Actors
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1. Keira Knightley
Actress | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Keira Christina Knightley was born March 26, 1985 in the South West Greater London suburb of Richmond. She is the daughter of actor Will Knightley and actress turned playwright Sharman Macdonald. An older brother, Caleb Knightley, was born in 1979. Her father is English, while her Scottish-born ...
2. James McAvoy
Actor | Filth
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St ...
3. 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 ...
4. Adèle Haenel
Actress | Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Adèle Haenel was born on February 11, 1989 in Paris, France. She is an actress, known for Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), The Unknown Girl (2016) and Love at First Fight (2014).
5. 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 ...
6. Kate Winslet
Actress | Titanic
Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...
7. Christopher Abbott
Actor | It Comes at Night
Christopher Jacob Abbott is an American actor. Abbott made his feature film debut in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011). Abbott's other notable films include Hello I Must Be Going (2012) and The Sleepwalker (2014). In 2015, Abbott starred as the titular character in the critically acclaimed film James...
8. Vanessa Kirby
Actress | The Crown
Vanessa Kirby is an English stage, TV, and film actress. From 2016 to 2018, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series in 2018. She starred as Estella in the BBC ...
9. 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 ...
10. Alessandro Nivola
Actor | The Many Saints of Newark
Alessandro Nivola was born on June 28, 1972 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Many Saints of Newark (2021), American Hustle (2013) and Disobedience (2017). He has been married to Emily Mortimer since January 3, 2003. They have two children.
11. 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. ...
12. Thom Ashley
Actor | War of the Worlds
Thom Ashley is known for War of the Worlds (2019), Into the Badlands (2015) and Benediction (2021).
13. Jack Lowden
Actor | Small Axe
Rising star Jack Lowden grew up in the Scottish Borders. He graduated from the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2011. He has had enormous success on stage in leading roles, including his performance as Oswald in Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts", for which he won both the Ian Charleson...
14. Matthew Goode
Actor | Stoker
Matthew William Goode (born 3 April 1978) is an English actor. His films include Chasing Liberty (2004), Match Point (2005), Imagine Me and You (2006), Brideshead Revisited (2008), Watchmen (2009), A Single Man (2009), Leap Year (2010), Stoker (2013) and The Imitation Game (2014). Goode also ...
15. Teresa Palmer
Actress | Warm Bodies
Actress and model Teresa Palmer has gathered some impressive film credits. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia, to Kevin Palmer, an investor, and Paula Sanders, a former missionary and nurse. She completed high school at Mercedes College in 2003, where she was a popular student who was ...
16. Gregg Chilingirian
Actor | The Wheel of Time
Gregg Chilingirian was born in 1988 in the UK. He is an actor and director, known for The Wheel of Time (2021), A Discovery of Witches (2018) and Cobra (2020).
17. 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 ...
18. Edward Bluemel
Actor | The Commuter
Edward Bluemel was born on May 22, 1993 in Somerset, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Commuter (2018), Persuasion (2022) and Safe Word (2022).
19. Lindsay Duncan
Actress | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Lindsay Duncan was born on November 7, 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She is an actress, known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), About Time (2013) and Under the Tuscan Sun (2003). She is married to Hilton McRae. They have one child.
20. Steven Cree
Actor | Outlaw King
Steven Cree was born on February 29, 1980 in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Outlaw King (2018), The Diplomat (2023) and Outlander (2014). He has been married to Kahleen Crawford since May 29, 2016.
21. Katherine Waterston
Actress | Inherent Vice
Katherine Waterston is an American actress. She is best known for Inherent Vice (2014), Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), and Alien: Covenant (2017).
Waterston made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She also had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank (2012), ...
22. Sergej Onopko
Actor | Red Sparrow
Sergej Onopko is a German Actor, born and raised in the 80's in former Soviet Union. He attended an art school in his native city of Kharkiv, in which he practiced latin dance, painting and performance art & competed in latin & standard dance nationally for 5 years.
He took part in several ...
23. Daniel Donskoy
Actor | Barbarians
Daniel Donskoy was born on January 27, 1990 in Moscow, USSR. He is an actor and producer, known for Barbarians (2020), A Small Light (2023) and Victoria (2016).
