diff --git a/lib/AST/ProtocolConformance.cpp b/lib/AST/ProtocolConformance.cpp
index 9fdff392a9ee0..f6d072a88478a 100644
--- a/lib/AST/ProtocolConformance.cpp
+++ b/lib/AST/ProtocolConformance.cpp
@@ -1267,7 +1267,7 @@ void NominalTypeDecl::prepareConformanceTable() const {
     }
   }
 
-  // Actor classes conform to the actor protocol.
+  // Actor classes conform to the appropriate actor protocol.
   if (auto classDecl = dyn_cast<ClassDecl>(mutableThis)) {
     if (classDecl->isDistributedActor()) {
       addSynthesized(ctx.getProtocol(KnownProtocolKind::DistributedActor));
diff --git a/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceSupport.cpp b/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceSupport.cpp
index 229e7f031e343..1f5238ccb8a01 100644
--- a/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceSupport.cpp
+++ b/lib/Frontend/ModuleInterfaceSupport.cpp
@@ -688,10 +688,11 @@ class InheritedProtocolCollector {
     if (!printOptions.shouldPrint(nominal))
       return;
 
-    /// is this nominal specifically an 'actor'?
-    bool actorClass = false;
-    if (auto klass = dyn_cast<ClassDecl>(nominal))
-      actorClass = klass->isActor();
+    /// is this nominal specifically an 'actor' or 'distributed actor'?
+    bool anyActorClass = false;
+    if (auto klass = dyn_cast<ClassDecl>(nominal)) {
+      anyActorClass = klass->isAnyActor();
+    }
 
     SmallPtrSet<ProtocolDecl *, 16> handledProtocols;
 
@@ -726,9 +727,11 @@ class InheritedProtocolCollector {
         // There is a special restriction on the Actor protocol in that
         // it is only valid to conform to Actor on an 'actor' decl,
         // not extensions of that 'actor'.
-        if (actorClass &&
-            inherited->isSpecificProtocol(KnownProtocolKind::Actor))
-          return TypeWalker::Action::SkipNode;
+        if (anyActorClass) {
+          if (inherited->isSpecificProtocol(KnownProtocolKind::Actor) ||
+              inherited->isSpecificProtocol(KnownProtocolKind::DistributedActor))
+            return TypeWalker::Action::SkipNode;
+        }
 
         // Do not synthesize an extension to print a conformance to an
         // invertible protocol, as their conformances are always re-inferred
diff --git a/test/ModuleInterface/distributed-actor.swift b/test/ModuleInterface/distributed-actor.swift
index 2edb8c2efbe15..1d8c73c73096e 100644
--- a/test/ModuleInterface/distributed-actor.swift
+++ b/test/ModuleInterface/distributed-actor.swift
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ public distributed actor DAG<ActorSystem> where ActorSystem: DistributedActorSys
 // CHECK: }
 }
 
-// CHECK-NOT: #if compiler(>=5.3) && $Actors
-// CHECK:     @available(macOS 13.0, iOS 16.0, watchOS 9.0, tvOS 16.0, *)
-// CHECK-NEXT:extension Library.DA : Distributed.DistributedActor {}
 // CHECK-NOT: #if compiler(>=5.3) && $Actors
 // CHECK:     @available(macOS 13.0, iOS 16.0, watchOS 9.0, tvOS 16.0, *)
 // CHECK-NEXT:extension Library.DA : Swift.Encodable {}
@@ -83,10 +80,6 @@ public distributed actor DAG<ActorSystem> where ActorSystem: DistributedActorSys
 // CHECK:     @available(macOS 13.0, iOS 16.0, watchOS 9.0, tvOS 16.0, *)
 // CHECK-NEXT:extension Library.DA : Swift.Decodable {}
 
-// CHECK-NOT: #if compiler(>=5.3) && $Actors
-// CHECK: @available(macOS 15.0, iOS 18.0, watchOS 11.0, tvOS 18.0, visionOS 2.0, *)
-// CHECK-NEXT: extension Library.DAG : Distributed.DistributedActor {}
-
 //--- Client.swift
 
 import Distributed
diff --git a/test/ModuleInterface/distributed_no_redundant_conformance.swift b/test/ModuleInterface/distributed_no_redundant_conformance.swift
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..88b88bc5c1f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/ModuleInterface/distributed_no_redundant_conformance.swift
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+// RUN: %empty-directory(%t)
+
+// RUN: %target-swift-emit-module-interface(%t/TestResilient.swiftinterface) %s -module-name TestResilient
+// RUN: %target-swift-typecheck-module-from-interface(%t/TestResilient.swiftinterface) -module-name TestResilient
+// RUN: %FileCheck %s < %t/TestResilient.swiftinterface
+
+import Distributed
+
+// Note that tat while an actor is implicitly conforming to Actor, we don't need to print this in interfaces
+// as it would cause 'redundant conformance of ... to (Distributed)Actor' issues.
+
+public actor Example {}
+
+// CHECK-NOT: extension TestResilient.Example : _Concurrency.Actor {}
+
+public distributed actor DistributedExample {
+  public typealias ActorSystem = LocalTestingDistributedActorSystem
+  distributed func example() {}
+}
+
+// CHECK: distributed public actor DistributedExample {
+
+// CHECK-NOT: extension TestResilient.DistributedExample : Distributed.DistributedActor {}