1,365 Popular Actors

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  Walter Matthau …DIED age 79—Heart attack
  • Faith: Judaism; rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ
  • Birth name: Walter John Matthow
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Carol Grace (aka Carol Marcus Saroyan) (actress, resulting in son Charles Marcus Matthau—director, producer, actor)
  • Ex-Wife: Grace Geraldine Johnson (resulting in son David and daughter Jenny)
  
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  Walton Goggins
  • Faith: Unclear
  • Birth name: Walton Sanders Goggins Jr.
  • Children: 1
  • Wives:
  —Nadia Conners (filmmaker, resulting in son Augustus Somerset Goggins)
  —Leanne Kaun (died 2004)
  
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  Warren Beatty
  • Faith: apparently Secularism / His wife is an Agnostic. He was raised in a Baptist family.
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Henry Warren Beatty
  • Children: 4
  • Wife: Annette Bening (resulting in sons Stephen Beatty and Benjamin Beatty, and daughters Isabel Beatty and actress Ella Beatty)
  • Sister: Shirley MacLaine
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Jane Fonda
  —Joan Collins
  —Cher
  —Natalie Wood
  —Vivien Leigh
  —Leslie Caron
  —Mamie Van Doren
  —Julie Christie
  —Faye Dunaway
  —Brigitte Bardot
  —Carly Simon
  —Joni Mitchell
  —Britt Ekland
  —Judy Carne
  —Goldie Hawn
  —Michelle Phillips
  —Candice Bergen
  —Kate Jackson
  —Melanie Griffith
  —Raquel Welch
  —Iman
  —Diane Keaton
  —Diana Ross
  —Justine Bateman
  —Elle Macpherson
  —Carol Alt
  —Isabelle Adjani
  —Madonna
  —Barbra Streisand
  —and others
  
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  Warren Oates …DIED age 53 (1982)—heart attack, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  • Faith: gravitated to Zen Buddhism
  • Birth name: Warren Mercer Oates
  • Children: 4, including Jennifer Andrea Oates and Timothy Brian Mercer Oates
  • Wife: Judith A. Jones (aka Judy Jones)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Teddy Louise Farmer (begun in adultery, resulting in 3 children)
  —Vickery Turner (actress, playwright)
  • Ex-Partner: Lee Purcell
  
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  Werner Herzog
  • Faith: Atheism, ex-Catholicism convert
  • Worldview: Evolutionism, “Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There’s no doubt in my heart.” / “I'm not an activist.”
  • Birth name: Werner Stipetić
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Lena Pisetski (photographer)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Martje Grohmann (resulting in son Rudolph Amos Achmed)
  —Christine Maria Ebenberger (resulting in son Simon)
  • Ex-Partner: Eva Mattes (actress, resulting in daughter Hanna Mattes)
  
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  Wes Bentley
  • Faith: Unclear. His father is a United Methodist minister, and his mother a chaplain and Arkansas Conference ordained elder.
  • Birth name: Wesley Cook Bentley
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Jacqui Swedberg (producer, resulting in son Charles Bentley and daughter Brooklyn Bentley)
  • Ex-Wife: Jennifer Quanz (actress)
  
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  Wesley Snipes
  • Faith: Unclear, had converted to Islam but later left it; raised in Christianity
  • Birth name: Wesley Trent Snipes
  • Children: 6
  • Wife: Nakyung Park (resulting in 4 children)
  • Ex-Wife: April Dubois (resulting in son Jelani)
  • Ex-Partner: unnamed (resulting in a son)
  
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  Whitney Houston …DIED age 48—Drowning due to coronary artery disease and cocaine intoxication
  • Faith: Christianity; raised a Baptist
  • Birth name: Whitney Elizabeth Houston
  • Children: 1 + several miscarriages
  • Ex-Husband: Bobby Brown (resulting daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown)
  • Cousins:
  —Dionne Warwick
  —Dee Dee Warwick
  
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  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Faith: Atheism, Secularism; although she is sometimes falsely listed as Jewish or Catholic / Raised in Catholicism by her mother Emma Jonhson. / Her father was a a Baptist clergyman, Robert James Johnson Jr. Goldberg has said that her family is “Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist, and Catholic.”
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (outspoken activist), LGBTQ supporter, Liberal Feminism
  • Birth name: Caryn Elaine Johnson
  • Children: 1 + 6-7 aborted
  • Ex-Husbands:
  —Alvin Martin (drug counselor, resulting in daughter Alexandrea Martin, actress, producer)
  —David Claessen (cinematographer)
  —Lyle Trachtenberg (nion organizer)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —David Schein (playwright)
  —Frank Langella
  —Timothy Dalton
  —Ted Danson
  —and others
  
