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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".
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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".
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Person | 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,...
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Person | 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...
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Gilligan's Planet | ||||
| Deceased Person | The New Adventures Of Gilligan | ||||
| Jim Backus |
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Gilligan's Planet | ||||
| Film writer | The New Adventures Of Gilligan | ||||
| Deceased Person | I Married Joan | ||||
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| Russell Johnson |
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Gilligan's Planet | ||||
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| Bob Denver | Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Far Out Space Nuts | ||||
| Deceased Person | The Good Guys | ||||
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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 ...
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| Rachel Griffiths |
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Person | Brenda Chenowith | Six Feet Under |
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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| Film actor | Brothers & Sisters | ||||
| Freddy Rodriguez |
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Person | Gio | Ugly Betty |
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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| Film actor | Federico Diaz | Six Feet Under | |||
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| Lauren Ambrose |
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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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| Film actor | The Return of Jezebel James | ||||
| Frances Conroy |
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Person | 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. Frances is of Irish and...
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| Michael C. Hall |
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Person | David Fisher | Six Feet Under |
Michael Carlyle 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...
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| Dexter Morgan | Dexter | ||||
| Peter Krause |
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Casey McCall | Sports Night | |||
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| Michael Richards |
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Person | Cosmo Kramer | Seinfeld |
Michael Anthony Richards (born July 24, 1949) is an American comedian and actor best 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...
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| Film actor | Fridays | ||||
| TV Program Creator | The Michael Richards Show | ||||
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| Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | Watching Ellie | ||||
| Comedian | The New Adventures of Old Christine | ||||
| SNL cast member | Curb Your Enthusiasm | ||||
| SNL actor | Day by Day | ||||
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| Jason Alexander |
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Person | George Costanza | Seinfeld |
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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| Film actor | Bob Patterson | ||||
| TV Director | Duckman | ||||
| SNL host | Everything's Relative | ||||
| Jerry Seinfeld |
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Person | 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...
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| Lauren Graham |
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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...
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| Film actor | Lush Life | ||||
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| Alexis Bledel | Person | 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 as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls, as well as the film Tuck Everlasting, Sin City, and The Sisterhood of...
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| Melissa McCarthy | Person | Sookie St. James | Gilmore Girls |
Melissa McCarthy (born August 26, 1970) is an American actress known for her portrayal of Sookie St. James on the television series Gilmore Girls. She currently plays the role of Dena on the ABC sitcom Samantha Who?.
McCarthy, a cousin of actress...
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| Film actor | Samantha Who? | ||||
| Keiko Agena |
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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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| Liz Torres |
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Person | 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...
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| Film actor | The New Odd Couple | ||||
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| Yanic Truesdale |
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Person | Michel Gerard | Gilmore Girls |
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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| Scott Patterson |
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Person | Luke Danes | Gilmore Girls |
Scott Gordon Patterson (born September 11 1958) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Luke Danes in Gilmore Girls and Agent Strahm in Saw IV.
Patterson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hope and Frank Patterson, an...
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| Film actor | Aliens in America | ||||
| Kelly Bishop | Person | Emily Gilmore | Gilmore Girls | ||
