Pat Toomey got elected and re-elected to the House of Representatives before he got elected and re-elected to the Senate, where he’s still serving today.
Lew Wallace was a Civil War general who sometimes gets portrayed on screen due to having presided over the Andersonville Trial, and who sometimes gets portrayed on screen due to having been governor of the New Mexico territory back when that meant dealing with Billy The Kid, but who has one other big claim to fame:
(In fact, if you visit the website for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, right at the top it of course kicks off with a The Home of Ben-Hur.)
Tim Meadows spent ten years performing on SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, which is why he headed up THE LADIES MAN in between getting a healthy amount of on-screen work in movies and TV shows featuring various other SNL alums.
An earlier William Marshall was a noted English knight: William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke - Wikipedia
Interesting. Well, since you’ve now mentioned someone who fought in a rebellion, figure that brings to mind — Nat Turner?
[del]Orville and[/del] Wilbur Wright.
Beach Boy Michael Love
The title character of the Irish comedy Waking Ned Devine (1998).
Earl Long was the top-billed role memorably fielded by Paul Newman in BLAZE, since he’d been a danged interesting real-life three-time Governor of Louisiana.
Tonight, you should be able to see actress Angelique Cabral once again grace the opening credits of the ensemble-cast primetime show LIFE IN PIECES.
Emeril Lagasse.
(Bam!)
London’s high-profile mayor, Sadiq Khan.
Arthur Rubinstein won back-to-back Grammys for Best Chamber Music: after the documentary about him won the Oscar for, well, Best Documentary; but before the President presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, pointing out that Rubinstein was acclaimed as “the greatest master of the piano living today”.
(Rubinstein of course then won yet more Grammys; and he was, of course, already a Grammy winner even before all of that other stuff I just mentioned.)
In the headlines this week: Mike Crapo, the Senator with a name that’s fun to read.
Noted painter Andrew Wyeth.
In between getting her first and second Tony nominations, Michele Lee spent 14 years acting in 344 episodes of KNOTS LANDING — “appearing in every single episode of the dramatic serial, setting a record for being one of the only female actresses in primetime television history to do so.”
Sgt. Hans Schultz of Hogan’s Heroes
The Waltons mom, actress Michael Learned.
Richard Denning got top-billed leading-man work in a healthy amount of stuff back when, both on television and in the movies.
Formula One racer turned Indy 500 champ Alexander Rossi was a competitor on the latest iteration of The Amazing Race this year.