Fantastic Mr. Fox 2009 premiere

1. George Clooney

Actor | The Ides of March

George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney ...

2. Wes Anderson

Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...

3. Bill Murray

Actor | Lost in Translation

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, ...

4. Jarvis Cocker

Soundtrack | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Jarvis Cocker was born on September 19, 1963 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Children of Men (2006). He was previously married to Camille Bidault-Waddington.

5. Jason Schwartzman

Actor | Rushmore

Jason Francesco Schwartzman is an American actor and musician. Schwartzman made his film debut in Wes Anderson's 1998 film Rushmore, and has gone on to appear in seven other Anderson films: The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (...

6. Wallace Wolodarsky

Actor | The Darjeeling Limited

Wallace Wolodarsky is known for The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) and Coldblooded (1995). He has been married to Maya Forbes since 2004. They have two children.

7. Eric Chase Anderson

Actor | Fantastic Mr. Fox

Eric Chase Anderson was born on September 18, 1972 in Houston, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

8. Elisabetta Canalis

Actress | Virgin Territory

Elisabetta Canalis was born on September 12, 1978 in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. She is an actress, known for Virgin Territory (2007), Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) and Fratelli Benvenuti (2010). She has been married to Brian Perri since September 14, 2014. They have one child.

9. Myleene Klass

Actress | Igor

Myleene Klass was born on April 6, 1978 in Norfolk, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Igor (2008), My Family (2000) and Killing Clovis Dardentor. She was previously married to Graham Quinn.

10. Sandra Hebron

Self | How to Make a Film

11. Cindy Crawford

Actress | Fair Game

Cindy Crawford was born on February 20, 1966 in DeKalb, Illinois, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Fair Game (1995), 54 (1998) and Cougar Town (2009). She has been married to Rande Gerber since May 29, 1998. They have two children. She was previously married to Richard Gere.

12. Liccy Dahl

Producer | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Liccy Dahl was born on December 12, 1938 in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. She is a producer, known for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Matilda (1996) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. She was previously married to Roald Dahl and Charles Reginald Hugh Crosland.

13. 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 ...

14. Daniela Lavender

Actress | Night Hunter

Born in Bahia, Brazil, Daniela Lavender is part of a close knit 30-strong family, at the age of eight she began training in ballet, jazz, contemporary dance and later studied Flamenco dancing under Roberto Amaral and Yolanda Arroyo in Los Angeles. She then moved into journalism and received a ...

15. Jonathan Ross

Writer | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Comedian, talk show host, game show host, film critic, radio DJ and awards show compere, Jonathan Ross is the most successful British broadcaster of his generation. After attending the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London and gaining a Modern European History degree, he worked as ...

16. Jane Goldman

Producer | Kick-Ass

Jane Goldman was born on June 11, 1970 in England, UK. She is a producer and writer, known for Kick-Ass (2010), Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and Stardust (2007). She has been married to Jonathan Ross since August 1988. They have three children.

17. Dexter Fletcher

Actor | Ghosted

Two-time BAFTA-nominated director Dexter Fletcher is an English actor-turned-filmmaker whose movies and TV work include the Academy Award-winning Elton John biopic Rocketman. Fletcher started his career in front of the camera at the age of 6; three years later he played "Baby Face" in Alan Parker's...

18. Stephen Poliakoff

Writer | Close My Eyes

Stephen Poliakoff was born on December 1, 1952 in Holland Park, Kensington, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for Close My Eyes (1991), Perfect Strangers (2001) and Shooting the Past (1999). He has been married to Sandy Welch since 1983. They have two children.

19. Romola Garai

Actress | Atonement

Romola Garai was born on 6th August 1982. She is an English actress-writer-director who has worked extensively on film, television and theatre. As an actress she is known for her performances in films such as Atonement (2007), Angel (2007), I Capture the Castle (2003) and (Suffragette). On ...

20. Sophie Dahl

Actress | People I Know

Sophie Dahl began her working life as a teenage fashion model and actress, but books and words were her first love. In 2003 she wrote the illustrated novella and Sunday Times bestseller, 'The Man With The Dancing Eyes' (Bloomsbury) and in 2007, published her first novel, 'Playing With The Grownups'...

21. Jamie Cullum

Soundtrack | Gran Torino

Jamie Cullum was born on August 20, 1979 in Rochford, Essex, England, UK. He is a music artist and actor, known for Gran Torino (2008), Meet the Robinsons (2007) and Going in Style (2017). He has been married to Sophie Dahl since January 9, 2010. They have two children.

