Actors
by life_pursuits | created - 13 Apr 2018 | updated - 1 week ago | Public
1. Bill Mumy
Actor | Babylon 5
Along with his most impressive list of television/film credits, Bill is also a very talented well-known musician, songwriter, recording artist, as well as writer. He plays guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, percussion and sings. He has released three solo CDs, 1997's "Dying To Be ...
2. Maxwell Jenkins
Actor | Lost in Space
Maxwell Jenkins is an American actor renowned for his dynamic roles in both television and film. Known widely for portraying Will Robinson in the Netflix series Lost in Space (2018)Lost in Space over its three seasons, Jenkins has also appeared as young Jack Reacher in the Amazon series Reacher (...
3. Neil Diamond
Soundtrack | The Jazz Singer
Neil Leslie Diamond was born in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City, on January 24, 1941. His father, Akeeba "Kieve" Diamond, was a dry-goods merchant. Both he and wife Rose were Jewish immigrants from Poland. The Diamond family temporarily relocated to Cheyenne, Wyoming, because of...
4. Jamie Foxx
Actor | Collateral
Jamie Foxx is an American actor, singer and comedian. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor, BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, for his work in the biographical film Ray (2004). The same year, he was nominated for the Academy...
5. Santiago Cabrera
Actor | Big Little Lies
Santiago Cabrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Chilean parents, and grew up in London, Romania, Toronto, and Madrid. Although he considers Santiago, Chile, his hometown, he splits his time between London and Los Angeles.
Cabrera is a classically trained actor, having studied at London's ...
6. Jonathan Frakes
Actor | Star Trek: First Contact
Jonathan Scott Frakes was born in Bellefonte, central Pennsylvania. He is the son of Doris J. (Yingling) and Dr. James R. Frakes, a professor. His parents moved with Jonathan and his younger brother Daniel to Bethlehem in eastern Pennsylvania. There, his father taught English at Lehigh University, ...
7. Eliza Taylor
Actress | The 100
Australian actress Eliza Taylor is perhaps best known for anchoring the drama THE 100 as 'Clarke Griffin' on The CW for 7 seasons. Since the show's onset, Eliza made waves playing the network's first openly bisexual lead character. In the film space, Eliza starred in the indie thriller THUMPER ...
8. Bob Morley
Actor | The 100
Bob Morley was born on December 20, 1984 in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and director, known for The 100 (2014), Love Me (2021) and Home and Away (1988). He has been married to Eliza Taylor since May 5, 2019. They have one child.
9. Kiefer Sutherland
Actor | 24
Kiefer Sutherland was born in London, England, UK, to Canadian actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland, who moved to California shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who was a Premier of Saskatchewan for over 17 years and led ...
10. Colin Ford
Actor | We Bought a Zoo
The "Supernatural" kid isn't so supernatural. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, he soon aspired to the career of acting at the age of 4, where he first got his modeling job in Atlanta, Georgia. He broke into feature films at the age of 5 where he played as Clinton Jr, in "Sweet Home Alabama". He made ...
11. Jean-Claude Van Damme
Actor | Double Impact
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...
12. Kris Van Damme
Actor | Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Kristopher van Varenberg (aka "Kris Van Damme") is the first son of martial arts/action superstar, Belgian-born actor Jean-Claude Van Damme with fitness expert/actress Gladys Portugues. Kristopher has a younger sister, Bianca Van Damme and another brother with Van Damme's ex-wife Darcy LaPier, ...
13. Charlie Rowe
Actor | Rocketman
Charlie Rowe was born on April 23, 1996 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Rocketman (2019), Angelyne (2022) and Vanity Fair (2018).
14. Ben Hardy
Actor | X-Men: Apocalypse
Ben Hardy was born Ben Jones on 2 January 1991 in England, United Kingdom. He grew up in Sherborne and attended The Gryphon School.
Ben starred in The Judas Kiss (1998) play, written by David Hare, in 2012 and played the character Arthur Wellesley, a member of the hotel staff. The play was held in ...
15. Stephen Amell
Actor | Arrow
Stephen Amell is a Canadian actor, known for portraying Oliver Queen / Green Arrow in the Arrowverse television franchise (based on the comic character of the same name) and Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016).
Stephen Adam Amell was born on May 8, 1981 in Toronto,...
16. 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, ...
