Louisiana Actors
by nolabrad | created - 14 Mar 2014 | updated - 26 Nov 2017 | Public
1. Nicholas Bordelon
Actor | NCIS: New Orleans
Nicholas Bordelon was born on September 16, 1981 in Mansura, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and Brunch before Baptism (2018).
2. Sean Huze
Actor | Green Zone
Sean Huze is originally from Baton Rouge, LA. He served as an infantryman in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2001-2005 with Second Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion. On February 6, 2003, he deployed with his unit to Kuwait where they staged just South of the Iraqi border in preparation for ...
3. Gus Rhodes
Actor | Wild Card
Gus Rhodes was raised on a farm. As a child he rode his horse to the one-room country school grade school which he attended. He was active in 4-H and exhibited livestock at the County Fair, winning the Grand Champion Exhibitor trophy his senior year. In High School he was cast as the leading man in...
4. Chris Marroy
Actor | NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service
Chris Marroy is an American film, television, and stage actor. He was born on September 25, 1988 in Metairie, Louisiana. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi, Summa Cum Laude in 2010. He lives in Los Angeles, California. More ...
5. Ian Somerhalder
Actor | The Vampire Diaries
Ian Somerhalder was born and raised in the small southern town of Covington, Louisiana. His mother, Edna (née Israel), is a massage therapist, and his father, Robert Somerhalder, is a building contractor. He has Cajun (French), English, and Scots-Irish ancestry. Boating, swimming, fishing and ...
6. Jake Wynne-Wilson
Actor | NCIS: New Orleans
Jake Wynne-Wilson was born in Savannah, Georgia, USA. He is an actor, known for NCIS: New Orleans (2014), The Purge (2018) and Red Dead Redemption II (2018).
7. Manoli Ioannidis
Actor | The Penguin
Manoli Ioannidis is an award winning Greek-American actor who has appeared in a variety of film, television, & theater productions. He is a graduate from the William Esper Studio in New York City & has an MBA from the University of New Orleans.
He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, to a ...
8. Jeffry Griffin
Actor | The Big Short
Jeffry Griffin is an American actor known for playing Chris in the biography-drama The Big Short (2015).
Jeffry was born in Freeport, Texas, the second child of three boys. From the age of 6, Jeffry grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, but moved to the greater Houston area after high school. Although ...
9. Tyler Perry
Writer | Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Perry was born and raised in New Orleans, to Willie Maxine (Campbell) and Emmitt Perry, Sr. His mother was a church-goer and took Perry along with her once a week. His father was a carpenter and they had a very strained and abusive relationship, which led Perry to suffer from depression as a ...
10. John Goodman
Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane
John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...
11. Jared Leto
Actor | Dallas Buyers Club
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be ...
12. Brett Lapeyrouse
Actor | 21 Jump Street
Brett Lapeyrouse was born in Houma, Louisiana. He started training and working as an actor around February 2008. He spends most of his time between Los Angeles, CA and New Orleans, LA. He plays in a band name 3:16 View. He has played a range of roles in both drama and comedy.
13. Anthony Mackie
Actor | The Hurt Locker
Anthony Mackie is an American actor. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Martha (Gordon) and Willie Mackie, Sr., who owned a business, Mackie Roofing. Anthony has been featured in feature films, television series and Broadway and Off-Broadway plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ...
14. Hunter Hayes
Soundtrack | Footloose
Hunter Hayes was born on September 9, 1991 in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Footloose (2011), The Best of Me (2014) and Monster Trucks (2016).
15. Sean Michael Cunningham
Actor | Secretariat
Sean Michael Cunningham was born on July 29, 1996 in Houma, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Secretariat (2010), That's What I Am (2011) and Texas Killing Fields (2011).
16. Harry Connick Jr.
Actor | Hope Floats
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick, Jr. was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of Anita Frances (Levy), a lawyer and judge, and Harry Connick, Sr. (Joseph Harry Fowler Connick), who served as District Attorney of New Orleans from 1973 to 2003. His father is of Irish, English, and German ...