22. 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 ...

23. Anwen Rees-Myers

Producer | In Love with Alma Cogan

Anwen Rees-Myers is known for In Love with Alma Cogan (2012), ChickLit (2016) and Swipe Fever. She was previously married to John Hurt.

24. David Morrissey

Actor | The Walking Dead

David Morrissey started acting at Everyman's Youth Theatre in Liverpool, where he was born and raised. He made an auspicious debut in One Summer (1983), a series about two Liverpool runaways. Following a degree at RADA, he worked with the theatre company Cheek By Jowl. He has also worked at theatre...

25. Esther Freud

Actress | Doctor Who

Esther Freud was born on May 2, 1963 in London, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Doctor Who (1963), Hideous Kinky (1998) and Mr Mac and Me. She has been married to David Morrissey since August 15, 2006. They have three children.

26. Toby Young

Writer | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

Toby Young was born on October 17, 1963 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008), Rabbit Fever (2006) and Abroad (2010). He has been married to Caroline Bondy since July 21, 2001. They have four children.

27. Maryam d'Abo

Actress | The Living Daylights

Born in London, England and raised in European cities such as Paris and Geneva, Maryam d'Abo has rewarded audiences with her beauty and presence for over twenty years. Maryam first appeared in Xtro (1982), a gory horror film that is considered a cult entry in the genre. She appeared consistently ...

28. Harry Treadaway

Actor | Honeymoon

Harry John Newman Treadaway (born 10 September 1984) is an English actor known for his performance as Victor Frankenstein on the horror-drama series Penny Dreadful.

Born at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Exeter, Devon, Treadaway was brought up in Sandford, Devon. His father is an architect ...

29. Mariella Frostrup

Actress | Johnny English Reborn

Mariella Frostrup was born on November 12, 1962 in Oslo, Norway. She is an actress and writer, known for Johnny English Reborn (2011), Coupling (2000) and Sitting Ducks (2003). She has been married to Jason McCue since April 2003. They have two children. She was previously married to Richard Jobson.

30. 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 ...

31. Nico Parker

Actress | Dumbo

Nico Parker was born on December 9, 2004. She is an actress, known for Dumbo (2019), The Last of Us (2023) and Reminiscence (2021).

32. 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 ...

33. Gurinder Chadha

Writer | Bend It Like Beckham

Gurinder Chadha was born in Kenya, and grew up in Southall, London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, directed several award winning documentaries for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Channel Four. In 2001, Chadha set up her own...

34. Alexandre Desplat

Composer | The King's Speech

Composer and conductor Alexandre Desplat, Oscar winner and seven-time Academy Award nominated, for his prolific filmography and his collaborations with Stephen Frears, Terrence Malick, Ang Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Audiard, Wes Anderson, Roman Polanski, George Clooney or Matteo Garrone is one ...

35. Jennifer Tilly

Actress | Bound

An actress who always attracts audiences' attention, Jennifer Tilly is by turns funny, sexy, compassionate, compelling and often all at once. She has been playing unforgettable characters ever since she started her career as an actress.

Jennifer Tilly was born Jennifer Ellen Chan in Harbor City, ...

36. Phil Laak

Actor | Runner Runner

Phil Laak was born in 1972 in Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor, known for Runner Runner (2013), The Grand (2007) and Setup (2011).

37. Dalia Ibelhauptaite

Producer | Ghosted

Dalia Ibelhauptaite was born on May 4, 1967 in Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]. She is a producer and director, known for Ghosted (2023), Rocketman (2019) and Let the Good Times Roll (1999). She has been married to Dexter Fletcher since 1997.

38. Jason McCue

Producer | Northstar

Jason McCue is known for Northstar and Black (2008).

39. Hugh Hudson

Director | Chariots of Fire

The old Etonian, after National Service in the British Army, wanted to get into films but found the doors were closed to him, so he worked on commercials for about 20 years. David Putnam gave him a chance to direct Chariots of Fire which was a hit, and he never looked back.

He met his second wife, ...

40. Peter Andre

Soundtrack | Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Peter Andre was born on February 27, 1973 in Harrow, London, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), David Brent: Life on the Road (2016) and Keith Lemon: The Film (2012). He has been married to Emily MacDonagh since July 11, 2015. They have two ...

41. Amanda Eliasch

Writer | The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly

Amanda Eliasch is known for The Gun, the Cake and the Butterfly (2013), @asst (2018) and The Matthew Aaron Show Podcast (2011). She was previously married to Johan Eliasch.