Hollywood loves Hillary.
The Democratic presidential front-runner is scoring financial support from some of Tinseltown’s biggest names, new fundraising reports show.
Among the boldfaced names backing Clinton during the July-to-September fundraising quarter: actor Matt Damon, star of the sci-fi blockbuster The Martian, mega-movie star Tom Hanks, and actor John Leguizamo, who each donated $2,700, the maximum they could give to Clinton for the primary election. Other famous contributors include actresses Meg Ryan and Murphy Brown‘s Candice Bergen.
Kanye West, who recently proclaimed he plans to seek the presidency in 2020, signaled that he’d like Clinton to occupy the office first. He donated $2,700 to her campaign in July.
Actress Octavia Spencer, who earned as Academy Award for her role in The Help, and actor Michael Douglas apparently are so confident that Clinton will win the nomination that they have each donated $2,700 for the primary and another $2,700 for the general election.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, also has received celebrity donations in recent months. Husband-and-wife actors Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman each donated $2,700. The Avengers star Mark Ruffalo, known for his environmental activism, donated $2,170 to Sanders.
Other famous donors include actor Richmond Arquette (brother of Patricia) and Maura Tierney of ER fame who currently co-stars in Showtime’s The Affair.
Some Republican contenders have bagged some big-name donors, too.
Singer and music producer Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds is among donors to the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., as is Johnny Van Zant, the lead singer of Lynyrd Skynrd, who contributed $1,100.
Country singer Toby Keith, listed in federal records by his full legal name, Toby Keith Covel, donated $2,700 to former Florida governor Jeb Bush, as did producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and TV series such as The Amazing Race) and actress Eloise DeJoria, who appeared in the 1989 movie Weekend at Bernie’s.
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