List of actor-politicians
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Partial list of politicians who also worked as actors:
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[edit] Canada
- Andrée Champagne, (Conservative) (Member of Parliament, Minister of State)
- 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)
[edit] USA
- Alan Autry (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) (Running for Senate in 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)
- Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)
- Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
- Robert Montgomery
- 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 nominee))
- 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)
- Al Gore (Democrat) (Vice President turned actor in documentary)
[edit] UK
- Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)
- Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
- Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
[edit] India
- Shabana Azmi (MP)
- Amitabh Bachchan (MP)
- Jaya Bachchan (MP)
- Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- M. Karunanidhi (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- M.G. Ramachandran (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- N. T. Rama Rao (Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
[edit] Poland
- Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; currently Independent) (President of Poland)
- Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)
