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Richard Pryor is a television actor, film actor, comedian (United States).
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor Sr. (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Known for reaching a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor won a Primetime Emmy Award and five Grammy Awards. He received the first Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 1998. He won the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. Pryor's body of work includes numerous concert films and recordings.
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| Born | 1 December 1940 |
| Profession | television actor, film actor, comedian |
| Nationality | United States |
| Educated at | Peoria High School |
| Spouse | Deborah McGuire, Jennifer Lee Pryor, Flynn Belaine |
| Children | Rain Pryor |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Writers Guild of America Award, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Sagittarius |
| Nakshatra | Purva Ashadha (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Scorpio |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Pisces |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 666 Hollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 44 of them (7%) have the Moon in Sagittarius, like Richard Pryor, and 21 (3%) share the Purva Ashadha Nakshatra — the #20 most common Moon Nakshatra among Hollywood personalities, where Dhanishta leads with 31 (5%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Richard Pryor was born on 1 December 1940. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Richard Pryor's Moon sign (Rashi) is Sagittarius and the Nakshatra is Purva Ashadha, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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