My favorite actors/actresses (name start with W)

1. John Wayne

John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.

Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...

1 - The Hurricane Express (1932) 2 - Baby Face (1933) 3 - The Lucky Texan (1934) 4 - West of the Divide (1934) 5 - Blue Steel (1934) 6 - The Man from Utah (1934) 7 - Randy Rides Alone (1934) 8 - The Star Packer (1934) 9 - The Lawless Frontier (1934) 10 - 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934) 11 - Texas Terror (1935) 12 - Rainbow Valley (1935) 13 - The Desert Trail (1935) 14 - The Dawn Rider (1935) 15 - Paradise Canyon (1935) 16 - Lawless Range (1935) 17 - Winds of the Wasteland (1936) 18 - Born to the West (1937) 19 - Stagecoach (1939) 20 - Allegheny Uprising (1939) 21 - Seven Sinners (1940) 22 - Reap the Wild Wind (1942) 23 - Pittsburgh (1942) 24 - Tall in the Saddle (1944) 25 - Back to Bataan (1945) 26 - Angel and the Badman (1947) 27 - Tycoon (1947) 28 - Fort Apache (1948) 29 - Red River (1948) 30 - She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) 31 - Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) 32 - Rio Grande (1950) 33 - Operation Pacific (1951) 34 - Flying Leathernecks (1951) 35 - Hondo (1953) 36 - The Searchers (1956) 37 - Rio Bravo (1959) 38 - The Alamo (1960) 39 - The Comancheros (1961) 40 - The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) 41 - Hatari! (1962) 42 - The Longest Day (1962) 43 - How the West Was Won (1962) 44 - Donovan's Reef (1963) 45 - McLintock! (1963) 46 - Circus World (1964) 47 - The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) 48 - In Harm's Way (1965) 49 - The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) 50 - Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) 51 - The War Wagon (1967) 52 - El Dorado (1967) 53 - True Grit (1969) 54 - Chisum (1970) 55 - Rio Lobo (1970) 56 - Big Jake (1971) 57 - The Train Robbers (1973) 58 - Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973) 59 - Brannigan (1975) 60 - Rooster Cogburn (1975)

2. Bruce Willis

Actor | Die Hard

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...

1 - Blind Date (1987) 2 - Die Hard (1988) 3 - Die Hard 2 (1990) 4 - The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) 5 - Mortal Thoughts (1991) 6 - Hudson Hawk (1991) 7 - The Last Boy Scout (1991) 8 - Death Becomes Her (1992) 9 - Striking Distance (1993) 10 - Loaded Weapon 1 (1993) 11 - Pulp Fiction (1994) 12 - Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995) 13 - Four Rooms (1995) 14 - Twelve Monkeys (1995) 15 - Last Man Standing (1996) 16 - The Fifth Element (1997) 17 - Mercury Rising (1998) 18 - Armageddon (1998) 19 - The Siege (1998) 20 - Ally McBeal S2E12 Love Unlimited (1999) 21 - The Story of Us (1999) 22 - The Sixth Sense (1999) 23 - Friends season 6 (1999/00) 24 - The Whole Nine Yards (2000) 25 - Unbreakable (2000) 26 - Hart's War (2002) 27 - Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) 28 - The Whole Ten Yards (2004) 29 - Ocean's Twelve (2004) 30 - Sin City (2005) 31 - That '70s Show S8E4 Misfire (2005) 32 - Hostage (2005) 33 - Lucky Number Slevin (2006) 34 - 16 Blocks (2006) 35 - Live Free or Die Hard (2007) 36 - Planet Terror (2007) 37 - Nancy Drew (2007) 38 - Cop Out (2010) 39 - The Expendables (2010) 40 - RED (2010) 41 - Catch .44 (2011) 42 - The Expendables 2 (2012) 43 - Looper (2012) 44 - A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) 45 - RED 2 (2013) 46 - Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014) 47 - Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021) 48 - Wrong Place (2022) 49 - Detective Knight: Rogue (2022) 50 - Detective Knight: Redemption (2022) 51 - Detective Knight: Independence (2023)

3. Forest Whitaker

Actor | The Last King of Scotland

Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to...

