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Carmen Christopher

Carmen Christopher, American actor, stand-up comedian, writer, and producer; plays Chester on The Bear, Carlos on Joe Pera Talks With You, wrote for The Curse, and created the specials Street Special and Live From the Windy City.

Carmen Conde

Carmen Conde (Carmen Conde Abellán; 1907–1996) was a Spanish poet and novelist from Cartagena who in 1978 became the first woman elected to the Real Academia Española.

Carmen Cusack

Carmen Cusack, born 1971 in Denver, is an American musical theater actress and singer. Known for Alice Murphy in Bright Star (Tony nomination, Theatre World Award), Elphaba in Wicked, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, and Flying Over Sunset.

Carmen de Hastingae Proelio

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio, "Song of the Battle of Hastings," is a Latin poem attributed to Guy, Bishop of Amiens, recounting William of Normandy's conquest of England in 1066.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

Carmen Dell'Orefice (born June 3, 1931, New York) is an American fashion model, discovered at 13, a Vogue cover girl from 1946, Salvador Dalí's muse, and the world's oldest working model, active into her nineties.

Carmen Ejogo

Carmen Ejogo (born 1973) is a British actress and singer from Kensington, London, known for playing Coretta Scott King in Boycott and Selma, Seraphina Picquery in the Fantastic Beasts films, and roles in True Detective and Your Honor.

Carmen Electra

Carmen Electra (Tara Leigh Patrick, born 1972) is an American actress, model, and singer discovered by Prince, known for Playboy, Baywatch's Lani McKenzie, MTV's Singled Out, and Scary Movie spoofs; in 2026 she returned to Playboy and Scary Movie 6.

Carmen Jones (film)

Carmen Jones (1954), Otto Preminger's musical film for 20th Century Fox, adapts Hammerstein's 1943 Broadway resetting of Bizet's Carmen with an all-Black cast starring Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte; Dandridge earned the first Best Actress Oscar nomination for a Black woman.

Carmen Laforet

Carmen Laforet, full name Carmen Laforet Díaz, was a Spanish novelist whose debut Nada won the first Premio Nadal in 1945 and became a landmark of postwar fiction.

Carmen Llywelyn

Carmen Llywelyn (also credited Carmen Lee), American actress born 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia, photographer. Known for Kim in Chasing Amy (1997), Drawing Flies, A Better Place, The Mod Squad, and the Mallrats Popular Girl poster; married to Jason Lee 1995-2001.

Carmen Luvana

Carmen Luvana, born Michelle Sandoval (1981, Brooklyn), is a Puerto Rican retired adult film actress, Adam & Eve contract star of Pirates and Lady Scarface, now a mainstream actress and wellness entrepreneur.

Carmen Maki & OZ

Carmen Maki & OZ (カルメン・マキ&OZ) was a Japanese rock band formed in 1972 by singer Carmen Maki and guitarist Hirofumi Kasuga; its 1975 debut sold over 100,000 copies before the band disbanded in 1977.

Carmen Martín Gaite

Carmen Martín Gaite (1925–2000) was a Spanish novelist and essayist of the Generación del 55 whose El cuarto de atrás won the Premio Nacional de Literatura.

Carmen Miranda

Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha, 1909-1955), Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer and Hollywood actress, the 'Brazilian Bombshell'; top US-paid woman of 1945 and baiana fruit-hat icon, memorialized by Rio's Museu Carmen Miranda.

Carmen Moore (American actress)

Carmen Kym Moore, also known as Kymberly Yazzie, was a Native American actress from northern Arizona who played Felixia in Drunktown's Finest (2014) and died in 2018.

Carmen Naranjo

Carmen Naranjo (1928–2012) was a Costa Rican novelist, poet, and playwright known for Los perros no ladraron (1966), who also served as Costa Rica's Minister of Culture and ambassador to Israel.

Carmen Paschale

The Carmen Paschale is a Latin biblical epic in five books by the fifth-century poet Sedulius, retelling Christ's deeds and admired in the Middle Ages as the Christian Virgil.

Carmen Saeculare

The Carmen Saeculare, or "Secular Hymn," is a Latin lyric hymn in Sapphic stanzas that Horace wrote on commission from Augustus for the Secular Games of 17 BCE.

Carmen Salinas

Carmen Salinas (Carmen Salinas Lozano), Mexican actress, theatrical producer, and PRI deputy from Torreón, Coahuila; famous as La Corcholata in ficheras cinema and for producing Aventurera; died 9 December 2021 at 82.

Carmen Sandiego (TV series)

Carmen Sandiego is the 2019 Netflix animated series starring Gina Rodriguez as a reformed thief fighting V.I.L.E., distinct from the 1991 PBS game show and 1994 Fox Kids cartoon.

Carmen Silvera

Carmen Silvera (Carmen Blanche Silvera, 1922–2002), Canadian-born British comic actress, best known as Edith Artois in the BBC sitcom 'Allo 'Allo! (1982–1992); also Compact, Doctor Who, Dad's Army; died of lung cancer at Denville Hall.

Carmen Suite (ballet)

Carmen Suite is a 1967 one-act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, music by Rodion Shchedrin after Bizet for strings and 47 percussion instruments, created for Maya Plisetskaya at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, premiered 20 April 1967.

Carmen Suleiman

Carmen Suleiman, also written Carmen Soliman (كارمن سليمان), is an Egyptian pop singer, born in 1994, who won the first season of Arab Idol in 2012.

Carmen y Lola

Carmen y Lola, 2018 Spanish drama by Arantxa Echevarría, debut feature about two Roma teenage girls in love on Madrid's outskirts; Cannes Directors' Fortnight premiere, two Goya Awards, mostly non-professional Roma cast.

Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Carmen: A Hip Hopera is MTV's 2001 television musical film directed by Robert Townsend, starring Beyoncé as Carmen Brown and Mekhi Phifer, a hip-hop retelling of Bizet's opera and the second major African-American Carmen adaptation.

Carménère

Carménère, a Bordeaux red wine grape thought extinct after 19th-century phylloxera, rediscovered in Chile in 1994 by ampelographer Jean-Michel Boursiquot at Viña Carmen; Chile is now the world's largest producer.

Carmeni Selvam

Carmeni Selvam (கார்மேனி செல்வம்) is a 2026 Indian Tamil-Telugu bilingual comedy-drama directed by Ram Chakri, starring Samuthirakani, Gautham Vasudev Menon, and Lakshmi Priyaa Chandramouli, released 3 April 2026.

Carmilla

Carmilla, Gothic vampire novella by Sheridan Le Fanu (1872), serialized in The Dark Blue and collected in In a Glass Darkly; narrated by Laura in Styria, an early female-lesbian vampire tale influencing Dracula.

Carmilla (2014 TV series)

Carmilla (2014–2016) is a Canadian queer vlog-format web series by Shaftesbury/Smokebomb, sponsored by U by Kotex, adapting Le Fanu's 1872 novella; 121 episodes, about 70 million views, a 2017 crowdfunded movie, and Canadian Screen Award wins.

Carmina Burana

Carmina Burana is the largest medieval Latin lyric collection, preserved in the c. 1230 Codex Buranus (Munich Clm 4660), found at Benediktbeuern in 1803, mostly goliard poetry, famous today via Carl Orff's 1937 cantata.