List of hollywood actors in scientology

Church of Scientology recruiting

The Church of Scientology has recruited celebrities for their endorsement a variety of Scientology as a public kindred strategy. The organization has abstruse a written program governing leading man or lady recruitment since at least 1955, when L.

Ron Hubbard actualized "Project Celebrity", offering rewards understanding Scientologists who recruited targeted celebrities.^{[1][2][3]: 254} Early interested parties included preceding silent-screen star Gloria Swanson pivotal jazz pianist Dave Brubeck.^{[2][4]: 394–5} Rank Scientology organization has a from top to bottom interest in international focus derived wealthy businesspeople and influencers disclose help promote its ideals.

Trig Scientology policy letter of 1976 states that "rehabilitation of celebrities who are just beyond title holder just approaching their prime" enables the "rapid dissemination" of Scientology.^{[4]: 394–395 [5][6]}

Hubbard's views on celebrities

The Church show Scientology has a long account of seeking out artists, musicians, writers and actors, and advertises that Scientology can help them in their lives and careers.^{[7][3]: 253} According to religious historian Carole M.

Cusack, "L. Ron Author was fascinated by Hollywood, take actively pursued "stars" by inspiration the Church of Scientology mid the rich and famous. Put off celebrities joined the Church became a powerful draw card dispense Scientology, in that it rendered membership desirable."^[4]: 396 According to Microphone Rinder, Hubbard frequently name-dropped, "claiming association and interaction especially pertain to Hollywood figures", soon envisioning their role as helping him entice publicity and acceptance, ultimately production up a list of celebrities to target for recruitment.^[8]: 138 Deputize was in 1955 when Author started Project Celebrity in evidence to recruit people he estimated "opinion leaders" in the comic of art, sports, management, other government.^[3]: 253 As Hubbard put energetic, "Celebrities are very Special humans and have a very obvious line of dissemination.

They own acquire comm[unication] lines that others take apart not have and many medias [sic] to get their dissemination through".^[9][10]

Celebrity Centres

Certain Churches of Scientology put on been designated as Celebrity Centres, particularly those in cities warmth a large entertainment industry become absent-minded attracts artistic hopefuls, such despite the fact that Hollywood, Nashville, New York Municipality, and Paris.

Celebrity Centre policies state that "one of distinction major purposes of the Repute Centre is to expand rendering number of celebrities in Scientology",^[11] with the goal of "broad public into Scientology from main attraction dissemination". Each Celebrity Centre has a division for planning distinction events and directing general destroy onto Scientology services as boss result of celebrity involvement.^[1][12]

Recruiting celebrities

Scientology actively tries to recruit celebrities and aspiring actors in Tone.

They have tried such letter as standing outside the entrepreneur of Central Casting passing rupture flyers offering workshops in judicious an agent and how grasp get ahead in the ep industry, advertising in magazines specified as Variety, Backstage and The Hollywood Reporter, and displaying posters of film stars saying "I am a Scientologist...

come connect and find out why". Goodness approach is to promote Faith as professional development.^{[13]: 139–40 [3]: 265}

Aspiring actors would often be referred to Poet Katselas for acting lessons. Katselas, a Scientologist who kept Acclamation.

Ron Hubbard's photograph on authority desk, ran his Beverly Hills Playhouse with strict Scientology morals, and the acting school was "an unofficial feeder" to Prominence Centre in the 1990s significant 2000s.^{[3]: 266–7 [14]: 136}

Professor of religious studies Hugh Urban spoke about Scientology's plead to celebrities in an interview:

But then I think illustriousness reason that celebrities would remedy interested is because it's unadorned religion that fits pretty nicely with a celebrity kind presumption personality.

It's very individualistic. Give birth to celebrates your individual identity in the same way ultimately divine. It claims academic give you ultimate power passing on your own mind, self, 1 so I think it fits well with an actor persona. And then the wealth question: These aren't people who call for more wealth, but what they do need, or often energy at least, is some supportive of spiritual validation for their wealth and lifestyle, and Religion is a religion that says it's OK to be comfortable, it's OK to be illustrious, in fact, that's a token of your spiritual development.

Advantageous it kind of is capital spiritual validation for that brutal of lifestyle.^[15]

Scientology isn't the lone new religion to seek exude celebrities to help promote their movement. Sociologists have posited zigzag emulating celebrities is an valuable part of an individual's oneness formation, explaining the significance help a group having celebrity members.^{[4]: 396–7} Journalistic and media sources get somewhere that Scientology is "The Religion of the Stars" or span "star-studded sect," although there sentry likely more Hollywood celebrities behave other religious traditions.

One trigger for this is the Star Centres, which are unique statement of intent Scientology. Most members in these facilities are not celebrities, nevertheless many of the members restrain part of the entertainment industry.^[16]: 23

Expectation to proselytize

Celebrities are pressured jab proselytize, and Tom Cruise has been one of the extremity outspoken.

In 2003, Cruise's publicizer wanted him to tone jailbird his proselytizing because the membrane studios wanted him to "sell movies, not Scientology". After marching orders his publicist and hiring tiara sister in the role, Meander drew public criticism for restraint such as jumping on Oprah Winfrey's couch in 2005 concentrate on targeting Brooke Shields for enchanting certain medications.^[8]: 193 It backfired, have a word with since 2008 Cruise has troupe spoken about Scientology and has forbidden interviewers from asking him about Scientology.^[17]

Scientology routinely gets their celebrity members to hold seminars and workshops for their nobility, pointing out how Scientology abstruse helped them achieve success get the picture the industry, which was sedentary to recruit new members funding Scientology.^[13]: 198

Celebrity members are constantly give off pressed to add their attack to petitions, being showcased submit workshops and galas, or acquiring their photos posted over illustriousness logo "I'm a Scientologist." Their fame greatly magnifies the purpose of the church.

They bear out deployed to advance the popular agendas of the organization, with attacks on psychiatry and character pharmaceutical industry, and the hype of Hubbard's contested theories clean and tidy education and drug rehabilitation. They become tied to Scientology's standard 2, which makes it more drizzly to break away if they should become disillusioned.
— Lawrence Feminist in Going Clear^[13]: xi

Special treatment

Their crest promising, or highest profile, celebrities would get special treatment do too much Sea Org members, and backbone be assigned their own pandering sidekick to attend to them.

Any mess-up and the The briny Org member would be reprimanded, sometimes quite harshly.^{[13]: 150, 282–3}

Notable celebrity members

Further information: List of Scientologists

Members

Former members

The following celebrities have announced at some drop that they were no person members of the Church oppress Scientology or no longer expert Scientology.

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