Actors
- Gillian Jacobs, actress best known for her role on the NBC sitcom Community.
- Jessica Alba, actress, mother is of partial French-Canadian ancestry
- Dennis Deveaugh, first-generation French-American actor and stuntman
- Renée Adorée, French-born American actress
- René Auberjonois, (1940–) Tony Award-winner, American character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Tina Aumont, California-born actress, father was an immigrant from France
- Alec Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers, mother is of French-Canadian ancestry
- Daniel Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers, mother is of French-Canadian ancestry
- Stephen Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers, mother is of French-Canadian ancestry
- William Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers, mother is of French-Canadian ancestry
- Eric Balfour, actor, Portraying Milo Pressman in 24, of French and Russian ancestry
- Lucille Ball (1911–1989) actress, mother was of partial French heritage
- Adrienne Barbeau (1945 –) 1980s B-movie actress, father is of French-Canadian ancestry
- Jean-Marc Barr, French-American film actor and director
- Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), American/Canadian actor with Roy Rogers
- Hugh Beaumont, Celebre Actor with large filmography, father was of French ancestry
- Marcheline Bertrand, Actress of French-Canadian ancestry, mother of actress Angelina Jolie
- Pierre Bellocq, French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist
- Jessica Biel (1982 –) American actress of German, English, Choctaw, and French descent.
- Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker who was the first female director in the motion picture industry
- Joan Blondell (1906–1979) American actress. Her father Eddie was of French descent.
- Caprice Bourret (1971 –) French American actress, and model.
- Charles Boyer (1899–1978) film actor, immigrant from France
- Jules Brulatour, a pioneering figure in U.S. silent cinema
- Merritt Cabal (1977 –) Model of cajun descent.
- Mary Cadorette, former American actress
- Dean Cain, American actor.
- Trishelle Cannatella (1979 –) American actress, and model of Cajun ancestry.
- Leslie Caron (1931 –) film actress and dancer was born in France
- Charisma Carpenter (1970 –) American actress.
- Lacey Chabert (1982 –) Actress.
- Lon Chaney, Sr., silent film actor
- Lon Chaney, Jr., actor and son of Lon Chaney, Sr.
- David Charvet, French-born American actor and singer, husband of Brooke Burke
- Lilyan Chauvin, French-born actress
- Robert Clary (1926 –) actor, published author, and lecturer
- Buffalo Bill Cody, of French Huguenot ancestry
- Claudette Colbert, French-born actress.
- Bud Cort (1948 –) actor
- Phil Cousineau, author, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker
- Joan Crawford, actress, her father was of partial French Huguenot ancestry
- Lili Damita, French-born actress
- Julie Delpy (1969 –) actress, immigrant from France
- Robert De Niro, one of the most acclaimed actors all-time, 2 time Academy Award winning actor 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Dutch and German and 1/4 French
- Ellen DeGeneres, actress, talk-show host, father is of French Canadian descent
- Emily Deschanel, actress and daughter of famous cinematographer Caleb Deschanel
- Zooey Deschanel, actress and daughter of famous cinematographer Caleb Deschanel
- Arielle Dombasle (1958 –) singer and actress working primarily in the cinema of France
- Brad Dourif (1950 -) Actor, paternal grandparents were immigrants from France
- Fiona Dourif (1981 –) American actress of part French ancestry, daughter of Brad Dourif.
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus – She is the daughter of French businessman Gerard Louis-Dreyfus. She is best known for her roles in the series Seinfeld and The New Adventures of Old Christine.
- Val Dufour, Actor, Val is well known for his role of "Andre Lazar" on "The Edge of Night."
- Nicole duFresne (1977–2005) playwright and actress
- Josh Duhamel, (1972 –), actor, father is of partial French-Canadian ancestry
- Tiffany Dupont (1981 –) French American actress known for the film "One night with the king".
- James Duval, actor, probably most famous for his roles in Donnie Darko as Frank and as Singh in Go, both parents are of partial French ancestry
- Robert Duvall, French Paternal Ancestry,
- Jon Favreau, father is of partial French-Canadian ancestry
- Jorja Fox, actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
- Megan Fox (1986 –) American actress.
- Eva Le Gallienne, Actress
- Brittny Gastineau (Nov.1983 –) American actress, and model. The daughter of former NFL player Mark Gastineau, and Lisa Gastineau.
- Ava Gaudet, Actress, well known for portraying Beckett 'Becks' Scott in Ugly Betty
- Richard Gautier, actor
- Robert Goulet (1933–2007) actor/singer
- Adrian Grenier, actor
- Zach Grenier, Actor
- Anne Hathaway (1982 –) film actress. Of mostly Irish and French ancestry.