1 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 2 - North and South Book 1 (1985) 3 - North and South Book 2 (1986) 4 - The Color of Money (1986) 5 - Platoon (1986) 6 - Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) 7 - Bloodsport (1988) 8 - Bird (1988) 9 - Prêt-à-Porter (1994) 10 - Species (1995) 11 - Phenomenon (1996) 12 - Panic Room (2002) 13 - ER season 13 (2006/07) 14 - Powder Blue (2009) 15 - Criminal Minds S5E18 The Fight (2010) 16 - Catch .44 (2011) 17 - Freelancers (2012) 18 - The Last Stand (2013) 19 - The Butler (2013) 20 - Taken 3 (2014) 21 - Arrival (2016) 22 - Rogue One : A Star Wars Story (2016) 23 - Burden (2018) 24 - Black Panther (2018) MCU 18

4. Robin Williams

Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire

Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...

1 - Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) 2 - Dead Poets Society (1989) 3 - Awakenings (1990) 4 - Hook (1991) 5 - Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) 6 - Nine Months (1995) 7 - Jumanji (1995) 8 - The Birdcage (1996) 9 - Jack (1996) 10 - Flubber (1997) 11 - Good Will Hunting (1997) 12 - Friends S3E24 (1997) 13 - What Dreams May Come (1998) 14 - Insomnia (2002) 15 - The Final Cut (2004) 16 - Night at the Museum (2006) 17 - License to Wed (2007) 18 - Old Dogs (2009) 19 - Night at the Museum 2 (2009) 20 - The Big Wedding (2013) 21 - The Butler (2013) 22 - The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014) 23 - Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (2014) 24 - Boulevard (2014)

5. Reese Witherspoon

Producer | Wild

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon was born on March 22, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana to Betty Witherspoon, a registered nurse & John Draper Witherspoon, a military surgeon. Reese spent the first 4 years of her life in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany, where her father served as a lieutenant colonel in the ...

1 - Freeway (1996) 2 - Fear (1996) 3 - Pleasantville (1998) 4 - Cruel Intentions (1999) 5 - Election (1999) 6 - American Psycho (2000) 7 - Friends season 6 : Episodes 13 & 14 (2000) 8 - Legally Blonde (2001) 9 - Sweet Home Alabama (2002) 10 - Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003) 11 - Just Like Heaven (2005) 12 - Penelope (2006) 13 - Rendition (2007) 14 - How Do You Know (2010) 15 - This Means War (2012) 16 - The Good Lie (2014) 17 - Wild (2014) 18 - Hot Pursuit (2015) 19 - Big Little Lies season 1 (2017) 20 - Home Again (2017) 21 - Big Little Lies season 2 (2019)

6. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

1 - The Deer Hunter (1978) 2 - The Dead Zone (1983) 3 - A View to a Kill (1985) 4 - Biloxi Blues (1988) 5 - Batman Returns (1992) 6 - True Romance (1993) 7 - Wayne's World 2 (1993) 8 - Pulp Fiction (1994) 9 - Search and Destroy (1995) 10 - Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) 11 - Last Man Standing (1996) 12 - Blast from the Past (1999) 13 - Sleepy Hollow (1999) 14 - America's Sweethearts (2001) 15 - Catch Me If You Can (2002) 16 - Kangaroo Jack (2003) 17 - Domino (2005) 18 - Wedding Crashers (2005) 19 - Click (2006) 20 - The War with Grandpa (2020)

7. Sigourney Weaver

Actress | Alien Resurrection

Sigourney Weaver has created a host of memorable characters, both dramatic and comic, ranging from Ripley in Alien to Dian Fossey in Gorillas in the Mist to Gwen/Tawny in Galaxy Quest and most recently, 14-year-old Kiri in Avatar: The Way of Water. With a career spanning over 50 years, Weaver has ...

1 - Alien (1979) 2 - Ghostbusters (1984) 3 - Aliens (1986) 4 - Gorillas in the Mist (1988) 5 - Ghostbusters II (1989) 6 - Alien³ (1992) 7 - 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) 8 - Dave (1993) 9 - Copycat (1995) 10 - Alien: Resurrection (1997) 11 - Galaxy Quest (1999) 12 - Company Man (2000) 13 - Heartbreakers (2001) 14 - Tadpole (2002) 15 - Baby Mama (2008) 16 - Ghostbusters (2016) 17 - Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

8. Eli Wallach

Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

One of Hollywood's finest character / "Method" actors, Eli Wallach was in demand for over 60 years (first film/TV role was 1949) on stage and screen, and has worked alongside the world's biggest stars, including Clark Gable, Clint Eastwood, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Yul Brynner, Peter O'Toole,...