17. Chase Coleman
Actor | Boardwalk Empire
Chase Coleman was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and raised in Monroe, Louisiana. As both a talented actor and musician, he is best known for his roles as Billy Winslow in the HBO TV series, Boardwalk Empire, portraying the werewolf, Oliver, in the CW hit spin-off series, The Originals, and most ...
18. Han Soto
Actor | Life Is Strange: True Colors
Prior to working in the entertainment industry, Han was a successful businessman in the building trades industry, created and operates a website and branding business, has worked as an independent consultant in corporate Information Technology, and has decades of retail experience.
As a new father ...
19. Dane Rhodes
Actor | Deja Vu
Dane is an actor and director in New Orleans La. He has appeared on stages and in films around the world. Some of his favorite experiences have included working on a world premier play called MAcbeth at the Gates with Roy Marsden and his friend David Lumsden and getting to work with John Travolta, ...
20. Carl Weathers
Actor | Predator
Carl Weathers was born on January 14, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana. A famous and successful football star at San Diego State, he played with the Oakland Raiders and retired from the sport in 1974, in order to give full attention to his goal: to be a real actor.
Weathers first played small parts ...
21. Scott Shilstone
Actor | Pitch Perfect
New Orleans-born Scott Shilstone started acting in high school theater, and at 16 booked his first professional role in the late Christopher Reeve's TV Movie, "The Brooke Ellison Story" for A&E. From there, he continued to follow various theatrical pursuits, landing roles in both film and TV along ...
22. Brian Palermo
Actor | Big Momma's House
Brian Joseph Palermo was born in New Orleans in 1966. He attended St. Clement of Rome School and Archbishop Rummel High School, both in nearby Metairie, Louisiana. He became interested in theatre arts at the University of New Orleans, where he earned a B.A. in Drama and Communications. He moved to ...
23. Kevin Porter
Actor | Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Kevin Porter was born on July 29, 1969 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004), N Word (2008) and The Job Interview.
24. Mark Duplass
Actor | Safety Not Guaranteed
Mark Duplass was born on December 7, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Creep (2014) and The One I Love (2014). He has been married to Katie Aselton since August 26, 2006. They have two children.
26. Tyler Forrest
Actor | Stolen
Growing up in Abita Springs, LA, Tyler developed his passion for creation and performance through songwriting at a young age. Tyler has been seen in a wide range of movies and television as an actor. Combining his skills in music and film, Tyler is a writer, producer, director, cinematographer, and...
27. Garrett Hines
Actor | Five Nights at Freddy's
Garrett Hines is an actor, poet, and musician from New Orleans, Louisiana. While taking a Freshman English course at Southeastern Louisiana University, he wrote a narrative essay which his professor encouraged him to adapt and perform as a one-man show entitled "Ghost". It was the first time he ...
28. Reiley McClendon
Actor | Pearl Harbor
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Roseland. Reiley McClendon first told his parents that he wanted to be an actor at the age of four. At six years old when he was still interested in acting his parents, Eric and Holly decided to allow and help Reiley to pursue his dream. After getting a...
29. Shane West
Actor | A Walk to Remember
Shane West was born Shannon Bruce Snaith in 1978 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the son of Leah (Launey), a lawyer, and Don Snaith, a drugstore owner. Shane began to pursue an acting career at the age of fifteen, gaining bit parts on various television shows, but it was not until 1999 when West ...
30. Sean Patrick Flanery
Actor | Powder
Sean Patrick Flanery was born in Lake Charles, La. and raised in a small town outside of Houston, Texas. While attending the University of St. Thomas in Houston, he saw a beautiful girl leaving a building on campus every Monday and decided to drop an English class and sign up for "whatever the hell...
