Actors and Crew with the Best Names EVER

1. Finn Wolfhard

Actor | It

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, actor Finn Wolfhard stars as Mike Wheeler in the critically acclaimed Netflix Original Series Stranger Things (2016). The hit series has received various accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a ...

2. Boaty Boatwright

Casting_director | The Man Who Would Be King

3. Moon Bloodgood

Actress | Terminator Salvation

Moon Bloodgood was born on September 20, 1975 in Alliance, Nebraska, USA. She is an actress, known for Terminator Salvation (2009), Faster (2010) and The Sessions (2012). She was previously married to Grady Hall.

4. Benedict Cumberbatch

Actor | The Imitation Game

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...

5. Rene Auberjonois

Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss ...

6. China Kong

Writer | Wild Side

China Kong is known for Wild Side (1995), White of the Eye (1987) and Donald Cammell: The Ultimate Performance (1998). She was previously married to Donald Cammell.

7. Armin Shimerman

Actor | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Armin Shimerman was born on November 5, 1949 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), The Hitcher (1986) and BioShock (2007). He has been married to Kitty Swink since May 16, 1981.

8. Joe Bagadonuts

Surviving Edged Weapons

Joe Bagadonuts is known for Surviving Edged Weapons (1988) and The Unexplained (1996).

9. Granville Van Dusen

Actor | Soap

Granville Van Dusen was born on March 16, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Soap (1977), The West Wing (1999) and Space: Above and Beyond (1995). He has been married to June Ellen Lommen since September 3, 1966. They have two children.

10. Cush Jumbo

Actress | The Good Wife

Cush Jumbo is a British actress and writer best known for playing Lucca Quinn in The Good Wife. She was Olivier nominated for the role of Marc Anthony in Phyllida Lloyd's all-female production of Julius Caesar (Donmar Warehouse/St Anns Warehouse NYC) and won an Evening Standard Award for writing ...

11. 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 ...

12. Hy Pyke

Actor | Blade Runner

Hy Pyke is an American character actor born in Los Angeles, California, in 1935. He majored in theater at the UCLA in the 60s, appearing in numerous student films, including one for Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of The Doors. From the UCLA, Pyke continued to a career as a character actor in low-budget,...

13. Titus Welliver

Actor | The Town

Titus Welliver was born on March 12, 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a famous landscape painter, Neil Welliver. His mother was a fashion illustrator, Norma Cripps. He has three brothers, one was killed overseas. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and...

14. Burn Gorman

Actor | Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Burn Gorman was born on September 1, 1974 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018). He has been married to Sarah Beard since July 2004. They have three children.

15. Mamie Gummer

Actress | The Lifeguard

Mamie Gummer was born on August 3, 1983 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Lifeguard (2013), Ricki and the Flash (2015) and The Ward (2010). She has been married to Mehar Sethi since February 2019. They have two children. She was previously married to Benjamin Walker.

16. Tallulah Bankhead

Actress | Lifeboat

Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from June 4, 1936, to September 16, 1940. Tallulah had been interested in acting and, at age ...

17. Rawson Marshall Thurber

Director | Red Notice

Rawson Marshall Thurber was born on February 9, 1975 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Red Notice (2021), Easy A (2010) and Skyscraper (2018). He is married to Sarah. They have three children.

18. Swoosie Kurtz

Actress | Bubble Boy

Swoosie is the only child of author Margo and Frank Kurtz. As her father was a colonel in the U.S. Air Force, she moved often during her school years, living in eight different states. At the University of Southern California she majored in drama; later she attended the London Academy of Music and ...

19. Skip Collector

Editor | Seinfeld

Skip Collector is known for Seinfeld (1989), Happily Divorced (2011) and Less Than Perfect (2002).

20. Worth Keeter

Director | Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Worth Keeter is a Film and Television Director. He has directed 20+ feature films and 100+ television episodes. In his career Worth Keeter has directed projects for CBS, Disney, Fox TV, Sci Fi Network, USA Network and many others. As Vice President in Charge of Production for EO Studios, Worth ...

21. Evangeline Lilly

Actress | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Evangeline Lilly, born in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, in 1979, was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia, by the famous Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help pay for her University of ...

22. Peewee Love

Actor | Clockers

Peewee Love is known for Clockers (1995), Malcolm X (1992) and Crooklyn (1994).

23. Adam Pinkstaff

Transportation_department | The Host

Adam Pinkstaff was born on September 12, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Host (2013), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Spiderhead (2022).

24. Yana Nirvana

Actress | Another 48 Hrs.

Yana Nirvana was born on May 24, 1953 in the USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Another 48 Hrs. (1990), Brewster's Millions (1985) and Cinderella (1977).

25. Jag Mundhra

Director | Bawandar

Jag Mundhra was born on October 29, 1948 in Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar, India. He was a director and writer, known for Bawandar (2000), Shades of Gray (1997) and The Jigsaw Murders (1989). He died on September 4, 2011 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

26. Boti Bliss

Actress | CSI: Miami

Film and TV actress Boti Bliss had a unique childhood growing up in a teepee in Aspen Colorado without electricity or running water. At the age of 16, she ran away to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. It wasn't long after arriving in Hollywood that she started landing parts in TV shows and ...

27. Tantoo Cardinal

Actress | Wind River

Actress Tantoo Cardinal is a Member of the Order of Canada, one of the country's highest civilian honors. The order recognizes Cardinal for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in Canada.

Arguably the most widely recognized Native Actress of her generation, ...

28. Peter Bonerz

Director | The Bob Newhart Show

Bonerz was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Elfrieda (née Kern) and Christopher Bonerz. He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he attended Marquette University High School. Here, performing with the Prep Players, he gained his first theatrical experience. At Marquette University, he ...