1,365 Popular Actors

P

• 
  Pam Dawber
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Birth name: Pamela Dawber
  • Children: 2
  • Husband: Mark Harmon (resulting in 2 sons)
  
• 
  Pam Grier
  • Faith: Self-describes as “spiritual,” apparently liberal Christianity, raised Catholic and later baptized as a Methodist
  • Birth name: Pamela Suzette Grier
  • Cousin: Rosey Grier (actor, singer, Protestant minister, former football player)
  • Ex-Fiancé: Kevin Evans
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Freddie Prinze (comedian, actor
  —Richard Pryor
  —Jimmie Wheeler
  —Don Cornelius
  —Wilt Chamberlain
  
• 
  Pamela Anderson
  • Faith: Atheism, Secularism
  • Birth name: Pamela Denise Anderson
  • Children: 2
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Tommy Lee (musician, resulting in sons Brandon Thomas and Dylan Jagger)
  —Kid Rock
  —Rick Salomon
  —Jon Peters (producer)
  —Dan Hayhurst (bodyguard)
  • Ex-Fiancé: Marcus Schenkenberg
  • Ex-Partner: Adil Rami
  
• 
  Pat Morita …DIED age 73 (2005)—Kidney failure
  • Faith: apparently Secularism
  • Birth name: Noriyuki Morita
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Evelyn Guerrero (actress)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Kathleen Yamachi
  —Yukiye Kitahara
  
• 
  Patricia Arquette
  • Faith: Judaism; expressed interest in Eastern philosophies; attended Catholic school and wanted to be a nun at that age
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist), Women’s Rights (vocal supporter), LGBTQ+ Causes (supporter)
  • Born in Chicago, Illinois
  • Father: Lewis Arquette (actor, director, puppeteer; Islam convert; ex-Catholic)
  • Mother: Mardi Arquette actress, artist; Jewish)
  • Grandfather: Cliff Arquette (aka Charley Weaver, actor, comedian)
  • Sister: Rosanna Arquette (actress)
  • Brothers:
  —David Arquette (actor)
  —Robert Arquette (aka Alexis Arquette, transgender actress activist)
  • Children: 2
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Nicolas Cage
  —Thomas Jane (resulting in daughter Harlow Olivia Calliope Jane)
  • Ex-Partner: Paul Rossi (musician, resulting in son Enzo Rossi)
  
• 
  Patricia Clarkson
  • Faith: apparently Secularism, ethnically of partial Jewish descent
  • Worldview: Liberalism, pro-LGBTQ
  • Birth name: Patricia Davies Clarkson (born in New Orleans, Louisiana)
  • Children: none
  • Mother: Jackie Clarkson (aka Jackie Brechtel, Democrat politician)
  • Husbands: none
  
• 
  Patricia Heaton
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Worldview: Conservatism leaning, Pro-life
  • Birth name: Patricia Helen Heaton (born in Bay Village, Ohio)
  • Children: 4
  • Father: Chuck Heaton (journalist, sports news columnist, commentator)
  • Husband: David Hunt (actor, producer, director, marriage resulted in sons Samuel Hunt, John Hunt, Joseph Hunt and Daniel Hunt)
  • Ex-Husband: Constantine Yankoglu
  
• 
  Patricia Neal …DIED age 84—Lung cancer
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism convert 4 months before her death)
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Patsy Louise Neal
  • Children: 5
  • Ex-Husband: Roald Dahl (author, resulting in daughters Olivia Twenty, Chantal Sophia, Ophelia Magdalena, and Lucy Neal, and son Theo Matthew)
  • Ex-Partner: Gary Cooper (actor, resulting in an aborted child)
  
• 
  Patrick Dempsey
  • Faith: apparently Secularism, lapsed-Catholic
  • Worldview: Philanthropist toward support of people affected by cancer (his mother Amanda died of ovarian cancer in 1997)
  • Birth name: Patrick Galen Dempsey
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Jillian Fink (makeup artist, resulting in 3 children)
  • Ex-Wife: Rochelle Parker (manager, actress)
  
