Celebrity Full Names: Actresses - N
by christophershobris | created - 30 Aug 2016 | updated - 30 Aug 2016 | PublicContinuation of my list of celeb full names with their last names beginning with N. Here they are, and to see more click on a name to learn more. Enjoy!
1. Anne Nagel
Actress | Man-Made Monster
Anne Nagel's life could be summed up in two words: pretty miserable. Born to devoutly religious Bostonian parents who had long encouraged her to become a nun, she had been enrolled in a preparatory school for just that purpose. As a young teenager she worked part-time as a photographer's model, and...
Anne Dolan Nagel ADN
2. Kathy Najimy
Actress | Hocus Pocus
Kathy Najimy was born and raised in San Diego, California. She is the daughter of Samia (Massery) and Fred Najimy, a postal worker, both of Lebanese ancestry. Kathy attended Crawford High School, and began her film career in the early 1990s, with several minor roles. Kathy got her breakthrough ...
Kathy Ann Najimy KAN
3. Nita Naldi
Actress | The Ten Commandments
Nonna Dooley, the future silent screen star, began her career as a showgirl in a Shubert revue in the Winter Garden, later went on to the famed Ziegfeld Follies.
After a successful career on the stage with the Follies, Nita decided to try her hand with films in Hollywood. Her rise to fame was very ...
Mary Nita Dooley MND
4. Marguerite Namara
Actress | Carmen
Marguerite Namara was born on November 19, 1888 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Carmen (1931), Stolen Moments (1920) and Thirty Day Princess (1934). She was married to George Hoy, Guy Bolton and Frederick H. Toye. She died on November 3, 1974 in Marbella, Spain.
Marguerite Evelyn Cecilia Banks MECB
5. Florence Nash
Actress | The Women
Florence Nash was born on October 2, 1888 in Troy, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Women (1939), Springtime (1914) and It's a Great Life (1935). She died on April 2, 1950 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Florence Ryan Nash FRN
7. Niecy Nash
Actress | Reno 911!
Niecy Nash was born on February 23, 1970 in Palmdale, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Reno 911! (2003), Guess Who (2005) and Claws (2017). She has been married to Jessica Betts since August 29, 2020. She was previously married to Jay Tucker and Don Nash.
Carol Denise Ensley CDE
8. Noreen Nash
Actress | Phantom from Space
Brunette, blue-eyed Noreen Nash was born Norabelle Jean Roth in Wenatchee, Washington. Her father was Albert Roth, owner of a Coca Cola bottling plant, her mother Gail was a teacher. At the age of eighteen, Noreen was crowned 'Apple Blossom Queen' in her home town and sent to Washington to promote ...
Norabelle Jean Roth NJR
9. Vivian Nathan
Actress | Klute
Vivian Nathan was born on October 26, 1916 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Klute (1971), Teacher's Pet (1958) and Playhouse 90 (1956). She was married to Nathan Schwalb. She died on April 3, 2015 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
Vivian Firko VF
10. Kitten Natividad
Actress | Another 48 Hrs.
Miss Nude Universe twice in a row, in 1970 and 1971, got her a topless non-speaking part in The New Centurions (1972). Started working as a maid for fellow nude model and actress Stella Stevens, went on tour as a strip-dancer for three years. Then she met talent-finder Russ Meyer, with whom she ...
Francesca Isabel Natividad FIN
11. Naturi Naughton
Actress | Notorious
Naturi Naughton is an American Actress/Singer best known for her performance as "Tasha St. Patrick" in the hit show "Power" on the Starz Network. She has won 2 NAACP Image Awards for her performance in this role. Many also remember her thrilling portrayal of "Lil Kim" in Fox Searchlight's film "...
Naturi Cora Maria Naughton NCMN
12. Kate Nauta
Actress | Transporter 2
Kate Nauta was born on April 29, 1982 in Salem, Oregon, USA as Kate Lynne Nauta. She is an actress, model and singer, best known for her role as Lola in Transporter 2 (2005). She also sang two of her songs for its soundtrack.
She started modeling at age 15. At 17, she won the U.S. Elite Model Look ...
Katherine Lynn Nauta KLN
13. Patricia Neal
Actress | The Day the Earth Stood Still
Patricia Neal, the Oscar and Tony Award-winning actress, was born Patsy Louise Neal in Packard, Kentucky, where her father managed a coal mine and her mother was the daughter of the town doctor. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she attended high school. She was first bit by the acting bug...
