Favorite Actors And Actresses (In No Particular Order)
by miamoulop | created - 28 Jun 2019 | updated - 07 Jul 2019 | Public
1. Lily James
Actress | Cinderella
Lily James was born Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson in Esher, Surrey, to Ninette (Mantle), an actress, and Jamie Thomson, an actor and musician. Her grandmother, Helen Horton, was an American actress. She began her education at Arts Educational School in Tring and subsequently went on to study acting at...
2. Bel Powley
Actress | The Diary of a Teenage Girl
Isobel Dorothy Powley is an English actress. Powley was born and raised in London, where she was educated at Holland Park School. She began acting as a teenager on television, starring on the CBBC action television series M.I. High (2007-2008), the period miniseries Little Dorrit (2008), the crime ...
3. Imogen Poots
Actress | Vivarium
British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer ...
4. Sarah Gadon
Actress | Cosmopolis
Sarah Gadon was born in a quiet residential area in Toronto, Ontario, to a teacher mother and a psychologist father. She grew up with the support and encouragement of her parents and older brother, James, and with this was inspired to go headlong into acting and dance alike. Sarah spent much of her...
5. Samantha Morton
Actress | Minority Report
Samantha Morton has established herself as one of the finest actors of her generation, winning Oscar nominations for her turns in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999) and Jim Sheridan's In America (2002). She has the talent to become one of the major performers in the cinema of this young century.
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6. James Norton
Actor | Little Women
James Norton was born in 1985 to two teachers and has a younger sister who is a doctor. Growing up in North Yorkshire he espoused acting at a very early age - playing Joseph in his primary school nativity play aged five - and, after leaving Ampleforth College he did work experience at the Stephen ...
7. Aisling Loftus
Actress | A Discovery of Witches
Screen International "Star of Tomorrow" Aisling Loftus is best known thus far as 'Sonya Rostova' in the hugely successful BBC historical period drama series War and Peace alongside Lily James, Paul Dano and James Norton.
She plays Zoë Moran in The Midwich Cuckoos, a dark, disturbing modern-day ...
8. Jessie Buckley
Actress | I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Jessie Buckley is an Irish singer and actress, who came in second place in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything, and subsequently played Anne Egermann in the West End revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music. Most recently, Buckley played Lyudmilla Ignatenko in the...
9. 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).
10. Michelle Dockery
Actress | Downton Abbey
Michelle Suzanne Dockery (born 15 December 1981) is an English actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Lady Mary Crawley in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey (2010-2015), for which she has been nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. She made her ...
11. Dan Stevens
Actor | Downton Abbey
Dan Stevens was born at Croydon in Surrey on 10th October 1982. His parents are teachers. He was educated at Tonbridge School and trained in acting at the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. He studied English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Whilst he was a Cambridge undergraduate, ...
12. Seth Numrich
Actor | Private Romeo
Seth Numrich (born January 19, 1987) is an American stage, television and film actor. Numrich was born in Minneapolis. He studied at The Juilliard School graduating in acting in 2006 with Group 36 in acting. He was a teaching artist for "Artists Striving to End Poverty" (Asteponline.org) from 2005 ...
13. Samuel Roukin
Actor | Turn
Samuel Roukin was born on August 15, 1980 in England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for TURN: Washington's Spies (2014), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013) and Happy-Go-Lucky (2008).
14. Sam Heughan
Actor | Outlander
Sam Roland Heughan was born April 30, 1980 in Balmaclellan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. When he was 5 years old, he and his brother and mother moved to the area of the city-New Galloway. Sam grew nearby Kenmure castle, where he and his brother played as children. An accomplished stage and ...
15. 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 ...
16. Bella Heathcote
Actress | The Neon Demon
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Bella Heathcote has emerged as one of Hollywood's most sought after talents. She can most recently be seen in 'Relic' starring alongside Emily Mortimer, which received rave reviews at its premiere at Sundance 2020. Prior to that, Bella starred in CBS All Access ...
17. 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 ...
18. Florence Pugh
Actress | The Falling
Florence Pugh is an English actress. She is known for Midsommar (2019), Little Women (2019), her MCU debut Black Widow (2021), and Fighting with My Family (2019).
