Webber Douglas Academy of Music and Drama

1. Lesley Staples

Experienced British actress and voice talent. Trained at the Webber Douglas Academy, London. Over 35 years in theatre, TV, radio, and films including "Calendar Girls" with Helen Mirren (2003 - Disney/Buena Vista International). UK and US Credits range from the 'Royal Shakespeare Company' to TV's "...

2. 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 ...

3. Dulcie Gray

Actress | My Brother Jonathan

Sweet-faced, gentle-voiced veteran British actress Dulcie Gray's demure career is often linked with that of her late actor/husband Michael Denison, with whom she appeared frequently on stage, TV and in films in over a hundred projects for nearly four decades.

She was born Dulcie Winifred Catherine ...

4. Michael Denison

Actor | My Brother Jonathan

One of the finest exponents of the art of light comedy acting, Michael Denison enjoyed a highly successful career both on stage and screen. He and his wife, actress Dulcie Gray, appeared in over 100 West End shows and their marriage, which lasted nearly sixty years, was regarded as one of the ...

5. Penelope Keith

Actress | The Good Life

Early in her career she worked in repertory in Manchester and while there obtained occasional television roles. When offered scripts she can usually tell within 5 pages if it is suitable for her. When it came to 'To the Manor Born' which was intended for a radio series, she considered it one of the...

6. Scott Adkins

Actor | John Wick: Chapter 4

Scott Edward Adkins was born on June 17, 1976 in Sutton Coldfield, England, into a family that for generations were butchers. Along with his elder brother Craig, he was raised by their parents, John and Janet (Sanders) Adkins, in a loving middle-class family. Scott attended Bishop Vesey's Grammar ...

7. Julia Ormond

Actress | Sabrina

The dark and classically beautiful British actress and social activist Julia (Karin) Ormond was born on January 4, 1965, in Surrey, into England, the second of five children. Born of privilege as the daughter of a well-to-do laboratory technician, her parents divorced when she was young. Julia ...

8. Jenette Goldstein

Actress | Aliens

Jenette Goldstein is a true chameleon. She is so effective as an actress, it is nearly impossible to recognize her from role to role. Jenette spent most of her childhood in Los Angeles. Born to theater-loving parents, she attended fine arts-oriented schools, and was the young star of the drama ...

9. Belinda Stewart-Wilson

Actress | The Inbetweeners Movie

Belinda Stewart-Wilson is an English actress, born in London, England, U.K. She is best known for her role in the popular TV sitcom The Inbetweeners as Polly McKenzie. Her father is a British Army officer Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson.During childhood she grew up on various military postings in the UK, ...

10. Miranda Raison

Actress | My Week with Marilyn

Miranda grew up in Burnham Thorpe on the North Norfolk coast and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Her father, Nick, is a jazz pianist and her mother, Caroline, read the news for Anglia television. In 2011, she played the title role in 'Anne Boleyn' at Shakespeare's Globe ...

11. Stewart Granger

Actor | King Solomon's Mines

Stewart Granger was born James Lablache Stewart in London, the great grandson of the opera singer Luigi Lablache. He attended Epsom College but left after deciding not to pursue a medical degree. He decided to try acting and attended Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art, London. By 1935, he made ...

12. Patrick Macnee

Actor | The Avengers

British actor Patrick Macnee was born on February 6, 1922 in London, England into a wealthy and eccentric family. His father, Daniel Macnee, was a race horse trainer, who drank and gambled away the family fortune, leaving young Patrick to be raised by his lesbian mother, Dorothea Mary, and her ...

13. Rupert Evans

Self | 'Hellboy': The Seeds of Creation

Having graduated from Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Rupert Evans started his career working mainly in television. Notably in British costume dramas such as 'Sons & Lovers' starring Sarah Lancashire and Hugo Speer, North and South, 'Crime and Punishment' and 'Fingersmith' with Imelda ...

14. Shane Taylor

Actor | Band of Brothers

Shane was born on the south coast of England, although his family line is also Scottish and American. He attended the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London and received the Cameron Mackintosh Scholarship Award.

Shane's extensive screen credits include the regular role of Cpl. Eugene "Doc...

15. Ross Kemp

Actor | EastEnders

Ross Kemp was born on July 21, 1964 in Barking, Essex, England. His mother, Jean, was a hairdresser and his father, John, was a policeman with the Metropolitan Police force. He has a brother named Darren who is a documentary producer for the BBC.

Ross attended Shenfield High School, where he is ...