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  Wil Wheaton
  • Faith: Atheism
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: Richard William Wheaton III
  • Children: 2 (adopted)
  • Wife: Anne Prince (Wil adopted her sons from her previous marriage, Ryan and Nalon Wheaton)
  
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  Will Arnett
  • Faith: Unclear, but appears to be Secularism
  • Birth name: William Emerson Arnett (born in Toronto, Canada)
  • Children: 3
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Amy Poehler (resulting in sons Abel James Arnett and Archibald William Emerson Arnett)
  —Penelope Ann Miller (actresses)
  • Ex-Partner: Alessandra Brawn (PR and marketing executive, resulting in son Alexander Denison Arnett and stepson Nash)
  
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  Will Ferrell
  • Faith: Atheism
  • Worldview: Leftism; Progressive Liberalism (activist)
  • Birth name: John William Ferrell
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Viveca Paulin (actress, resulting in sons Magnus Paulin Ferrell, Mattias Paulin Ferrell and Axel Paulin Ferrell)
  
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  Will Forte
  • Faith: Secularism
  • Birth name: Orville Willis Forte IV
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Olivia Modling (resulting in daughters Zoe Douglas Forte and Cecilia Forte)
  
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  Will Smith
  • Faith: He has said he feels a deep connection to Hindu spirituality and Indian astrology / has performed Hindu rites in India / raised Baptist, but has publicly rejected Christianity and Biblical morality, and says he has never considered himself religious / In the past, he has said complimentary things about Scientology and other faiths and financially supported both Scientology, Muslim and Christianity related ministries.
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism (outspoken activist); Barack Obama supporter; Same-Sex Marriage (outspoken supporter)
  • Birth name: Willard Carroll Smith II (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Jada Pinkett Smith (separated 2016; marriage resulted in son Jaden Christopher Syre Smith and openly bisexual daughter Willow Camille Reign Smith)
  • Ex-Wife: Sheree Zampino (actress, producer, resulting in son Willard Carroll Smith III, aka Trey Smith)
  
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  Willem Dafoe
  • Faith: Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga (practices daily)
  • Worldview: Climate Alarmism (claims “animal farms are one of the main causes of the destruction of the planet”), Pescetarianism
  • Birth name: William James Dafoe
  • Children: 1
  • Wife: Giada Colagrande (actress)
  • Ex-Partner: Elizabeth LeCompte (director, resulting in son Jack)
  
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  William Baldwin
  • aka Billy Baldwin
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Roman Catholicism
  • Worldview: supports left-leaning issues
  • Birth name: William Joseph Baldwin
  • Children: 3
  • Brothers:
  —Alec Baldwin, —Stephen Baldwin, —Daniel Baldwin
  • Wife: Chynna Phillips (singer, daughter of John Phillips and actress Michelle Gilliam / William’s marriage resulted in son Vance Baldwin and daughters Jameson Baldwin and Brooks Baldwin)
  
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  William Daniels
  • Faith: Unknown
  • Birth name: William David Daniels
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Bonnie Bartlett (actress, resulting in son William Daniels Jr. who died a day after birth, and 2 adopted sons Michael Daniels and Robert Daniels)
  
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  William Fichtner
  • Birth name: William Edward Fichtner Jr.
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Kymberly Kalil (actress, resulting in actor son Vangel Fichtner)
  • Ex-Wife: Betsy Aidem (actress, resulting in son Sam Fichtner)
  
• William Forsythe
  • Faith: reportedly Christianity; attended a Catholic schools; acted in Christian film drama “God's Not Dead: We the People” (2021)
  • Children: 3
  • Wife: Teresa Stevens
  • Ex-Wife: Melody Mundon (resulting in daughters Rebecca Forsythe, Angelica Forsythe and Chloe Forsythe)
  
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  William H. Macy
  • Faith: Secularism; his wife grew up Catholic
  • Worldview: Progressive Liberalism
  • Birth name: William Hall Macy Jr.
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Felicity Huffman (resulting in daughters Sophia Grace Macy and Georgia Grace Macy)
  
