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Permanent Roommates

Permanent Roommates is TVF's 2014 Hindi romantic-comedy web series, India's first, starring Sumeet Vyas and Nidhi Singh as Mikesh and Tanya, with three seasons (2014, 2016, 2023) ending on Prime Video.

Permanent Vacation

Permanent Vacation (1980) is Jim Jarmusch's debut feature, a $12,000 NYU thesis film following drifter Allie Parker through decaying Manhattan; rejected at NYU, honored at Mannheim, later a Criterion extra on Stranger Than Paradise.

Pernell Roberts

Pernell Roberts (1928-2010), American stage and TV actor; Adam Cartwright on Bonanza (1959-1965) and star of Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986); left Bonanza calling it junk TV.

Pernilla August

Pernilla August (b. Mia Pernilla Wallgren, 13 February 1958, Stockholm) is a Swedish actress and director, a Bergman favorite who won Cannes Best Actress for The Best Intentions (1992), played Shmi Skywalker in Star Wars Episodes I and II, and directed Guldbagge-winning Beyond (2010).

Perrey Reeves

Perrey Reeves (born 1970, New York City) is an American actress known as Mrs. Ari Gold on HBO's Entourage (2004–2011) and its 2015 film, Marissa in Old School (2003), and Nina Devon in Famous in Love.

Perri Lister

Perri Lister (born 1959, England) is an English former dancer, singer, and actress, a Hot Gossip dancer on the Kenny Everett Video Show, a Blitz Kids New Romantic, background vocalist on Billy Idol's Rebel Yell, Idol's 1980s partner, and choreographer for Duran Duran and Def Leppard.

Perry Cox

Dr. Perry Cox is a fictional physician in the American medical comedy-drama Scrubs, portrayed by John C. McGinley as the abrasive mentor to J.D. Dorian.

Perry King

Perry King (Perry Firestone King), American actor born 1948 in Alliance, Ohio; starred as Cody Allen in Riptide (1984-86), in Slaughterhouse-Five, Mandingo, Class of 1984, and The Day After Tomorrow; directed The Divide (2018); distinct from actor Perry King Jr.

Perry Mason (1957 TV series)

Perry Mason (1957 TV series): CBS legal drama, September 21, 1957 to May 22, 1966, nine seasons, 271 episodes, starring Raymond Burr as Erle Stanley Gardner's defense attorney, with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, and William Talman; produced by Paisano Productions under Gail Patrick Jackson.

Perry Mason (2020 TV series)

Perry Mason (2020–2023) is HBO's Depression-era origin drama starring Matthew Rhys as a young private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles, created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, canceled after two seasons.

Perry Mattfeld

Perry Mattfeld, born 1994 in California, is an American actress known for Murphy Mason in The CW's In the Dark (2019–2022), Mel in Shameless, and Ricky in Hulu's Chad Powers; former ballet dancer and USC Song Girl.

Perry the Platypus

Perry the Platypus, codenamed Agent P, is the mute pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb who secretly works for the O.W.C.A. foiling Dr. Doofenshmirtz; voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, created by Povenmire and Marsh.

Perry White

Perry White (Perry Jerome White) is DC Comics' Daily Planet editor-in-chief in Metropolis, boss of Clark Kent and Lois Lane. Created for the 1940 Superman radio serial, debuting in comics in Superman #7, portrayed on screen by John Hamilton, Jackie Cooper, Lane Smith, Frank Langella, Laurence Fishburne, and Wendell Pierce.

Persephone (The Matrix)

Persephone is a fictional exiled program in The Matrix films, wife of the Merovingian, portrayed by Monica Bellucci in Reloaded (2003) and Revolutions; she betrays her husband to help Neo reach the Keymaker in exchange for a kiss.

Persepolis (film)

Persepolis is a 2007 French animated coming-of-age drama directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, adapting her graphic memoir about growing up in Iran through revolution and exile.

