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Michael Connelly (born 1956)
journalist, chronicler, actor, film producer, television producer
- University of Florida
Gore Vidal (1925-2012)
playwright, actor, essayist, literary critic, politician, journalist, opinion journalist
- Phillips Exeter Academy, Sidwell Friends School
Alice Walker (born 1944)
poet, essayist, civil rights advocate, educator, actor, film producer, climate activist
- Sarah Lawrence College, Spelman College
David Walliams (born 1971)
actor, comedian, autobiographer, stage actor, film actor, television presenter, television producer, television actor, television maker
- University of Bristol, Reigate Grammar School
Walter Mosley (born 1952)
film producer, playwright, actor
- City College of New York, Goddard College
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
film director, film producer, animator, television presenter, voice actor, manufacturer, painter, inventor, film actor, illustrator, caricaturist, director, actor, producer
- Kansas City Art Institute
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949)
philosopher, psychologist, cultural studies scholar, sociologist, essayist, psychoanalyst, cultural critic, politician, theologian, opinion journalist, actor
- Bežigrad Grammar School, University of Ljubljana