1 - The Magnificent Seven (1960) 2 - The Misfits (1961) 3 - How the West Was Won (1962) 4 - Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966) 5 - Mackenna's Gold (1969) 6 - Le cerveau (1969) 7 - ¡Viva la muerte... tua! (1971) 8 - The Deep (1977) 9 - Highway to Heaven S2E18 To Bind the Wounds (1986) 10 - Highway to Heaven S3E22 A Father's Faith (1987) 11 - The Godfather: Part III (1990) 12 - ER S9E15 A Boy Falling Out of the Sky (2003) 13 - Mystic River (2003) 14 - The Holiday (2006) 15 - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) 16 - The Ghost Writer (2010)

9. Emma Watson

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...

1 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) 2 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) 3 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 4 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 5 - Ballet Shoes (2007) 6 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) 7 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) 8 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) 9 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) 10 - My Week with Marilyn (2011) 11 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 12 - The Bling Ring (2013) 13 - Beauty and the Beast (2017) 14 - The Circle (2017) 15 - Little Women (2019)

10. Kate Walsh

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Kate Walsh was born in San Jose, California, on October 13, 1967. She grew up partly in San Jose and partly in Tucson, Arizona, later attending the University of Arizona, where she got involved in regional theater. She later moved to Chicago where she began working with the Piven Theatre Workshop ...

1 - The Family Man (2000) 2 - Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) 3 - Grey's Anatomy S1E9 Who's Zoomin' Who? (2005) 4 - Grey's Anatomy season 2 (2005/06) 5 - Grey's Anatomy season 3 (2006/07) 6 - 1408 (2007) 7 - Grey's Anatomy S4E13 Piece of My Heart (2008) 8 - Grey's Anatomy season 5: Episodes 15 & 16 (2009) 9 - Grey's Anatomy S6E11 Blink (2010) 10 - Grey's Anatomy S7E18 (2011) 11 - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) 12 - Grey's Anatomy S8E13 If/Then (2012) 13 - Scary Movie 5 (2013) 14 - Honest Thief (2020) 15 - Grey's Anatomy season 18 (2021/22)

11. James Woods

Actor | Vampires

James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...

1 - Once Upon a Time in America (1984) 2 - The Hard Way (1991) 3 - The Specialist (1994) 4 - Nixon (1995) 5 - Casino (1995) 6 - Contact (1997) 7 - Vampires (1998) 8 - True Crime (1999) 9 - Any Given Sunday (1999) 10 - The General's Daughter (1999) 11 - Scary Movie 2 (2001) 12 - Be Cool (2005) 13 - Pretty Persuasion (2005) 14 - ER S12E13 Body & Soul (2006) 15 - White House Down (2013)

12. Denzel Washington

Actor | Fences

Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at ...

1 - Cry Freedom (1987) 2 - Glory (1989) 3 - Ricochet (1991) 4 - The Pelican Brief (1993) 5 - Philadelphia (1993) 6 - Crimson Tide (1995) 7 - Courage Under Fire (1996) 8 -The Siege (1998) 9 - Fallen (1998) 10 - The Bone Collector (1999) 11 - Out of Time (2003) 12 - Deja Vu (2006) 13 - Inside Man (2006) 14 - Flight (2012)

13. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

1 - Heavenly Creatures (1994) 2 - Sense and Sensibility (1995) 3 - Titanic (1997) 4 - Quills (2000) 5 - Finding Neverland (2004) 6 - The Holiday (2006) 7 - How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) 8 - The Reader (2008) 9 - Revolutionary Road (2008) 10 - Contagion (2011) 11 - Divergent (2014) 12 - Insurgent (2015) 13 - Blackbird (2019) 14 - Mare of Easttown (2021)

14. Raquel Welch

Actress | The Three Musketeers

A new reigning 1960s international sex symbol took to the cinematic throne as soon as Raquel Welch emerged from the sea in her purposely depleted, furry prehistoric bikini. Tantalizingly wet with her garb clinging to all the right amazonian places, One Million Years B.C. (1966), if nothing else, ...

1 - Roustabout (1964) 2 - Bewitched S1E8 Witch or Wife (1964) 3 - Bandolero! (1968) 4 - 100 Rifles (1969) 5 - Hannie Caulder (1971) 6 - The Three Musketeers (1973) 7 - The Four Musketeers (1974) 8 - L'animal (1977) 9 - Torch Song (1993) 10 - Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994) 11 - Lois & Clark S2E14 Top Copy (1995) 12 - Legally Blonde (2001)

15. Emily Wickersham

Actress | Gone

Emily Wickersham was born on April 26, 1984 in Kansas, USA as Emily Kaiser Wickersham. She is an actress, known for Gone (2012), I Am Number Four (2011), Remember Me (2010) and NCIS. She was married to musician and domestic violence lawyer Blake Hanley from November 23, 2010 until December 2018.

