Actors who have played a "Demon"
by IversonRancher | created - 06 Mar 2014 | updated - 06 Mar 2014 | PublicIn no particular order...
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1. Doug Jones
Actor | Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The youngest of four brothers, Doug Jones was born on May 24, 1960, in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in the city's Northeastside. After attending Bishop Chatard High School, he headed off to Ball State University, where he graduated in 1982 with a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications and a ...
The Visitant - The Demon Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Gentleman demon
2. Johnny Depp
Actor | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
John Christopher "Johnny" Depp II was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, to Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. He was raised in Florida. He dropped out of school when he was 15, and fronted a series of music-garage bands, including one ...
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
3. James Rekart
Actor | Eleventh Hour
James Rekart attended high school with Val Kilmer, graduating with classmate Mare Winningham.
He got an agent straight out of high school starting in the business by doing commercials.
He began studying the craft of acting extensively with famous top film acting coach Charles Conrad, in the Meisner ...
The X-Files - Daemonicus
4. Robert Englund
Actor | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Veteran character actor Robert Englund was born in Glendale, California, to Janis (MacDonald) and John Kent Englund, an aeronautics engineer. Since 1973, Robert has appeared in over 75 feature films and starred in four TV series. He has starred alongside Oscar-winners Henry Fonda, Susan Sarandon ...
dream-stalking demon Freddy Krueger
5. Sarah Shahi
Actress | Black Adam
Sarah Shahi was born Aahoo Jahansouzshahi in Euless, Texas, to an Iranian father and Spanish-Iranian mother. She is a former NFL cheerleader and a descendant of a 19th-century Persian Shah. She attended Trinity High School and Southern Methodist University, studied opera and majored in English. As ...
Played the first ever Demon seen on the series ''Supernatural''
6. Jeremy Sisto
Actor | Wrong Turn
Jeremy Sisto was born in Northern California, in a small town called Grass Valley. He is the son of actress Reedy Gibbs and jazz musician Dick Sisto. His film debut was in the movie Grand Canyon (1991). He studied at UCLA for a while and then started acting full time. Jeremy likes to play boccie (...
Played a demon in Hideaway.
7. Christopher Heyerdahl
Actor | Under the Banner of Heaven
An award-winning Canadian actor, Christopher Heyerdahl co-stars in one of Amazon's number 1 series of 2021 Little Marvin's anthology series: "Them", "Chapelwaite" for Epix, James Gunn's "The Peacemaker", WGNA's "Pure", USA's "Damnation" Sky Atlantic's "Tin Star", SyFy's "Van Helsing" and AMC's hit ...
Played a demon on Supernatural.
8. Billy Drago
Actor | The Untouchables
Drago was well known for his villainous parts (leading or supporting), and his rugged yet scary looks and evil smile. He was born William Eugene Burrows in Hugoton, Kansas. He became interested in acting and took his mother's maiden name "Drago" as a stage name. At first he worked as a stuntman in ...
Frequently guest-starred on the television series Charmed as the Demon of Fear named Barbas; the indestructible nemesis of the Charmed Ones.
9. Gene Simmons
Actor | Extract
Best known as the fire breathing, blood splitting and larger than life co-founder of the major hard rock group, KISS. Simmons was actually born Chaim Witz in August 1949 in Haifa, Israel, the son of Hungarian Jewish parents, Flóra "Florence" (Klein or Kovács) and Feri Yechiel Witz. He moved to New ...
Is "The Demon" in the hard rock band, KISS.
10. Stephen R. Hart
Actor | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Stephen Hart has a strong background in live theater and solo performance. He has performed with a variety of dangerous, live edgy shows, including the renown sideshow Carnival Diablo (1998-2002) as Stevan Hart the Scandinavian Giant. His voice is part of a nationally known daily opening rant on ...
1800 Missing (2003) as the 'Demonic Scarecrow', and in Carver's Gate (1995) as 'The Big Demon'.
11. Julian McMahon
Actor | Fantastic Four
Julian Dana William McMahon was born in Sydney, Australia, the second of three children of Lady Sonia McMahon (née Sonia Rachel Hopkins) and Sir Billy McMahon, the longest continuously serving government minister in Australian history, serving over 21 years as a government minister before serving ...
played a demon on the TV series Charmed
12. Mercedes McCambridge
Actress | Giant
Mercedes McCambridge was a highly talented radio performer who won a best supporting Actress Oscar for her film debut.
Mercedes McCambridge was born in Joliet, Illinois, to Marie (Mahaffry) and John Patrick McCambridge, a farmer. She was of mostly Irish (with a small amount of English and German) ...
Suffered from bronchitis for the most part of her life. She later revealed she was able to use this to her advantage for the chilling, unearthly breathing of the demon in The Exorcist.
13. Cheryl Chase
Actress | The Rugrats Movie
Cheryl Chase is an American voice actress from Menville, New Jersey who is well known for voicing Angelica Pickles from Rugrats. She returned to voice her role in spin-off shows, three movies, video games and commercials. She also voice acted in other works including The Ren and Stimpy Show, The Mr...
For well over a decade she has provided the leading voice of ("demon diva") Angelica C. Pickles on the "Rugrats" cartoon show that's captured three Emmys and has been nominated for a fourth. They gave her show a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
14. Hinton Battle
Actor | Dreamgirls
Hinton Battle was born on November 29, 1956 in Neubrücke, Germany. He was an actor, known for Dreamgirls (2006), Quantum Leap (1989) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997). He died on January 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
In 2001, he played the part of a tap-dancing/singing demon in the musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
15. Mailon Rivera
Actor | Friends
Tall, charming, sexy with a voice that should be on nighttime radio. Mailon Rivera has been patiently honing a very successful acting career in Hollywood. The power of his electrifying magnetism has been witnessed as the romantic lead in BET's original film comedy "Midnight Blue," along with ...
Originated the role of the demon leader, "Craven" on the series, Charmed. This episode marked the introduction of the "Tribe Demon".
16. Camden Toy
Actor | The Bay
Camden Toy is best known for playing some of the creepiest and scariest villains on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He played one of the Gentlemen in the Emmy Award nominated episode "Hush", the skin eating demon Gnarl, and the recurring role of the all powerful Ubervamp. He also appeared on the fifth ...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Gentleman demon
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