Actors/Actresses Who Have Won A Laurence Olivier Award
by judas1982 | created - 12 Mar 2014 | updated - 2 weeks ago | PublicThe Olivier Awards are presented annually to recognise excellence in professional theatre. Named after the British actor Laurence Olivier, they are given for West End shows and other productions staged in London. The Awards are recognised internationally as the highest honour in British theatre. They are the British equivalent of Broadway's Tony Awards.
In No Particular Order.
1. Ian McKellen
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Widely regarded as one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, twice nominated for the Oscar and recipient of every major theatrical award in the UK and US, Ian Murray McKellen was born on May 25, 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, to Margery ...
1. 1977 : Pillars of the Community - Best Actor In A Revival 2. 1978 : The Alchemist - Best Comedy Performance 3. 1979 : Bent - Best Actor In A New Play 4. 1984 : Wild Honey - Best Actor In A Revival 5. 1991 : Richard III - Best Actor 6. 2006 : Society of London Theatre Special Award (Honorary Award) 7. 2020 : Society of London Theatre Special Award (Honorary Award)
2. Albert Finney
Actor | Murder on the Orient Express
The son of a Lancashire bookmaker, Albert Finney came to motion pictures via the theatre. In 1956, he won a scholarship to RADA where his fellow alumni included Peter O'Toole and Alan Bates. He joined the Birmingham Repertory where he excelled in plays by William Shakespeare. A member of the Royal ...
1. 1986 : Orphans - Best Actor
3. Michael Gambon
Actor | Gosford Park
Sir Michael Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland, to Mary (Hoare), a seamstress, and Edward Gambon, an engineer. After joining the National Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of Sir Laurence Olivier, Gambon went on to appear in a number of leading roles in plays written by Alan Ayckbourn...
1. 1986 : A Chorus Of Disapproval - Best Comedy Performance 2. 1988 : A View From The Bridge - Best Actor 3. 1990 : Man Of The Moment - Best Comedy Performance
4. Nigel Hawthorne
Actor | The Madness of King George
Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting...
1. 1977 : Privates On Parade - Best Actor In A Supporting Role 2. 1992 : The Madness Of George III - Best Actor
5. Ian Holm
Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Sir Ian Holm was one of the world's greatest actors, a Laurence Olivier Award-winning, Tony Award-winning, BAFTA-winning and Academy Award-nominated British star of films and the stage. He was a member of the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company and has played more than 100 roles in films and on ...
1. 1998 : King Lear - Best Actor
6. Kevin Spacey
Actor | The Usual Suspects
Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...
1. 1999 : The Iceman Cometh - Best Actor. 2. 2015 : Society of London Theatre Special Award (Honorary Award).
7. Brian Dennehy
Actor | First Blood
Imposing, barrel-chested and often silver-haired Brian Dennehy was a prolific US actor, well respected on both screen and stage over many decades. He was born in July 1938 in Bridgeport, CT, and attended Columbia University in New York City on a football scholarship. Brian majored in history, ...
1. 2006 : Death Of A Salesman - Best Actor
8. Richard Griffiths
Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The avuncular star character actor Richard Griffiths grew up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. According to an article in the Telegraph newspaper, his father Thomas was a steelworker 'who fought in pubs for ...
1. 2005 : The History Boys - Best Actor
9. Derek Jacobi
Actor | Gosford Park
Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other). Modest and unassuming in nature, ...
1. 1983 - Cyrano de Bergerac - Best Actor In A Revival 2. 2009 - Twelfth Night - Best Actor
10. Benedict Cumberbatch
Actor | The Imitation Game
Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch was born and raised in London, England. His parents, Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton (born Timothy Carlton Congdon Cumberbatch), are both actors. He is a grandson of submarine commander Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, and a great-grandson of diplomat Henry Arnold ...
1. 2012 : Frankenstein - Best Actor
11. 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 ...
1. 2012 : Frankenstein - Best Actor
12. Joan Plowright
Actress | The Spiderwick Chronicles
Dame Joan Ann Plowright, the Baroness Olivier, is one of the most distinguished actors of her generation. She may be best remembered as the third wife and widow of Laurence Olivier, generally considered the greatest anglophone actor of the 20th Century, but she had a distinguished career of her own...
