Talented people (in alphabetical order)

1. Liam Aiken

Actor | A Series of Unfortunate Events

Liam Pádraic Aiken was born January 7, 1990 in New York City, to Moya and Bill Aiken, an MTV producer. His mother was born in Ireland, while his father was an American of Irish descent. It was apparent from the beginning that Liam was a natural actor. After securing a small part on Broadway in the ...

2. Benjamin Evan Ainsworth

Actor | Everything's Going to Be Great

Benjamin is a British actor born September 25, 2008, who currently is shooting various film, TV and voice projects. In 2021, he completed filming the titular role of Pinocchio in the Disney live action remake alongside Tom Hanks. He starred in the acclaimed Netflix TV series The Haunting Of Bly ...

3. Jack Alcott

Actor | Dexter: New Blood

Jack Alcott was born on March 15, 1999 in Franklin, Tennessee, USA. He is an actor, known for Dexter: New Blood (2021), The Good Lord Bird (2020) and The Blacklist (2013).

4. John Patrick Amedori

Actor | Three Women

At a very young age, Amedori discovered he had the natural ability to learn and play music. This creative outlet quickly ignited his love for all things creative. Throughout his growing career, he has had the privilege to work with and learn from some of the smartest and brightest people in ...

5. Everett Andres

Actor | Lost Ollie

Everett is a critically acclaimed young actor who has spent much of his young life in the pursuit of athletic excellence with a particular focus on the six events in Men's gymnastics. As a carded athlete with the National Sport Institute, he most recently placed eighth all-round at the Canadian ...

6. Nonso Anozie

Actor | Cinderella

Nonso Anozie was born on November 17, 1978 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Cinderella (2015), Conan the Barbarian (2011) and Happy-Go-Lucky (2008).

7. David Arnold

Soundtrack | Casino Royale

David Arnold was born on January 23, 1962 in Luton, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Casino Royale (2006), Independence Day (1996) and Godzilla (1998). He has been married to Ellie Pole since June 8, 1996. They have three children.

8. Rowan Atkinson

Actor | Johnny English

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January, 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His father owned a farm, where Rowan grew up with his two older brothers, Rupert and Rodney. He attended Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees ...

9. Jake T. Austin

Actor | Wizards of Waverly Place

Jake T. Austin was born Jake Austin Szymanski in New York City, to Giny Rodriguez Toranzo and Joe Szymanski. His middle initial is taken from his mother's name Toranzo. He has a younger sister, Ava. His father has Polish, English, and Irish ancestry, and his mother is of Puerto Rican, Argentinian, ...

10. Kevin Bacon

Actor | Footloose

Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.

Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. ...

11. Eli Baker

Actor | Growing Up Fisher

Eli Baker is known for Growing Up Fisher (2014), Tiny Actions (2014) and AfterBuzz TV's Spotlight On (2014).

12. Elizabeth Banks

Actress | The Hunger Games

Elizabeth Banks was born Elizabeth Mitchell in Pittsfield, a small city in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts near the New York border, on February 10, 1974. She is the daughter of Anne Marie (Wallace), who worked in a bank, and Mark Phineas Mitchell, a factory worker. Elizabeth describes ...

13. Monica Barbaro

Actress | Top Gun: Maverick

Monica Barbaro was born in San Francisco and raised in Mill Valley, Calif. She is classically trained in ballet and has studied modern dance, salsa, flamenco and West African dance. She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she took her first acting classes while getting her...

14. Brigitte Bardot

Actress | Le mépris

Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was ...

15. James Baskett

Actor | Song of the South

James Baskett was born on February 16, 1904 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA as James Franklin Baskett. He was an actor, known for Song of the South (1946), Revenge of the Zombies (1943) and Policy Man (1938). He was married to Margaret. He died on July 9, 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

16. Annalise Basso

Actress | Captain Fantastic

Annalise Nicole Basso is an American film and television actress, writer, and producer. Her older siblings, Alexandria Basso and Gabriel Basso, are also actors. She has starred in the films The Life of Chuck, Oculus (2013), Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016), and Bedtime Stories (2008). In 2016, her film ...

