Sharon Osbourne

Osbourne worked in the music business long before television found her, and the reputation she brought to the screen was built there: a manager with a name for being ferocious on her clients' behalf. What made her famous, though, was letting MTV into the house. The Osbournes ran from 2002 to 2005 and turned her family, her husband Ozzy included, into a sitcom that happened to be real.

She is a natural on camera because she does not perform patience. On The X Factor and then America's Got Talent, where she judged from 2007 to 2012, the useful thing about her was that you could always tell whether she meant it; the praise landed because the dismissals were real. She spent years hosting the daytime panel show The Talk doing a lower-volume version of the same act.

The acting is a small, odd sideline and worth knowing about: a voice role in Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Mama Hook in Jake and the Never Land Pirates, a suburban mother in It's a Boy Girl Thing and a nicely self-aware turn as herself in The Comeback. The rest of the filmography is documentary, quiz shows and panels, including The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne and Ozzy: No Escape from Now, both of which put her back where she started, standing next to the artist.