1. 1978 : Filumena - Best Actress In A New Play
13. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
1. 1977 : MacBeth - Best Actress In A Revival. 2. 1980 : Juno and the Paycock - Best Actress In A Revival. 3. 1983 : Pack of Lies - Best Actress In A New Play. 4. 1987 : Antony and Cleopatra - Best Actress. 5. 1996 : Absolute Hell - Best Actress. 6. 1996 : A Little Night Music - Best Actress In A Musical. 7. 2004 : Society of London Theatre Special Award (Honorary Award). 8. 2016 : The Winter's Tale - Best Actress In A Supporting Role.
14. Zoë Wanamaker
Actress | My Week with Marilyn
Zoë Wanamaker is an American expatriate actress, who has spend most of her career in the United Kingdom. She has worked extensively in the theatre. She has been nominated for 9 Laurence Olivier Awards, wining twice. She has also been nominated for 4 Tony Awards, without ever winning. In television,...
1. 1979 : Once in a Lifetime - Best Actress In A Revival 2. 1998 : Electra - Best Actress
15. Frances de la Tour
Actress | The History Boys
Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 until 1978. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.
She performed as Mrs. Lintott in the play The History Boys in London and on ...
1. 1980 : Duet for One - Best Actress In A New Play 2. 1983 : A Moon for the Misbegotten - Best Actress In A Revival 3. 1992 : When She Danced - Best Supporting Actress
16. Vanessa Redgrave
Actress | Coriolanus
On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier, announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, ...
1. 1984 : The Aspern Papers - Best Actress In A Revival
17. Pauline Collins
Actress | Shirley Valentine
Collins entered motion pictures as a stripper in the exploitation film, Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966), and television, as a maid in the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs (1971). In 1988, she starred in the one-woman play 'Shirley Valentine' in London, and soon after, brought the role to...
1. 1988 : Shirley Valentine - Best Actress In A New Play
18. Fiona Shaw
Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1
Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989). The film is a telling of Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), an Irishman disgruntled with his confinement to a body horribly crippled by cerebral palsy but who found ...
1. 1989/1990 : Electra / As You Like It / The Good Person of Szechwan - Best Actress
19. Juliet Stevenson
Actress | Bend It Like Beckham
With her father being in the army much of her early life was spent in boarding school from the age of 9. Initially she was turned down for RADA but got in and won a prize for Best Student. She had to turn down a role in Schindler's List (1993) as his wife due to already being committed to a theatre...
1. 1992 : Death and the Maiden - Best Actress
20. Alison Steadman
Actress | Life Is Sweet
The acclaimed Alison Steadman was born in 1946 in Liverpool, the daughter of George Percival Steadman and Marjorie Evans. Educated at Childwall Valley High School, she studied at the East-15 Acting School from 1966-1969, then toiled as a secretary at the Liverpool Probation Service before deciding ...
1. 1993 : The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - Best Actress
21. Eileen Atkins
Actress | Gosford Park
Eileen Atkins was born in a Salvation Army Women's Hostel in north London. Her father was a gas meter reader; her mother, a seamstress and barmaid. A drama teacher taught her how to drop her Cockney accent, and she studied Shakespeare and Greek tragedies. Her breakthrough role in "The Killing of ...
1. 1988 : Cymbeline / The Winter's Tale / Mountain Language - Best Performance in a Supporting Role 2. 1999 : The Unexpected Man - Best Actress 3. 2004 : Honour - Best Actress
22. Julie Walters
Actress | Billy Elliot
For decades, British actress and comedienne Dame Julie Walters has served as a sturdy representation of the working class with her passionate, earthy portrayals on England's stage, screen and television. A bona fide talent, her infectious spirit and self-deprecating sense of humor eventually ...
1. 2001 : All My Sons - Best Actress
23. Kristin Scott Thomas
Actress | Gosford Park
The acclaimed Cornish actress Dame Kristin Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, to Deborah (Hurlbatt) and Lieutenant Commander Simon Scott Thomas. Her father was a pilot for the British Royal Navy and died in a flying accident in 1964. Her stepfather, Lt. Cdr Simon Idiens, was also a pilot, ...