24. David Schütter
Actor | Charlie's Angels
David Schütter was born in 1991 in Hamburg, Germany. He is an actor, known for Charlie's Angels (2019), In a Land That No Longer Exists (2022) and Our wonderful years (2020).
25. Svenja Jung
Actress | The Empress
Svenja Jung was born in Weroth, Germany on May 28th, 1993. She is an actor well known for her roles in Zeit der Geheimnisse (2019), Fucking Berlin (2016), Die Mitte der Welt (2016), and Deutschland89 (2020). She also acted in the Netflix miniseries Holiday Secrets (2019), alongside Corinna Harfouch...
26. Luise Befort
Actress | Club der roten Bänder
Luise Befort was born in May 1996. Her older brother is the actor Max Befort.
She is an actress known for Club der roten Bänder (2015), Zum Teufel mit der Wahrheit (2015), Block B - Unter Arrest (2015) and The Glory Is Gone (2015).
27. August Wittgenstein
Actor | The Crown
August Wittgenstein was born on January 22, 1981 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany. He is an actor, known for The Crown (2016), Das Boot (2018) and Ku'damm 56 (2016).
28. Sam Riley
Actor | Control
British actor Sam Riley rose to stardom as Joy Division's poetic lead singer Ian Curtis in the acclaimed film Control (2007), directed by Anton Coribjn, a great fan of the group and also their official photographer. Riley's talent was noticed not only to his striking resemblance to Curtis but also ...
29. James Cosmo
Actor | Braveheart
James Cosmo was born on May 24, 1948 in Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Braveheart (1995), Troy (2004) and Highlander (1986). He has been married to Annie Harris since May 24, 2000.
30. Kate Bosworth
Actress | Superman Returns
Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to Patricia (Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, who was an executive for Talbots. Unlike the characters Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film, which are known as "townies", Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and...
31. Jenna Coleman
Actress | Victoria
Jenna Coleman is best known for her BAFTA-nominated performance as Clara in 'Doctor Who' and for playing the title role in ITV's Emmy-nominated series 'Victoria'. She was most recently seen in a lead role as Marie-Andrée Leclerc in the dark crime drama 'The Serpent' for BBC and Netflix opposite ...
32. Adrian Schiller
Actor | Beauty and the Beast
Adrian Schiller was born on February 21, 1964 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Beauty and the Beast (2017), Suffragette (2015) and Bright Star (2009). He died on April 3, 2024 in the UK.
33. 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 ...
34. Nell Hudson
Actress | Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Nell Hudson was born on November 19, 1990 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), Victoria (2016) and Outlander (2014).
35. Edwin Thomas
Actor | The Happy Prince
Edwin Thomas is a British actor/screenwriter best known for starring as Robbie Ross in The Happy Prince (Lionsgate, Sony Pictures) opposite Colin Firth, Rupert Everett and Emily Watson. His performance as Robbie won him international claim, and he was nominated as a 'Screen international Star of ...
36. Laura Haddock
Actress | Guardians of the Galaxy
Laura Haddock was born on August 21, 1985 in England, UK. She is an actress, known for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017). She was previously married to Sam Claflin.
37. Lars Eidinger
Actor | Clouds of Sils Maria
Lars Eidinger, born in Berlin, studied at the prestigious Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art in Berlin.
Since 1999 he has been an ensemble member at the Berliner Schaubühne. His portrayals of Hamlet and Richard III. in the productions of Thomas Ostermeier were internationally acclaimed and made him...
38. Jeanne Goursaud
Actress | Pax Massilia
Jeanne Goursaud was born on April 4, 1996 in Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. She is an actress, known for Blood Coast (2023), Barbarians (2020) and Para - We Are King (2021).
39. Laurence Rupp
Actor | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Laurence Rupp was born on August 10, 1987 in Vienna, Austria. He is an actor, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), In 3 Tagen bist du tot (2006) and Cops (2018).
40. Sebastian De Souza
Actor | The Great
Sebastian De Souza was born on April 19, 1993 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Great (2020), Normal People (2020) and Medici (2016).
41. David Alpay
Actor | Ararat
David Alpay was born on October 6, 1980 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for Ararat (2002), Red Rooms (2023) and Man of the Year (2006).
42. Gina McKee
Actress | Notting Hill
She was born in Sunderland but raised just down the coast in Peterlee where she was educated at Peterlee Comprehensive. At 14 she joined the local drama group which led to a part in the children's tv series 'Quest of Eagles' and appeared in some television commercials including one as a shop ...