Pugh made her film debut in The Falling (2014). She also appears in Lady Macbeth (2016), Outlaw King (2018), Malevolent (2018), and the ...
19. Cillian Murphy
Actor | 28 Days Later...
Striking Irish actor Cillian Murphy was born in Douglas, the oldest child of Brendan Murphy, who works for the Irish Department of Education, and a mother who is a teacher of French. He has three younger siblings. Murphy was educated at Presentation Brothers College, Cork. He went on to study law ...
20. Helen McCrory
Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress ...
21. Samara Weaving
Actress | Ready or Not
Samara Weaving was born on February 23, 1992 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, but spent the years after that moving around from Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia, and back to Australia with her family. During that time, she attended grade school in Jakarta, Indonesia, eventually going to Pittwater...
22. 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...
23. Tom Hiddleston
Actor | The Avengers
Thomas William Hiddleston was born in Westminster, London, to English-born Diana Patricia (Servaes) and Scottish-born James Norman Hiddleston. His mother is a former stage manager, and his father, a scientist, was the managing director of a pharmaceutical company. He started off at the preparatory ...
24. Ellise Chappell
Actress | Yesterday
Ellise Chappell was born on March 21, 1992 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Yesterday (2019), Poldark (2015) and Deliver Us Mars (2023).
25. Aiden Turner
Actor | All My Children
Aiden Turner was born on April 2, 1977 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for All My Children (1970), To Have and to Hold (2014) and Single Ladies (2011).
26. Sophie Turner
Actress | Game of Thrones
Sophie Belinda Jonas (née Turner; born February 21, 1996) is an English actress. Turner made her professional acting debut as Sansa Stark on the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-2019), which brought her international recognition and critical praise. For her performance, ...
27. Richard Madden
Actor | Game of Thrones
Richard Madden, born 18 June 1986, is a Scottish stage, film, and television actor best known for portraying Robb Stark in the HBO series "Game of Thrones" and Prince Kit in Disney's "Cinderella." Starring as David Budd in the BBC miniseries "Bodyguard" has also brought him more international ...
28. Allen Leech
Actor | The Imitation Game
Allen Leech was born on May 18, 1981 in Killiney, County Dublin, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for The Imitation Game (2014), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and Downton Abbey (2010). He has been married to Jessica Blair Herman since January 5, 2019.
29. Jessica Brown Findlay
Actress | Brave New World
Jessica Brown Findlay is an English actress. She is known for Emelia Conan-Doyle in the British comedy-drama Albatross (2011), Winter's Tale (2014), This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) and Lady Sybil Crawley in ITV's Downton Abbey (2010). She also starred in the TV series Misfits (2009) and mini-series ...
30. Eloise Smyth
Actress | Cyn
Eloise Smyth was born in March 1995 in London, United Kingdom. She is an actress and producer, known for Cyn (2021), How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) and Harlots (2017).
31. Ashleigh Cummings
Actress | The Goldfinch
Ashleigh Cummings was born on November 11, 1992 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is an actress, known for The Goldfinch (2019), Hounds of Love (2016) and NOS4A2 (2019).
32. Lily Sullivan
Actress | Mental
Lily Sullivan is one of Australia's rising stars of the screen. Lily at the age of 17 made her feature film debut in 2012 in PJ Hogan's MENTAL, opposite Toni Collette and Liev Schreiber. Her role as 'Coral Moochmore' earned her an AACTA Award nomination for Best Young Actor and a Film Critics ...
33. Lola Bessis
Actress | Swim Little Fish Swim
Lola Bessis is a French actress and filmmaker. At age 12, Lola was cast to play the lead in a short film. From that time, she knew she wanted to be on a film set when she grew up. Later, while attending some of the most prestigious international universities (University College London; La Sorbonne,...
34. Hannah James
Actress | Outlander
Hannah James is a British American actress. Raised on a farm in Radiant, Virginia by her British Mother and American Father, James was homeschooled alongside her sister while she studied ballet for sixteen years. After High School, James auditioned and was accepted into several different acting ...
35. Tanya Reynolds
Actress | Sex Education
Tanya Reynolds was born on November 4, 1991 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sex Education (2019), Emma. (2020) and The Baby (2022).
