BRITISH ACTORS
by Jake279 | created - 05 Jan 2012 | updated - 19 hours ago | PublicA list of internationally known actors and actresses from the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland).
1. Kate Winslet
Actress | Titanic
Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...
Known For: Titanic, Avatar: The Way of Water, Revolutionary Road, Steve Jobs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Holiday, Collateral Beauty, Finding Neverland, Divergent, Mare of Easttown (TV Series)
2. Jude Law
Actor | The Talented Mr. Ripley
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes:...
Known For: Sherlock Holmes, Captain Marvel, Fantastic Beasts, The Talented Mr Ripley, Road to Perdition, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, The Aviator, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Holiday, Rise of the Guardians, The New Pope (TV Series), Skeleton Crew (TV Series)
3. 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 ...
Known For: Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice, The Imitation Game, Love Actually, Bend It Like Beckham, The Duchess, Atonement, Never Let Me Go, Boston Strangler, Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Jack Ryan, Misbehaviour
4. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
Known For: The Queen, Calendar Girls, RED, The Good Liar, Hitchcock, Gosford Park, Hobbs and Shaw, The One and Only Ivan, Monster's University, Barbie, Fast and Furious X, Shazam: Fury of the Gods
5. Colin Firth
Actor | A Single Man
Colin Andrew Firth was born into an academic family in Grayshott, Hampshire, England. His mother, Shirley Jean (Rolles), was a comparative religion lecturer at the Open University, and his father, David Norman Lewis Firth, lectured on history at Winchester University College (formerly King Alfred's...
Known For: The King's Speech, Mary Poppins Returns, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The English Patient, Bridget Jones Diary, Love Actually, Mama Mia, A Single Man, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Shakespeare in Love, Nanny McPhee, Girl with the Pearl Earring, 1917, Empire of Light
6. Orlando Bloom
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Orlando Jonathan Blanchard Copeland Bloom was born on January 13, 1977 in Canterbury, Kent, England. His mother, Sonia Constance Josephine Bloom (née Copeland), was born in Kolkata, India, to an English family then-resident there. The man he first knew as his father, Harry Bloom, was a legendary ...
Known For: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Pirates of the Caribbean, Black Hawk Down, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Gran Turismo, Carnival Row (TV Series)
7. 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 (...
Known For: Chicago, High Fidelity, America's Sweethearts, Ocean's Twelve, The Mask of Zorro, Intolerable Cruelty, Wednesday (TV Series), National Treasure (TV Series)
8. Ian McKellen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...
Known For: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The X-Men, The Da Vinci Code, Beauty and the Beast, The Good Liar, Mr Holmes, The Golden Compass, Last Action Hero
9. Daniel Craig
Actor | Casino Royale
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born ...
Known For: Skyfall, No Time To Die, Knives Out, Cowboys and Aliens, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Creed of Violence, Logan Lucky, Elizabeth, Road to Perdition, Layer Cake, The Golden Compass
10. Robert Pattinson
Actor | Twilight
Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...
Known For: The Batman, Tenet, The Devil All the Time, The Twilight Saga, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Remember Me, Water for Elephants, The King, Waiting for the Barbarians, The Lost City of Z, The Lighthouse
11. Tom Hardy
Actor | Inception
With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...
Known For: The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Bikeriders, Dunkirk, Venom, Lawless, Warrior, Black Hawk Down, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Locke, Child 44, Bronson, RocknRolla, Taboo (TV Series), Peaky Blinders (TV Series)
12. Daniel Day-Lewis
Actor | There Will Be Blood
Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...
Known For: There Will Be Blood, Lincoln, Gangs of New York, Nine
13. Ewan McGregor
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...
Known For: Star Wars, Doctor Sleep, Christopher Robin, Moulin Rouge, Birds of Prey, Trainspotting, Black Hawk Down, Big Fish, Beauty and the Beast, Robots, Pinocchio, The Island, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV Series)
14. Christian Bale
Actor | The Dark Knight
Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK on January 30, 1974, to English parents Jennifer "Jenny" (James) and David Bale. His mother was a circus performer and his father, who was born in South Africa, was a commercial pilot. The family lived in different countries ...
