10 Vegan Celebrities To Follow

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Vegan Celebrities

Veganism isn’t just a gym-bro thing. Some of the most famous people on the planet eat plants exclusively, and they do it for every reason in the book: animals, health, the environment, or just because they decided steak wasn’t doing it for them. Here are ten of the most prominent.

Why Are Celebrities Going Vegan?

Different reasons, same dinner plate. Some went vegan for their health. Some couldn’t unsee what happens in slaughterhouses. A few are full-blown animal rights activists with the arrest record to prove it. Here’s the rundown.

Vegan Celebrities List

1. Moby

Richard Melville Hall, better known as Moby, is an American musician, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has been vegan since 1987, which makes him one of the longest-running famous vegans on Earth. He abstained from meat at 19, and in 2015 he opened a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles called Little Pine, donating all of its profits to animal welfare organizations.

2. Sadie Sink

Sadie Sink is an American actress best known for Stranger Things. She went vegan after years of starring opposite fellow vegan Woody Harrelson in The Glass Castle, which opened her eyes to what happens in the egg and dairy industries. She takes the lifestyle beyond food too, avoiding animal products in her clothing and checking product ingredients before wearing them.

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3. Nathalie Emmanuel

Nathalie Emmanuel, the English actress known as Missandei in Game of Thrones, went vegan after investigating the link between her food and her health. After dropping dairy to deal with migraine headaches, she noticed better sleep and more energy within weeks, and never went back. Her veganism started as self-care and stuck as a lifestyle.

4. Joaquin Phoenix

Joaquin Phoenix is an American actor, producer, and animal rights activist known for intense, unconventional roles. He’s been vegan since childhood and used his 2020 Oscars acceptance speech to condemn the dairy industry and slaughterhouses, urging viewers to go plant-based. The New York Times called him one of the greatest actors of the 21st century, and he uses the platform for animals every chance he gets.

5. Billie Eilish

Billie Eilish, the Grammy-winning American singer and songwriter, went vegetarian first and then vegan out of love for animals. Her message to her enormous following is blunt: “Leave animals alone. Damn.” She proves you can be one of the biggest pop stars alive without eating anything that had a face.

6. Elliot Page

Elliot Page is a Canadian actor and producer with an Academy Award nomination and multiple other honors to his name. He’s been vegan for about a decade and has been a vocal opponent of factory farming. PETA named him its “World’s Sexiest Vegan” in 2014.

7. Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara is an American actress, a Cannes Best Actress winner, and a two-time Oscar nominee. She’s been vegan for years after watching footage of pig cruelty, and she didn’t stop at her plate: she co-founded Hiraeth, a vegan fashion label, because she couldn’t find stylish leather-free combat boots. She also narrated the animal rights documentary Dominion.

8. Alan Cumming

Alan Cumming is a Scottish actor who has been vegan for over a decade. He works with PETA on animal rights campaigns and credits the diet with clearing his skin and leaving him feeling energized and younger. He is proof that veganism and a long career in the performing arts go together just fine.

9. Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, adopted a mostly plant-based diet after emergency heart surgery in 2004 and a stent procedure in 2010. He did it to stay alive long enough to watch his grandchildren grow up, and he’s been honest that he’s not perfect at it, admitting he occasionally eats fish. Even “mostly vegan” from a former president moves the needle.

10. Mayim Bialik

Mayim Bialik is an American actress, author, and former game show host known for Blossom and The Big Bang Theory. A vegetarian since 19, she went fully vegan after reading Eating Animals and wrote a vegan cookbook, Mayim’s Vegan Table (2014), aimed at making plant-based family cooking normal and easy.

Celebrity Animal Activists

Many of the stars on this list don’t just eat vegan, they fight for animals. Joaquin Phoenix condemned the dairy industry on the Oscars stage. Rooney Mara narrated Dominion. Moby funnels his restaurant profits to animal welfare. The causes they keep raising: animal testing, the fur trade, factory farming, and climate change.

Conclusion

Ten celebrities, ten different reasons, and the same conclusion: veganism keeps winning people over, famous or not. Some did it for their health, some for the animals, some for the planet. Whatever the reason, every one of them is living proof that you don’t need animal products to thrive.

For more famous plant-based faces, see our profiles of Olympic weightlifter Kendrick Farris and tennis star Venus Williams.