17. Gabriel Basso

Actor | Super 8

Gabriel Basso was born on December 11, 1994 in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an actor, known for Super 8 (2011), The Kings of Summer (2013) and Hillbilly Elegy (2020).

18. Kathy Bates

Actress | Misery

Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates...

19. Lyova Beckwitt

Actor | Timeless

Lyova Beckwitt was born in 1999 and started his acting career at age 8. He worked in several films and national commercials with the most recent work including Project MC2, Travelers, and Timeless.

Lyova is currently studying cognitive science and biology at the University of Toronto. In his free ...

20. Emily Beecham

Actress | Daphne

Emily Beecham was born on May 12, 1984 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Daphne (2017), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Pursuit of Love (2021).

21. Ludwig van Beethoven

Soundtrack | Elysium

Beethoven was the child of a Flamian musician family and became a member of the electoral orchestra of Bonn in 1783. In 1787 he studied at Mozart's in Vienna and in 1792 he moved all to Vienna becoming a student of Joseph Haydn. The Vienna High Society loved him as a piano player as well as as ...

22. Jimmy Bennett

Actor | Star Trek

James 'Jimmy' Bennett was born on February 9, 1996 in Seal Beach, California. He has appeared in guest starring roles on The Guardian (2001), Judging Amy (1999), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000) and recently Everwood (2002), and has been cast in some of the most successful productions in that ...

23. Jonah Beres

Actor | PEN15

Jonah Beres is known for PEN15 (2019), Balloon (2019) and Splitting Up Together (2018).

24. Nathan Blair

Actor | We Can Be Heroes

Nathan Blair is an American actor and filmmaker. He has written and directed seven short films and starred as Wild Card in the Robert Rodriguez hit Netflix feature, We Can Be Heroes as well as played roles in other television series. Nathan is also an award-winning stage performer having played the...

25. Rowan Blanchard

Actress | Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World

Rowan Blanchard is an American actress best known for her role as Riley in Girl Meets World (2014) which earned her Young Artist Award nominations. She has since had roles as Jackie Geary on the ABC Sitcom The Goldbergs (2013) and Alexandra Cavill in the TNT Series Snowpiercer (2020). Rowan's other...

26. Emily Blunt

Actress | Edge of Tomorrow

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and The Girl on the Train (2016), among many others.

Blunt was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of ...

27. Jonah Bobo

Actor | Zathura: A Space Adventure

Jonah Bobo was born on January 24, 1997 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011) and Disconnect (2012).

28. Humphrey Bogart

Actor | Casablanca

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...

29. Justin Bolsen

Self | Jeopardy!

30. Sam Borenzweig

Actor | The Present

Sam Borenzweig is known for The Present (2014), Stay Good (2004) and Late Bloomer (2004).

31. Dima Borodin

Self | Junior Eurovision Song Contest

32. Chadwick Boseman

Actor | Black Panther

Chadwick Boseman was an American actor. He is known for his portrayal of T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe from 2016 to 2019, particularly in Black Panther (2018), and for his starring roles as several pioneering Americans, Jackie Robinson in 42 (2013), James Brown in Get on...

33. Cameron Boyce

Actor | Mrs. Fletcher

Cameron Boyce was an American actor, with Afro-Caribbean and African-American descent. His paternal grandmother Jo Ann Allen was one of the "Clinton Twelve", the first African-Americans to attend an integrated high school in the Southern United States (specifically in Clinton, Tennessee).

In 1999, ...

34. Cayden Boyd

Actor | The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl 3-D

Cayden Boyd landed his first roles, small television roles and commercials, as young as 6 and 7. He played Tim Robbins' son (Michael Boyle) in Mystic River. In 2004, he was cast in the starring role of Max in the 2005 film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl. He played young Warren Worthington ...

35. Susan Boyle

Actress | Zoolander 2

Susan Boyle was born on April 1, 1961 in Blackburn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Zoolander 2 (2016), The Christmas Candle (2013) and Million Dollar Arm (2014).