Known For: The Dark Knight, American Psycho, Ford V Ferrari, Thor: Love and Thunder, The Fighter, Vice, Empire of the Sun, American Hustle, The Big Short, The Prestige, Shaft, Equilibrium, Terminator: Salvation, Little Women, The Boy and the Heron, Pocahontas
15. 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 ...
Known For: Pearl Harbor, The Aviator, Toff Guys, Underworld, Van Helsing, Total Recall, Much Ado About Nothing, El Tonto
16. Julie Andrews
Actress | The Sound of Music
Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on October 1, 1935, in England. Her mother, Barbara Ward (Morris), and stepfather, both vaudeville performers, discovered her freakish but undeniably lovely four-octave singing voice and immediately got her a singing career. She performed in music halls throughout her...
Known For: Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Victor Victoria, The Princess Diaries, Shrek, Despicable Me, Bridgerton (TV Series)
17. Michael Caine
Actor | The Dark Knight
Michael Caine was born as Maurice Joseph Micklewhite in London, to Ellen (née Burchell), a cook, and Maurice Micklewhite Sr., a fish-market porter. He had a younger brother, Stanley Caine, and an older maternal half-brother named David Burchell. He left school at age 15 and took a series of ...
Known For: Dirty Harry, Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy, Tenet, Interstellar, Dunkirk, The Italian Job, Alfie, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Now You See Me, Miss Congeniality, The Muppet Christmas Carol
18. 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. ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Cruella, Saving Mr Banks, Love Actually, Sense and Sensibility, Beauty and the Beast, Last Christmas, Nanny McPhee, Men in Black, Much Ado About Nothing, Matilda
19. Hugh Grant
Actor | Love Actually
Hugh Grant, one of Britain's best known faces, has been equally entertaining on-screen as well as in real life, and has had enough sense of humor to survive a media frenzy. He is known for his roles in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), with Andie MacDowell, Notting Hill (1999), opposite Julia ...
Known For: Bridget Jones Diary, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Dungeons and Dragons, The Gentlemen, Love Actually, About a Boy, Paddington 2, A Very English Scandal (TV Series), The Undoing (TV Series)
20. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
Known For: James Bond, Artemis Fowl, Pride and Prejudice, Murder on the Orient Express, Cats
21. Gary Oldman
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...
Known For: Harry Potter, The Dark Knight trilogy, Darkest Hour, Bram Stocker's Dracula, Oppenheimer, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Squadron 42, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Fifth Element, Hannibal, The Woman in the Window, Dreamland, Child 44, Lawless
22. Anthony Hopkins
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...
Known For: The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Thor: Ragnarok, Beowolf, Hitchcock, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, The Father, The Two Popes, Transformers: The Last Knight, Westworld (TV Series)
23. 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 ...
Known For: The Great Gatsby, Promising Young Woman, Maestro, Saltburn, An Education, Pride and Prejudice, Shame, Drive, Never Let Me Go, Bernstein
24. Henry Cavill
Actor | Man of Steel
Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill was born on the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands. His mother, Marianne (Dalgliesh), a housewife, was also born on Jersey, and is of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Henry's father, Colin Richard Cavill, a stockbroker, is of ...
Known For: Man of Steel, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Argylle, Squadron 42, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, Elona Holmes, The Tudors (TV Series), The Witcher (TV Series)
25. Ben Kingsley
Actor | Sexy Beast
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during ...
Known For: Gandhi, Schindler's List, Shutter Island, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Shang-Cho and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The Jungle Book, War Machine, Dali Land, Iron Man 3
26. 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 ...
Known For: Fight Club, The King's Speech, Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd, Ocean's 8, Planet of the Apes, Cinderella, Dark Shadows, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Lone Ranger, Enola Holmes, The Crown (TV Series)
27. 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. ...
