My favorite British actors and actresses

1. Tobias Menzies

Tobias was born in London. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1998 and began his acting career in popular UK series such as Foyle's War (2002), Midsomer Murders (1997), and Casualty (1986). He also appeared in the controversial drama A Very Social Secretary (2005). He is ...

2. Oliver Chris

Actor | King Charles III

Oliver was born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. After studying there since 1997, he graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 2000 and he soon appeared in the BBC big-budget adaptation of the classic novel Lorna Doone (2000). He followed this with another BBC Show, The Office (...

3. Mark Gatiss

Actor | The League of Gentlemen

Mark Gatiss is an accomplished author, actor and playwright. Originally from Sedgefield, County Durham, he graduated from Bretton Hall Drama College with a BA (honors) in Theatre Arts.

He was one-quarter of the award-winning comedy team The League of Gentlemen (1999), and became heavily involved in ...

4. James Norton

Actor | Little Women

James Norton was born in 1985 to two teachers and has a younger sister who is a doctor. Growing up in North Yorkshire he espoused acting at a very early age - playing Joseph in his primary school nativity play aged five - and, after leaving Ampleforth College he did work experience at the Stephen ...

5. Robson Green

Actor | Touching Evil

Robson Golightly Green was born on 18 December 1964 in Hexham, Northumberland, England, to Robson and Ann Green. He has two sisters, Dawn and Joanna; a wife, Vanya Seager; and a son (born in 2000). He began his TV/film career on Casualty (1986) as hospital porter Jimmy Powell. He then appeared in ...

6. Anton Lesser

Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

British actor Anton Lesser (b. 1952) has played many of the principal Shakespearian roles for the Royal Shakespeare Company (Associate Artist since 1990), including Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III. He is very active in radio (BBC) and spoken word audio. Over a dozen recordings range from Paradise ...

7. Martin Clunes

Actor | Shakespeare in Love

Martin Clunes was born the son of the noted Shakespearean actor Alec Clunes. He was educated at the Royal Russell School in Surrey and the Arts Educational School in Chiswick, London. He made his television debut playing an alien prince opposite Peter Davison in Doctor Who: Snakedance: Part One (...

8. Mackenzie Crook

Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Mackenzie Crook, one of British comedy's best-known faces, who collected Star Wars figurines as a child, is now immortalized in plastic as a six-inch-high pirate action figure. He was born Paul Mackenzie Crook on September 29, 1971, in Maidstone, Kent, England, UK. His father worked for British ...

9. Richard Coyle

Actor | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Richard Coyle was born and raised in Sheffield, in the UK with his four brothers. He began his career when, studying languages and the history of art at York University (1992 - 1995), he got interested in student drama and traveled to the Edinburgh festival twice.

A decision to raise funds to study ...

10. 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...

11. Iain Glen

Actor | Game of Thrones

Iain Glen is a Scottish actor, born June 24, 1961, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, an independent school for boys (now co-educational), followed by the University of Aberdeen. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he was the winner of the ...

12. Kevin McNally

Actor | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Kevin McNally was born on April 27, 1956, in Bristol, England. He grew up in Birmingham where he attended Redhill and Mapledene Junior schools and Central Grammar School for Boys. At the age of 16, he got his first job at Birmingham Repertory Theatre. A year later he received a scholarship to the ...

13. Peter Davison

Actor | Doctor Who

Peter Davison was born as Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett on 13 April 1951 in Streatham, London. A decade later, he and his family - his parents, Sheila and Claude (an electrical engineer who hailed from British Guiana), and his sisters, Barbara, Pamela and Shirley, moved to Knaphill, Woking, Surrey, ...

14. Nicholas Woodeson

Actor | Skyfall

Nicholas - or Nick - Woodeson, born in 1949 in Port Sudan, Sudan to British parents - spent his early childhood in Haifa, Israel, in line with his parents' diplomatic postings. He recalls that his first taste of thespian glory was reciting A.A. Milne poems to family friends at the age of six. ...

15. Kit Harington

Actor | Game of Thrones

Kit Harington was born Christopher Catesby Harington in Acton, London, to Deborah Jane (Catesby), a former playwright, and David Richard Harington, a businessman. His mother named him after 16th-century British playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe, whose first name was shortened to Kit, a name ...