• 
  Patrick Stewart
  • Faith: Atheism
  • Worldview: Globalism, Socialism, Secular Humanism (patron of Humanists UK), Assisted suicide advocate
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Sunny Ozell
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Sheila Falconer (resulting in actor son Daniel Stewart, and daughter Sophie Alexandra Stewart)
  —Wendy Neuss (producer)
  • Ex-Partner: Lisa Dillon (actress)
  
• 
  Patrick Swayze …DIED age 57—Pancreatic cancer
  • Faith: Soka Gakkai Buddhism, Scientology and New Age; attended Catholic school; ultimately rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Patrick Wayne Swayze (born in Houston, Texas)
  • Children: none, except for 1 miscarriage
  • Mother: Patsy Swayze (American film choreographer, dancer, dance instructor)
  • Brother: Don Swayze
  • Wife: Lisa Niemi (actress, dancer, choreographer)
  
• 
  Patrick Warburton
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism), raised in a reportedly “very religious” “conservative” Catholic family
  • Worldview: Political Centrist, both Conservative and Liberal, depending on the issue, describes himself as a “lifelong conservative” with “very liberal views” on some issues
  • Born in Paterson, New Jersey
  • Children: 4
  • Wife: Cathy Jennings (resulting in sons Talon Warburton, Shane Warburton, and Gabriel Warburton, and daughter Alexandra Warburton)
  
• 
  Patrick Wilson
  • Faith: Unclear, quoted as saying, “I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.” “I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it’s interesting.” “If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that’s great. If someone wants to go because they believe…Jesus rose after three days, then that’s great, too.” “I’m a spiritual person.”
  • Worldview: Unknown (does not talk about his political views)
  • Birth name: Patrick Joseph Wilson (born in Norfolk, Virginia)
  • Children: 2
  • Brother: Paul Wilson (actor)
  • Wife: Dagmara Domińczyk (Polish-born American actress, resulting in sons Kalin Patrick Wilson and Kassian McCarrell Wilson)
  • Sister-in-law: Marika Domińczyk (actress)
  • Brother-in-law: Scott Foley (actor, director)
  
• 
  Patty Duke …DIED age 69—Sepsis from a ruptured intestine
  • aka Anna Duke-Pearce
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism), raised in Catholicism; dabbled in Christian Science, Buddhism, Judaism, and Unity Church
  • Birth name: Anna Marie Duke (born in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)
  • Children: 3 (2 biological, 1 adopted)
  • Husband: Michael Pearce (resulting in adopted son Kevin Pearce, and stepdaughter Raelene Pearce)
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Harry Falk Jr. (director)
  —Michael Tell (resulting in son Sean Astin)
  —John Astin (actor, director, resulting in actor son Mackenzie Astin)
  • Ex-Partner: Desi Arnaz Jr. (actor)
  
• 
  Paul Bettany
  • Faith: Atheism, raised in Roman Catholicism, and sometimes attended Methodist and Church of England in his youth
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Born in London, England
  • Father: Thane Bettany (actor)
  • Children: 2 biological, 1 stepson
  • Wife: Jennifer Connelly (resulting in son Stellan Bettany, and daughter Agnes Lark Bettany, and stepson Kai Dugan from Connelly’s previous relationship)
  
• 
  Paul Giamatti
  • Faith: Atheism; wife was Jewish and is raising their son in Judaism
  • Birth name: Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti (born in New Haven, Connecticut)
  • Children: 1
  • Father: Angelo Bartlett Giamatti (Yale University president and professor)
  • Brother: Marcus Bartlett Giamatti (actor, musician, writer, director)
  • Ex-Wife: Elizabeth Cohen (resulting in son Samuel Giamatti)
  
• 
  Paul Newman …DIED age 83—Lung cancer due to heavy smoking
  • Faith: Agnosticism, his father was Jewish and mother Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Paul Leonard Newman (born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
  • Children: 6
  • Wife: Joanne Woodward (actress, relationship began in adultery, marriage resulted in daughters Elinor Teresa Newman, and Melissa Stewart Newman, and Claire Olivia Newman)
  • Ex-Wife: Jackie Witte (resulting in son Alan Scott Newman, and daughters Susan Kendall Newman and Stephanie Kendall Newman)
  
