Celebrity Full Names: Actresses - U,V

1. Alanna Ubach

Hardly recognizable from one character to the next, Alanna González Ubach has starred in over 150 theater, film and television projects, including the Peabody Award winning "Men of a Certain Age", HBO's "Hung" as Yael Koontz, the Oscar-winning "Coco" as Mama Imelda, critically acclaimed "Euphoria" ...

Alanna Noel Ubach ANU

2. Kim Johnston Ulrich

Actress | Passions

Kim Johnston Ulrich was born on March 24, 1955 in Ripon, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Passions (1999), The Charmings (1987) and Supernatural (2005). She has been married to Robert J. Ulrich since January 3, 1981. They have two children.

Kimberly Charisse Johnston KCJ

3. Una Damon

Actress | Deep Rising

Una Damon (born Una Kim) is a South Korean and American actress. Her film credits include Gattaca, The Truman Show, Deep Impact, Deep Rising and Spider-Man. Damon has acted in numerous television shows including Curb Your Enthusiasm, Charmed, Chicago Hope, Sliders, Girlfriends and The Closer. In ...

Una Kim UK

4. Carrie Underwood

Actress | Soul Surfer

Carrie Underwood was born on March 10, 1983 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. She is a music artist and actress, known for Soul Surfer (2011), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) and How I Met Your Mother (2005). She has been married to Mike Fisher since July 10, 2010. They ...

Carrie Marie Underwood CMU

5. Gabrielle Union

Actress | Bring It On

Gabrielle Union was born on October 29, 1972, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Theresa (Glass), who managed a phone company, and Sylvester E. Union, a military sergeant and business executive. When she was eight, her family moved to Pleasanton, California, where she grew up and attended high school. There, ...

Gabrielle Monique Union GMU

6. Misty Upham

Actress | August: Osage County

Misty Anne Upham, born in Kallispell, Montana, grew up in south Seattle, the fourth of five children. She began her career at the age of thirteen when she joined a community theater group, Red Eagle Soaring. What began as a summer workshop soon turned into a full-time job. By the age of fourteen ...

Misty Anne Upham MAU

7. Kate Upton

Actress | The Other Woman

Katherine Elizabeth Upton was born in St. Joseph, Michigan, to Shelley Fawn (Davis), a state tennis champion from Texas, and Jefferson Matthew Upton, a high school athletics director. Her uncle is Michigan congressman Fred Upton. Upton always knew she wanted to be a model. Since signing with IMG ...

Katherine Elizabeth Upton KEU

8. Minerva Urecal

Actress | The Ape Man

A stage actress, Urecal made her screen debut in 1933. For the remainder of her career and two hundred plus movies, she played cleaning women, landladies, shopkeepers and the like. She was known as a Marjorie Main type actress and later went on to a career in television playing in such shows as "...

Minerva Holzer MH

9. Brenda Vaccaro

Actress | Midnight Cowboy

A leading lady on screen, stage and sometimes television, Brenda Vaccaro, was born in Brooklyn but was actually raised in Dallas, Texas.

Her appetite for acting increased following several appearances in high school productions, and she finally started a professional career in the 1960s. Memorable ...

Brenda Buell Vaccaro BBV

10. Daya Vaidya

Actress | Superman & Lois

From drama to comedy, Daya Vaidya has made a name for herself through the dynamic characters she has brought to life on screen, and her ability to seamlessly transform into every role she embodies.

Daya starred for six seasons as political shark Jen Kowski on Amazon's hit thriller/drama series "...

Daya Vivian Vaidya DVV

11. Sigrid Valdis

Actress | Our Man Flint

A native Californian of Swedish descent, Sigrid Valdis (the professional stage name of Patricia Annette Olson) was raised in the Westwood and Brentwood neighborhoods of Los Angeles, and attended exclusive private schools, including Marymount High School. Upon graduation, she moved to Europe, then ...

