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Ralph Ineson was born on 15 December 1969 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Witch (2015), The Green Knight (2021) and The Creator (2023).

A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a journalist, beginning as a newspaper copy boy. Although he succeeded in becoming a reporter, he discovered the theater and made his stage debut at age 17. He served as a radioman in the Royal Navy for two years, then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Richard Harris.

O'Toole spent several years on-stage at the Bristol Old Vic, then made an inconspicuous film debut in the Disney classic Kidnapped (1960). In 1962, he was chosen by David Lean to play T.E. Lawrence in Lean's epic drama Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The role made O'Toole an international superstar and received him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 1963, he played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theater. He continued successfully in artistically rich films as well as less artistic but commercially rewarding projects. He received Academy Award nominations (but no Oscar) for seven different films.

However, medical problems (originally thought to have been brought on by his drinking but which turned out to be stomach cancer) threatened to destroy his career and life in the 1970s. He survived by giving up alcohol and, after serious medical treatment, returned to films with triumphant performances in The Stunt Man (1980) and My Favorite Year (1982). His youthful beauty lost to time and drink, O'Toole has found meaningful roles increasingly difficult to come by, though he remained one of the greatest actors of his generation. He had two daughters, Pat and Kate O'Toole, from his marriage to actress Siân Phillips. He also had a son, Lorcan O'Toole, by model Karen Brown.

On December 14, 2013, Peter O'Toole died at age 81 in London, England.

Nick was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England on the 4th of October 1980. On leaving school he was offered a place at Cambridge University, but instead chose to study geophysics at the University of Durham, graduating with a first. Whilst at Durham he became involved in the local comedy circuits but on leaving did accept an offer from Cambridge to read for a doctorate in seismology. However he never completed his course because after joining the Footlights Revue and appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe he was spotted by a BBC producer who offered him radio work. He has since appeared in numerous sitcoms - Miranda (2009), Life's Too Short (2011) and most notably as the annoying promotions manager in Jessica Knappett's Drifters (2013). In 2014 his persona of Mr. Swallow attracted huge critical claim in a comic reworking of Dracula on stage and two years later he was similarly lauded as this time Mr. Swallow took on the role of Harry Houdini, appearing nightly in a glass tank like Houdini himself. The show transferred from Edinburgh and opened in London's Soho Theatre in 2017.

Tall, gaunt, and particularly effective in horror and drama films, British actor Julian Sands was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to Brenda and William Sands. He came to the attention of NBC when the network cast him in the TV miniseries The Sun Also Rises (1984) and then with Anthony Hopkins in the television film A Married Man (1983). Sands also got noticed for his very small roles in Privates on Parade (1983) and The Killing Fields (1984). It wasn't until his funny and romantic role opposite Helena Bonham Carter in A Room with a View (1985) and then his unusual role in Gothic (1986) that he garnered audience acclaim.

He continued work on screen in Vibes (1988), Impromptu (1991) and Steven Spielberg's Arachnophobia (1990), until his most remembered role as Warlock (1989), directed by Steve Miner. The film was a major success and he returned for the sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). Other credits include Naked Lunch (1991), Tale of a Vampire (1992) and the title role in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera (1998). Sands has more recently been in Stephen King's Rose Red (2002) and was occasionally seen on the English stage.

Sands disappeared on January 13, 2023 after going for a hike near the Mount Baldy area of California's San Bernardino Mountains. Local authorities and search and rescue teams conducted over six weeks of multiple ground and aerial searches, which were unsuccessful. On June 24, 2023, hikers near Mount Baldy discovered human remains. On June 27, 2023, local authorities confirmed the remains to be those of Sands. He was 65 years old.

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 and historical figures. On television/streaming these have included; Lord Warwick 'The Kingmaker' (in "The White Queen", Starz), the godfather of the English Reformation Thomas Cromwell (in "The Tudors", Showtime), LBJ speechwriter Richard Goodwin (in "Path to War", HBO Max) and Olympic rowing trainer Jack Beresford opposite Matt Smith (in "Bert and Dickie", BBC). In features James played world famous conductor, and classical pianist Daniel Barenboim in the Oscar nominated "Hilary and Jackie" (October Films) and the Spanish Ambassador in the Oscar nominated "Elizabeth" opposite Cate Blanchett (Working Title).

James also has considerable experience in genre in the cable and streaming space: as a DC villain in "Gotham" (Fox, HBO Max), a vampire in "True Blood" (HBO Max) and as Spock's father Sarek, as a younger man, in "Star Trek Discovery" (Paramount +).