43. David Oakes
Actor | Vikings: Valhalla
David Oakes is a British actor who trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and graduated in 2007. He is represented by Conway Van Gelder Grant Inc.
Before training professionally as an actor he studied at Manchester University where he received a first class degree in English and Drama. David ...
44. Lotte Verbeek
Actress | The Fault in Our Stars
Lotte Verbeek is an award-winning Dutch actress, dancer and model. Lotte was born in Venlo, Netherlands. She was educated at Gymnasium Collegium Marianum in Venlo and graduated in 2008 at the Theaterschool in Amsterdam. From 1999, Verbeek attended the Dance Academy in Arnhem and the Amsterdam ...
45. Sean Harris
Actor | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
Sean Harris was born in 1966 in Bethnal Green, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Harry Brown (2009) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).
46. Holliday Grainger
Actress | Cinderella
Holliday Clark Grainger also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in Strike, DI ...
47. François Arnaud
Actor | The Borgias
François Arnaud was born on July 5, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is an actor and producer, known for The Borgias (2011), Blindspot (2015) and I Killed My Mother (2009).
48. Jeremy Irons
Actor | Dead Ringers
British actor Jeremy Irons was born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England. He is the son of Barbara Anne Brereton (Sharpe) and Paul Dugan Irons, an accountant. Young Jeremy didn't prove very fond of figures. He visited mainland England only once a year. He wound up ...
49. Maria Doyle Kennedy
Actress | The Tudors
Maria Doyle Kennedy was born on September 25, 1964 in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland. She is an actress and director, known for The Tudors (2007), The Commitments (1991) and Orphan Black (2013). She has been married to Kieran Kennedy since June 11, 1988. They have four children.
50. Rod Hallett
Actor | Ant-Man
Rod Hallett is known for Ant-Man (2015), The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) and Crisis (2014).
51. Nick Dunning
Actor | Alexander
Nick Dunning was born in 1959 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Alexander (2004), The Tudors (2007) and The Iron Lady (2011). He has been married to Lise-Anne McLaughlin since 1992. They have two children.
52. Max Brown
Actor | Nolly
Max Brown is a native of Ilkley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England but spent his childhood mostly in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. His love of acting was ignited at an early age when he performed at the Shrewsbury Music Hall. At the age of 20, the youthful face of Max Brown first appeared on ...
53. Natalie Dormer
Actress | Game of Thrones
Natalie Dormer born February 11, 1982 is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Anne Boleyn on the Showtime series The Tudors (2007-10), as Margaery Tyrell on the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012-14), Irene Adler on the CBS series Elementary (2013-15), and as Cressida in the ...
54. Sarah Bolger
Actress | In America
Sarah Lee Bolger (born 28 February 1991) is an Irish actress. She is best known for her roles in the films In America (2002), Stormbreaker, and The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), as well as her award winning role as Lady Mary Tudor in the TV series The Tudors (2007), and for guest starring as ...
55. James Frain
Actor | The Tudors
James Frain is one of Hollywood's most versatile and respected actors who has a reputation for bold, intelligent performances in a diverse body of work in which he's collaborated with some of the finest actors and directors working today.
James is well known for his portrayal of real life current ...
56. Henry Cavill
Actor | Man of Steel
Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill was born on the Bailiwick of Jersey, a British Crown dependency in the Channel Islands. His mother, Marianne (Dalgliesh), a housewife, was also born on Jersey, and is of Irish, Scottish and English ancestry. Henry's father, Colin Richard Cavill, a stockbroker, is of ...
57. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Actor | Den 12. mann
Jonathan Rhys Meyers was born Jonathan Michael Meyers on July 27, 1977, in Dublin, Ireland, to Mary Geraldine (Meyers) and John O'Keeffe, a musician. He and his family moved to County Cork, Ireland, when the actor was nearly a year old, and then, at the age of 3, his father left the family, leaving...
58. Joseph Ollman
Director | Throw Me to the Dogs
Joseph Ollman is known for Throw Me to the Dogs (2015), Domina (2021) and Vampire Academy (2022).