- Teri Hatcher (1964 –) American actress of partial French ancestry famous for her role of Louis Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Susan Mayer in Desperate Housewives. She is also a "Bond Girl", having played Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997.
- Kyle Hebert, voice actor
- Van Heflin, Actor
- Frances Heflin, Actress
- Angelina Jolie (1975 –) actress
- Victoria Justice (1993 –) American actress of French, and, Puerto Rican descent
- Minka Kelly (1980–) American actress best known for her role of Lyla Garrity on NBC's Friday Night Lights. Her biological father is aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay born in France
- Shia LaBeouf (1986 –) actor, Cajun father
- Sabrina Le Beauf (1958–) Actress,French Creole Most notable role as Sandra on the Cosby show.
- Christopher Lambert (1957 –) actor
- Cynthia Lamontagne, Actress
- Dorothy Lamour (1914–1996) film actress, mother was of French Cajun ancestry
- John Larroquette, Emmy Award-winning film and television actor
- Alfred LaRue, (1917–1996) Actor
- Eva LaRue (1966 –) Actress best known for portraying Natalia Boa Vista on CSI: Miami. She was also on a Daytime Drama ("soap") for many years. Ovarian cancer advocate.
- Taylor Lautner (1992 –) actor/martial artist
- Eva Le Gallienne, well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century
- Christian LeBlanc (1958–) two-time Emmy Award-winning American actor
- Matt LeBlanc (1967–) American actor most famously known as Joey Tribbiani on the show Friends, father was of French-Canadian heritage.
- Adam LeFevre, Actor (Taxi)
- Harry Lennix, Suspect Zero, 24
- Jennifer LeRoy, Adult film actress, actress and Model
- Hal LeSueur, actor and brother of Joan Crawford, his father is of partial French Huguenot ancestry
- Jon Lormer, French-American actor
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, two-time Emmy Award-winning American actress
- Brook Mahealani Lee (1971 –) Eurasian model. Former miss Hawaii, Miss USA, and Miss Universe 1997
- J. P. Manoux, Marquant Actor, Phil of the Future, Angel, Smallville, Scrubs, Charmed, and Crossing Jordan.
- Mike Marshall (actor), French-American actor, son of director William Marshall and half-brother of Tonie Marshall
- Tonie Marshall, French-American actress, son of director William Marshall and half-sister of Mike Marshall (actor)
- Christopher Meloni (1961 –) actor, mother is of French-Canadian heritage
- Rosita Marstini (1887–1948) dancer, stage personality, silent and sound film actress from Nancy, France
- Rose McGowan (1973 –) American actress best known for Charmed of Irish paternal and French maternal ancestry.
- Meiling Melançon, actress
- Adolphe Menjou (1890–1963) famous actor in numerous movies, especially from the 1920s–1940s
- Jesse Metcalfe (1978) American Actor who played John Rowland in Desperate Housewives, father is of partial French ancestry
- Yvette Mimieux (1942–), American actress, of French and Mexican ancestry.
- Wentworth Miller, father is of African American, Jamaican, German, English, and Jewish ancestry, and mother is of Russian, French, Dutch, Lebanese and Syrian descent.
- Victor Pépin Circus master with the Circus of Pépin and Breschard
- Tyrone Power, actor, mother was of part French-Canadian descent, father was of partial French Huguenot ancestry
- Dennis Quaid, Actor, of French Cajun and Irish ancestry
- Maggie Quigley (1979–) Is a Euro-Asian American actress and former fashion model, she is known for Mission Impossible III and Balls of Fury
- Mickey Rourke, Actor, essentially of French and Irish heritage
- Brandon Routh, Actor, of partial French heritage
- Carol Roux, Actress
- Kiele Sanchez (1977 –) actress
- Reni Santoni, film, television and voice actor
- Ashley Sawdaye, Actor of Iraqi Jewish, French-Israeli descent.
- April Scott (1977 –) American actress of French, Native American, and Spanish ancestry.
- Michael Sinterniklaas (1972 –), voice actor
- Tom Sizemore (1961 -), actor of maternal French ancestry.
- Leelee Sobieski (1983 –) film actress, father is an immigrant from France
- Shannyn Sossamon (1978–) Born in Honolulu, Hawaii she is an American actress of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, Irish, Filipino and German descent
- Tiffany Taylor (porn star), pornographic actress of Pakistani and French descent.
- Charlize Theron (1975–) Born in South Africa. Is an American actress of French Huguenot, Dutch, and German descent.
- Justin Theroux, Actor, screenwriter and director, father is of French-Canadian and Italian heritage.
- Beth Toussaint, Actress, Red Eye
- Michael Vartan, famous actor
- Odette Annable (1985 –) American actress of Cuban and French/Italian (by way of Colombia) descent.
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