100 Notable alumni of
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is 188th in the world, 64th in Europe, and 13th in the United Kingdom by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carrie Fisher
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Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress and writer. She played Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role in The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017)—a posthumous release that was dedicated to her—and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the latter using unreleased footage from The Force Awakens. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Soapdish (1991), and The Women (2008). She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2007) and the Channel 4 series Catastrophe (2017).
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Andrew Garfield
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- actortelevision actormodelfilm actorstage actor
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Andrew Russell Garfield is an English and American actor. He is known for his work in a variety of genres, from superhero to musicals in independent films. His accolades include a Tony Award and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.
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Kit Harington
- Enrolled in the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Studied in 2008
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Christopher Catesby Harington, known professionally as Kit Harington, is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Jon Snow in the HBO fantasy television series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination and two nominations for Primetime Emmy Awards and Critics' Choice Television Awards.
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Natasha Richardson
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- film actorfilm producerstage actor
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Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress. A member of the Redgrave family, Richardson was a daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and a granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was married to Liam Neeson.
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Judi Dench
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- theatrical directorautobiographerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Dame Judith Olivia Dench is a retired English actress. Widely considered one of Britain's greatest actresses, she is noted for her versatile roles on stage and screen. Dench has garnered various accolades throughout a career that spans seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Golden Globe Awards, four British Academy Television Awards, six British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs), and seven Olivier Awards.
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Martin Freeman
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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Martin John Christopher Freeman is an English actor. Among other accolades, he has won two Emmy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Freeman's most notable roles are that of Tim Canterbury in the mockumentary series The Office (2001–2003), Dr. John Watson in the British crime drama series Sherlock (2010–2017), young Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014), Lester Nygaard in the first season of the dark comedy-crime drama series Fargo (2014), and Chris Carson in The Responder (2022–present).
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Vanessa Redgrave
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- screenwriterstage actorfilm directorfilm actor
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Dame Vanessa Redgrave is an English actress and political activist. In a career spanning over six decades, her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, Volpi Cup and an Olivier Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. She has also received various honorary awards, including the BAFTA Fellowship Award, the Golden Lion Honorary Award, and an induction into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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Jason Isaacs
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actortelevision producerfilm actor
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Jason Isaacs is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of D.J. in Event Horizon (1997), Ronald Quincy in Armageddon (1998), Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), Captain Waggoner in Fury (2014), Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), Jay Perry in Mass (2021), John Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Timothy Ratliff in The White Lotus (2025).
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Joe Alwyn
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- film actoractorsongwriter
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Joseph Matthew Alwyn is an English actor. Alwyn made his feature film debut as the titular character in Ang Lee's 2016 war drama Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk and has since played roles in films such as The Favourite (2018), Boy Erased (2018), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Harriet (2019), Catherine Called Birdy (2022), and The Brutalist (2024), as well as the BBC and Hulu drama series Conversations with Friends (2022).
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Jared Harris
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- stage actorfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Jared Francis Harris is a British actor. The son of actor Richard Harris, he went on to study drama at Duke University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has received various accolades including a British Academy Television Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for a Golden Globe Award and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
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Laurence Olivier
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- dramaturgetheatrical directortelevision actorcharacter actorfilm director
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier was an English actor and director. He and his contemporaries John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late in his career he had considerable success in television roles.
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Rufus Sewell
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actortranslatorfilm actor
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Rufus Frederik Sewell is a British actor.
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Kathleen Turner
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- theatrical directorfilm producerfilm actorstage actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Mary Kathleen Turner is an American actress. Known for her distinctive deep husky voice, she is the recipient of two Golden Globes, as well as nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy, and two Tony Awards.
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Kristin Scott Thomas
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- actorcharacter actorscreenwriterfilm actorstage actor
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Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas is a British actress. A five-time BAFTA Award and Olivier Award nominee, she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and the Olivier Award for Best Actress in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in The English Patient (1996).