59. Julian Ovenden
Actor | Bridgerton
Julian Ovenden was born on November 29, 1976 in Sheffield, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Bridgerton (2020), Downton Abbey (2010) and Adult Material (2020). He has been married to Kate Royal since December 20, 2010. They have two children.
60. Pádraic Delaney
Actor | The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Pádraic was born on November 6th 1977 in County Wexford, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College Dublin and graduated in 2001. His first film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. He is also known for The Tudors (2008), Blackthorn (2011) and ...
61. Simon Merrells
Actor | Spartacus: Blood and Sand
Essex boy Simon is the elder of the two acting Merrells brothers, born in 1965, three years before his sibling Jason. Though there was no acting background in the family both boys were keen to tread the boards at an early age, attending Saturday morning drama classes, then a Sylvia Young school, ...
62. 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. ...
63. Martin McCann
Actor | The Survivalist
Martin McCann grew up with a brother and sister in the Falls Road, Divis Flats area of Belfast, Northern Ireland.
In 2006 Lord Richard Attenborough cast McCann in his film, "Closing the Ring" (2007) after seeing him play Alex in a stage production of A Clockwork Orange. He was invited to LA to ...
64. Elliot Cowan
Actor | Alexander
Elliot Cowan was born on July 9, 1976 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Alexander (2004), Lost in Austen (2008) and The Golden Compass (2007).
65. Tom Sturridge
Actor | On the Road
Tom Sturridge was born in London, England. He is the son of actress Phoebe Nicholls and sometime-actor and full-time director Charles Sturridge, and the grandson of actors Anthony Nicholls and Faith Kent. His maternal great-grandfather, Horace Nicholls, was a prominent photographer.
Tom started his ...
66. Boyd Holbrook
Actor | Logan
Boyd Holbrook is an American actor and producer. He has appeared in films such as Milk (2008), Out of the Furnace (2013), Gone Girl (2014), A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), Run All Night (2015) and in the Netflix series Narcos.
In 2007 Holbrook sent a screenplay to director Gus Van Sant, who was ...
67. David Thewlis
Actor | Naked
David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and...
68. Joely Richardson
Actress | Nip/Tuck
For Joely, the theatre must be in her genes. Born in Marylebone, London, England, she is the daughter of director Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, niece of Lynn Redgrave, and sister of Natasha Richardson, all actors. Former husband Tim ...
69. John Cameron Mitchell
Actor | Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell was born on April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001), Shortbus (2006) and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017).
70. Harriet Walter
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Dame Harriet Mary Walter DBE is a British actress. She has received a Laurence Olivier Award as well as numerous nominations including for a Tony Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2011, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) ...
71. Laura Carmichael
Actress | Downton Abbey
Laura Carmichael was born on July 16, 1986 in Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Downton Abbey (2019), Downton Abbey (2010) and Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022).
72. Charlotte Hope
Actress | Allied
Charlotte Hope was born in Salisbury on October 15, 1991. Her father is a barrister who used to be a jockey and her mother worked in PR before becoming housewife. At 18, she went to study French and Spanish at Oxford University, where she acted in a lot of university theatre. Whilst there, she ...
73. Ruairi O'Connor
Actor | The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
Ruairi O'Connor was born on July 9, 1991 in County Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor, known for The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021), The Morning Show (2019) and The Postcard Killings (2020).
74. Philip Cumbus
Actor | Macbeth
Philip Cumbus is known for Macbeth (2014), The Importance of Being Earnest on Stage (2015) and Shakespeare's Globe: Romeo and Juliet (2010).
75. Jordan Renzo
Actor | Class
Jordan Renzo was born on February 11, 1993 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Class (2016), The Witcher (2019) and Class: The Audio Adventures (2018).
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. Georgie Henley
Actress | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Georgina Helen Henley was born July 9, 1995 in Ilkley, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, the youngest of three daughters of Mike and Helen Henley. When she was young, she joined a local drama group called "Upstagers". It was there that she started her acting career, participating in stage ...
78. Andrew Buchan
Actor | All the Money in the World
Andrew Buchan was born on February 19, 1979 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for All the Money in the World (2017), Broadchurch (2013) and Garrow's Law (2009). He has been married to Amy Nuttall since September 8, 2012. They have one child.
79. Andrew Rothney
Actor | The Victim
Andrew Rothney was born on August 17, 1987 in Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for The Victim (2019), The Undeclared War (2022) and Traces (2019).
