1,365 Popular Actors

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  F. Murray Abraham
  • Faith: Christianity (Presbyterian, and formerly Friends/Quaker)
  • Birth name: Fahrid Murray Abraham
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Kate Hannan (died 2022 after 60 years of marriage; marriage resulted in daughter Jamili J. Abraham and Mick Abraham)
  
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  Famke Janssen
  • Faith: apparently Secularism
  • Worldview: Animal rights activism, Vegetarianism
  • Birth name: Famke Beumer Janssen
  • Children: none
  • Ex-Husband: Kip Williams
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Anson Mount
  —Cole Frates
  • Sisters: Antoinette Beumer (director) and Marjolein Beumer (actress)
  
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  Farrah Fawcett …DIED age 62 (2009)—Anal cancer that metastasized to the liver
  • aka Farrah Fawcett-Majors
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism). She became much more serious about her faith after her cancer diagnosis.
  • Birth name: Ferrah Leni Fawcett (born in Corpus Christi, Texas)
  • Children: 1
  • Ex-husband: Lee Majors (actor)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Ryan O'Neal (actor, resulting in son Redmond James Fawcett O'Neal, a longtime drug addict)
  —James Orr (filmmaker) —Greg Lott (football star)
  
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  Faye Dunaway
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism convert—reportedly devout), ex-Protestant as of 1996
  • Birth name: Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born in Bascom, Florida)
  • Children: 1 adopted
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Peter Wolf (musician)
  —Terry O'Neill (photographer, resulting in adopted son Liam Dunaway O'Neill)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Lenny Bruce (comedian)
  —Jerry Schatzberg (photographer)
  —Marcello Mastroianni (actor, adultery)
  —Frederick Forsyth (novelist, journalist)
  —Warren Lieberfarb
  —Bernard Montiel
  
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  Felicity Jones
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Birth name: Felicity Rose Hadley Jones (born in Birmingham, England)
  • Children: 2
  • Husband: Charles Guard (director, resulting in 2 children)
  • Ex-Partner: Ed Fornieles
  
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  Fisher Stevens
  • Faith: describes himself as Jewish
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist), Eco-activist, Climate change alarmist
  • Birth name: Stephen Fisher (born in Chicago, Illinois)
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Alexis Bloom (filmmaker, producer, resulting in son Otis Stevens and daughter Paloma Stevens)
  • Ex-Partner: Michelle Pfeiffer
  
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  Florence Henderson …DIED age 82 (2016)—Heart failure
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism—described as “devout”)
  • Birth name: Florence Agnes Henderson (born in Dale, Indiana)
  • Children: 4
  • Husband: Dr. John George Kappas (hypnotherapist, resulting in son Joseph Kappas and daughter Elizabeth Kappas)
  • Ex-Husband: Ira Bernstein (resulting in son Robert Bernstein and actress daughter Barabara Bernstein)
  
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  Forest Whitaker
  • Faith: Liberal Christianity (Protestant), had a short interest in Scientology
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism, Globalism, Social activism, Vegetarianism
  • Birth name: Forest Steven Whitaker III (born in Longview, Texas)
  • Children: 3
  • Ex-Wife: Keisha Nash (resulting in daughters Sonnet Whitaker and True Whitaker, and son Ocean Alexander Whitaker)
  
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  Frances Fisher
  • Faith: appears to be Secularism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism and Socialism (activist), Environmentalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Frances Louise Fisher (born in Milford on Sea, England)
  • Ex-Husband: Billy Mack Hamilton
  • Ex-Partner: Clint Eastwood (resulting in actress daughter Francesca Eastwood)
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  Frances McDormand
  • Faith: Unclear, was raised in Disciples of Christ (adoptive father was a pastor); She graduated from Bethany College, West Virginia (Disciples of Christ related). Her sister Dorothy is an ordained Disciples of Christ Minister and prison chaplain.
  • Birth name: Frances Louise McDormand (born in Gibson City, Illinois)
  • Children: 1 adopted
  • Husband: Joel Coen (director, filmmaker, resulting in an adopted son)
  