1 - The Sopranos season 6 (2006/07) 2 - Definitely, Maybe (2008) 3 - Remember Me (2010) 4 - NCIS season 11 (2013/14) 5 - NCIS season 12 (2014/15) 6 - NCIS season 13 (2015/16) 7 - NCIS: New Orleans S2E12 Sister City; Part 2 (2016) 8 - NCIS season 14 (2016/17) 9 - NCIS season 15 (2017/18) 10 - NCIS season 16 (2018/19) 11 - NCIS season 17 (2019/20) 12 - NCIS season 18 (2020/21)

16. Naomi Watts

Actress | Mulholland Dr.

Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...

1 - Mulholland Dr. (2001) 2 - The Ring (2002) 3 - The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) 4 - King Kong (2005) 5 - Fair Game (2010) 6 - Lo imposible (2012) 7 - Adoration (2013) 8 - Diana (2013) 9 - Insurgent (2015) 10 - Allegiant (2016) 11 - Ophelia (2018) 12 - Boss Level (2021)

17. Johnny Weissmuller

Actor | Tarzan the Ape Man

Johnny Weissmuller was born as Peter Johann Weißmüller in Freidorf, today a district of the city of Timisoara in Romania, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Weissmuller would later claim to have been born in Windber, Pennsylvania, probably to ensure his eligibility to compete as part of ...

1 - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) 2 - Tarzan and His Mate (1934) 3 - Tarzan Escapes (1936) 4 - Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) 5 - Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) 6 - Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) 7 - Tarzan Triumphs (1943) 8 - Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) 9 - Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) 10 - Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) 11 - Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) 12 - Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948)

18. Lindsay Wagner

Actress | The Bionic Woman

Lindsay Wagner makes little distinction between her life as an actress, advocate, mother or author. What unites these various parts is a commitment through her work and her personal life to exploring and advancing human potential.

Lindsay first came to prominence in the critically-acclaimed role of ...

1 - The Bionic Woman season 1 (1976) 2 - The Bionic Woman season 2 (1976/77) 3 - The Bionic Woman season 3 (1977/78) 4 - Scruples (1980) 5 - Nighthawks (1981) 6 - Princess Daisy (1983) 7 - Ricochet (1991) 8 - Once in a Lifetime (1994) 9 - NCIS S13E10 Blood Brothers (2015) 10 - Grey's Anatomy S14E22 Fight For Your Mind (2018) 11 - Grey's Anatomy season 15 (2019)

19. Rachel Weisz

Actress | The Constant Gardener

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...

1 - The Mummy (1999) 2 - The Mummy Returns (2001) 3 - Runaway Jury (2003) 4 - Constantine (2005) 5 - Definitely, Maybe (2008) 6 - The Bourne Legacy (2012) 7 - My Cousin Rachel (2017) 8 - Disobedience (2017) 9 - The Favourite (2018) 10 - The Mercy (2018) 11 - Black Widow (2021) MCU 24

20. Mare Winningham

Actress | St. Elmo's Fire

Mary 'Mare' Megan Winningham is an actress and songwriter who has appeared in nearly 100 TV shows and feature films. She began her career in 1976 as a singer, and starred in numerous and diverse film roles before hitting it big as one of the original Brat Pack in Joel Schumacher's St. Elmo's Fire (...

1 - The Thorn Birds (1983) 2 - St. Elmo's Fire (1985) 3 - Turner & Hooch (1989) 4 - Wyatt Earp (1994) 5 - ER season 5 (1998/99) 6 - Grey's Anatomy S2E22 The Name of the Game (2006) 7 - Grey's Anatomy season 3 (2006/07) 8 - 24 season 8 (2010) 9 - Criminal Minds S6E5 Safe Haven (2010) 10 - Mirror Mirror (2012) 11 - Dark Waters (2019)

21. Shelley Winters

Actress | The Poseidon Adventure

Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift of very humble beginnings on August 18, 1920 (some sources list 1922) in East St. Louis, Illinois. Her mother, Rose Winter, was born in Missouri, to Austrian Jewish parents, and her father, Jonas Schrift, was an Austrian Jewish immigrant. She had one sibling...