Patsy Louise Neal PLN
14. Pola Negri
Actress | Bella Donna
Pola Negri was born in Lipno, Poland, and moved to Warsaw as a child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness that ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became ...
Apolonia Chalupec AC
15. Gloria Neil
Actress | The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Gloria Neil is known for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965) and Channing (1963).
Gloria Jean Neil GJN
16. Noel Neill
Actress | Superman Returns
Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to ...
Noel Darleen Neill NDN
17. Marissa Neitling
Actress | San Andreas
Marissa Neitling was born on May 8, 1984 in Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA. She is an actress, known for San Andreas (2015), The Last Ship (2014) and The Last Ship Prequel: Dr. Scott's Video Journal (2014).
Marissa Lee Neitling MLN
Sharon Kristin Harmon SKH
19. Lori Nelson
Actress | Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
Lori Nelson began her show biz career at the age of two-and-a-half, dancing in a show in her native Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was voted Santa Fe's most talented and beautiful child, and toured the state billed as "Santa Fe's Shirley Temple." At age four, Nelson moved to Hollywood with her parents ...
Dixie Kay Nelson DKN
20. Portia Nelson
Actress | The Sound of Music
Portia Nelson was born on May 27, 1920 in Brigham City, Utah, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for The Sound of Music (1965), Doctor Dolittle (1967) and The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk (1967). She died on March 6, 2001 in New York City, New York, USA.
Elizabeth Mae Nelson EMN
21. Sandra Nelson
Actress | The Wolf of Wall Street
Sandra Nelson was born on December 29, 1964 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. She is an actress, known for The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), De-Lovely (2004) and Life as a House (2001). She has been married to Charles Winkler since September 6, 1998. They have two children.
Sandra Nelson Winkler SNW
22. Tracy Nelson
Actress | Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Before the age of five, Tracy had a film credit to her name. The daughter of singer Ricky Nelson and Kristin Harmon, she appeared as one of Henry Fonda's daughters in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours (1968). In 1982, she became the popular Valley Girl "Jennifer DeNuccio" on the television series ...
Tracy Kristine Nelson TKN
23. Ann Nesby
Soundtrack | Beverly Hills Cop III
A consummated actress, entertainer, songwriter and vocalist are a few of the creative attributes that describe and are possessed by Ann Nesby.
With a thespian career spanning over two decades she has worked alongside a who's who list of incomparable talents in the world of theater, film, and music.
...
Lula Ann Bennett LAB
24. Lois Nettleton
Actress | In the Heat of the Night
This most consummate, vibrant and versatile actress established a distinguished reputation on the stage, in films and on TV. The former Miss Chicago of 1948 beauty pageant winner and Miss America semifinalist was born in Oak Park, Illinois. Her family was impoverished and her parents divorced early...
Lois June Nettleton LJN
25. Claudette Nevins
Actress | Sleeping with the Enemy
Red-haired actress Claudette Nevins was raised in Brooklyn, the daughter of fur salesman Joseph Weintraub and his wife Anna (Lander) who worked in the garment industry. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from New York University. ...
Claudette Weintraub CW
26. Cehlia Adair Newman Cehlia Barnum
Actress | The Legend of Billie Jean
Cehlia Barnum Newman was born in San Miguel De Allende in October of 1968. Newman's parents had lived there for 7 years before she was born, and just a few short years after her birth they moved to Texas. Cehlia attended and received a degree from The University of The Incarnate Word, where she ...
Celia Maria Newman CMN
27. Nell Newman
Actress | The Heart of a Child
Nell Newman was born in 1881. She was an actress, known for The Heart of a Child (1920). She died in August 1931 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Elinor Teresa Newman ETN
28. Ryan Whitney
Actress | Zoom
Ryan Whitney, formerly Ryan Whitney Newman, is starring in the upcoming independent film, "Notes." She will also appear in the Ronald Reagan biopic, "Reagan," as his first love, Margaret Cleaver. In 2022 alone, she filmed 4 other independent films including "Exposure" and "Good Bad Things," which ...