16. Peter Vaughan

Actor | Straw Dogs

A true character actor in the best sense of the word, offbeat British thespian Peter Vaughan's hefty frame could appear intimidating or benevolent; his mere presence menacing or avuncular. Adept at playing both sides of the law, his characters usually possessed a strange, somewhat wary countenance ...

17. Ron Cook

Actor | Hot Fuzz

Ron Cook was born on December 1, 1948 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Hot Fuzz (2007), Chocolat (2000) and Thunderbirds (2004).

18. Nigel Lindsay

Actor | Four Lions

Nigel Lindsay was born on 17th January 1969 and entered into the world of acting comparatively late. For three years he was a financial analyst in the City in his native London but, on his own admission, hated it and applied almost simultaneously for the law and the stage. He had a place at bar ...

19. Owen Teale

Actor | Robin Hood

While in his teens, Owen Teale occasionally worked at Porthcawl Little Theatre. In September 1980 he was accepted by the Guildford School of Acting and by Christmas of 1983 had obtained his Equity card. His first proper work was as a dancer in the musical "Cabaret" in Plymouth, Devon. Subsequently ...

20. Jonny Lee Miller

Actor | Æon Flux

Jonny (sometimes credited as Johnny) Lee Miller was born on November 15, 1972, in Kingston, England, UK. He is the son of actors Anna Lee and Alan Miller and the grandson of actor Bernard Lee. After appearing in many high school plays at his selective state grammar school, Jonny dropped out at 17 ...

21. 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 ...

22. Rory McCann

Actor | Game of Thrones

Six foot six inches tall, with brown eyes and dark hair, Rory McCann from Glasgow began his working life at the top - as a painter on the Forth Bridge in Scotland. He came to notice in a television commercial for Scotts' Porridge Oats, in which he appeared as a scantily-clad hunk in a vest and kilt...

23. Gary Lewis

Actor | Billy Elliot

Gary Lewis was born in 1958 in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Billy Elliot (2000), Gangs of New York (2002) and Valhalla Rising (2009).

24. Paul Copley

Actor | Downton Abbey

Paul Copley was born on November 25, 1944 in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Downton Abbey (2010), Queer as Folk (1999) and Enola Holmes (2020). He has been married to Natasha Pyne since July 6, 1972.

25. Jared Harris

Actor | Chernobyl

Jared Francis Harris was born in London, England. He is the son of Irish actor Richard Harris and Welsh actress Elizabeth Harris (Elizabeth Rees), and brother of Damian Harris and Jamie Harris. Despite his lineage, Jared showed little interest in becoming an actor, until he was cast in a college ...

26. James Fleet

Actor | Four Weddings and a Funeral

James Fleet was born on March 11, 1952 in Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), The Phantom of the Opera (2004) and Sense and Sensibility (1995). He has been married to Jane Booker since 1984. They have one child.

27. Kevin Doyle

Actor | Downton Abbey

Kevin Doyle is an English actor. He was born in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England in 1961. He is better known as the perpetually unlucky butler-turned-footman Molesley in Downton Abbey (2010). He has appeared in shows such as Happy Valley (2014), Scott & Bailey (2011), and the 2016 ITV TV ...

28. Jim Carter

Actor | Transformers: The Last Knight

Jim Carter was born on August 19, 1948 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Downton Abbey (2019). He has been married to Imelda Staunton since October 1983. They have one child.

29. Peter Egan

Actor | The Wedding Date

Peter Egan was born on September 28, 1946 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for The Wedding Date (2005), Chariots of Fire (1981) and Lillie (1978). He was previously married to Myra Frances.

30. Phil Davis

Actor | Vera Drake

Phil Davis was born on July 30, 1953 in Grays, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Vera Drake (2004), Bleak House (2005) and Alien³ (1992). He has been married to Eve Matheson since 2002. They have one child.

31. Rupert Penry-Jones

Actor | Spooks

Rupert Penry-Jones was born on September 22, 1970 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for MI-5 (2002), Match Point (2005) and The Four Feathers (2002). He has been married to Dervla Kirwan since August 2007. They have two children.

