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by faheemsamiki | created - 26 Apr 2019 | updated - 18 May 2020 | Public
1. Amber Heard
Actress | Aquaman
Amber Laura Heard was born in Austin, Texas, to Patricia Paige Heard (née Parsons), an internet researcher, and David C. Heard (David Clinton Heard), a contractor. She has English, Irish, Scottish, German, and Welsh ancestry.
Heard appeared in the Academy Award-nominated film, North Country (2005), ...
2. Sophia Forrest
Actress | Barons
Sophia Forrest is known for Barons (2022), Ride Like a Girl (2019) and Bali 2002 (2022).
3. Zazie Beetz
Actress | Atlanta
Zazie Beetz (born c. 1991) is a German-American actress known for the role of Vanessa on Atlanta (2016), as well as for starring in Deadpool 2 (2018), Joker (2019), and Nine Days (2020).
Born in Berlin to a German father and an African-American mother, Beetz was raised in New York speaking both ...
4. Gal Gadot
Actress | Wonder Woman
Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. She was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia who Hebraized their name from 'Greenstein' to sound less European). She served in the IDF for two years, and won the Miss Israel title in ...
5. Doutzen Kroes
Actress | Wonder Woman
Doutzen Kroes is a supermodel best known for her work as a Victoria's Secrets lingerie model. She appeared in eight Victoria's Secret Fashion shows from 2005 through 2014 and served as a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2008 to 2014. Kroes has been a brand ambassador for Miu Miu since 2013, L'Oreal ...
6. Jemma Moore
Actress | Flashback
Hong Kong born, British actor Jemma Moore stars in the award winning horror 'HOST' (Dir by. Rob Savage 2020). 'HOST' won FANGORIA's Golden Chainsaw Award for 'Best Streaming Premiere' and was nominated for multiple BIFA awards. It is 'Certified Fresh' on rotten tomatoes, one of Variety's top ten '...
7. Rekha Luther
Actress | Wonder Woman
Rekha Luther is a half Australian/Indian singer-songwriter, actress and writer.
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Rekha has lived and worked in Paris, New York, London and Los Angeles. Studying at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York, Rekha has performed in theatre, and in studio and Independent ...
8. Camilla Roholm
Actress | Wonder Woman
Camilla Roholm is known for Wonder Woman (2017), Cruella (2021) and Wonder Woman 1984 (2020).
9. Amy Adams
Actress | Arrival
Amy Lou Adams was born in Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, to American parents, Kathryn (Hicken) and Richard Kent Adams, a U.S. serviceman who was stationed at Caserma Ederle in Italy at the time. She was raised in a Mormon family of seven children in Castle Rock, Colorado, and has English, as well as ...
10. Lauren Cohan
Actress | The Boy
Lauren Cohan is a British-American actress and model, best known for her role as Maggie Greene on The Walking Dead (2010) and recurring roles on The Vampire Diaries (2009), Supernatural (2005), and Chuck (2007). After her film debut on Casanova (2005) as Sister Beatrice, she starred in the sequel ...
11. Antje Traue
Actress | Man of Steel
With a strong body of work in her native Germany, Antje broke out into the international marketplace in Zack Snyder's Superman retelling, "Man of Steel" as the villainess, "Faora". Other credits include Renny Harlin's "5 Days of August", Warner Brothers' "The Seventh Son", Simon Curtis's "The Woman...
12. Ayelet Zurer
Actress | Man of Steel
Ayelet Zurer is one of Israel's most acclaimed actresses. She was born in Tel Aviv, and first garnered the attention of Hollywood when she was cast by Steven Spielberg in her first English-speaking role, as Eric Bana's character's wife in the Oscar® nominated film Munich (2005). Since arriving in ...
13. Carla Gugino
Actress | Watchmen
Carla Gugino was born in Sarasota, Florida, to Carl Gugino, an orthodontist. She is of Italian (father) and English-Irish (mother) ancestry. Gugino moved with her mother to Paradise, California, when Carla was just five years old. During her childhood, they moved many times within the state. But ...
14. Jena Malone
Actress | The Neon Demon
Jena Malone was born in Reno, Nevada, raised in Sparks, Nevada; two cities that have merged together over time, to Deborah Malone and Edward Berge. Her grandfather owned a casino, Karl's Silver Club, in Reno. She was raised by her mother and her mother's partner. Beginning as a child actress, and ...
