List of actor-politicians

List of actor-politicians

Partial list of politicians who also worked as actors:

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)

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

UK

*Michael Cashman (Labour) (Member of the European Parliament)
*Andrew Faulds (Labour) (Member of Parliament)
*Glenda Jackson (Labour) (Member of Parliament)

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)
*Dharmendra (MP)
*Jayaprada (MP)
*Govinda (MP)
*shatrugan sinha(MP)
*vinod khanna(MP)
*Chiranjeevi (Founder Praja Rajyam, A New Political Party)

Poland

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


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