Star Wars Actors

1. James Earl Jones

Actor | Rogue One

Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...

2. David Prowse

Actor | Star Wars

David "Dave" Prowse was born into a working class family on 1 July, 1935 in Bristol, England, UK. He was raised by his mother and never knew his father. As a child, David was disadvantaged and a poor student, he found a passion for bodybuilding and weight training in his early teens, as a young ...

3. Peter Mayhew

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Peter Mayhew was born on May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England, to Constance Elizabeth (Yeates) and Walter Henry Mayhew. Later resident in Texas, this former resident of Yorkshire, England, was working as a hospital attendant at the King's College Hospital in London when film producer Charles H. ...

4. Peter Cushing

Actor | Star Wars

Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, Surrey, England, to Nellie Maria (King) and George Edward Cushing, a quantity surveyor. He and his older brother David were raised first in Dulwich Village, a south London suburb, and then later back in Surrey. At an early age, Cushing was ...

5. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

6. Denis Lawson

Actor | Star Wars

Although he was born in Glasgow he was moved to Crieff when 3 which was where his father had a jewelers shop. At 17 he failed to get into The Royal Academy of Music and Drama so got a job selling carpets for a while until he succeeded in getting into the Academy on his 2nd application and where he ...

7. Eddie Byrne

Actor | Star Wars

Eddie Byrne was born on January 31, 1911 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Island of Terror (1966) and Odd Man Out (1947). He died on August 21, 1981 in Dublin, Ireland.

8. William Hootkins

Actor | Star Wars

William Michael Hootkins was born on July 5, 1948, in Dallas, Texas. He moved to London, England in the early '70s and lived there up until 2002. Hootkins was an actor at Theatre Intime while attending Princeton University where he learned how to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. He also trained as an...

9. Mark Hamill

Actor | Star Wars

Mark Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) - a role he reprised in Star Wars: Episode VII - ...

10. Harrison Ford

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

Harrison Ford was born on July 13, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois, to Dorothy (Nidelman), a radio actress, and Christopher Ford (born John William Ford), an actor turned advertising executive. His father was of Irish and German ancestry, while his maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants from Minsk, ...

11. Carrie Fisher

Actress | Star Wars

Carrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California, to singers/actors Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. She was an actress and writer known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return ...

12. Jeremy Bulloch

Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Jeremy Bulloch was born on February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, England, the son of Aziz Diane (Meade) and McGregor Bulloch, an aeronautical engineer. He was the middle of three siblings, along with three older half-brothers from his mother's earlier marriage. Even at the age of ...

13. Anthony Daniels

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Initially not a science fiction fan, theatre actor Anthony Daniels was persuaded by his agent to meet George Lucas for the casting of C-3PO in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). He went on to perform the character, both his voice and body in the suit, for all the episodic Star Wars films ...

14. Kenny Baker

Actor | Time Bandits

Kenny Baker was born on August 24, 1934 in Birmingham, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and The Elephant Man (1980). He was married to Eileen Baker. He died on August 13, 2016 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK.

15. Phil Brown

Actor | Star Wars

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Phil Brown was the son of a doctor whose work took the family all around the country. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theatre. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre ...

16. Shelagh Fraser

Actress | Star Wars

Shelagh Fraser was born on November 25, 1920 in Purley, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), The History of Mr. Polly (1949) and Doomwatch (1970). She was married to Anthony Squire. She died on August 29, 2000 in London, England, UK.

17. Jack Purvis

Actor | Time Bandits

Jack Purvis was born on July 13, 1937 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985) and Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). He was married to Marjie Purvis. He died on November 11, 1997 in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, UK.

18. Alex McCrindle

Actor | Star Wars

Alex McCrindle was born on August 3, 1911 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was an actor and producer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Eye of the Needle (1981) and Witch Wood (1964). He was married to Honor Arundel and Sandy . He died on April 20, 1990 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital,...

19. Drewe Henley

Actor | Star Wars

Drewe Henley was born in 1940 in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Wuthering Heights (1967) and Space: 1999 (1975). He was married to Linda Lee Henley, Felicity Kendal and Jacqueline Pearce. He died on February ...

20. Garrick Hagon

Actor | Star Wars

Garrick Hagon was born in London, England, UK. Garrick is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Mission: Impossible (1996) and The Message (1976). Garrick has been married to Liza Ross since 1965. They have two children.

