Faces of the LAPD and the Barn
by muybueno16 | created - 06 Jan 2014 | updated - 29 Oct 2022 | PublicPeeps from Die Hard, Bosch, Heat, SWAT (2017), Training Day film/show, Street Kings, End of Watch, LA Dragnet, Law & Order: LA, The Closer/Major Crimes and The Shield as well as other various films and shows.
101. Jay Harrington
Actor | Better Off Ted
Jay Harrington was born on November 15, 1971 in Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Better Off Ted (2009), American Reunion (2012) and Summerland (2004). He is married to Monica Richards.
102. David Lim
Actor | S.W.A.T.
David Lim is an Asian-American actor, raised in San Ramon, California. After receiving a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California San Diego, David worked as a loan officer. He decided he wanted to do something different, and soon after, signed a contract with Ford Models ...
103. Patrick St. Esprit
Actor | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Patrick St. Esprit was born on May 18, 1954 in the USA. He is an actor, known for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), Green Zone (2010) and We Were Soldiers (2002).
104. Stephanie Sigman
Actress | Miss Bala
Stephanie Sigman is a Mexican actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2011 crime drama film Miss Bala. She has gone on to appear in Pioneer (2013), Spectre (2015), Going Under (2016), and Annabelle: Creation (2017). On television, Sigman starred as Valeria Vélez in the first and second seasons of...
105. Lou Ferrigno Jr.
Actor | Outer Banks
Lou Ferrigno Jr. is an American dramatic and comedic actor. Beginning his career in entertainment as a fitness model, Ferrigno Jr. quickly transitioned to roles in commercials, Tv, and films. He's best known for his work on S.W.A.T. (2019), 9-1-1 (2018), How I Met Your Mother (2013), and Outer ...
106. Amy Farrington
Actress | S.W.A.T.
Amy Farrington was born in Boston, Massachusetts but raised in Garland, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. After attending a musical theatre conservatory program, she worked in local and regional theatres before moving to Chicago. In Chicago, she performed at several theaters including the Bailwick ...
107. Otis Gallop
Stunts | S.W.A.T.
He grew up in a small town in Northern Maine, Left Maine his Senior year in High School and moved to Ft. Walton Beach High School when his father was hired to work on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana. He Graduated from Fort Walton High School and moved back to Maine where he joined the U.S. ...
108. Louis Ferreira
Actor | Bad Blood
Louis Ferreira has spent more than 30 years performing recognizable roles in award-winning film and television productions, garnering him countless accolades along the way.
Ferreira had a recurring role on the TV series Shōgun (2024) for Amazon Studios. Prior to that, he was in the highly ...
109. Michael Marc Friedman
Actor | Dirty Cops
Mike was born and raised in Philadelphia, and later moved to New York where he studied theatre and Classical languages at Fordham University. He then attended The Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan and is proud to be a Lifetime Member of The Actor's Studio. Mike's working class roots in ...
110. Mark Derwin
Actor | Accepted
Mark James Derwin was born in Park Forest, Illinois. Mark Derwin is an actor, best known for roles in Accepted (2006), Guiding Light (1952) The Secret Life of an American Teenager (2008) How I Met Your Mother (2005) and One Life to Live (1968). Mark Derwin was previously married to Alecia Derwin ...
111. Troy Evans
Actor | Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Troy Evans was born on February 16, 1948 in Missoula, Montana, USA. He is an actor, known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), Under Siege (1992) and Demolition Man (1993). He is married to Heather McLarty.
113. DaJuan Johnson
Actor | Bosch
DaJuan Johnson is known for Bosch (2014), Grey's Anatomy (2005) and Agent Carter (2015).
114. Burt Bulos
Actor | Fatal Attraction
Burt Bulos was born in Staten Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Fatal Attraction (2023), The Lady Killers (2017) and Bosch (2014).
115. 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...
116. Jamie Hector
Actor | Bosch
The Brooklyn-born actor Jamie Hector may be best known for his role as Marlo Stanfield on the critically acclaimed HBO series "The Wire". He now plays Detective Jerry Edgar on the Amazon hit series "BOSCH". Jamie studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. He is also the founder of ...