Known For: The Mummy, Black Widow, The Favourite, About a Boy, The Bourne Legacy, Oz the Great and Powerful, The Lovely Bones, Constantine
28. Tilda Swinton
Actress | We Need to Talk About Kevin
The iconoclastic gifts of the highly striking and ferociously talented actress Tilda Swinton have been appreciated by art house crowds and international audiences alike. After her stunning Oscar-winning turn as a high-powered corporate attorney in the George Clooney starring and critically-lauded ...
Known For: The Chronicles of Narnia, Doctor Strange, Avengers: Endgame, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Beach, Suspiria, The French Dispatch, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Vanilla Sky, Three Thousand Year of Longing, Constantine, Isle of Dogs, Snowpiercer
29. Ralph Fiennes
Actor | The Constant Gardener
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...
Known For: Harry Potter, No Time To Die, The King's Man, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Menu, The Lego Batman Movie, The English Patient, Maid in Manhattan, Kubo and the Two Strings
30. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
Known For: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, The Hobbit, The Imitation Game, Avengers: Infinity War, Star Trek: Into Darkness, 12 Years a Slave, 1917, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, War Horse, Spider-man: No Way Home, Black Mass, Atonement, The Fifth Estate, The Other Boleyn Girl, August: Osage County, The Grinch, Sherlock (TV Series)
31. Emily Blunt
Actress | 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 ...
Known For: A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, Edge of Tomorrow, Jungle Cruise, Oppenheimer, Sicario, The Devil Wears Prada, The Girl on the Train, Looper, The Adjustment Bureau, Into the Woods, The Young Victoria
32. Laurence Olivier
Actor | Sleuth
Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...
Known For: Clash of the Titans, Spartacus, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, Wuthering Heights
33. Andy Serkis
Actor | War for the Planet of the Apes
English film actor, director and author Andy Serkis is known for his performance capture roles comprising motion capture acting, animation and voice work for such computer-generated characters as Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001-2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), ...
Known For: Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Star Wars, War for the Planet of the Apes, Black Panther, The Batman, King Kong, Arthur Christmas, 13 Going on 30
34. Emma Watson
Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...
Known For: Harry Potter, Little Women, Beauty and the Beast, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, The Bling Ring
35. Andrew Garfield
Actor | Hacksaw Ridge
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, ...
Known For: The Amazing Spider-man, Spider-man: No Way Home, The Social Network, Tick Tick Boom, We Live in Time, Voyagers, Hacksaw Ridge, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Never Let Me Go, Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Series)
36. Olivia Colman
Actress | The Favourite
Olivia Colman was born on January 30, 1974 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for The Favourite (2018), Tyrannosaur (2011) and The Lost Daughter (2021). She has been married to Ed Sinclair since August 2001. They have three children.
Known For: The Favourite, The Iron Lady, Wonka, Murder on the Orient Express, Paddington in Peru, Hot Fuzz, Fleabag (TV Series), The Crown (TV Series), The Night Manager (TV Series), Heartstopper (TV Series), Secret Invasion (TV Series)
37. Martin Freeman
Actor | Black Panther
Martin Freeman is an English actor, known for portraying Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Tim Canterbury in the original UK version of sitcom mockumentary The Office (2001), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama Sherlock (2010) and Lester Nygaard in the dark ...
Known For: The Hobbit, Black Panther, Captain America: Civil War, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Sherlock (TV Series), Fargo (TV Series)
38. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
Known For: The X-Men, IT: Chapter Two, Atomic Blonde, Glass, Split, Wanted, Atonement, The Last King of Scotland, Trance, Arthur Christmas, Shameless (TV Series), His Dark Materials (TV Series)
39. Tom Holland
Actor | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and ...