1 - Red River (1948) 2 - Winchester '73 (1950) 3 - The Night of the Hunter (1955) 4 - The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) 5 - The Young Savages (1961) 6 - Lolita (1962) 7 - The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) 8 - Pete's Dragon (1977) 9 - The Delta Force (1986) 10 - Weep No More, My Lady (1992) 11 - The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

22. Shawn Weatherly

Actress | Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Shawn Weatherly was born on July 24, 1959 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She is an actress, known for Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986), Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998) and Shadowzone (1990). She has been married to Chip Harris since 1994. They have two children.

1 - The A-Team S2E2 Recipe for Heavy Bread (1983) 2 - The Dukes of Hazzard S5E16 Coy vs. Vance (1983) 3 - Cannonball Run II (1984) 4 - Hunter S1E10 The Shooter (1985) 5 - Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) 6 - Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier (1989) 7 - Baywatch S1E1 In Deep (1989) 8 - Baywatch S1E2 Heat Wave (1989) 9 - Baywatch S1E3 Second Wave (1989) 10 - Baywatch S1E4 Message in a Bottle (1989)

23. Kelli Williams

Actress | Lie to Me

Kelli Williams was born in California on June 8, 1970. Though she had appeared in commercials since she was a baby, she was discovered by her agent at her high school play ("Romeo and Juliet"), in which she starred as Juliet opposite General Hospital (1963)'s Steve Burton. In the early 1990s, she ...

1 - Quantum Leap S2E2 Disco Inferno (1989) 2 - Beauty and the Beast S2E13 Arabesque (1989) 3 - Ally McBeal S1E20 The Inmates (1998) 4 - Lie to Me season 1 (2009) 5 - Lie to Me season 2 (2009/10) 6 - Lie to Me season 3 (2010/11) 7 - Criminal Minds S6E20 Hanley Waters (2011) 8 - NCIS S11E21 Alleged (2014) 9 - NCIS S13E6 Viral (2015) 10 - Christmas Solo (2017)

24. Alicia Witt

Actress | Dune

Actor and singer-songwriter Alicia Witt has been acting since the age of 7, when she made her film debut in David Lynch's sci fi classic Dune. She will next be seen starring opposite Nicholas Cage in the thriller Longlegs, set for a 2024 worldwide theatrical release. She also just appeared on Fox's...

1 - Four Rooms (1995) 2 - Citizen Ruth (1996) 3 - Urban Legend (1998) 4 - The Sopranos S2E7 D-Girl (2000) 5.1 - Ally McBeal S3E20 Hope and Glory (2000) 5.2 - Ally McBeal S3E21 The Musical, Almost(2000) 6 - Two Weeks Notice (2002) 7 - The Upside of Anger (2005) 8 - 88 Minutes (2007) 9 - A Care a Lot (2020) 10 - Stargirl S2E1 (2021)

25. Susan Ward

Actress | Shallow Hal

Susan Ward was born in Monroe, LA. An animal lover as a child, she grew up wanting to become a veterinarian. At age 13, however, a local modeling agent changed her mind. Susan and her mother traveled to New York City to see about getting her a modeling job. She thought that modeling would make her ...

1 - Shallow Hal (2001) 2 - Friends S9E4 The One with the Sharks (2002) 3 - Wild Things 2 (2004) 4 - CSI: Miami S3E6 Hell Night (2004) 5 - Two for the Money (2005) 6 - Criminal Minds S4E20 Conflicted (2009) 7 - Costa Rican Summer (2010) 8 - Jack Hunter: The Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2010) 9 - Jack Hunter: The Quest for Akhenaten's Tomb (2011) 10 - Jack Hunter: The Star of Heaven (2011)

26. Sonya Walger

Actress | The Librarian: Quest for the Spear

Sonya Walger is a British actress who also holds American citizenship. She had starring roles in the short-lived sitcoms The Mind of the Married Man (2001-2002) and Coupling (2003) before landing her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC drama series Lost (2006-2010). Walger later starred on Tell Me You...

1 - The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) 2 - CSI: NY S2E17 Necrophilia Americana (2006) 3 - Lost S2E23&24 (2006) 4 - Caffeine (2006) 5 - Lost S3 E8&17 (2007) 6 - Lost S4E5&14 (2008) 7 - Lost, season 5 (2009) 8 - Lost S6E11, 17&18 (2010) 9 - The Escort (2016)

27. Carl Weathers

Actor | Predator

Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, in order to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor.