117. Amy Aquino
Actress | Working Girl
Born in New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia, veteran actress Amy Aquino stars in the Amazon hit series "Bosch." Aquino plays Lt. Grace Billets, immediate superior and close friend of homicide detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) at LAPD's Hollywood Division. The series returns for its sixth ...
118. Lance Reddick
Actor | John Wick
Incisive, intense, multi-talented American actor Lance Solomon Reddick was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the younger of two sons, to Solomon Reddick and public schoolteacher Dorothy Gee. Having opted initially for a career in music, he attended first the Peabody Preparatory Institute and the Walden ...
119. Annie Wersching
Actress | The Last of Us
This talented actress was born Anne Marie Wersching and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She opted early on for a life in the entertainment industry, performing in community theatre and later as a dancer for some fourteen years with a troupe called the St. Louis Celtic Stepdancers. After moving to ...
120. Scott Klace
Actor | The Pursuit of Happyness
Scott Klace was born on January 9, 1961 in Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), Deja Vu (2006) and The Onion Movie (2008).
121. Iris Almario
Actress | Tales of the Walking Dead
Iris Almario has emerged on-screen and beyond as an accomplished Actress, Host, Model, Social Media Influencer and true Animal Advocate.
Originally from New York, this natural beauty of Colombian Puerto Rican descent, has proven as talented as she is diverse. Most recently, audiences caught Iris in ...
122. Rose Rollins
Actress | The L Word
Rose Rollins was raised in Yonkers, New York, growing up with five brothers. She is an accomplished actress who has garnered attention on both the big and small screens.
Rollins now stars in ABC's The Catch opposite Mireille Enos. The series centers on a gutsy female forensic accountant who exposes ...
123. Randy Vasquez
Actor | What You Wish For
Randy grew up on the beaches and baseball fields of southern California and in the mountains and basketball courts of North Carolina as a result of his parents divorce. His father, Ralph, was a high school business teacher and accountant in Escondido. His mother, Joyce, from North Carolina, was a ...
124. Robbie Jones
Actor | Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Robbie Jones was born on September 25, 1977 in California, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor (2013), Hellcats (2010) and Hurricane Season (2009).
125. James Ransone
Actor | It Chapter Two
James Ransone attended Carver Center for Arts and Technology in Towson, Maryland from 1993-1997. The school is a "magnet school" that allows students to specialize in subjects such as theater, dance, writing, fine arts, and film as well as all the required academic classes. Ransone specialized in ...
126. Jacqueline Pinol
Actress | Bosch
Jacqueline Pinol was born in Queens, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Bosch (2014), Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020) and Spider-Man (2018). She is married to Jonny Blu. They have one child.
127. Nestor Serrano
Actor | The Day After Tomorrow
Nestor Serrano was born on November 5, 1955, in The Bronx, N.Y. He was born to father, Nestor Serrano and mother Regina Rosario who both arrived from Puerto Rico and consequently met in The Bronx. Nestor worked for The Bank of New York for two years as a computer operator from the age of eighteen ...
128. Brooke Smith
Actress | The Silence of the Lambs
Brooke Smith grew up in New York in the shadow of show business owing to the fact that she is the daughter of powerful publicist Lois Smith. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, her "first big thing" was playing Catherine Martin, the abducted young girl in The Silence of the ...
129. Nicholas Gonzalez
Actor | The Good Doctor
Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an American actor. He is best known for playing the roles of Alex Santiago on the Showtime television series Resurrection Blvd. and Dr. Neil Melendez on the ABC television series The Good Doctor. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Gonzalez is conversant in Spanish, having lived...
130. Paul Calderon
Actor | King of New York
Paul Calderon was born in 1959 in Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for King of New York (1990), Four Rooms (1995) and Pulp Fiction (1994). He has been married to Catherine E Salsich since 1986. They have two children.
131. Al Pacino
Actor | Serpico
Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.
He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...
132. Mykelti Williamson
Actor | Forrest Gump
Perhaps best remembered for his touching performance as "Bubba" opposite Tom Hanks in the Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump (1994), Mykelti Williamson is one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood, who has been steadily honing his craft since he first began acting professionally at the age ...
