British Women
by oligiman187 | created - 13 Jul 2011 | updated - 10 hours ago | PublicA random list of living women born in the country of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
1. Kate Beckinsale
Actress | Underworld: Evolution
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in Hounslow, Middlesex, England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her ...
Mother of Lily Mo Sheen.
2. Lily Mo Sheen
Actress | The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Lily Mo Sheen was born on January 31, 1999 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), Everybody's Fine (2009) and Underworld: Evolution (2006).
Daughter of Kate Beckinsale.
3. Rhona Mitra
Actress | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Mitra was born in Paddington, London, England, the daughter of Nora Downey and Anthony Mitra, a cosmetic surgeon. She has an older and a younger brother. Her father is of Bengali Indian and English descent, and her mother is Irish. In 1984, when Mitra was eight, her parents divorced, and she was ...
4. Kelly Brook
Actress | Piranha 3D
From the age of 13 she attended the Italia Conte stage school where she studied dance, drama and singing for 3 years then at 16 she began her modelling career gracing the covers of numerous magazines including GQ, FHM, Maxim, Sky, Cosmopolitan, Hello, Tatler, The Face and Company, becoming one of ...
5. Jakki Degg
Actress | EuroTrip
Jakki Degg was born on February 20, 1978 in Stone, Staffordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for EuroTrip (2004), Clubbing to Death (2008) and Goal! III (2009).
6. Rachel Weisz
Actress | The Constant Gardener
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...
7. Amy Macdonald
Actress | Still Game
Amy Macdonald was born on August 25, 1987 in Bishopbriggs, Scotland, UK. She is a music artist and actress, known for Still Game (2002), Kokowääh (2011) and Três Irmãs (2008).
8. Sophia Myles
Actress | Tristan + Isolde
Sophia Jane Myles was born on March 18, 1980 in Hammersmith, London, England. She has a younger brother, Oliver. Her parents are Jane and Peter Myles, who is a vicar, a priest in the Anglican Church who is in charge of a parish and receives a salary, but not the tithes of the church. Her mother ...
9. Naomi Watts
Actress | Mulholland Dr.
Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...
10. Mischa Barton
Actress | The O.C.
Mischa Barton is a versatile actress with a passion for storytelling and an impressive career spanning over two decades. Working with such acclaimed directors and writers as M. Night Shyamalan, James Lapine and Naomi Wallace, she is known for her magnetic on-screen presence and natural acting ...
11. Leona Lewis
Soundtrack | Avatar
Leona Lewis was born on April 3, 1985 in Islington, London, England, UK. She is a music artist and actress, known for Avatar (2009), No Strings Attached (2011) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). She has been married to Dennis Jauch since July 27, 2019. They have one child.
12. Lily Allen
Actress | Elizabeth
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen is an English singer-songwriter and actress. She is the daughter of actor Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. Her music career began in 2005 when she made some of her vocal recordings public on Myspace and the publicity resulted in airplay on BBC Radio 1 and a ...
13. Gemma Atkinson
Actress | Hollyoaks
Gemma Atkinson was born on November 16, 1984 in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Hollyoaks (1995), Devil's Pass (2013) and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (2008).
14. Catherine Bell
Actress | Bruce Almighty
Catherine was born in London, but she moved to California with her Iranian mother at the age of two. Her mother still acts as her personal assistant. As a girl, she acted in various TV advertisements. She went to UCLA to study biology/ pre-medicine, but she dropped out to become a model in Japan. ...
15. Keira Knightley
Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...
16. Nerina Pallot
Soundtrack | In a Day
Nerina Pallot was born on April 26, 1975 in Jersey, Channel Islands. She is a composer and actress, known for In a Day (2006), Man Didn't Walk on the Moon (2017) and Turn It Up Louder (2019). She has been married to Andy Chatterley since February 14, 2007. They have one child.
17. Keeley Hazell
Actress | Ted Lasso
Keeley Hazell was born in the London borough of Lewisham, grew up in Grove Park and attended the Ravensbourne School in Bromley. Her mother, Amber, was a dinner lady and her father, Roy, was a window fitter; they separated when she was thirteen years old. At 16 years of age, Hazell left school to ...
18. Gemma Arterton
Actress | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Gemma Christina Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, where she was raised. She is the daughter of Sally-Anne (Heap), a cleaner, and Barry J. Arterton, a welder. Her mother's cousin is singer-songwriter Eric Goulden.