36. Ray Bradbury

Writer | The Ray Bradbury Theater

Ray Bradbury was an American science fiction writer whose works were translated in more than 40 languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Although he created a world of new technical and intellectual ideas, he never obtained a driver's license and had never driven an automobile.

He was...

37. David Bradley

Actor | Kes

David Bradley was born on September 27, 1953 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Kes (1969), Zulu Dawn (1979) and Redemption (2013).

38. Jonathan Brandis

Actor | The Neverending Story II: The Next Chapter

Born in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, to Greg and Mary, Jonathan Brandis began his career at age 5, acting in several television commercials. He also appeared in small parts in several films and TV shows before his first starring role in the 1990 film The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). ...

39. Arcadian Broad

Actor | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Arcadian Broad was born on February 27, 1996. He is an actor, known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), Tall Girl 2 (2022) and Last Dance (2017).

40. Vlastimil Brodský

Actor | Jakob der Lügner

Vlastimil Brodský was born on December 15, 1920 in Hrusov, Ostrava, Czechoslovakia. He was an actor and writer, known for Jacob the Liar (1974), Babí léto (2001) and Noc na Karlstejne (1974). He was married to Jana Brejchová and Bozena Brodská. He died on April 20, 2002 in Slunecna, ...

41. Albert R. Broccoli

Producer | Moonraker

Albert Romolo Broccoli was born in Astoria, Queens (New York City) on April 5th, 1909. His mother and father, Cristina and Giovanni Broccoli, raised young Albert in New York on the family farm. The family was in the vegetable business, and Albert claimed one of his uncles brought the first broccoli...

42. Tom Brokaw

Self | NBC Nightly News

Tom Brokaw was born on February 6, 1940 in Webster, South Dakota, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970), Dateline NBC (1992) and Toots (2006). He has been married to Meredith Lynn Auld since August 17, 1962. They have four children.

43. Maas Bronkhuyzen

Actor | De groeten van Mike!

Maas Bronkhuyzen was born on February 26, 2001 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is an actor, known for Mike Says Goodbye! (2012), Dolfje Weerwolfje (2011) and Bellicher (2010).

44. Pierce Brosnan

Actor | Mamma Mia!

Pierce Brendan Brosnan was born in Drogheda, County Louth, Ireland, to May (Smith), a nurse, and Thomas Brosnan, a carpenter. He lived in Navan, County Meath, until he moved to England, UK, at an early age (thus explaining his ability to play men from both backgrounds convincingly). His father left...

45. Millie Bobby Brown

Actress | Enola Holmes

Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February 2004) is an English actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Eleven in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things (2016), for which she earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series ...

46. Logan Riley Bruner

Actor | Stranger Things

Logan Riley Bruner was born on July 26, 1997 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Stranger Things (2016), The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017) and Vox Lux (2018).

47. Danny Bruno

Actor | Grimm: Bad Hair Day

Danny Bruno is known for Grimm: Bad Hair Day (2012), Leverage (2008) and Grimm (2011).

48. Vlasta Burian

Actor | Revizor

Vlasta Burian was born on April 9, 1891 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was an actor and director, known for The Inspector General (1933), Funebrák (1932) and Ulice zpívá (1939). He was married to Nina Cervenková-Burianová. He died on ...

49. Martin Burlas

Composer | Zázrak

Martin Burlas was born on October 23, 1955 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. Martin is a composer, known for Miracle (2013), Slovensko 2.0 (2014) and Hurá (1989).

50. Asa Butterfield

Actor | Hugo

Asa Butterfield was born in Islington, London, England, to Jacqueline Farr and Sam Butterfield. He began acting at the age of 8, after a talent spotting casting director saw him at his local after school drama club, The Young Actors Theatre in Islington. Following on from a couple of small roles in...

51. Noah Gray-Cabey

Actor | Lady in the Water

From the age of nine, Noah Gray-Cabey has established quite a name for himself, both as a musician and an actor.

Beginning when he was four, Noah performed classical piano in several venues throughout New England and Washington and journeyed to Jamaica for his first tour with the New England ...

52. Michael Caine

Actor | The Dark Knight

Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...

53. Alexander Calvert

Actor | Supernatural

Alexander Calvert was born on July 15, 1990 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Supernatural (2005), The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and Gen V (2023).

54. Owen Campbell

Actor | X

Owen Campbell was born on June 9, 1994 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for X (2022), Super Dark Times (2017) and As You Are (2016).

55. Michael Campion

Actor | Fuller House

Once Michael Campion discovered acting at his local community theater at the age of 6 yrs old, he was hooked on every aspect of acting. He is always happiest when he is performing. He was thrilled to work on the new Fuller House (2016) as "Jackson Fuller". He previously worked on Christmas Trade (...

56. Chandler Canterbury

Actor | Knowing

Chandler was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is the middle child of three with an older brother and a younger sister. Chandler has always resided full time in Houston and attends public school despite steadily working in the film industry.

Chandler began his film career playing a young version...

57. Karel Capek

Writer | R.U.R.

Karel Capek, born January 9, 1890, in Male Svatonovice, Austria-Hungary (today Czech Republic) was a writer, playwright, novelist, journalist, children's author, biographer, essayist, illustrator, photographer and translator. For most people he is best known for the science fiction play "R.U.R. (...

58. Nestor Carbonell

Actor | The Dark Knight

He is most often recognized for his integral role in the series "Lost" as Richard Alpert, as well as his turn as Mayor Anthony Garcia opposite Gary Oldman in Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight". He reprised his role as the Mayor in the box-office hit "The Dark Knight Rises".

Nestor can be seen ...

59. Orson Scott Card

Writer | Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card was born in Richland in the state of Washington. He has also lived in California, Arizona, and Utah. He is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a two year mission for The Church in Brazil. He received a degree from Brigham Young University in 1975 ...

60. Claudia Cardinale

Actress | C'era una volta il West

Like many other female Italian film stars, Claudia Cardinale's entry into the business was by way of a beauty pageant. She was 17 years old and studying at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome when she entered a beauty contest, which resulted in her getting a succession of small film roles. Her earthy ...

61. George Carlin

Actor | Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

George Denis Patrick Carlin was born and raised in Manhattan, New York City, to Mary (Bearey), a secretary, and Patrick John Carlin, an advertising manager for The Sun; they had met while working in marketing. His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. His parents ...

62. Miles Chandler

Actor | Emoticon ;)

Miles Chandler was born on August 13, 1993 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Emoticon ;) (2014), Six Degrees (2006) and The Education of Charlie Banks (2007).

63. Lance Chantiles-Wertz

Actor | Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

A triple threat performer, Lance has performed in principal roles on Broadway, Film, TV, with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, The New York City Ballet, and as a voice-over artist for TV and Radio advertisements.

Lance's opening night at The Met was on his 7th birthday in the role of "Dolore...

64. Dave Chappelle

Writer | Chappelle's Show

Dave Chappelle's career started while he was in high school at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC where he studied theatre arts. At the age of 14, he began performing stand-up comedy in nightclubs. Shortly after graduation, he moved to New York City where he quickly established ...

65. Osric Chau

Actor | 2012

Osric Chau was born in Vancouver, Canada, to a father from Hong Kong and a mother from Malaysia. He had spent years training martial arts with aspirations to work in stunts when he landed his first leading role alongside the late David Carradine in Kung Fu Killer (2008) that was shot in Hengdian, ...

66. Tanay Chheda

Actor | Slumdog Millionaire

Tanay Hemant Chheda is an Indian child actor. He is best known for his performances in the critically acclaimed films Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), with the latter earning him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a ...

67. Noam Chomsky

Triangle of Sadness

Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate and graduate years were spent at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his PhD in linguistics in 1955. From 1951-55, he was a Junior Fellow of the Harvard University Society of Fellows. While a ...

68. Claudia Christian

Actress | Babylon 5

Claudia Christian began her career on stage as a child in Connecticut. She booked her first television job as a teenager in the hugely popular series "Dallas" and never stopped working. She has been in dozens of films and hundreds of hours of TV. She became a sci-fi icon with her portrayal of "...

69. Matthew T. Clancy

Malice

Matthew T. Clancy is known for Malice (1993) and The Doctor (1991).

70. Barney Clark

Actor | Oliver Twist

Barney Clark was born on June 25, 1993 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Oliver Twist (2005), Savage Grace (2007) and The Brief (2004).

71. Spencer Treat Clark

Actor | Animal Kingdom

Spencer Treat Clark is from the New York City suburbs. He began acting at an early age, appearing in films like Gladiator and Unbreakable. He attended Columbia University in New York City where he studied political science and economics. His older sister, Eliza Clark, is a playwright and ...

72. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

73. Raphaël Coleman

Actor | Nanny McPhee

Raphaël Coleman was born on September 30, 1994 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Nanny McPhee (2005), The Fourth Kind (2009) and It's Alive (2009). He died on February 6, 2020 in England, UK.

74. Harry Collett

Actor | Dunkirk

Harry Collett was born on January 17, 2004 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Dunkirk (2017), House of the Dragon (2022) and Dolittle (2020).

75. Jennifer Connelly

Actress | A Beautiful Mind

Jennifer Connelly was born in the Catskill Mountains, New York, to Ilene (Schuman), a dealer of antiques, and Gerard Connelly, a clothing manufacturer. Her father had Irish and Norwegian ancestry, and her mother was from a Jewish immigrant family. Jennifer grew up in Brooklyn Heights, just across ...

76. Kit Connor

Actor | Heartstopper

Rising British actor, Kit Connor landed his first film role aged eight in the lead role of "Tom" in Warner Bros. Pictures' GET SANTA (2014).

Since then, he has had roles in THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY (2018), THE MERCY (2018) and SLAUGHTERHOUSE RULEZ (2018).

Most recently and ...

77. Joel Courtney

Actor | Jesus Revolution

Joel Courtney is an American actor, known for his starring roles in the Steven Spielberg blockbuster Super 8 (2011) and the Netflix hit The Kissing Booth (2018).

Joel was born into a Navy family in Monterey, California, and is the youngest of four children - an older sister and two older brothers. ...

78. Alan Cox

Actor | Young Sherlock Holmes

Alan Cox was born on August 6, 1970 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), The Dictator (2012) and The Auteur Theory (1999).

79. Giuseppe Cristiano

Actor | Io non ho paura

Giuseppe Cristiano was born on March 9, 1990. He is an actor and producer, known for I'm Not Scared (2003), Unica (2022) and As God Commands (2008).

80. Van Crosby

Actor | The Family Plan

Van Crosby was born on November 8, 2002 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He is an actor, known for The Family Plan (2023), Splitting Up Together (2018) and Criminal Minds (2005).

81. Alexis Cruz

Actor | Stargate

Alexis Cruz (SAG-AFTRA) is a veteran actor, and writer-director-producer. He starred in the title role in HBO's Emmy winning "P.O.W.E.R.: The Eddie Matos Story", in "The Old Man and the Sea" opposite Anthony Quinn, in Larry McMurtry's "The Streets of Laredo" with Sam Shepard and Sissy Spacek, as ...

82. Rory Culkin

Actor | Signs

Rory Culkin was born in New York City, New York. He is the youngest son of Kit Culkin, a former stage and child actor, and Patricia Brentrup. He is the brother of Shane Culkin, Dakota Culkin, Macaulay Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Quinn Culkin, and Christian Culkin. His mother, who is from North Dakota, ...

83. Colin Cunningham

Actor | Falling Skies

Actor-Director Colin Cunningham has been nominated for 3 GEMINI'S (Canada's Oscar) for 'Best Actor' and has been nominated for 11 'Best Actor' LEO AWARDS (Canada's Emmy) for which he won 3. As a Director, he made the 'short list' for an Academy Award Nomination in the Madison Graie produced, ...

84. Ethan Cutkosky

Actor | Shameless

Ethan began doing photo ads when he was four years old as a way for his mother and him to spend time together. After a few ads, he was asked to audition for commercials and then movies. He landed his first movie role acting with Vince Vaughn in Fred Claus (2007) when he was seven years old. At the ...

