Favorite Actors & Actresses
by PeachPecan | created - 09 May 2014 | updated - 09 May 2014 | PublicFolks whose performances I like very much.
1. Constance Shulman
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Constance Shulman was born on April 4, 1958 in Johnson City, Tennessee, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999). She has been married to Reed Birney since July 3, 1999. They have two children.
2. Leslie Howard
Actor | Pygmalion
Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World ...
3. David Suchet
Actor | Executive Decision
Widely regarded as one of England's finest stage, screen and TV actors, David Suchet's international reputation has only grown over the years, greatly enhanced by his definitive interpretation of Agatha Christie's suave Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, a character he played for nearly 25 years ...
4. Judi Dench
Actress | Skyfall
Dame Judi Dench was born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England, to Eleanora Olive (Jones), who was from Dublin, Ireland, and Reginald Arthur Dench, a doctor from Dorset, England. She attended Mount School in York, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. She has performed with the ...
5. George Guidall
Actor | Malcolm X
George Guidall was born on June 7, 1938 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He is an actor, known for Malcolm X (1992), The Doctors (1963) and Kennedy (1983).
6. Barbara Rosenblat
Actress | Orange Is the New Black
Barbara Rosenblat was born on July 17, 1950 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Orange Is the New Black (2013), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006).
7. Patience Tomlinson
Actress | Torchwood: Monthly Range
Patience Tomlinson is known for Torchwood: Monthly Range (2015), In the Red (1998) and Look and Read (1967).
8. Jim Dale
Actor | Pete's Dragon
Jim Dale began his career as a stand-up comic. He sharpened his comedy skills during a stint in the army, where he organized and performed in camp shows. After his discharge he pursued a comedy career, and landed a job as the warm-up comic on a musical variety show. He did so well that the ...
9. Justine Eyre
Actress | Last Time Forever
This stunning Canadian was born in Nova Scotia yet spent most of her childhood in the Philippines, educated in British schools, while her Kiwi father was an attorney for the Asian Bank. After the family relocated to Canada, Justine launched a successful modeling career by winning a lucrative ...
10. Simon Prebble
Actor | Home Tonight
Simon Prebble was born on February 13, 1942 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Home Tonight (1961), High Road to China (1983) and The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970).
12. Katherine Kellgren
Actress | Jerusalem
Katherine Kellgren was born in 1969 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Jerusalem (1996), Just Cause 3 (2015) and Another Bed (2001). She was married to David Cote. She died on January 10, 2018 in New York City, New York, USA.
13. James Marsters
Actor | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
James graduated from Davis High School and attended Juilliard, the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts, and the American Conservatory Theatre. After spending ten years doing stage work he finally moved to L.A. to pursue a career in film and television. After appearing in several guest roles...
14. Jayne Entwistle
Actress | Desperate Housewives
Jayne was Born in Lytham St. Annes, England. Her family emigrated to Canada where she spent time living on both coasts. Once arrived in Los Angeles, a passionate outcry to friends, "If only I could read for a living" was answered. Entwistle narrates audio books. Her narration work has garnered ...
15. Michael Kitchen
Actor | Out of Africa
Michael Kitchen was born on October 31, 1948 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Out of Africa (1985), GoldenEye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). He has been married to Rowena Miller since 1988. They have two children.
16. Fyvush Finkel
Actor | Picket Fences
Fyvush Finkel was born on October 9, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Picket Fences (1992), Nixon (1995) and A Serious Man (2009). He was married to Gertrude (Trudi) Lieberman. He died on August 14, 2016 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
17. Christian Rodska
Actor | The Monuments Men
Christian Rodska was born on September 5, 1945 in Cullercoats, Northumberland, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Monuments Men (2014), The Stars Look Down (1974) and The Tomorrow People (1973). He was married to Barbara Kellerman and Jacqueline Mousny. He died on March 21, 2024.
18. Terrence Hardiman
Actor | Gandhi
A police officer's son, Terrence E. Hardiman was born in Forest Gate, Essex (the area was later absorbed into London). He went to school in Essex, graduated in 1956 and then proceeded to study English at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam College. He began his career on the Shakespearean stage as ...
19. Simon Vance
Actor | Nash Bridges
Simon Vance began his illustrious narration career while a BBC Radio presenter and newsreader in London in 1983, and after immigrating to the United States in 1992 is now (2020) the critically acclaimed narrator of over a thousand audiobooks, winner of seventy-two AudioFile Earphone Awards, and a ...
20. Therese Plummer
Actress | Iron Man: Extremis
Therese Plummer is known for Iron Man: Extremis (2010), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and The Good Wife (2009).
21. Lon Chaney
Actor | He Who Gets Slapped
Although his parents were deaf, Leonidas Chaney became an actor and also owner of a theatre company (together with his brother John). He made his debut at the movies in 1912, and his filmography is vast. Lon Chaney was especially famous for his horror parts in movies like e.g. Quasimodo in The ...
22. Bela Lugosi
Actor | Dracula
Bela Lugosi was born Béla Ferenc Dezsö Blaskó on October 20, 1882, Lugos, Hungary, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), to Paula de Vojnich and István Blaskó, a banker. He was the youngest of four children. During WWI, he volunteered and was commissioned as an infantry lieutenant, and was wounded ...
23. Boris Karloff
Actor | Bride of Frankenstein
Along with fellow actors Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema, and the actor most closely identified with the general public's perception of the "monster" from the classic Mary Shelley book, "Frankenstein". William Henry ...
24. Jessica Tandy
Actress | Driving Miss Daisy
A beloved, twinkly blue-eyed doyenne of stage and screen, actress Jessica Tandy's career spanned nearly six and a half decades. In that span of time, she enjoyed an amazing film renaissance at age 80, something unheard of in a town that worships youth and nubile beauty. She was born Jessie Alice ...
25. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
26. Sarah Michelle Gellar
Actress | Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Emmy Award-winning Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on April 14, 1977 in New York City, the daughter of Rosellen (Greenfield), who taught at a nursery school, and Arthur Gellar, who worked in the garment industry. She is of Russian Jewish and Hungarian Jewish descent.
Eating in a local restaurant, ...
27. Maureen O'Hara
Actress | The Quiet Man
In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O'Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. However, for a child of Irish heritage surrounded by gifted parents and family, these were very natural traits. Maureen made...
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