- Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is a BAFTA Award-winning English comedian, actress, and comedy writer. Along with her comedy partner Dawn French, she is best known for starring in their sketch show "French & Saunders" and for writing and starring in the popular sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous" where she played the lead role of Eddy Monsoon.
- Julia Sawalha
Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress best known for her roles of Lynda Day, editor of "The Junior Gazette" in "Press Gang", Saffron Monsoon in "Absolutely Fabulous" and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of "Pride and Prejudice"
- Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley OBE, FRGS (born 1 May 1946) is an English actress and former model who is best known for her roles in "The New Avengers", "Absolutely Fabulous", "Sapphire and Steel" and "Sensitive Skin".
- Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards.
- Jane Horrocks
Barbara Jane Horrocks, known as Jane Horrocks, (born January 18, 1964) is an English actress.
- Josie Lawrence
Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence, 6 June 1959) is a British comedienne and actress. Lawrence has been a member of the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe since 1987 and came to public attention as a regular guest on the Channel 4 improvisational comedy series "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" on its launch in 1988. She went on have her own short-lived television series "Josie" in 1991, …
- Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver (born Amelia Fiona J. Driver on January 31 1970) is an English actress and singer-songwriter, born in London to Ronnie Driver and his wife Gaynor. She first came to broad public attention when she played the lead role in "Circle of Friends". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1997 film "Good Will Hunting".
- Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter (born May 26, 1966) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress, known for her roles in the films "A Room with a View", "Howards End", and "Fight Club".
- Christopher Ryan
Christopher Ryan is an English actor who trained at East 15 Acting School in London. He played Mike TheCoolPerson, a member of "The Young Ones" gang in the British television series of the same name -- the only member of the cast who was not already well-known in comedy circles, he was a last-minute replacement for Peter Richardson, for whom the role of "straight man" Mike was originally intended.
- Alexandra Bastedo
Alexandra Bastedo (born March 9 1946) is a British actress. Best known for her role as super-powered secret agent Sharon Macready in the 1968 British espionage/science fiction adventure series "The Champions", Bastedo was regarded as one of the most beautiful actresses of the 1960s. She was born in Hove, East Sussex, England. Her husband is the director Patrick Garland, noted for his direction of the Chichester festival.
- Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull (born 29 December 1946) is an English singer and actress whose career spans over four decades. Faithfull's early work in pop and rock music was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s. After a long absence, she returned with the landmark album, "Broken English". With a recording career that spans over four decades, Faithfull has continually reinvented her musical persona, …
- Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born July 20, 1968) is an English film, television and radio actor, probably best known for his starring role as Dr. "Mac" Macartney in the comedy television series "Green Wing", the second series of which finished on Channel 4 in May 2006. Rhind-Tutt was born in West Drayton. He attended the John Lyon School in Harrow, Middlesex.
- Gary Beadle
Gary Beadle is a English actor, best known for playing Paul Trueman in "EastEnders" and Gary Barwick in "Operation Good Guys". Beadle quit "EastEnders" in 2004 following insider reports that he'd been suspended from the show due to his failure to learn his lines and, as a result, was threatened with dismissal by Louise Berridge (who at the time was executive producer).
- June Whitfield
June Rosemary Whitfield CBE (born 11 November 1925) is an English actress who is well known for her appearances in four "Carry On" films, "Terry and June" and "Absolutely Fabulous".
- Christopher Malcolm
Christopher Malcolm (born August 19, 1946, Aberdeen, Scotland) is a British actor, best known for his role as Saffron Monsoon's openly gay father Justin in British comedy TV series "Absolutely Fabulous", or as the mad escape patient in "Only Fools and Horses". He has appeared in numerous television shows, and in films, including "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" and "Highlander".
- Meera Syal
Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal 27 June 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is a British Indian comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. Her Punjabi-born parents came to Britain from New Delhi, and she has risen to prominence as one of the most UK's best-known Indian personalities. She was awarded the MBE in the New Year's Honours List of 1997.
- Ruby Wax
Ruby Wax (born Ruby Wachs on April 19, 1953) is an American comedienne who made a career in the United Kingdom as part of the alternative comedy scene in the 1980s.
- Miranda Richardson
Miranda Jane Richardson (born 3 March 1958) is an Academy Award nominated English actress.
- Tim Woodward
Tim Woodward (born 24 April 1953 in London, England) is a British actor and the son of actor Edward Woodward. He is probably best known for his roles in the 1970s BBC drama "Wings" and the 1990s soap opera "Families' and Murder City. Other TV credits include: "Tales of the Unexpected", "Pie in the Sky", "Absolutely Fabulous", "Prime Suspect", "New Tricks", "Midsomer Murders" and "Rosemary & Thyme.
- Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer (born Llandovery, Wales, September 24 1954) is a British comedian, writer and actress who emerged as part of the alternative comedy boom at the beginning of the 1980s. Lederer established a stand-up act at the Comedy Store in London and then won minor parts in episodes of "The Young Ones", which had been written by her Comedy Store contemporaries Ben Elton and Rik Mayall. She would be linked with this scene for the rest of the 1980s, …
- Dawn French
Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a BAFTA Award-nominated British comedian and actress best known for starring in her comedy sketch show "French & Saunders" along with her comedy partner Jennifer Saunders, and for playing the lead role in "The Vicar of Dibley" as Geraldine Granger.
- Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen on May 5, 1957) is a British actor. Among his best-known roles is the world-weary, drug-crazed alcoholic Withnail in "Withnail and I"
- Celia Imrie
Celia Imrie is an English actress best known for appearing with Victoria Wood in "Acorn Antiques" and "dinnerladies", and also for appearing in "After You've Gone" and "Kingdom". She was born in Guildford, Surrey and trained at the Guildford School of Acting. Her films have included "Nanny McPhee", "Hilary and Jackie" (playing Iris du Pré) and the 1997 film of "The Borrowers" where she played Homily Clock.
- Mo Gaffney
Mo Gaffney (born Maureen E. Gaffney on November 5, 1958) is an American actress, comedienne, writer and activist. She hosted two of her own television talk shows: "Women Aloud!" (which was shown on the Comedy Central network) and "The Mo Show". She and friend Kathy Najimy wrote and starred in two off-Broadway shows, "The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives" and "The Kathy and Mo Show: The Dark Side", both of which won Obie awards.
- Adrian Edmondson
Adrian Charles Edmondson is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. He is sometimes credited as Ade Edmondson. Edmondson is probably best known as the anarchic punk Vyvyan Basterd in the cult BBC sitcom "The Young Ones" (1982–1984) and later, for his role as Eddie Hitler in the BBC sitcom "Bottom" (1991–1995) which he also co-wrote. In both of these roles he starred alongside comedy partner Rik Mayall.
- Jo Brand
Joanne Brand, known as Jo Brand, (born 3 May 1957, Hastings, East Sussex) is a British comedienne.
- Robert Lindsay
Robert Lindsay Stevenson (born) is an English actor known as Robert Lindsay. He is best known for his television work, starring in "Citizen Smith", "My Family" and "Hornblower".
- Emma Bunton
Emma Lee Bunton (born 21 January 1976) is an English pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. Emma is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, Spice Girls. Emma was known as "Baby Spice", in the group, as she was the youngest member, had an "innocent" demeanour, and often wore "baby doll" dresses.
- Britt Ekland
Britt Ekland (born Britt-Marie Eklund on October 6, 1942) is a Swedish actress, long resident in the UK. Ekland became famous as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to British actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper. She stood by him after he suffered a series of massive heart attacks shortly after their marriage, and in 1965 they had a daughter Victoria.
- Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron (born 14 March, 1938) is a British stage, film and television actress and author.
- Naoko Mori
(born 1975) is a Japanese actress who works in British television. Her most well-known roles are as Sarah, Saffron's friend, in "Absolutely Fabulous", Mie Nishi-Kawa in "Casualty" (1993-1994), and Toshiko Sato in "Doctor Who" (2005) and its spin-off "Torchwood" (2006).
- Tim Wylton
Tim Wylton (born 27 February 1940 in Bangor-on-Dee, Wales) in an English television actor best known for his roles Stanley Dawkins in "My Hero" and Lol Ferris in "As Time Goes By". Wylton has been acting on British television since 1964, when he made an appearance on "The Comedy of Errors". Other early appearances include "The Liver Birds", "The Sweeney", "Maybury", "The Dustbinmen" and "Juliet Bravo".
- James Dreyfus
James Dreyfus (born October 9 1968) is an award-winning English actor. Born in London, his parents divorced when he was very young. His mother was an Egyptian fashion model and Dreyfus spent some years on tour around the world with her. Following an education at the English public school Harrow, Dreyfus created some memorable comedy characters, …
- Sam Spedding
Sam Spedding is an English actor and comedian, and a member of the comedy troupe "The Hollow Men". He was educated at Winchester College (Serjeant's House (Phil's) 1990 to 1995) at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and Selwyn College, Cambridge. Sam Spedding has appeared on television in "Absolutely Fabulous" and "As If", and on stage in Rupert Russell's "Moving Parts".
- Lisa Coleman
Lisa Coleman (b. 10 July 1970, Charing Cross, London) is an actress and volunteer occupational therapist, best known for her roles in BBC TV programmes "The Story of Tracy Beaker", "Casualty" and has guest starred in "The Bill". Coleman attended Anna Scher's Theatre School at age six, going on to complete secondary education and A-levels. Having worked in television at various times since the early 1980s, …
- Carmen du Sautoy
Carmen du Sautoy, or sometimes billed simply as Carmen Sautoy (born 26 February 1952 in London, England) is an actress whose has worked primarily in live theater. She is probably best known to movie-going audiences for her role as belly-dancing Lebanese temptress Saida in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun". She has also appeared regularly on British television, in series such as: "Chessgame", "Astronauts", …
- Gwen Humble
Gwen Humble is an American actress, with television credits in the United States and the United Kingdom that include: "Barnaby Jones", "CHiPs", "The Greatest American Hero", "Three's Company", "Remington Steele", "Absolutely Fabulous", "Lovejoy" and "JAG". She has been married to actor Ian McShane since 1981.
- Suzi Quatro
Suzi Quatro (born Susan Kay Quatro on June 3, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan) is a singer, bassist, radio personality and actress.
- Marcella Detroit
Marcella Detroit is a singer, musician and songwriter. She is most famous for her membership of the band Shakespear's Sister along with Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama fame. In particular her distinctive soprano voice provided the lead vocals on their biggest hit, "Stay", which was number one in the UK for 8 weeks in 1992. She first began playing with the Bob Seger band in the early 1970s, before joining Eric Clapton’s band in 1974.
- Lulu
Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, OBE, (born 3 November 1948 in Lennoxtown, Stirlingshire), best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, songwriter, actor, model, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through the 2000s.