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  Frank Langella
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Worldview: Liberalism, Promiscuity (in his memoir he “celebrated sluttiness as a worthy—even noble—way of life”)
  • Birth name: Frank A. Langella Jr. (born in Bayonne, New Jersey)
  • Ex-Wife: Ruth Weil (resulting in son Frank Langella III and daughter Sara Langella)
  • Ex-Partner: Whoopi Goldberg
  
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  Frank Sinatra …DIED age 82 (1998)—Heart attacks
  • Faith: Liberal Christianity (Roman Catholicism), formerly Pantheism
  • Worldview: Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Francis Albert Sinatra (born in Hoboken, New Jersey)
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Barbara Marx
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Nancy Barbato (aka Nancy Sinatra, resulting in daughters Nancy Sinatra and Tina Sinatra, and son Frank Sinatra Jr.)
  —Ava Gardner
  —Mia Farrow
  • Ex-Fiancées:
  —Lauren Bacall
  —Juliet Prowse
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Marilyn Maxwell (actress)
  —Lana Turner (actress)
  —Marilyn Monroe (actress)
  —Joi Lansing (actress, singer, model)
  —Pat Sheehan (actress, model)
  —Vikki Dougan (actress, model)
  —Kipp Hamilton (actress)
  —Dinah Shore
  —and many others
  
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  Fred Armisen
  • Faith: Atheism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Fereydun Robert Armisen (born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi)
  • Children: 1 adopted
  • Wife: Riki Lindhome (comedian, actress, musician, resulting in adopted son Keaton)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Sally Timms (musician)
  —Elisabeth Moss (actress, producer)
  • Ex-Partner: Natasha Lyonne (actress, director)
  
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  Fred Astaire …DIED age 88 (1987)—Pneumonia
  • Faith: Liberal Christianity (Episcopalian)
  • Worldview: Conservative Republican
  • Birth name: Frederick Austerlitz (born in Omaha, Nebraska)
  • Children: 2
  • Sister: Adele Astaire (actress, singer, dancer)
  • Wives:
  —Phyllis Livingston Potter (formerly Phyllis Livingston Baker, died 1954, marriage resulted in son Fred Astaire Jr. and daughter Ava Astaire)
  —Robyn Smith
  
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  Fred Thompson …DIED age 73 (2015)—Lymphoma
  • Faith: Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Conservatism, Pro-Life, Political Activism
  • Birth name: Fred Dalton Thompson (born in Sheffield, Alabama)
  • Children: 5
  • Wife: Jeri Kehn (aka Jeri Thompson, resulting in sons Hayden Victoria Thompson and Samuel Thompson)
  • Ex-Wife: Sarah Elizabeth Lindsey (aka Sarah Knestrick, resulting in sons Freddie Dalton Thompson Jr. and Daniel Thompson, and daughter Ruth Elizabeth Thompson, aka Betsy and Betsy Panici)
  
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  Fred Willard …DIED age 86 (2020)—Cardiac arrest with coronary artery disease and myelodysplastic syndrome
  • Faith: apparently Secularism; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Frederick Charles Willard (born in Cleveland, Ohio)
  • Children: 1
  • Wife: Mary Lovell (aka Mary Willard, died 2018, marriage resulted in daughter Hope Willard, aka Hope Mulbarger)
  
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  Freddie Highmore
  • Faith: Unknown
  • Worldview: Unknown
  • Birth name: Alfred Thomas Highmore (born in London, England)
  • Children: none
  • Father: Edward Highmore (former English actor)
  • Wife: Klarissa Munz (Web developer)
  
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  Freida Pinto
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Roman Catholicism
  • Birth name: Freida Selena Pinto (born in Mumbai, India)
  • Husband: Cory Tran (photographer, resulting in son Rumi-Ray)
  • Children: 1
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Dev Patel (actor)
  —Rohan Antao (ex-Fiancé, publicist)