Patricia Annette Olson PAO

12. Nina Vale

Actress | The Gay Falcon

Nina Vale was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is known for The Gay Falcon (1941), Cornered (1945) and Mysterious Intruder (1946).

Anne Nina Hunter ANH

13. Virginia Vale

Actress | Blonde Comet

Virginia Vale was born on May 20, 1920 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Blonde Comet (1941), Triple Justice (1940) and Broadway Big Shot (1942). She died on September 14, 2006 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Dorothy Virginia Howe DVH

14. Vola Vale

Actress | Who Cares

Considered in her day to be one of the screen's great beauties, Vola Vale was born born Violet Smith in Buffalo, New York, and grew up in Rochester. As a youngster she appeared in amateur stage productions in Rochester, and at age 15 made her film debut under her real name (she didn't use Vola Vale...

Vola Smith VS

15. Brooke Valentine

Soundtrack | Big Momma's House 2

Brooke Valentine was born on October 4, 1984 in Houston, Texas, USA.

Kanesha Nichole Brookes KNB

16. Karen Valentine

Actress | Room 222

Karen Valentine was born on a chicken farm in northern California and made her professional debut, at the age of 16, on The Ed Sullivan Show (1948) (aka "The Ed Sullivan Show"). After performing as a contestant on a live national broadcast of "The Miss Teenage America Pageant", Ed Sullivan phoned ...

Karen Lynne Valentine KLV

17. Joan Valerie

Actress | Topa Topa

Born in Illinois in 1912, Helen Vlahakis, later known as Joan Valerie soon settles down in Hollywood, where she studied drama at the famous Pasadena Playhouse. Darryl F. Zanuck discovered her there but gave her parts only in B movies, although in pleasant ones. By way of example, she was the ...

Helen Valerie Vlahakis HVV

18. Valda Valkyrien

Actress | The Image Maker

The real-life Baroness DeWitz, Valkyrien played bit parts at Great Northern in Copenhagen in 1912 before signing with US producer David Horsley. She later switched to the Thanhouser company who featured her in exotic melodramas partially filmed in Jacksonville, Florida. William Fox lured her over ...

Adele Eleonore Freed AEF

19. Amber Valletta

Actress | Gamer

Amber Valletta was born in Phoenix, Arizona, USA as Amber Evangeline Valletta. She is an actress, producer and model. She began her career as a fashion model. Valletta was married to Olympic volleyball player Chip McCaw with whom she has a son, Auden. Valletta endorsed Democrat President Barack ...

Amber Evangeline Valletta AEV

20. Virginia Valli

Actress | A Lady of Quality

Virginia got her start with a Milwaukee stock company and also did some film work with Essanay Studios in 1917 Chicago. Back in the theater, it would be 3 more years before she was brought out to Hollywood to act as leading lady to Bert Lytell. Virginia would continue to appear in films throughout ...

Virginia McSweeney VM

21. Dorothy Van

Writer | Mama's Family

A native of Moline, Illinois she was the daughter of a post office worker and Depression era housewife. She started her career as a stage actress in 1946 despite her fathers objections and later emerged as an actress and writer for television in the 1980s situation comedy "Mama's Family" in the ...

Dorothy Helene Vanberryl DHV

22. Vivian Vance

Actress | I Love Lucy

Born as Vivian Roberta Jones in Cherryvale, Kansas, she had a brother and four sisters. Her family moved to Independence, Kansas, and later studied drama under Anna Ingleman and William Inge. Their next move, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, brought her to that city's Little Theatre, which provided her ...

Vivian Roberta Jones VRJ

23. Vanelle

Actress | Athena

Originally from Oakland, California, Vanelle is an award winning actor, director, writer and producer. She has starred in several independent films such as Sacred Hearts, Exhibit A-7, Remnants and Athena. Vanelle founded her production company, Magic Tribe Pictures, in 2007. She has written and ...

Vanelle Lyn LeBlanc VLL

24. Shantel VanSanten

Actress | The Final Destination

Shantel Yvonne VanSanten is an American model and actress, born July 25, 1985. As a model, she has been featured in the magazines Teen Vogue and Seventeen. VanSanten was born in Luverne, Minnesota. She is of Dutch and one quarter Norwegian descent. VanSanten was raised in Spring, Texas where she ...

Shantel Yvonne VanSanten SYV

25. Nia Vardalos

Actress | My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Nia Vardalos was born on September 24, 1962 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. She is an actress and writer, known for My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016) and I Hate Valentine's Day (2009). She was previously married to Ian Gomez.

Antonia Eugenia Vardalos AEV

26. Janet Varney

Actress | The Legend of Korra

Janet Varney is a comedian, actor, writer and producer. In the animation world, she is lucky enough to be the voice of "Korra" on Nickelodeon's hit series, The Legend of Korra (2012), and she can currently be seen as "Becca" on the live action FX series, You're the Worst (2014). She also spent ...

Janet Maureen Varney JMV

27. Diane Varsi

Actress | Peyton Place

This lovely, long-haired, fresh-faced and most promising product of the late 1950s was born Diane Marie Antonia Varsi in San Mateo, California, on February 23, 1938, the elder of two daughters of Russell Varsi, a florist, and wife Beatrice DeMerchant. A troubling childhood led to her dropping out ...

Diane Marie Antonia Varsi DMAV

28. Sofia Vassilieva

Actress | The Little Things

Sofia Vassilieva was born on October 22, 1992 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for The Little Things (2021), Looking for Alaska (2019) and My Sister's Keeper (2009).

Sofia Vladimirovna Vassilieva SVV

29. Countess Vaughn

Actress | Moesha

Countess Danielle Vaughn was born August 8, 1978 in Idabel, Oklahoma, a small town of approximately 7500 people. She was born to Sandra & Leo Vaughn who taught in the local schools. Very early Countess established herself as a young singer with a dynamic voice. In 1988, she sang her way to stardom ...

Countess Danielle Vaughn CDV

30. Terri J. Vaughn

Actress | The Steve Harvey Show

Terri J. Vaughn was born on October 16, 1969 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is an actress and director, known for The Steve Harvey Show (1996), Friday (1995) and All of Us (2003). She has been married to Karon Riley since January 19, 2008. They have two children. She was previously married ...

Terri Juanita Vaughn TJV

31. Milana Vayntrub

Actress | Werewolves Within

Milana Vayntrub is an Uzbekistan-born American actress, writer and stand-up comedian. She began her career making YouTube videos amounting over 11 million views, then turned her web content into an MTV pilot. In 2016 she was recognized by Adweek on the cover of their Creative 100 issue for her ...

Milana Aleksandrovna Vayntrub MAV

32. Makenzie Vega

Actress | The Good Wife

Makenzie Jade Vega Norfolk (née Vega; born February 10, 1994) is an American actress. She's known for her role as Grace Florrick on The Good Wife and as the 11-year-old counterpart of Nancy Callahan in Sin City. Makenzie was born in Los Angeles, California. Her mom, Gina Denise Rue is an American ...

Makenzie Jade Vega MJV

33. Jaci Velasquez

Actress | The Encounter

Jaci Velasquez was born on October 15, 1979 in Houston, Texas, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Encounter (2010), I'm Not Ashamed (2016) and Rumors of Wars (2014). She has been married to Nic Gonzalez since December 17, 2006. They have two children. She was previously married to ...

Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez JDV

34. Lupe Velez

Actress | The Girl from Mexico

Lupe Velez was born on July 18, 1908, in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, as Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez. She was sent to Texas at the age of 13 to live in a convent. She later admitted that she wasn't much of a student because she was so rambunctious. She had planned to become a champion roller ...

