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Vinu Chakravarthy
Vinu Chakravarthy (வினு சக்ரவர்த்தி, 1945-2017) was a Tamil actor, screenwriter, and director in over 1,000 South Indian films, villain and character roles, discoverer of Silk Smitha, and 1,000th film Muni (2007).
Vinyl (TV series)
Vinyl: HBO period drama (2016) created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen, and Terence Winter; 10 episodes set in 1973 New York record business, starring Bobby Cannavale; cancelled after one season.
Viognier
Viognier is an aromatic white wine grape from the northern Rhône, sole variety of the Condrieu AOC. Nearly extinct in 1965 (8 ha), it recovered to over 16,000 hectares worldwide; relative of Syrah via Mondeuse blanche.
Viol
The viol, or viola da gamba, is a fretted, six- or seven-string bowed instrument played between the legs with an underhand bow, distinct from the violin family; it flourished in Renaissance and Baroque Europe before being displaced in the eighteenth century.
Viola
The viola is a bowed four-string instrument of the violin family, tuned a fifth below the violin, which appeared in sixteenth-century Italy and fills the orchestra's inner harmony.
Viola Beach
Viola Beach were an English indie pop band from Warrington, formed 2013 (Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe, Jack Dakin). All four and manager Craig Tarry died in a 2016 Swedish canal-bridge crash; their posthumous debut album topped the UK chart.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis, American actress and producer born 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina; EGOT winner (Emmy 2015, Tony 2001 and 2010, Oscar 2017, Grammy 2023), JuVee Productions founder, memoirist of Finding Me.
Viola Prettejohn
Viola Prettejohn (born 2003) is a British actress known as Young Princess Elizabeth in The Crown season 6, Myrtle Haplisch in The Nevers, Finn in Generation Z, and Nancy Lee in The Testament of Ann Lee; she will play Lisbeth Salander in Sky's 2027 Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series.
Violante Doria
Violante Doria, born Violante Facchinetti, an Italian noblewoman who married Giovan Battista Pamphilj in 1671, bringing the Facchinetti family archive and paintings into the Pamphilj patrimony and later the Doria Pamphilj Historical Archives.
Violante Placido
Violante Placido (born 1976, Rome) is an Italian actress and singer-songwriter, daughter of Michele Placido and Simonetta Stefanelli; known for L'anima gemella, The American with George Clooney, Ghost Rider 2, and her music as Viola.
Violator (album)
Violator is Depeche Mode's seventh studio album, released 19 March 1990 on Mute, produced with Flood, written by Martin Gore, featuring Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence, and selling over 7 million records.
Violator (comics)
Violator, also the Clown, is Todd McFarlane's demon villain in Image Comics' Spawn, first appearing in Spawn #2 (1992); eldest of the Phlebiac Brothers, Spawn's archenemy, subject of Alan Moore's 1994 miniseries and Violator: Origin (2024), ranked 97th by IGN.
Violence (2025 film)
Violence (2025 film), Connor Marsden's Canadian punk crime thriller, 84 min, starring Rohan Campbell as Henry Violence in an alternate 1980s drug war; premiered Brooklyn Horror Film Festival October 19, 2025.
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World
Violence Insane in a Beautiful World is the seventh solo studio album by Queen's Roger Taylor, released on 18 September 2026 through Columbia Records, his first since 2021's Outsider.
Violent Cop (その男、凶暴につき)
Violent Cop (その男、凶暴につき) is Takeshi Kitano's 1989 directorial debut, a 103-minute Shochiku-Fuji crime film in which Beat Takeshi plays a rogue detective investigating drug corruption; originally planned with Kinji Fukasaku directing.
Violent Ends
Violent Ends (2025) is an Ozark-set crime thriller written and directed by Arkansas native John-Michael Powell, starring Billy Magnussen, James Badge Dale, Kate Burton, and Alexandra Shipp, released by IFC on October 31, 2025.
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes are an American folk-punk band formed in Milwaukee in 1981 by Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie, and Victor DeLorenzo, known for "Blister in the Sun."
Violent Femmes (album)
Violent Femmes (1983) is the Milwaukee folk-punk band's self-titled Slash Records debut, produced by Mark Van Hecke, recorded in a week in 1982, platinum in 1991, peak Billboard 200 No. 171, with 'Blister in the Sun' and 'Kiss Off'.
Violent J
Violent J (Joseph Frank Bruce, b. 1972, Berkley, Michigan) is the Detroit rapper who co-founded Insane Clown Posse, created the Dark Carnival mythology, and runs Psychopathic Records and Juggalo Championship Wrestling.
Violent Nature
Violent Nature is I Prevail's fourth studio album, released September 19, 2025 on Fearless Records; the metalcore band's first album without Brian Burkheiser, with Eric Vanlerberghe on both clean and harsh vocals.
Violent Night
Violent Night (2022) is a Universal holiday action-comedy directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring David Harbour as Santa Claus battling mercenaries led by John Leguizamo's Scrooge; 74% on Rotten Tomatoes, $50.1M US gross, sequel slated 2026.
Violent Night 2
Violent Night 2 is the 2026 Universal Pictures action-comedy sequel to Violent Night, directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring David Harbour as a depowered Santa defending New Jersey's Silver Bell Mall, with Kristen Bell as Mrs. Claus; released December 4, 2026, rated R.
Violent Vira
Violent Vira is the Mexican-American hard rock and metalcore project of singer Amy Gonzalez with Anthony Brown and Matt Bolling; viral 2021 single "I Don't Care" led to the 2023 EP Till' Death Was Never Enough and the 2025 Mom+Pop debut album Lover of a Ghost.
Violet (Peanuts)
Violet Gray is a Peanuts comic strip character by Charles M. Schulz, debuting February 7, 1951 as the first addition to the original cast; a snobbish, ponytailed girl, best friend of Patty, first to call Charlie Brown a blockhead, last seen November 27, 1997.
Violet (The Bear)
"Violet" is season 3, episode 4 of The Bear, written and directed by Christopher Storer, premiered June 26, 2024 on FX/Hulu; Sydney signs an apartment lease, Marcus finds inspiration, and a Chicago Tribune critic has already visited.
Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass
Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass is Lana Del Rey's debut poetry book (Simon & Schuster, September 29, 2020) and her first spoken word audiobook with Jack Antonoff music; a New York Times bestseller donating proceeds to Navajo charities.
Violet Carson
Violet Helen Carson (1898–1983), English actress and pianist who played Ena Sharples in Coronation Street from the first episode (9 December 1960) until 1980, after a BBC radio career on Songs at the Piano; OBE 1965.
Violet Chachki
Violet Chachki, the stage name of Jason Dardo, is an American drag queen from Atlanta, Georgia, who won season 7 of RuPaul's Drag Race in 2015.
Violet Clifton
Violet Clifton, née Beauclerk, was an English writer of travel books and biography, born in Rome in 1883, who won the 1933 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン)
Violet Evergarden (ヴァイオレット・エヴァーガーデン) is Kana Akatsuki's KA Esuma Bunko light novel series (2015) about an Auto Memory Doll letter ghostwriter, adapted by Kyoto Animation into a 2018 TV anime, 2019 side story film, and 2020 feature film.