Her parents divorced when she was age five, and Gemma subsequently lived ...
Sister of Hannah Arterton.
19. Hannah Arterton
Actress | The Peripheral
Hannah Arterton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Peripheral (2022), Safe (2018) and The Five (2016). She has been married to Chris Hyson since September 23, 2022.
Sister of Gemma Arterton.
20. Susan Lynch
Actress | Waking Ned
Susan was doing plays in Gaelic before she was offered a place at the Central School of Speech and Drama and while there she won the Kenneth Branagh Renaissance Award for Most Promising Student, Her theatre roles include El Cid and Pericles at the National and the title role of Miss Julie at the ...
21. Claire Forlani
Actress | Meet Joe Black
Claire Forlani was born in the United Kingdom and grew up in London. Educated at Arts Educational School, she moved to the United States with her parents Pier Luigi and Barbara Forlani when she was 19 and began starring in films.
Claire has had leading roles in such films as Meet Joe Black (1998), ...
22. Kelly Reilly
Actress | Pride & Prejudice
Jessica Kelly Siobhán Reilly (born July 18, 1977) is an English actress. Her performance in After Miss Julie at the Donmar Warehouse made her a star of the London stage and earned her a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress of 2003. Reilly was born and brought up in Chessington, ...
23. Charlotte Church
Soundtrack | I'll Be There
Charlotte Maria Church was born on February 21, 1986 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom to Steven Reed and his wife Maria. The couple separated shortly after the child's birth, and she was left in her mother's care. She started singing publicly when she was only three and a half years old,...
24. Natasha Bedingfield
Soundtrack | Morning Glory
Natasha Bedingfield was born on November 26, 1981 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Morning Glory (2010), From Russia with Love (2005) and What to Expect When You're Expecting (2012). She has been married to Matt Robinson since March 21, 2009. They ...
25. Rachel Stevens
Actress | S Club Seeing Double
Rachel was born 9 April 1978 in London. Rachel started drama school at the age of 5. At age 15, she was picked from 5000 people to win a modelling competition organised by "Just 17" magazine. She did some modelling work and she then went to the London School of Fashion to study the fashion business...
26. Sophie Monk
Actress | Click
Sophie Monk was born on December 14, 1979 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Click (2006), Date Movie (2006) and Hard Breakers (2010). She has been married to Joshua Gloss since April 2, 2022.
27. Lucy Pinder
Actress | Strippers vs Werewolves
Counted amongst the sexiest women in the glamour world, English model Lucy Pinder has graced the covers of some of the hottest British publications such as 'FHM,' 'Nuts,' 'Loaded,' and the 'Daily Star.' She had already been modeling for a few years when she first decided to go for topless ...
28. Susie Amy
Actress | Bonded by Blood
Susie Amy was born in London in 1981, and brought up in Surrey. Although she always studied drama, she went to academic schools all her life. An agent spotted her in 1999 when she was doing a play at the National Theatre in London - 'After Juliet' by Sharman McDonald. Over the next two years she ...
29. Hannah Spearritt
Actress | Seed of Chucky
Hannah was born on 1 April 1981 at Great Yarmouth, England. At the age of 3 she modelled in a Mothercare catalogue. At school she liked sports but at 12 she decided she wanted to be a performer. She landed a part in a local production of Annie. Hannah enjoyed it so much she decided to join the ...
30. Tara Summers
Actress | Fleishman Is in Trouble
Tara Summers is a British actress. Summers began her career as Katie Lloyd on David E. Kelley's hugely successful series Boston Legal. She has done numerous arcs on other critically acclaimed shows such as Fleishman is in Trouble, Damages, Ringer, Stalker, Evil, Dietland, Sons of Anarchy, in ...
31. Alice Eve
Actress | Before We Go
Alice Sophia Eve was born in London, England. Her father is Trevor Eve and her mother is Sharon Maughan, both fellow actors. She is the eldest of three children. Eve has English, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young as her father tried to crack ...
32. Jaime Murray
Actress | Castlevania
Jaime Murray is a British actress, activist and television producer who lives and works in Los Angeles California. Trained at Drama Centre London before playing con artist Stacie Monroe in the BBC series Hustle upon graduation in 2004. The role of Lila West in the Showtime series Dexter took her to...
