Actuaries On Television
- The Collector (2004) had an episode titled "The Actuary". In this episode, an actuary uses the Devil's powers to predict the exact lifespan, whereabouts and circumstances of others to help mobsters rub out the competition.
- Gilmore Girls (2000) in the episode "Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers," Lorelai's mom sets her up on a date with an actuary called Chase Bradford, played by Paul Cassell.
- In Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, Ron's father's job is not an obstacle to the family moving to Norway (and, in the future, the moon). Quote: "I'm an actuary. I can work anywhere people attach a dollar value to human life."
- Numb3rs (2005), in the episode titled "Sacrifice," Professor Charlie Eppes refers to actuarial science.
- NYPD Blue recurring character, Dr. Jennifer Devlin (character John Clark's blond bipolar love interest), stated that her father is an actuary.
- "Probability" is a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode featuring Mark Linn-Baker as Wally Stevens, an insurance investigator whose work is often described in the context of performing actuarial calculations.
- Profiler (1996–1999) had an episode about a disturbed actuary. The episode was titled "Perfect Helen". It is in Volume 2 of Season 3 on DVD.
- The Robinsons is a sitcom about a reinsurance actuary, Ed Robinson (played by Martin Freeman), who realises that reinsurance is not his passion and decides to rethink his life
- In the third episode of The Shield (2002) called "The Spread", the police interrogate a rapist who claims to be an actuary.
- The Wild Wild West (1968) - had an episode titled The Night of the Avaricious Actuary
- Ghost Whisperer (Season 4) in the episode "Thrilled to death", an actuary who is terminally ill dies and his ghost haunts his neighbour.
- Hot in Cleveland (Season 2) in the episode "How I Met My Mother", Joy meets her biological son, Owen, who explains his role as an actuary by way of "it's an insurance thing". He returns in the Season 4 opener and Joy admits that she stills has no idea what an actuary is.
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