133. Wes Studi
Actor | The Last of the Mohicans
From small-town Oklahoma native to internationally acclaimed actor and musician, Wes Studi credits his passion and multi-faceted background for his powerful character portrayals that forever changed a Hollywood stereotype. Within a few years of his arrival in Hollywood, Studi caught the attention ...
134. Ted Levine
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Born in May 1957 in Bellaire, Ohio, he was among the last graduating class of the Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Massachusetts. Attended Marlboro College in Vermont. Performed in summer stock and regional theaters in Vermont, Michigan and West Virginia before settling in Chicago and joining The ...
135. Jerry Trimble
Actor | Heat
Jerry Trimble was born in Newport, Kentucky. He was an insecure, fearful and bullied kid. At age 14 he was inspired by Bruce Lee and began studying Taekwon-Do. In six months he began teaching the art. At 15, Jerry earned the rank of first-degree black belt and became the number one point fighter in...
136. Winter Ave Zoli
Actress | Hellboy
Winter Ave Zoli was born in New Hope, Pennsylvania. At 11 she moved with her family to Prague, Czech Republic, where she was able to fully plant her Czech roots from her fathers side of the family. She attended middle school and high school at the International School of Prague. She developed a ...
137. Cynthia Kaye McWilliams
Actress | The Lake House
Cynthia Kaye McWilliams was born in Berlin, Germany, grew up primarily in Kansas City, Kansas and graduated from the prestigious Theater School of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. Just out of college, Cynthia booked a supporting role in Warner Brothers' The Lake House, followed by a ...
138. 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 ...
139. Ethan Hawke
Actor | Training Day
Ethan Green Hawke was born on November 6, 1970 in Austin, Texas, to Leslie Carole (Green), a charity worker, and James Steven Hawke, an insurance actuary. His parents were students at the University of Texas at the time but divorced when Ethan was 5 years old. His mother raised him alone for the ...
140. Raymond J. Barry
Actor | Just Married
Raymond J. Barry was born in New York, and attended Brown University, where he was a star athlete in football, basketball, and track. While there, he earned his degree in Philosophy and as a senior, was cast in the stage production of "Picnic," where he played a football player. He then entered the...
141. 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. ...
142. Dr. Dre
Soundtrack | Training Day
Considered by many to be hip-hop's greatest producer, Dr. Dre (b. André Young, February 18, 1965) pioneered gangsta hip-hop and his own variation of the sound, dubbed G-Funk. His very early albums were violent but cautionary tales of the criminal mind, but Dre's records with NWA celebrated the ...
143. Nick Chinlund
Actor | The Chronicles of Riddick
Nick Chinlund was born and raised in New York City. He left the city to play basketball at Brown University, but his hoops career was cut short when he suffered an injury during his freshman year. He stayed at Brown and took up acting classes, and realized it was his true calling. He graduated from...
144. Jaime Gomez
Actor | Training Day
Jaime Gomez was born and raised in the Southern California sunshine. College was for the studying of art history and literature as well the history of the world and his personal favorite, philosophy. Jaime has had a successful acting career spanning 20 years. He's best known for his role in the hit...
145. Peter Greene
Actor | The Mask
Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1965. He discovered acting in his mid 20s in New York, where he was trained at Lee Strasberg's studio. Then his deep voiced, tall and pale persona showed up on TV and films in 1990. His first leading roles were in Laws of Gravity (1992) and Clean, Shaven (1993), the...
146. Terry Crews
Actor | Idiocracy
Terry Crews was born in Flint, Michigan, to Patricia and Terry Crews Sr. He earned an art excellence scholarship to attend Western Michigan University and also earned a full-ride athletic scholarship to play football. Crews was an All-Conference defensive end, and was a major contributor on the ...
147. Katrina Law
Actress | Arrow
Ever since she was a child growing up in South Jersey, Katrina Law had more energy than she knew what to do with. Her mother (being the brilliant mother that she is) recognized this at an early age and enrolled Katrina in a variety of activities ranging from dance and gym classes to karate lessons,...
