Actresses

Vella Lovell is an American actress, best known for playing Heather in The CW comedy-drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.[

Caroline Catz is an English film, television, theatre and radio actress, best known for her role as Louisa Glasson in ''Doc Martin'' since 2004. Born: October 19, 1970, Manchester, England ''Lorraine'' show, London, Sept 20 '17

Trace Lysette is an American actress, best known for her role of Shea on Transparent. Lysette is openly transgender. After initially auditioning for cisgender roles without disclosing her trans status, Lysette chose to come out during her audition for the Amazon series Transparent. She is best known for her role on the show, where she plays Shea, a transgender yoga teacher, friend and educator of Jeffrey Tambor's lead character Maura Pfefferman.After originally auditioning for the role of Davina, Transparent creator wrote the role of Shea for Lysette.The third season of Transparent contains a storyline in which Shea has a romantic relationship with a cis hetero man, …

Carrie Alexandra Coon (born January 24, 1981) is an American actress. On stage, Coon was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in the 2012 revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In film, she starred as Margo Dunne in the 2014 thriller film Gone Girl. From 2014 to 2017, she starred as Nora Durst in the HBO drama series The Leftovers, for which she received widespread critical acclaim, winning a Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. Coon also won for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, for The Leftovers and for her lead role as Gloria Burgle in the third season of the FX anthology series Fargo, along with a nominat…

Natalie Morales (born February 15, 1985) is an American actress. She starred in the ABC Family series The Middleman and had a main role on the first season of the USA Network series White Collar. In 2010, she appeared in the feature films Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Going the Distance. Morales also had a starring role in the Fox comedy series The Grinder. She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Morales had a guest appearance on CSI: Miami in 2006, and played a character in Pimp My Ride that year, a video game version of the MTV television series.Her first major role was in The Middleman, a sci-fi dramedy which aired on the ABC Fa…

Kelen Sadie Coleman (born April 19, 1984) is an American actress. She grew up in Potomac, Maryland and attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her father is multiple Grammy Award-winning bluegrass musician T. Michael Coleman.

Susan Kelechi Watson is an actress who is recognized for her work on the television show Louie.She currently stars in the 2016 NBC television dramedy series This Is Us as Beth Pearson.Watson had a recurring role on the television show Louie from 2012 through 2014. She has also had recurring roles on NCIS, The Following, and The Blacklist. She also appeared in a play at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City by playwright Richard Greenberg entitled A Naked Girl on Appian Way. She currently stars in the 2016 NBC television dramedy series This Is Us as Beth Pearson.

Ryan Michelle Bathe (pronounced ba-THAY, born July 27, 1976) is an American actress, known for her roles on television. Bathe has had guest starring roles in a number of television shows, include ER, Half & Half, Girlfriends, Brothers & Sisters, and How I Met Your Mother. She was regular cast member during the second season of the ABC legal drama series Boston Legal playing attorney Sara Holt. From 2009 to 2010, she had a recurring role on the short-lived NBC medical drama Trauma, and in 2011 had starring role in the TV Land sitcom Retired at 35.She had main roles in the independent films All About Us and April Moon. In 2012, Bathe co-starred opposite Kathe…

Samantha Jamie Bee (born October 25, 1969) is a Canadian-American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actress, media critic, and television host. Bee rose to fame as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, where she became the longest-serving regular correspondent.In 2015, she departed the show after 12 years to start her own show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. In 2017, Time named Bee one of the 100 most influential people in the world on their annual Time 100 list.

Tessa Lynne Thompson (born October 3, 1983) is an American actress and musician. She played Jackie Cook on the television series Veronica Mars, Sara Freeman in the period crime drama Copper, Nyla Adrose in the film For Colored Girls, civil rights activist Diane Nash in Selma, and Bianca in Creed. She stars as Charlotte Hale on the HBO series Westworld. Thompson was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised there and in Brooklyn, New York City.Her father, singer/songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson of the musical collective Chocolate Genius, Inc., is of Afro-Panamanian descent and her mother is of Mexican and European descent.She attended Santa Monica High School and then …

Yara Sayeh Shahidi (Persian: (یارا (سایه) شهیدی‎‎; Persian pronunciation: [jɑːɾɑː sɑːje ʃæhiːdiː]; born February 10, 2000) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Zoey Johnson on the sitcom Black-ish.Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a mother, Keri Salter Shahidi, of African-American and Choctaw descent, and an Iranian-American father, Afshin Shahidi, a photographer.The family moved to California for Afshin's work, when Yara was 4. She is the older sister of child actor and model Sayeed Shahidi, and they have a younger brother, Ehsan.The rapper Nas is their cousin.Keri Shahidi said the name Yara translates to "someone who is capable to…

Actress and singer Ruby Modine currently co-stars in the seventh season of Showtime's critically acclaimed television series Shameless. She is also in production on the Blumhouse feature film Half to Death and has completed production on the indie horror feature Central Park. Earlier this year, she starred in and recorded music for the short film Super Sex, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Interested in acting at a young age, Modine began taking drama and music classes before appearing as a child in the short film Smoking, written by David Sedaris. Since then, she has also co-starred in Rabbit Bandini's "A Visit from the Goonsquad," directed by Shandor G…

