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A TV actor is anyone who has portrayed a character on a TV show.  People performing in "non-character" roles such as "game show host" or "news anchor" or "sports announcer" should be typed using "TV personality". more

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Dawn Wells Topic Mary Ann Summers Gilligan's Island
Dawn Elberta Wells (born October 18, 1938, in Reno, Nevada) is an American actress, best known for her television work in the 1960s, particularly her role as Mary Ann Summers on the sitcom Gilligan's Island, which first ran on CBS from 1964-1967, and has been continuously rerun in American television markets over the subsequent decades. The "Mary Ann" character was based on the "Dorothy" character of The Wizard of Oz, a typical American girl stranded in an exotic locale. Dawn's fresh, wholesome...
Person   Gilligan's Planet
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Tina Louise Ginger Grant as portrayed by Tina Louise Topic Ginger Grant Gilligan's Island
Tina Louise (born February 11, 1934) is an American model, singer and actress. She is best known for her role as "movie star" Ginger Grant on the TV sitcom Gilligan's Island. She was born in New York City, an only child, and attended the Miami University of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio. She began her career as a model and nightclub singer while she studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Her acting debut came in 1952 in the Bette Davis musical revue Two's Company, followed by roles in other Broadway...
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Natalie Schafer Topic Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell Gilligan's Island
Natalie Schafer ( – ) was an America actress. Born to a Jew family in Red Bank, New Jersey, Schafer began her career as an actress on Broadway before moving to Los Angeles in 1941 to work in films. She played several supporting roles during the 1940s (such as a "Mrs. Howell"-like wife of a German officer in the 1942 film Reunion in France) and 1950s, and also appeared most notably in The Snake Pit (1948) and Anastasia (1956) while returning to New York City to live and work between film roles....
Person   Gilligan's Planet
Film actor   The New Adventures Of Gilligan
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Jim Backus Topic Thurston J. Howell III Gilligan's Island
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913—July 3, 1989) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike, III, of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's I Married Joan, James Dean's father in Rebel Without a Cause, and Thurston Howell, III, on the 1960s hit sitcom Gilligan's Island. He also starred in his own show of one season, The Jim Backus Show, also...
Person   Gilligan's Planet
Film actor   The New Adventures Of Gilligan
Film writer   I Married Joan
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Russell Johnson Russell Johnson as The Professor on Gilligan's Island Topic The Professor Gilligan's Island
Russell David Johnson (born November 10, 1924, in Ashley, Pennsylvania), is an American television and film actor best known as "The Professor" on the CBS television sitcom Gilligan's Island. He is a graduate of Girard College, a private boarding school in Philadelphia, PA. After high school, in the midst of the Second World War, Johnson joined the United States Army Air Forces as an aviation cadet. He flew 44 combat missions as a bombardier in B-25 Mitchell bombers. During the war, his plane...
Person   Gilligan's Planet
Film actor   The New Adventures Of Gilligan
TV Actor
Bob Denver   Topic Gilligan Gilligan's Island
Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver (January 9 1935 – September 2 2005) was an American comedic actor best known for his role as Gilligan on the television series Gilligan's Island. Prior to Gilligan's Island, he took on the role of Maynard G. Krebs, a beatnik on the 1959-1963 TV series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. This character had a strong resemblance to the character of Gilligan he would later play. Denver was born in New Rochelle, New York, and reared in Brownwood in central Texas. He...
Person   Far Out Space Nuts
TV Actor   The Good Guys
Film actor   Dusty's Trail
Deceased Person   Gilligan's Planet
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Mathew St. Patrick Mathew St. Patrick as Keith Charles Topic Keith Charles Six Feet Under
Mathew St. Patrick (born March 17, 1968) is an American actor. He has starred in the television soap opera All My Children (1998-2000), starred (2001-2005) as Keith Charles on HBO drama Six Feet Under, was the first voice of Skulker (2004) on Danny Phantom and starred as the principal detective in the Fox fall drama, Reunion (2005).
Person   Reunion
TV Actor
Rachel Griffiths Rachel Griffiths as Brenda Chenowith Topic Brenda Chenowith Six Feet Under
Rachel Anne Griffiths (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated film and television actress known primarily for her roles in movies, soap opera, and television. She is perhaps best known for her role as Brenda Chenowith in Six Feet Under. Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Griffiths grew up in Melbourne with her art consultant mother and two older brothers. After earning a Bachelor of Education degree in drama and dance at...
Person   Brothers & Sisters
Film actor
TV Actor
Freddy Rodriguez Freddy Rodriguez by David Shankbone Topic Federico Diaz Six Feet Under
Freddy Rodriguez (born January 17, 1975) is an American actor known for playing the characters Hector Federico "Rico" Diaz on HBO's Six Feet Under and El Wray in the Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. Currently, he is a recurring cast member on the series Ugly Betty. Rodriguez was born in Chicago, Illinois to Puerto Rican parents. He is a graduate of Lincoln Park High School in Chicago. His first recognizable role on film was when he landed the part of Pedro Aragon, Jr. in A Walk in the Clouds...
Person Gio Ugly Betty
Film actor   Teen Titans
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Lauren Ambrose Lauren Ambrose Topic Claire Fisher Six Feet Under
Lauren Ambrose (born Laura Anne D'Ambruoso, 20 February 1978) is an American film and television actress, best known for portraying the character Claire Fisher on the popular HBO drama Six Feet Under. Ambrose was born in New Haven, Connecticut of Italian descent on her father's side, and attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, Wilbur Cross High School, High School in the Community, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven. She is also a trained opera singer...