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Riz Ahmed
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- film actoractivisttelevision actorsingeractor
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Rizwan Ahmed is a British actor and rapper. He has received several awards, including an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, and nominations for two Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. In 2017, he was named by Time as one of the most influential people in the world.
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Gael García Bernal
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- screenwriterfilm directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Gael García Bernal is a Mexican actor and filmmaker. He is known for his performances in the films Amores perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Bad Education (2004), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Babel (2006), Coco (2017), Old (2021), Cassandro (2023) and Magellan (2025). On television, he portrayed music conductor Rodrigo De Souza in the series Mozart in the Jungle (2014–2018), and starred as the titular character in the Disney+ special Werewolf by Night (2022).
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Joseph Morgan
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- television directormodelfilm editoractortelevision actor
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Joseph Martin Morgan is an English actor. His accolades including one People's Choice Awards, TV Guide Awards alongside eight nominations for Teen Choice Awards. After studying at Gower College Swansea, he starred in the first series of the Sky One's Hex, portraying Troy and has appeared in supporting roles in films Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) and Alexander (2004) and the BBC Two television series The Line of Beauty (2006).
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Hannah John-Kamen
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Hannah Dominique John-Kamen is an English actress. She is known for her television roles in Black Mirror (2011–2016), Killjoys (2015–2019), Brave New World (2020), and Netflix miniseries The Stranger (2020), and has portrayed Ava Starr / Ghost in the superhero films Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Thunderbolts* (2025). She has also starred in various films including SAS: Red Notice (2021), Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) and Unwelcome (2023).
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Rupert Everett
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- novelistfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
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Rupert James Hector Everett is an English actor. He first came to public attention in 1981 when he was cast in Julian Mitchell's play and subsequent film Another Country (1984) as a gay pupil at an English public school in the 1930s; the role earned him his first BAFTA Award nomination. He received a second BAFTA nomination and his first Golden Globe Award nomination for his role in My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by a second Golden Globe nomination for An Ideal Husband (1999). He voiced Prince Charming in the animated films Shrek 2 (2004) and Shrek the Third (2007). He also played John Lamont/Mr. Barron in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016).
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Ben Hardy
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Ben Hardy is an English actor. A graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Hardy made his professional acting debut in 2012 and gained recognition for playing Peter Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2013–2015). He followed this up with his film debut as Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and subsequently portrayed Queen drummer Roger Taylor in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018). Other films in which Hardy has appeared include Mary Shelley, Only the Brave (both 2017), 6 Underground (2019), and The Voyeurs (2021).
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Christopher Eccleston
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- actortelevision actorcharacter actorfilm actorstage actor
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Christopher Eccleston is an English actor. He is known for his work in various social realist television dramas, as well as for playing the ninth incarnation of the Doctor in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who (2005).
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Julie Christie
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- film actorvoice actorstage actor
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Julie Frances Christie is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement.
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Graham Norton
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- memoiristradio personalityfilm actorcomediancolumnist
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Graham William Walker, known professionally as Graham Norton, is an Irish comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He is a five-time BAFTA TV Award winner for the comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show (2007–present). He has received the British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance three times for the chat show So Graham Norton (1998–2002). He has been noted for his innuendo-laden dialogue and flamboyant presentation style.
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Jerome Flynn
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- singerdirectortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Jerome Patrick Flynn is an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as Bronn in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–19). His other roles include Paddy Garvey of the King's Fusiliers in the ITV series Soldier Soldier (1991–95), Bennet Drake in the BBC mystery series Ripper Street (2012–16), Hector in the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance (2016), Banner Creighton in the Paramount+ western series 1923 (2022–25) and Boris Oliver in L2: Empuraan (2025).
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Bob Hoskins
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- character actorstage actoractorcomediantelevision actor
- Biography
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Robert William Hoskins was an English actor and film director. Known for his intense but sensitive portrayals of "tough guy" characters, he began his career on stage before making his screen breakthrough playing Arthur Parker on the 1978 BBC Television serial Pennies from Heaven. He subsequently played acclaimed lead roles in the films The Long Good Friday (1980), Mona Lisa (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Mermaids (1990), TwentyFourSeven (1997), Noriega: God's Favorite (2000), Last Orders (2001), The Good Pope: Pope John XXIII (2003) and Ruby Blue (2008).
