Actors •
Renée Adorée, French-born American actress •
Jessica Alba, actress; mother is of partial French-Canadian ancestry •
Cliff Arquette (1905–1974), American actor was of part French-Canadian descent, and his family's surname was originally "Arcouet" •
Lewis Arquette (1935–2001), American actor, was of French-Canadian descent •
Patricia Arquette (born 1968), American actress, is of French-Canadian descent •
Alexis Arquette (July 28, 1969 – September 11, 2016), was an American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist. Alexis was of French-Canadian descent. •
René Auberjonois (1940–2019), Tony Award-winner, American character actor (and grandson of the painter), best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show
Benson and his role as Odo on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine •
Tina Aumont, California-born actress; father was an immigrant from France •
Elle Burstyn, American actress with French ancestry. •
Alec Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers; mother had part French-Canadian ancestry •
Daniel Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers; mother had part French-Canadian ancestry •
Stephen Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers; mother had part French-Canadian ancestry •
William Baldwin, actor, one of the four brothers; mother had part French-Canadian ancestry •
Lucille Ball (1911–1989), actress; mother was of partial French heritage •
Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945), 1980s B-movie actress; father was of part French-Canadian ancestry •
Jean-Marc Barr, French-American film actor and director •
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), cowboy actor and artist, descendant of Nicolas Martiau •
Hugh Beaumont, actor with large filmography; father was of French ancestry •
Pierre Bellocq, French-American artist and horse racing cartoonist •
Melissa Benoist, American actress, of partial French descent through paternal great-grandfather •
Marcheline Bertrand, actress of half French-Canadian ancestry, mother of actress
Angelina Jolie •
Jessica Biel (born 1982), American actress with distant French roots •
JB Blanc (born 1969), actor; father of French descent •
Cate Blanchett, actress •
Joan Blondell (1906–1979), American actress; father Eddie was of French descent •
Caprice Bourret (born 1971), French American actress and model •
Charles Boyer (1899–1978), film actor, immigrant from France •
Elizabeth Bracco, actress with French and Italian ancestry •
Lorraine Bracco, actress with French and Italian ancestry •
Jules Brulatour, pioneering figure in American silent cinema •
Ellen Bry, actress best known for her work on the NBC medical drama series
St. Elsewhere •
Mary Cadorette, former American actress •
Dove Cameron, American actor of French descent •
Dean Cain, American actor, of part French descent •
Trishelle Cannatella (born 1979), American actress, model; of Cajun ancestry on the set of
Gigi (1958) •
Leslie Caron (born 1931), film actress and dancer; born in France •
Charisma Carpenter (born 1970), American actress, of part French descent •
Jim Carrey, Canadian-American actor; father was of French-Canadian ancestry and family surname was Anglicization of Carré •
Lacey Chabert (born 1982), actress, father of mostly Cajun/French descent •
Loan Chabanol (born 1982), actress •
Timothée Chalamet (born 1995), French-American actor; born to a French father, of French and British descent, and an American Jewish mother, holds both passports •
Lon Chaney Sr., silent film actor, of part French descent •
Lon Chaney Jr., actor and son of Lon Chaney Sr.; of part French descent •
David Charvet, French-born American actor and singer, husband of
Brooke Burke •
Lilyan Chauvin, French-born actress •
Robert Clary (1926–2022), actor, published author, and lecturer •
Claudette Colbert, French-American actress •
Bud Cort (born 1948), actor, of partial French descent •
Phil Cousineau, author, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker •
Daniel Craig, actor, naturalized American citizen •
Joan Crawford, actress, her father was of partial French Huguenot ancestry •
Marcia Cross, actress with French-Canadian heritage •
Billy Crudup, actor •
Willem Dafoe, actor, father was of partial French descent •
Lili Damita, French-born actress •
Bette Davis, film actress, born in Lowell, Massachusetts; father was of English descent and mother was of French-Canadian descent •
Robert De Niro, one of the most acclaimed actors of all time; two-time
