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Dahomey (film)

Dahomey is Mati Diop's 2024 Golden Bear-winning documentary following 26 royal artifacts looted from the Kingdom of Dahomey in 1892, repatriated from Paris's Musée du quai Branly to Benin in 2021, narrated partly by the statue of King Ghezo.

Dai Jinhua

Dai Jinhua (戴锦华), born 1959 in Beijing, is a Peking University professor of comparative literature, film historian, feminist critic, and cultural studies pioneer, author of Emerging from the Horizon of History, Scenery in the Fog, and After the Post-Cold War.

Daiki Yamashita (山下大輝)

Daiki Yamashita (山下大輝) is a Japanese voice actor and singer from Shizuoka Prefecture, Arts Vision, known for Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia, Onoda in Yowamushi Pedal, and Goh in Pokémon; artist debut 2021 with "Tail".

Daily Dose of Sunshine (정신병동에도 아침이 와요)

Daily Dose of Sunshine (정신병동에도 아침이 와요, Morning Comes to Psychiatric Wards Too) is a 12-episode 2023 Netflix Korean drama starring Park Bo-young as a nurse in a psychiatric ward, adapted from former nurse Lee Ra-ha's webtoon.

Daily Lives of High School Boys

Daily Lives of High School Boys (男子高校生の日常, Nichibros) is Yasunobu Yamauchi's Gangan Online gag manga (2009–2012, 7 volumes) about Tadakuni, Hidenori, and Yoshitake at Sanada North High; adapted as a 12-episode 2012 Sunrise anime and 2013 live-action film.

Dainee

Dainee (ডাইনী) is a 2025 Bengali psychological horror web series on Hoichoi, starring Mimi Chakraborty and Koushani Mukhopadhyay as estranged sisters caught in a rural Bengal witch-hunt.

Daisies (1966 film)

Daisies (Sedmikrásky) is Věra Chytilová's 1966 Czechoslovak New Wave surrealist comedy about two Maries rebelling through pranks and food orgies; censored, banned after 1968, later ranked 28th in Sight and Sound's 2022 greatest-films poll.

Daisuke Hirakawa (平川大輔)

Daisuke Hirakawa (平川大輔), Japanese voice actor born 1973 in Niigata City, freelance since 2014. Known for Kakyoin in JoJo, Rei in Free!, Enmu in Demon Slayer, and dubbing Orlando Bloom and Tom Hiddleston.

Daisuke Namikawa (浪川 大輔)

Daisuke Namikawa (浪川大輔), born 1976 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actor, singer, and film director. Child dubbing star of E.T., later voice of Lupin III's Goemon, Anakin Skywalker, and Oikawa; Kiramune artist since 2010.

Daisuke Ono (小野 大輔)

Daisuke Ono (小野 大輔) is a Japanese voice actor and singer known for Sebastian Michaelis in Black Butler and Jotaro Kujo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

Daisuke Serizawa

Daisuke Serizawa (芹沢大助) is the Toho scientist character of Godzilla (1954), played by Akihiko Hirata, who invents the Oxygen Destroyer, kills Godzilla in Tokyo Bay, and dies destroying his notes; distinct from MonsterVerse Ishirō Serizawa.

Daisy (데이지) (2006 film)

Daisy (데이지) is a 2006 South Korea–Hong Kong–Netherlands romantic action film directed by Andrew Lau, starring Jeon Ji-hyun, Jung Woo-sung, and Lee Sung-jae in an Amsterdam love triangle between a painter, a hitman, and an Interpol agent.

Daisy and Violet Hilton

Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "Siamese Twins of Texas," were English-born conjoined twins (1908–1969) exhibited from childhood, emancipated by a 1931 San Antonio trial, and known for Tod Browning's Freaks (1932) and Chained for Life.

Daisy Duck

Daisy Duck (Daisy, Donna Duck), Disney's anthropomorphic white duck cartoon character and Donald Duck's girlfriend, created by Walt Disney Productions in 1940; debuted as Donna in Don Donald (1937), named Daisy in Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940), aunt of April, May, and June.

