page_title: List of people from Maryland
section_title: Actors, filmmakers, and entertainers
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Maryland / Actors, filmmakers, and entertainers
caption_attribution_description: English: Actor Jada Pinkett Smith at the NY PaleyFest 2014 for the TV show Gotham
context_page_description: The following are some notable people from the American state of Maryland, listed by their field of endeavor. This list may not include Federal officials and members of the United States Congress who live in Maryland but are not actual natives.
context_section_description: Cynthia Addai-Robinson, actress
  Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor
  Lori Alan, voice actress
  Karen Allen, actress
  Bess Armstrong, actress
  Jay Ashley, pornographic film star
  John Astin, actor
  Noelle Beck, actress
  Clara Beranger, silent film screenwriter
  Lewis Black, comedian, actor
  Wolfgang Bodison, actor
  Edwin Booth, actor
  John Wilkes Booth, actor
  Julie Bowen, actress
  Tamar Braxton, actress, television personality, and musician (The Real, Dancing with the Stars)
  Kimberly J. Brown, actress
  Norman "Chubby" Chaney, actor (Little Rascals, Our Gang shorts)
  Crystal Chappell, actress
  Josh Charles, actor
  Josh Clark, actor
  Kevin Clash, puppeteer
  Gaelan Connell, actor, singer
  Hans Conreid, actor
  Whitney Cummings, stand-up comedian
  Tommy Davidson, actor, comedian
  Wendy Davis, actress
  Eddie Deezen, actor
  Alexis Denisof, actor
  Divine, actor, drag queen
  Jack Douglass, Internet personality, comedian
  David Drake, playwright, actor, stage director
  Mildred Dunnock, actress
  Charles Dutton, actor
  Robert Duvall, actor
  Michael Ealy, actor
  Johnny Eck, actor, circus performer (Tod Browning's Freaks)
  Damon Evans, actor
  Anna Faris, actress
  Evan Farmer, actor, singer
  Lauren Faust, animator
  Faith Fay, actress
  Wayne Federman, comedian, actor, author
  Ben Feldman, actor
  Mona Freeman, actress
  Judah Friedlander, comedian, actor
  Daniel Gallant, writer, producer and director of Nuyorican Poets Café
  Kathie Lee Gifford, TV personality and singer
  Anita Gillette, actress
  Larry Gilliard, Jr., actor
  Ira Glass, radio personality, producer
  John Glover, actor
  Duff Goldman, television personality
  George O. Gore II, actor
  Alfred Gough, screenwriter and producer
  Holter Graham, actor
  Linda Hamilton, actress
  Brandon Hardesty, actor
  Ian Harding, actor
  Linda Harrison, actress
  David Hasselhoff, actor
  Shawn Hatosy, actor
  Rondo Hatton, actor
  Goldie Hawn, actress
  Robert Hays, actor
  Elden Henson, actor
  Taraji P. Henson, actress
  Russell Hicks, actor
  Brendan Hines, actor, singer
  Anne Hummert, creator of daytime radio serials
  Michael Hyatt, actress
  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson, actress
  Thomas Jane, actor
  Penny Johnson Jerald, actress
  Rian Johnson, filmmaker
  Spike Jonze,  music video director, filmmaker, and producer
  Kevin Kangas, writer, director of B-horror movies
  John Kassir, actor, comedian
  Stacy Keibler, actress, model
  Josh Kelly
  Kevin Kilner, actor
  Judy Kuhn, actress
  Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, director and producer
  Barry Levinson, filmmaker
  Peyton List, actress, model
  Ernie Lively, actor
  Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actress
  William H. Macy, actor
  Paula Marshall, actress
  Shane McMahon, professional wrestler
  Dale Midkiff, actor
  Debra Monk, actress, singer
  Garry Moore, television personality
  Cookie Mueller, actress, writer
  Sean Murray, actor
  Mildred Natwick, actress
  Toby Orenstein, theatre producer and founder
  Devika Parikh, actress
  Jameson Parker, actor
  Nicole Ari Parker, actress
  Mark Pellington, film director
  Sam Phillips, actress, model, radio DJ
  David Pollock, actor
  Parker Posey, actress
  Robin Quivers, radio personality
  Lance Reddick, actor
  Patricia Richardson, actress
  Howard Rollins, actor
  Mark Rolston, actor
  Jessica Lee Rose, actress
  John Rothman, actor
  Thomas Rothman, film executive
  Mike Rowe, TV personality
  Lamman Rucker, actor
  Johnathon Schaech, actor, writer
  Richard Schiff, actor
  Dwight Schultz, actor
  Teddy Sears, actor
  Anna Deavere Smith, actress, playwright
  Jada Pinkett Smith, actress
  Daniel Stern, actor
  Mink Stole, actress
  Wanda Sykes, comedian, actress
  Tracie Thoms, actress
  Barbara Walsh, actress
  Jonathan Ward, actor
  John Waters, filmmaker
  Matthew Weiner, writer, director and producer
  Montel Williams, TV personality
  DeWanda Wise, actress
  Frank Zappa, musician, composer
caption: Jada Pinkett-Smith
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