33. Emily Blunt
Actress | Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
Emily Olivia Leah Blunt is a British actress known for her roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006), The Young Victoria (2009), Edge of Tomorrow (2014), and The Girl on the Train (2016), among many others.
Blunt was born on February 23, 1983, in Roehampton, South West London, England, the second of ...
34. Rebecca Hall
Actress | Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Rebecca Hall was born in London, England, the daughter of Peter Hall, a stage director and founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Maria Ewing, an opera singer. Her father was English. Her mother, who is American, is of Dutch and African-American origin. Her parents separated when she was ...
35. Anya Lahiri
Actress | Goal! III
Anya Lahiri was born on May 1, 1982 in Golders Green, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Goal! III (2009), Nature Unleashed: Tornado (2005) and I Can't Think Straight (2008).
36. Katie Leung
Actress | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Katie Leung began her career when she was cast as Cho Chang in the Warner Brothers feature film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a role she subsequently reprised for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II). Alongside her acting career, Katie ...
37. Lena Headey
Actress | 300
Lena Headey is a Bermudian-British actress. Headey is best known for her role as "Cersei Lannister" in Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-2019) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), Possession (2002), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Headey stars as "Queen Gorgo", a heroic Spartan woman in the period film, 300...
Born in Bermuda, a british oversea territory.
38. Cheryl
Actress | What to Expect When You're Expecting
Born in 1983, British singer Cheryl Cole studied dance, modeled and appeared in advertisements as a child. Her crowd-pleasing performances on Popstars: The Rivals (2002) won her membership to the pop group Girls Aloud and vaulted her into music stardom, virtually overnight. Cole has also enjoyed ...
39. Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress | Chicago
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales (and raised in the nearby town of Mumbles), the only daughter of Patricia (nee Fair) and David James "Dai" Jones, who formerly owned a sweet factory. She attended Dumbarton House School (Swansea). Her father (the son of Bertram (...
40. Felicity Jones
Actress | Rogue One
Felicity Rose Hadley Jones is an English actress and producer. Jones started her professional acting career as a child, appearing at age 12 in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She went on to play Ethel Hallow for one series in the television show The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. ...
41. Tamsin Egerton
Actress | Grimsby
Egerton attended Ditcham Park School near Petersfield in Hampshire, where she says she was bullied. She also states she truanted, preferring to go to modeling shoots. After finishing school at 16 with nine A-grade GCSEs, Egerton decided to pursue acting rather than going to university. She had a ...
42. Carey Mulligan
Actress | Never Let Me Go
Carey Hannah Mulligan is a British actress. She was born May 28, 1985, in Westminster, London, England, to Nano (Booth), a university lecturer, and Stephen Mulligan, a hotel manager. Her mother is from Llandeilo, Wales, and Carey also has Irish and English ancestry.
Her first major appearance was ...
43. Lucy Punch
Actress | Into the Woods
Lucy Punch grew up in London and was a member of the National Youth Theatre in her late teens before going to University College London to read History. While she was there she auditioned for TV roles and eventually dropped out to concentrate on acting.
She learned a lot, she says, from working on ...
44. Hazel D'Jan
Writer | The Second Appearance
She appeared in several international films. With her unique looks and mass appeal, she has found herself in much demand. Now she's well on her way to write, produce and star in many up-scale projects. She has secured herself motion pictures on a global platform. Hazel D'Jan surely has something ...
45. Ophelia Lovibond
Actress | Guardians of the Galaxy
Ophelia Lucy Lovibond is an English actress. She grew up in Shepherd's Bush, London, in a single-parent family. She was a scholarship student at Latymer Upper School. She also attended the Young Blood theatre company, a drama club for youth, in Hammersmith. She attended the University of Sussex to ...
46. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
47. Paloma Faith
Soundtrack | Youth
Paloma Faith was born Paloma Faith Blomfield on July 21, 1981 in Hackney, London, England to Pamela "Pam" Oakes-Ash & Jose Ramon Blomfield.
Faith is known for her retro and eccentric style. The singer met her managers Jamie Binns and Christian Wåhlberg in 2007. Her debut album, Do You Want the Truth...
48. Sheryl Chambers
Actress | Stonebrook
Sheryl Chambers has come a long way...literally. From the small coal mining town of her birth, outside Sheffield, England to the bright lights of Hollywood. Along the way, she passed through the capitals of Europe as a highly successful runway model. Ironicaly, Sheryl at first considered her ...