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Jennifer Ehle
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jennifer Anne Ehle is an American and British actress. The daughter of writer John Ehle and English actress Rosemary Harris, Ehle started her career acting on stage in the United Kingdom, with the Edinburgh Festival, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and the National Theatre. She earned a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play and a nomination for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing. She reunited with Stoppard acting in his play The Coast of Utopia (2007), earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play. She appeared on Broadway in the J.T. Rogers play Oslo, earning a second Tony nomination for Best Actress.
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Julian Sands
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- theatrical directorfilm actorstage actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Julian Richard Morley Sands was an English actor. He had his breakout role as George Emerson in A Room with a View (1985) and went on to appear in The Killing Fields (1984); Gothic (1986); Siesta (1987); Warlock (1989); Arachnophobia (1990); Naked Lunch (1991); Boxing Helena (1993); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); The Medallion (2003); Ocean's Thirteen (2007); and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). His television roles included Nick Hardaway in Rose Red (2002), Vladimir Bierko in 24 (2006), Jor-El in Smallville (2009–2010), and the voice of Valmont in Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2002).
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James Purefoy
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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James Brian Mark Purefoy is an English actor. He played Marcus Antonius in the HBO series Rome, Nick Jenkins in A Dance to the Music of Time, college professor turned serial killer Joe Carroll in the hit Fox thriller series The Following, Solomon Kane in the film of the same name, and Hap Collins in the Sundance series Hap and Leonard. Purefoy also played Lord Phillipe de Clermont in the second season of the hit AMC/Netflix series "A Discovery of Witches". In 2018, he starred as Laurens Bancroft in the first season of Altered Carbon, a Netflix original series. Following an uncredited role as V in the 2006 film V for Vendetta (replaced and dubbed over by Hugo Weaving), he was cast in a main role as Captain Gulliver "Gully" Troy / Captain Blighty in the 2020–2021 second and 2022 third season of the television series Pennyworth, the prequel to both Gotham and V for Vendetta.
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Hugh Bonneville
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Hugh Richard Bonniwell Williams DL, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, is an English actor. He is best known for portraying Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, in the ITV historical drama series Downton Abbey from 2010 to 2015. His performance on the show earned him a nomination at the Golden Globes and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award nominations, as well as three Screen Actors Guild Awards. He reprised his role in the feature films Downton Abbey (2019), Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022), and Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025). He also acted in the films Notting Hill (1999), Iris (2001), The Monuments Men (2014), and the Paddington films (2014–present).
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Karla Souza
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- television actormodelstage actorfilm actor
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Karla Susana Olivares Souza is a Mexican actress known for her roles as Laurel Castillo on the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder and Marina Hayworth on the ABC sitcom Home Economics. She won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress in 2023 for her role as Mariel Saenz in the television movie La Caída.
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Jennifer Saunders
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- autobiographerteacherfilm actorcomediantelevision actor
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Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedian, actress, singer, impressionist, satirist and screenwriter. Saunders originally found attention in the 1980s, when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with her best friend and comedy partner, Dawn French. With French, Saunders co-wrote and starred in their eponymous sketch show, French and Saunders and later received acclaim in the 1990s for writing and playing her character Edina Monsoon in her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She received a BAFTA Fellowship in 2009 with French.
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Catherine Tate
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- screenwriterstage actorwritercomedianfilm actor
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Catherine Tate is an English actress, comedian and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work on the BBC sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show (2004–2007), as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and seven BAFTAs. Tate played Donna Noble in the 2006 Christmas special of the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, and reprised her role for the fourth series in 2008, and the 60th anniversary episodes in 2023.
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Peter Davison
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- actortelevision actorfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett, known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor. He played Tristan Farnon in the 1978 BBC television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories, and starred as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1981–1984), at the time the youngest actor to play the role.