Academy Award winner; mother had small amount of French ancestry •
Ellen DeGeneres, actress, talk-show host; father was of part French descent •
Anthony Delon, actor, son of French actors
Alain Delon and
Nathalie Delon •
Johnny Depp (born 1963), actor; He is descended from a French Huguenot immigrant (Pierre Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700) •
Lily-Rose Depp, French-born American actress and model. She is the daughter of American actor, producer, and musician Johnny Depp and French singer, actress, and model Vanessa Paradis. •
Julie Delpy (born 1969), actress, immigrant from France •
Emilie de Ravin (born 1981), Australian actress; naturalized American citizen •
Emily Deschanel, actress and daughter of cinematographer
Caleb Deschanel, of partial French descent •
Zooey Deschanel, actress and daughter of cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, of partial French descent •
Arielle Dombasle (born 1958), singer and actress working primarily in the cinema of France •
Brad Dourif (born 1950), actor; paternal grandparents were immigrants from France •
Fiona Dourif (born 1981), American actress of part French ancestry, daughter of
Brad Dourif •
Joanne Dru, actress; sister of actor and TV game show host
Peter Marshall •
Val Dufour, actor, known for his role of Andre Lazar on
The Edge of Night •
Nicole duFresne (1977–2005), playwright and actress •
Josh Duhamel (born 1972), actor, father is of partial French-Canadian ancestry •
Tiffany Dupont (born 1981), French American actress known for the film
One Night With the King •
Shelley Duvall, American actress with distant French Huguenot heritage •
James Duval, actor, known for his roles as Frank in
Donnie Darko and as Singh in
Go; both parents are of partial French ancestry •
Clea DuVall, actress, father is of part French descent •
Robert Duvall, of distant French
paternal ancestry •
Mireille Enos, actress; mother is French •
Jon Favreau, actor, director, screenwriter, voice artist, and comedian; father is of partial French-Canadian ancestry •
Robert Florey (1900–1979), actor, director, screenwriter •
Jorja Fox, actress,
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, mother is of French-Canadian and Belgian ancestry •
Brendan Fraser, actor •
Elle Fanning, American actress with French ancestry through her father's lineage •
Dakota Fanning, American actress with French ancestry through her father's lineage •
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, actress, mother is French-American •
Eva Le Gallienne, actress •
Brittny Gastineau (born 1983), American actress, and model; daughter of former NFL player Mark Gastineau and Lisa Gastineau •
Richard Gautier, actor •
Judy Garland, American actress and singer with French Huguenot ancestry. •
Cam Gigandet, actor, known for
Never Back Down and
Red Sky •
Robert Goulet (1933–2007), actor/singer •
Adrian Grenier, actor, mother has small amount of French ancestry •
Alice Guy-Blaché, pioneer filmmaker; first female director in the motion picture industry •
Anne Hathaway (born 1982), film actress; of mostly Irish and French ancestry •
Marc Diraison, voice actor •
Frances Heflin, actress, of partial French descent •
Van Heflin, actor, of partial French descent •
Gillian Jacobs, actress, known for her role on the NBC sitcom
Community; of part French descent •
Celina Jade, actress, singer and martial artist •
Angelina Jolie (born 1975), actress, maternal grandfather was of French-Canadian descent •
Victoria Justice (born 1993), father is of part French descent •
Anya Taylor-Joy, actress whose maternal grandmother had a small amount of French ancestry. •
Minka Kelly (born 1980), American actress; known for role of Lyla Garrity on NBC's
Friday Night Lights; biological father is aerosmith guitarist Rick Dufay, born in France, to American parents •
Rod La Rocque (1898–1969), film actor of French Canadian descent •
Shia LaBeouf (born 1986), actor, Cajun (French) father •
Art LaFleur (born 1943) American actor •
Christopher Lambert (born 1957), actor •
Cynthia Lamontagne, actress •
Dorothy Lamour (1914–1996), film actress, mother was of French Cajun ancestry •
John Larroquette,
Emmy Award-winning film and television actor •
Brie Larson, (born 1989), film actress. Larson was born Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers. Her father is French Canadian, and in her childhood, Larson spoke French as her first language •
Eva LaRue (born 1966), actress best known for portraying
Natalia Boa Vista on