Known For: Spider-man: No Way Home, Infinity War, Endgame, Onward, Uncharted, The Devil All the Time, Cherry, Spies in Disguise, The Lost City of Z, Dolittle, The Impossible, Chaos Walking
40. Sally Hawkins
Actress | The Shape of Water
Sally Cecilia Hawkins was born in 1976 in Lewisham hospital, London, England, to Jacqui and Colin Hawkins, authors and illustrators of children's books. She is of English and Irish descent. Hawkins was brought up in Greenwich, in southeast London. She attended James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich...
Known For: The Shape of Water, Wonka, Godzilla, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Paddington, An Education, Never Let Me Go, Maudie
41. Patrick Stewart
Actor | Logan
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...
Known For: The X-Men, Logan, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Charlie's Angels, Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series), American Dad (TV Series), Picard (TV Series)
42. 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 ...
Known For: Gone Girl, Saltburn, Pride and Prejudice, An Education, A Private War, The World's End, Jack Reacher, A United Kingdom, Die Another Day, The Wheel of Time (TV Series)
43. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
Known For: The Avengers, Thor: Ragnarok, Kong: Skull Island, Crimson Peak, The Night Manager (TV Series), Loki (TV Series)
44. Maggie Smith
Actress | Gosford Park
One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Hook, Sister Act, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Nanny McPhee, The Secret Garden, Downton Abbey (TV Series)
45. Mark Strong
Actor | 1917
British actor Mark Strong, who played Jim Prideaux in the 2011 remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), is often cast as cold, calculating villains. But before he became a famous actor, he intended to pursue a career in law.
Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London, England, to an ...
Known For: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Shazam!, The Imitation Game, 1917, Atlas, The Forgiven, Kick-Ass, RocknRolla, Zero Dark Thirty, Stardust, Revolver, John Carter, Green Lantern, The Penguin (TV Series)
46. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
Known For: Fantastic Beasts, The Theory of Everything, Les Misérables, The Danish Girl, The Trial of the Chicago Seven, The Good Nurse (TV Series)
47. Vanessa Kirby
Actress | The Crown
Vanessa Kirby is an English stage, TV, and film actress. From 2016 to 2018, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series in 2018. She starred as Estella in the BBC ...
Known For: Fantastic Four, Mission Impossible: Fallout, Hobbs and Shaw, Napoleon, The World to Come, The Crown (TV Series)
48. Angela Lansbury
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...
Known For: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Murder She Wrote (TV Series)
49. Tim Curry
Actor | Congo
Timothy James Curry was born on April 19, 1946 in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England. His mother, Maura Patricia (Langmead), was a school secretary, and his father, James Curry, was a Methodist Royal Navy chaplain. Curry studied Drama and English at Birmingham University, from which he graduated with ...
Known For: The Rocky Horror Picture Show, IT, Annie, Home Alone 2, Muppet Treasure Island
50. Jamie Dornan
Actor | The Fall
Jamie Dornan was born on May 1, 1982 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Fall (2013), A Private War (2018) and Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021). He has been married to Amelia Warner since April 27, 2013. They have three children.
Known For: Fifty Shades of Grey, Belfast, A Haunting in Venice, The Siege of Jadotville, Robin Hood, A Private War, Borderland, The Tourist (TV Series)
51. Dan Stevens
Actor | Downton Abbey
Dan Stevens was born at Croydon in Surrey on 10th October 1982. His parents are teachers. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained in acting at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Whilst he was a Cambridge undergraduate, ...
Known For: Beauty and the Beast, The Guest, Godzilla x Kong, Abigail, Apostle, Night at the Museum, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, Legion (TV Series), Solar Opposites (TV Series), Downton Abbey (TV Series), Immigrant (TV Series)
52. Mark Rylance
Actor | Bridge of Spies
Mark Rylance was born in Ashford, Kent, the son of Anne (née Skinner) and David Waters, both English teachers. His grandmother was Irish. His parents moved to Connecticut in 1962 and Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance attended this ...
Known For: Dunkirk, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, Bridge of Spies, Ready Player One, The BFG, Don’t Look Up, Bones and All
53. Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress | The Queen's Gambit
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...