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Dawn French
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- television presenternovelistfilm actorcomedianstage actor
- Biography
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Dawn Roma French is a British actress, comedian, and writer. She is known for writing and starring in the BBC sketch comedy series French and Saunders (1987–2007) with her friend and comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for starring in the BBC comedy series Murder Most Horrid (1991–1999) and The Vicar of Dibley (1994–2007). She has been nominated for seven British Academy Television Awards and won a BAFTA Fellowship with Saunders in 2009.
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James Fox
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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James William Fox is an English actor, known for his work in film and television. He is a member of the Fox family of actors. His career began in the 1960s through leading roles in films such as The Servant (1963), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), and Performance (1970).
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James Nesbitt
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- stage actortelevision actorcomedianactorfilm actor
- Biography
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William James Nesbitt is an actor from Northern Ireland. From 1987, Nesbitt spent seven years performing in plays that varied from the musical Up on the Roof (1987, 1989) to the political drama Paddywack (1994). He made his feature film debut playing talent agent Fintan O'Donnell in Hear My Song (1991). He got his breakthrough television role playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama series Cold Feet (1997–2003, 2016–2020), which won him a British Comedy Award, a Television and Radio Industries Club Award, and a National Television Award.
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Tom Payne
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Tom Payne is an English actor. He is known for appearing on AMC's The Walking Dead as Paul "Jesus" Rovia, and BBC's Waterloo Road as Brett Aspinall. He portrayed Malcolm Bright on the American television series Prodigal Son from 2019 to 2021. Payne also currently has a recurring role in Law & Order: Organized Crime.
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Linus Roache
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- actor
- Biography
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Linus William Roache is a British actor. He played Executive ADA Michael Cutter in the NBC dramas Law & Order (2008–2010) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2011–2012), and also played Ecbert, King of Wessex in Vikings from 2014 to 2017.
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Zoë Wanamaker
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- television actorvoice actorstage actorfilm actor
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Zoë Wanamaker is an American-born British actress who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Wanamaker was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2001 by Queen Elizabeth II. She has received numerous accolades including a Laurence Olivier Award and nominations for three BAFTA Awards, and four Tony Awards.
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Cush Jumbo
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Cush Jumbo OBE is a British actress and writer. She is best known for her role as attorney Lucca Quinn in the CBS drama series The Good Wife (2015–2016) and the Paramount Plus spin-off series The Good Fight (2017–2021) and most recently June Lenker in the Apple TV+ series Criminal Record (2024).
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Lindsay Duncan
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- stage actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Lindsay Vere Duncan CBE is a Scottish actress. She is the recipient of three BAFTA nominations and one Scottish BAFTA nomination, as well as two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award for her work on stage.
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Alice Krige
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Alice Maud Krige is a South African actress. Her big break came in 1981, when she starred as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon in the British historical film Chariots of Fire, and as Eva Galli / Alma Mobley in the American supernatural horror film Ghost Story. She received a Laurence Olivier Award for her performance in the West End theatre production of Arms and the Man (1981) and later joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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Lynn Redgrave
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- television presenterfilm actorstage actortelevision actorvoice actor
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Lynn Rachel Redgrave was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award.
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James Frain
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- actortelevision actorfilm actortheatrical directorstage actor
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James Frain is an English actor. His best known television roles include Thomas Cromwell in the Showtime/CBC historical drama The Tudors, Franklin Mott in the HBO drama True Blood (2010), Warwick the Kingmaker in the BBC drama serial The White Queen (2013), John Sumner in the Sky/Canal+ crime drama The Tunnel (2013), Ferdinand Chevalier in the BBC/Space sci-fi thriller Orphan Black (2015–2017), Theo Galavan/Azrael in Fox's Gotham (2015–2016), and Sarek in Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2019).
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Jon Lord
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- composersongwriterorganistpianist
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John Douglas "Jon" Lord was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from its revival in 1984 until his retirement in 2002. He also played for the bands Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, the Artwoods, the Flower Pot Men and Santa Barbara Machine Head.