Ryan Whitney Newman RWN
29. Julie Newmar
Actress | Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Julia Chalene Newmeyer was born on August 16, 1933, in Los Angeles, California, the eldest of three children. Her father, Don, was a one-time professional football player (LA Buccaneers, 1926), her mother, Helene Jesmer, was a star of the Follies of 1920 and later became a fashion designer under ...
Julia Chalene Newmeyer JCN
30. Joanna Newsom
Actress | Inherent Vice
Joanna Newsom was born on January 18, 1982 in Grass Valley, California, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Inherent Vice (2014), The Strangers (2008) and Paper Towns (2015). She has been married to Andy Samberg since September 21, 2013. They have two children.
Joanna Caroline Newsom JCN
31. Becki Newton
Actress | Ugly Betty
Becki grew up in Guilford, Connecticut. She started performing in local productions and summer stock theater at age 13. She studied European History at the University of Pennsylvania, during which time she spent several semesters abroad. After graduating, Becki immediately moved to NYC to pursue ...
Rebecca Sara Newton RSN
32. Irene Ng
Actress | The Joy Luck Club
Irene Ng was born on July 30, 1974 in Penang, Malaysia. She is an actress, known for The Joy Luck Club (1993), Rogue Trader (1999) and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1996). She has been married to David John Rosa since July 26, 2008.
Sze Irene Ng SIN
33. Denise Nicholas
Actress | Let's Do It Again
Denise Nicholas was born on July 12, 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Let's Do It Again (1975), In the Heat of the Night (1988) and Room 222 (1969). She was previously married to Jim Hill, Bill Withers and Gilbert Moses.
Donna Denise Nicholas DDN
34. Barbara Nichols
Actress | Sweet Smell of Success
She was the archetypal brassy, bosomy, Brooklynesque blonde with a highly distinctive scratchy voice. Barbara Nichols started life as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Queens, New York on December 10, 1928, and grew up on Long Island. Graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School, she changed her ...
Barbara Marie Nickerauer BMN
35. Nichelle Nichols
Actress | Star Trek
Nichelle Nichols was one of 10 children born to parents Lishia and Samuel Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. She was a singer and dancer before turning to acting and finding fame in her groundbreaking role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek (1966) series.
As long as she could remember,...
Grace Dell Nichols GDN
36. Rachel Nichols
Actress | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Rachel Emily Nichols was born in Augusta, Maine, the daughter of Alison and James Nichols, a schoolteacher. She has English, French Canadian, German, Irish, Italian and Scottish ancestry. She attended and graduated from Cony High School in Augusta, where she competed in the high jump. She attended ...
Rachel Emily Nichols REN
37. Lorraine Nicholson
Actress | Click
Lorraine Nicholson was born on April 16, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for Click (2006), World's Greatest Dad (2009) and Life Boat (2017).
Lorraine Broussard Nicholson LBN
38. Jasika Nicole
Actress | Fringe
Jasika Nicole grew up in Birmingham, AL and studied musical theatre, dance and studio art at Catawba College in Salisbury, NC before moving to NYC to work in theatre. There she performed in Off and Off-Off Broadway musicals and plays before starting her career in TV and film. Identifying as a queer...
Jasika Nicole Pruitt JNP
39. Lisa Niemi
Actress | One Last Dance
Lisa Niemi was born on May 26, 1956 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and director, known for One Last Dance (2003), She's Having a Baby (1988) and Super Force (1990). She has been married to Albert DePrisco since May 25, 2014. She was previously married to Patrick Swayze.
Lisa Anne Haapaniemi LAH
40. Sara Niemietz
Music_department | The Arrangement
Sara Niemietz is a sonic storyteller. With a suitcase and a guitar, she brought her music to 40 countries. On social media, her videos have garnered over thirty million views, and a highly interactive approach has created a close-knit community of listeners. Now, she is drawing from this experience...
Sara Anne Niemietz SAN
41. Jane Nigh
Actress | Blue Grass of Kentucky
Jane Nigh was born on February 25, 1925 in Hollywood, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Blue Grass of Kentucky (1950), Whistle Stop (1946) and Big Town (1950). She was married to Norman Davidson Jr., John Edwin Baker and Victor Cutler. She died on October 5, 1993 in Bakersfield, ...
