TV and Film
- Omid Djalili - comedian and actor. He and his family are Iranian refugees
- Jackie Chan - Fled to the United States from Hong Kong after being threatened with death by the Triads.
- Marlene Dietrich - actress and refugee from Nazi Germany
- Ben Elton - comedian and grandson of a Czechoslovakian refugee.
- Baron Lew Grade - television mogul and uncle of Michael Grade. He was a Russian refugee
- Fritz Lang - film director, and a half-Jewish refugee
- Jerry Springer - Talk show host. His parents were German refugees
- Rachel Weisz - actress. Both her parents are Jewish refugees
- Billy Wilder - film director and writer, and a Jewish refugee
- Zohra Daoud - former Afghani actress and model, now settled in Malibu, California
- Andy Garcia - actor and director fled Castro's Cuba with his parents when he was five
Read more about this topic: List Of Refugees
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“Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It’s another part of the twentieth-century mind. It’s the world seen from inside. We’ve come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film.... You have to ask yourself if there’s anything about us more important than the fact that we’re constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)