- Daniel Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis (full name Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis) was born on 29 April 1957 in London, England. He is an Academy Award winning and Golden Globe award nominated actor. Biography and Career : He left school when he was 13. In 1971 he got a part in "Sunday, Bloody Sunday". That film made his debut in Hollywood. He begun taking act classes at Bristol Old Vic. Later on, he got...
- Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968 in Chester, England) is a BAFTA-nominated English actor best known as the sixth actor to portray secret agent James Bond in the official film series from EON Productions since 2006. He made his debut as the character on 14 November 2006, in the 21st official Bond film, "Casino Royale", to much critical acclaim.
- Rachel Weisz
Rachel Weisz (born March 7, 1971) is an Academy Award-winning English film and television actress. She became known after her roles in the Hollywood films "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns", and has since continued appearing in major film roles.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal (born December 19, 1980 as Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal) is an Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA Award-winning American actor. The son of director Stephen Gyllenhaal and screenwriter Naomi Foner, Gyllenhaal began acting at age eleven, and his short career has seen performances in diverse roles. He has received an Academy Award nomination and won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award.
- Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress.
- John Schlesinger
John Richard Schlesinger CBE (February 16, 1926 - July 25, 2003) was an English film director. Born in London to a Jewish family, he went on to work in television as an actor after graduating from Balliol College, Oxford. One of his first movies, the documentary "Terminus" (1960), earned him a Venice Film Festival Gold Lion and a British Academy Award. He was also openly gay with his life partner of 30 years.
- Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist from Staines, England) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). All three characters are featured in "Da Ali G Show", a programme in which Cohen conducts interviews while dressed as one of his three characters.
- Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. He started working in theatre and television, before his first cinema role in 1981. He is perhaps best known for his roles in "Love Actually", the "Underworld" movies, "Shaun of the Dead" and as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
- Mitzi Cunliffe
Mitzi Solomon Cunliffe was an American sculptor. She was most famous for designing the golden trophy in the shape of a theatrical mask that would go on to represent the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and be presented as the BAFTA award. She also produced textiles, ceramics, and jewelery.
- Shane Meadows
"Shady" Shane Meadows (born 26 December, 1972) is a film director and screenwriter, from Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, England. He is regarded as one of the rising stars of British cinema. His entire catalogue of films have been set in the Nottingham area, except "Dead Man's Shoes" which was shot in Matlock, Derbyshire. They recall the kitchen sink realism of filmmakers such as Ken Loach and Mike Leigh, with a post-modern twist.
- Nick Park
Nicholas Wulstan Park, CBE (b. December 6, 1958) is a four-time Academy Award-winning English filmmaker of stop motion animation best known as the creator of Wallace and Gromit. He has been nominated for an Oscar five times and won four times (losing the fifth to another of his own films). Nick Park was born in Preston in Lancashire, England, and attended Cuthbert Mayne High School (now Our Lady's Catholic High School). He grew up with a keen interest in drawing cartoons.
- Mia Farrow
Mia Farrow Mia Farrow has had an ever-evolving life journey that has brought her fame both on and offstage. Internationally acclaimed actress, mother of fourteen children (ten who are adopted), and a devoted and committed humanitarian advocating for children worldwide, Ms. Farrow now focuses her efforts on helping those less fortunate.
- Liz Smith
Elizabeth "Liz" Smith (born 11 December 1921) is a BAFTA-Award winning British actress best known for her roles in the sitcoms "The Vicar of Dibley" and "The Royle Family", and who also appeared in the 2005 film "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
- Victoria Wood
Victoria Wood OBE is a BAFTA award winning English comedian, actor, singer and writer born 19 May 1953 in Prestwich Village, Greater Manchester. She has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with songs of her own composition, which she accompanies on piano.
- Steve Box
Steve Box (born South Shields Tyne and Wear UK 9 February 1956) is an Oscar-winning animator and director who works for Aardman Animations. His early work in animation included the popular British claymation television series "The Trap Door" for Bristol-based animation studio CMTB Animation. Box joined Aardman Animations in 1990. He directed the video for the Spice Girls' "Viva Forever" in 1998.
- Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor (born March 1961 in Walton-On-Thames) is an animation director with the Bristol-based animation company A Productions. He created and directed the children's series "Rubbish, King of the Jumble" for ITV and was nominated for a BAFTA in 2002-03 for the BBC pre-school animation series Boo! which he directed. *link to A Productions website
- Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is a double Academy Award-winning, Golden Globe Award-winning, Emmy Award-winning and BAFTA-nominated American actress. She has enjoyed a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has received several awards in her career.
- Peter Kurland
Peter Franklin Kurland is a production sound mixer. Peter Kurland was born in 1958 and has done boom operation work along with sound mixing on many movies, such as "Walk the Line, The Ladykillers, Intolerable Cruelty, Men in Black, Wild Wild West," and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?". He won two Grammy's for "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", A BAFTA award and a CAS award for "Walk the Line", …
- Paul Merton
Paul Martin (born 9 July 1957) is an English actor, BAFTA award-winning comedian and writer. He is more commonly known by the stage name Paul Merton, and is best known as a panellist on the BBC television show "Have I Got News for You" and Radio 4's "Just a Minute", as well as Channel 4's "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" in the first five series, and as the host of the BBC TV show "Room 101".
- Caroline Aherne
Caroline Aherne (born 24 December 1963 in Ealing, London) is an English actress and comedian. She was brought up in Wythenshawe, Manchester.
- E. Annie Proulx
Edna Annie Proulx (pronounced) (born August 22, 1935) is an American journalist and author. Her second novel, "The Shipping News" (1993), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for fiction in 1994. Her short story "Brokeback Mountain" was adapted as an Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe Award-winning major motion picture released in 2005.
- Eve Myles
Eve Myles (born 1978) is an actress from Ystradgynlais, Wales, UK, who plays the female lead character in "Torchwood" and "Belonging". She has also appeared in "EastEnders", the television film "Score", and the "Doctor Who" episode "The Unquiet Dead". In 2002 and 2003, Myles was nominated for Best Actress in the BAFTA Cymru Awards for her role as Ceri on the BBC Wales drama "Belonging".
- Thora Hird
Dame Thora Hird DBE (28 May 1911 - 15 March 2003) was an English actress. Thora was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She was the mother of the actress Janette Scott, and thus formerly the mother-in-law of the singer Mel Tormé. Her first ever appearance on stage was when she was two months old in a play her father was managing. Thora Hird was mainly associated with television comedy, notably the sitcoms "Meet the Wife" (a 1960s classic), …
- Guy Green
Guy Green OBE (November 15, 1913 – September 15, 2005) was an English film director, screenwriter, and cinematographer. In 1946 he won an Academy Award as cinematographer on the film of "Great Expectations". In 2002 Green was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the BAFTA, and in 2004 was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his lifetime contributions to British cinema.
- Ian Bannen
Ian Bannen (June 29, 1928 - November 3, 1999) was a Scottish character actor and occasional leading man.
- Andy Riley
Andy Riley is a British author, cartoonist and scriptwriter. Writing alongside Kevin Cecil (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School) he is most notable for writing the Comic Relief one-off special "Robbie the Reindeer", for which he and Cecil won a BAFTA in 2000. He has also written for "Black Books", "Little Britain", "Trigger Happy TV", "So Graham Norton", …
- Anthony Howell
Anthony Howell (b. 1971 in the Lake District) is an English television actor. He is currently best known for his part in the BAFTA-award winning detective series "Foyle's War", where Howell stars opposite Michael Kitchen, playing Foyle's right-hand man Det. Sgt. Paul Milner. Howell trained to be an actor at the Drama Centre, and his acting debut came when he went on a world tour with Robert Lepage's "Geometry of Miracles".