His past film credits include "TRON: Legacy" opposite Jeff Bridges, "Water for Elephants" opposite Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, "The Count of Monte Cristo" with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce, "Where the Heart Is" opposite Natalie Portman, and "Reindeer Games" with Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron.

James has an extensive theatre background having performed in the UK with The Royal Shakespeare Company, as Edmund in "King Lear" The Almeida, and The Royal Court. James co-starred with Ian McShane on Broadway in the critical hit production of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming", 2007, for which the cast won The Drama Critics Circle Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 James played Lionel Logue in The Chicago Shakespeare Theater's world premiere of "The Kings Speech".

James has a BA in English Drama and Film from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) and a diploma in acting from London's Central School of Speech and Drama. While studying in London, James was spotted by Sir. Richard Attenborough, who immediately cast him in his first feature Shadowlands opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins, with whom he worked again on Julie Taymor's "Titus Andronicus".

James was born in Leeds, in the north of England, to an Irish Catholic family. He has seven younger brothers and sisters. The family moved South when he was young and James grew up in Stansted and Bishops Stortford on the Hertfordshire/Essex border. He went to a state secondary school at the Joyce Frankland Academy, in Newport. James was married to director Marta Cunningham. He has two teenage children and splits his time between Los Angeles and London.

Mark Stanley was born on 29 April 1988 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Run (2019), Sulphur and White (2020) and Dark River (2017).

Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, after he had returned to England, he attended and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature.

Wilkinson first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s, but did not become familiar to an international audience until 1997. That was when he starred as one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Best Picture nominee The Full Monty (1997), and went on to win a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. That same year, he was featured in Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Wilde (1997). Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theatre financier with acting aspirations in Best Picture winner Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Over the next few years, Wilkinson would become more popular, especially with American audiences, with such roles as General Cornwallis alongside Mel Gibson in the blockbuster The Patriot (2000) and as the grief-stricken father, Matt Fowler, in the critically acclaimed Best Picture nominee In the Bedroom (2001). For his role in that movie, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Since then, Wilkinson has made memorable appearances in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Duplicity (2009), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Debt (2010) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), among others. Wilkinson also received his second Academy Award nomination for his acclaimed role in Michael Clayton (2007).

Wilkinson won an Emmy Award for his work as Benjamin Franklin in HBO's John Adams (2008) mini-series. The same year, he received an Emmy nomination for his role in HBO movie Recount (2008), and has also received Emmy nominations for Normal (2003) and The Kennedys (2011).

Wilkinson had two children, Alice and Molly, with his wife Diana Hardcastle.

Felicity Montagu was born on 12 September 1960 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Alan Partridge (2013) and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008). She was previously married to Alan Nixon.

Matthew Lewis was born on 27 June 1989 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Me Before You (2016) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He has been married to Angela Jones since 28 May 2018.

Charlie Ross Heaton is an English actor and musician. He is known for starring as Jonathan Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series, Stranger Things (2016). Beginning his career as a musician, Heaton appeared on British television before starring in Stranger Things and feature films like the 2016 indie thriller Shut In; he has since starred in the thriller films: Marrowbone (2017) & The New Mutants (2020), among others.

Matilda Firth was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and is the middle child of 3. A natural performer from a young age, she joined a children's drama class for an hour every Saturday afternoon where her love for acting soon shone through. Before long Matilda began picking up roles in commercials, TV shows and movies. Her first lead role came at only 6 years old when she starred in the 2021 McDonald's UK Christmas commercial directed by Bert and Bertie.

In 2022, Matilda filmed roles in Disney's Disenchanted, Vampire Academy, Sky's Christmas Carole and Starve Acre. She also filmed the role of Grace across 2 seasons of Hullraisers.

The following year Matilda completed shooting of the movie Subservience, starring Megan Fox, and played the role of Nancy in the second season of the highly acclaimed BBC show 'Time'. Later that year she filmed the role of Sophie in the popular mini-series 'Coma' and the role of Mille-Jo in the ground breaking ITV series 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'.

In early 2024 Matilda joined the cast of Blumhouse's and Universal's 'Wolf Man', directed by Leigh Whannell, spending 3 months filming the movie in New Zealand. A few months later she joined the cast of the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers.

Matilda is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency (USA) and Articulate Agency (UK).

Austin Haynes is a British actor who started acting at the age of seven.

Since landing his first cast TV role, in popular BBC1 drama The A Word, Austin has worked consistently in film and television.