36. Joseph Quinn
Actor | Stranger Things
Joseph Quinn was born on January 26, 1994. He is an actor, known for Stranger Things (2016), Overlord (2018) and Dickensian (2015).
37. Bessie Carter
Actress | Les Misérables
Bessie Carter was born on October 25, 1993 in Westminster, London, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Les Misérables (2012), The Good Liar (2019) and Bridgerton (2020).
38. Joe Cole
Actor | A Prayer Before Dawn
Joe Cole is an English actor, born in Kingston-upon-Thames, London. He has four younger siblings, including fellow actor Finn Cole.
Cole was taught acting by the National Youth Theatre. He started his career with theatrical roles. In 2010, he had guest star roles in the police procedural "The Bill" ...
39. Finn Cole
Actor | F9
Finn Cole was born on November 9, 1995 in Kingston, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for F9: The Fast Saga (2021), Slaughterhouse Rulez (2018) and Peaky Blinders (2013).
40. Rory Fleck Byrne
Actor | Vampire Academy
Rory Fleck Byrne is known for Vampire Academy (2014), Dash (2021) and The Foreigner (2017).
41. Sophie Rundle
Actress | Peaky Blinders
Sophie Rundle is an English actress. Born on April 21, 1988 to Fiona and Michael Rundle, she has two brothers James and Henry. She attended the Bournemouth School for Girls before going on to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she graduated in 2011 with a BA in Acting.
Upon graduation, she ...
42. Lottie Tolhurst
Actress | Funny Woman
Lottie Tolhurst is known for Funny Woman (2023), Harlots (2017) and Endeavour (2012).
43. Zoë Tapper
Actress | Stage Beauty
Zoë Tapper was born on October 26, 1981 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Stage Beauty (2004), Affinity (2008) and Blood (2012). She has been married to Oliver Dimsdale since December 30, 2008. They have one child.
44. Cara Delevingne
Actress | Suicide Squad
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born in London, England, to Pandora Anne (Stevens) and Charles Hamar Delevingne, a property developer. Her parents are both from prominent upper-class families, with her ancestors including Viscounts (Greenwood), Baronets (Hulton, Faudel-Phillips), Majors and Lord Mayors...
45. 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 ...
46. Alicia Vikander
Actress | Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander is a Swedish actress, dancer and producer. She was born and raised in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden, to Maria Fahl, an actress of stage and screen, and Svante Vikander, a psychiatrist. Through her mother, she is one quarter Finnish, and had a maternal great aunt who moved...
47. Alice Eve
Actress | Before We Go
Alice Sophia Eve was born in London, England. Her father is Trevor Eve and her mother is Sharon Maughan, both fellow actors. She is the eldest of three children. Eve has English, Irish and Welsh ancestry. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was young as her father tried to crack ...
48. Eleanor Tomlinson
Actress | Jack the Giant Slayer
Eleanor May Tomlinson was born on the 19th of May 1992 on London, Greater London, England. She moved to Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, as a small child, and attended Beverley High School as a teenager.
She is an English actress who was best known for her TV roles as Isabelle in Jack ...
49. Jack Farthing
Actor | Spencer
Jack was born in 1985 and grew up in his native London, attending Westminster School and the Hall School, Hampstead, where he got into acting. From Oxford University he went to study acting at LAMDA but left when he was spotted and cast as Benvolio at the Globe Theatre, taking part in other ...
50. Kyle Soller
Actor | Anna Karenina
Kyle was born in 1983 to a pharmacological lecturer and a former concert pianist. Though born in Bridgeport, Connecticut he was brought up in Alexandria, Virginia and studied History of Art at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. However he abandoned his studies to come to England and ...
51. Maisie Williams
Actress | The New Mutants
Margaret Constance "Maisie" Williams (born April 15, 1997) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut as Arya Stark in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones, for which she won the EWwy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama, the Portal Award for Best Supporting ...
52. Anya Taylor-Joy
Actress | The Queen's Gambit
Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy (born 16 April 1996) is a British-American actress. She is best known for her roles as Beth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit (2020), Thomasin in the period horror film The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015), as Casey Cooke in the horror-thriller Split (2016), and as ...