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Harold Pinter
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- actordirectorwriterplaywrightscreenwriter
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Harold Pinter was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party (1957), The Homecoming (1964) and Betrayal (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include The Servant (1963), The Go-Between (1971), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), The Trial (1993) and Sleuth (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works.
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Angus Macfadyen
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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Angus Macfadyen is a Scottish actor. His roles include Robert the Bruce, both in Braveheart and Robert the Bruce, Komodo in Warriors of Virtue, Vice-Counsel Dupont in Equilibrium, Jeff Denlon in the Saw franchise, Robert Rogers in the AMC historical drama Turn: Washington's Spies, McCreedy in Cameron Crowe's We Bought a Zoo, and biologist James Murray in The Lost City of Z. He has made appearances on several television series such as Californication, Criminal Minds, Chuck, and Superman & Lois.
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Nonso Anozie
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Nonso Anozie is a British actor. On television, he is known for his roles as Xaro Xhoan Daxos in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012), R.M. Renfield on the Sky series Dracula (2013), Abraham Kenyatta on the CBS series Zoo (2015–2017), and Tommy Jepperd on the Netflix series Sweet Tooth (2021–2024). For the latter, he won a Children's and Family Emmy Award and was nominated for a BAFTA award.
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Claire Bloom
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- autobiographerstage actoractorfilm actor
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Patricia Claire Bloom is an English actress. She is known for leading roles on stage and screen and has received two BAFTA Awards and an Emmy award as well as nominations for a Grammy Award and a Tony Award. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
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Pauline Collins
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- actor
- Biography
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Pauline Angela Collins was a British actress who first rose to fame portraying Sarah Moffat in Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1973) and its spin-off Thomas & Sarah (1979). In 1992, she published her autobiography, Letter to Louise.
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Joseph Marcell
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Joseph Marcell is a Saint Lucian-born British actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Geoffrey Butler, the butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from September 1990 until the show ended in May 1996.
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Morgane Polanski
- Enrolled in the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- In 2014 studied acting
- Occupations
- actorfilm directormodel
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Morgane Polanski is a French actress, best known for portraying Princess Gisla in the History Channel series Vikings.
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Tony Robinson
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- television actortelevision presentertelevision producerauthorchildren's writer
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Sir Anthony Robinson is an English actor, author, broadcaster, and political activist. He played Baldrick in the BBC television sitcom Blackadder and has presented many historical documentaries, including the Channel 4 series Time Team and The Worst Jobs in History. He has written 16 children's books.
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Victoria Tennant
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- film actorfilm producerscreenwriter
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Victoria Tennant is a British actress. She is known for her roles in the TV miniseries The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, in which she appeared as actor Robert Mitchum's on-screen love interest, Pamela Tudsbury, as well as her supporting roles in All of Me (1984), The Holcroft Covenant (1985), Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), and L.A. Story (1991).
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Kevin Whately
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- actortelevision actorstage actor
- Biography
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Kevin Whately OBE is a British actor. He is best known for his roles as Neville "Nev" Hope in the comedy drama Auf Wiedersehen, Pet; Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the British crime dramas Inspector Morse (1987–2000) and Lewis (2006–2015); and Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice (1993–1995). He has appeared in numerous other roles.
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John Lynch
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- novelistfilm producerfilm actorstage actorfilm director
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John Lynch is an actor and novelist from Northern Ireland. He won the AFI Award for Best Actor for the 1995 film Angel Baby. His other film and television appearances include Cal (1984), The Secret Garden (1993), In the Name of the Father (1993), Sliding Doors (1998), The Fall (2013–2016), Medici (2019), The Head (2020–2024), The Banishing (2021), and Blue Lights (2023). Lynch has also written two novels, Torn Water (2005) and Falling Out of Heaven (2010).
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Philip Glenister
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Philip Haywood Glenister is an English actor. He is known for his role as DCI Gene Hunt in the BBC series Life on Mars (2006–2007) and its sequel Ashes to Ashes (2008–2010). He also played DCI William Bell in State of Play (2003) and Reverend Anderson in Outcast (2016–2018).