Weathers first played small parts ...

1 - Magnum Force (1973) 2 - Rocky (1976) 3 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 4 - Force 10 from Navarone (1978) 5 - Rocky II (1979) 6 - Rocky III (1982) 7 - Rocky IV (1985) 8 - Predator (1987) 9 - ER S15E6 Oh, Brother (2008)

28. Michelle Williams

Actress | Blue Valentine

A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...

1 - Lassie (1994) 2 - Species (1995) 3 - A Thousand Acres (1997) 4 - Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) 5 - If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000) 6 - My Week with Marilyn (2011) 7 - Venom (2018) 8 - Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) 9 - The Fabelmans (2022)

29. Evan Rachel Wood

Actress | Thirteen

Evan Rachel Wood was born September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father, Ira David Wood III, is a theatre actor, writer and director, and her mother, Sara Wood, is an actress and acting coach. She has two older brothers--Dana Wood, a musician, and Ira David Wood IV, who has also acted. ...

1 - Practical Magic (1998) 2 - S1m0ne (2002) 3 - The West Wing S3E20 The Black Vera Wang (2002) 4 - Thirteen (2003) 5 - The Missing (2003) 6 - Pretty Persuasion (2005) 7 - The Upside of Anger (2005) 8 - The Life Before Her Eyes (2007) 9 - The Wrestler (2008)

30. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

1 - Follow the Boys (1944) 2 - The Stranger (1946) 3 - The Third Man (1949) 4 - Prince of Foxes (1949) 5 - The Black Rose (1950) 6 - Moby Dick (1956) 7 - Touch of Evil (1958) 8 - Paris brûle-t-il? (1966) 9 - Casino Royale (1967)

31. Ming-Na Wen

Actress | Mulan

Ming-Na ("enlightenment") was born on the island of Macau, forty miles from Hong Kong. Her mother, Lin Chan Wen, divorced her father when Ming-Na was only a toddler. She has an older brother named Jonathan. After the divorce, they moved to Hong Kong where her mother became a nurse. There her mother...

1 - Street Fighter (1994) 2 - ER season 1 (1994/95) 3 - ER season 6 (1999/00) 4 - ER season 7 (2000/01) 5 - ER season 8 (2001/02) 6 - ER season 9 (2002/03) 7 - ER season 10 (2003/04) 8 - ER season 11 (2004/05)

32. Bridgette Wilson-Sampras

Actress | Mortal Kombat

Bridgette Wilson was born in Gold Beach, Oregon, on September 25, 1973. The brown-eyed actress grew up there with her parents, Kathy and Dale Wilson, and sister, Tracy Wilson. Her first taste of fame came in 1990 when she won Miss Teen USA. The next year she was in Los Angeles taking acting classes...

1 - Saved by the Bell season 4 (1992) 2 - Last Action Hero (1993) 3 - Mortal Kombat (1995) 4 - Nixon (1995) 5 - The Real Blonde (1997) 6 - I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) 7 - The Wedding Planner (2001) 8 - Just Visiting (2001)

33. Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Actress | 10 Cloverfield Lane

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an actress known for her versatile work in a variety of film and television projects. Possibly most known for her role as Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), she has also starred in critically acclaimed independent films such as Smashed (2012), for which...

1 - Tru Calling S1E8 Closure (2004) 2 - Sky High (2005) 3 - Final Destination 3 (2006) 4 - Bobby (2006) 5 - Live Free or Die Hard (2007) 6 - Make It Happen (2008) 7 - A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) 8 - Birds of Prey (2020)

34. Cynthia Watros

Actress | General Hospital

Cynthia Watros was born on September 2, 1968 in Lake Orion, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for General Hospital (1963), Guiding Light (1952) and Video Game High School (2012). She was previously married to Curtis Gilliland.

1 - Cafe Society (1995) 2 - Lost, season 2 (2005/2006) 3 - Lost S4E8 Meet Kevin Johnson (2008) 4 - Criminal Minds S5E3 Reckoner (2009) 5 - Lost S6 Episodes12,17&18 (2010) 6 - Desperate Housewives S7E9 (2010) 7 - Grey's Anatomy S8E22 Let the Bad Times Roll (2012)

35. Henry Winkler

Actor | The Waterboy

Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, were German Jewish immigrants who escaped the Holocaust by moving to the US in 1939. His father was the president of an international lumber company while his ...

