Norah's...
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!    
Clark and Michael    
Tom Goes to the Mayor    
Wayside    
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x Jeffrey Tambor Jeffrey Tambor at the 1991 Emmy Awards Arrested Development George Bluth Sr.  
Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor, perhaps most known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. on the television series Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show. Tambor was born in San Francisco,...
Arrested Development Oscar Bluth  
Hollywood Squares    
Twenty Good Years    
Three's Company    
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x Jessica Walter Arrested Development Lucille Bluth  
Jessica Walter (born January 31, 1941) is an American actress, known for the film Play Misty for Me and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. Walter was born to a Jewish household in Brooklyn, the daughter of Esther (née...
Dinosaurs    
Three's a Crowd    
Oh Baby    
Aaron's Way    
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