32. John Heffernan

Actor | Eye in the Sky

John was born in Billericay in Essex in 1981 to a couple of teachers, one of four brothers. He became interested in theatre as a young boy watching The Animated Shakespeare Tales on television and, when his parents separated and he moved with his mother to a village near to Stratford-on-Avon he ...

33. Jack Parry-Jones

Actor | Hijack

Jack Parry-Jones is a Welsh actor known for The Crown (2019), Moon Dogs (2016) and Our Girl (2016). Born in Merthyr Tydfil in the Welsh Valleys, Jack went on to study at RADA. In 2017, Jack won multiple awards for his leading role in the independent film and festival favorite, Moon Dogs. This ...

34. Jason Maza

Producer | The Little Princess

Jason Maza was born on April 24, 1987 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Little Princess (2018), Outside Bet (2012) and Welcome to the Punch (2013).

35. Tom Hughes

Actor | Cemetery Junction

Cheshire-born - in 1986 - Tom Hughes attended Upton High School and even before going to RADA had a wealth of acting experience with the Cheshire Youth Theatre, the Jigsaw Music Group, the Liverpool Everyman Youth Theatre and the Belgian company Victoria. He even managed to find time to play in a ...

36. Michael Maloney

Actor | The Young Victoria

Michael Maloney was born on June 19, 1957 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Young Victoria (2009), Henry V (1989) and Notes on a Scandal (2006).

37. Alun Armstrong

Actor | The Mummy Returns

Alun Armstrong is a British actor who is known for playing Cardinal Jinette from the Van Helsing franchise, Baltus Hafez from The Mummy Returns, Uncle Garrow from Eragon, the High Constable from Sleepy Hollow and Maxwell Randall from Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire. He is married to Sue ...

38. Douglas Reith

Actor | Downton Abbey

Douglas Reith is known for Downton Abbey (2010), The Queen (2006) and Agatha Raisin (2014).

39. Mark Lewis Jones

Actor | Gangs of London

Mark Lewis Jones is a Welsh actor heavily trained on the theatrical stage. Jones trained at two acting institutions including the Clwyd Youth Theatre as a teenager and then also at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He found stage work in London with such theatrical shows as Royal ...

40. David Summer

Actor | Living

David was born in North Wales, to parents Dafydd (David) a civil engineer/ college lecturer and Joan, a nurse and homemaker. In time he left Wales to attend drama college where he attended The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London from 1982 - 85 - he still lives In London . Apart from ...

41. John Woodvine

Actor | An American Werewolf in London

Born in the Simonside area of South Shields, he left the North East when he was five, but went back for holidays with his grandparents. As he grew older he had it in his mind to be an actor, but had no idea how to go about it, so did various jobs before being called up for National Service in the ...

42. Robert James-Collier

Actor | Downton Abbey

Robert James-Collier was born on September 23, 1976 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. He is an actor, known for his role as Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey (for which he won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series), The Ritual (2017) and ...

43. 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. ...

44. Harry Hadden-Paton

Actor | Twisters

Harry Hadden-Paton was born in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Twisters (2024), Downton Abbey (2010) and The Crown (2016). He has been married to Rebecca Night since May 2010. They have two children.

45. Julian Glover

Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Julian Wyatt Glover was born on March 27, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, to Honor Ellen Morgan (Wyatt), a BBC journalist, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He is of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Primarily a classical stage actor, Glover trained at the National Youth ...

46. Richard McCabe

Actor | The Constant Gardener

Richard McCabe was born on August 18, 1960 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for The Constant Gardener (2005), Eye in the Sky (2015) and Notting Hill (1999).

47. John Nettles

Actor | Midsomer Murders

John Nettles has been a familiar face on British and International television screens for over 30 years.

From his early beginnings in the UK hit comedy The Liver Birds (1969), he became a household name overnight playing the Jersey detective Jim Bergerac. The series, Bergerac (1981), was a huge hit ...

48. David Robb

Actor | Downton Abbey

David Robb was born on August 23, 1947 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Downton Abbey (2010), I, Claudius (1976) and Ivanhoe (1982). He was previously married to Briony McRoberts.

49. Ronald Pickup

Actor | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Ronald Alfred Pickup was a highly respected, incisive, classically trained character actor who specialized in the portrayal of prominent historical authority figures or crusty academics. He was born in Chester, England, to English and French language lecturer Eric Pickup and his wife Daisy (née ...