Known For: Furiosa, Last Night in Soho, The Menu, The Super Mario Bros Movie, Dune: Part II, The Gorge, The Northman, Emma, Amsterdam, Split, The Queen's Gambit (TV Series), Peaky Blinders (TV Series), The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series)
54. Cary Grant
Actor | North by Northwest
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."
Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...
Known For: North by Northwest, An Affair to Remember, The Philadelphia Story, Penny Serenade, None But the Lonely Heart, Bringing Up Baby
55. Bob Hoskins
Actor | The Long Good Friday
Bob Hoskins was described by the director John Mackenzie as "an actor from the British tradition but with an almost American approach, an instinctive approach to acting and knowing how to work with the camera". He was born on October 26, 1942, in Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, where his mother was ...
Known For: Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mermaids, Hook, Mona Lisa, Maid in Manhattan
56. Christopher Lee
Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee was perhaps the only actor of his generation to have starred in so many films and cult saga. Although most notable for personifying bloodsucking vampire, Dracula, on screen, he portrayed other varied characters on screen, most of which were villains, whether it ...
Known For: The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Dark Shadows, Hugo, The Golden Compass, Gremlins 2
57. Jeremy Irons
Actor | Dead Ringers
British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...
Known For: The Lion King, Die Hard, The Man in the Iron Mask, Batman Vs Superman, Assassins Creed, Red Sparrow
58. Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Actor | Kick-Ass
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is an English stage, television, and film actor.
He was born Aaron Perry Johnson in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to Sarah and Robert Johnson, a civil engineer. He has a sister, Gemma Johnson, who had a small role in his movie Tom & Thomas (2002). Aaron is of ...
Known For: Tenet, Bullet Train, The King's Man, Kraven the Hunter, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Fall Guy, Nosferatu, Kick Ass, Godzilla, Rothko, Nowhere Boy, Noctural Animals, Outlaw King
59. Simon Pegg
Actor | The World's End
English actor, writer, and comedian Simon Pegg was born Simon John Beckingham in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, to Gillian Rosemary (Smith), a civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician. His parents divorced when he was seven. He later took his stepfather's surname "Pegg." He was ...
Known For: Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Ready Player One, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Ice Age: Collision Course, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series), Ice Age: Adventures of Buck Wild (TV Series)
60. Julie Walters
Actress | Billy Elliot
For decades, British actress and comedienne Dame Julie Walters has served as a sturdy representation of the working class with her passionate, earthy portrayals on England's stage, screen and television. A bona fide talent, her infectious spirit and self-deprecating sense of humor eventually ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Billy Elliott, Mama Mia, Mary Poppins Returns, Paddington, Calendar Girls
61. Paul Bettany
Actor | WandaVision
Paul Bettany is an English actor. He first came to the attention of mainstream audiences when he appeared in the British film Gangster No. 1 (2000), and director Brian Helgeland's film A Knight's Tale (2001). He has gone on to appear in a wide variety of films, including A Beautiful Mind (2001), ...
Known For: The Avengers, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Da Vinci Code, A Knight's Tale, WandaVision (TV Series)
62. Florence Pugh
Actress | The Falling
Florence Pugh is an English actress. She is known for Midsommar (2019), Little Women (2019), her MCU debut Black Widow (2021), and Fighting with My Family (2019).
Pugh made her film debut in The Falling (2014). She also appears in Lady Macbeth (2016), Outlaw King (2018), Malevolent (2018), and the ...
Known For: Black Widow, Thunderbolts, Little Women, Midsommar, Oppenheimer, Dune: Part 2, Don't Worry Darling, Fighting With My Family, Outlaw King, The Boy and the Heron, Hawkeye (TV Series), Marcella (TV Series)
63. Richard Attenborough
Actor | Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...
