{"id":2019514,"date":"2025-09-13T16:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2019514"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T16:23:15","slug":"sean-astin-son-of-academy-award-winning-actress-patti-duke-is-elected-as-sag-aftras-new-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sean-astin-son-of-academy-award-winning-actress-patti-duke-is-elected-as-sag-aftras-new-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Astin, son of Academy Award-winning actress Patti Duke, is elected as SAG-AFTRA&#8217;s new president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The union that represents tens of thousands of actors and other entertainment and media professionals has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sagaftra.org\/sag-aftra-members-elect-sean-astin-president-and-michelle-hurd-secretary-treasurer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:elected a new president.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">elected a new president.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Friday, SAG-AFTRA elected Sean Astin \u2014 an actor who appeared in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d \u201cStranger Things\u201d and \u201cRudy\u201d \u2014 to succeed Fran Drescher as its president. Astin is the son of the late Academy Award-winning actress Patty Duke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He defeated Chuck Slavin in a 79 percent to 21 percent vote. Michelle Hurd was elected secretary-treasurer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to its website, SAG-AFTRA brings together Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. It represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, program hosts, recording artists and others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source nz.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union that represents tens of thousands of actors and other entertainment and media professionals has elected a new president. On Friday, SAG-AFTRA elected Sean Astin \u2014 an actor who appeared in \u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d \u201cStranger Things\u201d and \u201cRudy\u201d \u2014 to succeed Fran Drescher as its president. Astin is the son of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1946120,"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":[25173],"tags":[370895,21741,316646,370894,370892,370893,354804,316568,348714,358731],"class_list":["post-2019514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-chuck-slavin","tag-entertainment","tag-fran-drescher","tag-media-professionals","tag-michelle-hurd","tag-patty-duke","tag-sag-aftra","tag-screen-actors-guild","tag-sean-astin","tag-tens-of-thousands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Lloyd-native-nominated-for-6-IBMA-awards.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019514","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=2019514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1946120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}