1. 2008 : The Seagull - Best Actress
24. Rachel Weisz
Actress | The Constant Gardener
Rachel Hannah Weisz was born on 7 March, 1970, in London, U.K., to Edith Ruth (Teich), a psychoanalyst, and George Weisz, an inventor. Her parents both came to England around 1938. Her father is a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and her mother, from Vienna, was of Italian and Austrian Jewish heritage. ...
1. 2010 : A Streetcar Named Desire - Best Actress
25. Helen Mirren
Actress | The Queen
Dame Helen Mirren was born in Queen Charlotte's Hospital in West London. Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working-class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian-born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat. ...
1. 2013 : The Audience - Best Actress
26. Imelda Staunton
Actress | Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from Archway, London. Her ancestry is primarily Irish. She has worked extensively in theater, and has won 4 Laurence Olivier Awards; 3 for leading roles and one for a supporting role. Her best known role in films has been the recurring villain ...
1. 1985 : A Chorus of Disapproval / The Corn Is Green - Best Performance in a Supporting Role 2. 1991 : Into the Woods - Best Actress In A Musical 3. 2013 : Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Best Actress In A Musical 4. 2016 : Gypsy - Best Actress In A Musical
27. Rory Kinnear
Actor | The Imitation Game
Rory Michael Kinnear is an English actor and playwright who has worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. In 2014, he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Shakespeare's villain Iago in the National Theatre production of Othello.
He is known for ...
1. 2008 : The Man of Mode - Best Performance in a Supporting Role. 2. 2014 : Othello - Best Actor.
28. Patrick Stewart
Actor | Logan
Sir Patrick Stewart was born in Mirfield, Yorkshire, England, to Gladys (Barrowclough), a textile worker and weaver, and Alfred Stewart, who was in the army. He was a member of various local drama groups from about age 12. He left school at age 15 to work as a junior reporter on a local paper; he ...
1. 1979 : Antony and Cleopatra - Best Actor in a Supporting Role. 2. 2009 : Hamlet - Best Performance in a Supporting Role.
29. Eddie Redmayne
Actor | Les Misérables
British actor Eddie Redmayne won the Academy Award for Best Actor (for The Theory of Everything (2014)).
Edward John David Redmayne was born and raised in London, England, the son of Patricia (Burke) and Richard Charles Tunstall Redmayne, a businessman. His great-grandfather was Sir Richard ...
1. 2010 : Red - Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2. 2022 : Cabaret - Best Actor in a Musical
30. Toby Jones
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Toby has two brothers: Rupert, ...
1. 2002 : The Play What I Wrote - Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
31. 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 ...
1. 1993 : Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
32. 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.
1. 1991 : King Lear - Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
33. David Threlfall
Actor | Shameless
David Threlfall was born on October 12, 1953 in Burnage, Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Shameless (2004), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Hot Fuzz (2007). He has been married to Brana Bajic since 1995. They have two children.
1. 1980 : The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
34. Sara Crowe
Actress | Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sara Crowe was born on March 22, 1966 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Carry on Columbus (1992) and The Thief and the Cobbler (1993). She has been married to Sean Carson since 2003. She was previously married to Toby Dale.
1. 1991 : Private Lives - Best Supporting Actress.
35. James Dreyfus
Actor | Notting Hill
James Dreyfus was born on October 9, 1968 in Islington, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Notting Hill (1999), The Thin Blue Line (1995) and Churchill: The Hollywood Years (2004).
1. 1998 : Lady in the Dark - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
36. Conleth Hill
Actor | Game of Thrones
Conleth Hill was born on November 24, 1964 in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. His great work of exquisite artistic generosity, intelligence, sensation and insights both on stage and screen reflects the wide range of his unique acting qualities as a superb "chameleon" in memorable ...
1. 2001 : Stones in His Pockets - Best Actor. 2. 2005 : The Producers - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
37. Celia Imrie
Actress | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress, a Variety magazine 'Icon' and Women in Film and Television 'Lifetime Achievement award' winner. As well as her acclaimed film, television and theatre work, she is also a Sunday Times best-selling author. Celia is ...
