The First Law
by niall_baxter | created - 22 Oct 2018 | updated - 22 May 2019 | PublicThe HBO treatment
1. Ray Stevenson
Actor | The Three Musketeers
An imposing figure (standing at 6'3") with intense, penetrating eyes and possessed of a larger-than-life personality, the actor George Raymond Stevenson began life as one of three sons, born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, to a British pilot in the Royal Air Force. Raised near Newcastle in ...
Logen Ninefingers
2. Rupert Friend
Actor | Hitman: Agent 47
Rupert William Anthony Friend is a British actor, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), both of which won him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005)...
Sand dan Glokta
3. Adam Nagaitis
Actor | The Terror
Adam Nagaitis was born and raised in Chorley, Lancashire. At the age of 19, Adam left the UK to study acting at the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York. Following this, Adam returned to the UK to study at RADA. Out of RADA, Adam was offered a role in Yann Demanges' first feature film, the ...
Jezal dan Luthar
4. 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 ...
Bayaz
5. Rufus Sewell
Actor | Dark City
Rufus Sewell was born on the 29th of October 1967 in Twickenham, England. His mother, Jo, was Welsh, and was an artist and painter. His father, Bill Sewell, was an English-Australian animator who was born in Australia to English parents and died when Rufus was 10. He has one brother, Caspar. He ...
Collem West
6. Martha Higareda
Actress | Altered Carbon
Higareda was born in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, the daughter of actress Martha Cervantes and therapist and artist Jose Luis Higareda, and sister of actress Miriam Higareda. She began acting on stage at a very early age, along with dancing jazz, flamenco, tap and folklore. At 14, she moved to ...
Ferro Maljinn
7. Travis Fimmel
Actor | Warcraft
Travis Fimmel was born near Echuca, Victoria, Australia, to Jennie, a recreation officer for the disabled, and Chris, a cattle farmer. He was raised on a 5500-acre farm located between Melbourne and Sydney. Until the age of seventeen, his life was spent at school and working on the family farm, ...
Dogman
8. Antonia Thomas
Actress | The Good Doctor
Antonia Thomas is an English actress. She is best known for her work in the TV series Misfits, Lovesick and the The Good Doctor.
She studied for a Bachelor of Arts in acting at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2009, and then joined the National Youth Theatre.
Her acting debut was in ...
Ardee West
9. Alex Lawther
Actor | The End of the F***ing World
Alex Lawther was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England in 1995. He is known for his role as the young Alan Turing in The Imitation Game (2014) for which he won the London Film Critics' Circle Award for "Young British Performer of the Year" in January of 2015. Being the youngest of three, and the ...
Malacus Quai
10. Ralph Ineson
Actor | The VVitch: A New-England Folktale
Ralph Ineson was born on December 15, 1969 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), The Green Knight (2021) and The Creator (2023).
Tul Duru
11. Jefferson Hall
Actor | Oppenheimer
Jefferson Hall was born on December 6, 1977 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Oppenheimer (2023), Tenet (2020) and Halloween (2018).
Harding Grim
12. Malcolm McDowell
Actor | A Clockwork Orange
Malcolm John Taylor was born on June 13, 1943 in Leeds, England, to working-class parents Edna (McDowell), a hotelier, and Charles Taylor, a publican. His father was an alcoholic. Malcolm hated his parents' ways. His father was keen to send his son to private school to give him a good start in life...
Arch Lector Sult
13. Peter Mullan
Actor | The Magdalene Sisters
He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television. Fame came with the parts he played in such...
Lord Marshal Burr
14. Jason Watkins
Actor | The Crown
Jason Watkins was born on October 28, 1966 in Albrighton, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Crown (2016), Des (2020) and The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2014). He has been married to Clara Francis since January 2014. They have three children. He was previously married...