31. Shannon Leto
Actor | My So-Called Life
Shannon Leto was born on March 9, 1970 in Bossier City, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for My So-Called Life (1994), Prefontaine (1997) and Highway (2002).
32. Blayne Weaver
Actor | 6 Month Rule
Weaver most recently directed the feature film Cupid For Christmas (starring Richard Kind) which premiered on HULU. Previously he directed the horror film Getaway, and the Christmas romantic comedy Santa Girl (starring Barry Bostwick and Jennifer Stone). He wrote, directed, and starred in the ...
33. Jason Alan Smith
Actor | Before I Wake
Jason Alan Smith was born in September 1976 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Before I Wake (2016), Feud (2017) and Nashville (2012).
34. RJ Mitte
Actor | Breaking Bad
In 2006 R.J. Mitte moved to Hollywood, California, with his family to support the foray of his sister, actress Lacianne Carriere, into print and commercial work. For fun, Mitte began training with Los Angeles talent manager Addison K. Witt in Sherman Oaks, Cal. And though many of the actors in the ...
35. Adam Henslee
Actor | Secrets of Sulphur Springs
Adam Henslee is an American actor born and raised in Fayetteville, AR. His credits include multiple episodes on The Secrets of Sulphur Springs on Disney, When We First Met on Netflix and a guest starring role on Homicide Hunter for Investigation Discovery. He studied at the William Esper Studio in ...
36. Zachary Levi
Actor | Shazam!
The middle child between two sisters, Zachary Levi was born as Zachary Levi Pugh on September 29, 1980 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to Susan (Hoctor) and Darrell Alton Pugh. He uses his middle name as his stage surname because his birth name, "Pugh", which is of Welsh origin, sounds too much like "...
37. Billy Slaughter
Actor | Mayfair Witches
Billy Slaughter has acted in over a 100 feature films and television series, including: The Magnificent 7, The Campaign, The Big Short, Bad Moms, Daddy's Home, Mindhunter, and American Horror Story; and has starred in films such as 4 To Go and Laundry Day. He additionally starred in and Executive ...
38. Brock Kelly
Actor | Pitch Perfect
Brock Kelly was born on August 17, 1985 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Pitch Perfect (2012), Costa Rican Summer (2010) and No Ordinary Family (2010).
39. Frederick Weller
Actor | In Plain Sight
Frederick Weller was born on April 18, 1966 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and director, known for In Plain Sight (2008), BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Mosaic (2018).
40. Paul Carr
Actor | Akira
Paul Carr was born on February 1, 1934 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Akira (1988), Star Trek (1966) and The Time Tunnel (1966). He was married to Merrily M Hirsch and Evan MacNeil. He died on February 17, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
41. James Landry Hébert
Actor | 1883
Some would say that actor James Landry Hébert (pronounced "Ayy-Bear") was born in Lafayette, LA in 1984. Others would argue that after spending most of his adolescence on an Indian reservation the actor was born while studying theater at Louisiana State University. And still others, James included,...
42. Bryan Batt
Actor | Mad Men
Bryan Batt was born on March 1, 1963 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Mad Men (2007), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Jeffrey (1995). He has been married to Tom Cianfichi since September 28, 2014.
43. Mark Duplass
Actor | Safety Not Guaranteed
Mark Duplass was born on December 7, 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), Creep (2014) and The One I Love (2014). He has been married to Katie Aselton since August 26, 2006. They have two children.
44. Sam Trammell
Actor | True Blood
Tony Award-nominee Sam Trammell may be most widely recognized as "Sam Merlotte" in HBO's AFI award-winning series True Blood (2008), filmed in Trammell's native Louisiana. The Alan Ball-created fantasy drama set ratings records for the network over its seven year run. He co-starred in the feature ...
45. Jared Day
Actor | NCIS: New Orleans
Jared Day was born in Houma, Louisiana, USA. He is known for NCIS: New Orleans (2014), The Young and the Restless (1973) and The Badge (2002).