17. Marc Singer
Actor | The Beastmaster
A production of the William Shakespeare's "Richard III" with Sir Laurence Olivier that Marc's dad took him to see as a boy made a lasting impression, though he didn't start acting himself until a teacher recruited him to fill a suddenly-vacant role in his junior year of high school. However, as the ...
18. Tom Berenger
Actor | Platoon
Born in Chicago, Oscar nominee and Golden Globe and Emmy Award winner Tom Berenger was born Thomas Michael Moore and raised in a working class Roman Catholic family of Irish descent. His father was a printer for the Chicago Sun-Times. Tom attended the University of Missouri to study journalism. ...
19. Sean Bean
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Sean Bean's career since the eighties spans theatre, radio, television and movies. Bean was born in Handsworth, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to Rita (Tuckwood) and Brian Bean. He worked for his father's welding firm before he decided to become an actor. He attended RADA in London and appeared in a ...
20. Paul Walker
Actor | The Fast and the Furious
Paul William Walker IV was born in Glendale, California. He grew up together with his brothers, Caleb and Cody, and sisters, Ashlie and Amie. Their parents, Paul William Walker III, a sewer contractor, and Cheryl (Crabtree) Walker, a model, separated around September 2004. His grandfather, William ...
21. Michael Jai White
Actor | Black Dynamite
Michael Jai White is an American actor and martial artist who has appeared in numerous films and television series. He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film Spawn. White ...
22. Gabriel Bateman
Actor | Lights Out
Within a couple of months of auditioning, Gabriel Bateman appeared in several commercials and print ads and booked a pilot and a feature film. Gabriel is the youngest of eight children, most of whom love creative arts. His four older brothers are Justin Bateman, Aleq Bateman, Noah E. Bateman, and ...
23. Talitha Eliana Bateman
Actress | Annabelle: Creation
Talitha is the youngest girl of eight. Like her older sister, Leah Bateman, she loves being goofy and enjoying life. She has four older brothers, Justin, Aleq, Noah E. Bateman, and Judah Bateman, a little brother, Gabriel Bateman, and two older sisters, Hannah Bateman and Leah.
Among her notable ...
24. Christian Convery
Actor | Sweet Tooth
Christian Convery has landed his position among young actors to watch working alongside some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Christian, now 14, is best known for playing the title character in the chart-topping, award winning Netflix series, Sweet Tooth. Produced by Robert Downey Jr and Susan ...
25. Wentworth Miller
Actor | Prison Break
Wentworth Miller is a compelling and critically acclaimed actor whose credits span both television and feature film.
Wentworth Earl Miller III was born June 2, 1972 in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, to American parents, Joy Marie (Palm), a special education teacher, and Wentworth Earl Miller...
26. Dominic Purcell
Actor | Blade: Trinity
Dominic was born in England, to a Norwegian father and Irish mother. At the age of two, Dominic and his family moved from England to Sydney's Bondi and then moved to the Western Suburbs. After trying his hand at landscape gardening he decided to become an actor whilst watching the war movie Platoon...
27. Christian Michael Cooper
Actor | Supernatural
A dedicated performer, Christian Michael Cooper has worked in the industry since his debut commercial at thirteen months. Residing in British Columbia, Christian's list of accomplishments include commercials, films, and reoccurring roles on popular series including Cult, The Crossing, and The Order...
28. Travis Fimmel
Actor | Warcraft
Travis Fimmel was born near Echuca, Victoria, Australia, to Jennie, a recreation officer for the disabled, and Chris, a cattle farmer. He was raised on a 5500-acre farm located between Melbourne and Sydney. Until the age of seventeen, his life was spent at school and working on the family farm, ...
29. Walker Scobell
Actor | The Adam Project
Born into a military family, Walker has lived all over from sunny California to the mountains of Colorado. Walker learned to love acting in elementary school drama class and through his wonderful experience in a middle school play. After a trip to California, he decided to pursue a career in acting...
30. Rosa Salazar
Actress | Alita: Battle Angel
Rosa Bianca Salazar is an American actress. Born in Washington DC, she was raised in Greenbelt, Maryland, but left as a teenager to break into the entertainment industry in New York City. She is best known for her role in the NBC series Parenthood (2010) and the FX anthology series American Horror ...
31. Liliana Mumy
Actress | Cheaper by the Dozen
Liliana Mumy was born in San Marcos, California. Her father is actor Bill Mumy. Among his many roles, her father appeared as a child in the 1961 The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life". Liliana appeared with her father, as his child, in the revival series' 2003 sequel episode "It's Still a ...
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