Actresses - D
by jasonfoss44 | created - 11 Jul 2018 | updated - 3 weeks ago | Public
1. Joanna Douglas
Actress | Crimson Peak
Joanna Douglas was born on April 11, 1983 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. She is an actress, known for Crimson Peak (2015), Warehouse 13 (2009) and Saw 3D (2010). She has been married to J.K. since 2012. They have three children.
2. Stacey Dash
Actress | Clueless
Stacey Dash was born in the Bronx, New York. Stacy knew that she wanted to act, and from an early age began to act professionally. She made regular appearances on The Cosby Show (1984), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), and also St. Elsewhere (1982). At 21 she made her feature film debut in Enemy...
3. Elisa Donovan
Actress | Clueless
Elisa's film career began when she played the role of Amber in the Paramount Pictures feature-film -Clueless (1995). She went on to play Amber for three seasons in the follow-up television series. She then went on to three seasons of the ABC and then WB TV-series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996), ...
4. Kirsten Dunst
Actress | Spider-Man
Kirsten Caroline Dunst is an American actress, who also holds German citizenship. She was born on April 30, 1982 in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, to parents Inez (née Rupprecht), who owned an art gallery, and Klaus Dunst, a medical services executive. She has a younger brother named Christian Dunst, ...
5. Eliza Dushku
Actress | Bring It On
Eliza Dushku was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Judith (Rasmussen), a political science professor, and Philip R. Dushku, a teacher and administrator. Her father is Albanian and her mother is American (of Danish, Irish, English, and German descent). She was discovered at the end of a five-month ...
6. Alisen Richmond-Peck
Actress | The Day the Earth Stood Still
Alisen Down was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada. After graduating high school, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California and from there went to England to study with the British American Academy in Oxford.
Since then has had lead, recurring and guest ...
7. Romina D'Ugo
Actress | Coyote
CSA Best Actress nominee Romina D'Ugo is a first-generation Canadian, and proud daughter to Italian immigrant parents. Originally from Toronto, Romina grew up dancing competitively and professionally since the age of 9. Her career as an actor began with her supporting role in the Universal Pictures...
8. Courtney Deelen
Actress | Suits
Courtney Deelen is an award winning director, actor and producer based in Toronto, Canada. A Norfolk County native with a degree in Musical Theatre Performance who was once a famed Dawson City Gertie Girl and now Co-Founder of DEELEN with TROUBLE, Inc. Her latest short film, The Last of Ian ...
9. Maria de Medeiros
Actress | Pulp Fiction
Maria de Medeiros is the oldest of three daughters by the pianist, maestro and composer António Vitorino D'Almeida and Maria Armanda Esteves. Her sisters are Inês de Medeiros, stage actress and film and stage director and Ana Medeiros, violinist, composer, and music teacher.
Studied at Lycée ...
10. Holly Deveaux
Actress | Polarized
Holly Deveaux (born in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress with documentary film-maker parents. She was determined to be an actor since a very young age, and at thirteen finally began auditioning and securing roles. Throughout high school, Deveaux worked on a series of projects. 'Victoria Day' ...
11. Bebe Daniels
Actress | 42nd Street
Bebe Daniels already had toured as an actor by the age of four in a stage production of "Richard III". She had her first leading role at the age of seven and started her film career shortly after this in movies for Imperial, Pathe and others. At 14 she was already a film veteran, and was enlisted ...
12. Lil Dagover
Actress | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 ...
13. Mildred Davis
Actress | A Sailor-Made Man
Mildred Davis was born on February 22, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for A Sailor-Made Man (1921), Safety Last! (1923) and Dr. Jack (1922). She was married to Harold Lloyd. She died on August 18, 1969 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
14. Kat Dennings
Actress | Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Kat Dennings was born Katherine Victoria Litwack in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, to Ellen (Schatz), a speech therapist and poet, and Gerald Litwack, a molecular pharmacologist. She is the youngest of five children. Her family is of Russian Jewish descent. Kat was predominantly ...
15. Geraldine Dvorak
Actress | No Limit
Geraldine Dvorak was born on January 1, 1904 in Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for No Limit (1931), The Story of Mr. Hobbs (1947) and Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950). She died on April 25, 1985 in Orange County, California, USA.
16. Marlene Dietrich
Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution
Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...
17. Dana DeLorenzo
Actress | Ash vs Evil Dead
Dana DeLorenzo was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio and showed an innate love of comedy and performance at an early age. At age 3 she made up knock-knock jokes and recorded them on her Fischer-Price tape recorder solely to listen back and make herself laugh. At some point she started doing ...
18. Allison Dunbar
Actress | StartUp
Allison Dunbar was born on July 31, 1972. She is an actress, known for StartUp (2016), Quick Draw (2013) and 2 Broke Girls (2011). She has been married to Ron Perlman since June 2022. She was previously married to Sean O'Donnell.