Person   The Return of Jezebel James
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Frances Conroy Frances Conroy as Ruth Fisher in Six Feet Under Topic Ruth Fisher Six Feet Under
Frances Conroy (born November 13, 1953) is an Emmy-nominated, Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning American actress. Conroy was born in Monroe, Georgia to a business executive father and a mother who also worked in business. Conroy studied drama at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Juilliard School in New York City. During the 1970s, she performed regularly with regional and touring theatrical companies (most notably The Acting Company), and appeared in an off-Broadway production of Othello...
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Michael C. Hall Michael C. Hall as David Fisher in Six Feet Under Topic David Fisher Six Feet Under
Michael Carlisle Hall (born February 1 1971) is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, best known for his roles as David Fisher in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and the title character of the Showtime series Dexter. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, Hall grew up an only child, a sister having died in infancy before his birth. When he was 11 his father died of cancer, and in a 2004 interview he recalled, Hall attended Ravenscroft School in Raleigh, graduating from high...
Person Dexter Morgan Dexter
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Peter Krause Peter Krause as Nate Fisher on Six Feet Under Topic Nate Fisher Six Feet Under
Peter William Krause (; born August 12 1965) is a Emmy- and Golden Globe Award-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American film and television actor and film producer. He is perhaps best known for his lead roles as Nate Fisher on the popular HBO drama Six Feet Under and Nick George on the ABC dramedy, Dirty Sexy Money. Peter Krause was born in Alexandria, Minnesota. Growing up in Roseville, he was a skilled track and field athlete, but he suffered an unfortunate pole vault injury...
Person Casey McCall Sports Night
TV Actor   Dirty Sexy Money
Film actor   The Lost Room
Michael Richards Topic Cosmo Kramer Seinfeld
Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American comedian and actor known for his portrayal of the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television series Seinfeld, a role which earned him three Emmy Award. Richards began his career as a stand up comedian, first stepping into a national spotlight when he was featured on Billy Crystal's first cable TV special. He went on to become a series regular on ABC's Fridays. Prior to Seinfeld, he made numerous guest appearances on a variety of...
Person   Fridays
Film actor   The Michael Richards Show
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Topic Elaine Benes Seinfeld
Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American Emmy-, Golden Globe-, and SAG Award-winning actress and comedienne who gained popularity playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld in the 1990s. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine. Louis-Dreyfus was born in New York City to a wealthy family known for owning the Louis Dreyfus Group, a French commodities trading and merchandising firm. Her mother, Judith, is a...
Person   Watching Ellie
Film actor   The New Adventures of Old Christine
TV Actor   Curb Your Enthusiasm
  Day by Day
Jason Alexander Topic George Costanza Seinfeld
Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an award-winning American television, cinema and musical theatre comedic actor, perhaps best known for his role as George Costanza on the hit television series Seinfeld. Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Ruth Minnie (née Simon), a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B. Greenspan, an accounting manager. He has a half-sister, Karen Van Horn, and a half-brother, Michael Greenspan. Alexander is a...
Person   Bob Patterson
Film actor   Duckman
TV Actor   Everything's Relative
TV Director
Jerry Seinfeld Topic Jerry Seinfeld Seinfeld
Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born on April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. He is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running situation comedy, Seinfeld, (1989 - 1998), which he co-created, helped write and, in the show's final two seasons, executively produced. He also starred as "Barry B. Benson" in the film Bee Movie, his first major...
Person   Benson
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Lauren Graham Topic Lorelai Gilmore Gilmore Girls
Lauren Helen Graham (born March 16, 1967) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Lorelai Gilmore on the long-running television series Gilmore Girls. Graham, an Irish American, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Donna Grant, a fashion buyer, and Lawrence Graham (Lauren is named after him), a candy industry lobbyist who was the former President for the chocolate and confection industry association. Her parents divorced when she was five, prompting Graham and her father to move...
Person   Lush Life
Film actor   NewsRadio
TV Actor   Townies
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Alexis Bledel   Topic Rory Gilmore Gilmore Girls
Kimberly Alexis Bledel (born September 16, 1981) is an American actress and former fashion model. She is known for her role in the television series Gilmore Girls, as well as the film Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. She goes by her first name, "Kimberly", with family and friends, but is known professionally as Alexis Bledel. Bledel was born in Houston, Texas. Her father, Martín Bledel, is Argentinian, and her mother, Nanette, is Mexican. She has one...
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Melissa McCarthy   Topic Sookie St. James Gilmore Girls
Melissa McCarthy (born on August 26, 1970) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls. McCarthy, a cousin of actress Jenny McCarthy, was born in Plainfield, Illinois. Her career started with stand-up comedy and includes film, television, and theatre. She also had small roles in the films The Kid, Charlie's Angels, Go and The Life of David Gale. She also did voice work in three episodes of Kim Possible where she played DNAmy....
Person   Samantha Who?
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TV Actor
Keiko Agena Topic Lane Kim Gilmore Girls
Christine Keiko Agena (born October 3, 1973) is an American actress. She is known professionally as Keiko Agena. Keiko Agena (pronounced KAY-koh ah-GE-nah) was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is Japanese American. She began theatre acting at the age of ten. Agena has two cats. She has attended Mid Pacific Institute on the island of O‘ahu and Whitman College for one year as a drama major. She enjoys riding her motorcycle around Los Angeles and participating in an Asian-American theatre company...
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Liz Torres Liz Torres Topic Miss Patty Gilmore Girls
Elizabeth "Liz" Torres (born on September 27, 1947) is an actress, singer, and comedian of Puerto Rican descent. Torres' was born in the Bronx section of New York City where her parents had settled after moving from Puerto Rico. There she received her primary and secondary education. Torres started her career as a comedian and singer working the city's night club circuit with her friend Bette Midler. In 1971, she was spotted doing one of her acts by the producer of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show...
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