15. Malin Akerman
Actress | Watchmen
Malin was born in Stockholm, Sweden and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her mother, Pia (Sundström), is a model and aerobics instructor, and her father, Magnus Åkerman, is an insurance broker. They moved to Toronto when she was age 2. At age 5, she began appearing in TV commercials. Her parents divorced...
16. Leah Gibson
Actress | Jessica Jones
Leah Gibson is a Canadian/American award-winning film and TV actress, having worked on over fifty professional productions over the past 15 years. Both touted as leading-lady and established character actor, her diverse body of work encompasses TV series, mini-series, indie films and studio ...
17. Shantel VanSanten
Actress | The Final Destination
Shantel Yvonne VanSanten is an American model and actress, born July 25, 1985. As a model, she has been featured in the magazines Teen Vogue and Seventeen. VanSanten was born in Luverne, Minnesota. She is of Dutch and one quarter Norwegian descent. VanSanten was raised in Spring, Texas where she ...
18. Emily Bett Rickards
Actress | Arrow
Canadian actress Emily Bett Rickards was born on July 24, 1991. She attended film school after graduating high school, and also attended Alida Vocal Studio. She played "Felicity Smoak" on the CW network's Arrow (2012) and The Flash (2014), and appears in the upcoming, acclaimed feature film, ...
19. Katie Cassidy
Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Katie Cassidy was born Katherine Evelyn Anita Cassidy on November 25, 1986, in Los Angeles, California. Her father, David Cassidy, was a pop star in the 1970s. Her famous relatives include uncles Shaun Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy and Ryan Cassidy, the sons by her grandfather Jack Cassidy's marriage to ...
20. Willa Holland
Actress | Legion
Willa Joanna Chance Holland (born June 18, 1991) is an American actress, voice actress and model. She is known for her role as Kaitlin Cooper in the FOX teen drama The O.C., Agnes Andrews in The CW series Gossip Girl and, most recently, Thea Queen / Speedy in Arrow. Holland was born in Los Angeles,...
21. Juliana Harkavy
Actress | Last Shift
Juliana Harkavy is an American actress of Dominican, African, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Hungarian descent. Born on New Years Day in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, Harkavy has been appearing in theater, film, and television since the age of nine. Juliana was born to mother Berta Carela, an ...
22. Caity Lotz
Actress | The Machine
Caitlin Marie Lotz (born December 30, 1986) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. She is known for her roles as Stephanie Horton in Mad Men (2007), Officer Kirsten Landry in the MTV mockumentary series Death Valley (2011), as Annie in The Pact (2012), and as Sara Lance/White Canary in The ...
23. Katherine McNamara
Actress | Shadowhunters: The Mortal Instruments
Katherine McNamara, named one of Vanity Fair's "Breakout Bunch," is a sought after accomplished actor, dancer, singer/songwriter. She is most recently known as the titular lead role of "Abby Walker" in Walker: Independence (2022), the prequel to CW's Walker (2021). In 2023, Katherine was nominated ...
24. Melissa Benoist
Actress | Supergirl
Melissa Marie Benoist is an American actress, singer and dancer. She was raised in Littleton, Colorado , the daughter of Julie and Jim Benoist, a physician. She is of French, German, English, and Scottish descent. She started dance classes at the age of three and when she was four years old her ...
25. Minka Kelly
Actress | The Roommate
Minka Kelly was born in Los Angeles, California and she is the only child of former Aerosmith guitarist, Rick Dufay, and Maureen Kelly, an exotic dancer and single mother, who often moved with her daughter to different communities before settling in Albuquerque, New Mexico, by the time Minka was in...
26. Conor Leslie
Actress | The Man in the High Castle
American actress Conor Leslie began her career at age 15, acting in commercials and the unaired pilot for Spike Lee's M.O.N.Y. (2007). After graduating from Millburn High School as a junior, she landed her first television role in The Unusuals (2009) as a hallucination of a police detective's ...
27. Gabrielle Walsh
Actress | Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Gabrielle Walsh was born on May 10, 1989 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014).
28. Odette Annable
Actress | Cloverfield
Odette Annable was born Odette Juliette Yustman on 10 May, 1985, in Los Angeles, California. Her mother, Lydia (Nodarse), is Cuban. Odette's father, Victor Oscar Yustman, was born in Bogotá, Colombia, of Italian and Polish Jewish descent. Odette started her career with a minor role in the movie ...