49. Talulah Riley
Actress | Westworld
Talulah Riley is an English actress. She has appeared in films such as Pride & Prejudice (2005), St. Trinian's (2007), The Boat That Rocked (2009) and Inception (2010).
She made her stage debut in The Philadelphia Story at the Old Vic in 2005. Her television credits include episodes of Poirot (...
50. Janet Montgomery
Actress | Black Swan
A native of Bournemouth in the UK, Janet Montgomery moved to London when she received a scholarship at a dance school. One of her first acting jobs was a guest star role on the critically-acclaimed UK teen drama series, Skins (2007), as Nicholas Hoult's love interest.
Upon moving to Los Angeles, ...
51. Laura Fraser
Actress | A Knight's Tale
Laura Fraser was born on 24th July 1975 and brought up in Glasgow. Her father, Alister, used to run a small building company but is now an aspiring scriptwriter; her mother, Rose, used to be a nurse but is now a college lecturer. She has an older brother who works with computers, a younger sister ...
52. Imogen Poots
Actress | Vivarium
British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer ...
53. Emilia Fox
Actress | The Pianist
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox is an English actress and presenter whose film debut was in Roman Polanski's film The Pianist. Her other films include the Italian-French-British romance-drama film The Soul Keeper (2002), for which she won the Flaiano Film Award for Best Actress; the drama film The ...
54. Louise Griffiths
Actress | Chastity Bites
Louise Griffiths was born on July 31, 1978 in Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Chastity Bites (2013), Lovesick (2014) and The Night Is Young (2019).
55. Sasha Jackson
Actress | Rich Boy, Rich Girl
British actress Sasha Jackson is primarily based in London (whilst also having Los Angeles and Atlanta bases) and travels worldwide for work commitments. Sasha has an EB1 Green Card in recognition of her talent and body of work and is a member of British Equity. Sasha has trained with some of LA's ...
56. Hayley Atwell
Actress | Captain America: The First Avenger
Born in London, England, Hayley Elizabeth Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. An only child, Hayley was named after actress Hayley Mills. Her parents, Alison (Cain) and Grant Atwell, both motivational speakers, met at a London workshop of Dale Carnegie's ...
57. Jenna Coleman
Actress | Victoria
Jenna Coleman is best known for her BAFTA-nominated performance as Clara in 'Doctor Who' and for playing the title role in ITV's Emmy-nominated series 'Victoria'. She was most recently seen in a lead role as Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the dark crime drama 'The Serpent' for BBC and Netflix opposite ...
58. Donna Air
Actress | The Split
Donna Air was born on August 2, 1979 in Newcastle, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Split (2018), Age of Kill (2015) and Hotel Babylon (2006).
59. Kimberley Nixon
Actress | Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
Kimberley Nixon was born on September 24, 1985 in Bristol, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008), Wild Child (2008) and Black Death (2010).
60. Hannah Murray
Actress | God Help the Girl
Hannah Murray is an English actress known for portraying Gilly in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) and Cassie Ainsworth in the E4 teen drama series Skins (2007), from 2007 to 2008 (and again in 2013). In 2014, Murray starred in God Help the Girl (2014). In 2015, she played Sara in the Danish ...
61. April Pearson
Actress | Skins
April Pearson is best known for her performance as Michelle Richardson in the British drama Skins (2007). April appeared in the first two series of the successful E4 show. Her film debut was in Tormented (2009) alongside her Skins co-star Larissa Wilson and star Alex Pettyfer, in which she plays a ...
62. Alice Evans
Actress | 102 Dalmatians
Alice Jane Evans was born in 1968 to David Evans, a professor of Applied Mathematics at Bristol University and Janet Evans, a teacher of English literature. Alice gained a degree in French and Italian from University College, London, and then moved to Paris where she studied acting at the Cours ...
63. Emily Bergl
Actress | The Rage: Carrie 2
Emily Bergl was born on April 25, 1975 in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999), Taken (2002) and Blue Jasmine (2013).
64. Clare Thomas
Actress | Madeline
Clare Thomas was born on April 2, 1989 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Madeline (1998), Fungus the Bogeyman (2004) and Quicksand (2003). She has been married to Tom Prosser since July 17, 2017. They have two children.