85. Michael Hall D'Addario

Actor | Sinister

Michael hails from Long Island, New York. While he started acting at age 6, music has always been Michael's first love. He has played drums since age 4 and started writing his own music and playing guitar around 12. Michael and his brother, Brian D'Addario, started a band at the ages of 6 and 8, ...

86. Willem Dafoe

Actor | Spider-Man

Having made over one hundred films in his legendary career, Willem Dafoe is internationally respected for bringing versatility, boldness, and daring to some of the most iconic films of our time. His artistic curiosity in exploring the human condition leads him to projects all over the world, large ...

87. Roald Dahl

Writer | The Witches

Dahl was born in Wales in 1916. He served as a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He made a forced landing in the Libyan Desert and was severely injured. As a result, he spent five months in a Royal Navy hospital in Alexandria. Dahl is noted for how he relates suspenseful and...

88. Salvador Dalí

Art_department | Spellbound

Surrealist-turned-catholic painter Dalí worked on various movies as well. While a member of the French surrealist group, he co-wrote Un chien andalou (1929) and The Golden Age (1930) with Luis Buñuel. The latter may have marked the beginning of a long-lasting quarrel with the surrealists when Dalí ...

89. Hugh Dancy

Actor | Hannibal

Talented British actor Hugh Dancy is one of the UK's most noted young talents.

Hugh Michael Horace Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, to Sarah Ann (Birley), who works in academic publishing, and Jonathan Peter Dancy, a philosophy professor and writer. He has a brother, Jack (b...

90. Jeff Daniels

Actor | The Squid and the Whale

Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and ...

91. Spencer Daniels

Actor | Star Trek

A native of Los Angeles, Spencer Daniels began acting professionally at the age of ten. Spencer has an all-American look, coupled with an intriguing blend of intensity and maturity.

Spencer is a talented athlete and musician. Spencer was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts at New York ...

92. Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick

Actor | The Omen

Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick was born on December 29, 1998 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for The Omen (2006), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and Everybody's Fine (2009).

93. Jaye Davidson

Actor | The Crying Game

Jaye was born in Riverside, California in 1968, the son of a Ghanaian father and English mother. The family left for England when Jaye was two and a half. Jaye left school at 16 and had been alternately unemployed and doing odd jobs (running for a production company, working in a factory) ever ...

94. Louis de Funès

Actor | Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob

Louis Germain David de Funès de Galarza was born on July 31, 1914, in Courbevoie, France. His father, named Carlos Luis de Funes de Galarza, was a former lawyer of Seville, Spain, who became a diamond cutter. His mother, named Leonor Soto Reguera, was of Spanish and Portugese extraction.

Young Louis...

95. Will Denton

Actor | Robots

Will Denton was born on February 4, 1990 in Brookfield, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor, known for Robots (2005), Cam (2018) and Fright Night (2011).

96. Johnny Depp

Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...

97. Susan Dey

Actress | The Partridge Family

Susan Dey was born on December 10, 1952 in Pekin, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Partridge Family (1970), L.A. Law (1986) and Skyjacked (1972). She has been married to Bernard Sofronski since February 20, 1988. She was previously married to Leonard Hirshan.

98. Frantisek Dibarbora

Actor | Ivanov

Frantisek Dibarbora was born on November 19, 1916 in Preßburg, Austria-Hungary [now Bratislava, Slovakia]. He was an actor and director, known for Ivanov (1964), Der Ochsenkrieg (1987) and Volpone (1969). He died on September 4, 1987 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].

99. Daveed Diggs

Actor | Hamilton

Daveed Daniele Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of, and won a Grammy and Tony for, the Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda.

100. Matt Doran

Actor | The Matrix

Born in Sydney in 1976, Matt Doran is an experienced film and television actor who had his first lead role in the film Pirates' Island at age 14.

After graduating from the Australian Film and TV Academy, he became a core cast member on Australia's most successful television show Home and Away.

He has...