- Honeysuckle Weeks
Honeysuckle Weeks (b. 1 August 1979) is an English television and film actress. Weeks was born in Cardiff, Wales and grew up in Chichester, West Sussex. Her parents named her after honeysuckle flowers because they were in bloom when she was born. She was educated at Roedean School and Pembroke College, Oxford, where she read English (graduating with upper-second class honours). She has a younger brother and sister, Rollo and Perdita, …
- Peter Hewitt
Peter Hewitt (born 1962, England) is a BAFTA award-winning film director.
- Julian Ovenden
Julian Ovenden is an English television and film actor. As of 2006, he has been acting in the American television series "Related". He is currently best known for his part in the television series "Foyle's War", a BAFTA-award winning detective series set in Hastings, England, during World War II, in which he stars opposite Michael Kitchen.
- Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale (18 April 1922 - 29 October 2006) was a Manx writer, who worked mostly in the United Kingdom. Active in television, film, radio drama and prose fiction, he wrote professionally for over fifty years, was a winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice nominated for the British Film Award for Best Screenplay. Predominantly a writer of thrillers which used science-fiction and horror elements, …
- Carmine Coppola
Carmine Coppola (June 11, 1910 - April 26, 1991) was an Oscar-winning, Golden Globe-winning and Bafta Award-nominated American composer, editor, musical director, and songwriter. Coppola was a composer and conductor who contributed to many of the musical scores in "The Godfather, Part II" and "Apocalypse Now".
- Tim Sebastian
Tim Sebastian (born 13 March 1952, London, England) is a television journalist. He was the presenter of BBC's HARDtalk. He won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Richard Dimbleby award in 1982 and Britain's prestigious "Royal Television Society Interviewer of the Year" award in 2001 for the second time in a row.
- Sydney Samuelson
Sir Sydney Wylie Samuelson, CBE (b. 7 December 1925) was appointed in 1991 as the first British Film Commissioner. He is the son of cinema pioneer G. B. Samuelson. He has been an officer of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for over 20 years, has been chairman of the Management board since 1976 and is permanent trustee. In 1993 he was awarded a Fellowship, the Academy’s highest honour.
- John Hodge
John Hodge (born in 1964 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a British screenwriter, most noted for his adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel "Trainspotting" into the script for the film of the same title. Raised in Glasgow, Hodge comes from a family of doctors and carried on the tradition by studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh.
- Michael Kaplan
Michael Kaplan is a movie costume designer. He was a nominee in the Costume Designers Guild Awards 2005 in the category of "Excellence in Costume Design for Film - Contemporary" for his costumes designed for "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". Previously he had won accolades for "Best Costume Design" by the 1983 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards for his costume design work in "Blade Runner".
- Andrew Kevin Walker
Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American BAFTA-nominated screenwriter. He is best known for having written the Academy Award-nominated film "Se7en", for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films, including "8mm", "Sleepy Hollow" and many uncredited script rewrites.
- Robert Ryan
Robert Ryan (November 11, 1909 - July 11, 1973) was an Irish-American Oscar and Bafta award-nominated actor born in Chicago, Illinois. He most often played hardened cops and ruthless villains throughout his career.
- Will Jennings
Will Jennings (born 1944 in Kilgore, Texas) is a prolific and highly successful American songwriter. He attended school just outside Tyler, TX, in the nearby Chapel Hill Independent School District. Born Wilbur Jennings, he has co-written or wrote songs for a number of motion picture soundtracks and numerous popular singers including Steve Winwood, B.B. King, Peter Wolf, Randy Crawford, Jimmy Buffett, Rodney Crowell, Roy Orbison, Joe Cocker, Eric Clapton, …
- Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson OBE (born August 27, 1959) is a British novelist. Born in Manchester, she was adopted by a Pentecostal couple, who brought her up in Accrington, Lancashire, with ambitions for her to be a Christian missionary. She announced that she was having a lesbian affair at the age of 16, and left home. She went on to study English at St Catherine's College, Oxford. After moving to London, her first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit", …