CSI: Miami; was on a soap opera for many years; ovarian cancer spokesperson •
Lash LaRue (1917–1996), actor •
Taylor Lautner (born 1992), actor, martial artist, of partial French descent •
Sabrina Le Beauf (born 1958), actress, French Creole, known for playing Sandra on
The Cosby Show •
Eva Le Gallienne, well-known actress, producer, and director, during the first half of the 20th century •
Christian LeBlanc (born 1958), two-time
Emmy Award-winning American actor •
Matt LeBlanc (born 1967), American actor, known as Joey Tribbiani on the show
Friends; father was of French-Canadian heritage •
Adam LeFevre, actor,
Taxi, of partial French descent •
Rachelle Lefevre, actress •
Harry Lennix, actor,
Suspect Zero,
24, of partial French descent •
Jennifer LeRoy, adult film actress, actress and model •
Hal LeSueur, actor and brother of
Joan Crawford; father is of partial French Huguenot ancestry •
Jared Leto, actor and frontman of
Thirty Seconds to Mars, of French Cajun descent •
Matthew Libatíque is an American
cinematographer who is known for his work on the films
Pi (1998),
Requiem for a Dream (2000),
The Fountain (2006),
Black Swan (2010). •
Jon Lormer, French-American actor •
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, daughter of French-Jewish businessman
Gérard Louis-Dreyfus; •
Adolphe Menjou (1890–1963), film actor, especially from the 1920s–1940s •
Jesse Metcalfe (born 1978), played John Rowland in
Desperate Housewives; father is of partial French ancestry •
Wentworth Miller, mother has distant French ancestry •
Yvette Mimieux (1942–2022), American actress, of French and Mexican ancestry •
Nathan Fillion (born 1970), actor •
Madison Pettis (born 1998), American actress of French, Irish, Italian, and African-American ancestry •
Victor Pépin, circus master with the
Circus of Pépin and Breschard •
Pauley Perrette, (born 1969), American actress •
Ryan Phillippe, of part French descent •
Ryan Potter, of part French descent •
Tyrone Power, actor, mother was of part French-Canadian descent, father was of partial French Huguenot ancestry •
Dennis William Quaid (born 1954), American film actor. Quaid has English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Cajun (French) ancestry. •
Randy Randall Rudy Quaid (born 1950), American film actor. Quaid has English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Cajun (French) ancestry. •
Maggie Quigley (born 1979), Euro-Asian American actress and former fashion model, known for
Mission Impossible III and
Balls of Fury, father of part French-Canadian descent •
Mickey Rourke, actor, mother of part French descent •
Brandon Routh, actor, of partial French heritage •
Carol Roux, actress •
Kiele Sanchez (born 1977), actress, mother of French descent •
Reni Santoni, film, television and voice actor •
Chloë Sevigny (born 1974), actress with French-Canadian ancestry •
April Scott (born 1977), American actress of French,
Native American, and Spanish ancestry •
Michael Sinterniklaas (born 1972), voice actor •
Tom Sizemore (born 1961), actor of maternal part French ancestry •
Leelee Sobieski (born 1983), film actress, father is an immigrant from France, who is of Polish and Swiss descent •
Shannyn Sossamon (born 1978), born in Honolulu, Hawaii, of French, Hawaiian, Dutch, English, Irish, Filipino, and German descent •
Sonya Smith (born 1972), Spanish-American telenovela actress of Venezuelan, German, Finnish and French descent •
Sylvester Stallone (born 1946), actor and film producer; mother is half French; maternal grandmother is from
Brest •
Stéphanie Szostak (born 1975), actress •
Charlize Theron (born 1975), born in South Africa, now an American actress of French Huguenot, Dutch, and German descent •
Justin Theroux, actor, screenwriter and director, father is of French-Canadian and Italian heritage •
Franchot Tone, Hollywood actor, of partial French descent •
Beth Toussaint, actress,
Red Eye •
Luis van Rooten (1906–1973), actor •
Michael Vartan, actor, born in France (not of French descent) •
Hervé Villechaize (1943–1973), French American actor born to Paris and immigrant from France •
Mari Blanchard, actress •
Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff (born 1994), actress of French, Swiss, Dutch and German ancestry •
Rudolph Valentino (1895–1926), his mother was French from Lure, Haute-Saône
Artists •
Barzolff (born 1973), visual artist and graphic designer •
Earl W. Bascom (1906–1995), artist and sculptor, "Cowboy of Cowboy Artists" •
Tom Bergeron (born 1955), TV host, Emmy Award-nominated •
Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), abstract expressionist artist; born in Paris, married an American •
Brooke Burke (born 1971), television personality and model, known for hosting
Wild On! (1999–2002); of French, Irish, Jewish, and Portuguese ancestry •
Isabelle Collin Dufresne (1935–2014), artist, author, and former colleague of
Andy Warhol •
Katie Couric, TV personality, most of her ancestry is French •
Ellen DeGeneres, TV personality, father is of French Cajun ancestry •
Leah Dizon (born 1986), actress, model, and singer; of French, and Asian (Filipino-Chinese) ancestry •
Angela Dufresne (born 1969), artist based in Brooklyn, New York •
Edgar de Evia, Mexican-born photographer and son of French pianist
Pauline Joutard •
Sean Flynn, photographer whose death in Cambodia remains a mystery; son of French actress and singer Lili Damita and actor
Errol Flynn •
Melody Gardot (born 1985), jazz singer from Philadelphia •
Peter Grain (1785–1857), painter, architect and panoramist •
Van Heflin (1908–1971), actor •
Gaston Lachaise (1882–1935), sculptor •
Danielle Lacourse (born 1986), French American Miss USA runner-up •
Bonnie Jill Laflin (born 1976), model and actress; of French descent •
Don LaFontaine (1940–2008), voiceover artist; recorded more than 5,000 film trailers and hundreds of thousands of television advertisements, network promotions, and video game trailers; his nicknames include "Thunder Throat" and "The Voice of God" •
Allie LaForce (born 1988), beauty queen from Vermilion, Ohio; Miss Teen USA 2005 •
Ali Landry, actress, model •
Brook Mahealani Lee (born 1971), Miss USA and Miss Hawaii USA prior to winning the Miss Universe 1997 pageant; of mixed Korean, Portuguese, French, Hawaiian and Chinese ancestry •
Paul de Longpré (1855–1911), flower painter •
Madonna (born 1958), international singer; mother is of French-Canadian descent •
Linda Moon,
Playboy magazine
Playmate of the Month October 1966 •
Frederic Remington (1861–1909), western artist and sculptor •
Bernard Renaud (Renot) (born 1935), French-born American artist, sculptor, illustrator and author •
René Ricard (1946–2014), artist, poet, and philosopher •
Jasmin St. Claire (born 1974), pornographic actress; of Italian, Russian, and French ancestry •
Patrick Tatopoulos, Greek-French-American
production designer •
Tila Tequila (born 1981), model, singer, and actress; of 3/4
Vietnamese, and 1/4 French ancestry •
Stephanie Trudeau (born 1986), French American Miss Montana winner •
Henry Villierme (1928–2013), French American artist (
Bay Area Figurative Movement)
Musicians •
Phil Anselmo (born 1968), heavy metal musician •
Sara Bareilles (born 1979), American singer, her first single was "Love Song" •
David Benoit (born 1953), American jazz pianist •
Jello Biafra, singer for 1970s punk band Dead Kennedys •
Brent Bourgeois (born 1958), American rock musician, songwriter, and producer •
Wellman Braud, jazz string bass player •
Colbie Caillat, young singer and daughter of
Ken Caillat •
Lucien Cailliet (1897–1985), American composer, conductor, arranger and clarinetist •
Marcel Chagnon, American country music singer-songwriter •
Cher, American singer, actress •
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994), lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for band Nirvana; His ancestry was mostly of French and Irish origin •
Amie Comeaux (1976–1997), country singer •
Alice Cooper (born 1947), American singer; has French Huguenot ancestry •
Joe Dassin (1938–1980), French-speaking musician •
Paul De Lisle, singer,
Smash Mouth •
Gavin DeGraw (born 1977), American singer of French descent •
Marianne Dissard (born 1969), French-born singer •
Laurie Berkner (born 1969), American musician •
Leah Dizon (born 1986), singer, model, actress of French and Asian ancestry •
Michael Doucet, singer-songwriter and founder of the Cajun band
BeauSoleil •
Joe Duplantier (born 1976), singer and guitarist of the metal band
Gojira •
Mario Duplantier (born 1981), drummer of the metal band
Gojira •
G-Eazy, (born 1989), rapper •
Mary Gauthier, folk singer-songwriter •
George Girard, musician •
Ice-T, rapper, actor and vocalist of the heavy metal band
Body Count of African-American and Creole descent •
Dan Ingram,
Top 40 disc jockey with a forty-year career on radio stations such as
WABC and
WCBS-FM in New York City •
JoJo (born 1990), American pop/R&B singer-songwriter and actress •
