List of actor–politicians

Partial list of politicians who also worked as actors:

Argentina

• Eva Perón, (Justicialist Party and Female Peronist Party), (President of the Female Peronist Party)

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)

Germany

• Peter Sodann (Left Party) (presidential candidate)

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

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)

Poland

• Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; later Independent) (President of Poland)
• Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)

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)

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

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)

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)