• 
  Paul Rudd
  • Faith: Reformed Judaism, but has said he is not “particularly religious”
  • Worldview: Liberalism, Gay Rights (supporter)
  • Birth name: Paul Stephen Rudd (born in Passaic, New Jersey)
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Julie Yaeger (screenwriter, producer, resulting in son Jack Sullivan Rudd, and daughter Darby Rudd)
  
• 
  Paul Sorvino …DIED age 83 (2022)—Natural causes
  • Faith: Unknown
  • Birth name: Paul Anthony Sorvino
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Dee Dee Sorvino (actress and Republican political pundit)
  • Ex-Wife: Lorraine Davis (resulting in daughters Mira Sorvino and Amanda Sorvino, and son Michael Davis Sorvino)
  
• 
  Paul Walker …DIED age 40—Car crash
  • Faith: Christianity (non-denominational); attended Village Christian School (Sun Valley, California); ex-Mormon church member (raised in LDS); “I’m a Christian now… I’m always around nature. I look at everything and think, ‘Who couldn’t believe there’s a God? Is all this a mistake?’ It just blows me away.”
  • Worldview: Founded the humanitarian aid nonprofit charity Reach Out Worldwide
  • Birth name: Paul William Walker IV
  • Children: 1
  • Brother: Cody Walker (actor)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell
  —Rebecca Soteros (resulted in daughter Meadow Walker, an actress, model)
  
• 
  Pedro Pascal
  • Faith: Agnosticism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (outspoken activism), Leftism, LGBTQ+ (outspoken advocate)
  • Birth name: José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal
  • Children: none
  • Brother: Lux Pascal (born Lucas Balmaceda Pascal, and now a transgender “actress” and transgender activist whose partner is José Antonio Raffo)
  
• 
  Penelope Ann Miller
  • Birth name: Penelope Andrea Miller
  • Children: 2
  • Father: Mark Miller (actor, writer, producer)
  • Husband: James Huggins (resulting in 2 daughters)
  • Ex-Husband: Will Arnett
  
• 
  Paula Patton
  • Faith: Christianity (Protestant non-denominational)
  • Birth name: Paula Maxine Patton (born in Los Angeles, California)
  • Children: 1
  • Ex-Husband: Robin Thicke (singer, songwriter, record producer, resulting in son Julian Fuego Thicke)
  
• 
  Penélope Cruz
  • aka Penelope Cruz
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Sister: Mónica Cruz (actress)
  • Birth name: Penélope Cruz Sánchez
  • Husband: Javier Bardem (resulting in son Leo Encinas Cruz and daughter Luna Encinas Cruz)
  • Ex-Partner: Tom Cruise
  
• Penn Badgley
  • Faith: Baha'i (since 2015)
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism, LGBT activism, Black Lives Matter movement
  • Birth name: Penn Dayton Badgley
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Domino Kirke (resulting in a son and twins)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Blake Lively
  —Zoë Kravitz (Zoe Kravitz)
  
• 
  Pete Postlethwaite …DIED age 64 (2011)—Pancreatic cancer
  • Faith: Unclear, possibly Secularism, born in a Catholic family, and had attended Catholic seminary with the goal of becoming a priest
  • Worldview: Liberalism, Climate Alarmism
  • Birth name: Peter William Postlethwaite
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Jacqueline Morrish (resulting in actor son Billy Postlethwaite, and daughter Lily Postlethwaite)
  
• 
  Peter Boyle …DIED age 71—Multiple myeloma, cardiovascular disease
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Birth name: Peter Lawrence Boyle Jr.
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Loraine Alterman
  