65. Michelle MacErlean
Actress | Abducted
Michelle MacErlean, born in England, is a British actress who owes her striking and versatile appearance to unusual mixed parentage.
After graduating from drama school in London, she went on to develop her craft, training in the 'Meisner Technique' at the Actors Temple London and more recently ...
66. Terri Seymour
Actress | In the Beginning
Terri Seymour was born in 1974 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for In the Beginning (2000), Material Girls (2006) and Airplane Mode (2019).
67. Indira Varma
Actress | Bride & Prejudice
Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is a British actress. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand). In September 2016, she ...
68. Sarah Parish
Actress | The Wedding Date
Sarah Parish was born on June 7, 1968 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Wedding Date (2005), The Holiday (2006) and Blackpool (2004). She has been married to James Murray since December 15, 2007. They have two children.
69. Georgia King
Actress | Vice Principals
Georgia May King (born 18 November 1986) is an Scottish actress. King is the daughter of actor Jonathan Hyde and opera singer Isobel Buchanan.
Although King grew up dreaming of being a director, she got her break into acting when she was eighteen and still working at a cheese shop, making her ...
70. Shirley Manson
Actress | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Shirley Manson was born on August 26, 1966 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008), Captain Marvel (2019) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). She has been married to Billy Bush since May 2010. She was previously married to ...
71. KT Tunstall
Actress | KT Tunstall: If Only
KT Tunstall enchants audiences and engages with every song, and that's why she continues to resonate not only among fans but throughout pop culture at large. Scotland born and now Los Angeles based, KT Tunstall emerged with her 2004 classic debut Eye to the Telescope, spawning such international ...
72. Kara Tointon
Actress | EastEnders
Standing at an average 5ft 5in, with a cheeky glint in her deep brown eyes we have Kara Tointon - a girl who is anything but average. She was brought into the world on August 5th 1983 in a large Essex town called Southend-On-Sea.. Ambitious and confident from an early age, Kara often made up her ...
73. Amanda Tapping
Actress | Stargate SG-1
Born In England, raised in Canada. BFA Acting University of Windsor. Amanda spent 12 seasons on Stargate SG-1 (1997) and its spin-offs, Stargate: Atlantis (2004) and Stargate Universe (2009), as "Samantha Carter". She then took on the lead role of "Dr. Helen Magnus" on the television series ...
Lives in Canada.
74. Jane Leeves
Actress | Frasier
Jane Leeves has made her mark in the entertainment world, acting in television, theater, and film over the past 20 years.
She is most famous for her role as "Daphne" in the award-winning show Frasier (1993). Leeves played one of the five main characters of the sitcom, a live-in physical therapist ...
75. Michelle Dockery
Actress | Downton Abbey
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey (2010-2015), for which she has been nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. She made her ...
76. Lara Pulver
Actress | Maternal
Lara was born and raised in Essex, UK. She studied drama with the NYMT and went on to gain a BA Honours degree in Theatre.
Lara's extensive theatre career led her to gain a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her portrayal of "Lucille Frank" in Rob Ashford's production of "Parade" at The Donmar ...
77. Hannah Tointon
Actress | The Children
Hannah Tointon was born on December 28, 1987 in Southend, Essex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Children (2008), Hollyoaks (1995) and Walking with the Enemy (2013).
78. Cara Seymour
Actress | Adaptation.
Cara Seymour was born on January 6, 1964 in Essex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Adaptation. (2002), American Psycho (2000) and You've Got Mail (1998).
79. Georgina Cates
Actress | An Awfully Big Adventure
Georgina Cates was born on January 14, 1975 in Colchester, Essex, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013) and Everlasting (2016).
80. Amanda Root
Actress | The Forsyte Saga
Amanda Root is an English stage and screen actress and a former voice actress for children's programs.Root is known for her starring role in the 1995 BBC film adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion, her role in the British TV comedy All About Me, as Miranda, alongside Richard Lumsden in 2004, and ...
81. Bonnie Wright
Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on February 17, 1991 to jewelers Gary Wright and Sheila Teague. Her debut performance was in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) as Ron Weasley's little sister Ginny Weasley. Bonnie tried out for the film due to her older brother Lewis mentioning she ...