50. Tim Pigott-Smith

Actor | V for Vendetta

A familiar patrician-looking face both here and abroad, blue-eyed, fair-haired classical stage and TV actor Tim Pigott-Smith, the son of a journalist, was born on in Rugby, Warwickshire, on May 13, 1946. The Britisher attended King Edward VI School in Stratford-upon-Avon, graduated from Bristol ...

51. Matt Smith

Actor | Doctor Who

Matt Smith is an English actor who shot to fame in the UK aged 26 when he was cast by producer Steven Moffat as the Eleventh Doctor in the BBC's iconic science-fiction adventure series Doctor Who (2005).

Matthew Robert Smith was born and raised in Northampton, the son of Lynne (Fidler) and David ...

52. Vincent Franklin

Actor | The Bourne Identity

Vincent Franklin was born on November 3, 1966 in Haworth, Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Bourne Identity (2002), From Hell (2001) and Bright Star (2009). He is married to Hilary Greatorex. They have two children.

53. Patrick Malahide

Actor | The World Is Not Enough

Eloquent, incisive, consistently compelling Berkshire-born character actor, equally at home portraying paternal benevolence or nefarious villainy. Patrick Malahide's birth name is Patrick Gerald Duggan and he has written screenplays as P.G. Duggan: to date the BBC thriller The Writing on the Wall (...

54. Tim McInnerny

Actor | Notting Hill

Tim McInnerny is an English actor. He is known for his many roles on stage and television, including as Lord Percy Percy and Captain Darling in the 1980s British sitcom Blackadder. McInnerny was born on 18 September 1956 in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, the son of Mary Joan (née Gibbings) and William ...

55. 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 ...

56. Alex Jennings

Actor | The Lady in the Van

Alex Jennings was born on May 10, 1957 in Essex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Lady in the Van (2015), The Queen (2006) and The Wings of the Dove (1997). He has been married to Lesley Moors since 2012. They have two children.

57. Adrian Edmondson

Actor | Bancroft

Adrian Edmondson was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He went to Manchester University to study drama. Whilst he was there he met Rik Mayall, and the pair began performing as 20th Century Coyote. The act continued after university when Adrian & Rik moved to London, and they became two of ...

58. Paul Thornley

Actor | Les Misérables

Paul Thornley is known for Les Misérables (2012), The Brothers Grimsby (2016) and Moxie (2021). He has been married to Chloe Howman since September 22, 2013. They have one child.

59. Richard E. Grant

Actor | Gosford Park

Richard E. Grant is an actor and presenter. He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller's drama film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018), winning various awards including the Independent Spirit ...

60. Christian Brassington

Actor | Poldark

Christian Brassington was born on June 6, 1983 in Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Poldark (2015), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Tony Blair: Rock Star (2006). He has been married to Jennie Fava since September 21, 2013.

61. Neil Morrissey

Actor | The Bounty

Neil Morrissey was born on July 4, 1962 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Bounty (1984), British Men Behaving Badly (1992) and Up 'n' Under (1998). He was previously married to Amanda Noar.

62. Mark Addy

Actor | The Full Monty

Born in York, on leaving school he started work as a stage hand at York's Theatre Royal and later attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art .from 1982 to 1984 after which he joined such companies as Hull Truck Theatre and The Royal National Theatre. He achieved international fame in his film debut...

63. Rupert Vansittart

Actor | Braveheart

Rupert Nicholas Vansittart is an English character actor. He has appeared in a variety of roles in film, television, stage and radio, often playing comic characters. He is best known for his role as Lord Ashfordly in the ITV drama Heartbeat and for playing Lord Yohn Royce in the HBO series Game of ...

64. Richard Hope

Actor | Piece of Cake

Born in Kettering and brought up in Norfolk, Mr. Hope attended Oakham School in Rutland 1967-1971 and trained at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain 1972-1976. He is a member of the National Youth Theatre Association and an Associate Member of Complicite. A brilliant character actor, Mr. ...

65. Ben Miles

Actor | Andor

Ben Miles was born on September 29, 1966 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Andor (2022), The Capture (2019) and Red Joan (2018). He is married to Emily Raymond. They have three children.