Bonnie Lenora Nigh BLN
42. Alexa Nikolas
Actress | Red State
Alexa Nikolas is an American actress born on April 4, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois, known for portraying as Nicole Bristow on the American comedy-drama television series, Zoey 101 (2005) aired on Nickelodeon Cable. She also appeared in the several popular television series including, That's Life (...
Alexa Helen Nikolas AHN
43. Anna Q. Nilsson
Actress | The Greater Glory
Anna Quirentia Nilsson, popularly known as "Anna Q", who was born on March 30th, 1888, in Ystad, Sweden, emigrated to the United States in 1905. The 5'7" Nilsson used her blonde beauty to become a famous model for well-known fashion photographers and fine artists. In 1907 she was chosen the most ...
Anna Quirentia Nilsson AQN
44. Greta Nissen
Actress | The Unwritten Law
Greta Ruzt-Nissen was born in Oslo, Norway, on January 30, 1905. As a young girl she studied dance and had intended to make a career out of it. For a while she did, but when she was 19 she appeared in her first big-screen production, The Wanderer (1925). Afterwards she made several more films, but ...
Grethe Ruzt Nissen GRN
45. Barbara Niven
Actress | Chesapeake Shores
Barbara Niven was born in Portland, Oregon, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Chesapeake Shores (2016), A Perfect Ending (2012) and The Rat Pack (1998).
Barbara Lee Buholz BLB
46. Cynthia Nixon
Actress | Sex and the City 2
Cynthia Nixon was born in New York City on April 9, 1966, to Anne Elizabeth Knoll, an actress, and Walter E. Nixon, Jr., a radio journalist. She has German and English ancestry. Nixon made a memorable film debut in Little Darlings (1980). Her Broadway credits include "The Last Night of Ballyhoo," "...
Cynthia Ellen Nixon CEN
47. Marian Nixon
Actress | Captain Calamity
Marian Nixon was born on October 20, 1904, in Superior, Wisconsin. Her career started in 1923 when she played Agnes Evans in Cupid's Fireman (1923). She was nineteen. Marian always gave a good account for herself when she appeared in films and was much in demand throughout the 1920s. Marian was one...
Marian Nissinen MN
48. Stephanie Niznik
Actress | Star Trek: Insurrection
Stephanie Niznik was an American actress from Bangor, Maine. Her home city is the third-most populous city in Maine, and former center for the lumber and shipbuilding industries. She was born in 1967.
Niznik received a Master of Fine Arts from the Duke University, located in Durham, North Carolina. ...
Stephanie Lynne Niznik SLN
49. Bailey Noble
Actress | True Blood
Bailey Noble was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She was raised there by her mother and father, Lynn and John Noble. She has one older sister, Casey Noble. Bailey is best known for portraying Adilyn Bellefleur on HBO's True Blood (2008). She's also known for Amazon's The Last Tycoon (2016), NBC's ...
Bailey Ann Noble BAN
50. Chelsea Noble
Actress | Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
Chelsea Noble was born on December 4, 1964 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002), Left Behind: The Movie (2000) and Growing Pains (1985). She has been married to Kirk Cameron since July 20, 1991. They have six children.
Nancy Chelsea Mueller NCM
51. Kathleen Nolan
Actress | The Real McCoys
Kathleen Nolan is an American actress and former president of the Screen Actors Guild. From 1957 to 1962, she played Kate McCoy, a housewife, on the television series The Real McCoys. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Nolan first appeared on stage on the showboat Goldenrod when she was 13 months old. ...
Jocelyn Kathleen Schrum JKS
52. Mary Nolan
Actress | Desert Nights
Blonde and utterly beautiful, Mary Nolan had the requisite figure and prettiness to rise up fast in the Hollywood ranks. Her downfall, however, would be just as fast and not at all pretty.
She was born Mary Imogene Robertson in 1905 and began her show-business career as a teenage model. Showman ...
Mary Imogene Robertson MIR
53. Kate Norby
Actress | The Devil's Rejects
Kate Norby was born on August 1, 1976 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Devil's Rejects (2005), Big Love (2006) and Mad Men (2007). She has been married to Thomas Nelson Martin III since June 7, 2009.
Katherine Winifred Norby KWN
54. Lucille Norman
Actress | Carson City
Lucille Norman was a professional singer first and then transfered over to films in mostly second female leads except with "Randolph Scott" in "Carson City" in 1952 where she played his leading lady. Soon after she retired from movies and later in life she became the companion and part-owner/...
