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Coriolanus (film)

Coriolanus (2011) is Ralph Fiennes's directorial debut, a modern-dress film adaptation of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, scripted by John Logan, shot in Belgrade with Balkan-war imagery, starring Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Vanessa Redgrave, and Brian Cox.

Coriolanus Snow

Coriolanus Snow, president of Panem in The Hunger Games, is traced from 18-year-old Capitol Academy mentor of Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th Hunger Games prequel to tyrant, portrayed by Tom Blyth, Donald Sutherland, and Ralph Fiennes.

Corky Ballas

Corky Ballas (Mark Alexander Ballas Sr.), American retired competitive ballroom dancer, World Professional Latin Champion 1995-1996 and Blackpool British Open winner; ex-husband of Shirley Ballas, father of Mark Ballas, and a Dancing with the Stars pro.

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975), also released as Hit the Open Man, is a Joe Manduke drama adapted from Ronald Fair's novel Hog Butcher, in which police mistakenly shoot a star basketball player; it marked Laurence Fishburne's film debut.

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde (Kornél Lajos Weisz, 1912–1989), Hungarian-American actor, producer, and director; Oscar-nominated as Chopin in A Song to Remember (1945), fencer, founder of Theodora Productions, and director of The Naked Prey (1965).

Cornelia Sharpe

Cornelia Sharpe (Cornelia Lynn Sharpe, born 1943, Selma, Alabama) is an American former actress and model known for Leslie Lane in Serpico (1973) and the assassin Nicole Scott opposite Sean Connery in The Next Man (1976); married producer Martin Bregman in 1981.

Cornelius (Planet of the Apes)

Cornelius is a chimpanzee character name in Planet of the Apes: the scientist played by Roddy McDowall in the 1968 film (from Boulle's Cornélius) and Caesar's reboot son (born 2026, San Francisco Ape Colony).

Corner Gas

Corner Gas is a Canadian sitcom created by Brent Butt, set in fictional Dog River, Saskatchewan, airing on CTV 2004-2009 for six seasons and 107 episodes; Canada's top-rated primetime sitcom, later spawning a 2014 movie and an animated series.

Cornucopia (film)

Cornucopia (film) most commonly refers to Björk's 2025 concert film directed by Ísold Uggadóttir, shot at Lisbon's Altice Arena, released theatrically May 7, 2025; also a 2025 Mark H. Rapaport cult drama and a 2023 short.

Coronation Street

Coronation Street, also known as Corrie, is a British ITV soap opera created by Tony Warren, first broadcast 9 December 1960 by Granada Television. Set in Weatherfield, it is the world's longest-running continuing drama, with over 10,000 episodes and a Guinness World Record.

Coroner (TV series)

Coroner is a Canadian CBC crime drama (2019-2022, 4 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Morwyn Brebner from M. R. Hall's Jenny Cooper novels, starring Serinda Swan as a Toronto coroner, sold to over 150 territories.

Coroner's Diary (朝雪录)

Coroner's Diary (朝雪录) is a 2025 38-episode iQiyi costume detective drama adapted from Bu Yue Qian Zhuang's novel 权宠之仵作医妃, starring Li Landi and Ao Ruipeng as Qin Wan and Yan Chi; it broke 10,000 heat in 11 days and topped iQiyi charts in 13 overseas markets.

Corporate (2006 film)

Corporate (2006) is a Hindi drama directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, starring Bipasha Basu as executive Nishigandha Dasgupta, about rivalry between two industrialists in the soft drink business; second part of his Page 3 trilogy, released 7 July 2006.

Corporate (TV series)

Corporate is a Comedy Central dark workplace satire (2018–2020, 3 seasons, 26 episodes) created by and starring Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman with Pat Bishop, set at the conglomerate Hampton DeVille; final six-episode season aired July 2020.

Corporate Retreat

Corporate Retreat (2026) is an American horror-dark comedy directed by Aaron Fisher, starring Alan Ruck, Odeya Rush, and Rosanna Arquette. Executives at a team-building retreat are poisoned and forced into deadly games by their ousted founder; 89 minutes, poorly reviewed.

Corporeal mime

Corporeal mime (mime corporel dramatique) is a twentieth-century stage technique and art form founded by Étienne Decroux in 1930s Paris, using the whole body from the trunk, codified training, and a repertoire, distinct from narrative pantomime.

Corps de ballet

Corps de ballet, French for "body of the ballet": the ensemble dancers of a ballet company who perform in unison without solo parts, below soloists and principals in rank, famous in Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadère.

Corpse Bride

Corpse Bride (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, 2005) is a stop-motion animated musical directed by Tim Burton and Mike Johnson, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, the first stop-motion feature shot entirely digitally, Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature.

Corpse Husband

Corpse Husband (born 1997, San Diego) is an anonymous American musician and former YouTuber known for faceless horror narration, Among Us streams, and dark emo-rap singles like E-GIRLS ARE RUINING MY LIFE! and DAYWALKER! with Machine Gun Kelly; absent from public life since October 2023.

Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi (Boże Ciało), 2019 Polish drama by Jan Komasa, written by Mateusz Pacewicz: ex-delinquent Daniel (Bartosz Bielenia) poses as a priest in a grieving village; Oscar-nominated, Venice Edipo Re winner, inspired by 2011 events.

Corriedale (crossover episode)

Corriedale is the first-ever crossover episode of British soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale, aired 5 January 2026 on ITV1 and STV. A multi-vehicle pile-up near Hotten killed Billy Mayhew and John Sugden, peaking at 4.7 million viewers and launching ITV's soap power hour.

Corrina, Corrina (film)

Corrina, Corrina is a 1994 American comedy-drama, Jessie Nelson's directing debut, starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ray Liotta, and Tina Majorino in a semi-autobiographical 1959 interracial romance between a widower and his daughter's nanny.

Corteon Moore

Corteon Moore (born 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor and screenwriter known for Ellis Stevens on MGM+'s From and Gabe in A24's Overcompensating, with film credits including Terror Train and Guess Who.

Corvette Summer

Corvette Summer is a 1978 American comedy film directed by Matthew Robbins, starring Mark Hamill as a graduate tracking his shop class's stolen custom Corvette.

Corvus Glaive

Corvus Glaive, Marvel Comics supervillain debuting in New Avengers #8 (2013), leader of Thanos's Black Order; atom-cleaving glaive grants regeneration; MCU Children of Thanos member played by Michael James Shaw.

Corwin Hawkins

Corwin Anthony Hawkins (1965–1994), stage persona Amazing Grace, was a Texas female impersonator and comedian who won National Entertainer of the Year 1992 and played Wayman in A Low Down Dirty Shame.

Cory Hardrict

Cory Hardrict is an American actor and producer from Chicago, Illinois, with a career of over 100 films and series including American Sniper and All American: Homecoming.

Cory in the House

Cory in the House (2007–2008) is a Disney Channel live-action sitcom, the first spin-off of That's So Raven, in which Cory Baxter moves to the White House as his father Victor becomes chef to fictional President Richard Martinez; 34 episodes, created by Marc Warren and Dennis Rinsler, later famous as an ironic DS-game meme.

Cory Michael Smith

Cory Michael Smith (born 1986, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor known for Edward Nygma/the Riddler in Gotham, Chevy Chase in Saturday Night, and Venis in Mountainhead, plus Carol, May December, and Transatlantic.

Cory Monteith

Cory Monteith (1982–2013), Canadian actor and singer, played Finn Hudson on Fox's Glee (2009–2013) despite having no prior singing experience; won a 2010 SAG ensemble award and died in Vancouver of a heroin and alcohol overdose.