Born 1989, the daughter of a magazine editor and a surgeon Kirby was turned down by Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and took a gap year travelling before studying English at Exeter University. She then turned down her place at LAMDA in London after she was signed up to an agency and met the theatre director David Thacker who gave her three starring roles over 2009 at the Octagon Theatre Bolton in All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare. For All My Sons she won the BIZA Rising Star Award at the Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards, worth £5000. She then went on to star at the National Theatre as Isabella in…

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Ashleigh Monique Murray (born January 18, 1988) is an American actress and singer. She is known for portraying Josie McCoy on The CW television series Riverdale. In 2016, Murray landed a series regular role in the CW's teen drama Riverdale, portraying Josie McCoy, “a gorgeous, snooty and ambitious girl who is the lead singer for the popular band Josie and the Pussycats”. Murray starred, and played the title role, in the Netflix movie Deidra & Laney Rob a Train in 2017. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017. It was released on March 17, 2017 by Netflix. Recently, Murray joins Chloe Bennet, Logan Paul, and Jessie Ennisin MGM’s…

Samira Wiley (born April 15, 1987) is an American actress and model. She is best known for playing Poussey Washington in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black and for playing Moira in the Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the latter.

Clare Maree Bowen (born 12 May 1984) is an Australian actress and singer, best known for her role as Scarlett O'Connor in the ABC/CMT musical-drama television series Nashville. Her parents Tony and Kathleen worked for Qantas and she spent time overseas as a child, including a stint with her family in Zimbabwe. Bowen is a cancer survivor, having had the disease between the ages of four and seven. She lived in Stanwell Park on the South Coast of New South Wales and attended primary school in Dulwich Hill, a suburb of Sydney. Bowen has a younger brother, Timothy, who is a musician. Bowen attended the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, where she received …

Jama Williamson was born in Evansville, IN and graduated Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Communications and Theater. After graduation, she moved to New York City and attended Circle in the Square acting conservatory. After several stints Off-Broadway including the world premieres of Avery Crozier's "Eat the Runt," "Spanish Girl," and the cult hit musical, "Debbie Does Dallas" directed by Erica Schmidt, she landed a lead in Manhattan Theater Club's Broadway play, "Losing Louie" directed by Jerry Zaks. Shortly after her Broadway debut, she and her husband Curtis Mark Williams (former actor and inventor of Belly Buds) moved to Los Angeles, where…

Kelsey Scott is an actress and writer, known for How to Get Away with Murder (2014), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Fear the Walking Dead: Passage (2016).

Natalia Cordova-Buckley was born on November 25, 1982 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. She is an actress and producer, known for Bates Motel (2013), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot (2016) and McFarland, USA (2015).

Karimah Westbrook is an American television and film actress. After crashing an audition and snagging a role in the Paramount box office hit Save the Last Dance (2001), she has never looked back. A Chicago native, the youngest of two, Westbrook was inspired by actress Whoopi Goldberg growing up. After falling in love with the theater, she realized she had a strong desire to perform and decided to pursue an acting career. She attended schools such as The Academy of Dramatic Arts-West. Westbrook earned recognition for her performance as Ginnie in the Sony Classics critically acclaimed bio-pic Baadasssss! (2003) opposite actor/director Mario Van Peebles. Baadasssss! (20…

Shannon Purser (born June 27, 1997) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the Netflix drama series Stranger Things as Barbara "Barb" Holland, and portrays Ethel Muggs in The CW's teen drama series Riverdale.She made her film debut as June Acosta in the 2017 horror film Wish Upon. Purser made her acting debut in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things. She portrayed the character Barbara Holland, an intelligent and outspoken girl, who is the best friend of Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer). Despite her only being a minor character, several outlets called Barb one of their favorite characters.This role brought Purser to international fame,and ea…

Melanie Jayne Lynskey (born 16 May 1977) is a New Zealand actress. She received critical acclaim for her screen acting debut as Pauline Parker in Heavenly Creatures (1994), which was followed by supporting roles in Ever After (1998), Coyote Ugly (2000), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), and Shattered Glass (2003). Subsequent film parts include Flags of Our Fathers (2006), Away We Go (2009), Up in the Air (2009), The Informant! (2009), Win Win (2011), and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012). In 2012, Lynskey transitioned into leading roles with the film Hello I Must Be Going (2012), followed by Happy Christmas (2014), The Intervention (2016), and I Don't Feel at Home in Th…

Dorthea Lauren Allegra Lapkus (born September 6, 1985) is an American actress and comedian, best known for portraying Dee Dee in the NBC sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? and Susan Fischer in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black.She has also made appearances on such television shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Middle, Hot in Cleveland, and @midnight.She is also known for her many podcast appearances, including Comedy Bang! Bang!, improv4humans, and her own podcast With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus.She was a main cast member on the TBS original sitcom Clipped. After almost a year in Los Angeles, Lapkus began landing roles in a number of commercials, includin…

Laverne Cox is an American actress and LGBT advocate.She became known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black, for which she became the first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category,and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990.In 2015, she won a Daytime Emmy Award in Outstanding Special Class Special as Executive Producer for Laverne Cox Presents: The T Word.This made her the first openly transgender woman to win a Daytime Emmy as an Executive Producer; as well, The T Word is the first trans documentary to win a Daytime E…