1 - Scream (1996) 2 - The Waterboy (1998) 3 - Click (2006) 4 - I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007) 5 - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) 6 - Black Adam (2022)

36. Donnie Wahlberg

Actor | Saw II

Donald Edmond "Donnie" Wahlberg Jr. was born on August 17, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts into a family of Swedish (from his paternal grandfather), Irish, and more distant French-Canadian, English, and Scottish, descent. He is the eighth of nine children of Alma Elaine Conroy (née Donnelly), a ...

1 - Ransom (1996) 2 - The Sixth Sense (1999) 3 - Band of Brothers (2001) 4 - Dreamcatcher (2003) 5 - Righteous Kill (2008) 6.1 - Rizzoli & Isles S1E2 Boston Strangler Redux (2010) 6.2 - Rizzoli & Isles S1E3 Sympathy for the Devil (2010)

37. Shannon Whirry

Actress | Middle Men

Shannon Whirry is not just a talented actress with girl-next-door looks, she captured a generation of men's (and teenage boys'!) imaginations by wishing that she actually was the girl-next-door.

Born in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, Whirry graduated from high school and packed her bags for New York....

1 - Out for Justice (1991) 2 - Lady in Waiting (1994) 3 - Texas Justice (1995) 4 - Dangerous Prey (1995) 5 - Me, Myself & Irene (2000) 6 - ER S9E13 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (2003)

38. Polly Walker

Actress | Rome

Polly Alexandra Walker was born on May 19, 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England. She graduated from Ballet Rambert School in Twickenham, began her career as a dancer, but an injury at age 18 forced her to change direction. She started at London's Drama Centre to the Royal Shakespeare Company, ...

1 - Patriot Games (1992) 2 - Sliver (1993) 3 - Emma (1996) 4 - D-Tox (2002) 5 - Rome, season 1 (2005) 6 - Rome, season 2 (2007)

39. Ally Walker

Actress | Universal Soldier

Ally Walker was born in Tullahoma, Tennessee and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Actress Ally Walker studied biology and chemistry at the University of California Santa Cruz and went on to work for a genetic engineering firm in San Francisco. While spending a semester at Richmond College of the ...

1 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Fatal Fashion (1991) 2 - Universal Soldier (1992) 3 - While You Were Sleeping (1995) 4 - Profiler season 1 (1996/97) 5 - ER S12E13 Body & Soul (2006)

40. Estella Warren

Actress | Planet of the Apes

Estella Warren was a synchronized swimmer from the age of 7 until 17 in her native Canada. She moved away from home at 12 to train for the Canadian National Team. She was the Canadian National Champion for three years and represented her country at the World Aquatic Championship, where she placed ...

1 - Planet of the Apes (2001) 2 - Driven (2001) 3 - That '70s Show S6E1 The Kids Are Alright (2003) 4 - Kangaroo Jack (2003) 5 - Ghost Whisperer S1E8 On the Wings of a Dove (2005)

41. Hayden Winters

Actress | The Flintstones: A XXX Parody

Slim, sexy, and adorable 5'3" brunette Hayden Winters was born Tiffany Maples on February 17, 1991 in San Diego, California. A shy and quiet girl in her high school days, the cute auburn-haired pixie played soccer for six years and learned how to be a skilled flute player while growing up. Winters ...

1 - Girls in White 2011, part 2 (2011) 2 - Girls in White 2011, part 3 (2011) 3 - No Boys, No Toys (2011) 4 - Please, Make Me Lesbian! part 3 (2011) 5 - Cheer Squad Sleepovers, part 1 (2012)

42. Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Actress | Father of the Bride

Kimberly Payne Williams-Paisley is an American actress known for her co-starring roles on According to Jim and Nashville, as well as her breakthrough performance in Father of the Bride (1991), for which she was nominated for several awards, and its sequel, Father of the Bride Part II (1995). ...

1 - Father of the Bride (1991) 2 - Father of the Bride 2 (1995) 3 - Ask Me Anything (2014) 4 - Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)

43. Teresa Wright

Actress | Shadow of a Doubt

A natural and lovely talent who was discovered for films by Samuel Goldwyn, the always likable Teresa Wright distinguished herself early on in high-caliber, Oscar-worthy form -- the only performer ever to be nominated for Oscars for her first three films. Always true to herself, she was able to ...

