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sitting down for supper with President Barack Obama tomorrow night. The Guardian will be bringing exDoctor Who star David Tennant and Alan Rickman, who played Severus Snape in the Harry Potter pics among his many roles, to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington D.C. on Saturday. New

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Guardian Editor-in-chief Katharine Viner as well as various staff members of the UK-based paper will join the two. Turner Prize-winning artist Chris Ofili and actress Georgia Moffett, who is married to the 10th Doctor and Gracepoint actor, will also be guests of The Guardian at the self styled Nerd Prom. In fact, the Guardian table will be a bit of Potter reunion as Tennant was in the fourth pic in the hugely successful franchise. The actor played Barty Crouch, Jr. in 2005’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Tennant played Doctor Who from 2005 to 2010 and appeared in the 50th Anniversary special in 2013. We hear that Bradley Cooper may be in the house tomorrow too as a guest of TIME and that Homeland‘s Rupert Friend will be there as well.

PREVIOUS, APRIL 22 PM: The President of the United States is the marquee name at the annual nerd prom but Barack Obama has some serious star power competition in the room at this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. With Saturday Night Live‘s Cecily Strong as the lead jokester, the 101st dinner of the D.C. journalist organization will see cast members of ratings blockbusters The Walking Dead, Modern Family, Empire and Game Of Thrones in attendance on April 25 along with a two-time Oscar winner and Scandal’s Olivia Pope.

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Fox News Channel is certain to cause a stir in the Washington Hilton ballroom by inviting perpetual almost Presidential candidate Donald Trump this year. Like actor Tim Daly, House Of Cards‘ Michael Kelly and some members of the Modern Family cast, this is a return visit for The Celebrity Apprentice boss. A guest of the Washington Post at the 2011 WHCD, Trump was ripped relentlessly by Obama and host Seth Meyers. No word if there is going to be a repeat performance but this year there’s also going to be a fictional female Secretary of State, a real life female ex-Secretary of State and a fictional female Commander-In-Chief at the tables – but no Hillary Clinton.

We’ll update with more names as we get them but here is the Hollywood contingent for the 2015 WHCD so far, plus the odd cabinet secretary and high ranking member of Congress or two.

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Norman Reedus – The Walking Dead
Lauren Cohan – The Walking Dead
Billy Eichner – Funny or Die’s Billy On The Street, Parks & Recreation
Gabourey Sidibe – Empire

Fox News Channel
Donald Trump – The Celebrity Apprentice
Kelly Rutherford – Gossip Girl, The Mysteries of Laura
Martha Stewart – chair of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Billie Jean King – Sports legend
Alanna Masterson – The Walking Dead
Brody Jenner – Keeping Up With The Kardashians

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Jane Fonda – two-time Oscar winner for Klute and Coming Home, Netflix’s Grace & Frankie
Eric Dane – TNT’s The Last Ship

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Gina Rodriguez – Jane The Virgin
Henri Esteve – Revenge
Madeleine Albright – former Secretary of State
Téa Leoni – Madam Secretary
Tim Daly – Madam Secretary
Julian Castro – Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
David Thorne – entrepreneur & former U.S. Ambassador to Italy

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Ava DuVernay – Selma director
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – Game Of Thrones
Michael Kelly – House Of Cards
Andre Holland – Selma, The Knick
Chrissy Teigen – model
Brandon Marshal – New York Jets
James Gorman – Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley
Jeh Johnson – Secretary of Homeland Security
John Hickenlooper – Governor of Colorado
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)

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The Hill


Lucy Liu – Elementary
Connie Britton – Nashville
Constance Zimmer – House of Cards

Yahoo
Naomi Campbell – supermodel, Empire regular
Gillian Jacobs – Community (which is now on Yahoo)
Katie Couric – Yahoo Global News anchor
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) – House Minority Leader
Karlie Kross – Victoria’s Secret model

The Atlantic
Tim Simons – Veep
Michelle Monaghan – True Detective
Samantha Power – U.S. U.N. Ambassador
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)
Ray Mabus – Secretary of the Navy

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Kerry Washington – Scandal
Julie Bowen – Modern Family
Ty Burrell – Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson – Modern Family
Eric Stonestreet – Modern Family
Anthony Anderson – black-ish
Tracee Ellis Ross – black-ish
Kenya Barris – black-ish creator/EP

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The New Yorker


Larry Wilmore – The Nightly Show

USA TODAY
Jane Seymour – Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Forever
Alfre Woodard – State Of Affairs
Wendy Mclendon Covey – The Goldbergs, Repeat After Me
Naya Rivera – Glee
Michelle Trachtenberg – Killing Kennedy, Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Troian Bellisario – Pretty Little Liars
Maria Menounos – Live From E! host, Dancing With The Stars Season 14 contestant

The Washington Post
Jack Lew – Secretary of the Treasury
Tom Perez – United States Secretary of Labor
Fred Hochberg – Chairman and President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank
Steve Case – AOL co-founder and Case Foundation and Revolution chair
Jean Case – CEO of The Case Foundation
Megan Smith – Chief Technology Officer in the Office of Science and Technology Policy

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Dow-Jones


Darby Stanchfield – Scandal
Eric Bogosian – Talk Radio, The Good Wife, playwright
John Kasich – Governor of Ohio
Jim Webb – former Virginia Senator, Democrat
David Plouffe – ex top Obama advisor, Uber SVP Policy and Strategy
John Podesta – Hillary Clinton campaign chair, former White House chief of staff

The Huffington Post
Sarah Koenig- SERIAL host, This American Life producer
Steven Johnson – author and TED talker
Bethany Mota- YouTube star
Killer Mike – rapper
Sean Parker – former Napster co-founder & Facebook executive
Nash Grier – Vine star
Marcus Johns – Vine star
Heather Armstrong – blogger
Jerome Jarre – Snapchat star
Tyler Oakley – YouTube activist

CSPAN
Joyce Woodhouse – Mom who called in on-air on her squabbling pundit sons

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