1. 2006 : Acorn Antiques: The Musical! - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
38. Sheila Hancock
Actress | The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Sheila Hancock was born February 22, 1933. on the Isle of Wight. She later moved to King's Cross in London, where her mother and father ran a pub. Sheila went to Dartford Grammar School, and then with a grant she went to RADA. She then went into nine years of weekly repertory around the country. ...
1. 2007 : Cabaret - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
39. Iwan Rheon
Actor | Game of Thrones
Iwan Rheon (born 13 May 1985) is a Welsh actor, singer and musician, best known for portraying Ramsay Bolton in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011), Simon Bellamy in the E4 series Misfits (2009) and Ash Weston in the ITV sitcom Vicious (2013).
Rheon was born in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire. When he...
1. 2010 : Spring Awakening - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
40. Jill Halfpenny
Actress | Waterloo Road
Jill Halfpenny was born on 15th July, 1975, in Newcastle, to Maureen and Colin Halfpenny. However, her father passed away when she was very young, and her mother married Jill's uncle, Derek.
She attended St Edmund Campion RC Comprehensive School, and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic...
1. 2011 : Legally Blonde - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
41. Nigel Harman
Actor | EastEnders
Nigel Harman was born on August 11, 1973 in Purley, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for EastEnders (1985), Blood Diamond (2006) and Mount Pleasant (2011). He has been married to Lucy Liemann since 2011. They have one child.
1. 2012 : Shrek The Musical - Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical.
42. Barbara Dickson
Actress | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Barbara Dickson was born on September 27, 1947 in Dunfermline, Scotland, the daughter of a policeman turned Rosyth dockyard worker. Barbara's mother was a housewife, and the family's strong interest in music led to Barbara taking up the piano from the tender age of five. By the age of twelve ...
1. 1983 : Blood Brothers - Best Actress In A Musical. 2. 2000 : Spend Spend Spend - Best Actress In A Musical.
43. Patricia Routledge
Actress | Keeping Up Appearances
Daughter of Catherine and Isaac Routledge. Her father was a haberdasher, and, during WWII, the family lived weeks at a time in the basement of her father's shop. She attended Birkenhead High School, where she sang in the choir and ran the Sunday School. She studied English at Liverpool University, ...
1. 1988 : Candide - Best Actress In A Musical.
44. Sophie Thompson
Actress | Gosford Park
Sophie Thompson is a British actress who has worked in film, television and theatre. A six-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the 1999 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for the London revival of Into the Woods. Her other nominations were for Wildest Dreams (1994), Company (1996), ...
1. 1999 : Into the Woods - Best Actress In A Musical.
45. Martine McCutcheon
Actress | Love Actually
Martine McCutcheon was born Martine Kimberley Sherri Ponting on the 14th of May 1976 in Hackney, East London, to Jenny Tomlin (née Jeanette Lilian Ponting) and Thomas Hemmings. She has a younger brother called L.J.
She studied at the renowned Italia Conti stage school in London from the age of 10. ...
1. 2002 : My Fair Lady - Best Actress In A Musical.
46. Jane Krakowski
Actress | 30 Rock
Jane Krakowski was born in Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey, to Barbara (Benoit), a college theater instructor, and Edward Krajkowski, a chemical engineer. Her father was of Polish descent and her mother has French-Canadian and Scottish ancestry.
Jane was the winner of the 2003 Tony Award for her ...
1. 2006 : Guys and Dolls - Best Actress In A Musical.
47. Michael Crawford
Actor | The Knack ...and How to Get It
His father was a pilot during the second World War and was killed in action before Michael was born resulting in him being brought up by his mother, Doris, and Irish grandmother, Kathleen .His mother married a, Kent grocer when he was 4 but after his mother died when he was 21 he broke off all ...
1. 1981 : Barnum - Best Actor In A Musical. 2. 1986 : The Phantom of the Opera - Best Actor In A Musical.