• Peter Coyote
  • aka Hosho Jishi
  • Faith: Zen Bhddhism, ordained as a Zen Priest (2015); of Jewish descent
  • Worldview: Leftism (activist); a founding member of the Haight-Ashbury counterculture community; former member of the Free Family Black Bear Ranch commune; Conservationism; Climate Alarmism (activist)
  • Birth name: Robert Peter Cohon
  • Children: 2
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Marilyn McCann
  —Stefanie Pleet
  
• 
  Peter Dinklage
  • Faith: Atheism, Secularism; ex-Catholic, attended Catholic prep school
  • Worldview: Liberalism, Enivromentalism, PETA supporter, Vegetarianism
  • Birth name: Peter Hayden Dinklage (born in Morristown, New Jersey)
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Erica Schmidt (resulting in a daughter Zelig Dinklage, and son Peter Dinklage Jr.)
  
• 
  Peter Falk …DIED age 83 (2011)—Pneumonia, with complications of Alzheimer’s disease
  • Faith: Judaism
  • Birth name: Peter Michael Falk
  • Wife: Shera Danese (actress)
  • Ex-Wife: Alyce Mayo (actress, resulting in the adoption of daughters Catherine and Jackie)
  
• 
  Peter Finch …DIED age 60 (1977)—Heart attack
  • Faith: Buddhism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch
  • Children: 4
  • Wife: Eletha Barrett (resulting in daughter Diana)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Tamara Tchinarova (ballerina, resulting in daughter Anita)
  —Yolande Turner (née Yolande Eileen Turnbull, actress, resulting in daughter Samantha and son Charles Peter)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Vivien Leigh (actress, adultery)
  —Shirley Bassey (adultery, resulting in daughter also named Samantha)
  
• 
  Peter Fonda …DIED age 79 (2019)—Respiratory failure due to lung cancer
  • Faith: Atheism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Liberalism (outspoken)
  • Birth name: Peter Henry Fonda
  • Children: 3
  • Father: Henry Fonda
  • Sister: Jane Fonda
  • Wife: Margaret DeVogelaere
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Susan Jane Brewer (resulting in daughter Bridget Fonda, son Justin Fonda, and step-son Thomas McGuane)
  —Portia Rebecca Crockett
  
• 
  Peter Gallagher
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Birth name: Peter Killian Gallagher
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Paula Harwood (resulting in son James Gallagher and daughter Kathryn Gallagher, an actress and singer)
  
• 
  Peter O'Toole …DIED age 81 (2013)—Natural causes during recurrence of stomach cancer
  • Faith: Atheism, ex-Catholic; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Peter Seamus O'Toole
  • Children: 3
  • Ex-Wife: Siân Phillips (actress, resulting in daughters Patricia O'Toole and actress Kate O'Toole)
  • Ex-Partner: Karen Brown (model, actress, resulting in actor son Lorcan O'Toole)
  
• 
  Peter Sarsgaard
  • Faith: Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Birth name: John Peter Sarsgaard
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Maggie Gyllenhaal (resulting in 2 daughters, including Ramona Sarsgaard)
  
• 
  Peter Sellers …DIED age 54 (1980)—Massive heart attack
  • Faith: Secularism; explored various religions including Buddhism; attended Catholic school; father was Anglican and mother Jewish, but Peter never practiced Judaism
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Richard Henry Sellers (born in Southsea, Portsmouth, England)
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Lynne Maria Frederick ​(model, actress)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Anne Howe (resulting in son Michael Sellers and Sarah Sellers)
  —Britt Ekland (aka Britt-Marie Ekland, Swedish actress, resulting in daughter Victoria Sellers)
  —Miranda Elizabeth Louise Quarry (aka Miranda Macmillan, model, socialite, Countess of Stockton)
  
• 
  Peter Stormare
  • Faith: Mysticism and Secularism, not a Christian, and says he doesn’t necessarily believe in a god. “But there is something out there, a big force that created all this. I get asked whether I believe in aliens and UFOs, and I say, yeah, because it’s more fun to believe…” When he was young, he participated in Baptist meetings in Sweden. However, since that time he says he developed psychic powers and “a strong spiritual side, both inherited from his mother, who he has said was a medium, and who supposedly inherited that ability from her own father.”
  • Birth name: Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm
  • Children: 1
  • Wife: Toshimi Murakami (Toshimi Stormare) (marriage resulted in daughter Kaiya Bella Luna Stormare)
  • Ex-Wife: Karen Sillas (actress)
  