16. Nigel Lindsay

Actor | Four Lions

Nigel Lindsay was born on 17th January 1969 and entered into the world of acting comparatively late. For three years he was a financial analyst in the City in his native London but, on his own admission, hated it and applied almost simultaneously for the law and the stage. He had a place at bar ...

17. Guy Siner

Actor | 'Allo 'Allo!

Guy is known the world over for his portrayal of Lieutenant Gruber, one of the original and enduring characters of over 90 episodes of 'Allo 'Allo! which is one of the most successful comedy series the B.B.C. has ever produced and is still shown in more than 80 countries.

Guy was born in Manhattan ...

18. Jonathan Aris

Actor | The Sixth Commandment

Jonathan Aris is the son of the late British character actor Ben Aris but, despite having a thespian as a father, acting was not his first choice. He studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and read Russian and Italian at Cambridge University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas ...

19. Antony Sher

Actor | Shakespeare in Love

Born in 1949, Antony Sher was raised in South Africa before going to London to study at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art between 1969 and 1971. After performing for the Gay Sweatshop theatrical group in "Thinking Straight" (1975), "The Fork" (1976), and "Stone" (1976), he joined the Royal...

20. 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...

21. Nicola Bryant

Actress | Doctor Who

Nicola Bryant was born the daughter of a heating engineer, in 1960, in Surrey, England. She began her training in dance and music at the age of three, studying classical ballet, then jazz and tap dance, the piano, flute and guitar, and finally acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. ...

22. Nicholas Courtney

Actor | Doctor Who

Nicholas Courtney was born in Egypt, the son of a British diplomat. His early years were spent in Kenya and France and he was called up for National Service at the age of 18. After 18 months of duty in the British forces, Courtney joined the Webber Douglas drama school. He spent two years there and...

23. Paxton Whitehead

Actor | Back to School

Paxton Whitehead was born on 17 October, 1937 in Kent, England, UK. He trained at London's Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts starting at the age of 17. After attending the academy for two years he went to work in stock companies starting with the "weekly rep", small touring companies that ...

24. Sally Rogers

Actress | The Bill

Sally Rogers is an actor from the city of Manchester, who began her career on the stage in 1989. She trained at the Webber Douglas Academy. When Sally wasn't working on the stage she built a strong line of guest roles in various British series, which culminated with her current run on The Bill (...

25. Brian Deacon

Actor | A Zed & Two Noughts

Brian was educated in primary and secondary modern schools until the age of 17. He worked as a window cleaner and a butcher's van driver while a member of the Oxford Youth Theatre. He then relocated to London where he enrolled at the Webber Douglas School and, upon graduation, he appeared in rep at...

26. Geraldine O'Rawe

Actress | Mariette in Ecstasy

Geraldine O'Rawe was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She was awarded The Prince's Trust scholarship to study in London at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Upon leaving drama college she became a founding member of 'Moving Theatre Company' with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave.

Her acclaim in...

27. Sophie Lorain

Actress | Les invasions barbares

Sophie Lorain is a big name in Quebec in the movie business and on the television screen. Strong and fragile, sexy and mischievous, intelligent and accessible, she brings to her interpretations a range of subtly nuanced emotions and expressions. Sophie studied at the prestigious Webber-Douglas ...

28. David Kennedy

Actor | The Cave

David Kennedy was born David Mallett in 1964 in London. As a child he lived in lived in Hornsey, North London before moving to South Devon aged 5 with his mother and step father. He attended King Edward VI Comprehensive School in Totnes. Aged 16 David and his family moved to Bristol and then ...

29. Bart Ruspoli

Producer | Boiling Point

Bart Ruspoli was born on November 8, 1976 in St Marylebone, London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for Boiling Point (2021), Villain (2020) and A Violent Man (2022).

30. Charlotte Cornwell

Actress | The Saint

Londoner Charlotte Elizabeth Cornwell was born on April 26 1949, the younger half-sister of novelist John le Carré -- whose real name was David Cornwell -- and his novel, 'The Little Drummer Girl', had a leading character based on her. Le Carré was disappointed that in the film version the star was...

31. Katherine East

Actress | Killjoys

Born to a British Veteran Father & Canadian Mother - she was raised in the small Indigenous village of Killarney (Shebahonaning) on Georgian Bay in Canada. She was home schooled during the winters aboard her family's sailboat in The Bahamas. After travelling solo around the world at 18, she moved ...