53. Luke Norris
Actor | The Duchess
Luke was born in September 1985 and brought up by his mother in the Romford area, describing himself as a 'proud Essex boy'. Thanks to a local drama school teacher who funded his audition, Luke joined the National Youth Theatre, later enrolling at the Central School of Speech and Drama, where he ...
54. Amanda Seyfried
Actress | Les Misérables
Amanda Seyfried was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to Ann (Sander), an occupational therapist, and Jack Seyfried, a pharmacist. She is of German, and some English and Scottish, ancestry. She began modeling when she was eleven, and acted in high school productions as well as taking ...
55. Kathryn Newton
Actress | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Kathryn co-starred as Cassie Lang in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023, followed by Lisa Frankenstein starring alongside Cole Sprouse and Winner starring Emilia Jones, with release dates sometime in 2023. She can be seen as the lead of Amazon's The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, on Prime Video. ...
56. Olivia Cooke
Actress | Ready Player One
Olivia Cooke was born and raised in Oldham, a former textile manufacturing town in Greater Manchester, North West England. She comes from a family of non-actors; her father, John, is a retired police officer, and her mother is a sales representative. Cooke attended Royton and Crompton Secondary ...
57. Aimee-Ffion Edwards
Actress | Peaky Blinders
Aimee-Ffion Edwards (born 21 November 1987) is a Welsh actress from Newport, Wales. She is known for playing Sketch in Skins, Esme in Peaky Blinders, Sophie in Detectorists and Abi in Loaded.
Aimee-Ffion Edwards was born in Newport, Wales. She attended Ysgol Gymraeg Casnewydd (Newport Welsh medium ...
58. Kate Phillips
Actress | Downton Abbey
Kate Phillips is a British actress best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders, Wolf Hall and the 2016 BBC adaptation of War & Peace, as well as the 2018 series the Alienist.
After three years study at Leeds University Philips secured a place at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. ...
59. Aimee Richardson
Actress | Game of Thrones
Aimee Richardson is known for Game of Thrones (2011), Miss Conception (2008) and Haunted Ulster Live (2023).
60. Nell Tiger Free
Actress | Game of Thrones
Nell Tiger Free was born in October 1999. She lives in Britain with her parents and older sister. She is a singer/actress. She has been in Mr Stink (2012) and has recently filmed Endeavour, an ITV television series.
61. Lily Collins
Actress | The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Lily Jane Collins was born in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father is English musician Phil Collins, while her mother, Jill Tavelman, who is from Los Angeles, California, was president of the Beverly Hills Women's Club for three terms. Lily moved with her mother to LA at the age of five, after ...
62. Mia Wasikowska
Actress | Alice in Wonderland
Mia is an Australian actress, born and raised in the country's capital, Canberra. She is the daughter of photographers Marzena Wasikowska and John Reid. Her mother is Polish and her father is an Australian of British ancestry. She has an older sister, Jess, and a younger brother, Kai. At age eight,...
63. Jessica Chastain
Actress | Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Michelle Chastain was born in Sacramento, California, and was raised in a middle-class household in a Northern California suburb. Her mother, Jerri Chastain, is a vegan chef whose family is originally from Kansas, and her stepfather is a fireman. She discovered dance at the age of nine and ...
64. Harry Kirton
Actor | Peaky Blinders
Harry Kirton was born on July 17, 1998 in Birmingham, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Peaky Blinders (2013), The Middle Place and We Can Be Heroes (2017).
65. Samantha Barks
Actress | Les Misérables
Samantha Barks was born in Laxey, Isle of Man (British Isles) in 1990. She is a British actress best known for the role of Éponine in Les Misérables. In 2008, Samantha competed in I'd Do Anything in which she was one of the finalists in a search for a new, unknown lead to play Nancy in a West End ...
66. Aaron Tveit
Actor | Les Misérables
Aaron Tveit was born on October 21, 1983 in Middletown, New York as Aaron Kyle Tveit. He's an American actor & singer known for originating the roles of Gabe in Next to Normal as well as Frank Abagnale Jr. in Catch Me If You Can on Broadway. He's also known as Tripp van der Bilt in Gossip Girl (...