Known For: Jurassic Park, Miracle on 34th Street, Gandhi, Elizabeth
64. Taron Egerton
Actor | Kingsman: The Secret Service
Taron Egerton is a British actor and singer, known for his roles in the British television series The Smoke, the 2014 action comedy film Kingsman: The Secret Service, and the film Rocketman (2019). He has also played Edward Brittain in the 2014 drama film Testament of Youth, appeared in the 2015 ...
Known For: Kingsman: The Secret Service, Rocketman, Carry On, Tetris, Sing, Robin Hood, Eddie the Eagle, The Blackbird (TV Series), The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (TV Series)
65. Bill Nighy
Actor | Love Actually
Bill Nighy is an award-winning British character actor. He was born William Francis Nighy on December 12, 1949 in Caterham, Surrey, England, to Catherine Josephine (Whittaker), a psychiatric nurse from Glasgow, and Alfred Martin Nighy, who was English-born and managed a garage in Croydon.
At school,...
Known For: Pirates of the Caribbean, Detective Pikachu, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Underworld, Love Actually, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead
66. Rhys Ifans
Actor | The Amazing Spider-Man
Rhys Ifans was born and raised in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the son of teacher parents, Beti Wyn (Davies) and Eirwyn Evans. He was educated in two Welsh language schools - Ysgol Pentrecelyn, where his mother taught, and Ysgol Maes Garmon. During his childhood, Ifans showed an interest in...
Known For: Notting Hill, The Amazing Spider-man, Spider-man: No Way Home, Harry Potter, The King's Man, Nanny McPhee, Alice Through the Looking Glass, House of the Dragon (TV Series)
67. Kristin Scott Thomas
Actress | Gosford Park
The acclaimed Cornish actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to Deborah (Hurlbatt) and Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas. Her father was a pilot for the British Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964. Her stepfather, Lt. Cdr Simon Idiens, was also a pilot, ...
Known For: The English Patient, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Darkest Hour, Nowhere Boy, Only God Forgives, Tomb Raider
68. Nicholas Hoult
Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road
Nicholas Hoult was born on December 7, 1989 in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, UK as Nicholas Caradoc Hoult. His parents are Glenis Hoult, a piano teacher and Roger Hoult, a pilot. He has three siblings, two sisters and one brother. His great-aunt was one of the most popular actresses of her time, ...
Known For: Superman, X-Men, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mission Impossible 7, The Menu, The True History of the Kelly Gang, The Favourite, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Banker, Tolkien, About A Boy, Warm Bodies, Skins (TV Series)
69. Alan Rickman
Actor | Die Hard
Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Die Hard, Love Actually
70. 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 ...
Known For: King Kong, Birdman, Vice, The Ring, Boss Level, Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Diana, Twin Peaks (TV Series)
71. Jason Statham
Actor | Crank
Jason Statham was born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire, to Eileen (Yates), a dancer, and Barry Statham, a street merchant and lounge singer. He was a Diver on the British National Diving Team and finished twelfth in the World Championships in 1992. He has also been a fashion model, black market salesman ...
Known For: Fast and Furious, The Meg, Hobbs and Shaw, The Expendables, Transporter, Spy
72. Julie Christie
Actress | Doctor Zhivago
Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Dragonheart, Finding Neverland
73. Timothy Spall
Actor | Mr. Turner
Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Mr Turner, The King's Speech, Vanilla Sky, Enchanted, Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonderland
74. Chiwetel Ejiofor
Actor | 12 Years a Slave
English actor, writer and director Chiwetel Ejiofor is renowned for his portrayal of Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, along with the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He is also known for playing Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things...
Known For: 12 Years a Slave, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Lion King, The Martian, Love Actually, Salt, American Gangster, Children of Men, Infinite, Serenity, 2012
75. John Hurt
Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four
One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Alien, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, V for Vendetta, The Skeleton Key, Spaceballs, The Elephant Man, 1984, Hellboy, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
76. Matthew Rhys
Actor | A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood
Matthew Rhys Evans is a Welsh actor. He is known for playing Kevin Walker in Brothers & Sisters (2006-2011) and Philip Jennings in The Americans (2013-2018), for which he received two Golden Globe Award nominations and a Primetime Emmy Award. In film, he appeared as Dylan Thomas in the film The ...
