Actors and Actress
- John Aasen – (1890–1938) American silent film actor, one of the tallest actors in history.
- Jean Arthur - (1900–1991) American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s
- Nina Arvesen – American actress of Norwegian extraction, best known for her performances on American soap operas.
- James Cagney – (1899–1986) American actor, first on stage, then in film
- Richard Dean Anderson – American television and film actor, producer and composer.
- James Arness – ( 1923;– 2011) American actor, best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon in the television series Gunsmoke
- Dorothy Arnold – (1917–1997) American film actress .
- Jennifer Connelly – American film actress
- Erika Christensen – American actress
- Arlene Dahl – American actress and former MGM contract star. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas.
- Kristin Darnell – American actress and model
- Tom Drake – (1918–1982), American actor.
- Josh Duhamel - American actor and former fashion model
- Linda Eder – American singer and actress
- Dana Elcar – (1927–2005) American television and movie character actor.
- Linda Evans – American actress
- Bob Fosse – (1927–1987) American actor, dancer, musical theater choreographer, director, screenwriter, film editor and film director.
- Peter Graves (actor) – (1926–2010) American film and television actor.
- Sigrid Gurie – (1911–1969) Norwegian-born motion picture actress from the late 1930s to early 1940s
- Carmine Giovinazzo – American actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Danny Messer in CSI: NY. He is of Norwegian and Italian descent
- Melanie Griffith – American actress.
- June Havoc – (1912–2010) Canadian-born American actress, dancer, writer, and theater director
- Lance Henriksen – American actor and artist
- Celeste Holm – (1917–2012) American stage, film, and television actress
- Jon-Erik Hexum – (1957–1984) American model and actor.
- Marta Kristen – American actress
- Kira Kener – retired American pornographic actress.
- Lorenzo Lamas – American actor and reality television participant
- Carole Landis – (1919–1948) American film and stage actress
- Gypsy Rose Lee – (1914–1970) American burlesque entertainer famous for her striptease act.
- Lucille Lund – (1913–2002) American film actress of the 1930s.
- Dawn Lyn – American actress best known for her role in three seasons of the comedy My Three Sons.
- Kristanna Loken – American actress known for her work in both film and television, and as a fashion model.
- John Lund – (1911–1992) American film actor who is probably best remembered for his role in the film A Foreign Affair
- Peter MacNicol – American actor ([[Ally McBeal)
- Virginia Mayo – (1920–2005) American film actress.
- Robert Mitchum – (1917–1997) American film actor, author, composer and singer
- Christopher Mitchum – is an American actor. He is the second son of film star Robert Mitchum and younger brother of actor James Mitchum.
- James Mitchum – American actor and son of Robert Mitchum.
- Marilyn Monroe – (1926–1962) American actress, singer and model
- Harry Morgan – American actor (1915–2011)
- Patricia Morison – American stage and motion picture actress and mezzo-soprano singer
- Kari Michaelsen – American actress. She is most know by his role as Katie Kanisky on the television sitcom Gimme a Break!.
- Mildred Natwick – (1905–1994) American stage and film actress
- Barry Nelson - (1917–2007) American actor (James Bond).
- Greta Nissen – (1906–1988) Norwegian-born American film and stage actress.
- Dagmar Oakland – (1893–1989) American actress
- Piper Perabo – American stage, film and television actress
- Priscilla Presley American actress and businesswoman and ex-wife of musician Elvis Presley
- Gregg Palmer – American actor, known primarily for his prolific work in television westerns
- John Qualen – (1899–1987) Canadian-American character actor of Norwegian heritage who specialized in Scandinavian roles.
- Evan Ross – American actor and musician.
- Julia Rose – American actress (Star Trek: Enterprise, Code Monkeys, and CSI: NY)
- Kathryn Leigh Scott – American television and film actress
- Kevin Sorbo – American actor (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)
- Ann Reinking – American actress, dancer, and choreographer
- Sonia Satra – American actress
- David Soul – American-British actor and singer, best known for his role as Detective Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson in the television programme Starsky and Hutch
- Sally Struthers – American actress and spokeswoman (Gloria Stivic on All in the Family and as Babette on Gilmore Girls).
- Justin Torkildsen – American actor, best known for his role on The Bold and the Beautiful
- Frank Towers – Pornographic actor
- Kirsten Vangsness – American actress (Criminal Minds)
- Shantel VanSanten – American actress
- Vicky Vette – pornographic actress and model
- Kristen Wiig – American film and television actress
- Michelle Williams – American film and television actress
- Renée Zellweger – American actress and producer.
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Famous quotes containing the words actors and, actors and/or actress:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.”
—Nance O’Neil (1874–1965)