Austin is a keen guitarist and featured in the infamous Co-Op's Christmas Commercial 'Round Are Way', busking with his younger brother, Rocco. The Commercial went on to win several awards including 'Best Casting Featuring Children' at the Casting Directors Association Awards in 2021 at BAFTA.

He has filmed an array of different TV roles in many well known productions such as 'Gentleman Jack', 'The A Word', 'Dodger', 'Andy and the Band', 'Teds Top Ten', 'All Creatures Great and Small' and Channel 4's 'Somewhere Boy', BAFTA nominated for best drama.

His films include comedy heist 'The Duke', where he starred alongside Jim Broadbent and Dame Helen Mirren, crime film 'The Pure and the Damned', 'Iniquity' and 'The Boys in the Boat' for MGM, where he was directed by George Clooney, due for worldwide release in December 2023.

Austin's first pivotal leading role was released in the summer of 2022, for StudioCanals 'The Railway Children Return' where he filmed alongside Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith and Sir Tom Courtenay. Austin plays Thomas, the grandson of Jenny Agutter's character, in the family adventure about a group of children evacuated to the Yorkshire countryside in the Second World War.

A natural flair for accents from a young age, Austin has been cast in many roles using an alternative to his natural Yorkshire accent, including American, London, Newcastle and Liverpool.

In November 2022, he was awarded 'Yorkshires Young Achiever of the Year' for 'Contribution to the Arts'.

Austin went on to complete filming on Jamie Child's feature film 'Jackdaw' for Anton Productions, working alongside Thomas Turgoose, Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen and BBC's 'The Power of Parker', working alongside Conleth Hill, Sheila Reid and Sian Gibson.

Austin has recently completed filming on The Responder (Series 2) alongside Martin Freeman and Adam Nagaitis and boxing biopic 'Giant' alongside Pierce Brosnan.

Nichola Burley was born in 1986 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wuthering Heights (2011), Lynn + Lucy (2019) and Donkey Punch (2008).

Philip Stone was an English character actor, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 1924. His first job was for an engineering company in Leeds and he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was on stage at the West End in London from 1947. He also contracted tuberculosis that year and was forced to give up acting for several years to undergo treatment.

Stanley Kubrick noticed him during 1969 while acting in "The Contractor" at the Royal Court Theatre. Stone was the only actor to appear in three consecutive Kubrick films. He played the central character Alex's "P" (as in "M" and "P" for "Ma" and "Pa") in A Clockwork Orange (1971), and then subsequently played Graham, the Lyndon family lawyer, in Barry Lyndon (1975), and Delbert Grady, the original caretaker who murdered his family in The Shining (1980). The only other actor to be credited in three Kubrick films is Joe Turkel. Other film roles included Thunderball (1965), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Quest for Love (1971), Flash Gordon (1980) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). In the animated version of The Lord of the Rings (1978), he voiced the role of Theoden.

Stone was also a prolific stage and television actor, appearing in many popular TV series, including the very first episode of The Avengers (1961), as well as Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), A Touch of Frost (1992), Heartbeat (1992), Yes Minister (1980) and Coronation Street (1960). At one time he fronted his own production company, Philip Stone Productions. He died of a heart attack in London in 2003, aged 79.

Mark Pillow was born on 14 April 1959 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Wiseguy (1987) and Lara - Tödliche Eifersucht (2000). He has been married to Magdalena Barbara Plate since 23 November 1992. They have two children.

Barbara Marten was born as Barbara Mason on January 3rd 1947. As a teenager she attended the London School of Music and Dramatic Art but claims that it put her off acting and she worked for two years as a teacher, returning to the stage when she joined a theatre group in Coventry and then a touring company based in Doncaster but travelling Yorkshire putting on contemporary plays. In 1997 she joined the cast of 'Casualty' for possibly her best known television role as straight talking nurse Eve Montgomery and remained with the series for two years. Since then she has appeared in many popular dramas including 'Silent Witness', 'The Bill' and Waking the Dead' and more recently appeared in the period drama 'The Mill' as real-life anti-slavery campaigner Hannah Greg. Barbara married writer Mike Kenny, living with him in Leeds. They have three sons, Billy, Josh and Theo - whose name signifies God's gift, as three years before he was born Barbara suffered an illness which led her to believe she could no longer have children.

William Gaunt said in a recent interview that he might well have considered a career as a geologist or anthropologist, had not the theatre beckoned. The Yorkshire-born solicitor's son first studied drama at Baylor University in Texas, did a two-year stint in the army and eventually completed his actor training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His career began on the repertory stage, in one of his earliest roles essaying Mortimer Brewster in the farce Arsenic and Old Lace at the Salisbury Playhouse (1961). After a string of minor television roles, Gaunt landed his breakout role in Sergeant Cork (1963), a whodunit set in 1890s London. The series aired on television from 1963 to 1968. Gaunt was second-billed as Bob Marriott, the astute, methodical sidekick of the titular Scotland Yard sleuth. He then had a pivotal role in a BBC adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968) (as the heroine's brother) before acquiring a substantial cult following as the ever youthful-looking Nemesis agent Richard Barrett, a specialist code-breaker endowed with enhanced physical and metal powers, in ITC's supernatural adventure/espionage series The Champions (1968). The show was created by the team of Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner.

Gaunt subsequently divided his time between screen and stage. By the end of the 70s, he had served as artistic director of the Liverpool Playhouse. He directed several plays for the Farnham and Liverpool Repertory Companies and at the West End. He spent several seasons with the National Theatre, later headlining in the role of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2006), Sorin and the Earl of Gloucester, respectively, in The Seagull and King Lear (RSC, 2007-2008). More recently, in 2021, he portrayed Duncan in Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre in London. This performance was filmed and screened two years later by BBC4 as The Tragedy of Macbeth (2023).

The screen had offered Gaunt another recurring role in The Challengers (1972), a miniseries set in the House of Commons and in Westminster's corridors of power. Moreover, leading roles in two popular sitcoms further reinvigorated his career: as a perpetually stressed dad, trying to cope with four kids who won't leave the nest, in the sitcom No Place Like Home (1983); and as a middle class husband, who, with his wife (Penelope Keith) is forced to assume guardianship over three orphaned grandchildren in Next of Kin (1995). Gaunt's portfolio of assorted characters has also included Charles Hurst QC in several episodes of Crown Court (1972), solicitor Edward Capstick in Capstick's Law (1989) and a warrior knight combating Davros and the Daleks in season 22 of Doctor Who (1963). He also lampooned his role in The Champions in a made-for-TV spoof, The Preventers (1996), which poked fun at 60s and 70s British adventure/spy series like The Avengers (1961) and The Persuaders! (1971).

Gaunt has been married to English actress Carolyn Lyster since 1974.

Vic Reeves real name is Jim Moir he's the son of James., who was a linotype operator on the Yorkshire Post then the Northern Echo, and Audrey. He's best known for his partnership with Bob Mortimer in the comedy duo Reeves and Mortimer. After his wife left him he became engaged to the actress Emilia Fox who he co stared with in Randal and Hopkirk Deceased but while the relationship didn't last they remained good friends.

Born on May 29, 1975 in Leeds, England, Melanie Brown became a member of Spice Girls in 1994. Their three albums sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and they had nine singles at number 1 in the UK.

"Hot" was her first solo album, released on 9th October 2000. It entered the UK charts at #28. Despite producing 2 Top 5 singles (3, if you include the hit "I Want You Back"), the album only ever re-entered the chart once after dropping out of the Top 100 - peaking at #95 when "Feels So Good" was being promoted in February 2001. To date, the album has sold about 50,000 copies in the UK. The album sold 8,000 copies in its first week.

After she parted with Virgin Records, she started a new successful career as TV presenter and actress. In 2001, her own show This Is My Moment (2000) was a great success and, after the second series, she made a documentary about Africans voodoos.

In 2002, she was one of the protagonists of the BBC3's sit-com Burn It (2003) and made her theater debut with "The Vagina Monologues" in London.

She has a lead role in two upcoming movies: the horror LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003) and the comedy The Seat Filler (2004) (with Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child).

From April to September 2004, she played the role of "Mimi" in the famous musical "Rent" on Broadway.

In 2005, Melanie released her second solo album, "L.A. State Of Mind", featuring the single "Today". Both the single and the album flopped...

Gaynor Faye was born on 26 August 1971 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Fat Friends (2000), Playing the Field (1998) and Coronation Street (1960). She has been married to Mark Pickering since 1 July 2000. They have two children.

James Howson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is known for Wuthering Heights (2011).

Lucy Landau was born on 28 January 1905 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Thrill of It All (1963), The DuPont Show of the Month (1957) and The Edge of Night (1956). She died on 23 July 1990 in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York, USA.

Tara Moran was born on 1 June 1971 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Millions (2004), A Touch of Frost (1992) and Casualty (1986).

Sydney Wade was born on 18 July 2002 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for I Kill Giants (2017), The Damned United (2009) and 360 (2011).

Clio Barnard was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is known for The Selfish Giant (2013), Ali & Ava (2021) and The Arbor (2010).