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Roy Walker (comedian)
Roy Walker (born 1940, Belfast) is a Northern Irish comedian, original host of ITV's Catchphrase 1986-1999, known for "Say what you see" and "It's good but it's not right"; New Faces winner 1977.
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. (Roy Norris Wood Jr., born 1978) is an American comedian from Birmingham, Alabama, a Daily Show correspondent 2015-2023, 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner headliner, host of CNN's Have I Got News for You, and author of the memoir The Man of Many Fathers. Not the musician Roy Wood or the singer Roy Woods.
Royal (film)
Royal (ರಾಯಲ್) is a 2025 Kannada drama directed by Dinakar Thoogudeepa, starring Viraat and Sanjana Anand, released 24 January 2025; a conman saves his mother's SSF Company. It earned ₹1.07 crore worldwide and streamed on Prime Video from 7 March 2025.
Royal Academy of Dance
Royal Academy of Dance (RAD), founded 1920 in London as the Association of Teachers of Operatic Dancing, is a global ballet exam board and teacher-training body with graded and vocational exams in over 80 countries.
Royal Alexandra Theatre
The Royal Alexandra Theatre is a 1907 Beaux-Arts playhouse on King Street West in Toronto, recognized as the oldest legitimate theater in continuous operation in North America.
Royal Court (web series)
Royal Court is a 2023 American comedy talk show created, hosted, and produced by Brittany Broski for YouTube, premiering July 20, 2023, with Orville Peck as first guest.
Royal Court Theatre
Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London: Grade II listed 1888 playhouse, home since 1952 of the English Stage Company, Britain's new-writing producing theatre of Look Back in Anger, Saved and Top Girls.
Royal Danish Theatre
Royal Danish Theatre (Det Kongelige Teater), Denmark's national stage founded in 1748 under Frederik V at Kongens Nytorv, houses drama, opera, ballet, and the Royal Danish Orchestra across three Copenhagen buildings.
Royal Dano
Royal Dano (Royal Edward Dano Sr., 1922–1994), American character actor of some 300 film and TV roles, known for westerns, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Right Stuff, and voicing Disney's animatronic Abraham Lincoln.
Royal Dramatic Theatre
The Royal Dramatic Theatre (Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Dramaten) is Sweden's national stage for spoken theatre, founded by Gustav III in 1788 and housed since 1908 in Fredrik Lilljekvist's Jugend building at Nybroplan, Stockholm. Distinguishing facts: wholly state-owned limited company, six stages led by Stora scenen (770 seats), about 1,000 performances and 210,000 visitors yearly.
Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, also known as the Edinburgh Tattoo, is an annual show of military bands, dancing, and drilling held each August at Edinburgh Castle.
Royal Exchange, Manchester
The Royal Exchange, Manchester: a producing theatre-in-the-round opened 15 September 1976, a seven-sided steel pod inside the Grade II listed former cotton exchange on St Ann's Square, seating 759, rebuilt after the 1996 IRA bomb.
Royal Feast (尚食)
Royal Feast (尚食, Shang Shi) is a 2022 Chinese Ming-dynasty costume food drama on Mango TV, 40 episodes, starring Xu Kai and Wu Jinyan as Zhu Zhanji and Shangshi Bureau cook Yao Zijin; 1.894 billion views, Douban 5.5.
Royal National Theatre
Royal National Theatre (National Theatre): publicly funded producing theatre company on London's South Bank in Denys Lasdun's 1976 Brutalist building; Royal prefix 1988; three auditoria; Indhu Rubasingham its first woman artistic director from 2025.
Royal Nirvana (鹤唳华亭)
Royal Nirvana (鹤唳华亭) is a 2019 Youku Chinese costume drama, 60 episodes, directed by Yang Wenjun from Xue Man Liang Yuan's novel, starring Luo Jin and Li Yitong, styled on Song dynasty ritual aesthetics and the Lu Ji crane-cry allusion.
Royal Pains
Royal Pains is a USA Network medical comedy-drama (2009-2016, eight seasons, 104 episodes) created by Andrew Lenchewski and John P. Rogers, starring Mark Feuerstein as disgraced ER doctor turned Hamptons concierge physician Hank Lawson of HankMed.
