Yasmina Reza (born 1 May 1959) is a French playwright, actress, novelist and screenwriter. Her parents were both of Jewish origin, her father Iranian, her mother Hungarian.

Barbara Barrie (born May 23, 1931) is an American actress and author of children's books.

Barrie was born as Barbara Ann Berman in Chicago, Illinois, of Jewish heritage, the daughter of Frances Rose (née Boruszak) and Louis Berman.

Abraham Charles Vigodah (born February 24, 1921), best known as Abe Vigoda, is an American movie and television actor.

Vigoda was born in New York City to Lena and Samuel Vigodah, Jewish immigrants from Russia. His brother Bill Vigoda was a comic-book artist who drew for the "Archie" comics franchise and others in the 1940s.

Adah Isaacs Menken (June 15, 1835 – August 10, 1868) was an American actress, painter and poet.

She converted to Judaism and married a Jewish musician, Alexander Isaac.

Abraham Rubin Hercules Benrubi (born October 4, 1969) is an American actor known for his regular appearances as Jerry Markovic on the long-running US TV drama ER and for his first role as Francis Lawrence Kubiac III, aka "Larry Kubiac" or "Kube", on the early 1990s series Parker Lewis Can't Lose.

Alexandrea "Alex" Borstein (IPA: /ˈbɔrstiːn/; born February 15, 1971) is an American actress, voice actor, writer and comedian. She is best known for her role on the FOX series MADtv and Family Guy.

Borstein was born in Highland Park, Illinois, outside Chicago, the daughter of Judy and Irving Borstein, both of whom are mental health professionals. She was raised in a Jewish family with roots in Germany, Hungary, Poland, Mongolia, and Russia.

Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1957) is an American television, film, and stage actor.

Arkin was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of actor/director/writer Alan Arkin and his wife Jeremy Yaffe. He has been married to the former Phyllis Ann Lyons since 1999. They have one son together. He also has a daughter, Molly, from his former wife, Linda. Arkin is Jewish.

Alexandra Rapaport (born December 26, 1971) is a Swedish film and stage actress born in Bromma. She has studied at Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm from where she graduated in 1997.

Her parents are from Poland.

Adam Charles Goldberg (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor, director, and producer. He typically plays the quintessential 'young New York Jew' in many movies and TV programs of the 1990s and 2000s; including the title role of the self-parodying 'Jewsploitation' movie The Hebrew Hammer.

Goldberg was born in Santa Monica, California and was raised near Hollywood, the son of Donna (née Goebel) and Earl Goldberg. His father is Jewish and his mother is a Roman Catholic of Irish, French, and German descent.

Alice MacGraw (born April 1, 1938 in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe award winning American actress.

Born to an Irish-American father, whom she recently described as "violent" and a Jewish mother, she has one sibling, a brother

Adam Pascal (born October 25, 1970) is an American actor and singer, best known for his Tony-nominated performance as Roger Davis in the original cast of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent on Broadway. He is also known for originating the role of Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida.

Pascal was born to a Jewish family in The Bronx, New York, but raised in Syosset, New York.

Alicia Silverstone (born October 4, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model. She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith and later starred in Hollywood films such as Clueless and Batman & Robin.

Silverstone was raised in a "traditional Jewish household"; her father, a native of East London, is Jewish, and her mother converted to Conservative Judaism before marriage.

Adam Rich (born on October 12, 1968) is an American actor born in Brooklyn, New York City. He is probably best remembered as a child actor for playing youngest son Nicholas Bradford on the 1970s television drama Eight is Enough, for which he was nominated for three Young Artist Awards, winning two, and his stint on the short-lived Lorne Greene vehicle Code Red. He made appearances on The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Six Million Dollar Man, Silver Spoons, and provided the voice for Presto the Magician on the Dungeons & Dragons television series along with his Eight is Enough co-star, Willie Aames

Aline MacMahon (May 3, 1899 – October 12, 1991) was an Oscar-nominated American actress.

MacMahon was born Aline Laveen MacMahon in the Pittsburgh suburb of McKeesport, Pennsylvania; her family was Jewish and the origin of their surname, "MacMahon", is unclear

Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, a Golden Globe-nominated actor, musician, screenwriter, and film producer. After becoming a popular Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to star in several Hollywood feature films that grossed over US$100 Million at the box office. Though he is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), and Big Daddy (1999), he has also had success in romantic and dramatic roles, such as in the films Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Spanglish (2004), Click (2006), and Reign Over Me (2007).

Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон; May 22, 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian/American theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. She is often known as just Nazimova, and was also known as Alia Nasimoff.

Nazimova was one of three children of Yakov Leventon and Sonya Horowitz. The family was Jewish and lived in Yalta, Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire (part of Ukraine since 1954).

Adrien Brody (born April 14, 1973) is an American actor. He received widespread recognition when he was cast as the lead in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). The role won him an Academy Award for Best Actor, the youngest actor ever to win the award.

Brody's father is Jewish and his mother was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Catholic father and Jewish mother.

Alexandra Elizabeth Sheedy (born June 13, 1962) is an American screen and stage actress, possibly best known for her roles in the "Brat Pack" films The Breakfast Club and St. Elmo's Fire.

Albert Samuel Waxman, C.M., O.Ont (March 2, 1935 – January 18, 2001) was a Canadian actor and director of over 1000 productions on radio, television, film, and stage. He is best known for his starring roles in the television series King of Kensington (CBC) and Cagney & Lacey (CBS).

Waxman was born in Toronto to Jewish immigrants from Poland. His parents operated and owned Melinda Lunch, a small restaurant, and his father, Aaron Waxman, died when Al was nine.

Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American film and television actress.

Peet was born in New York City, the daughter of Penny (née Levy), a social worker, and Charles Peet, a corporate lawyer. The two are now divorced. Her father is a Quaker and her mother is Jewish.