29. Sarah Grey
Actress | Power Rangers
Sarah Grey is a Canadian actress. Grey was born in British Columbia, Canada. Grey has appeared on shows such as Almost Human (2013), and Bates Motel (2013) playing young Norma Bates. Her first film role came in 2013, when she landed the part of Jennifer Beals' daughter Julia, in the film ...
30. Kyra Zagorsky
Actress | The 100
Kyra Zagorsky was born in New York and raised in Colorado. She grew up an outdoors enthusiast, an athlete and a dancer. She received a BFA in theatre from Southern Oregon University in Ashland and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of California. Kyra played leading roles in...
31. Allison Paige
Actress | Dinner Party
Allison Paige is known for Dinner Party (2021), The Flash (2014) and Welcome to Sanditon (2013).
32. Laura Benanti
Actress | No Hard Feelings
Tony® Award-winner and five-time Tony® Award nominee Laura Benanti is a celebrated stage and screen actress. Benanti currently can be seen as Jane in Amy Schumer's Life & Beth.
Recently, Laura starred in HBO Max's Gossip Girl (2021) reboot and in Netflix's Worth (2020) starring opposite Michael ...
33. Peta Wilson
Actress | The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
With her distinctive voice, ultra-intense eyes and statuesque frame, Peta Wilson probably could have carried her breakout television show, "La Femme Nikita," on looks alone. Such was television in 1997. But when viewers realized that this killer- with-a-killer body could actually act, the show ...
34. Connie Nielsen
Actress | Gladiator
Connie Nielsen is set to begin production on Ridley Scott's "Gladiator 2," where she will star alongside Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, reprising her iconic role of 'Lucilla' from the Academy Award-winning film "Gladiator." She appears in Ava Duvernay's feature, "Origin," based on the book by ...
35. Diane Lane
Actress | Unfaithful
Diane Lane was born on January 22, 1965, in New York. She is the daughter of acting coach Burton Eugene "Burt" Lane and nightclub singer/centerfold Colleen Farrington. Her parents' families were both from the state of Georgia. Diane was acting from a very young age and made her stage debut at the ...
36. Grace Caroline Currey
Actress | Fall
Grace Caroline Currey was born on July 17, 1996 in the USA. She is an actress and director, known for Fall (2022), Shazam! (2019) and Annabelle: Creation (2017). She has been married to Branden Currey since June 26, 2022.
37. Michelle Borth
Actress | Shazam!
From action to drama and romantic comedies, Michelle Borth has become known in the entertainment industry through the charismatic and versatile characters she has brought to life on screen. In 2019 Borth can be seen starring in New Line Cinema's highly anticipated, DC Comic superhero film "Shazam" ...
38. Marta Milans
Actress | Shazam!
A charismatic and multi-lingual actress, Marta Milans has appeared across all genres in television, film and theater. She is most notably known for her role in the Warner Brothers/DC film "Shazam!," where she portrayed Rosa Vasquez, the foster mother of the title character. Milans stars in ...
39. Morena Baccarin
Actress | Deadpool
Morena Baccarin was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to actress Vera Setta and journalist Fernando Baccarin. Her uncle was actor Ivan Setta. She is of Italian as well as Lebanese and Portuguese/Brazilian descent. She moved to New York at the age of ten, when her father was transferred there. She ...
40. Abbi Snee
Actress | Person of Interest
Abbi Snee is known for Person of Interest (2011), Gotham (2014) and Black Trees and Blue Light.
41. Willa Fitzgerald
Actress | The Goldfinch
Willa Fitzgerald is an American actress, a native of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Fitzgerald graduated from the Harpeth Hall School, a private college-preparatory school for girls in Nashville in 2009, then received her BA in theater studies from Yale University in 2013. Her career in films...
42. Alaska L. McFadden
Actress | Loose Ends
Alaska L. McFadden is known for Loose Ends (2017), Don't Think About It (2016) and Gotham (2014).
43. Jessica Lucas
Actress | The Covenant
Jessica Lucas (born September 24th, 1985) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is known for her roles in television, such as Edgemont, Melrose Place (1992) and Cult, and in the films The Covenant (2006), Cloverfield (2008) and 2013's Evil Dead (2013). She also starred in the music video for ...
44. Natalie Alyn Lind
Actress | Big Sky
Natalie Alyn Lind, the oldest of the three Lind sisters, all working actresses, grew up surrounded by the entertainment industry. Her mother is also an actress who starred in feature films and on several TV series including the hit drama "One Tree Hill". Natalie booked her first guest role at 4 ...
