page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Actors and actresses
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Entertainment / Actors and actresses
caption_attribution_description: English: Brad Pitt at the beginning of day three of the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict.
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Jensen Ackles – actor
  Ben Affleck – actor and filmmaker
  Casey Affleck – actor and director
  Eddie Albert (born Edward Albert Heimberger) – Academy Award- and Primetime Emmy Award-nominated American stage, film, character actor, gardener, humanitarian activist, and World War II hero
  Tim Allen – actor and comedian
  Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) – filmmaker, writer, actor, comedian, and musician, of Jewish descent
  Mädchen Amick – actress
  Fred Astaire – dancer, singer, actor, choreographer, and television presenter
  Catherine Bach – actress
  Diedrich Bader – actor
  Haley Bennett – actress
  Hailey Baldwin – actress
  John Banner – actor
  Earl W. Bascom – film actor
  Kim Basinger – actress, small amount of German ancestry
  Brian Baumgartner – actor
  Kristen Bell – actress
  Zazie Beetz – actress
  Candice Bergen – actress; mother Frances Bergen was of German descent
  Frances Bergen (née Westerman) – maternal grandparents of German descent
  Ingrid Bergman – actress; mother was an immigrant from Germany
  Halle Berry – actress
  Carl Betz – actor and World War II veteran
  Michael Biehn – actor
  Jessica Biel – actress, small amount of German ancestry, also of Jewish descent
  Karen Black – actress
  Curt Bois – actor
  Johnny Yong Bosch – actor, of partial paternal German descent
  Julie Bowen – actress, of part German ancestry
  Eric Braeden – actor
  Marlon Brando – actor; father was of partial German ancestry
  Benjamin Bratt – actor; father is of mostly German ancestry
  Hermann Braun – actor
  Felix Bressart – actor
  Agnes Bruckner – actress, of part German descent
  Sandra Bullock – actress; mother was an immigrant from Germany, father had some German ancestry
  Ty Burrell – actor
  Scott Caan – actor
  Nicolas Cage – actor
  Dana Carvey – actor, comedian, and producer
  Loan Chabanol – actress
  Sarah Chalke – actress; mother is an immigrant from Germany
  Carol Channing – actor, of 3/4 German and 1/4 African-American ancestry
  Claudia Christian – actress; mother is a German immigrant
  Mae Clarke (born Violet Mary Klotz) – actress
  Montgomery Clift – actor
  George Clooney – actor, director, producer, screenwriter, activist, businessman, and philanthropist
  Kevin Costner – actor, of part German descent
  Tom Cruise – actor; parents both of part German ancestry
  Tony Curtis (born Bernard Schwartz) – actor, German Jewish descent
  Willem Dafoe – actor
  Helmut Dantine – actor
  Doris Day – actress, singer
  Robert De Niro – actor; mother was of half German descent
  James Dean – actor, small amount of German ancestry
  Johnny Depp – actor, small amount of German ancestry
  Cameron Diaz – actress; mother of German descent
  Leonardo DiCaprio – actor, paternal grandmother was of German descent, and mother is an immigrant from Germany
  Angie Dickinson – actress
  Vin Diesel – actor; mother of part German ancestry
  Marlene Dietrich – actress; an immigrant from Germany
  Peter Dinklage – Primetime Emmy Award-winning actor, of part German descent
  Adam Driver – actor
  Patty Duke – actress; mother of Mackenzie Astin and Sean Astin; she's of one quarter German descent
  Kirsten Dunst – film actress and former model; German father, and maternal grandfather of German descent
  Aaron Eckhart – actor; father is of German ancestry, mother also has some German roots
  Zac Efron – actor, of part German descent
  Nicole Eggert – actress; father is a German immigrant
  Erika Eleniak – actress; mother is of Estonian and German ancestry
  Noah Emmerich – actor; father a German Jewish immigrant, mother of Eastern European Jewish descent
  Chris Evans – actor; father of half German ancestry
  Dakota Fanning – actress, of part German descent
  Elle Fanning – actress; younger sister of Dakota Fanning, of part German descent
  Tina Fey – writer, comedian, and Primetime Emmy Award-winning actress; father is of half German ancestry
  William Fichtner – actor
  Jenna Fischer – actress
  Carrie Fisher – actress, of part German descent
  Jodie Foster – actress; mother is of part German ancestry
  Dennis Franz (born Dennis Franz Schlachta) – award-winning actor; father was a German immigrant, mother was of German descent
  Brendan Fraser – actor
  Princess Tatiana
caption: Brad Pitt
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