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TV Actor

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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 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,...
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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...
Film actor   Gilligan's Planet
Deceased Person   The New Adventures Of Gilligan
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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...
Film actor   Gilligan's Planet
Film writer   The New Adventures Of Gilligan
Deceased Person   I Married Joan
Impersonated celebrity
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  The New Adventures Of Gilligan
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Deceased Person   The Good Guys
  Dusty's Trail
  Gilligan's Planet
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Mathew St. Patrick Mathew St. Patrick as Keith Charles Person Keith Charles Six Feet Under
Mathew St. Patrick (born March 17, 1968) is an American actor. He has starred as Adrian Sword 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 ...
  Reunion
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Rachel Anne Griffiths (born 18 December 1968) is an Australian Golden Globe- and SAG Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated film and television actress known primarily for her roles in movies, soap opera, and television. She...
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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...
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  Teen Titans
Lauren Ambrose Lauren Ambrose Person 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...
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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. Frances is of Irish and...
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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...
Film actor Casey McCall Sports Night
  Dirty Sexy Money
  The Lost Room
Michael Richards Person Cosmo Kramer Seinfeld
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus Person Elaine Benes Seinfeld
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Film actor   Watching Ellie
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Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an American television, cinema and musical theatre comedic actor, best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld. Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New...
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TV Director   Duckman
SNL host   Everything's Relative
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Film writer
Film producer
TV Program Creator
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Lauren Graham Person 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, the daughter of Donna...
Film actor   Lush Life
  NewsRadio
  Townies
  Celebrity Poker Showdown
Alexis Bledel   Person Rory Gilmore Gilmore Girls
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Film actor
Melissa McCarthy   Person Sookie St. James Gilmore Girls
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Keiko Agena Person 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...
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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...
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  The John Larroquette Show
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Yanic Truesdale, born on March 17, 1970 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Michel Gerard in the TV series Gilmore Girls, a role that prompted Daily Variety to name him one of "10 Actors to Watch". ...
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Kelly Bishop   Person Emily Gilmore Gilmore Girls