Persia White

Persia White is an American actress, musician, and animal-rights activist, best known as Lynn Searcy on Girlfriends (2000–2008) and Abby Bennett Wilson on The Vampire Diaries; co-producer of Earthlings, PETA ad subject, married to Joseph Morgan.

Persis Khambatta

Persis Khambatta, Miss India 1965, was a Parsi model-actress who shaved her head to play Lieutenant Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), presented at the 1980 Oscars, wrote Pride of India, and died in 1998.

Person of Interest (TV series)

Person of Interest is a CBS crime drama (2011–2016, five seasons, 103 episodes) created by Jonathan Nolan, starring Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, about an AI called the Machine that predicts violent crimes via mass surveillance.

Person to Person (Mad Men)

"Person to Person" is the 2015 series finale of Mad Men (season 7, episode 14, AMC), built around Don Draper's operator-assisted phone calls to Sally, Peggy, and Betty, ending with his meditation and the 1971 Hilltop Coca-Cola commercial.

Persona (1966 film)

Persona (1966) is Ingmar Bergman's Swedish black-and-white psychological drama, also known by the working title Kinematografi, starring Liv Ullmann as a mute actress and Bibi Andersson as her nurse, shot on Faro by Sven Nykvist.

Persona (페르소나)

Persona (페르소나) is a 2019 Netflix Korean anthology of four short films, Love Set, Collector, Kiss Burn, and Walking at Night, each by a different director and all starring IU (Lee Ji-eun) in her film debut; a planned Sulli-led second season became Persona: Sulli (2023).

Personal Best

Personal Best (1982) is Robert Towne's directorial debut, a sports drama starring Mariel Hemingway and real athlete Patrice Donnelly as lovers and Olympic pentathlon rivals; released Feb 5, 1982 by Warner Bros.

Personal life of Clint Eastwood

The personal life of Clint Eastwood covers his family background, marriages to Maggie Johnson and Dina Ruiz, eight documented children, and single term as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea from 1986 to 1988.

Personal life of Gene Roddenberry

Personal life of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991), Star Trek creator: marriages to Eileen Rexroat (1942-1969) and Majel Barrett (1969), children Darleen, Dawn, and Rod, death in Santa Monica 1991, ashes flown on shuttle Columbia.

Personal life of Lindsay Lohan

Personal life of Lindsay Lohan: family troubles, 2007 DUI arrests and rehab, relationships with Samantha Ronson and Egor Tarabasov, 2022 marriage to Bader Shammas, son Luai, and private life in Dubai since 2014.

Personal life of Stanley Kubrick

Personal life of Stanley Kubrick: the Bronx-born director's marriages (Toba Metz, Ruth Sobotka, Christiane Harlan), his Hertfordshire homes Abbots Mead and Childwickbury Manor, his night-owl American-time routine, privacy, and 1999 death.

Personal Services

Personal Services is a 1987 British comedy-drama directed by Terry Jones, written by David Leland, starring Julie Walters as a madam inspired by Cynthia Payne, released 12 February 1987.

Personal Shopper

Personal Shopper is a 2016 supernatural thriller by Olivier Assayas, starring Kristen Stewart as a Paris personal shopper awaiting signs from her dead twin brother; it competed at Cannes 2016, winning Assayas Best Director (ex-aequo), and was released in the US by IFC Films in March 2017.

Personal Tailor (私人订制)

Personal Tailor (私人订制, aka 私人定制) is Feng Xiaogang's 2013 Chinese New Year comedy, written by Wang Shuo, starring Ge You, about a wish-fulfillment company; it set Chinese-language opening-day records (84 million yuan) and grossed 713 million yuan despite poor reviews.

Personal Taste (개인의 취향)

Personal Taste (개인의 취향, also Personal Preference, Perfect Match) is a 2010 MBC 16-episode romantic comedy starring Son Ye-jin and Lee Min-ho, adapted from Lee Se-in's novel, about an architect who pretends to be gay to move into a woman's hanok.