32. Ben Scholfield

Actor | What a Girl Wants

Born in Beaconsfield, England, Ben was raised between Los Angeles and England where he attended Stowe School, with Henry Cavill. Later, having trained at Webber Douglas Academy in London with the likes of Matthew Goode and Rupert Evans, Joe Anderson and Natalie Dormer Ben left to film What A Girl ...

33. Joplin Sibtain

Actor | Memory Man

Actor Joplin Sibtain was born in Waltham Forest, London. He had early desires to be a pianist but, at age thirteen, went to a Community Centre in Hackney where he first learned about acting. After winning a scholarship to The Webber Douglas Academy of Drama, in London, he worked for several major ...

34. Susan Hanson

Actress | Crossroads

Susan studied acting at the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art and worked as a singer and dancer before going into rep at Edinburgh, Newcastle, Bristol Old Vic and the Mermaid Theatre in London. Susan appeared in the film, Having a Wild Weekend (1965), and acted on television in such programmes ...

35. Barbara Hicks

Actress | Brazil

The youngest of three daughters born to iron and steel merchant William 'Copper' Hicks and Hester, She was educated at a girls school in Shrewsbury where she appeared as the Duke of Gloucester in Richard of Bordeaux and as Bottom in A Midsummer Nights Dream, She served as a land girl during WWII ...

36. Jack Lee

Actor | Strings

Jack Lee was born in London, England in 1956. He attended the Webber Douglas Acadamy of Dramatic Art in 1979 and worked in theatre and TV in the UK before moving to the US in 1997 with just a suitcase and guitar and $350 in cash.

He worked as a chimney sweep in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before moving to ...

37. Matthew Sharp

Actor | X-Men

Matthew was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. After graduating from Upper Canada College, he moved to London where he trained at LAMDA and then at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. He then worked extensively in theatre in the UK, including playing leading parts in the West End ...

38. Alexi Kaye Campbell

Writer | Woman in Gold

Alexi Kaye Campbell was born in Athens in 1966 as Alexi Komondouros, to a Greek father and a British mother. Having spent his childhood in Greece, he went to America as a young man, graduating from Boston University in English and American Studies. He had a year in New York, waiting tables and ...

39. Leo Richardson

Writer | You

Born and raised in south London, Leo won a scholarship to the famous Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied acting for three years. Only two years later, SH*T-MIX, a play he'd written based on his experiences as a teenager growing up in the London suburbs, premiered in the ...

40. Kate Terence

Producer | The Undertaker

Kate was born in the UK, and grew up all over South East Asia. She was educated at the Sacred Heart Woldingham and has a BSc Honours Degree in Psychology from Bristol University. She was classically trained at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London whose alumni include Terence Stamp, Minnie...

41. Seelan Gunaseelan

Actor | Scratch

Seelan Gunaseelan is an English actor from London, England and a performing arts graduate from the University Of Winchester.

He has trained at various institutions including Stage Coach Theatre Arts School, Chicken Shed Theatre Company, Webber Douglas Academy Of Dramatic Arts and Capital Screen Arts...

42. Oliver Mason

Actor | The Mysti Show

Oliver began drama classes at the age of six with The Guildhall School of Speech & Drama and got accepted to join The National Youth Theatre aged thirteen.

Oliver gained a B.A. (Honours) degree at The University of South Florida & Middlesex University in Drama & Theatre Studies before training as an...

43. Nicky Talacko

Actress | A Mind of Her Own

Born in Bletchley, UK, Nicky spent her school and university years in Melbourne, Australia. She then returned to London to attend drama school. She attended the Webber Douglas Academy in Dramatic Art and graduated with honours.

From drama school she did many stage productions before landing her ...

44. David Monteath

Argylle

David was born in Glasgow and grew up in Milngavie and in the Highlands before returning to Glasgow.

He appeared in various TV productions during his teens, but his first job was a play for Scottish Television at the age of 3 months.

He trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art from 1987-...

45. Mark Rice-Oxley

Actor | EastEnders

Lived in Liverpool, UK, for most of his life. Graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in March of 2000 Mark Rice-Oxley's birthday is March 20th. He plays the guitar and writes his own music. Won the Lady Rothermere Award in the 1997 London Evening Standard Awards. Does a lot of ...

46. Bayard Carey

Sound_department | Crazy Heart

Bayard Carey was born in Denver, Colorado, and was educated at private schools in Connecticut, Vermont, The Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art in London, England, as well as at the San Francisco Art Institute where he took a sound recording class from Oscar winner Walter Murch. He also attended ...

