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 as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
—Ingmar Bergman (b. 1918)