Known For: The Post, The Torture Report, You Are My Friend, Mowgli, The Americans (TV Series), Brothers and Sisters (TV Series), Perry Mason (TV Series)
77. Elizabeth Taylor
Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...
Known For: Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, A Place in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, Butterfield 8, National Velvet
78. Idris Elba
Actor | Beasts of No Nation
An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...
Known For: The Suicide Squad, Hobbs and Shaw, Thor: Ragnarok, The Jungle Book, Finding Dory, Star Trek: Beyond, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, The Dark Tower, Pacific Rim, Beasts of No Nation, The Harder They Fall, Luthor (TV Series)
79. Joseph Quinn
Actor | Stranger Things
Joseph Quinn was born on January 26, 1994. He is an actor, known for Stranger Things (2016), Overlord (2018) and Dickensian (2015).
Known For: Fantastic Four, Gladiator 2, A Quiet Place: Day One, Warfare, Stranger Things (TV Series)
80. Jim Broadbent
Actor | Moulin Rouge!
One of England's most versatile character actors, Jim Broadbent was born on May 24, 1949, in Lincolnshire, the youngest son of furniture maker Roy Laverick Broadbent and sculptress Doreen "Dee" (Findlay) Broadbent. Jim attended a Quaker boarding school in Reading before successfully applying for a ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Moulin Rouge, The Iron Lady, Bridget Jones Diary, The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, Paddington, The Borrowers
81. Ian McDiarmid
Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Ian McDiarmid was born on August 11, 1944 in Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland. He studied for a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, but eventually found that his calling was in theatre. He went to the Royal Academy in Glasgow, where he received the prestigious gold...
Known For: Star Wars, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Sleepy Hollow, Britannia (TV Series)
82. Jason Isaacs
Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool. He studied law at Bristol University but fell in love with the theatre and directed, produced and appeared in dozens of productions there, at the National Student Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival. He graduated in 1985 but then attended the Royal ...
Known For: Harry Potter, Black Hawk Down, Armageddon, A Cure for Wellness, Dragonheart, Peter Pan, Star Trek Discovery (TV Series)
83. John Cleese
Actor | A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...
Known For: Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda, The World is Not Enough, Harry Potter, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Charlie's Angels II, Shrek, Trolls
84. Tim Roth
Actor | Rob Roy
Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to ...
Known For: Pulp Fiction, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hateful Eight, Planet of the Apes, The Incredible Hulk, She-Hulk (TV Series)
85. Matthew Macfadyen
Actor | Succession
David Matthew Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Meinir (Owen), a drama teacher and actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil executive. He is of Scottish and Welsh descent. Because of his father's career, he spent at least part of his childhood in Indonesia, before finishing his ...
Known For: Pride and Prejudice, Deadpool and Wolverine, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Frost/Nixon, Robin Hood, Death at a Funeral, Succession (TV Series)
86. Rex Harrison
Actor | My Fair Lady
Rex Harrison was born Reginald Carey Harrison in Huyton, Lancashire, England, to Edith Mary (Carey) and William Reginald Harrison, a cotton broker. He changed his name to Rex as a young boy, knowing it was the Latin word for "King". Starting out on his theater career at age 18, his first job at the ...
Known For: My Fair Lady, Cleopatra, Doctor Dolittle
87. Theo James
Actor | Divergent
Theo James was born on December 16, 1984 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom as Theodore Peter James Kinnaird Taptiklis. He is an actor, known for his role as Tobias "Four" Eaton in the films Divergent (2014), The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) and Allegiant (2016). He is also known...
Known For: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant, The Gentlemen, Underworld, The White Lotus (TV Series)
88. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
Known For: 101 Dalmatians, Dennis the Menace, Bringing Down the House
89. Richard Burton
Actor | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Probably best-remembered for his turbulent personal life with Elizabeth Taylor (whom he married twice), Richard Burton was nonetheless also regarded as an often brilliant British actor of the post-WWII period.