21. Jack Klaff

Actor | Star Wars

Jack Klaff was born on August 6, 1951 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and King David (1985).

22. Angus MacInnes

Actor | Star Wars

Angus MacInnes was born on October 27, 1947 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He is an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Hellboy (2004) and Witness (1985).

23. Jeremy Sinden

Actor | Star Wars

Jeremy Sinden was born on June 14, 1950 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Far Pavilions (1984). He was married to Delia Lindsay. He died on May 29, 1996 in London, England, UK.

24. Graham Ashley

Actor | Star Wars

Graham Ashley was born on April 26, 1927 in Northampton, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), The Avengers (1961) and Dixon of Dock Green (1955). He died on October 30, 1979 in Islington, London, England, UK.

25. Don Henderson

Actor | Star Wars

As an amateur actor as a dare he auditioned for the RSC and was not only accepted, but he stayed for 6 years. Best known as Sgt Bulman in XYY Man (77) he then made several series of Strangers (79 -82). His films include Star Wars, Callan, The Prince and the Pauper and The Big Sleep.

26. Richard LeParmentier

Actor | Star Wars

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) was Richard LeParmentier's third film after moving to Britain from the United States in 1974. Richard has appeared in over fifty films and TV shows. He used to reside in Bath, UK, and worked as a screenwriter. He also developed a comedy-drama series for the...

27. Leslie Schofield

Actor | Star Wars

After his parents divorced, he became a wayward, rebellious teenager. Deciding he should instill himself with some discipline, he joined a naval training ship for two years. His first taste of acting came during ten years subsequent service in the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.

28. Ian McDiarmid

Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Ian McDiarmid was born on August 11, 1944 in Carnoustie, Tayside, Scotland. He studied for a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of St. Andrews, but eventually found that his calling was in theatre. He went to the Royal Academy in Glasgow, where he received the prestigious gold...

29. Clive Revill

Actor | Avanti!

A grand, well-respected character lead and support of stage, film and television, most people mistakenly think New Zealander Clive Revill is British. A delightfully comic eccentric praised for his sterling work on the musical stage, the blue-eyed, curly, red-haired gent is also highly regarded for ...

30. Billy Dee Williams

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Billy Dee Williams was born William December Williams on April 6, 1937 in New York City. Billy Dee has notched up an impressive array of film and television appearances over the past 50+ years. He is easily best known to international film audiences as the roguish Lando Calrissian in the last two ...

31. Frank Oz

Actor | The Muppet Show

Frank Richard Oznowicz was born in Hereford, England to puppeteers Frances and Isidore Oznowicz. His family moved to Montana in 1951, eventually settling in Oakland, California. As a teenager, he worked as an apprentice puppeteer at Children's Fairyland amusement park. He is one of the primary ...

32. John Hollis

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

John Hollis was born on November 12, 1927 in Fulham, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Flash Gordon (1980) and Superman II (1980). He was married to Sheila Forrester and Gabrielle Hamilton. He died on October 18, 2005 in Richmond ...

33. Des Webb

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Des Webb was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Morons from Outer Space (1985) and Blackadder (1982). He died on May 21, 2002 in London, England, UK.

34. Kenneth Colley

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Kenneth Colley was born on December 7, 1937 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Firefox (1982) and Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). He has been married to Mary Dunne since 1962.

35. Julian Glover

Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Julian Wyatt Glover was born on March 27, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, to Honor Ellen Morgan (Wyatt), a BBC journalist, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He is of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Primarily a classical stage actor, Glover trained at the National Youth ...

36. Michael Sheard

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Michael Sheard was born on June 18, 1938 in Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Outsider (1983) and Mind Your Language (1977). He was married to Rosalind Allaway. He died on August 31, 2005 in Newport, Isle of Wight...

37. Michael Culver

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Michael Culver was born on June 16, 1938 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), A Passage to India (1984) and Breakaway (1980). He was married to Amanda Ward and Lucinda Curtis. He died on February 27, 2024.

38. John Dicks

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

After working in the United Kingdom and Australia, Dicks moved to Haifa, Israel in 2004 where he was instrumental in the continuing success of The Haifa Theatre the first municipal theatre company of Haifa, Israel. He performed, directed and taught English at the Theatre Company in Haifa generating...

