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
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“All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They’re obliged to overstate their own importance.”
—François Truffaut (1932–1984)