47. Clara Perez

Actress | Running Scared

Clara Perez was born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised there and in the USA and Britain. She is bi-lingual in Spanish and English.

Clara has an M.Phil from the University of Cambridge and trained at the Webber Douglas Academy (now the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) in London.

Clara started ...

48. 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 ...

49. 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 ...

50. Minnie Driver

Actress | Circle of Friends

Minnie Driver was born January 31, 1970 in London and raised in Barbados until she was seven. Her mother, Gaynor Churchward, was a designer and former couture model. Her father, Charles Ronald "Ronnie" Driver, was a businessman. Minnie's mother was her father's mistress while he was still married ...

51. Julian Fellowes

Writer | Gosford Park

Julian Fellowes was born on August 17, 1949 in Cairo, Egypt. He is a writer and producer, known for Gosford Park (2001), Downton Abbey (2010) and From Time to Time (2009). He has been married to Emma Joy Kitchener-Fellowes since April 28, 1990. They have one child.

52. Mala Ghedia

Actress | No Monsters in Berlin

Mala Ghedia was born in Leeton, New South Wales, Australia. Her father was a doctor and her mother worked as his receptionist and later as a child-carer.

Mala attended an open-audition when she was 16 years old with over 2000 other hopefuls at a shopping mall for popular Australian soap series "Home...

53. Andrew Mackintosh

Actor | Poirot

Andrew Mackintosh was born in Pennsylvania to English parents on August 9th 1960. He grew up in Scotland after the family moved back to the UK. His first love was music, but joining a local drama group spurred him into reading English and Drama at Bristol University in the South West of England, ...

54. Catherine McDonough

Actress | Saint Petersburg

Born in London, lived in Los Angeles and Singapore. she began her career in Theatre with companies such as Joint Stock. Since 2011 Catherine has appeared in an increasing number of films including feature 'Where I Belong' directed by Fritz Urshchitz and the recently nominated Kingsland directed by ...

55. Jon Ivay

Actor | Freebird

Jon Ivay was born on the Isle of Portland, Dorset.

He studied at the Oxford school of drama and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Formed his own theatrical production company where he produced and directed many national and International tours of contemporary dramas and comedies,working ...

56. Anthony Bekenn

Actor | Murdoch Mysteries

Anthony Bekenn was born in East Africa, in the southern part of Tanzania during a cyclone. His father, Michael, was a district officer in the Tanganyika government, the result being that Anthony lived a peripatetic life up to the age of eight. Initially he was home schooled by his mother, Sheila, ...

57. Christopher Hollis

Actor | A Touch of Frost

Chris Hollis is a versatile stage and screen actor, equally at home with dramatic, emotional and comic performance. He trained at Webber Douglas Academy having read English at St Andrews University where he discovered a passion for acting and especially the classics and Shakespearean plays. He ...

58. Peter Head

Composer | Strangers Lovers Killers

Peter Head is known for Strangers Lovers Killers (2010), The Nostradamus Kid (1993) and Burke & Wills (2006).

59. John Gayford

Actor | The Saint

John Gayford was born into an army family and brought up in India. He completed his education in England, studied Art at Oxford, served as an officer in the R.A.F. and then went to the Webber-Douglas School of Drama in London. He began his professional career playing the lead in a semi-documentary ...

60. Alice Hunter-Vernazza

Taboo

Alice trained as a ballet dancer at The Northern Ballet School and worked as a teen actor in episodic TV before turning to producing. In 2012, she moved to Hollywood and assisted Alexander Payne at Ad Hominem Enterprises. Recently, she worked at Bend It TV for Gurinder Chadha. Prior to that, she ...

61. Kate Harrell

Actress | Where the Truth Lies

Kate Harrell was born in New York City to parents Linda Blandford (freelance journalist and writer) and Lynn Harrell (the famous classical cellist). She has spent her life between New York, Los Angeles, and London, where she now lives and works. Although she has been acting since she was nine years...

62. David Woodcock

Actor | Sparkle

David graduated from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in 1975 and went on to perform in numerous theatres around the UK. He made his professional debut in 1975 when he appeared in a production of 'Cyrano De Bergerac' at the Chichester Festival Theatre. His West End debut was in 1985 at ...

63. Clare Barry

Actress | The Housewife

After training at the Webber Douglas Academy, actress Clare Barry carved a strong background in theatre performances from the London fringe, across Britain to overseas. She ran co-ran a theatre company for ten years touring the UK, Ireland, Austria and Germany then onto the North American ...