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  William Holden …DIED age 63—Exsanguination following a fall due to intoxication; body found 4 days later
  • aka Bill Holden
  • Faith: apparently rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ; raised in Christianity (Congregationalist parents)
  • Worldview: registered Republican; Wildlife Conservation; Animal Welfare
  • Birth name: William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  • Children: 4
  • Partner: Stefanie Powers (actress)
  • Ex-Wife: Brenda Marshall (born Ardis Ankerson, actress, marriage resulted in sons Scott Porter Holden, who committed suicide in 1972, and Peter Westfield Holden, aka West Holden, and William’s adoption of her daughter Virginia Holden Gaines, fathered by actor Richard Gaines)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Eva May Hoffman (actress, resulting in daughter Arlene)
  —Patricia Stauffer
  —China Machado (model)
  —Erica Beer (actress)
  —Grace Kelly
  —Shelley Winters
  —Audrey Hepburn (adultery)
  —Barbara Stanwyck
  —Silvana Pampanini (actress)
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  William Hurt …DIED age 71 (2022)—Complications from bone-metastasized terminal prostate cancer
  • Faith: Apparently Christianity (Lutheran), also is quoted as saying, “I have a faith now, and it saves my day. I was angry with God for a long time because I was unhappy with me.”
  • Birth name: William McChord Hurt (born in Washington, D.C.)
  • Children: 4
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Mary Beth Supinger (aka Mary Beth Hurt, actress)
  —Heidi Henderson (daughter of Skitch Henderson, resulting in sons William Hurt Jr. and Samuel Hurt)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Sandra Jennings (ballet dancer, begun in adultery, resulting in son Alexander Devon Hurt)
  —Sandrine Bonnaire (French actress, director, screenwriter, resulting in Jeanne Bonnaire-Hurt)
  —Marlee Matlin
  —Eva May Hoffman (actress)
  —Capucine (actress)
  
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  Will Patton
  • Faith: Unclear, raised in Christianity; His father, Bill Patton, was a Lutheran minister and served as a chaplain at Duke University. Will’s parents ran a foster home on a farm for wayward teenagers.
  • Birth name: William Rankin Patton
  • Children: 2
  • Wife: Elizabeth Grayson (resulting in son Tristan Patton, and daughter Carys Elaine Patton)
  
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  William Sadler
  • Birth name: William Thomas Sadler
  • Children: 1
  • Wife: Marni Joan Bakst (died of cancer 2024, marriage resulted in actress daughter Sadler Colley Bakst)
  
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  William Shatner
  • Faith: Agnosticism, raised in Conservative Judaism
  • Wife: Nerine Kidd (died 1999, accidental drowning)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Gloria Rand (aka Gloria Rabinowitz, actress, resulting in daughters Leslie Carol Shatner, Lisabeth Mary Shatner, and Melanie Ann Shatner)
  —Marcy Lafferty (daughter TV producer Perry Lafferty)
  —Elizabeth Anderson Martin
  • Son-in-law: Joel Gretsch
  
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  Winona Ryder
  • Faith: Buddhism; Her father is an atheist of Jewish ethnicity.
  • Worldview: Liberalism; Calls the Trump Presidency a “mind-boggling nightmare”
  • Birth name: Winona Laura Horowitz
  • Children: none
  • Partner: Scott Mackinlay Hahn (fashion designer)
  • Ex-Partners include: —Matt Damon
  —Johnny Depp
  
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  Woody Allen
  • Faith: Atheism, raised in Judaism
  • Birth name: Allan Stewart Konigsberg
  • Children: 5 (1 biological, 4 adopted)
  • Wife: Soon-Yi Previn (resulting in 2 adopted daughters)
  • Ex-Wives:
  —Harlene Susan Rosen
  —Louise Lasser (actress)
  • Ex-Partners:
  —Stacey Nelkin
  —Babi Christina Engelhardt
  —Diane Keaton
  —Mia Farrow (resulting in son Satchel Ronan O'Sullivan Farrow)
  
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  Woody Harrelson
  • Faith: Non-Christian; Considers himself spiritual and leans toward Hinduism with admiration of the Hindu Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda. He was raised by a reportedly “devout” Christian mother and attended a liberal Presbyterian college (Hanover) where he says, “I was actually considering being a minister. …I was very religious growing up.” He now denies the Bible and calls it a “man-made… document to control people.”
  • Worldview: Socialism, Environmentalism (activist), Raw Veganism, Self-identifies as an Anarchist
  • Birth name: Woodrow Tracy Harrelson
  • Children: 3
  • Father: Charles Voyde Harrelson (organized crime figure and contract killer)
  • Brother: Brett Voyde Harrelson (actor)
  • Wife: Laura Louie (producer, resulting in daughters Deni Harrelson, Zoe Harrelson, and Makani Harrelson)
  • Ex-Wife: Nancy Simon (daughter of playwright Neil Simon)