I just want them in my life!!!
by PeteButS | created - 02 Jun 2014 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicI've got such a creepy obsession with this lot. Maybe to say 'addicted' is an apt description! No particular order although DT top spot is... at the top... for a reason. Otherwise, I'm very fickle. You can take it as read that the majority of those named in my other lists, 'belong' here too. And vice versa. I've tried to 'avoid' duplicates (TRIED to), and looong, listing. I 'want' them all! That's weird, right?
I promise I do recognise them as actual human beings and not commodities to 'collect'. They are brilliant and what they do 'happies' me.
Woah, breaking 'rules' and listed more than 20... Toothless from 'HTTYD" (film version of the character, not book) makes it 31.
2018 Edit... Ru Paul? No, not so much now.
2019 Edit... Frances Barber, off you pop.
2020 Edit... Some are just a sign of ‘old’ times. Some can go...
1. David Tennant
Actor | Doctor Who
Often considered one of Scotland's greatest actors, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. When he was about 3 or 4 years old, he decided to ...
DT. Obvo.
2. Sophie Duker
Writer | EE British Academy Film Awards
Sophie Duker is known for her work on BAFTA 2021 (2021), BBC Teach: Invasion of the Book Readers (2018) and The Dates (2017).
3. Richard Ayoade
Writer | Submarine
Richard Ellef Ayoade was born in Hammersmith, and grew up in Suffolk, in England, the son of a Norwegian mother, Dagny Amalie (Baassuik), and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. He studied Law at Cambridge university, and followed in the footsteps of British Comedy legends like Monty ...
4. Aisling Bea
Actress | This Way Up
Aisling Bea is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer from Ireland. In 2020, she won a BAFTA for Breakthrough Talent for her television series This Way Up in which she also starred. In 2014 she won the British Comedy Award for Best Female TV Comedian. She trained at LAMDA (The London Academy for ...
5. Mads Mikkelsen
Actor | Hannibal
Mads Mikkelsen's great successes parallel those achieved by the Danish film industry since the mid-1990s. He was born in Østerbro, Copenhagen, to Bente Christiansen, a nurse, and Henning Mikkelsen, a banker.
Starting out as a low-life pusher/junkie in the 1996 success Pusher (1996), he slowly grew ...
6. Idris Elba
Actor | Beasts of No Nation
An only child, Idrissa Akuna Elba was born and raised in London, England. His father, Winston, is from Sierra Leone and worked at Ford Dagenham; his mother, Eve, is from Ghana and had a clerical duty. Idris attended school in Canning Town, where he first became involved in acting, before he dropped...
7. Simon Reeve
Producer | The Balkans
Simon Reeve is a bestselling author and presenter of the acclaimed BBC TV travel series Tropic of Capricorn, Equator, Places That Don't Exist and Meet the Stans, for which he has traveled to scores of countries.
In the 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn Simon traveled around the line marking the...
8. Harry Lloyd
Actor | The Theory of Everything
Harry Lloyd was born on November 17, 1983 in London, England. He is an actor and writer, known for The Theory of Everything (2014), The Iron Lady (2011) and Anthropoid (2016).
9. Steven Yeun
Actor | Minari
Steven Yeun was born in Seoul, South Korea, to June and Je Yeun. His family first immigrated to Canada and stayed there for one year, and then moved to the U.S. He has a brother named Brian. He began acting while at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI, where he studied Psychology as a major (BS in ...
10. David Mitchell
Writer | That Mitchell and Webb Look
David Mitchell was born on 14th July 1974 in Salisbury, England. His parents, Ian and Kathy Mitchell, worked as hotel managers in Salisbury. David also has a brother. In 1977 the family moved to Oxford, where his parents taught a course in hotel management at Oxford Brookes University. David was ...
11. Jessica Fostekew
Actress | Official Secrets
Jessica Fostekew is a writer and actress, known for Official Secrets (2019), Halo (2022) and Greed (2019).
12. Guz Khan
Actor | Four Weddings and a Funeral
Guz Khan is an actor and writer, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (2019), Turn Up Charlie (2019) and Man Like Mobeen (2017).
13. Stephen Mangan
Actor | Green Wing
After graduating from RADA in 1994, Cambridge law graduate Mangan did not pursue lead roles on-screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. Between 1994 and 2000, he performed in plays by (among others) Shakespeare, Shaw, Coward, Benn and Goldsmith ...
