Which living person do you most admire, and why?

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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 Lorraine Pascale said elsewhere, not written here
Oprah – she's achieved so much.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2014 source ↗

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Dermot O'Leary British-Irish television presenter
My parents for the roots; my old parish priest, Father Arthur Barrow, for the fire and the reason; Richard Curtis for the drive and humanity; and, for living in the public eye with principles, George Clooney.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 September 2014 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 ↗
Sofie Gråbøl Danish actress
Jens Stoltenberg, for the way he united Norway after the massacre on Utøya in 2011.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 July 2014 source ↗
Alanis Morissette because, in my earlier career, she was a big influence on me and had a feistiness that you didn’t see much of in women in the industry. Also, she has been very vocal about mental health issues.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗

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