pro Palestinian actors and directors

1. Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook was born on August 23, 1963 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a producer and director, known for Oldboy (2003), The Handmaiden (2016) and Decision to Leave (2022). He is married to Eun-hee Kim. They have one child.

2. Laith Nakli

Actor | 12 Strong

Laith Nakli was born on December 1, 1969 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for 12 Strong (2018), The Long Road Home (2017) and The Wall (2017).

3. Susan Sarandon

Actress | Thelma & Louise

It was after the 1968 Democratic convention and there was a casting call for a film with several roles for the kind of young people who had disrupted the convention. Two recent graduates of Catholic University in Washington DC, went to the audition in New York for Joe (1970). Chris Sarandon, who ...

4. Melissa Barrera

Actress | Scream VI

Melissa Barrera Martinez was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León México. The first of four daughters of Rosana Maria Martinez García and Tomás Gerardo Barrera Tames. She attended the American School Foundation of Monterrey from the ages of 4 to 18 when she graduated high school. It was during her middle ...

5. Angelina Jolie

Actress | Maleficent

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted (1999), playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010) and Maleficent (2014). Off-screen, Jolie has become ...

6. Jonathan Glazer

Director | Under the Skin

Jonathan first found fame for his revolutionary work on Radiohead's 'Street Spirit' and Jamiroquai's multi-MTV award winning 'Virtual Insanity' video.

In 1999 he directed the ground-breaking Guinness 'Surfer', which picked up 2 D&AD Black Pencils and the top spot at most of the other awards ...

7. Inua Ellams

Writer | The Break

Inua Ellams was born in 1984 in Jos, Nigeria. He is a writer, known for The Break (2016), We Are Lady Parts (2021) and Black T-Shirt Collection.

8. 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 ...

9. Charles Dance

Actor | Gosford Park

Charles Dance is an English actor, screenwriter, and film director. Dance typically plays assertive bureaucrats or villains. Some of his most high-profile roles are Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011), Guy Perron in The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Sardo Numspa in The Golden Child (1986),...

10. Steve Coogan

Actor | Philomena

Steve Coogan was born on October 14, 1965 in Middleton, Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Philomena (2013), Alan Partridge (2013) and 24 Hour Party People (2002). He was previously married to Caroline Hickman.

11. Nicola Coughlan

Actress | Derry Girls

Nicola hails from Galway, in the west of Ireland where she has been acting since childhood. She trained at both The Oxford School of Drama and Birmingham School of Acting.

She made her on screen debut in the controversial short The Phantom Cnut directed by Tom Collins; director of the Oscar ...

12. Miriam Margolyes

Actress | The Age of Innocence

A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence (1993), she received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role...

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...

14. Maxine Peake

Actress | The Theory of Everything

Maxine Peake is an English stage, radio, film and television actress, who made her name as Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies. She has since played Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, barrister Martha Costello in the BBC legal drama Silk and Grace Middleton ...

15. Khalid Abdalla

Actor | The Kite Runner

Khalid Abdalla was born on December 30, 1980 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Kite Runner (2007), United 93 (2006) and The Square (2013). He is married to Cressida Trew.

16. Tanika Gupta

Writer | EastEnders

Tanika Gupta was born on December 1, 1963 in Chiswick, London, England, UK. She is a writer, known for EastEnders (1985), Grace and Beauty and An Indian Doll's House.

17. Robert Del Naja

Soundtrack | Gomorra

Robert Del Naja was born on January 21, 1965 in Brighton, England, UK. He is a composer and actor, known for Gomorrah (2008), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and The Matrix (1999).

18. Abbie Spallen

Actress | Love Is the Drug

Abbie Spallen is known for Love Is the Drug (2004), Mad About Mambo (2000) and Pumpgirl (2009).

19. Mike Leigh

Director | Secrets & Lies

Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and further at the Camberwell School of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and the London School of Film Technique. He began his career as a theatre ...

20. Dominic Cooke

Director | The Courier

Dominic Cooke is known for The Courier (2020), The Hollow Crown (2012) and Follies.

21. Asif Kapadia

Director | The Warrior

Asif Kapadia is an Academy Award, Grammy and four time BAFTA winning Producer / Director / Writer who works across both film and television. Kapadia is known for his emotional engaging, visually striking, genre breaking films exploring 'outsiders' characters living in extreme circumstances, ...

22. Frankie Boyle

Art_department | Hangar 10

Frankie Boyle was born on August 16, 1972 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is a writer and actor, known for Hangar 10 (2014), Revolver (2001) and Gasping (2014).

23. Josie Long

Actress | Super November

Josie Long was born on April 17, 1982. She is an actress and writer, known for Super November (2018), Skins (2007) and Romance & Adventure (2013).

24. Antonia Caccia

Director | Phela-ndaba

Antonia Caccia is known for Phela-ndaba (1971), Chimurenga - The War in Zimbabwe (1978) and The Big 'K' (1977).

25. Alexei Sayle

Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Alexei Sayle was born on August 7, 1952 in Anfield, Liverpool, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Alexei Sayle's Stuff (1988) and Whoops Apocalypse (1982). He has been married to Linda Rawsthorn since 1974.

26. Tayo Aluko

Actor | Temple

Tayo Aluko is known for Temple (2019), The Madame Blanc Mysteries (2021) and Riches (2022).

27. DW Mault

Director | Damascus

D W Mault is a citizen of Europe who was born in Liverpool. He curated the group show Egyptianradio with the artist Padraig Timoney at the first Liverpool Biennial. It included the first time Harmony Korine's photographs were exhibited outside the US.

David entered the film industry via criticism ...

28. Yasmin Fedda

Director | Queens of Syria

Yasmin Fedda is known for Queens of Syria (2014), Ayouni (2020) and A Tale of Two Syrias (2013).

29. Adam Kossoff

Director | One Side or the Other

Adam Kossoff is known for One Side or the Other (2016), The Anarchist Rabbi (2014) and Turbulence (1991).

30. Anthea Kennedy

Editor | Four Parts of a Folding Screen

Anthea Kennedy studied fine art at Leeds Polytechnic and film at the Royal College of Art, London. The majority of her work is concerned with (German) history, memory and place. Apart from her own practice, she has also worked as a lecturer at a number of universities and art schools in the UK. She...

31. Allan Seiger

Art_department | Mister Ed

Allan Seiger is known for Mister Ed (1961).

32. Jenny Morgan

Director | After Jenin

Jenny Morgan is known for After Jenin (2003), Behind Enemy Lines: The Real Charlotte Grays (2002) and Dispatches (1987).

33. Pratibha Parmar

Director | My Name Is Andrea

Writer, Director & Producer Pratibha Parmar directs for film and television. Her credits include ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH, a feature length documentary on the life of Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE and includes interviews with Steven Spielberg, Danny Glover and Quincy Jones....