Daisy Duke

Daisy Duke, also called Daisy Dukes for the shorts, is the Hazzard County character from The Dukes of Hazzard (CBS 1979–1985), played by Catherine Bach, whose cutoff denim shorts named a lasting fashion term.

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Daisy Edgar-Jones (born 1998, London) is an English actress who broke out as Marianne in Normal People (2020) and led Where the Crawdads Sing, Twisters, and Sense and Sensibility (2026).

Daisy Fuentes

Daisy Fuentes, born 1966 in Havana, is a Cuban-American TV host and model, the first Latina VJ on MTV (hosting MTV Internacional from 1988), first Latina worldwide Revlon spokesperson, Kohl's fashion entrepreneur, and wife of Richard Marx.

Daisy Haggard

Daisy Haggard (born 1978) is a British actress and writer, daughter of director Piers Haggard, known for Myra Licht in Episodes, creating and starring in Back to Life, Breeders, Boat Story, and the Channel 4 thriller Maya.

Daisy Head

Daisy Head (Daisy May Head), English actress born 1991 in Fulham, London; daughter of Anthony Head; known for Genya Safin in Shadow and Bone, Sofina in Dungeons & Dragons, and Guilt.

Daisy Irani (actress)

Daisy Irani is an Indian actress who was a popular child star in Hindi cinema during the 1950s and 1960s. She starred in films like Bandish (1955).

Daisy Johnson

Daisy Johnson, aka Quake, is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Bendis and Dell'Otto in Secret Wars #2 (2004), daughter of Mister Hyde with vibration powers, and the lead of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. played by Chloe Bennet.

Daisy Jones & the Six

Daisy Jones & the Six, also Daisy Jones & The Six, is a fictional 1970s rock band from Taylor Jenkins Reid's 2019 oral-history novel and the 2023 Prime Video limited series, inspired by Fleetwood Mac, with a real cast-recorded album, Aurora.

Daisy May Cooper

Daisy May Cooper (born 1986, Cirencester), English actor-writer, co-creator and star of BBC mockumentary This Country as Kerry Mucklowe, 2018 BAFTA winner, creator of Am I Being Unreasonable?, and lead of Rain Dogs.

Daisy of Love

Daisy of Love is an American reality dating series that aired on VH1 in 2009, starring Daisy de la Hoya, who chose among twenty male contestants.

Daisy Ridley

Daisy Ridley is a British actress known for Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019), cast in April 2014 from obscurity; later films include Chaos Walking, Young Woman and the Sea, We Bury the Dead, and Cleaner.

Daisy Shah

Daisy Shah, Indian actress and dancer born in Mumbai, debuted in Kannada cinema with Bhadra (2011) and rose to prominence opposite Salman Khan in Jai Ho (2014), after declining Bodyguard; also known for Hate Story 3 and Race 3.

Daken

Daken (Akihiro) is Marvel Comics' mutant son of Wolverine, debuting in Wolverine: Origins (2006) #5; he served on the Dark Avengers as Wolverine, headlined Daken: Dark Wolverine (2010-2012), and now stars in Hellverine (2024).

Dakimakura

Dakimakura (抱き枕), literally hug pillow, is a Japanese body-length pillow; internationally, a printed anime character cover zipped over a separate insert. Sizes 40x120 to 50x160 cm; character covers emerged in the 1990s via Cospa and doujin culture.

Dakin Matthews

Dakin Matthews (Melvin Richard Matthews, born 1940, Oakland) is an American character actor, Shakespeare scholar, playwright, and translator known for Gilmore Girls, The King of Queens, Broadway's To Kill a Mockingbird and Rocky, and his Drama Desk-winning Henry IV adaptation.

Dakota Blue Richards

Dakota Blue Richards (born 1994) is an English actress known as Lyra Belacqua in The Golden Compass (2007), Franky Fitzgerald in Skins, and WPC Shirley Trewlove in Endeavour; also a screenwriter and director.