64. David Macmillan

Actor | Dr. Finlay's Casebook

David Macmillan was privately educated and served as an army officer until 1955. He trained at the Webber-Douglas School of Dramatic Art between 1956 and 1958, where he received the Spotlight Award and the Margaret Rutherford Medal. He acted in radio, television and theatre between 1958 and 1967.

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65. Margaret Rutherford

Actress | The V.I.P.s

Rare is the reference to Margaret Rutherford that doesn't characterize her as either jut-chinned, eccentric, or both. The combination of those most mundane of attributes has led some to suggest that she was made for the role of Agatha Christie's indomitable sleuth, Jane Marple, whom Rutherford ...

66. Gary Fannin

Actor | Culprits

London based American actor. Born to a Greek mother and an American father and moved from the US to London in 1996. Studied at The University of Texas in Austin and at the Webber Douglas Academy, London. Recent winner of the Best Actor in a Male Role for "Jim" at the Iris Prize film festival. He ...

67. Ed Greenberg

Director | Play of the Week

Ed Greenberg is known for Play of the Week (1959), New Monkees (1987) and Roberta (1958).

68. Paul Murthwaite

Actor | Capital City

A child actor, Paul Murthwaite appeared in such roles as Doctor Lucy Perry's wayward son in "Casualty" and French-Canadian step-son of Lynn Howard in "Howards Way". He is a former member of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy from 1997-2000, where ...

69. Kate Ford

Actress | Coronation Street

Kate Ford was born on December 29, 1976 in Salford, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Club Le Monde (2002) and Blue Murder (2003).

70. Stacey Roca

Actress | The Office

Stacey Roca is known for The Office (2001), Mindhunter (2017) and Waking the Dead (2000).

71. Kirk Bage

Actor | First Date

Born in Middlesbrough, Cleveland, UK in 1973. Attended Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London in 1992. Has Lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, since 1999. Is a regular performer with Glasgow's dedicated Shakespeare company, Bard In The Botanics, roles including Richard III, Petruchio, Sir Toby ...

72. 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 ...

73. Rupert Friend

Actor | Hitman: Agent 47

Rupert William Anthony Friend is a British actor, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He first gained recognition for his roles in The Libertine (2004) and Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont (2005), both of which won him awards for best newcomer. He portrayed George Wickham in Pride & Prejudice (2005)...

74. Terence Stamp

Actor | The Limey

Terence was born in London and spent his early years watching American films and dreamed of being like the stars on the screen, He was awarded a scholarship for the Webber Douglas School of Dramatic Art. In his second year, during an audition, Peter Ustinov signed him for the title role in Billy ...

75. Sue Johnston

Actress | The Royle Family

Sue Johnston was born on December 7, 1943 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Royle Family (1998), Imagine Me & You (2005) and Waking the Dead (2000). She was previously married to David Pammenter and Neil Johnston.

76. Elizabeth Knowelden

Actress | Hot Bot

Elizabeth Knowelden is a critically acclaimed English actress. Hailing from the theatre, she continues to garner respect in all areas of her career, epitomised by recognition from BAFTA.

After varying contemplations about life as a marine biologist, Knowelden auditioned for drama schools in the UK. ...

77. Joe Anderson

Actor | Across the Universe

Joe Anderson was born on March 26, 1982 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Across the Universe (2007), The Crazies (2010) and The Ruins (2008). He is married to Elle.

78. Steven Berkoff

Actor | Octopussy

Highly acclaimed English actor, playwright, author and director continues to set the benchmark in stunning, intense performances on both stage and screen. Berkoff was born in Stepney, London in August 1937 and received dramatic arts training in both Paris and London and then moved on to performing ...

79. Wendy Crewson

Actress | Air Force One

Wendy Jane Crewson is a Canadian actress and producer. She began her career appearing on Canadian television, before her breakthrough role in 1991 dramatic film The Doctor. Crewson has appeared in many Hollywood films, including The Good Son (1993), The Santa Clause (1994) and its sequels The Santa...

80. Shelley Conn

Actress | Gen V

Shelley Conn is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Dean Indira Shetty in Amazon's No.1 show, Gen V (2023), as Beelzebub in Good Omens 2 (2023), and as Lady Mary Sharma in the hugely successful Netflix series, Bridgerton (2022). Other notable appearances include Isabella ...

81. JJ Feild

Actor | Captain America: The First Avenger

JJ Feild was born on April 1, 1978 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Centurion (2010) and Austenland (2013).

