List of actor–politicians
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Partial list of politicians who also worked as actors:
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[edit] Argentina
- Eva Perón, (Justicialist Party and Female Peronist Party), (President of the Female Peronist Party)
[edit] Canada
- Andrée Champagne, (Conservative) (Member of Parliament, Minister of State, Senator)
- Pierre Curzi, (Parti Québécois) (Assemblée nationale du Québec) de la province
- Tina Keeper, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
- Jean Lapointe, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
- Viola Léger, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
- Jean-Louis Roux (Liberal) (Member of Parliament, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec)
- Lenore Zann (Nova Scotia New Democratic Party) (Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly)
[edit] Germany
- Peter Sodann (Left Party) (presidential candidate)
[edit] India
- Shabana Azmi (MP)
- Amitabh Bachchan (Ex-MP)
- Jaya Bachchan (MP)
- Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- M. Karunanidhi (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- M.G. Ramachandran (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- N. T. Rama Rao (Ex-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
- Dharmendra (MP)
- Jayaprada (MP)
- Govinda (MP)
- Shatrughan Sinha (MP)
- Vinod Khanna (MP)
- Captain Vijayakanth (Founder of DMDK)
- Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party)
- Sanjay Dutt (Samajwadi party-UP)
- Late Sunil Dutt
- Suresh Oberoi
- R. Sarath Kumar
- Kota Srinivasa Rao
[edit] Italy
- Gina Lollobrigida (I Democratici) (Unsuccessful candidate to be a Member of the European Parliament)
- Alessandra Mussolini (Movimento Sociale Italiano & Azione Sociale) (Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies & Member of the European Parliament)
- Ilona Staller AKA la Cicciolina, (Lista del Sole, Partito Radicale & Partito dell'Amore) (Member of the Parliament of Italy)
[edit] Poland
- Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; later Independent) (President of Poland)
- Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)
[edit] Philippines
- Joseph Estrada (13th President of the 2nd Republic)
- Fernando Poe Jr. (Unsuccessful presidential candidate)
- Vilma Santos (First female governor of Batangas)
- Vicente "Tito" Sotto (Senator)
- Lito Lapid (Senator)
- Jinggoy Estrada (Senator)
- Ramon Revilla Sr. (Senator)
- Bong Revilla Jr. (Senator)
- Herbert Bautista (Vice Mayor of Quezon City; Elected Mayor of QC)
- Aiko Melendez (Councilor of Quezon City)
- Joey Marquez (Mayor of Paranaque)
- Richard Gomez (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)
- Nora Aunor (Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate for Camarines Sur)
- Isko Moreno (Councilor of Manila)
- George Estregan, Jr. (incumbent mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna; Elected Governor of Laguna)
- Alfred Vargas (Elected Councilor 2nd District QC)
- Roderick Paulate (Elected Councilor 2nd District QC)
- Lucy Torres-Gomez (Elected Representative Leyte 4th District)
- Manny Pacquiao (Elected Representative Sarangani District)
[edit] Sri Lanka
- Gamini Fonseka (MP, Deputy Speaker)
- TB Ilangaratne (MP, Cabinet Minister)
- Vijaya Kumaratunga (Founder, Sri Lanka Mahajana Party)
- Mahinda Rajapaksa (President)
- NM Perera (MP, Cabinet Minister) - Sri Lanka's first star
[edit] UK
- Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)
- Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
- Cheryl Hall (Labour)
- Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
- Arthur Newall (Conservative) (London Borough of Enfield)
- Richard Franklin (UKIP) (Stood in the 2001 General election for UKIP, has stood in 4 general elections for 4 different parties)
[edit] USA
- Alan Autry (Republican) (Mayor of Fresno, California)
- Raj Bhakta (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
- Sonny Bono (Republican) (U.S. Representative, 44th District of California)
- Shirley Temple Black (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, Chief of Protocol of the United States)
- Clint Eastwood (Republican, but describes himself as Libertarian) (Mayor of Carmel, California)
- Al Franken (Democrat) (U.S. Senator, Minnesota)
- Helen Gahagan (Democrat) (U.S. Representative, 14th District of California)
- John Gavin (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Mexico)
- Fred Grandy (Republican) (U.S. Representative, Iowa)
- Ben Jones (Democrat) (U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Georgia)
- Jack Kelly, mayor of Huntington Beach, Calif.
- Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)
- Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
- Robert Montgomery (Republican)
- George Murphy (Republican) (U.S. Senator, California)
- Stephen Peace (Democrat) (California State Senator)
- Ronald Reagan (Republican) (Governor of California, President of the United States)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) (Governor of California)
- Jerry Springer (Democrat) (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Fred Thompson (Republican) (U.S. Senator, Tennessee and unsuccessful presidential candidate)
- Jesse Ventura (formerly Reform; currently Independence Party of Minnesota) (Governor of Minnesota)
- Ralph Waite (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives)
- Frank Britton Wenzel (Mayor of Malverne, New York)
- John Davis Lodge (Republican) (Governor of Connecticut)