46. Glenn McCuen
Actor | Dash & Lily
Glenn McCuen was born in Southern Louisiana. At a young age, he excelled in martial arts and gymnastics. His early accomplishments in gymnastics and parental support enabled him to relocate to Plano, Texas to advance his gymnastics training. Throughout his competitive gymnastics career, Glenn would...
47. Lyle Brocato
Actor | The Big Short
Lyle Brocato is from Patterson, LA. He married his high school sweetheart, Angelena Swords in 2001. After graduating form LSU in 2002 they moved to Los Angeles. They have four children. Lyle is best known for his work on The Big Short, Bad Moms and A Bad Moms Christmas. The Brocatos are also ...
48. Kyle Clements
Actor | Doom Patrol
Kyle Clements was born in Hammond, LA. He attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School where he was a standout athlete in both football and baseball. His football career continued in college where he was a wide receiver at Southeastern Louisiana University. During his freshman season he began nurturing ...
49. Shawn Reaves
Actor | Tru Calling
Shawn Reaves was born on February 5, 1978 in Monroe, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Tru Calling (2003), Shadowheart (2009) and Auto Focus (2002).
50. Damon Lipari
Actor | The Guardian
Damon Lipari was born in Patterson LA, and as a young boy all he wanted to do was play basketball. He idolized Pete Maravich for his "handles" and bought strength shoes so he can one day jump high like his other idol Michael "Air" Jordan. But at the age of 13 Damon was hit with the acting bug after...
51. Dave Davis
Actor | The Walking Dead
Dave Davis is known for his work on "True Detective", "The Walking Dead", "The Big Short", "Logan", "Greyhound", as well as his critically acclaimed performance in "The Vigil", and more. Davis began his career in Shakespeare. Awarded the Best Actor award at the Nashville Film Festival, and again at...
52. Bryan Michael Hall
Actor | A Place Among the Dead
Raised in the Washington DC area. Loved acting at an early age, he got his start in a commercial at 10 years old. He pursued theatre throughout his high school years and after. He will thoroughly research and prepare for roles and learns his lines quickly. He is always looking for an opportunity to...
53. Deric Augustine
Actor | Godfather of Harlem
Deric Augustine is an actor originally from New Orleans, Louisiana. As a teenager, Deric started his career in the arts as a theater performer. He later graduated from the University of New Orleans where he studied Theatre and Drama. Upon graduation, he moved to New York City where he continued his...
54. Lucas Boffin
Actor | Sister Tempest
Born and raised in rural Maine to a working class family, Lucas has always been filled with love of exploring. That is likely what led to his move to New Orleans in 2012 and move to Los Angeles in 2018. Specializing in characters facing conflict, Lucas has a lot to draw from for inspiration. But ...
55. Zac Waggener
Actor | Now You See Me
Zac Waggener is known for Now You See Me (2013), So Undercover (2012) and White Rabbit (2013).
56. Beau Brasseaux
Beau Aaron Donald Brasseaux (born November 2, 1989) is an American model, actor, and stunt performer. He attended stunt school before landing a reoccurring feature role on Memphis Beat. He appeared in television commercials as a spokesperson for multiple personal injury lawyers and Bing. Brasseaux ...
57. Jack-Henry Kay
Camera_department | Cattle Call
58. Dakota Hill
Stunts | Battleship
Dakota attended John Robert Powers in New Orleans and was signed to JLA in Hollywood by Kendall Park. He lives in Louisiana, but travels very often. He was hired as Director and Dramatazation Writer for a local police show, where D.W.I checkpoints were filmed, showing people being checked and ...
59. Wes Lagarde
Actor | Pitch Perfect
Wes Lagarde is an American born actor and singer. He was born in a small, Cajun town in southern Louisiana called Cut Off, Louisiana. No stranger to the spotlight, he has been performing both on stage and off since he was 5 years old. With performing in his blood (his father, a musician, and his ...
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