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Clarence Williams III

Clarence Williams III (1939-2021), American actor, played Linc Hayes on ABC's The Mod Squad (1968-73) and Prince's father in Purple Rain; Broadway Tony nominee for Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, later character actor in Deep Cover, Sugar Hill, and The Butler.

Claribel Alegría

Claribel Alegría (1924–2018) was a Salvadoran-Nicaraguan poet, novelist, and journalist, one of Central America's leading writers, whose more than forty books won the Casa de las Américas and Neustadt prizes.

Clarice (TV series)

Clarice: 2021 CBS psychological crime drama (one season, 13 episodes) created by Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, starring Rebecca Breeds as FBI agent Clarice Starling in 1993, a year after The Silence of the Lambs; Hannibal Lecter absent due to MGM/De Laurentiis rights split; cancelled after season 1.

Clarice Cliff

Clarice Cliff (1899–1972) was an English ceramic designer of Stoke-on-Trent, famed for Art Deco 'Bizarre' and 'Fantasque' hand-painted pottery launched from 1927, sold under her own name, and later revived by collectors.

Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector (Chaya Pinkhasovna Lispector, 1920–1977), Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and journalist of the introspective school; author of Perto do Coração Selvagem, A Paixão Segundo G.H., Água Viva, and A Hora da Estrela.

Clarice Starling

Clarice Starling is the fictional FBI-agent protagonist of Thomas Harris's 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs, played by Jodie Foster, Julianne Moore, and Rebecca Breeds; known for her Hannibal Lecter interviews, the Buffalo Bill case, and the lambs trauma.

Claridad (magazine)

Claridad was a left-wing cultural and political magazine published in Buenos Aires from 1926 to 1941, and a principal organ of Argentina's socially committed Boedo group of writers.

Clarified butter

Clarified butter (ghee, Sanskrit ghrita) is butter with water and milk solids removed, leaving nearly pure butterfat; ghee is the further-browned, nutty-tasting version. Covers composition (99.6%+ fat per FAO), smoke point around 250 °C, shelf life, Sanskrit/Vedic origins, regional names like samn and smen, and the measured health evidence.

Clarinet

Clarinet: single-reed woodwind with a cylindrical bore that overblows a twelfth, invented by Johann Christoph Denner around 1700 from the chalumeau. Family spans Ab piccolo to contrabass; Boehm and Oehler key systems.

Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)

Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, his last completed concerto (October 1791), written for Anton Stadler's extended-range basset clarinet; the autograph is lost and the common version is an anonymous adaptation.

Clarion (band)

Clarion (band): East Los Angeles shoegaze/alt-rock band formed late 2023; viral 2024 single "Hello Juliet" (55+ million streams); EPs Clarion (2024) and Blue Fairy (2026) on Broke Records; core members Saya Oliva and Anthony Sanchez.

ClariS (クラリス)

ClariS (クラリス) is a Japanese pop unit under Sony Music, debuted October 2010 with "irony" (Oreimo OP); known for "Connect" (Puella Magi Madoka Magica OP, 90M+ streams), anonymous illustration-based identity, and since 2025 a trio of Clara, Ellie, and Anna.

Clarissa (2026 film)

Clarissa (2026) is a drama by Nigerian twin directors Arie and Chuko Esiri, adapting Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway to contemporary Lagos. Premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight; Sophie Okonedo stars; Neon released it December 11, 2026.

Clarissa Dickson Wright

Clarissa Dickson Wright (1947–2014), English television cook, writer and former barrister, co-star of BBC Two's Two Fat Ladies with Jennifer Paterson, first female rector of Aberdeen University.

Clarissa Explains It All

Clarissa Explains It All, a Nickelodeon teen sitcom (1991-1994) created by Mitchell Kriegman, starring Melissa Joan Hart as Clarissa Darling; 65 episodes, five seasons, fourth-wall breaking, first Nick female lead, girl-power landmark.

Clarity (Zedd song)

Clarity (Zedd song): 2012 title track from Zedd's debut album Clarity, featuring Foxes; co-written with Skylar Grey, Matthew Koma, and Porter Robinson; won the 56th Grammy Best Dance Recording; BUNT. remix with VALORANT Music released 2026.

Clark

Clark, born Christopher Stephen Clark in 1979, is an English electronic musician who debuted on Warp Records in 2001 and works across IDM, techno, and ambient.

Clark (2022 TV series)

Clark (2022) is a Swedish Netflix limited series, six episodes directed by Jonas Åkerlund, starring Bill Skarsgård as bank robber Clark Olofsson, whose 1973 Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis inspired the term Stockholm syndrome; loosely based on his autobiography.

Clark and Michael

Clark and Michael is a 2007 CBS Interactive mockumentary web series starring Michael Cera and Clark Duke as themselves, clueless Hollywood writers pitching a TV show; 10 episodes, thesis-film origin, TIME top viral video of 2007.

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961), American poet, sculptor, and weird-fiction author of the Weird Tales trio with Lovecraft and Howard; creator of Zothique, Hyperborea, Averoigne, and the Dying Earth tales.

Clark Duke

Clark Duke (born 1985, Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American actor, comedian, and director known for Clark and Michael, Sex Drive, Kick-Ass, Hot Tub Time Machine, The Office, The Croods, and directing Arkansas (2020) and Stranglehold (2024).

Clark Gable

Clark Gable (1901-1960), born William Clark Gable in Cadiz, Ohio, American actor nicknamed the King of Hollywood; MGM leading man, Best Actor Oscar for It Happened One Night, Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind, died after filming The Misfits.

Clark Gregg

Clark Gregg (Robert Clark Gregg Jr, born 1962, Boston) is an American actor-writer-director known as Agent Phil Coulson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., an Atlantic Theater Company founder, and the writer-director of Choke and Trust Me.

Clark Johnson

Clark Johnson is an American actor and director, born in 1954, known for playing Detective Meldrick Lewis on Homicide: Life on the Street and directing The Wire.

Clark Middleton

Clark Middleton (Clark Tinsley Middleton, 1957-2020), American character actor with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, known as Glen 'Jelly Bean' Carter on The Blacklist, Charlie in Twin Peaks 2017, and in Kill Bill: Vol. 2.

Clarke Griffin

Clarke Griffin is the protagonist of The 100 (CW, 2014–2020), played by Eliza Taylor. A delinquent sent from the Ark to post-nuclear Earth, she led the 100, committed the Mount Weather genocide as Wanheda, hosted Josephine Lightbourne, and was barred from transcending in the finale.

Clarke Peters

Clarke Peters (born Peter Clarke, 1952, New York) is an American actor, writer, and director based much of his career in Britain, known for Lester Freamon in The Wire, Albert Lambreaux in Treme, and the Olivier-winning Five Guys Named Moe.

Clarkson's Farm

Clarkson's Farm, a Prime Video documentary-reality series (2021–present) following Jeremy Clarkson running Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds with Kaleb Cooper and Charlie Ireland; five seasons, planning disputes, and a season 6 for 2027.

Claro Enigma

Claro Enigma is a 1951 book of poems by the Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond de Andrade, containing 41 poems and marking a turn toward darker, classical forms.

Clash of the Titans (1981 film)

Clash of the Titans (1981) is a MGM/UA fantasy film directed by Desmond Davis with Ray Harryhausen's final stop-motion effects, starring Harry Hamlin as Perseus, Laurence Olivier as Zeus, and Medusa and the Kraken as adversaries.