List of actor-politicians

This is a list of politicians who also worked as actors:

This is a dynamic list and 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)

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 (MLA)
• Bappi Lahiri BJP candidate as MP in 2014
• Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party) Ex-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)(Indian National 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 (MP) 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

• Irma Serrano
• Carmen Salinas

Netherlands

• Boris van der Ham

Pakistan

• Atiqa Odho
• Fauzia Wahab

Poland

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

Philippines

• Aga Muhlach (Unsuccessful 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

• Gerald Camilo III (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)
• Melissa Gilbert (Democrat)
• 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)
• Wendell Corey (City councilman of Santa Monica, California), (Republican) (unsuccessful candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, California), 1966

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