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Alex Hassell
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Alexander Stephen Hassell is an English actor, and co-founder of The Factory Theatre Company. He has played roles on screen in Bonkers (2007), Suburbicon (2017), The Miniaturist (2017), Genius (2018), The Boys (2019), Cowboy Bebop (2021), His Dark Materials (2022), Locked In (2023), and Rivals (2024).
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Hannah New
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- film actoractormodel
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Hannah New is a British actress and model. She is best known for her role as Lady Tilly Arnold on Bridgerton, as well as Eleanor Guthrie on the television show Black Sails and for her role as Rosalinda Fox in The Time in Between.
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Amanda Donohoe
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Amanda Donohoe is an English actress. She first came to public attention at age 16 for her relationship with pop singer Adam Ant, appearing in the music videos for the Adam and the Ants singles "Antmusic" (1980) and "Stand and Deliver" (1981) during their four-year relationship. After making her film debut in Foreign Body (1986), she co-starred in Castaway with Oliver Reed and starred in two films by Ken Russell: The Lair of the White Worm (1988) and The Rainbow (1989). Also starred in An Affair in Mind (1988)
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Michael Beck
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- actor
- Biography
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Michael Beck is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Swan in The Warriors (1979) as Sonny Malone in Xanadu (1980), and as Koda in Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983).
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Gok Wan
- Occupations
- fashion designerautobiographerjournalistwardrobe stylist
- Biography
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Gok Wan MBE is a British fashion consultant, author, television presenter, actor, DJ and chef.
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Stephen Tompkinson
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- television actorstage actoractorfilm actor
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Stephen Phillip Tompkinson is an English actor, known for his television roles as Marcus in Chancer (1990), Damien Day in Drop the Dead Donkey (1990–1998), Father Peter Clifford in Ballykissangel (1996–98), Trevor Purvis in Grafters (1998–1999), Danny Trevanion in Wild at Heart (2006–2013) and the titular Alan Banks in DCI Banks (2010–2016). He won the 1994 British Comedy Award for Best TV Comedy Actor. He also starred in the films Brassed Off (1996) and Hotel Splendide (2000).
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Christopher Timothy
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- film directortelevision actorwriteractorfilm actor
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Christopher Timothy is a British actor and narrator. He is known for his roles as James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, Mac McGuire in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors and Ted Murray in the BBC One primetime soap opera EastEnders.
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Fern Britton
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- television presenterwriterjournalist
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Fern M. Philomena Britton is an English television presenter and author. After beginning her career as a continuity announcer and a newsreader, she went on to co-present Breakfast Time in the 1980s and hosted the cookery game show Ready Steady Cook between 1994 and 2000 on BBC One. Britton presented the ITV daytime programme This Morning from 1999 to 2009. She also co-presented the British Soap Awards between 2006 and 2008 and All Star Mr & Mrs between 2008 and 2010.
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Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
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- actortelevision actor
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Nathan Lloyd Stewart-Jarrett is an English actor. He starred as Curtis Donovan in the E4 series Misfits and Ian in the Channel 4 series Utopia (2013–2014). He is also known for his theatre work, earning a WhatsOnStage Award nomination for his performance in Angels in America. His films include The Comedian (2012), War Book (2014), Mope (2019), Candyman (2021), and Femme (2023), for which he won a British Independent Film Award.
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Lalla Ward
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- stage actorartistactorwriterpainter
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Sarah Jill "Lalla" Ward is an English actress, voice artist and author who is best known for playing the role of Romana II in the BBC television series Doctor Who from 1979 to 1981.
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James Faulkner
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- stage actortelevision actorvoice actoractorfilm actor
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James Sebastian Faulkner is a British actor. He is best known for playing Pope Sixtus IV in the television series Da Vinci's Demons (2014–2015), Randyll Tarly in the television series Game of Thrones (2016–2017), and Saint Paul in the film Paul, Apostle of Christ (2018).
