List of actor-politicians
This is a list of politicians who also worked as actors:
- This is an incomplete list that may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.
Argentina
- Eva Perón, (Justicialist Party and Female Peronist Party), (President of the Female Peronist Party)
Bahamas
Sidney Poitier (Ambassador to Japan)
Canada
- Andrée Champagne, (Conservative) (Member of Parliament, Minister of State, Senator)
- Jean Lapointe, (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)
- Pierre Curzi, (Parti Québécois) (Assemblée nationale du Québec) de la province
- Tina Keeper, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
- Viola Léger, (Liberal) (Member of Parliament)
- Stephen Harper, (Conservative) (Prime Minister of Canada)[1]
Germany
- Peter Sodann (Left Party) (presidential candidate)
India
The alphabetical list is
- Amitabh Bachchan (Ex-MP)
- Arun Govil - played Ram in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, lost Lok Sabha elections for Congress in late 1980s
- Nitish Bharadwaj - played Lord Krishna in Ramanand Sagar's Mahabharat was MP.
- Arvind Trivedi - played Ravan in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, won Lok Sabha elections for Member of Parliament from Sabarkatha district in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
- Babu Mohan (Ex-MLA)
- Bappi Lahiri BJP candidate as MP in 2014
- Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party) Ministry of Tourism
- Dara Singh nominated member of Rajya Sabha and elected president of the Jat Mahasabha
- Deepika Chikhalia - played Sita in Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan, won Lok Sabha elections for Member of Parliament from Baroda constituency in 1991 as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate.
- Dharmendra (MP)
- Govinda (MP)(congreSs)
- Gul Panag (MP Candidate)
- Hema_Malini (MP)
- Jaya Bachchan (MP)
- Jayalalithaa Jayaram (Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- Jayaprada (MP)
- Javed Jaffrey (MP Candidate)
- K. B. Ganesh Kumar (Minister of Forests, Sports and Cinema, Kerala)
- Kiran Kher (MP)
- Kota Srinivasa Rao
- Mahesh Manjrekar - lost as Maharashtra Navnirman Sena candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections
- M.G. Ramachandran Late (Ex-Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu)
- Mithun Chakraborty (MP) - won election to Rajya Sabha as All India Trinamool Congress candidate in 2014
- Mohan Babu (Ex-MP)
- Moon Moon Sen - won 2014 Lok Sabha polls for Trinamool Congress
- Napoleon (actor) ( Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment)(DMK-TN)
- Nara Chandrababu Naidu (CM of Andhra Pradesh)
- N. T. Rama Rao Late(Ex-Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh)
- Paresh Rawal (MP) - BJP
- Pawan Kalyan (Founder of Jana Sena Party ]
- R. Sarath Kumar
- Raj Babbar
- Rajesh Khanna - Congress Lok Sabha MP from 1992-96
- Rakhi Sawant - lost her deposit as independent candidate in 2014 Lok Sabha elections
- Ramya (MP, CONGRESS, MANDYA)
- Rekha (MP, NOMINEE, CONGRESS)
- Sanjay Dutt (Samajwadi party-UP)
- Shabana Azmi (MP)
- Shatrughan Sinha (MP) BJP
- Shekhar Suman - lost elections to Lok Sabha in 2009 as Congress candidate
- Smriti Irani (MLA) BJP
- Sunil Dutt Late ex-Member of Parliament Congress
- Suresh Oberoi
- Vijayakanth (Founder of DMDK)
- Vinod Khanna (MP)
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)
México
Netherlands
Pakistan
Poland
- Lech Kaczyński (formerly Law and Justice; later Independent) (President of Poland)
- Jarosław Kaczyński (Law and Justice) (Prime Minister of Poland)
Philippines
- Aga Muhlach (successful congressional candidate 4th dist. Cam Sur)
- Aiko Melendez (Former Councilor of Quezon City)
- Alfred Vargas (incumbent Representative for the 5th District of Quezon City; Former Councilor for the 2nd District of Quezon City)
- Angelica Jones (incumbent Board Member 3rd district of Laguna)
- Anjo Yllana (Former Vice Mayor of Paranaque)
- Bong Revilla Jr. (Senator)
- Cesar Montano (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)
- Cita Astals (Former Councillor of Manila)
- Dan Fernandez (Former Representative 1st District of Laguna)
- Daniel Fernando (incumbent Vice-Governor of Bulacan)