Royal Rumours (花琉璃轶闻)
Royal Rumours (花琉璃轶闻), formerly 造作时光, is a 2023 Chinese costume romantic-comedy web drama adapted from Yue Xia Die Ying's novel, starring Xu Zhengxi and Meng Ziyi; 24 episodes on Tencent Video, March 15–30, 2023, heat over 26,000, Douban 6.2.
Royal Shakespeare Company
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), British theatre company founded 1961 by Peter Hall in Stratford-upon-Avon; performs at the Royal Shakespeare, Swan, and The Other Place theatres; runs First Encounters schools tours and Matilda The Musical; charity 212481.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼)
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼) is GAINAX's 1987 debut anime film, directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, about Shirotsugh Lhadatt's first manned spaceflight in the Kingdom of Honneamise.
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记)
Royal Tramp (鹿鼎记) is a 1992 Hong Kong comedy directed by Wong Jing, starring Stephen Chow and adapted from Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron.
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎记2神龙教)
Royal Tramp II (鹿鼎記II神龍教) is Wong Jing's 1992 Hong Kong wuxia comedy sequel to Royal Tramp, starring Stephen Chow as Wai Siu-bo opposite Brigitte Lin's Dragon Sect leader Lung Erh, adapted from Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron and ranked fourth at the 1992 Hong Kong box office.
Royal Variety Performance
The Royal Variety Performance is the UK's annual royal charity variety gala, begun as a Royal Command Performance on 1 July 1912 before George V, held since 1921 in aid of the Royal Variety Charity and Brinsworth House, now televised to over 152 million viewers.
Royal Warriors
Royal Warriors (皇家戰士, Wong ga jin si) is a 1986 Hong Kong action film directed by David Chung for D&B Films, starring Michelle Yeoh, Michael Wong, and Hiroyuki Sanada; the second In the Line of Duty film, about cops hunted after foiling a hijacking.
Royal Wedding
Royal Wedding (1951) is an MGM musical, Stanley Donen's first solo film, starring Fred Astaire and Jane Powell as a sibling dance act in London during Princess Elizabeth's wedding, famous for Astaire's rotating-room ceiling dance and the Oscar-nominated song "Too Late Now."
Royalties (2020 TV series)
Royalties is a 2020 Quibi musical comedy created by Darren Criss, starring Criss and Kether Donohue as songwriters Pierce and Sara; ten 8-minute episodes directed by Amy Heckerling, canceled after one season, later a Roku Original.
Royce Pierreson
Royce Pierreson (born 1989, Saltash, Cornwall) is an English actor known for Reece in Murdered by My Boyfriend, Istredd in The Witcher, and Dr Watson in The Irregulars; also a producer via Another Method.
Roz Doyle
Roz Doyle is the fictional radio producer of The Dr. Frasier Crane Show on KACL 780AM in the sitcom Frasier (1993-2004), played by Peri Gilpin. Named after the real Wings producer Roz Doyle who died in 1991; Lisa Kudrow was recast; Roz rose to KACL station manager and returned in the 2023 Paramount+ revival.
Roz Kelly
Roz Kelly, born Rosalind Schwartz in 1943 in Mount Vernon, New York, is an American actress best known as Pinky Tuscadero on Happy Days and for the horror film New Year's Evil (1980).
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン)
Rozen Maiden (ローゼンメイデン), Peach-Pit's gothic fantasy manga about hikikomori Jun Sakurada and Shinku in the Alice Game; serialized 2002-2007 in Comic Birz, 2008-2014 in Weekly Young Jump, with a prequel Rozen Maiden 0, four anime series, and a 2025 Seven Seas Collector's Edition.
RRR
RRR (Roudram Ranam Rudhiram; Rise Roar Revolt) is S.S. Rajamouli's 2022 Telugu epic starring Jr NTR and Ram Charan as revolutionaries Komaram Bheem and Alluri Sitarama Raju; its song Naatu Naatu won the first Oscar for an Indian feature film.