82. Tom Mison

Actor | Sleepy Hollow

English actor Tom Mison has established himself in the world of theater through his roles in Andrew Bovell's When the Rain Stops Falling at the Almeida Theatre, and Posh by Laura Wade at the Royal Court Theatre. Mison trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy and is also a writer who has penned for ...

83. Hugh Fraser

Actor | Poirot

Hugh Fraser was born on October 23, 1945 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Poirot (1989), 101 Dalmatians (1996) and Jack the Ripper (1988). He has been married to Belinda Lang since October 15, 1988. They have one child.

84. Kellie Shirley

Actress | In the Long Run

Kellie started her career via The National Youth Theatre and trained at The BRIT School. She was selected for the BAFTA Elevate actors cohort 2020 - to support Working-Class talent progressing in their careers on screen.

Recent TV includes series regular 'Kirsty De La Croix' in Idris Elba's, ...

85. Simon Farnaby

Actor | Paddington 2

Simon Farnaby was born on April 2, 1973 in Darlington, County Durham, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Paddington 2 (2017), Wonka (2023) and Your Highness (2011). He is married to Claire Keelan. They have one child.

86. Ella Smith

Actress | Ray & Liz

Ella Smith is an Emmy Award-winning British actress. She won Best Actress for her leading role in Ray & Liz in Buenos Aires International Festival. Ella had a musical upbringing, singing operatic Soprano and playing the flute and piano. As a filmmaker, Ella's debut award-winning short film Mdudu Boy...

87. 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.

88. Emma Chambers

Actress | Notting Hill

Emma was born Emma Gwynedd Mary Chambers born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire in 1964 to John, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, and Noelle (nee Strange). The family moved around and, while attending St Swithun's school, Winchester, Chambers acted in Winchester college productions - saying...

89. Fiona Button

Actress | The Split

Fiona Button is known for The Split (2018), Truelove (2024) and My Mother and Other Strangers (2016).

90. Alex Reid

Actress | The Descent

Alex Reid was born on December 23, 1980 in Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Descent (2005), The Descent: Part 2 (2009) and Misfits (2009).

91. Kim Hartman

Actress | 'Allo 'Allo!

Kim Hartman was born on January 11, 1952 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for 'Allo 'Allo! (1982), Dunkirk (2017) and Grange Hill (1978). She has been married to John Nolan since 1975. They have two children.

92. Amber Sainsbury

Actress | 30 Days of Night

Amber Sainsbury was born on August 28, 1978 in New Zealand. She is an actress, known for 30 Days of Night (2007), Hex (2004) and Fairy Tales (2008). She has been married to Jamie Campbell since September 10, 2011.

93. Siobhan Hewlett

Actress | Hummingbird

Siobhán Kathleen Mary Hewlett.

Irish Actor, writer, producer, artist Siobhán hails from a theatrical dynasty stretching back to the 1800's. Her great grandparents 'Loch & Lomond' were renowned Variety and Vaudevillian performers, as were her grandparents who met whilst performing for the judges and ...

94. Vinette Robinson

Actress | Sherlock

Vinette Robinson was born on March 4, 1982 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sherlock (2010), The A Word (2016) and Vera Drake (2004).

95. Naomi Bentley

Actress | Primeval

Naomi Bentley is known for Primeval (2007), The Mark of Cain (2007) and Ideal (2005).

96. Susan Penhaligon

Actress | A Fine Romance

Susan Penhaligon was born on July 3, 1949 in Manila, Philippines. She is an actress, known for A Fine Romance (1981), Count Dracula (1977) and Patrick (1978). She was previously married to Duncan Preston, David Munro and Nicholas Loukes.

97. Christian Brassington

Actor | Poldark

Christian Brassington was born on June 6, 1983 in Wellington, Shropshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Poldark (2015), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) and Tony Blair: Rock Star (2006). He has been married to Jennie Fava since September 21, 2013.

98. Linda Henry

Actress | Beautiful Thing

Linda Henry was born on August 24, 1963 in West Ham, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Beautiful Thing (1996), EastEnders (1985) and Bad Girls (1999). She has been married to Stavros Valiris since July 1992. They have one child.

99. Kathleen King

Actress | In America

Kathleen King is known for In America (2002).

100. Eva Pope

Actress | Somewhere Boy

Eva Pope was born on November 16, 1967. She is an actress and producer, known for Somewhere Boy (2022), Maternal (2023) and Waterloo Road (2006). She is married to Laurence Lassalle. They have one child. She was previously married to Laurence Lassalle.