67. George Blagden
Actor | Rubikon
George starred as Athelstan in the internationally successful television series Vikings (2013) for 3 seasons. The success of his character and the show led to a spin-off series in collaboration with the release of Season 3, called Vikings: Athelstan's Journal (2015). George also lead Versailles (...
68. Alexander Vlahos
Director | Bright World: So It Goes
Alexander Vlahos was born on the 30th of July, 1988 in Swansea, South Wales. His first language is Welsh.
He studied Acting at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in Cardiff, graduating in 2009.
He his probably best known for his role as Mordred in the hit BBC fantasy show, 'Merlin' where he ...
69. 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 ...
70. Dakota Fanning
Actress | War of the Worlds
Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and ...
71. Elle Fanning
Actress | Super 8
Mary Elle Fanning was born on the 9th of April 1998 in Conyers, Georgia, USA, to Heather Joy (Arrington) and Steven J. Fanning. Her mother played professional tennis, and her father, now an electronics salesman, played minor league baseball. She is of German, Irish, English, French, and Channel ...
72. Hugh Skinner
Actor | W1A
Hugh was born on 6 January 1985 in London. He attended Eastbourne College from 1998 to 2003. He studied drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and on graduation went into stage work. After minor roles in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles' and 'Any Human Heart' on television in 2014 he ...
73. Tom Holland
Actor | Spider-Man: Homecoming
Thomas Stanley Holland was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, to Nicola Elizabeth (Frost), a photographer, and Dominic Holland (Dominic Anthony Holland), who is a comedian and author. His paternal grandparents were from the Isle of Man and Ireland, respectively. He lives with his parents and ...
74. Tom Hollander
Actor | Pride & Prejudice
Tom Hollander was born the second child of educated parents, both teachers. He grew up in Oxford, (UK).
Hollander credits the happy atmosphere of the Dragon School with his childhood introduction to acting. There, encouraged by an influential teacher named Andrew Roberts, he won the title role in "...
75. Ella Purnell
Actress | Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ella Purnell was born in London, U.K. She is best known for her roles in Tim Burton's Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (2016), in BBC One's Ordeal By Innocence (2017) and Starz' Sweetbitter (2017), in which she plays the series lead role of Tess in the adaptation of Stephanie Danler's ...
76. Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Actress | Belle
Gugu Mbatha-Raw was born Gugulethu Sophia Mbatha in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. Her father, Patrick Mbatha, is a Black South African doctor, and her mother, Anne Raw, is a Caucasian English nurse. Her parents separated when she was a year old, and she was brought up by her mother ...
77. Crystal Clarke
Actress | Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi
Crystal graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2014. Her credits whilst at RCS include The Beaux Strategem, Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? Crystal grew up in a West Indian immigrant family in Essex County, New Jersey. She is a graduate of Newark Arts ...
78. Anthony Boyle
Actor | Tolkien
Anthony Boyle is an actor and writer, known for The Lost City of Z (2016), Pillow Talk (2012) and Onus (2016). Though born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland, he began his formal training as an actor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff in 2013. Graduating in 2016 (BA with ...
79. Christian Cooke
Actor | Love, Rosie
Christian Louis Cooke was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. He began his acting career at the age of 10 when he appeared in a production of Bedazzled at the Bingley Arts Centre. His first television appearance was in a commercial for Birds Eye beef burgers. His career has progressed from ...
80. Matthew Macfadyen
Actor | Succession
David Matthew Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Meinir (Owen), a drama teacher and actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil executive. He is of Scottish and Welsh descent. Because of his father's career, he spent at least part of his childhood in Indonesia, before finishing his ...
81. Paul Anderson
Actor | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Paul Anderson is an English actor of film and stage. He is best known for portraying Arthur Shelby in the BBC series Peaky Blinders.
Anderson began his acting career by appearing in plays written by friend Gregory Burke. His first leading role in a film was in The Firm (2009).
He also has appeared in...
82. Harry Richardson
Actor | Dunkirk
Harry Richardson was born on March 3, 1993 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor, known for Dunkirk (2017), The Gilded Age (2022) and Poldark (2015).