39. Milton Johns

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Milton Johns was born on May 13, 1938 in Bristol, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Jensen Code (1973) and The X Files (1998).

40. Mark Jones

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Mark Jones was born on April 22, 1939 in the UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Under Milk Wood (1971) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on January 14, 2010 in Shropshire, England, UK.

41. Bruce Boa

Actor | Full Metal Jacket

Bruce Boa was born on July 10, 1930 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He was an actor, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), Octopussy (1983) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He was married to Cherry. He died on April 17, 2004 in Surrey, England, UK.

42. Oliver Maguire

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Oliver Maguire was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Bloody Sunday (2002). He died on January 10, 2012 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland.

43. Christopher Malcolm

Actor | Highlander

Christopher Malcolm was born on August 19, 1946 in Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Highlander (1986), Labyrinth (1986) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980). He was married to Judith Lloyd. He died on February 15, 2014 in London, England, UK.

44. Richard Oldfield

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Richard Oldfield is known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Lifeforce (1985) and Lonely Lights (2011).

45. John Morton

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

John Morton was born on March 26, 1947. He is an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Flash Gordon (1980) and Superman II (1980).

46. Ian Liston

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Ian Liston was born on August 4, 1948 in Crosby, Merseyside, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Scum (1979) and A Bridge Too Far (1977). He died on October 1, 2016 in the UK.

47. John Ratzenberger

Actor | Cheers

John started the improvisational duo group, "Sal's Meat Market", in Bridgeport, Connecticut with fellow actor and friend Ray Hassett. He was later affiliated with the ensemble group, "The Downtown Cabaret". Coincidentally, he was a friend of Susan Ryan, the mother of Meg Ryan. A mutual friend, also...

48. Jack McKenzie

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Jack McKenzie is known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The House That Jack Built (2018) and Gandhi (1982).

49. Jerry Harte

Actor | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Jerry Harte was born on April 20, 1931 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) and French Kiss (1995). He was married to Julia McKenzie. He died in February 2018 in England, UK.

50. Norman Chancer

Actor | Local Hero

Norman Chancer is known for Local Hero (1983), Outland (1981) and Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

51. Norwich Duff

Actor | Superman

Norwich Duff is known for Superman (1978), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Short Circuit 2 (1988).

52. Ray Hassett

Actor | Superman

Ray Hassett was born on January 3, 1948 in the USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Superman (1978), Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). He has been married to Kellie Ann Draffan since March 13, 2005. He was previously married to Susan and ...

53. Brigitte Kahn

Actress | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Brigitte Kahn is known for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Remains of the Day (1993) and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983).

54. Burnell Tucker

Actor | Lifeforce

Burnell Tucker was born in February 1935 in Newfoundland, Canada. He is an actor, known for Lifeforce (1985), The Omen (1976) and Superman (1978). He has been married to Shelley Lambert since 1961.

55. Sebastian Shaw

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Though primarily a stage actor, Sebastian Shaw appeared in some forty film and television productions from 1930 to 1991. Born in Holt, Norfolk, England, he first appeared on stage as a child in 1913, graduating to lead roles by the late 1920s. It was in 1930 that he made his first film appearance in...

56. Sebastian Shaw

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Though primarily a stage actor, Sebastian Shaw appeared in some forty film and television productions from 1930 to 1991. Born in Holt, Norfolk, England, he first appeared on stage as a child in 1913, graduating to lead roles by the late 1920s. It was in 1930 that he made his first film appearance in...

57. Michael Pennington

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Michael Pennington was born on June 7, 1943 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Iron Lady (2011) and Hamlet (1969). He was previously married to Katharine Barker.

58. Michael Carter

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Michael Carter was born on June 29, 1947 in Dumfries, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and The Illusionist (2006).

59. Tim Rose

Actor | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Tim Rose was born on July 17, 1956 in Pittsfield, Illinois, USA. He is an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Howard the Duck (1986) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).

60. Dermot Crowley

Actor | Luther: The Fallen Sun

Dermot Crowley was born on March 19, 1947 in Cork, Ireland. He is an actor and producer, known for Luther: The Fallen Sun (2023), The Death of Stalin (2017) and The Foreigner (2017). He has been married to Suzanne Smith since July 3, 1982.