48. Penelope Wilton
Actress | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Penelope Wilton was born on June 3, 1946 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), Shaun of the Dead (2004) and Match Point (2005). She was previously married to Ian Holm and Daniel Massey.
1. 2015 : Taken at Midnight - Best Actress.
49. John Bardon
Actor | EastEnders
John Bardon was born on August 25, 1939 in Brentford, Middlesex, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for EastEnders (1985), Clockwise (1986) and Fierce Creatures (1997). He was married to Enda Gates. He died on September 12, 2014 in Romford, London, England, UK.
1. 1987 : Kiss Me, Kate - Best Actor In A Musical.
50. Jonathan Pryce
Actor | The Two Popes
Jonathan Pryce was born on June 1, 1947 in Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Two Popes (2019), The Wife (2017) and Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He has been married to Kate Fahy since April 2015. They have three children.
1. 1980 : Hamlet - Best Actor In A Revival. 2. 1989/90 : Miss Saigon - Best Actor In A Musical.
51. Angela Lansbury
Actress | The Manchurian Candidate
Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...
1. 2015 : Blithe Spirit - Best Supporting Actress.
52. Anthony Boyle
Actor | Tolkien
Anthony Boyle is an actor and writer, known for The Lost City of Z (2016), Pillow Talk (2012) and Onus (2016). Though born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his formal training as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2013. Graduating in 2016 (BA with ...
1. 2017 : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
53. Nathan Lane
Actor | The Producers
Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married ...
1. 2005 : The Producers - Best Actor In A Musical.
54. Michael Ball
Actor | Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary
Michael Ball has enjoyed a very successful and varied career over the last 20 years, both in the West End and on the Concert Stage, working with some of the 20th century's most prolific musical theatre composers.
After graduating from the Guildford School of Acting, his professional debut was in "...
1. 2008 : Hairspray - Best Actor In A Musical. 2. 2013 : Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Best Actor In A Musical.
55. Billie Piper
Actress | Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Billie Piper studied at the prestigious Sylvia Young Theatre School. She caught the eyes of record producers who were interested in signing a young vocalist when she was the poster girl for the ad campaign of a British pop music magazine, "Smash Hits". She released her first single, "Because We ...
1. 2017 : Yerma - Best Actress.
56. Mark Strong
Actor | 1917
British actor Mark Strong, who played Jim Prideaux in the 2011 remake of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), is often cast as cold, calculating villains. But before he became a famous actor, he intended to pursue a career in law.
Strong was born Marco Giuseppe Salussolia in London, England, to an ...
1. 2015 : A View from the Bridge - Best Actor.
57. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
1. 2008 : Cymbeline - Best Newcomer In A Play.
58. Jamie Parker
Actor | Becoming Elizabeth
Jamie Parker is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Harry Potter in the original cast of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: London Show (2017), for which he received an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Play and a WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a ...
1. 2017 : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Best Actor.
59. Bryan Cranston
Actor | Breaking Bad
Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...
1. 2018 : Network - Best Actor
60. Andrew Scott
Actor | All of Us Strangers
Andrew Scott is an Irish actor who started his career at a very young age. He made his first appearance on television in an advertisement for a brand of porridge at the age of 6.
He was born into an Irish family where his father, Jim, worked in a recruitment agency and his mother, Nora, taught art. ...
1. 2020 : Present Laughter - Best Actor
61. Noma Dumezweni
Actress | The Little Mermaid
Noma Dumezweni was born on July 28, 1969 in Swaziland. She is an actress, known for The Little Mermaid (2023), Mary Poppins Returns (2018) and Dirty Pretty Things (2002).
1. 2017 : Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Best Supporting Actress.
62. Shirley Henderson
Actress | 24 Hour Party People
Shirley Henderson was the eldest of three sisters born into a working-class family in the village of Kincardine in Fife, Scotland. As a teenager she sang locally and performed in school drama clubs. Her first break came when she watched a singer on the Opportunity Knocks (1956) TV talent program ...
1. 2018 : Girl from the North Country - Best Actress In A Musical
63. Indira Varma
Actress | Bride & Prejudice
Indira Anne Varma (born 27 September 1973) is a British actress. Her film debut and first major role was in Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. She has gone on to appear in the television series The Canterbury Tales, Rome, Luther, Human Target, and Game of Thrones (as Ellaria Sand). In September 2016, she ...
1. 2020 : Present Laughter - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
64. Jodie Comer
Actress | The Last Duel
Jodie Comer is a British actress from Liverpool, England. She is known for playing Rey's mother in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Villanelle in Killing Eve, Marguerite de Carrouges in The Last Duel, Kate Parks from Doctor Foster, Millie Rusk in Free Guy and Chloe Gemell from My Mad ...
1. 2023 : Prima Facie - Best Actress
65. Ruth Wilson
Actress | Luther
Ruth Wilson, born on 13 January 1982, is an English actress. She is known for her performances in Suburban Shootout (2006), Jane Eyre (2006), and as "Alice Morgan" in the BBC-TV psychological crime drama, Luther (2010), since 2010. She has also appeared in Anna Karenina (2012), The Lone Ranger (...
1. 2010 : A Streetcar Named Desire - Best Actress in a Supporting Role 2. 2012 : Anna Christie - Best Actress
66. Paul Mescal
Actor | All of Us Strangers
Paul Mescal is an Irish actor. He is known for his leading role in the miniseries Normal People, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
Before starting acting, he was an under-21 Gaelic footballer for County Kildare and a member of Maynooth Football Club. He plays as a defender. ...
1. 2023 : A Streetcar Named Desire - Best Actor
67. Lesley Manville
Actress | Phantom Thread
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Secrets &...
1. 2014 : Ghosts - Best Actress
68. Jessie Buckley
Actress | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Jessie Buckley is an Irish singer and actress, who came in second place in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything, and subsequently played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Most recently, Buckley played Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the...
1. 2022 : Cabaret - Best Actress in a Musical
69. Jenna Russell
Actress | Mortdecai
Jenna Russell was born on October 5, 1967 in Paddington, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Mortdecai (2015), On the Up (1990) and Into the Woods (2011).
1. 2007 : Sunday in the Park with George - Best Actress in a Musical
70. 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 ...
1. 2016 : Three Days in the Country - Best Actor in a Supporting Role 2. 2024 : The Motive and the Cue - Best Actor
71. 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 ...
1. 2007 : Rock 'n' Roll - Best Actor
72. Haydn Gwynne
Actress | Beauty and the Beast
Haydn Gwynne was fluent in French and Italian. She studied Modern Languages at the University of Warwick before taking a five-year lectureship in Italy, where she taught English. She also drove across the United States before becoming an actress in her mid-twenties.
She first came to notice on ...
1. 2024 : When Winston Went to War with the Wireless - Best Actress in a Supporting Role
73. Kyle Soller
Actor | Anna Karenina
Kyle was born in 1983 to a pharmacological lecturer and a former concert pianist. Though born in Bridgeport, Connecticut he was brought up in Alexandria, Virginia and studied History of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. However he abandoned his studies to come to England and ...
1. 2019 : The Inheritance - Best Actor
74. Sarah Snook
Actress | Predestination
Sarah Snook was born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia. Showing promise in performing arts at a young age, Sarah was awarded a scholarship to study drama at Scotch College, Adelaide. After high school, she was accepted in to the prestigious National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) and ...
1. 2024 : The Picture of Dorian Gray - Best Actress
75. Denise Gough
Actress | Wiedzmin 3: Dziki Gon
Denise was born in Ireland in 1980 to a father who was an electrician - later a fisheries expert - and a mother who "was pregnant for nine and a half years" since Denise is the seventh of twelve children, her younger sister Kelly, born in 1987, also being an actress. At school she had no theatrical...
1. 2016 : People, Places and Things - Best Actress
76. Nicole Scherzinger
Soundtrack | Moana
Nicole Scherzinger was born on June 29, 1978 in Honolulu & raised in Louisville, Kentucky. While attending a performing arts high school, she won the Coca-Cola Classic Talent Contest & performed in many plays at The Actors Theatre of Louisville. She then furthered her studies, majoring in theater ...
1. 2024 : Sunset Boulevard - Best Actress in a Musical
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