Lucille Pharaby Boileau LPB
55. Maidie Norman
Actress | What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Maidie Norman was born Maidie Ruth Gamble on October 16, 1912, in Villa Rica, Georgia, to Louis and Lila Gamble. She received a B.A. from Bennett College in 1934 and a master's degree from Columbia University three years later. She also attended the Actors Lab in Hollywood from 1946 to 1949.
Norman ...
Maidie Ruth Norman MRN
56. Mabel Normand
Actress | Mickey
Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag. She co-starred with both Chaplin and Roscoe "...
Mabel Ethelreid Normand MEN
57. J.J. North
Actress | Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfolds
Tiny, but buxom, shapely, and voluptuous 5'2" blonde bombshell Janey Jaye North appeared in a handful of entertainingly trashy low-budget straight-to-video exploitation pictures made throughout the 1990's. J.J. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in New Jersey. She attended Monclair ...
Janey Jaye North JJN
58. Sheree North
Actress | Breakout
Sheree North was born on January 17, 1932 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Breakout (1975), Lawman (1971) and The Shootist (1976). She was married to Phillip Alan Norman, Dr. Gerhardt Ralph Sommer, John M. "Bud" Freeman and Frederick Arnold Bessire Jr.. She died on ...
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59. Brandy Norwood
Actress | I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Brandy Norwood is an African-American singer-songwriter and actress from McComb, Mississippi. She is known for her roles in Moesha, Osmosis Jones and Cinderella. She has released many R&B albums and singles since the 1990s. She is known as "The Vocal Bible". She gave birth to a daughter named ...
Brandy Rayana Norwood BRN
60. Eva Novak
Actress | Lure of the Yukon
As a fetching, shapely silent screen co-star, Eva Novak would be best known for her early work as cowboy Tom Mix's love interest in ten of his popular westerns. Although she sparked a number of florid dramas and light comedies with other top actors of the day, in retrospect it was with Mix with ...
Eva Barbara Novak EBN
61. Kim Novak
Actress | Vertigo
Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even ...
Marilyn Pauline Novak MPN
62. Betty Noyes
Soundtrack | Singin' in the Rain
Betty Noyes was born on October 11, 1912 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Singin' in the Rain (1952), Cinderella (1965) and I Love Lucy (1951). She died on December 24, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Elizabeth Noyes Hand ENH
63. Carol Nugent
Actress | The Lusty Men
Carol Lou Nugent was born on July 7, 1937 in Los Angeles, California and is the elder daughter of Lucille Nugent and Carl Nugent. Her father was a property master for MGM and her mother later became a talent agent, managing Carol's career, along with that of her younger sister, Judy Nugent.
Carol ...
Carol Lou Nugent CLN
64. Judy Nugent
Actress | Annette
American child actress of the 1950s, on screen from the age of three. Judy Nugent was the daughter of MGM prop man Carl Nugent and his wife Lucille Jane Redd (1916-2004), also a former child actress (in early Our Gang comedies) who later worked as a theatrical agent and was stage mother to her ...
Judy Ann Nugent JAN
65. Alice Nunn
Actress | Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Very little is known about Alice Elizabeth Nunn with the exception that she appeared in one of the 1980s most famous films, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985), as the infamous truck driver, 'Large Marge'.
She was born on October 10, 1927 in Jacksonville, Florida to parents N.G. Nunn and Alice Bush. ...
Alice Elizabeth Nunn AEN
66. Maila Nurmi
Actress | Vampira
The original glamour ghoul herself, "Vampira", of late night 1950s television, was actually born Maila Syrjäniemi (later changed to the easier surname Nurmi) on December 11, 1922 in Gloucester, Massachusetts (not Finland as she often claimed). Her uncle was the multiple Olympic medal runner Paavo ...
Maila Elizabeth Syrjaniemi MES
67. Carrie Nye
Actress | Creepshow
Born to play Tennessee Williams, her harsh beauty, caustic humor and throaty tones were unmistakable and reminiscent of a bygone era that once idolized Tallulah Bankhead and Marlene Dietrich. Her old-fashioned stylings were perhaps too theatrical or indulgent to make a noticeable dent on film or TV...
Carolyn Nye McGeoy CNM
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