Maria Guadalupe Villalobos Velez MGVV

35. Cassie Ventura

Actress | Step Up 2: The Streets

Cassie is a singer, actress, model, songwriter, and dancer. Albums: Me&U, Long Way 2 Go Official Girl ft. Lil'Wayne Is it you

Cassandra is a 5 time National Grand Champion Twirler, because of twirling is how her modeling career started. Cassandra models for Abercrombie, Target, Jcpennys, Walmart, ...

Casandra Elizabeth Ventura CEV

36. Benay Venuta

Actress | Annie Get Your Gun

The exceedingly lovely and highly musical Benay Venuta was born on January 27, 1911, as Benvenuta Rose Crooke in San Francisco, California. Attending finishing school in Geneva, she subsequently dropped out and headed off to London.

Her career in show business began as a teenage dancer in 1925. ...

Benvenuta Rose Crooke BRC

37. Vera-Ellen

Actress | White Christmas

Vera-Ellen began dancing at the age of 10, and a few years later became one of the youngest Rockettes. She appeared in several Broadway musicals until she was spotted by film producer Samuel Goldwyn in 1945. She was only 24 years old when Goldwyn cast her opposite Danny Kaye in Wonder Man (1945). ...

Vera-Ellen Westmeier Rohe V-EWR

38. Gwen Verdon

Actress | Cocoon

Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper...

Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon GEV

39. Elena Verdugo

Actress | Marcus Welby, M.D.

Most baby-boomers remember actress Elena Verdugo from her pleasant, plain but rather dowdy Emmy-nominated role as "Consuelo Lopez", the altruistic assistant and sometime aide-de-camp to Robert Young's general practitioner for several seasons on the popular Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969) dramatic series....

Elena Angela Verdugo EAV

40. Sofía Vergara

Actress | Hot Pursuit

Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born and raised in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila de Vergara, is a housewife. Her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo, provides cattle to the meat industry. She has five siblings. She was educated at a private bilingual Spanish/...

Sofia Margarita Vergara Vergara SMVV

41. Karen Verne

Actress | All Through the Night

Berlin-born actress Kaaren Verne (sometimes billed as Karen) was born Ingeborg Catherine Marie Rose Klinkerfuss in 1918. Originally a stage actress and member of the Berlin State Theatre, she and her first husband, Arthur Young, fled their homeland in 1938. She began her career in England as a ...

Ingeborg Greta Katerina Marie-Ross Klinckerfuss IGKM-RK

42. Irene Vernon

Actress | Fireside Theatre

Irene Vernon was born on January 16, 1922 in Mishawaka, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Fireside Theatre (1949), Bewitched (1964) and The Sound of Fury (1950). She was married to Emmanuel Rosenberg. She died on April 21, 1998 in South Bend, Indiana, USA.

Irene Vergauwan IV

43. Yvette Vickers

Actress | Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Born on August 26, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, Yvette Vickers majored in picture and theatre arts at UCLA for three years. On a trip to New York in the mid-1950s, she was cast as the White Rain Girl in commercials. She returned to the West Coast, working in various television series until she ...

Yvette Iola Vedder YIV

44. Christina Vidal

Actress | See No Evil

Christina Vidal was born on November 18, 1981 in Whitestone, Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for See No Evil (2006), The Guilty (2021) and Life with Mikey (1993). She has been married to Marcus Mitchell since September 25, 2016. They have two children.

Christina Abbi Vidal CAV

45. Tracy Vilar

Actress | Double Jeopardy

Tracy Vilar was born on April 12, 1968 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and casting director, known for Double Jeopardy (1999), K-PAX (2001) and Missing (2023). She has been married to Eric Daniel since September 2, 2000. They have two children.

Tracy Leigh Vilar TLV

46. Joy Villa

Actress | The Confidant

Joy Villa was born on April 25, 1986 in Orange County, California, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The Confidant (2010), Brigantia and My First Toy Company (2007). She was previously married to Thorsten von Overgaard.