14. Gwendoline Christie
Actress | Game of Thrones
Gwendoline Christie was born in Worthing, West Sussex, England and trained in dance and gymnastics as a child. She graduated from Drama Centre London with a First Class BA (Hons) in 2005 and her first job was with Declan Donellan in 'Great Expectations' at the Royal Shakespeare Company that autumn....
15. Tim Kang
Actor | Rambo
Tim Kang was born on March 16, 1973 in San Francisco, California, USA as Yila Timothy Kang. He is an actor and producer, known for Rambo (2008), Two Weeks Notice (2002) and The Forgotten (2004).
16. Michael Kitchen
Actor | Out of Africa
Michael Kitchen was born on October 31, 1948 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England. 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.
17. Daisy Haggard
Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Daisy Haggard was born on March 22, 1978 in London, England as Celia Daisy Morna Haggard. She is an actress and writer, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), I Give It a Year (2013) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).
18. Christoph Waltz
Actor | Django Unchained
Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He is known for his work with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009) and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained (2012). For each performance, he won...
19. Alex Horne
Writer | Taskmaster NZ
Alex was born on September 10 1978. He studied at Cambridge University where he became a member of the Footlights Revue. In 2000 he made his debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with his show How To Avoid Huge Ships and was nominated for the Perrier award for best new comic with his show How To ...
And The Horne Section. Particularly Will.
20. Ivanno Jeremiah
Actor | Humans
Ivanno Jeremiah is a British Ugandan Actor and Writer. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art has worked consistently in Film, Television & International Theatre.
Ivanno is best known for playing 'Max' in Channel 4 and AMC's, Humans (2018) & 'Chris' in Sky's, A Discovery of Witches ...
21. Ben Crompton
Actor | Kill List
Ben Crompton was born in 1974 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. He is an actor and director, known for Kill List (2011), Game of Thrones (2011) and 102 Dalmatians (2000). He has been married to Liv Lorent since 2008. They have two children.
22. Michael Sheen
Actor | Masters of Sex
Even though he had burned up the London stage for nearly a decade--and appeared in several films--Michael Sheen was not really "discovered" by American audiences until his critically-acclaimed turn as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1999 Broadway revival of "Amadeus".
Sheen was born in Newport, Wales...
23. Mawaan Rizwan
Writer | Sex Education
An actor, writer, and comedian, who started out making YouTube sketches which have attracted over 19 million views. He's since gone on to star in Two Weeks to Live (2020) (Sky/NowTV) and Murdered by My Father (2016) (BBC 3). He's one of the writers of Netflix's hit comedy Sex Education (2019), and ...
24. Elliot Page
Actor | Juno
Elliot Page was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. They began their career at the age of 10 on the award-winning television series Pit Pony (1999), for...
25. Greg Davies
Actor | The Inbetweeners Movie
Greg is the writer and star of critically lauded Channel 4 sitcom "Man Down". After playing infamously psychotic Head of Sixth Form 'Mr Gilbert' in "The Inbetweeners" (Channel 4) and its two spin off feature films, Greg went on to appear in BBC Three's Cuckoo alongside Andy Samberg and Taylor ...
Taskmaster!
26. Rufus Jones
Actor | W1A
Rufus Jones was born on May 17, 1975 in London, England. He is an actor and writer, known for W1A (2014), Hunderby (2012) and Camping (2016). He has been married to Emma Cunniffe since 2008.
As Terry Jones, playing Michael Palin's wife. "Terry's my favvwurt".
27. James Kyson
Actor | Preacher
One of today's most exciting & versatile actors, voted by Buzzfeed as a Top 10 Asian-American Leading Man, and by TV Guide as "Hollywood's 25 Hottest", James is next appearing in the Netflix movie Yes Day, and the upcoming HBO show Lovecraft County. He recently guest starred in AMC's Preacher (2016)...
Sign of the time this list was put together.
28. Shaun Evans
Actor | Cashback
Shaun Evans was born on March 6, 1980 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. He is an actor and producer, known for Cashback (2006), Endeavour (2012) and Being Julia (2004).
29. Simon McBurney
Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Simon McBurney was born on August 25, 1957 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England as Simon Montagu McBurney. He is an actor and director, known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), The Manchurian Candidate (2004) and The Last King of Scotland (2006). He is married to Cassie Yukawa. They have three ...
30. Geoffrey McGivern
Actor | Little Dorrit
Geoffrey McGivern was born in 1952 in Battersea, London, England as Geoffrey M McGivern. He is an actor, known for Little Dorrit (2008), Onegin (1999) and Blackball (2003).
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