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Ben Browder
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- television actorfilm directoractorfilm actor
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Robert Benedict Browder is an American actor, writer and film director. He is best known for his roles as John Crichton in Farscape and Cameron Mitchell in Stargate SG-1.
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Tracy-Ann Oberman
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- actorfilm actor
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Tracy-Ann Oberman is an English actress, playwright and narrator who is best known as Chrissie Watts in EastEnders (2004–2005, 2024-2026) and Valerie Lewis in Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020).
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Abi Titmuss
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- poker playertelevision presentermodelactorfilm actor
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Abigail Evelyn Titmuss is an English actress, television personality, and poker player. She is also a former glamour model and nurse.
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Cherie Lunghi
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Cherie Mary Lunghi is an English film, television, theatre actress and voice-over artist. She is known for her roles in many British dramas. Her international fame stems from her role as Guenevere in the 1981 film Excalibur. Lunghi's long list of screen, stage and TV credits include football manager Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The Manageress and a series of advertisements for Kenco coffee. She also competed in the 2008 series of Strictly Come Dancing. She is the mother of the actress Nathalie Lunghi.
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Jefferson Hall
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Jefferson Hall, occasionally credited as Robert Hall in his earlier roles, is an English actor. He is known for the roles of Hugh of the Vale in Game of Thrones (2011), Varg in Wizards vs Aliens on CBBC (2012–2013), Torstein in Vikings (2013–2015), Aaron Korey in Halloween (2018), twins Jason Lannister and Tyland Lannister in House of the Dragon (2022–present), and Haakon Chevalier in Oppenheimer (2023).
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Rachel Parris
- Enrolled in the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- 2006-2007 graduated with master's degree
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- actorcomedianimproviser
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Rachel Sarah Parris is an English comedian, musician, actress and presenter. She hosted the satirical news show Late Night Mash (formerly The Mash Report).
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Virginia Anne McKenna
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- stage actorsingeractorfilm actor
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Dame Virginia Anne McKenna is a British stage and screen actress, author, animal rights activist, and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films The Cruel Sea (1953), A Town Like Alice (1956), Carve Her Name with Pride (1958), Born Free (1966), and Ring of Bright Water (1969), as well as her work with the Born Free Foundation.
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Eleanor Matsuura
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Eleanor Matsuura is a British actress best known for her roles as Yumiko in The Walking Dead, Hannah Santo in Spooks: The Greater Good, Bev in Utopia and as PC Donna Prager in Cuffs.
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Charlie Vickers
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- actor
- Biography
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Charlie Vickers is an Australian actor. He plays Sauron in the Amazon Prime fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
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Anna Lee
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- voice actortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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Anna Lee, MBE was an English and American actress, labelled by studios "The British Bombshell".
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Corey Johnson
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Corey Johnson is an American character actor largely active in the UK, known for his supporting roles in Hellboy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Captain Philips, The Bourne Ultimatum, Kick-Ass, Ex Machina, the Spooks episode "The Special", the Doctor Who episode "Dalek" and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Richard S. Fuld, Jr., the final chairman & CEO of Lehman Brothers.
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Rebecca Root
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- voice coachopera vocal coachactorcomedian
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Rebecca Root is an English actress, comedian and voice coach. She is most well-known for playing the leading role in the 2015 BBC Two sitcom Boy Meets Girl. She has performed the role of Siobhan in the National Theatre's touring production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
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Peggy Ashcroft
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, known professionally as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than six decades.
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John Laurie
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- stage actortheatrical directortelevision actoractorfilm actor
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John Paton Laurie was a Scottish stage, film, and television actor. He appeared in scores of feature films with directors including Alfred Hitchcock, David Lean, Michael Powell and Laurence Olivier, generally playing memorable small or supporting roles. As a stage actor, he was cast in Shakespearean roles and was a speaker of verse, especially of Robert Burns. He is also well known for his role in the sitcom Dad's Army (1968–1977) as Private Frazer, a member of the Home Guard.
