{"id":2018114,"date":"2025-09-13T01:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2018114"},"modified":"2025-09-13T01:30:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T01:30:59","slug":"sean-astin-elected-to-succeed-fran-drescher-as-sag-aftra-national-president-michelle-hurd-wins-secretary-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sean-astin-elected-to-succeed-fran-drescher-as-sag-aftra-national-president-michelle-hurd-wins-secretary-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin Elected To Succeed Fran Drescher As SAG-AFTRA National President; Michelle Hurd Wins Secretary-Treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Astin<\/a> has been elected to serve as the next national president of SAG-AFTRA<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The actors union announced the results Friday evening, revealing that Astin was elected to succeed Fran Drescher<\/a> with 79.25% of the vote. He will serve a two-year term alongside Michelle Hurd<\/a>, who was selected for secretary-treasurer with 64.77% of the vote. Both begin their terms immediately.<\/p>\n

Runner-up Chuck Slavin<\/a> received 20.75% of the votes for president, while his running mate Peter Antico<\/a> received 35.23% of the votes for secretary-treasurer.<\/p>\n

Per the union, about 17% of SAG-AFTRA\u2019s 117,000+ eligible members submitted ballots in this year\u2019s national election. That\u2019s quite a decline from 2023, when nearly 23% of the union voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Drescher. When she was first elected in 2021, more than 26% of the national membership submitted ballots.<\/p>\n

The local Los Angeles and New York election results also were revealed Friday. Drescher\u2019s 2021 and 2023 running mate Joely Fisher<\/a>, who had been national secretary-treasurer,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Sean Astin has been elected to serve as the next national president of SAG-AFTRA. The actors union announced the results Friday evening, revealing that Astin was elected to succeed Fran Drescher with 79.25% of the vote. He will serve a two-year term alongside Michelle Hurd, who was selected for secretary-treasurer with 64.77% of the vote. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2018115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2018114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Sean-Astin-Elected-To-Succeed-Fran-Drescher-As-SAG-AFTRA-National.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}