83. Tom York
Actor | Poldark
Tom York, is best known for his role of Sam Carne, in the award-winning BBC One period drama 'Poldark' - starring alongside Eleanor Tomlinson and Aiden Turner.
He was most recently seen in the STARZ production 'American Gods', in which he played Colonial Wednesday, the young version of Ian McShane's...
84. AnnaSophia Robb
Actress | Bridge to Terabithia
Actress AnnaSophia Robb most recently starred in two of Hulu's most critically acclaimed limited series. In 2019, she co-starred opposite Patricia Arquette in THE ACT. This spring, she portrayed the flashback version of Reese Witherspoon's "Elena Richardson" character in LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, ...
85. Bella Heathcote
Actress | The Neon Demon
Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Bella Heathcote has emerged as one of Hollywood's most sought after talents. She can most recently be seen in 'Relic' starring alongside Emily Mortimer, which received rave reviews at its premiere at Sundance 2020. Prior to that, Bella starred in CBS All Access ...
86. Eva Green
Actress | Casino Royale
French actress and model Eva Gaëlle Green was born on July 6, 1980, in Paris, France. Her father, Walter Green, is a dentist who appeared in the 1966 film Au hasard Balthazar (1966). Her mother, Marlène Jobert, is an actress turned children's book writer. Eva's mother was born in Algeria, of French...
87. Helena Bonham Carter
Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.
Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...
88. Heather Lind
Actress | Mistress America
Heather Lind was born on March 22, 1983 in Upland, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for Mistress America (2015), Boardwalk Empire (2010) and Demolition (2015).
89. Douglas Booth
Actor | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Douglas John Booth is an English actor. Booth was born in London, England, the son of Vivien (De Cala), an artist, and Simon Booth, who works in shipping for Citigroup. He has appeared on English television as (Christopher and His Kind (2011), Great Expectations (2011)), starred in the film Romeo &...
90. Rosie Day
Actress | All Roads Lead to Rome
Rosie Day was born in Cambridge. Her first film was playing Angel in Paul Hyett's feature film The Seasoning House for which she received positive acclaim and won four Best Actress awards. Acting since a young age she has starred in many TV shows and dramas such as ITV's Homefront, Harley Street, ...
91. Lesley Manville
Actress | Phantom Thread
Lesley Manville was born on March 12, 1956 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. She is a multi award-winning actress of theatre, film, and television, and has worked extensively with director Mike Leigh. She is known for Another Year (2010), All or Nothing (2002), Topsy-Turvy (1999) and Secrets &...
92. Holli Dempsey
Actress | Derek
Holli Dempsey is known for Derek (2012), Harlots (2017) and After Life (2019).
93. Douggie McMeekin
Actor | Chernobyl
Douggie McMeekin is known for Chernobyl (2019), Harlots (2017) and The Crown (2016).
94. Bronwyn James
Actress | The Dig
Bronwyn James is known for The Dig (2021), Lockwood & Co. (2023) and Harlots (2017).
95. Poppy Corby-Tuech
Actress | Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Poppy Colette Corby-Tuech (pronounced tu-esh) was born in France, spending her first years living in Fontainebleau and relocating to Norfolk aged nine. She is fluent in both French and English. She spent several years playing in post-punk/ electro bands White Rose Movement and Genuflex, recording ...
96. Poppy Drayton
Actress | The Shannara Chronicles
Drayton graduated from the Arts Educational School in Chiswick (London, England).
In 2013 Drayton performed in the 2013 Downton Abbey Christmas special, as the character Madeleine Allsopp alongside Paul Giamatti.
The following year Drayton was cast as Amberle Elessedil, one of the lead roles in the ...
97. Liv Tyler
Actress | Armageddon
Liv Tyler is an actress of international renown and has been a familiar face on our screens for over two decades and counting. She began modelling at the age of fourteen before pursuing a career in acting. After making her film debut in Bruce Beresford's Silent Fall, she was cast by fledgling ...
98. 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 ...
99. Alexa Davies
Actress | White House Farm
Alexa Davies was born on August 18, 1995 in Rhuddlan, County Denbighshire, Wales, UK. She is an actress, known for The Murders at White House Farm (2020), Dead Pixels (2019) and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018).
100. Emma Thompson
Actress | Sense and Sensibility
Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...
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