Beyoncé (born 1981), American R&B singer-songwriter and actress; a French Creole of French and African-American and Native American descent •
Solange Knowles (born 1986), R&B singer; a French Creole of French and African-American and Native American descent •
Ray Lamontagne (born 1974), American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter •
Amel Larrieux (born 1973), American R&B/soul singer-songwriter •
Calixa Lavallée, lived in
Rhode Island and served in the
American Civil War as lieutenant •
Mylon LeFevre, gospel singer and writer •
Victoria Legrand, French-born lead singer and keyboardist of the
dream pop duo
Beach House •
Iry LeJeune, one of the best-selling and most popular musicians during 1940 •
Braeden Lemasters, lead guitarist and singer of
Wallows, of French Huguenot descent •
Paz Lenchantin, bass player part of the band
A Perfect Circle •
J. B. Lenoir,
Chicago blues guitarist, singer-songwriter •
Charles Martin Loeffler, French-born composer •
Madonna (born 1958), French-Canadian on her mother's side of the family •
Elvis Presley, American singer-songwriter and actor, often referred to as
"the King of Rock and Roll", or simply "the King" •
Marc Rebillet, American musician, French father •
Zachary Richard,(born 1950), American Cajun musician, singer-songwriter and poet •
Shandi Sinnamon, singer-songwriter •
Izzy Stradlin, American rock musician •
DeVante Swing, member of R&B group Jodeci •
Edgard Varèse, French-born composer •
Jaci Velasquez (born 1979), American singer, Grammy Award, and Dove Award winner of Mexican, French, and Spanish ancestry •
Maïa Vidal (b. 1988), singer-songwriter •
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973), singer-songwriter •
Clarence White (1944–1973), musician for
The Byrds Other entertainers •
Charlotte d'Amboise (born 1964), American actress and dancer and daughter of
Jacques d'Amboise •
Christopher d'Amboise (born 1960), American dancer, choreographer, writer, and theatre director, son of
Jacques d'Amboise •
Jacques d'Amboise (1934–2021), American ballet dancer and choreographer •
Kevyn Aucoin (1962–2002), make-up artist and photographer •
Anthony Bourdain, author and the "Chef-at-Large" of
Brasserie Les Halles, based in New York City with locations in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C. and host of the
Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations •
Joseph C. Brun (1907–1998), French-born American cinematographer •
Damien Chazelle, American director and screenwriter •
Steven Crowder, French-Canadian and American conservative political commentator on YouTube •
Vance DeGeneres, performer, producer, and writer of several television shows •
Caleb Deschanel, American cinematographer •
Lynsey DuFour, soap opera writer •
Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (1859–1915), artist's model, also known as "Madame X" •
Paul Germain, animation screenwriter and producer •
Michael Goudeau, juggler and ex-circus clown; writer and executive producer for the Showtime series
Bullshit! •
Marianne Gravatte,
Playboy playmate •
Lloyd Jacquet, comic-book innovator •
Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865–1915), physician; 3/4 Native, 1/4 French •
Fredric Lean award-winning documentary filmmaker •
Ted LeFevre, theatrical
set designer •
Monique Lhuillier (born 1971), fashion designer •
Yolanda "Tongolele" Montes,
exotic dancer and actress of the
Cinema of Mexico •
Don Ohlmeyer, TV producer and president of
NBC West Coast; father was of
French Huguenot descent •
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994), First Lady and wife of the late John F. Kennedy; maiden name is Bouvier and she is usually referred to by all three of her surnames together; father was of French descent •
Jean-Paul Poulain (died 2007), Maine Franco-American cabaret recording artist •
Carrie Prejean, model and beauty pageant contestant; father is of French descent •
Lee Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier), daughter of stockbroker
John Vernou Bouvier III and sister of former first lady
Jacqueline Onassis •
Michele Singer Reiner, film producer and photographer •
Camille Rowe, model; father is French •
Oliver Stone, director •
Cyril Takayama, Japanese/French American
illusionist •
Susette LaFlesche Tibbles (1854–1903), sister of Susan La Flesche, writer, and artist •
Paul Verdier, stage director, actor, and playwright; had a number of guest parts on American television •
Jurgen Vsych, film director, screenwriter and author •
Ludwig Ahgren, online streamer and YouTuber; mother is French ==Explorers==