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Akosua Busia
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- novelistfilm actorfilm directorsongwriteractor
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Akosua Gyamama Busia is a Ghanaian actress, writer and songwriter. She is known to film audiences for playing Nettie Harris in the 1985 film The Color Purple. She is the daughter of Ghanaian Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia.
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Barry Foster
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- film actortelevision actorstage actor
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John Barry Foster was an English actor who had an extensive career in film, radio, stage and television over almost 50 years. He was best known for portraying the title character in the British crime series Van der Valk (1972–1992) and Bob Rusk in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972).
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Zoe Boyle
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- actor
- Biography
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Zoe Boyle is an English actress known for her roles as Lavinia Swire on the series Downton Abbey and Trinity Ashby on Sons of Anarchy.
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Liz Solari
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- actoractivist
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María Isabel Solari Poggio, known as Liz Solari, is an Argentine actress and model. She developed a long career in modeling before becoming established as an actress in local and foreign cinema and television. She is a UNICEF Ambassador in Argentina.
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Bruce Robinson
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- television directoractordirectorwriterprose writer
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Bruce Robinson is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Killing Fields (1984).
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Lizzie Cundy
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- journalisttelevision presenter
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Elizabeth Jane Cundy is an English socialite, TV personality and former wife of footballer Jason Cundy.
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David Nicholls
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- novelistscreenwriterwriter
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David Alan Nicholls is a British novelist and screenwriter. Initially an actor after graduating from college, he became a screenwriter, notably creating the television series Rescue Me (2002) and adaptations of novels, plays, and memoirs. He is the author of six novels.
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Cameron Mackintosh
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- theatrical producerrecord producerimpresario
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Sir Cameron Anthony Mackintosh is a British theatrical producer and theatre owner notable for his association with many commercially successful musicals. At the height of his success in 1990, he was described as being "the most successful, influential and powerful theatrical producer in the world" by the New York Times. He is the producer of shows including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Mary Poppins, Oliver!, and Hamilton.
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Richard Gibson
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- film actoractortelevision actor
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Richard Gibson is a Ugandan-born British actor, best known for his role as the archetypal Gestapo Officer Herr Otto Flick in the BBC hit sitcom series, 'Allo 'Allo!.
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Frances Lee McCain
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- television actorfilm actor
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Frances Lee McCain is an American actress.
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Helen Lederer
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- actorcomedianfilm actor
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Helen Margaret Lederer is a British comedian, writer and actress who emerged as part of the alternative comedy boom at the beginning of the 1980s. Among her television credits are the BBC2 sketch series Naked Video and BBC One's Absolutely Fabulous, in which she played the role of Catriona.
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Ann Todd
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- actorfilm actor
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Dorothy Ann Todd was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed her in The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952). She was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway play. In her later years she wrote, produced and directed travel documentaries.
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Eileen Essell
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- film actoractorstage actor
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Eileen Joan Essell was an English actress, noted in part for not beginning her screen acting career until the age of 79.
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Chris Gascoyne
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- actortelevision actor
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Chris Gascoyne is an English film, theatre and television actor. He is best known for his role as Peter Barlow in the soap opera Coronation Street. Making his first appearance in December 2000 during a live, 50 minute episode for the show's 40th anniversary.
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William Houston
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- stage actorfilm actor
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William Houston, sometimes credited as Will Houston, is an English actor.
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Jane Menelaus
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- actorfilm actor
- Biography
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Jane Menelaus is an Australian actress who trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England.
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Kim Medcalf
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Kim Louise Medcalf is an English actress, singer and model. She is best known for portraying the role of Sam Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders (2002–2005, 2022–present).
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Harriet Thorpe
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- actor
- Biography
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Harriet Amelia Thorpe is an English actress. Thorpe trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. She is known for her roles in the British sitcoms The Brittas Empire (1991–1997) and Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012), and has also starred in the West End musicals Cabaret (2006), Wicked (2008) and Mamma Mia! (2010). In 2023, she took over the role of Elaine Peacock in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