1 - Shadow Of A Doubt (1943) 2 - Somewhere in Time (1980) 3 - The Exorcist 3 (1990) 4 - Perry Mason: The Desperate Deception (1990)

44. Natalie Wood

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Natalie Wood was an American actress of Russian and Ukrainian descent. She started her career as a child actress and eventually transitioned into teenage roles, young adult roles, and middle-aged roles. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981 at age 43.

Wood was born July 20, 1938 in ...

1 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) 2 - Rebel Without A Cause (1955) 3 - The Searchers (1956) 4 - West Side Story (1961)

45. Jemima West

Actress | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Jemima West was born on August 11, 1987 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013), The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) and The Borgias (2011).

1 - Joan of Arc (1999) 2 - Maison close season 1 (2010) 3 - Maison close season 2 (2013) 4 - The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)

46. Suki Waterhouse

Actress | Daisy Jones & The Six

Alice Suki Waterhouse (born 5 January 1992) is an English actress, model and entrepreneur.

She was born in Hammersmith, London and was raised in Chiswick, London, the daughter of Elizabeth, a cancer care nurse, and Norman Waterhouse, a plastic surgeon. She has a brother named Charlie, and two ...

1 - Love, Rosie (2014) 2 - Insurgent (2015) 3 - Misbehaviour (2020) 4 - Seance (2021)

47. Kristina Wayborn

Actress | Octopussy

Kristina Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Sweden. After being elected Miss Sweden in 1970 she was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant. The same year she was also elected Miss Scandinavia.

Wayborn portrayed screen legend Greta Garbo in The Silent Lovers (1980) which brought ...

1 - Octopussy (1983) 2 - Airwolf S3E20 The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (1986) 3 - That '70s Show S2E16 The First Time (2000)

48. 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 ...

1 - A Girl Thing (2001) 2 - The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) 3 - Superman Returns (2006)

49. Jennifer Westfeldt

Actress | Kissing Jessica Stein

Jennifer is an American actress and filmmaker, who is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the indie hits, Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) and Friends with Kids (2011).

A graduate from Yale University, Jennifer started her career as a New York-based theater actor, starring in over 25 ...

1 - Kissing Jessica Stein (2001) 2 - Grey's Anatomy season 5 (2008/09) 3 - 24 season 8 (2010)

50. Vanya Wellens

Actress | Thuis

Vanya Wellens was born on June 9, 1979 in Belgium. She is an actress, known for Thuis (1995), Recht op recht (1998) and Spoed (2000).

1 - Flikken S4E2 Joyrider (2002) 2 - De Twaalf (2019)

51. Fay Wray

Actress | King Kong

Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers ...

1 - The Stolen Jools (1931) 2 - King Kong (1933)

52. Lynda Wiesmeier

Actress | Real Genius

Buxom and shapely blonde bombshell Lynda Wiesmeier was born on May 30, 1963 in Washington, D.C. Wiesmeier resided in various places throughout America and Germany before eventually settling down in Los Angeles, California. Lynda worked as a receptionist at a doctor's office prior to deciding to ...

1 - Teen Wolf (1985) 2 - Avenging Angel (1985)

53. Ophélie Winter

Actress | She

Ophélie Winter was born on February 20, 1974 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She is an actress and composer, known for She (2001), 2001: A Space Travesty (2000) and RRRrrrr!!! (2004).

1 - 2001 - A Space travesty (2000)

54. Mae West

Actress | She Done Him Wrong

Mae West was born August 17, 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, to "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger. She began her career as a child star in vaudeville, and later went on to write her own plays, including "SEX", for which she was arrested. Though her first movie role, at age 40, was a small part ...

1 - Klondike Annie (1936)

55. Joanne Woodward

Actress | Rachel, Rachel

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward was born on February 27, 1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, to Wade Woodward and Elinor Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward in a modest household. Her one older brother, Wade Jr., who was the favorite of her father, eventually became an architect. Elinor Woodward was a ...

1 - Philadelphia (1993)

56. Elke Winkens

Actress | Kommissar Rex

Elke Winkens was born on March 25, 1970 in Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. She is an actress, known for Kommissar Rex (1994), Arschkalt (2011) and Die kranken Schwestern (1995).

57. Jennifer White

Actress | The Stripper

Jennifer White was born in Agoura Hills, California on February 6, 1988. Since the age of four, Jennifer was involved in musical theater. Later after losing her virginity, Jennifer knew she wanted to perform in front of cameras. In an age of Internet technology, Jennifer searched Craig's List and ...