Cuba Gooding Jr: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Cuba Gooding Jr said elsewhere, not written here

President Obama: he was the first to accomplish something so great in our country as an African American.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2012 source ↗

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Ken Loach English retired filmmaker

Tony Benn, for moving to the left throughout his life rather than to the right.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2012 source ↗

Audra McDonald Singer and actor

Meghan Markle. I don’t know how she continues to walk through this world with the grace, strength, and purpose that she does given the unbearable amount of vitriol and hate she has been subjected to, but she does. I wish she didn’t have to.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Ashley Jensen Scottish actress and narrator

Malala Yousafzai; she’s a wonderful humanitarian.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2017 source ↗

Johanna Konta British tennis player

My parents, because they did what they did to give me the opportunities to do what I do. They left their lives behind in Australia and started again in their 40s in a new country.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 June 2018 source ↗