19. Dona Drake
Actress | Kansas City Confidential
In a situation that closely recalls the Fannie Hurst story "Imitation of Life" in which a girl strives to pass for white, beautiful light-skinned African-American actress/singer/dancer/bandleader Dona (pronounced "dough-nuh") Drake, for the sake of her career, denied her heritage and passed for ...
20. Yvonne De Carlo
Actress | The Ten Commandments
Yvonne De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was three when her father abandoned the family. Her mother turned to waitressing in a restaurant to make ends meet--a rough beginning for an actress who would, one day, be one of ...
21. Gloria DeHaven
Actress | The Thin Man Goes Home
Gloria Mildred DeHaven was born on July 23, 1925 in Los Angeles to vaudeville headliners Carter and Flora DeHaven. Her parents made sure their daughter would be educated at the very best private schools. They also indulged her ambition to be in show business by packing her off to the Mar-Ken ...
22. Megan Davis
Actress | Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial
Megan Davis is known for Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial (2022), American Horror Story (2011) and Bones (2005).
23. Danielle Darrieux
Actress | 8 femmes
Danielle Darrieux was born in 1917 in Bordeaux, France, to Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Germain Jean Darrieux, a physician. She was raised in Paris. She was only fourteen when she auditioned for a secondary role in Le bal (1931): she got the part, and the producer offered her a five-year contract. ...
24. Dora Doll
Actress | Touchez pas au grisbi
Dora Doll was born on May 19, 1922 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), The Young Lions (1958) and Maniac Killer (1987). She was married to François Deguelt and Raymond Pellegrin. She died on November 15, 2015 in Nîmes, Gard, France.
25. India de Beaufort
Actress | Run Fatboy Run
India de Beaufort was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Run Fatboy Run (2007), Slumberland (2022) and Kimi (2022). She has been married to Todd Grinnell since August 29, 2015. They have one child.
26. Dagmara Dominczyk
Actress | The Count of Monte Cristo
Dagmara Dominczyk is a Polish-American actress and author. She has appeared in the films Rock Star (2001), The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), Kinsey (2004), Trust the Man (2005), Lonely Hearts (2006), Running with Scissors (2006), Higher Ground (2011), The Letter (2012), The Immigrant (2013), Big ...
27. Roxanne Day
Actress | 24
Roxanne Day attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, where she got her start in theatre and independent film. She also had the honor of studying with award-winning actress Kathleen Turner in a rare master class. The LA Times is quoted as saying that Roxanne is "so lovely and...
28. Jackie Debatin
Actress | The Office
Born and raised on a dairy farm in Southern Illinois. She attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where she studied Theater and Business. She moved to Los Angeles in 1992. She later moved to New York City to do an off-Broadway show in 2013, and now calls NYC her primary home. In ...
29. Merle Dandridge
Actress | Half-Life 2
Merle was born in Okinawa, Japan to a mother of Korean and Japanese descent and an African-American father serving in the U.S. Air Force. After graduating high school in Papillion, Nebraska, she attended the Theatre Conservatory at Roosevelt University in Chicago on a full-ride scholarship and ...
30. Claudia DiFolco
Actress | Saw 3D
Claudia DiFolco is known for Saw 3D (2010), Catch That Kid (2004) and Total Recall 2070 (1999).
31. Deena Dill
Actress | Ambitions
Deena Dill got her start in television portraying the broken-hearted love interests of over two dozen country stars in their music videos, and Deena parlayed that sad, sad country heart into a bona fide career both in front of and behind the camera.
As an actress, Deena is set to recur on "Ambitions...
32. Carmen Dene
Actress | The Avengers
Carmen Dene was born in December 1944 in Liverpool, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Avengers (1961), Public Eye (1965) and The Trygon Factor (1966).
33. Catherine Deneuve
Actress | 8 femmes
Catherine Fabienne Deneuve was born October 22, 1943 in Paris, France, to actor parents Renée Simonot and Maurice Dorléac. She made her movie debut in 1957, when she was barely a teenager and continued with small parts in minor films, until Roger Vadim gave her a meatier role in Vice and Virtue (...
34. Chiquinquirá Delgado
Actress | Pimp Bullies
Chiquinquira Delgado--better known as "Chiqui"--is a renowned Venezuelan actress and TV host/presenter. Born in Maracaibo, it was in Caracas where she developed her artistic career. Her beauty, elegance and intelligence led her to participate in the Miss Venezuela pageant in 1990, in which she was ...
35. Adriana DeMeo
Actress | Seven Seconds
Adriana DeMeo is a first generation Italian American with dual citizenship. While most of her father's side now lives in the US, all of her mother's side still resides in a small town in Italy. She attributes her fierce loyalty and work ethic to her inspirational parents. She attended a performing ...
36. Elizabeth Debicki
Actress | The Great Gatsby
Debicki was born in Paris to a Polish father and an Australian mother of Irish descent who were both dancers. When she was five, the family moved to Melbourne, where she grew up with two younger siblings. She became interested in ballet at an early age and trained as a dancer until deciding to ...
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