Burton was born Richard Walter Jenkins in 1925 into a Welsh (Cymraeg)-speaking family in ...
Known For: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Exorcist 2
90. Gerard Butler
Actor | 300
Gerard James Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, to Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. His family is of Irish origin. Gerard spent some of his very early childhood in Montreal, Quebec, but was mostly raised, along with his older brother and sister, in his hometown of Paisley. His parents ...
Known For: 300, Law Abiding Citizen, RocknRolla, Machine Gun Preacher, London Has Fallen, The Bounty Hunter
91. David Thewlis
Actor | Naked
David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and...
Known For: Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, Avatar 2, Avatar 3, The Theory of Everything, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
92. Andrea Riseborough
Actress | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Andrea Louise Riseborough is an English actress and producer. She made her film debut with a small part in Venus (2006), and has since appeared in more prominent roles in Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Never Let Me Go, Brighton Rock, Made in Dagenham (all 2010), W.E. (2011), Shadow Dancer, Disconnect (both...
Known For: Birdman, To Leslie, Amsterdam, Oblivion, The Grudge, Nocturnal Animals, Never Let Me Go, Matilda, The Regime (TV Series)
93. Alfred Molina
Actor | Spider-Man 2
Alfred Molina was born in 1953 in London, England. His mother, Giovanna (Bonelli), was an Italian-born cook and cleaner, and his father, Esteban Molina, was a Spanish-born waiter and chauffeur. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. His stage work includes two major Royal ...
Known For: Spider-man 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Spider-man: No Way Home, The Da Vinci Code, An Education, Boogie Nights, Rango, Prince of Persia, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Ladyhawke
94. Jonathan Bailey
Actor | Bridgerton
Jonathan Stuart Bailey is an English actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he began his career as a child performer in Royal Shakespeare Company productions when he was seven years old, and by eight was performing as Gavroche in a West End production of Les Misérables. Since then, he has ...
Known For: Wicked, Squadron 42, Bridgerton (TV Series), Fellow Travellers (TV Series), Chewing Gum (TV Series), Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (TV Series),
95. Toby Jones
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Toby has two brothers: Rupert, ...
Known For: Captain America, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Christopher Robin, Atomic Blonde, The Hunger Games, Infinite, Snow White and the Huntsman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
96. Michael Sheen
Actor | Masters of Sex
Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus".
Sheen was born in Newport, Wales...
Known For: The Queen, Blood Diamond, Passengers, Nocturnal Animals, The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, The Twilight Saga, Underworld, Tron: Legacy
97. Daisy Edgar-Jones
Actress | Normal People
Born in 1998 and raised in London, Daisy trained with the National Youth Theatre before landing her first professional job at 17, playing the regular role of Olivia in the returning British series Cold Feet alongside James Nesbitt and Hermione Norris for ITV. Daisy has since gone on to build a ...
Known For: Twisters, On Swift Horses, Fresh, Voyagers, Where the Crawdads Sing, Normal People (TV Series)
98. Clive Owen
Actor | Children of Men
British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...
Known For: Gemini Man, Closer, The Bourne Identity, Sin City, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, Children of Men
99. 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 ...
Known For: Solo: A Star Wars Story, Reminiscence, Mission Impossible II, Interview with the Vampire, The Chronicles of Riddick, Crash, 2012, RocknRolla, Westworld (TV Series), Line of Duty (TV Series)
100. Mia Goth
Actress | Pearl
Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth, also known by her nickname Brush Cut, was born October 25, 1993 in Southwark, London, England to a Brazilian mother and a Canadian father.
Aged 14, she was discovered at the Underage Festival in London by fashion photographer Gemma Booth, who signed her to Storm Model ...
Known For: Blade, Frankenstein, Infinity Pool, X, Pearl, Suspiria, MaXXXine, A Cure for Wellness, Emma
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