Independent cinema
Carmen Llywelyn is an American actress best known for supporting appearances in 1990s films including Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Drawing Flies, and Freeway. She was married to actor Jason Lee from 1995 to 2001, and she later spoke publicly about her experience leaving the Church of Scientology. She should not be
American actors
Carmelita Geraghty was an American silent-era film actress whose screen career ran mainly through the 1920s and into the early sound period. Born March 21, 1901, in Rushville, Indiana, she appeared in feature films during the last major years of silent Hollywood before leaving acting; she died in Los
American actors
Carly Chaikin is an American actor best known as Darlene Alderson in USA Network’s *Mr. Robot* (2015–2019). Many viewers recognize her from that role because Darlene is central to the series’ emotional tension, fsociety and its shifting sense of reality. Before *Mr. Robot*, Chaikin was widely known as
American actors
Candy Clark is an American actress best known for playing Debbie Dunham in George Lucas’s *American Graffiti* (1973). Her lively, funny, and unexpectedly touching performance as Debbie earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress and remains the central reference point in her career. She later became
Photography
Burr McIntosh (1862–1942) was an American stage actor, photographer, writer, and publisher. *Burr McIntosh Monthly* was the illustrated periodical founded under his name, so a record bearing “Burr McIntosh” can refer to the man, his photographic work, or the magazine. His career brought together theatre, portrait photography, society journalism,
American actors
Buck Taylor is an American actor and Western painter, best known for playing Newly O’Brien on the later seasons of *Gunsmoke*. He is the son of character actor Dub Taylor, but he built his own long career in Westerns, historical dramas, contemporary television, and Western art. If you recognize
Photography
Brigid Berlin, also known as Brigid Polk, was a New York artist and a major presence in Andy Warhol’s Factory scene. Although she is often remembered as a Warhol Superstar, her own work—tape recordings, Polaroids, photographs, drawings, and “Tit Prints”—made an unusually intimate record of 1960s and
The Lives Behind the Roles: Biographies of American Actors and Actresses
Blake Pickett does not identify one verified public figure from the name alone. More than one person can use the name, and the available information does not establish which Blake Pickett you mean without the original context. To identify the right person, match the name to at least two details
Billy Zane is an American actor best known as Caledon “Cal” Hockley, Rose’s wealthy and controlling fiancé in James Cameron’s Titanic. Cal remains Zane’s defining popular-culture role because Titanic reached an enormous audience and has stayed widely seen, but it represents one part of a career
Billy Graham was a U.S. evangelical Christian preacher who became one of the best-known religious figures of the 20th century through huge public meetings, radio and television broadcasts, and international travel. He lived from 1918 to 2018 and preached that people are separated from God by sin but
The Bill Edwards most Tampa Bay readers mean is the St. Petersburg-based businessman associated with mortgage lending, live entertainment, the Mahaffey Theater, and local charitable activity. He is best known publicly through Mortgage Investors Corporation, Bill Edwards Presents, and his past and long-running connections to downtown St. Petersburg
Berry Berenson was an American photographer and actress, a member of the Berenson family, and the wife of actor Anthony Perkins. Born Berinthia Berenson, she built a professional photography career, appeared in films, and was the mother of Oz and Elvis Perkins. She was killed aboard American Airlines Flight 11
Benjamin Busch is an American actor, author, filmmaker, photographer, and U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Television viewers may know him as Officer Anthony Colicchio on HBO’s *The Wire*, while readers may know his memoir, *Dust to Dust: A Memoir*. His acting, visual work, and prose are distinct parts of
Ben Norris is a British actor with television, film and theatre credits, but he did not play Pete Brockman in *Outnumbered*. Pete, the father in the BBC comedy, was played by Hugh Dennis. Norris is associated with British television, including *The Bill*, and with Christopher Nolan’s *The Dark Knight*
Ben Easter is an actor credited in film and television productions. If you saw his name in a cast list, identify him by the specific title, release year, and role rather than by a generic search result: people with the same or similar name can be mixed into database results
Beata Pozniak, also credited as Beata Poźniak, is a Polish-American actor, voice artist, producer, writer, and advocate. Viewers may know her as Marina Oswald in Oliver Stone’s JFK; players may know her as Skarlet in Mortal Kombat 11; audiobook listeners may know her as the narrator of Olga
Barry Sonnenfeld is an American director, cinematographer, and producer best known for giving comedies and fantastical stories a carefully controlled visual style and dry, straight-faced humor. He began as a cinematographer before directing films, a shift that helps explain his attention to lenses, framing, camera movement, and production design.
Barret Oliver is the former child actor best known as Bastian Balthazar Bux in 1984’s The NeverEnding Story, and he is not generally known as an active screen actor today. After a busy run in 1980s films including D.A.R.Y.L. and Cocoon, he shifted into fine-
Barbara Swan (1922–2003) was an American artist known chiefly for portrait drawings and original prints, especially lithographs. Her work often depicts writers, artists, musicians, performers, and other cultural figures with close attention to expression, posture, and presence. If you have found her name on a print, gallery listing, auction