Biographies of American actors and actresses from film and television, covering Hollywood legends, character actors, and rising stars. Each profile explores early life, family, acting career, filmography, and notable roles.
American actors
Billy Dee Williams is an American actor and visual artist best known as Lando Calrissian in Star Wars. Born in New York City on April 6, 1937, he had already become a prominent leading man in Black cinema before joining the franchise. His career spans Broadway, film, television, voice acting,
American actors
Anthony Quinn was the Mexican-American actor Anthony Quinn (1915–2001), a two-time Academy Award winner best known to many viewers as Alexis Zorba in Zorba the Greek. If you have just seen him in a classic film, you likely noticed his forceful physical presence, rough warmth, and ability
American actors
Woody McClain is an American actor, producer, and digital creator known for playing Bobby Brown in BET’s *The New Edition Story* and Cane Tejada in *Power Book II: Ghost*. Viewers who recognize him from a recent clip often know him as Cane, the volatile Tejada family member in the
American writers
Vahe Berberian is an Armenian-American writer, actor, director, and visual artist whose work includes theater, books, screen projects, and painting. He is widely known for Armenian-language stage performances and sharply observed solo work that finds humor and feeling in family life, diaspora experience, language, and changing traditions. If
American actors
Tony Curtis was a major American film actor who became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, he moved from studio-made matinee-idol roles into sharp comedy, tough drama, and historical spectacle. He died on September 29,
Photography
Sean Flynn usually refers to Sean Leslie Flynn (1941–1970), Errol Flynn’s son: an actor who became a war photojournalist and disappeared in Cambodia in April 1970 while traveling with photographer Dana Stone. No confirmed account of what happened to either man has been established. A different Sean Flynn,
American actors
Richard Ray Whitman is an Indigenous actor known publicly through film and television cast credits, particularly in Westerns, frontier dramas, and stories involving Native American characters. Viewers are most likely to recognize his name in supporting casts for films such as *Dances with Wolves*, *Dead Man*, and *The Missing*. Public
American actors
Mickey Knox was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, and author whose career began in 1930s Hollywood and continued through later television and film work. He first became recognizable in tough-guy and juvenile roles, then built a second career as a writer after the Hollywood blacklist disrupted his acting opportunities.
American actors
Michael Madsen was an American character actor best known for Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs, Budd in Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Sonny Black in Donnie Brasco, and Jimmy Lennox in Thelma & Louise. He died on July 3, 2025, at age 67; the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner ruled the
American actors
Matthew Gray Gubler is the American actor, director, filmmaker, illustrator, author, and voice performer best known as Dr. Spencer Reid on CBS’s *Criminal Minds*. He played the FBI behavioral analyst from 2005 to 2020, and the role made him widely familiar to television audiences. His work also includes directing
American actors
Mary Woronov is an American actor, visual artist, and writer best known for her work in Andy Warhol’s 1960s Factory scene and in cult films from the 1970s and 1980s. On screen, she made a specialty of sharp, intimidating, or darkly funny characters, from punk-rock school principals to
Modern art
Marjorie Cameron, usually known professionally as Cameron, was an American visual artist and actor whose intricate drawings, paintings, and experimental-film appearances made her an important figure in postwar Los Angeles art. She was also Jack Parsons’s widow, but her life and work cannot be reduced to that marriage