Profiles — Actors

Actors

Performers of stage and screen: how their careers were built, and the roles that defined them.

English actor (born 1976)

Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor.

Italian theater and movie actress

Benedicta Boccoli is an Italian theater and movie actress.

Puerto Rican actor (born 1967)

Benicio Monserrate Rafael del Toro Sánchez is a Puerto Rican actor.

American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909–1986)

Benjamin David Goodman was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".

Italian film director and screenwriter (1941–2018)

Bernardo Bertolucci was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years.

American actor (1957–2008)

Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, known professionally as Bernie Mac, was an American stand-up comedian, actor and film producer.

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

American actress (1908–1989)

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater.

American singer and actress (born 1945)

Bette Midler is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author.