61. Caroline Blakiston

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Incisive, classically-trained English stage and screen actress, latterly often seen on TV as imperious titled ladies or dowagers. She was born Caroline Georgiana Blakiston in Chelsea, London, the daughter of archivist Hugh Noel Blakiston (1905-1984) and non-fiction author Rachel Georgiana Russell (...

62. Femi Taylor

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Femi Taylor was born on April 8, 1961 in Niger. She is an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), The Apple (1980) and Great Performances (1971).

63. Warwick Davis

Actor | Willow

English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he ...

64. Annie Arbogast

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Annie Arbogast is known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), From 'Star Wars' to 'Jedi': The Making of a Saga (1983) and Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi (1983).

65. Claire Davenport

Actress | The Elephant Man

Claire Davenport was born on April 24, 1933 in Sale, Cheshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Elephant Man (1980), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and The Return of the Pink Panther (1975). She died on February 25, 2002 in London, England, UK.

66. Mike Edmonds

Actor | Time Bandits

Mike Edmonds was born on January 13, 1944 in Chelmsford, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Time Bandits (1981), Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

67. Jane Busby

Actress | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Jane Busby is known for Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Gems (1985) and Grange Hill (1978).

68. Nicki Reade

69. Dickey Beer

Stunts | The Bourne Legacy

Dickey Beer was born in Netherlands. He is known for The Bourne Legacy (2012), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Starship Troopers (1997).

70. Don Bies

Visual_effects | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Don Bies was born on April 7, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), Starship Troopers (1997) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).

71. Richard Bonehill

Actor | Rob Roy

Richard Bonehill was born in 1949 in the UK. He was an actor, known for Rob Roy (1995), Top Secret! (1984) and George and the Dragon (2004). He was married to Lynne Gillian Bradshaw. He died on January 29, 2015 in Truro, Cornwall, England, UK.

72. Ben Burtt

Sound_department | WALL·E

Ben Burtt was born in New York, USA. Though he is a writer, an editor and a director, he is best known for his work as a sound designer. Ben has worked on many Pixar and Star Trek movies and all of the Star Wars movies. He is credited for creating Chewbacca's voice and sounds as well as the voice ...

73. Mark Dodson

Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Mark Dodson was born on February 1, 1960 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015), Gremlins (1984) and Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). He was married to Teresa Kay Willey and Tanya Lee Christopherson. He died on March 2, 2024 in ...

74. Ernie Fosselius

Actor | Hardware Wars

Ernie Fosselius was born on October 23, 1945 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Hardware Wars (1978), Porklips Now (1980) and Spaceballs (1987).

75. Nelson Hall

Actor | A Man's Making

Nelson Hall was born on March 12, 1881 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for A Man's Making (1915). He died on July 28, 1944 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

76. Liam Neeson

Actor | Kinsey

Liam Neeson was born on June 7, 1952 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, to Katherine (Brown), a cook, and Bernard Neeson, a school caretaker. He was raised in a Catholic household. During his early years, Liam worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, a truck driver, an assistant architect and an ...

77. Ewan McGregor

Actor | Moulin Rouge!

Ewan Gordon McGregor was born on March 31, 1971 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, to Carol Diane (Lawson) and James Charles McGregor, both teachers. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He was raised in Crieff. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents ...

78. Natalie Portman

Actress | Black Swan

Natalie Portman is the first person born in the 1980s to have won the Academy Award for Best Actress (for Black Swan (2010)).

Natalie was born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel. She is the only child of Avner Hershlag, an Israeli-born doctor, and Shelley Stevens, an ...

79. Jake Lloyd

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Jake Matthew Lloyd Broadbent is an American former actor. He is most famous for playing Anakin Skywalker in "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)." Directed by George Lucas, the movie became the second-highest-grossing film worldwide at the box office, behind only "Titanic (1997)."

Lloyd...

80. Pernilla August

Actress | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Pernilla August started acting as a child, performing in plays at Vår teater and at school. In 1979 she was accepted at the Statens scenskola to study acting professionally. Director Ingmar Bergman took note of her early and cast her as a nanny in his Fanny and Alexander (1982).

In 1982 she got ...

81. Oliver Ford Davies

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Eminent English actor Oliver Ford Davies began his career in academia. The son of a teacher, he studied at Merton College, Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and performed on stage with the experimental Theatre Club at the age of twenty. After ...