66. David Bradley

Actor | The World's End

David Bradley was born on April 17, 1942 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The World's End (2013), Hot Fuzz (2007) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). He has been married to Rosanna Bradley since 1978. They have three children.

67. Phil Cheadle

Actor | The Crimson Field

Phil Cheadle is known for The Crimson Field (2014), Dark Angel (2016) and New Worlds (2014).

68. Toby Stephens

Actor | Die Another Day

Toby Stephens began his acting career while a stagehand at the Chichester Festival Theatre, in end-of-season productions mounted by the crew. In his brief professional career, he has already won the Sir John Gielgud Prize for Best Actor and the Ian Charleson Award for his performance in the title ...

69. 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,...

70. Sam Barnard

Actor | Monico Perseus

Sam Barnard is known for Monico Perseus (2023), The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2011) and Grantchester (2014).

71. Julian Wadham

Actor | The English Patient

Julian Wadham was born on August 7, 1958 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The English Patient (1996), The Madness of King George (1994) and Goya's Ghosts (2006). He was previously married to Shirley Cassedy.

72. Sebastian Armesto

Actor | Anonymous

Sebastian Armesto (born 3 June 1982) is an English film, television and theatre actor. He is the son of the historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. He was educated at Eton College. Armesto has acted in high-profile theatre productions in Britain, including three shows at the National Theatre and one at...

73. Philippe Spall

Actor | Downton Abbey

Philippe Spall is an Anglo-French actor, singer and voice artist. He was born and raised in Cornwall, England, to a French mother and an English father, and started acting at school. He is completely fluent in both French and English, and speaks both languages without accent (unless required). ...

74. Daniel Betts

Actor | War Machine

Daniel Betts was born in 1971 in Cuckfield, West Sussex, England. He trained under Yat Malmgren and Christopher Fettes at the Drama Centre, London, graduating in 1993. His varied career has included many roles on the British and International stage, as well as TV and film work including Fury (2014)...

75. Jack Ashton

Actor | Endeavour

Jack Ashton was born on November 19, 1986 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Endeavour (2012), Four Seasons (2008) and Call the Midwife (2012).

76. Olly Rix

Actor | Our Girl

After securing a place to study English Literature at Trinity College Oxford, Olly became actively involved in the university's dramatic society. Upon graduating he was awarded a scholarship to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and studied there for two years. Upon ...

77. John Hopkins

Actor | Midsomer Murders

John Hopkins was born in Luton and majored in English at the University of Leeds from 1993 to 1996. As an undergrad, he joined the university's drama group and appeared in several plays, ultimately winning the "Sunday Times" student-actor award for his performance in "A Short Play About Sex and ...

78. Oliver Dimsdale

Actor | Downton Abbey

Oliver Dimsdale was born on October 28, 1972 in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Downton Abbey (2010), Grantchester (2014) and The Last Czars (2019). He has been married to Zoë Tapper since December 30, 2008. They have one child.

79. John Hollingworth

Actor | The Queen's Gambit

John Hollingworth was born on August 21, 1981 in Keighley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Queen's Gambit (2020), Rebecca (2020) and 1917 (2019).

80. Paul Ready

Actor | The Terror

Paul Ready is a British actor. He is known principally for his work on stage, but he has also appeared in television, radio and films. He received a commendation at the 2003 Ian Charleson Awards. In 2018, he played the role of Rob MacDonald in the BBC television series Bodyguard.

Ready was born in ...

81. Karl Davies

Actor | Happy Valley

Karl Davies was born on August 6, 1982 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Happy Valley (2014), Chernobyl (2019) and Game of Thrones (2011).

82. Alex Wyndham

Actor | Yellowjackets

Alex Wyndham is an Oxford University and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art graduate. He's starred in Emmy-winning TV shows for HBO and the BBC including Rome and Little Dorrit and and other critically acclaimed dramas such as the TV adaptation of the Booker prize winning The Line of Beauty opposite Dan...

83. Dominic Coleman

Actor | Paddington

Dominic Coleman is known for Paddington (2014), Yesterday (2019) and Napoleon (2023).

84. Angus Wright

Actor | The Courier

Angus Wright was born on November 11, 1964 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is an actor, known for The Courier (2020), Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and The Crown (2016).