- Dennis Roldan (Former Representative of Quezon City)
- Edu Manzano (Former Vice-Mayor of Makati City)
- Fernando Poe Jr. (Unsuccessful presidential candidate)
- George Estregan, Jr. (former Governor of Laguna; former Mayor of Pagsanjan, Laguna)
- Herbert Bautista (incumbent Mayor of Quezon City; former Vice Mayor of Quezon City)
- Imelda Papin (Former Vice-Governor of Camarines Sur, Bicol)
- Isko Moreno (Vice Mayor of Manila)
- Jinggoy Estrada (Senator)
- Joey Marquez (Former Mayor of Paranaque)
- Joseph Estrada (13th President of the 2nd Republic; incumbent Mayor of Manila)
- Lito Lapid (Senator)
- Lou Veloso (former Councillor for the 6th District of Manila)
- Lucy Torres-Gomez (incumbent Representative Leyte 4th District)
- Manny Pacquiao (incumbent Representative Sarangani District)
- Nora Aunor (Unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate for Camarines Sur)
- Ramon Revilla Sr. (Senator)
- Richard Gomez (Unsuccessful senatorial candidate)
- Roderick Paulate (incumbent Councilor 2nd District QC)
- Rogelio de la Rosa (Former Senator)
- Rudy Fernandez (Unsuccessful mayoral candidate for Quezon City)
- Sonny Parsons (Former Councilor of Marikina City)
- Tito Sotto (Senator)
- Vilma Santos (incumbent and first female Governor of Batangas)
Russia
- Mikhail Yevdokimov (Governor of the Altai Krai region of Russia)
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
- Rohitha Abeygunawardena(MP, Cabinet Minister)
- T. B. Ekanayake(MP, Cabinet Minister)
- Malini Fonseka(MP)
- Jeewan Kumaranatunga (MP, Cabinet Minister)
- Ranjan Ramanayake (MP)
- Upeksha Swarnamali (MP)
- Geetha Kumarasinghe (Provincial Councillor)
- Anarkali Akarsha (Provincial Councillor)
UK
- Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)
- Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
- Richard Franklin (UKIP) (Stood in the 2001 General election for UKIP, has stood in 4 general elections for 4 different parties)
- Cheryl Hall (Labour) (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in 1997)
- Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
- Al Murray (Independent) (Prospective Parliamentary Candidate in 2015)
USA
- Al Franken (Democrat) (U.S. Senator, Minnesota; incumbent)
- Alan Autry (Republican) (Mayor of Fresno, California)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (Republican) (Governor of California)
- Ben Jones (Democrat) (U.S. Congressman, 4th District of Georgia)
- Ben Stein (Republican) (Speechwriter for Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford)
- Clay Aiken (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, North Carolina's 2nd congressional district, 2014)
- Clint Eastwood (Republican, but describes himself as libertarian) (Mayor of Carmel, California)
- Frank Britton Wenzel (Mayor of Malverne, New York)
- Fred Grandy (Republican) (U.S. Representative, Iowa)
- Fred Thompson (Republican) (U.S. Senator, Tennessee and unsuccessful presidential candidate)
- George Murphy (Republican) (U.S. Senator, California)
- Helen Gahagan (Democrat) (U.S. Representative, 14th District of California)
- Jack Kelly, mayor of Huntington Beach, Calif.
- Jerry Springer (Democrat) (Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Jesse Ventura (formerly Reform; currently Independence Party of Minnesota) (Governor of Minnesota)
- John Davis Lodge (Republican) (Governor of Connecticut)
- John Gavin (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Mexico)
- Kal Penn (Democrat) (Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement for the Barack Obama administration)
- Nancy Kulp (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
- Raj Bhakta (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, Pennsylvania)
- Ralph Waite (Democrat) (unsuccessful nominee for U.S. House of Representatives)
- Robert Montgomery (Republican)
- Ronald Reagan (Republican) (Governor of California, President of the United States)
- Sheila Kuehl (Democrat) (California State Senator)
- Shirley Temple Black (Republican) (U.S. diplomat; Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, Chief of Protocol of the United States)
- Sonny Bono (Republican) (U.S. Representative, 44th District of California)
- Stephen Peace (Democrat) (California State Senator)