45. Camren Bicondova
Actress | Gotham
Camren Renee Bicondova is an American actress and dancer from San Diego, California, who is best known for her role as Selina Kyle on the Fox television crime-drama, Gotham (2014).
Bicondova began dancing at the age of 6 and, after her family relocated to Hawaii, she studied at a local dance studio ...
46. Jamie Chung
Actress | Big Hero 6
Jamie Chung was born and raised in California, the daughter of Korean parents. She studied Economics at the University of California, Riverside. Chung's break came in 2004, when she was working in a sports bar. MTV held auditions for The Real World (1992) there, she tried out, and was successful, ...
47. Bianca Rutigliano
Actress | Gotham
Bianca Rutigliano is known for Gotham (2014), Benders (2015) and Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015).
48. Krista Braun
Actress | Middle Men
Krista Braun is known for Middle Men (2009), Gotham (2014) and The Middle (2009).
49. Julia Chan
Actress | Saving Hope
Julia Chan is a British actor who grew up between Hong Kong and the UK. She is a 2010 graduate of The New School for Drama in New York and has a BA degree in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University.
Julia played Dr. Maggie Lin on the long running hit Canadian medical drama "Saving ...
50. Melinda Clarke
Actress | Spawn
Melinda Clarke was born on April 24, 1969 in Dana Point, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Spawn (1997), The O.C. (2003) and Nikita (2010). She has been married to Adam Farmer since September 12, 2015. She was previously married to Ernie Mirich.
51. Kaley Ronayne
Actress | The Right Stuff
Kaley Ronayne is known for The Right Stuff (2020), Gotham (2014) and Quarry (2016).
52. Chelsea Spack
Actress | Dead to Me
Chelsea grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She was raised in a very creative home where an emphasis was placed on the arts. Her education focused on drama, Shakespeare, classical piano, and French. She received her bachelors degree in Theatre and French, and went on to get her MFA in acting from the ...
53. Aly Mang
Actress | Making a Scene with James Franco
Aly Mang is a Multi-Award-Winning Actress and Filmmaker, born in New York, NY on January 19th.
Her father, a Broadway and TV actor, was the catalyst for her love of theater and the arts; and at a young age, encouraged her formal training in drama and dance in New York City.
Throughout her youth, Aly ...
54. Maggie Geha
Actress | Ted 2
Maggie Geha was born on April 4, 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is an actress, known for Ted 2 (2015), Shoulder Dance (2023) and Winter's Tale (2014).
55. Tiya Sircar
Actress | The Good Place
Tiya Sircar starred as "Roonie Schuman" in the ABC comedy series "Alex, Inc." which premiered in 2018. Based on the podcast StartUp, Sircar played the wife to Zach Braff's character, "Alex Schuman". Sircar is also on the NBC hit comedy "The Good Place," for which Entertainment Weekly dubbed her the...
56. Crystal Reed
Actress | Swamp Thing
Crystal Reed is of half-Native American and half-Polish descent. Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, she began studying the arts a young age. She pursued dance and theater as a child and began working as an actor in local productions. She later attend Wayne State University where she was admitted into...
57. Peyton List
Actress | The Tomorrow People
Peyton List was born on August 8, 1986, in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up with her older sister Brittany, who works as a model in Germany, and her parents Sherri Anderson and Douglas "Doug" List. Peyton studied at the School of American Ballet in New York City and also played there on stage.
She...
58. Caissie Levy
Actress | Gotham
Caissie Levy was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Gotham (2014), Options (2018) and The 72nd Annual Tony Awards (2018). She has been married to David Aaron Reiser since October 30, 2011.
59. Francesca Root-Dodson
Actress | Free Spirit
Francesca Root-Dodson is known for Free Spirit (2019), Gotham (2014) and FBI (2018).
60. Sarah Pidgeon
Actress | Tiny Beautiful Things
Sarah Pidgeon is known for Tiny Beautiful Things (2023), Gotham (2014) and Lazareth (2024).
61. Jaime Murray
Actress | Castlevania
Jaime Murray is a British actress, activist and television producer who lives and works in Los Angeles California. Trained at Drama Centre London before playing con artist Stacie Monroe in the BBC series Hustle upon graduation in 2004. The role of Lila West in the Showtime series Dexter took her to...
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