148. Justin Cornwell
Actor | The Umbrella Academy
Justin Michael Cornwell began his professional acting career at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater after studying theater at the University Of Louisville . Growing up in his grandmother's video store Justin started acting at a young age when he was cast as the lead in a middle school play. He took ...
149. Bill Paxton
Actor | Aliens
Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World ...
150. Drew Van Acker
Actor | Last Survivors
Drew Van Acker was born in Omaha, Nebraska, but grew up in Medford, New Jersey. He began acting in high school drama classes, where he also played multiple sports. His abilities led him to a scholarship at Towson University in Maryland. While attending Towson, Drew took a number of theater courses ...
151. Christina Vidal
Actress | See No Evil
Christina Vidal was born on November 18, 1981 in Whitestone, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for See No Evil (2006), The Guilty (2021) and Life with Mikey (1993). She has been married to Marcus Mitchell since September 25, 2016. They have two children.
152. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Actress | Without a Trace
Marianne Raigipcien Jean-Baptiste is an English actress. She is known for her role in the 1996 comedy-drama film Secrets & Lies, for which she received acclaim and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the Golden Globe and BAFTA Award in the same category. ...
153. Keanu Reeves
Actor | The Matrix
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patric Reeves, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese...
154. 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...
155. Hugh Laurie
Actor | House M.D.
Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Son of an Olympic gold medalist in the sport, he rowed for the England youth team (1977) and for ...
156. Chris Evans
Actor | The Avengers
Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. ...
157. Jay Mohr
Actor | Go
Jay Mohr, born in Verona, New Jersey, USA, wanted to be a comedian all of his life. He performed stand-up comedy at colleges, comedy clubs, and such television forums as An Evening at the Improv (1981) and Two Drink Minimum (1994). He first gained national attention while a cast member on Saturday ...
158. John Corbett
Actor | My Big Fat Greek Wedding
John Corbett is an American actor who received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor, for his role as Chris Stevens in Northern Exposure (1990), and a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Aidan Shaw in Sex and the City (...
159. Amaury Nolasco
Actor | Prison Break
Amaury Nolasco was born in Puerto Rico. He is an actor and producer, known for Prison Break (2005), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and Transformers (2007).
160. Daryl Gates
Actor | Street Kings
Founder of the SWAT team and Chief of the Los Angeles Police department for longer than any other Chief in the history of the Los Angeles Police department. Daryl Gates was born on August 30, 1926 in California. He is considered one of the most influential leaders in LAPD history and was famous for...
161. Clifton Powell
Actor | Ray
Clifton Powell a graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an actor and producer, known for the films Ray, Selma Lord Selma, Dead Presidents, and Menace 2 Society, and the TV series The Family Business, Sacrifice, and Saints & Sinners. Clifton has two children, Maya and Clifton Jr...
162. Patrick Gallagher
Actor | Night at the Museum
Patrick Gallagher was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada, and grew up in Chilliwack, BC. He is of Irish and Chinese descent. Gallagher graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1993. He began his career in Toronto working in the theater, in film and on television. In ...
163. Jake Gyllenhaal
Actor | Nightcrawler
Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal, the son of producer/screenwriter Naomi Foner and director Stephen Gyllenhaal, and the younger brother of actress Maggie Gyllenhaal. He is of Ashkenazi Jewish (mother) and Swedish, English, and ...
164. David Hoflin
Actor | Z: The Beginning of Everything
David Hoflin was born on February 25, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015), Crossbones (2014) and Bosch (2014). He has been married to Natalie Hoflin since January 4, 2013.
165. Tamberla Perry
Actress | They Cloned Tyrone
Tamberla Perry was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for They Cloned Tyrone (2023), APB (2017) and The Tam and Kevin Show (2022).
166. Ryan Ahern
Actor | Unstoppable
Ryan Ahern was born on December 26, 1984 in Portland, Maine, USA. He is an actor, known for Unstoppable (2010), Unbroken (2014) and Argo (2012).
