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Jimmy Star

American Actor and Radio and Television Host

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ56064291
Source-derived summary

Jimmy Star is an American radio/television host, actor, writer, clothing designer, and publicist.

Early life

He was born in Miami, Florida.

Career

The Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell

Star is the host of The Jimmy Star Show with Ron Russell, which he shares with his husband Ron Russell. Ron is an actor, host, the producer, and Golden Age Hollywood expert.

As part of the show, Russell interviewed celebrities such as Tony Curtis, Tippi Hedren, Tab Hunter, Dean Cain and Pink.

Publicist and public relations expert

Star is president of World Star PR.

Author

Star is an author. He wrote Charlie Chaplin: Silent Icon and wrote a chapter entitled "Secrets of Social Media Success" in The Change 16: Insights Into Self-empowerment.

Actor

Star appeared in several Marvel Cinematic Universe films. He appeared in 2010 in The Incubus, and in 2011 in Son of Morning.

Clothing designer

Since 1998, Star has been a celebrity clothing and fashion designer.

Editorial summary

“Jimmy Star” enters the record as american Actor and Radio and Television Host. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jimmy, Star and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-10-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jimmy, Star and American.
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Why this record matters

“Jimmy Star” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jimmy, Star and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q56064291. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from Jimmy Star” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.