Brother Longfoot
15. Brendan Coyle
Actor | Downton Abbey
Brendan Coyle was born in Corby, Northamptonshire to an Irish father and Scottish mother; his parents moved to Corby from County Tyrone, Ireland. Brendan holds Irish citizenship and has previously lived in Dublin and London. However, according to a video clip from the site for "Rockface" he resides...
Bethod
16. Titus Welliver
Actor | The Town
Titus Welliver was born on March 12, 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a famous landscape painter, Neil Welliver. His mother was a fashion illustrator, Norma Cripps. He has three brothers, one was killed overseas. He was raised in Philadelphia and New York City, surrounded by poets and...
Rudd Threetrees
17. Toby Regbo
Actor | Mr. Nobody
Toby Regbo was born in 1991 in Hammersmith, London, England as Toby Finn Regbo. He is an actor, known for Mr. Nobody (2009), Treasure Island (2012) and One Day (2011). He is best known for his role as Prince Francis on the CW's hit TV show Reign (2013).
18. Geoff Bell
Actor | RocknRolla
Geoff Bell didn't start acting until he was 29. He enrolled in a Morley College theatre course. Since then, Geoff has gone on become one of Britain's top character actors who has appeared in over 50 movies since 2000, as well as some quality TV series. Geoff has just started to venture into writing...
19. Will Smith
Writer | Veep
Will Smith was born in 1971. He was brought up in Jersey in the Channel Islands. Beginning as a stand-up comedian he won Time Out's Comedy award for 2004 and Chortle's Best headliner for 2005. For several seasons he has also been a popular regular at the Edinburgh Fringe and in 2007 supported Ricky...
20. Timothy V. Murphy
Actor | National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Timothy V Murphy was born in County Kerry, Ireland. Murphy began his career in Dublin where he trained in the Focus Theater.
Living in Los Angeles, California; Murphy is known for his roles as Galaan in the FX hit, Sons of Anarchy and Ian Doyle in Criminal Minds.
Murphy is known for the films; ...
21. Sam Spruell
Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman
Sam Spruell was born in Southwark, London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Legend (2015) and Taken 3 (2014).
22. Nick Moran
Actor | Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Nick Moran was born on December 23, 1969 in East End, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) and The Musketeer (2001). He was previously married to Sienna Guillory.
23. Richard Thomson
Actor | Lovesick
Richard Thomson is known for Lovesick (2014), Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and World War Z (2013).
24. Johnny Harris
Actor | Jawbone
Johnny Harris first burst onto our screens in 2006 in the highly acclaimed British film London to Brighton. The film was voted into Time Out Magazine's '100 Greatest British Films of All Time' and celebrated British director Shane Meadows said of Harris' performance in the film: "It's an incredibly...
25. Tom Cullen
Actor | Weekend
Thomas Cullen is a Welsh actor and director. He had roles in the independent film Weekend (2011), as Anthony Foyle, Viscount Gillingham in the television series Downton Abbey, and as Sir Landry in the historical drama series Knightfall. Cullen was born in Aberystwyth. He is the son of two writers. ...
26. Neil Maskell
Actor | Hijack
Neil Maskell was born in 1976. From the age of eleven he attended the Anna Scher acting school in Islington in his native London and later studied at the Miskin Theatre at the North West Kent College,subsequently returning there as a director. He began acting as a teenager,making his television ...
27. Alistair Petrie
Actor | Rogue One
Alistair Petrie was born on September 30, 1970 in Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016), The Bank Job (2008) and Rush (2013). He is married to Lucy Scott. They have three children.
28. Sean Harris
Actor | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Sean Harris was born in 1966 in Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Harry Brown (2009) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).
29. Eddie Marsan
Actor | Happy-Go-Lucky
Eddie Marsan was born in Stepney, East London, to a lorry driver father and a school employee mother, and raised in Bethnal Green. He served an apprenticeship as a printer before becoming an actor twenty years ago. During this time he has worked with directors such as Martin Scorsese, Michael Mann, ...
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