From Reagan to Zelensky, stars who went into politics

PARIS: Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, who won Sunday's presidential election in Ukraine, followed several celebrities - from US actor Ronald Reagan to Liberian footballer George Weah - who nabbed top political jobs in their countries.Reagan, a Hollywood actor for more than two decades, was the first cinema star to become head of state.

He was elected president in 1998 but driven out of office in 2001 by a popular revolt after corruption accusations. Another popular cinema and theatre actor, Salvador del Solar, became Peru's culture minister in 2016, before being named prime minister in March 2019.Italian media mogul Silvio Berlusconi, reputed for peppering his television programmes with nearly nude women, was Italian prime minister on three occasions between 1994 and 2011.

In Lithuania, musician Vytautas Landsbergis led his country to independence from the Soviet Union and was in 1990 elected as president.

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