82. Hugh Quarshie

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Hugh Quarshie was born on December 22, 1954 in Accra, Ghana. He is an actor and director, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Highlander (1986) and Nightbreed (1990). He is married to Annika Sundström.

83. Ahmed Best

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Ahmed Best is an African-American actor, musician and dancer. He gained recognition for portraying Jar Jar Binks in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999). He would later reprise the role in the rest of the prequel trilogy, video games and cartoons as well as Robot Chicken Star Wars ...

84. 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 ...

85. Brian Blessed

Actor | Flash Gordon

Boisterous British actor Brian Blessed is known for his hearty, king-sized portrayals on film and television. A giant of a man accompanied by an eloquent wit and booming, operatic voice, Brian was born in 1936 and grew up in the mining village of Goldthorpe in South Yorkshire. His father was a ...

86. Andy Secombe

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Andrew Secombe is a Welsh actor and author from Mumbles, South Wales who is widely known for providing the voice of Watto from the Star Wars franchise. He voiced Watto in the first two prequel trilogy films, cartoons and video games since 1999. He also acted in The Legend of Robin Hood, Killing Eve...

87. Ray Park

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Ray Park was born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He moved with his parents, younger brother and sister to London, UK, at the age of seven. Ray always wanted to be in the movies, and be like their heroes. He also began to nurture a love for martial arts from the age of seven, when his father's fondness ...

88. Lewis Macleod

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Lewis Macleod was born on July 4, 1970 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Deep Impact (1998) and Gran Turismo (2023). He is married to Victoria Lumsden. They have two children.

89. Steve Speirs

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Steve Speirs was born on February 22, 1965 in Troedyrhiw, near Merthyr Tydfil, Wales as Steven Roberts. He is an actor and writer, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) and Eragon (2006). He has been married to Joanna since ...

90. Silas Carson

Actor | Trust

Silas Carson (b: 1964) is an English actor who has spent most of his life living in London. He trained at The Drama Centre, London, and works extensively on stage and screen. He has played many classical roles in the theatre, including at The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal National Theatre ...

91. Jerome St. John Blake

Actor | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Jerome Blake debuted as an actor with a part as one of the knights guarding Sean Connery in First Knight (1995). After playing a succession of roles, Nick Dudman Creature effects supremo called him to say: "I'm doing Star Wars now". After Jerome congratulated him, Nick simply said "Do you want to ...

92. Alan Ruscoe

Actor | Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Alan Ruscoe is known for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and The Fifth Element (1997).

93. Ralph Brown

Actor | Withnail & I

Ralph Brown was born on June 18, 1957 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Withnail & I (1987), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Wayne's World 2 (1993). He is married to Jenny Jules.

94. Celia Imrie

Actress | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Celia Imrie is an Olivier award-winning and Screen Actors Guild-nominated actress, a Variety magazine 'Icon' and Women in Film and Television 'Lifetime Achievement award' winner. As well as her acclaimed film, television and theatre work, she is also a Sunday Times best-selling author. Celia is ...

95. Samuel L. Jackson

Actor | Pulp Fiction

Samuel L. Jackson is an American producer and highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Unbreakable (2000), Shaft (2000), Formula 51 (2001), Black Snake Moan (2006), Snakes on a Plane (2006), and the Star Wars prequel trilogy (1999-2005), ...

96. Dominic West

Actor | The Wire

Dominic West was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England as Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West. He is an actor and producer, known for The Wire (2002), Chicago (2002), 300 (2006), The Affair (2014) and The Forgotten (2004). He has been married to Catherine Fitzgerald since June 26, 2010. They have ...

97. Karol Sìlva

Actress | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Karol Sìlva was born in 1975. She is an actress and director, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Dead on Time (1999).

98. Liz Wilson

Actress | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Liz Wilson was born on November 29, 1979 in the UK. She is an actress, known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Life 101 (1995).

99. Candice Orwell

Actress | Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Candice Orwell is known for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).

100. Sofia Coppola

Actress | The Godfather Part III

Sofia Coppola was born on May 14, 1971 in New York City, New York, USA as Sofia Carmina Coppola. She is a director, known for Somewhere (2010), Lost in Translation (2003), and Marie Antoinette (2006). She has been married to Thomas Mars since August 27, 2011. They have two daughters, Romy and ...