85. Nigel Whitmey

Actor | Black Earth Rising

Nigel Whitmey is a British/Canadian actor born in Peace River, Alberta. His father was born in Crystal Palace, London but moved to Liverpool and married his wife before emigrating to Canada. Nigel moved to London where he studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. He resides in London with his ...

86. Rupert Everett

Actor | My Best Friend's Wedding

Stylish Rupert James Hector Everett was born on May 29, 1959, in Burnham Deepdale, Norfolk, to Sara (Maclean) and Anthony Michael Everett, a Major in the British Army, who later worked in business. Of royal stock, he is of primarily English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry with a dash of German and ...

87. Adrian Scarborough

Actor | Gosford Park

Adrian Scarborough was born on May 10, 1968 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Gosford Park (2001), Vera Drake (2004) and Dirty Pretty Things (2002). He is married to Rose Blackshaw. They have two children.

88. 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...

89. Denis Lawson

Actor | Star Wars

Although he was born in Glasgow he was moved to Crieff when 3 which was where his father had a jewelers shop. At 17 he failed to get into The Royal Academy of Music and Drama so got a job selling carpets for a while until he succeeded in getting into the Academy on his 2nd application and where he ...

90. Ewen Bremner

Actor | T2 Trainspotting

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Ewen Bremner has worked with many of the most respected directors in world cinema, including Danny Boyle, Mike Leigh, Ridley Scott, Joon-Ho Bong, Werner Herzog and Woody Allen. Ewen has established himself by creating unique characters in critically acclaimed films, as ...

91. Will Keen

Actor | Operation Mincemeat

Will Keen was born on March 4, 1970 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Operation Mincemeat (2021), Victor Frankenstein (2015) and Love and Other Disasters (2006). He has been married to María Fernández Ache since August 10, 2002. They have one child.

92. Ian Hart

Actor | Backbeat

Ian Hart, born in England, began acting while a student in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. He stumbled into acting almost accidentally, but was cast in the play "The Government Inspector". He continued to work in British theatre and television, and first gained recognition for portraying John ...

93. Stephen Dillane

Actor | The Hours

Stephen Dillane was born on March 27, 1957 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Hours (2002), Game of Thrones (2011) and Darkest Hour (2017).

94. Nigel Havers

Actor | Chariots of Fire

Nigel Havers is one of Britain's best known actors, mainly for his many roles on television since the 1970s. He was born as the younger son of Michael Havers, QC, a Conservative MP for Wimbledon, Attorney General (1979-1987) and Lord High Chancellor of England (1987).

After a private education, ...

95. Julian Rivett

Actor | A Thousand Kisses Deep

Julian Rivett was born in 1967 in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011), The Strangerers (2000) and Grafters (1998).

96. Louis Davison

Actor | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Louis Davison can be seen in 2022 Netflix Vikings Valhalla playing Prince Edmund. He made his stage debut aged 14 playing Prince Edward in Richard the Third with Martin Freeman in the West End directed by Jamie Lloyd. He was cast as Victor in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children...

97. Julian Seager

Actor | Vikings: Valhalla

Julian Seager is an English award winning character Actor. Julian splits his time between the USA and UK. He appears in Netflix Hit Show Vikings Valhalla as Jarl Gorm, Fisherman's Friends and has recently had a lead role in the political horror movie Election Night. He has had roles on TV shows ...

98. Damian Lewis

Actor | Band of Brothers

Damian Lewis was born on February 11, 1971, in St. John's Wood, London, England, to Charlotte Mary (Bowater), from an upper-class background, and J. Watcyn Lewis, a city broker whose own parents were Welsh. He was raised on Abbey Road in London until the age of 8 with his siblings Gareth, William, ...

99. Richard Goulding

Actor | Me Before You

Richard Goulding is known for Me Before You (2016), The Iron Lady (2011) and The Windsors (2016).

100. Will Merrick

Actor | About Time

William Charles Merrick was born on April 9th 1993 in Ledbury in Herefordshire and started acting as a child in productions at the Downs School and Dean Close School in Cheltenham. Joining the Close Up Theatre Will appeared with them at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010 and 2011 in 'The History...