• Peter Vaughan …DIED age 93—Natural causes
  • Birth name: Peter Ewart Ohm
  • Wife: Lillias Walker (actress, resulting in a step-daughter)
  • Ex-Wife: Billie Whitelaw (actress)
  
• 
  Peter Weller
  • Faith: Unknown, raised in Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Worldview: Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Peter Frederick Weller
  • Children: 1
  • Wife: Shari Stowe (actress, resulting in son Teddy Weller)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Ali MacGraw (actress)
  —Barbra Streisand (actress, singer)
  
• 
  Philip Seymour Hoffman …DIED age 46—Acute mixed drug intoxication
  • Faith: Secularism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Liberalism
  • Birth name: Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • Children: 3
  • Ex-Partner: Mimi O'Donnell (costume designer, resulting in actor son Cooper Hoffman and 2 daughters)
  
• 
  Phoebe Cates
  • aka Phoebe Cates Kline
  • Birth name: Phoebe Belle Cates
  • Children: 2
  • Husband: Kevin Kline (resulting in actor/filmmaker son Owen Joseph Kline and musician/singer daughter Greta Kline)
  • Ex-Partner: Stavros Merjos
  
• 
  Pierce Brosnan
  • Faith: reportedly attends Roman Catholicism mass, but also loves “the teachings of Buddhist philosophy,” which he referred to as his “own private faith”
  • Worldview: Liberalism, Environmentalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Pierce Brendan Brosnan (born in Drogheda, Ireland)
  • Children: 5 (3 biological, 2 adopted)
  • Wives:
  —Keely Shаye Smith (aka Keely Shaye Brosnan, resulting in sons Dylan Brosnan, an actor, and Paris Brosnan, a model)
  —Cassandra Harris (actress, died of cancer 1991, marriage resulted in actor son Sean Brosnan, and adopted son Chris and daughter Charlotte, from her previous relationship)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Kathryn Kinley (TV news anchor)
  —Tatjana Patitz (model)
  —Julianne Phillips (model)
  —Barbara Orbison (producer)
  —Denice D. Lewis (model)
  —Brenda K. Starr (singer)
  
• 
  Piper Perabo
  • Faith: reportedly liberal Christianity (Roman Catholicism)
  • Worldview: Leftism (outspoken), Progressive Liberalism (activist), LGBT advocacy
  • Birth name: Piper Lisa Perabo (born in Dallas, Texas)
  • Husband: Stephen Kay (actor, writer, director, marriage resulted in stepdaughter Lilli Kay)
  
• 
  Polly Bergen …DIED age 84—Emphysema and natural causes
  • Faith: converted from Southern Baptist to Judaism upon marrying Freddie Fields ; apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Worldview: Liberalism (activist), Liberal Feminism, Abortion supporter
  • Birth name: Nellie Paulina Burgin (born in Knoxville, Tennessee)
  • Children: 3 + 1 aborted child
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Jerome Courtland (actor, director)
  —Freddie Fields (theatrical agent, producer, resulting in adopted children Pamela Kerry Fields and Peter William Fields, and stepdaughter Kathy Fields)
  —Jeffrey Endervelt
  
• 
  Powers Boothe …DIED age 68—Cardiac arrest, pancreatic cancer
  • Faith: raised in Christianity (Church of Christ)
  • Worldview: Conservatism, Philanthropy
  • Birth name: Powers Allen Boothe (born in Snyder, Texas)
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Pamela Ann Cole (aka Pam Cole, resulting in daughter Parisse Boothe, and son Preston Boothe)
  
• 
  Priyanka Chopra Jonas
  • Faith: Hinduism (practicing)
  • Birth name: Priyanka Chopra (born in Jamshedpur, India)
  • Children: 1
  • Husband: Nick Jonas (singer, actor, resulting in daughter Malti Marie Chopra Jonas)