Film & TV

Performers, filmmakers, and the people behind the screen.

People in Film & TV

73 profiles

Actor

Angelina Jolie

Playing Lara Croft and Maleficent.

Actor

Scarlett Johansson

Playing Black Widow in the Marvel films.

Actor

Brad Pitt

Playing Tyler Durden and producing 12 Years a Slave.

Actor

Jon Voight

Starring in Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home.

Actor

Audrey Hepburn

Playing Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Actor

Charlie Chaplin

Creating the bowler-hatted Tramp.

Filmmaker

Akira Kurosawa

Directing Seven Samurai and Rashomon.

Actor

Meryl Streep

Playing Sophie, Miranda Priestly and Margaret Thatcher.

Actor

Kate Bosworth

Playing a surfer in Blue Crush and Lois Lane in Superman Returns.

Filmmaker

Hayao Miyazaki

Directing Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro.

Actor

Rowan Atkinson

Playing Mr. Bean, Blackadder and Johnny English.

Actor

Nicolas Cage

Starring in Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off and National Treasure.

Actor

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Playing Elaine Benes in Seinfeld and Selina Meyer in Veep.

Filmmaker

David Lynch

Creating Twin Peaks and directing Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive.

Actor

Paul Newman

Starring in The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Broadcaster

Oprah Winfrey

Hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show and building her own media company.

Actor

Clark Gable

Playing Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.

Actor

Simon Pegg

Co-writing and starring in Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.

Actor

Rashida Jones

Playing Ann Perkins in Parks and Recreation and co-directing Quincy.

Actor

Lupita Nyong'o

Playing Patsey in 12 Years a Slave and Nakia in Black Panther.

Actor

Chuck Norris

Starring in Walker, Texas Ranger and martial-arts action films.

Actor

William H. Macy

Playing Jerry Lundegaard in Fargo and Frank Gallagher in Shameless.

Actor

Jerry Lewis

Starring in The Nutty Professor and performing with Dean Martin.

Actor

Bruce Willis

Playing John McClane in Die Hard.

Filmmaker

Spike Lee

Directing Do the Right Thing and Malcolm X.

Actor

Gary Oldman

Playing Sirius Black, Commissioner Gordon and George Smiley.

Actor

Steve McQueen

Starring in The Great Escape, Bullitt and The Thomas Crown Affair.

Actor

Keira Knightley

Playing Elizabeth Swann and Elizabeth Bennet.

Filmmaker

Quentin Tarantino

Writing and directing Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Playing Mark Renton in Trainspotting and Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars.

Actor

Bette Davis

Playing formidable, complicated women in films including All About Eve.

Actor

Paul Rudd

Playing Ant-Man and starring in comedies including Clueless and I Love You, Man.

Actor

Mary Pickford

Becoming a silent-film star who also helped take control of film distribution.

Actor

Shirley Temple

Becoming a major child star before a second career in American diplomacy.

Filmmaker

Satyajit Ray

Directing the Apu Trilogy and bringing Bengali everyday life to world cinema.

Filmmaker

Orson Welles

Directing and starring in Citizen Kane.

Actor

Henry Fonda

Playing principled Americans in The Grapes of Wrath and 12 Angry Men.

Actor

Ian McKellen

Playing Gandalf and Magneto alongside a major Shakespearean stage career.

Actor

Marilyn Monroe

Starring in Some Like It Hot and becoming an enduring Hollywood icon.

Actor

Hattie McDaniel

Becoming the first Black performer to win an Academy Award.

Actor

Nicole Kidman

Starring in Moulin Rouge!, The Hours and Big Little Lies.

Filmmaker

Mel Brooks

Creating screen comedies including The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein.

Actor

Tom Hanks

Playing Forrest Gump, Captain Miller and the voice of Woody.

Actor

Daniel Radcliffe

Playing Harry Potter throughout the eight-film series.

Actor

Clara Bow

Becoming silent cinema’s original It Girl.

Filmmaker

Alfred Hitchcock

Directing Psycho, Vertigo and carefully controlled suspense.

Actor

Halle Berry

Becoming the first Black woman to win the leading-actress Oscar.

Actor

Robert De Niro

Playing the volatile leads of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.

Filmmaker

Gene Kelly

Turning athletic dance into cinematic storytelling.

Actor

Keanu Reeves

Playing Neo in The Matrix and the assassin John Wick.

Actor

Peter Sellers

Playing Inspector Clouseau and three roles in Dr. Strangelove.

Actor

Sophia Loren

Winning an Oscar for the Italian-language drama Two Women.

Actor

Gwyneth Paltrow

Winning an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love and playing Pepper Potts.

Actor

Julie Andrews

Playing Mary Poppins and Maria in The Sound of Music, with a voice inseparable from both films.

Filmmaker

Buster Keaton

Turning dangerous stunts, precise visual jokes and an unchanging expression into silent-film classics.

Actor

Kate Winslet

Playing Rose in Titanic and emotionally complex women in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Actor

Amitabh Bachchan

Defining Hindi cinema’s “angry young man” in Zanjeer and Deewaar, then building a second career as an elder leading actor.

Actor

Bela Lugosi

Giving Dracula the voice, gaze and commanding presence that helped define the screen vampire.

Actor

Shah Rukh Khan

Becoming one of Hindi cinema’s defining romantic stars, from DDLJ to Devdas.

Actor

Vivien Leigh

Playing Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Actor

Sally Field

Moving from television comedy to Oscar-winning performances in Norma Rae and Places in the Heart.

Actor

Grace Kelly

Starring in Hitchcock thrillers before becoming Princess of Monaco.

Actor

Whoopi Goldberg

Combining dramatic roles, comedy and television, from The Color Purple to Sister Act.

Filmmaker

Martin Scorsese

Directing Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, films about ambition, violence and guilt.

Actor

Julianne Moore

Playing complex, vulnerable women in films including Boogie Nights, Far from Heaven and Still Alice.

Animator

Walt Disney

Building the Disney studio, developing Mickey Mouse and creating Disneyland.

Actor

Vanessa Hudgens

Playing Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical films.

Actor

Milla Jovovich

Playing Leeloo in The Fifth Element and Alice in the Resident Evil films.

Actor

Jonah Hill

Starring in Superbad and earning Oscar nominations for Moneyball and The Wolf of Wall Street.

Actor

Jane Fonda

Starring in Klute, Coming Home and 9 to 5, alongside a long public life in activism.

Actor

Ava Gardner

Starring in The Killers, Mogambo and The Night of the Iguana.

Actor

Denzel Washington

Starring in Malcolm X, Training Day and Glory, with major roles on both screen and stage.

Comedian

Ricky Gervais

Co-creating The Office and playing David Brent, the boss desperate to be liked.