80. Alfie Allen
Actor | John Wick
Alfie Evan Allen (born 12 September 1986) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Theon Greyjoy in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011-2019).
Allen was born in Hammersmith, London, the son of film producer Alison Owen and Welsh-born actor Keith Allen. His older sister is singer Lily Allen...
81. Saoirse Ronan
Actress | Hanna
Saoirse Una Ronan was born in The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, to Irish parents, Monica Ronan (née Brennan) and Paul Ronan, an actor. When Saoirse was three, the family moved back to Dublin, Ireland. Saoirse grew up in Dublin and briefly in Co. Carlow before moving back to Dublin ...
82. Tom Hardy
Actor | Inception
With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut...
83. Ioan Gruffudd
Actor | Fantastic Four
Ioan Gruffudd was born on October 6, 1973 in Cardiff, Wales, UK to educators Gillian (James) and Peter Gruffudd. He has a brother, Alun, who is two years younger and a sister, Siwan, who is seven years younger. He got his start at age 13 in the Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm (1974). He attended the ...
84. 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 ...
85. 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...
86. 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 ...
87. 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 ...
88. Ciarán Hinds
Actor | Belfast
Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9, 1953. He was one of five children and the only son. His father was a doctor who hoped to have Ciarán follow in his footsteps, but that was not to be. It was his mother Moya, an amateur actress, who was the real influence behind his ...
89. 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, ...
90. Jeremy Swift
Actor | Ted Lasso
Jeremy Swift is an English actor born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham in 1960, who has most recently been seen in 'Mary Poppins Returns' directed by Rob Marshall for Disney. Jeremy has also worked with legendary film directors such as Roman Polanski (Oliver Twist), Robert Altman (Gosford Park) ...
91. Stephen Campbell Moore
Actor | The Bank Job
Stephen Campbell Moore was born on November 30, 1979 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Bank Job (2008), Season of the Witch (2011) and Amazing Grace (2006). He has been married to Claire Foy since December 2014. They have one child.
92. Hans Matheson
Actor | Sherlock Holmes
Hans Matheson was born in a caravan on August 7, 1975 at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, located in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Shortly after, his family moved to Canterbury, Kent in England but Hans often spent his summer holidays on Stornoway with his grandparents. As a child, his parents Iain (Ado...
93. Sam Neill
Actor | Jurassic Park
Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English-born mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities ...
94. Alexandra Maria Lara
Actress | Der Untergang
Born on 12 November 1978 in Bucharest, Romania, Alexandra Maria Lara fled to Germany with her parents when she was four and half years old. After graduating at the French High School, she studied acting at the Theaterwerkstatt Charlottenburg from 1997 and 2000, but had already played leading ...
95. Anne-Marie Duff
Actress | Nowhere Boy
Anne-Marie Duff is an English actress, born on 8 October 1970 in Southall, London. Her parents, Brendan and Mary (née Doherty), are from Donegal, Ireland. Her father worked as a painter and decorator and her mother worked in a shoe shop.
She first came to the attention of the British public for her ...
96. Kris Marshall
Actor | Love Actually
Kristopher Marshall is an English actor who has been starring in films, on television, and on stage for more than 20 years. He has played Nick Harper in "My Family", Colin Frissell in the 2003 film "Love Actually", Gratiano in "The Merchant of Venice", and Dave in the first series of "Citizen Khan"...
97. Hugh Bonneville
Actor | Downton Abbey
Hugh Bonneville is a British actor, known for his stage work at the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company as well as the West End. His extensive film and television work includes Twenty Twelve, W1A, Downton Abbey, Paddington, The Gold and I Came By. See his website hughbonneville.uk for ...
98. 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 ...
99. Mélanie Thierry
Actress | The Zero Theorem
Mélanie Thierry was born on July 17, 1981 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France. She is an actress and director, known for The Zero Theorem (2013), Da 5 Bloods (2020) and Babylon A.D. (2008).
100. Nicolas Duvauchelle
Actor | Polisse
Touted as a rebel, Duvauchelle seem to be one of the most promising young actors in France and Europe. While studying to become a pharmacy employee, he was discovered in a boxing club in Paris. After some auditions, he starred in Le petit voleur (1999), and many other films such as Snowboarder (...
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