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Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV series)

Upstairs, Downstairs is a British ITV drama created by Eileen Atkins and Jean Marsh, broadcast 1971–1975, following the Bellamy family and servants at 165 Eaton Place.

Upstart Crow

Upstart Crow is a BBC Two sitcom (2016–2020) created and written by Ben Elton, starring David Mitchell as William Shakespeare, with Liza Tarbuck as Anne Hathaway and Mark Heap as Robert Greene, whose 1592 "upstart crow" insult gives the show its title; three series, Christmas specials, a West End stage adaptation, and a 2026 BBC cancellation.

Upstream Color

Upstream Color (2013) is Shane Carruth's experimental sci-fi follow-up to Primer, starring Amy Seimetz; a parasite links a woman, pigs, and orchids in a looping narrative that won Sundance's Sound Design award.

Uptight

Uptight (Up Tight!), 1968 American drama by blacklisted director Jules Dassin; all-Black remake of Ford's The Informer set in Cleveland after MLK's assassination; Paramount; box-office failure; Booker T. Jones score.

Uptown Girls

Uptown Girls is a 2003 American comedy-drama film directed by Boaz Yakin, in which Brittany Murphy plays a spoiled rock star's daughter who becomes nanny to Dakota Fanning's precocious eight-year-old.

UQ Holder! (UQホルダー!)

UQ Holder! (UQホルダー!) is Ken Akamatsu's 2013-2022 manga sequel to Mahou Sensei Negima!, following immortal boy Touta Konoe and the vampire Yukihime in the UQ Holder organization; 28 volumes, 192 chapters, 2017 TV anime, alternate timeline.

Uranus 2324

Uranus 2324 (ยูเรนัส 2324) is a 2024 Thai sci-fi romance GL film, Thailand's first space movie, directed by Thanadol Nualsuth, starring Freen Sarocha Chankimha and Becky Armstrong as an astronaut and free diver reunited across parallel worlds; released 4 July 2024.

Urara Takano (高乃 麗)

Urara Takano (高乃麗), real name Hisako Takayama, born 1961 in Togane, Chiba, is a Remax voice actress known for Maria Tachibana in Sakura Wars, Kai in Beyblade, and dubbing Helena Bonham Carter, Queen Latifah, and Carla Gugino.

Urassaya Sperbund (อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์)

Urassaya Sperbund (อุรัสยา เสปอร์บันด์), nicknamed Yaya, is a Thai-Norwegian actress born 1993 in Pattaya, known for Duang Jai Akkanee, two Suphannahong Best Actress wins, and as the first Thai Louis Vuitton House Ambassador.

Urban Legend (film)

Urban Legend (1998) is a slasher horror film directed by Jamie Blanks, written by Silvio Horta, starring Alicia Witt, Jared Leto, and Rebecca Gayheart; campus murders staged as urban legends, $38.1M US gross.

Urban Legends: Final Cut

Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) is a horror slasher sequel to Urban Legend (1998), John Ottman's directorial debut, starring Jennifer Morrison as film student Amy Mayfield at Alpine University, where thesis-film crew members die in staged accidents; scored 16 on Metacritic.

Urchin (2025 film)

Urchin is a 2025 British drama and directorial debut of Harris Dickinson, following Frank Dillane as a young homeless man in London, which premiered at Cannes, winning the FIPRESCI Prize.

Urfi Javed

Urfi (Uorfi) Javed, Indian actress and fashion influencer known for DIY outfits from unconventional materials; Bigg Boss OTT contestant, star of Follow Kar Lo Yaar, winner of The Traitors, and subject of obscenity complaints and legal cases.

Urga

Urga (Close to Eden) is a 1991 France–Soviet drama directed by Nikita Mikhalkov about a Mongolian herder and a Russian trucker; it won the Venice Golden Lion and an Oscar nomination.

Uri Geller (אורי גלר)

Uri Geller (אורי גלר), Israeli-born entertainer born 1946 in Tel Aviv, famous for claimed psychic spoon bending and telepathy since the 1970s; tested at SRI, published in Nature, and persistently accused by magicians and skeptics of trickery.

Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक)

Uri: The Surgical Strike (उरी: द सर्जिकल स्ट्राइक) is Aditya Dhar's 2019 Hindi war film on the 2016 Uri attack and India's cross-LoC strike, starring Vicky Kaushal; it earned about Rs 106.84 crore in ten days and four National Film Awards.

Urinetown

Urinetown: The Musical, by Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis, is a 2001 Brechtian satire about a drought-stricken town where the Urine Good Company charges citizens to pee; it won three Tony Awards.

Uriyadi

Uriyadi (உறியடி) is a 2016 Tamil political action thriller written, directed, produced by and starring Vijay Kumar, released 27 May 2016; four engineering students are dragged into caste politics. Not the 2020 Malayalam film of the same name.

Urmila Matondkar (उर्मिला मातोंडकर)

Urmila Matondkar (उर्मिला मातोंडकर), Indian actress and politician born 1974 in Mumbai, star of Rangeela, Satya, Bhoot, and Pinjar; Congress 2019 Mumbai North candidate, later Shiv Sena MLC nominee.

Urmila Matondkar filmography

Urmila Matondkar filmography: screen credits of the Indian actress (born 1974), from child roles in Kalyug and Masoom to Rangeela, Satya, Bhoot, Pinjar, and her last film appearance, Blackmail (2018).

Ursula Andress

Ursula Andress, born March 19, 1936 in Bern, is the Swiss actress who played the first Bond girl, Honey Ryder, in Dr. No (1962), famous for the white bikini scene, a Golden Globe winner, later in Clash of the Titans, and victim of a 2026 fraud case.

Úrsula Corberó

Úrsula Corberó (Úrsula Corberó Delgado), Spanish actress born 1989 in Sant Pere de Vilamajor, Barcelona; known as Ruth in Física o Química and Tokyo in Money Heist, later Snake Eyes, Burning Body, and The Day of the Jackal.

Ursula Thiess

Ursula Thiess (Ursula Schmidt, 1924–2010), German-born Hollywood actress discovered by Howard Hughes for RKO; starred in Monsoon (1952), married Robert Taylor in 1954, then left acting.

Urumi (film)

Urumi (ഉറുമി) is a 2011 Malayalam historical action film directed by Santosh Sivan, starring Prithviraj Sukumaran as Kelu Nayanar plotting to kill Vasco da Gama in 1524 Kerala.

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (うる星やつら2 ビューティフル・ドリーマー)

Urusei Yatsura 2: Beautiful Dreamer (うる星やつら2 ビューティフル・ドリーマー) is a 1984 anime film by Mamoru Oshii, second theatrical adaptation of Rumiko Takahashi's manga, in which Tomobiki-cho is trapped in an endlessly repeating dream before the school festival.

Urusei Yatsura: Only You (うる星やつら オンリー・ユー)

Urusei Yatsura: Only You (うる星やつら オンリー・ユー) is the first theatrical film of Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura, released February 11, 1983 by Toho; Mamoru Oshii's feature debut, about Ataru's betrothal to the alien queen Elle.

Urusei Yatsura: The Movie

Urusei Yatsura: Only You (うる星やつら オンリー・ユー), 1983 Toho anime film, first Urusei Yatsura movie and Mamoru Oshii's theatrical debut; alien Elle claims Ataru via a childhood shadow-stepping betrothal.

Urvashi (உர்வசி) (actress)

Urvashi (Kavitha Ranjini, born 1969, Thiruvananthapuram) is a South Indian actress of Malayalam and Tamil cinema, not Urvashi Rautela. Record six Kerala State Best Actress awards, two National Awards, famed for comedy in over 350 films.

Urvashi Dholakia

Urvashi Dholakia (उर्वशी ढोलकिया), Indian television actress born 1979, famous as Komolika in Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2001–2008) and winner of Bigg Boss 6; later roles include Chandrakanta, Naagin 6, and The 50.

Urvashi Rautela (उर्वशी रौतेला)

Urvashi Rautela (उर्वशी रौतेला), Indian actress and model, Miss Diva – Miss Universe India 2015, Bollywood debut Singh Saab the Great (2013), known for Sanam Re, Daaku Maharaaj with Nandamuri Balakrishna, and frequent controversies.