Joy Angela Villa JAV

47. Libby Villari

Actress | Boyhood

Libby Villari was born a Tarheel and a hick in Winston-Salem, N.C. and credits the beauty and magic of rural North Carolina for her love of, and reverence for Nature. Her roots still inform who she is today. At age 11 she moved to Sunland-Tujunga on the outskirts of Los Angeles. She embraced ...

Margaret Elizabeth Webb MEW

48. June Vincent

Actress | Black Angel

June Vincent was born on July 17, 1920 in Harrods, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Black Angel (1946), Shed No Tears (1948) and Can't Help Singing (1944). She was married to William Mueller Sterling. She died on November 20, 2008 in Aurora, Colorado, USA.

Dorothy June Smith DJS

49. Victoria Vinton

Actress | Ambush Valley

Born in New Jersey, Vinton and her sister, Violet (1914-2003), relocated with their father to California following their parents' divorce. Their father found work alongside his brother-in-law as a motion picture cameraman, but his long hours meant that his daughters were alternately raised by their...

Victoria Velnette Vinton VVV

50. Virginia Verrill

Soundtrack | Reckless

The American vocalist and actress Virginia Verrill is remembered chiefly for her singing "That Old Feeling" in the musical Vogues of 1938 (1937). From a musical family, Virginia entered the stage in her mother's vaudeville act as a toddler. By the age of three, she performed with the orchestra of ...

Catherine Virginia Verrill CVV

51. Vitamin C

Actress | Dracula 2000

Vitamin C (Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick) is an American pop music singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress.

She began her career as an Ivory soap baby and child actress, appearing in John Waters' film Hairspray (1988), and continued to appear in minor roles in films before starting the ...

Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick CAF

52. Viva

Actress | Lions Love

Viva was born Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann in Syracuse, New York, to Mary Alice (McNicholas) and Wilfred Ernest Hoffmann, a well-to-do lawyer. She is the first child of a devout Catholic family, and is of German, Irish, English, and one eighth Italian, ancestry. Her parents had eight more children. ...

Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann JSMH

53. Donna Vivino

Actress | All My Children

Donna Vivino is a veteran of screen and stage since age 7. A New Jersey native, she was the Original Young Cosette in Les Miserables on Broadway. She is best known for playing Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked and as Serena Maxwell on the web-series "Submissions Only". Her son is Hendrix Lizzack.

Donna Marie Vivino DMV

54. Katie Volding

Actress | Smart House

Katie Volding was born on February 13, 1989 in Santa Monica, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Smart House (1999), Teen Angel (1997) and ABC TGIF (1989).

Katherine Louise Volding KLV

55. Nedra Volz

Actress | Filthy Rich

An apple dumpling of a darling, character actress Nedra Volz had one of those slightly vacant, twinkly-eyed faces absolutely designed for light sitcoms and commercial work. Although she didn't come into her own until past retirement age, she enjoyed a solid two-decade ride delightfully amusing ...

Nedra Gordonier NG

56. Patricia Vonne

Composer | Cold Dark Hollow

Hailed as a "Renaissance woman of Austin Texas" by the New York Times, Patricia Vonne has proven herself a truly ascendant and transcendent musical artist. "Cold Dark Hollow" written, directed and edited by Patricia Vonne is the winner at Cannes International Independent Film Festival 2020 for Best...

Patricia Rodriguez PR

57. Lark Voorhies

Actress | Saved by the Bell

Lark Voorhies was born on 25 March 1974 in Nashville, Tennessee. She first began acting at the age of two but postponed her acting career until the age of 11, when she appeared on Small Wonder (1985). Lark later starred as Lisa Turtle in Good Morning, Miss Bliss (1987), the predecessor to NBC's ...

Lark Holloway LH

58. Anne Vyalitsyna

Actress | Lullaby

Anne Vyalitsyna was born on March 19, 1986 in Gorkiy, Gorkovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhegorodskaya oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for Lullaby (2014), Maroon 5: Misery (2010) and Alanis Morissette: Out Is Through - Version 2 (2004).

Anne Sergeyevna Vyalitsyna ASV