167. James Hsu
Actor | The Laundromat
Having always been naturally talented and gifted in the arts, the performing arts were never even an interest until he attended The Academy of Art in San Francisco California. As a computer arts major, he was encouraged to take a communications course in order to improve his public speaking. It was...
168. Jamie McShane
Actor | Thor
Jamie McShane stars in Tim Burton's smash-hit Netflix series Wednesday. The show spins off the iconic Addams Family series, following Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega) and is written by Al Gough & Miles Millar. Jamie plays Sheriff Galpin, who has a vendetta against the Addams family.
Jamie ...
169. Mark Herrier
Actor | Porky's
Mark Herrier was born and raised in Lompoc California. At the age of 10, his mother took him to Santa Barbara to see a movie. When he found out it was something called The Music Man (1962), he reluctantly agreed to watch it anyway. Little did he know that Robert Preston's performance was about to ...
170. Carlos Miranda
Actor | The Bling Ring
Carlos Miranda is known for The Bling Ring (2013), Warrior (2011) and End Trip (2019).
171. Madison Lintz
Actress | The Walking Dead
Madison Lintz was born on May 11, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia. She began her acting career when she was only 6 years old. She had been in a few commercials and voice-overs and did a commercial for a national Golden Corral spot which aired all over the country. Her big acting break came when she got ...
172. Denise G. Sanchez
Actress | Bosch: Legacy
Denise Sanchez was born in Connecticut, where she spent her childhood and teenage years. She earned a degree in broadcast journalism before changing course and moving to NYC to pursue a modeling career. While living in Manhattan she fell in love with acting, ultimately leading her to leave New York...
173. Michael Rose
Actor | Bosch: Legacy
Michael Rose is an American actor. His film roles include the upcoming Places Please with Jessica Lange slated for release in 2024, The 24th, Ride Along 2, Unthinkable, Need for Speed and opposite Andrew Scott in the crime thriller, A Dark Place. Among Michael's major recurring guest star roles are...
174. Danielle Larracuente
Actress | This Is Me... Now: A Love Story
Emerging Actress Danielle Larracuente was born on February 25th, 1992 in Cortlandt Manor, New York. She is the daughter of Carmen D. Sabater and Israel Larracuente Jr. Both her parents are of Puerto Rican descent and retired NYPD officers. Danielle is a sister to three brothers. One of her idols ...
175. Hugo Armstrong
Actor | Roman J. Israel, Esq.
Hugo Armstrong is known for Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017), Room 104 (2017) and Lucky (2017).
176. Jason Dirden
Actor | Greenleaf
Jason Dirden was born on August 23, 1980 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor, known for Greenleaf (2016), Elementary (2012) and The Start of Dreams (2010). He has been married to Anika Noni Rose since October 16, 2022.
177. Moronai Kanekoa
Actor | Bosch
Moronai Kanekoa is known for Bosch (2014), Maui (2017) and Castle (2009).
178. Tara Buck
Actress | True Blood
Tara Buck has built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut from tragedy, comedy, farce, to fantasy. Tara is best known for her role as Ginger, on HBO's gritty Southern vampire drama, True Blood (2008). She first appeared in season one of the series as a guest star and after quickly becoming a fan ...
179. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine
Actor | Dead Ringers
The Los Angeles Times listed Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as one of the biggest breakout stars of Sundance 2020, and he was awarded (the coveted) Best Actor at the 2020 Durban International Film Festival for his lead performance in Ekwa Msangi's award-winning film "Farewell Amor." Mwine was also singled ...
180. Reggie Watkins
Actor | 9-1-1
Reggie Watkins was born and raised in San Jose, CA, and has been passionate about acting from the very start. He even performed in the Kids Skits Theater Company in Denver, CO, which gave him a solid foundation. Reggie later went on to play collegiate football as a wide receiver until a torn ACL ...
181. Brigitte Kali Canales
Actress | Fear the Walking Dead
Brigitte Kali Canales is a Latin-American actress of Mexican, Cuban, Spanish descent. She grew up in Miami but spent most of her early years in New York City. She was part of the Musical Theater division at New World School of the Arts, a reputable magnet high school in Miami. She then attended ...
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