82. Rosamund Pike
Actress | Gone Girl
Born in 1979 in London, England, actress Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is the only child of a classical violinist mother, Caroline (Friend), and an opera singer father, Julian Pike. Due to her parents' work, she spent her early childhood traveling around Europe. Pike attended Badminton School in ...
83. Emma Thompson
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...
84. Emily Mortimer
Actress | Mary Poppins Returns
British actress Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop). She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in West London, and it was whilst there she began acting. Mortimer moved on from ...
85. Natalia Tena
Actress | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Natalia Gastiain Tena is an English actress and musician. She played Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011).
Tena is also the lead singer and accordionist of Molotov Jukebox. The band released their debut album Carnival Flower...
86. Helen McCrory
Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress ...
87. Thandiwe Newton
Actress | Crash
Thandiwe Newton was born in London. She is the daughter of Zimbabwean mother Nyasha, a health-care worker from the Shona tribe, and British father Nick Newton, who worked as a lab technician. She lived in Zambia until political unrest caused her family to move back to the UK, where she lived in ...
88. Geri Horner
Actress | Spice World
Geraldine Estelle Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972) is an English singer, songwriter, author and actress. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the girl group the Spice Girls. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the Spice Girls are the best-selling ...
89. Anna Friel
Actress | Land of the Lost
Anna Friel is an English actress, born in Rochdale. She has been acting since the age of 13, appearing in a number of British television programmes. She made her West End stage debut in London in 2001, and has subsequently appeared on stage in several productions, including an adaptation of ...
90. Lisa Stansfield
Soundtrack | Indecent Proposal
Lisa Stansfield was born on April 11, 1966 in Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Indecent Proposal (1993), The Bodyguard (1992) and Money Talks (1997). She has been married to Ian Devaney since July 25, 1998. She was previously married to Augusto Grassi.
91. Miranda Richardson
Actress | The Crying Game
Miranda Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on March 3, 1958, to Marian Georgina (Townsend) and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive. She has one sister, eight years her senior. Her parents and sister are not involved in the performing arts. At an early age she performed...
92. Kate Ashfield
Actress | Shaun of the Dead
Most recognizable to international audiences for her lead role in Shaun of the Dead (2004), Kate Ashfield is a powerful British actress known for superlative and award-winning work in This Little Life (2003) (B.I.F.A. nomination, Best Actress), Late Night Shopping (2001) (B.I.F.A. Best Actress ...
93. Jane Horrocks
Actress | Life Is Sweet
Jane Horrocks is an actress internationally known as the zany and droll Bubble in the award winning British television sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992). She's also remembered as Miss Irvine, an evildoing witch-turned heroine in one her earliest films, The Witches (1990). She received a Golden ...
94. Maxine Peake
Actress | The Theory of Everything
Maxine Peake is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton ...
95. Amy Nuttall
Actress | Downton Abbey
Amy Abigail Nuttall is an English actress and singer known for playing Chloe Atkinson in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 until 2005, and housemaid Ethel Parks in ITV period drama Downton Abbey. Nuttall was born in Blackburn, Lancashire. She was educated at Bury Grammar School for Girls and ...
96. Rebecca Ryan
Actress | State of Play
Rebecca Ryan was born on April 27, 1991 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for State of Play (2003), Shameless (2004) and Doctors (2000).
97. Emily Beecham
Actress | Daphne
Emily Beecham was born on May 12, 1984 in Wythenshawe, Manchester, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Daphne (2017), Hail, Caesar! (2016) and The Pursuit of Love (2021).
98. Ellie Paskell
Actress | Ashes to Ashes
Ellie Paskell was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. She is known for Ashes to Ashes (2008), Waterloo Road (2006) and Children's Ward (1989).
99. Jo Hartley
Actress | Eddie the Eagle
Jo (Joanne) Victoria Hartley is an English actress born in Oldham, Lancashire.
Her acting debut was playing Gretl Von Trapp in a theatre production of 'The Sound Of Music'.
In 2002 Shane Meadows cast Jo as Marie in the Film4 cult classic movie 'Dead Man's Shoes', starring Paddy Considine and Toby ...
100. Kathryn Drysdale
Actress | Bridgerton
Kathryn Drysdale is known for playing Louise Brooks for 8 seasons in sitcom "Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps" as Taylor in "St Trinians" and as heiress Rhoda Swartz in period feature Vanity Fair . She is also well known as Lizzie in "Tripping Over" directed by Sam Miller and as Natalie in...
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