My Favorite Actors and Actresses
by emilywarner15 | created - 02 Jan 2016 | updated - 02 Jan 2016 | PublicAs of 02.01.16
1. 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...
I have seen so many of her films but my particular favourites are 'Sleepy Hollow' and 'Dance With A Stranger'! She is also brilliant in 'Blackadder' and 'The Life and Times Of Vivienne Vyle'
2. Meryl Streep
Actress | Out of Africa
Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...
Amazing actress, my favourite two films with her in are 'Mamma Mia' and 'The Devil Wears Prada'!
3. 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 ...
Amazing in every film I've seen him in! I loved him in both 'Bridget Jones' film- gutted he is not going to be in the new one!
4. Joe McFadden
Actor | The Crow Road
Joe McFadden was born Joseph Martin McFadden in Glasgow, Scotland to Irish parents. He began acting at 12 years old when a talent scout from the detective show 'Taggart' visited his school, Holyrood Secondary and invited him to play the role of the son of a murder victim. He followed this with ...
So beautiful. Loved in in 'Heartbeat' once sent him a letter and he replied with a letter and an autograph for me!
5. Rik Mayall
Actor | The Young Ones
Rik Mayall, one of the first and foremost alternative comedians in the UK, was born in Matching Tye, a village just outside Harlow in Essex. His parents, John and Gillian, were both drama teachers. His acting debut was at the age of seven when he appeared in one of his father's stage plays. He met ...
One of the funniest men ever. Was so sad when he died. I have visited his memorial in Hammersmith it is absolutely amazing!
6. 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). ...
Amazing in Harry Potter!
7. Angie Harmon
Actress | Agent Cody Banks
Angela Michelle Harmon is an American actress and model from Dallas, Texas. She is known for her work on Agent Cody Banks, Baywatch Nights, Law & Order, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Women's Murder Club, Seraphim Falls and Rizzoli & Isles. She was married to Jason Sehorn and has three ...
Amazing actress - absolutely brilliant in everything I've seen her in - trying to make my way through her entire film and television repertoire but it may take a while. 'Rizzoli and Isles' is my favourite television programme - she is so good in it.
8. Sasha Alexander
Actress | Shameless
Sasha Alexander began acting by the time she was in the seventh grade when she found herself cast as the lead female in her school's production of "Baby". What she didn't know was that her male co-star would chicken out on her only a few hours before opening night. Determined to let the show go on,...
Amazing in 'Rizzoli and Isles', haven't seen her in much else yet but have just purchased season one of 'NCIS' looking forward to watching it soon!
9. Harriet Thorpe
Actress | Calendar Girls
Harriet Thorpe was born on June 8, 1957. She attended London's Central School of Speech and Drama before having success in television, playing the depressed and emotionally-unfit mother in The Brittas Empire (1991), and Fleur in Absolutely Fabulous (1992); the character first seen in Season One ...
Underrated! So funny in 'The Brittas Empire' and 'Absolutely Fabulous' I love how she seems to pop up in such a variety of others shows & films when you least expect it. For example in the deleted scenes of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One'. I hope to be able to see her perform in a musical one day.
10. Jennifer Saunders
Actress | Absolutely Fabulous
Jennifer Saunders was born July 6, 1958 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, to Jane, a biology teacher, and Robert Thomas Saunders, an RAF pilot. She attended Central School of Speech and Drama where she met her comedy partner Dawn French. Like many of the early 80s groundbreaking "alternative" comedians ...
Funniest lady ever. Seen nearly everything she's been in - and is always perfect in them. Can't wait for the 'Absolutely Fabulous' film - its going to be amazing!
11. Dawn French
Actress | French and Saunders
Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates ...
Another hilarious lady, saw her live tour in 2014 and it was genuinely one of the best nights of my life - have never laughed so much.
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