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Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura (Wagner Maniçoba de Moura), Brazilian actor born 1976 in Salvador, Bahia; star of Tropa de Elite, Narcos (as Pablo Escobar), and O Agente Secreto; first Brazilian nominated for the Best Actor Oscar and winner of the 2026 Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama.
Wagon Master
Wagon Master is John Ford's 1950 black-and-white Western (also styled Wagonmaster) from Argosy Pictures, starring Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond, and Joanne Dru as guides of a Mormon wagon train to Utah, shot near Moab and one of Ford's own favorites.
Wagon Train
Wagon Train (1957-1965) is an American NBC/ABC Western TV series about a caravan from St. Joseph, Missouri, to California, starring Ward Bond and Robert Horton, reaching number one in the 1961-62 Nielsen ratings.
Wagon Wheel (song)
"Wagon Wheel" is a country-folk song co-written by Bob Dylan (1973 chorus "Rock Me Mama") and Ketch Secor; recorded by Old Crow Medicine Show in 2004, and taken to No. 1 and RIAA Diamond certification by Darius Rucker's 2013 cover.
Wagon Wheels
Wagon Wheels: British-Australian marshmallow sandwich biscuit brand invented 1948 by Garry Weston, launched at Olympia Food Fair; UK version made by FBC UK (ex-Burton's) in Llantarnam, Wales; Australian version by Arnott's with jam layer, 48 g.
Wagons East
Wagons East is a 1994 American comedy Western directed by Peter Markle, in which settlers hire John Candy's wagon master to lead them back East; it was Candy's final film.
Wagoto
Wagoto (和事, "soft style") is a kabuki acting style portraying delicate romantic emotion through soft movement and speech, completed in the Genroku era by Sakata Tōjūrō I.
WAGS (TV series)
WAGS (WAGS LA), E! reality series 2015-2017 about wives and girlfriends of professional athletes in Los Angeles; three seasons, Machete Productions, spin-offs WAGS Miami and WAGS Atlanta.
WAGS Miami
WAGS Miami, an E! reality series and first spin-off of WAGS, aired 2016–2017 (2 seasons, 17 episodes) following wives and girlfriends of Miami professional athletes; cancelled in 2018.
Wah-Wah
Wah-Wah (2005) is Richard E. Grant's semi-autobiographical directorial debut drama about a boy's adolescence in 1969 colonial Swaziland amid his parents' divorce, starring Gabriel Byrne, Emily Watson, and Nicholas Hoult.
Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی)
Wahaj Ali (وہاج علی), Pakistani TV actor; theater 2007, Geo TV producer 2011, screen debut 2015 in Ishq Ibadat; breakthrough as Murtasim in Tere Bin (2023) opposite Yumna Zaidi; noted for Jo Bichar Gaye, Jin Ki Shadi Un Ki Shadi, Mitti De Bawe.
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli
Waheed Alli, Baron Alli (born 1964) is a British media entrepreneur and Labour life peer, co-founder of Planet 24 (The Big Breakfast, The Word), ennobled by Tony Blair in 1998 as the youngest and first openly gay member of the Lords, and a major Labour donor central to the 2024 'passes for glasses' controversy.
Waheeda Rehman (वहीदा रहमान)
Waheeda Rehman (वहीदा रहमान), born 3 February 1938 in Chengalpattu, is an Indian actress of Hindi and Telugu cinema, known for Pyaasa, Guide, and Reshma Aur Shera, and the first Muslim woman to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2021).
Waheshni
Waheshni (وحشتيني), meaning "you made me miss you", is a Khaleeji ballad by Saudi and Bahraini singer Rashed Al-Majed, a notable track on his 1996 album Al-Musafir.
Wahlburgers
Wahlburgers is a casual burger restaurant and sports bar chain founded by Mark, Donnie, and Chef Paul Wahlberg, first opened in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 2011, known for the Our Burger, Wahl Sauce, its A&E reality series, and its 2025 Hy-Vee split.
Waiata
Waiata, the Māori word for song, are sung compositions of Aotearoa New Zealand ranging from ancient laments and love songs to action songs performed in kapa haka today.
Waiata aroha
Waiata aroha are traditional Māori songs of love and longing, composed exclusively by women, that voice the distress of love: absent husbands, lost lovers, desertion, and enforced separation from family or home.
Waiata tangi
Waiata tangi are Māori laments, songs of mourning for the dead performed at tangihanga funeral rites, with distinct laments for peaceful deaths, accidents, and battle deaths.
Waiata-ā-ringa
Waiata-ā-ringa (waiata ā-ringa) is a Māori action song with set actions matching the lyrics, pioneered by Apirana Ngata and first published in the 1908 Young Maori Party conference program.
Waifu
Waifu (ワイフ) is anime-fandom slang for a fictional character, usually female, treated as a playful wife; re-borrowed from the Japanese loanword for English "wife," popularized by Azumanga Daioh's "mai waifu" scene.
Waii
Waii (หวาย), full name Panyarisa Thienprasiddhi, is a Thai pop singer nicknamed "Baby Hiphop Girl" who debuted in 2007 on the Kamikaze label and helped popularize hip-hop-influenced pop in Thailand.
Waistcoat
The waistcoat, called a vest in American English, is a snug sleeveless garment buttoned down the front, first decreed part of gentleman's dress by Charles II in 1666.
Wait Until Dark (film)
Wait Until Dark (1967) is a Warner Bros. suspense thriller directed by Terence Young, starring Audrey Hepburn as a blind woman terrorized by Alan Arkin's Roat over a heroin-stuffed doll, adapted from Frederick Knott's 1966 Broadway play.
Waiting for an Angel
Waiting for an Angel is the 2002 debut novel of Nigerian writer Helon Habila, following journalist Lomba, imprisoned on fabricated charges in 1990s Lagos under military rule.
Waiting for Dutch
"Waiting for Dutch" is the season 2 premiere of FX's Fargo, aired October 12, 2015. Written by Noah Hawley and set in 1979, it follows Rye Gerhardt's diner killings and Peggy Blumquist's cover-up, earning a 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Waiting for Fear
Waiting for Fear (Korkuyu Beklerken) is a 1975 short story collection by the Turkish writer Oğuz Atay, his only one, portraying isolated, alienated individuals in 1970s Turkey.
Waiting for God (TV series)
Waiting for God (TV series): British BBC1 sitcom (1990–1994, 47 episodes, 5 series) written by Michael Aitkens, starring Graham Crowden and Stephanie Cole as retirement-home residents Tom Ballard and Diana Trent; distinct from the Red Dwarf episode and Beckett's Godot.
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot), Samuel Beckett's 1953 two-act tragicomedy about Vladimir and Estragon waiting endlessly for the never-arriving Godot; written 1948–49, premiered Théâtre de Babylone, Paris, and voted the 20th century's most important English-language play.
Waiting for Guffman
Waiting for Guffman: 1996 Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy mockumentary comedy about Blaine, Missouri's amateur musical 'Red, White and Blaine' and the awaited agent Mort Guffman; improvised, 84 minutes, R-rated, Warner Bros.
Waiting for Happiness (等待幸福)
Waiting for Happiness (等待幸福), also titled Heremakono, is a 2002 drama film by Abderrahmane Sissako, a French-Mauritanian co-production that won the FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes.