Actors
by anastasiadosi | created - 04 Dec 2019 | updated - 27 Mar 2022 | Public
1. 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...
2. José Garcia
Actor | Bastille Day
José Garcia was born on March 17, 1966 in Paris, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Bastille Day (2016), Now You See Me (2013) and The Ax (2005). He is married to Isabelle Doval. They have two children.
3. Guillaume Canet
Actor | Jeux d'enfants
Son of horse breeders, the young man spent his childhood in the countryside near Paris. In his youth, Guillaume wanted to be a horse-rider, and briefly followed a professional career in the sport. A bad fall broke his dreams, but is at the origin of his acting career, and success. After briefly ...
4. Philip Jackson
Actor | Brassed Off
Philip Jackson was born on June 18, 1948 in Retford, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Brassed Off (1996), The Best Offer (2013) and Scum (1979). He is married to Sally Baxter. They have two children.
5. Michelle Williams
Actress | Blue Valentine
A small-town girl born and raised in rural Kalispell, Montana, Michelle Ingrid Williams is the daughter of Carla Ingrid (Swenson), a homemaker, and Larry Richard Williams, a commodity trader and author. Her ancestry is Norwegian, as well as German, British Isles, and other Scandinavian. She was ...
6. 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 ...
7. 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 ...
8. Lubna Azabal
Actress | Incendies
Lubna Azabal was born on August 15, 1973 in Brussels, Belgium. She is an actress, known for Incendies (2010), Coriolanus (2011) and Body of Lies (2008).
9. Riccardo Scamarcio
Actor | John Wick: Chapter 2
Riccardo Scamarcio was born on November 13, 1979 in Trani, Apulia, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Loose Cannons (2010) and Tre metri sopra il cielo (2004).
10. Abigail Spencer
Actress | Mad Men
Actress, writer, and producer on both the big and small screen, Abigail Spencer is quickly making a name for herself in Hollywood.
Spencer was seen in Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful (2013), a prequel take on The Wizard of Oz (1939), alongside James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and ...
11. Niels Schneider
Actor | Les amours imaginaires
Niels Schneider was born on January 18, 1987 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and director, known for Heartbeats (2010), Le rite (2022) and I Killed My Mother (2009).
12. Benoît Magimel
Actor | La pianiste
Son of a nurse and a bank employee, Benoît Magimel was born in Paris and grew up there. At age 12, he played Momo in Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988) by Étienne Chatiliez. He stopped his studies at age 16 to become an actor.
But he had a dual personality: on one hand the man of low budget films ...
13. Kristoffer Joner
Actor | Bølgen
Kristoffer Joner is a Norwegian actor born in Stavanger, Norway. He is best known for Villmark (2003), The Wave (2015), and The Revenant (2015).
His film debut was Detektor (2000). In 2005 Joner received an Amanda Award for best male actor in the movie Naboer and again in 2012 for his role in The ...
14. Nina Hoss
Actress | Phoenix
Nina Hoss was born on July 7, 1975 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She is an actress, known for Phoenix (2014), Tár (2022) and A Most Wanted Man (2014). She has been married to Alex Silva since 2015.
15. Alexander Fehling
Actor | Inglourious Basterds
Alexander Fehling was born on March 29, 1981 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor and director, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Labyrinth of Lies (2014) and Homeland (2011).
16. Noémie Merlant
Actress | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Noémie Merlant is a French actress, writer and director, she is best known for Le ciel attendra (2016), Portrait de la jeune fille en feu (2019), Curiosa (2019), and Tár (2022).
She won an César Awards for best supporting actress to her role in L'innocent (2022).
She also starred in Les Olympiades ...
17. Ane Dahl Torp
Actress | Bølgen
Ane Dahl Torp was born on August 1, 1975 in Bærum, Norway. She is an actress, known for The Wave (2015), Cold Lunch (2008) and Gymnaslærer Pedersen (2006).
18. Tom Schilling
Actor | Oh Boy
Tom Schilling was born on February 10, 1982 in Berlin, Germany. He is an actor and producer, known for A Coffee in Berlin (2012), Before the Fall (2004) and Who Am I (2014).
19. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
20. Mads Mikkelsen
Actor | Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...
21. Emily Mortimer
Actress | Mary Poppins Returns
British actress Emily Kathleen Anne Mortimer was born in Hammersmith, London, England, to writer and barrister Sir John Mortimer and his second wife, Penelope (née Gollop). She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School in West London, and it was whilst there she began acting. Mortimer moved on from ...
22. Simon J. Berger
Actor | Jönssonligan - Den perfekta stöten
Simon J. Berger was born on June 1, 1979 in Sweden. He is an actor, known for The Master Plan (2015), Exit (2019) and Modus (2015).
23. Alexandra Tiedemann
Actress | Pas de café, pas de télé, pas de sexe
Alexandra Tiedemann is known for Pas de café, pas de télé, pas de sexe (1999), Chroma (2022) and Michel Vaillant (2003).
24. Vincent Lindon
Actor | Titane
Vincent Lindon was born on July 15, 1959 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He is an actor and writer, known for Titane (2021), The Measure of a Man (2015) and La haine (1995). He was previously married to Sandrine Kiberlain.
25. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s,...
26. Lola Dueñas
Actress | Mar adentro
Lola Dueñas was born on October 6, 1971 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She is an actress, known for The Sea Inside (2004), Volver (2006) and Broken Embraces (2009).
27. Franz Rogowski
Actor | Transit
Franz Rogowski is an actor. He was born on 2nd February 1986 in Freiburg, Germany. The actor is known for Victoria (2015) and Love Steaks (2013). Victoria (2015) is one of the few feature films shot in a single continuous take and won amongst other things the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic ...
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