- 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.
- Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: "GoldenEye", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day". Since leaving the role, Brosnan has gone on to star in films such as "Evelyn" and "Seraphim Falls". In 1996, he also formed, along with Beau St. Clair, …
- Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema. He starred in seven Bond films (six EON-produced films, 1962–67 and 1971; and an unofficial Columbia-produced "Thunderball"-remake in 1983). Connery is known for his Scottish accent and rugged good looks. He repeatedly is named as one of the most attractive men alive by magazines, …
- Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore, CBE (born 14 October 1927) is an English actor known for his suave and witty demeanour. He may be best known for portraying two British action heroes, Simon Templar in the television series "The Saint" from 1962 to 1969, and James Bond in seven films from 1973 to 1985. He has been a UNICEF ambassador since 1991.
- Timothy Dalton
Timothy Peter Dalton (born March 21, 1946) is an English actor of stage and screen, best known for portraying James Bond in "The Living Daylights" (1987) and "Licence to Kill" (1989) and in his roles in Shakespearean related films and plays.
- George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby (born September 5 1939) is an Australian actor best known for portraying James Bond only once in the 1969 James Bond film, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".
- Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA, (born 9 December 1934), usually known as Dame Judi Dench, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Tony, three-time BAFTA, and six-time Laurence Olivier Award-winning English actress. In Britain, Dench has developed a reputation as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her main forte throughout her career.
- Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
- John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda".
- Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is a Tony Award-, Emmy Award-, and Golden Globe Award-winning American film and stage actor.
- Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, …
- David Niven
David Niven was an Academy Award-winning British actor.
- Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson (April 16 1917 - April 7 2007) was an American actor noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond.
- Desmond Llewelyn
Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn (legend) (September 12, 1913 or 1914 - December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films.
- Lois Maxwell
Lois Maxwell (born 14 February, 1927) is a Golden Globe-winning Canadian actress, known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond franchise. Starring in fourteen James Bond movies, many fans credit her as the definitive Miss Moneypenny. She was succeeded by Caroline Bliss and later Samantha Bond.
- Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane, OBE (born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950) is a Scottish television and film actor.
- Mads Mikkelsen
"'"' is a Danish actor. He was born on November 22 1965 in the Østerbro area of Copenhagen, Denmark. Mikkelsen has been married to Hanne Jacobsen since 2001 (they have been together since 1987) and together they have two children, Viola and Carl Mikkelsen. After attending Århus Theatre School, he made his film debut in the movie "Pusher". He has starred in popular movies such as "Blinkende Lygter", "The Green Butchers", …
- Christopher Lee
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE (born May 27, 1922) is an English actor known for his professional longevity and his distinctive "basso" delivery. Lee is also best known for his portrayals of villains; he became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films. Other notable roles include Lord Summerisle in "The Wicker Man," Francisco Scaramanga in "The Man with the Golden Gun", …
- 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".
- Samantha Bond
Samantha Bond (born November 27, 1961) is an English actress best known for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan. Married to Alexander Hanson and has two children Molly and Tom. She is also the sister of actress Abigail Bond.
- Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can".
- Sean Bean
Seán Mark Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts. As an actor, he adopted the Irish/Scottish spelling "Seán" of his first name. Bean is best known for his role as Boromir, in the The Lord of the Rings films and as James Bond adversary Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye.
- Peter Sellers
Peter Sellers, CBE (8 September 1925 - 24 July 1980) was an English comedian and actor best known for his Inspector Clouseau roles in Pink Panther films. Sellers first rose to fame on the BBC Home Service radio series "The Goon Show".
- Colin Salmon
Colin Salmon (1962) is an English actor best known for playing the fictional character Charles Robinson in three James Bond films. He is highly noted for his distinguishable and strong voice and his height (standing at 6'4"). Salmon was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. He attended Putteridge and Ashcroft High School, the former being the same school as Bond score composer David Arnold.
- Bernard Lee
Bernard Lee (10 January 1908 - 16 January 1981) was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.
- Robert Carlyle
Robert Carlyle OBE (born April 14, 1961) is a Scottish movie actor. He is known for his roles as Gaz, the leader of the striptease dancers in "The Full Monty", and as Begbie, the volatile thug in "Trainspotting".
- Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini (born August 1, 1942, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy) is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor and dubber. Giannini studied at the "Accademia Nazionale" in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in "Fango sulla metropoli" in 1965. He appeared in supporting roles in "Anzio" and "The Secret of Santa Vittoria", and starred in the original version of "Swept Away".
- Toby Stephens
Toby Stephens (born April 21, 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film "Die Another Day" (2002) and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of "Jane Eyre" (2006).
- Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Messina (Sicily), Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. He most famous role was as Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond movie "Thunderball". Celi later spoofed his "Thunderball" role in the film "OK Connery" (aka "Operation Double 007") opposite Sean Connery's brother, Neil.
- John Huston
John Marcellus Huston was an American film director and actor. He was known for directing several classic films, "The Maltese Falcon", "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", "Key Largo", and "The African Queen".
- Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre, born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein, was a charismatic Austrian stage and screen actor and director, who later became a naturalized US citizen. He was especially known for playing roles with sinister overtones in Hollywood crime films and mysteries alongside iconic leading actors of the day including Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable. He played Le Chiffre, the first James Bond villain, …
- David Hedison
Albert David Hedison, Jr (b. May 20, 1927, Providence, Rhode Island) is an American actor who has made more than 150 appearances in film, television, and theatre. From 1950-1959, he is credited as Al Hedison. When he was cast in the TV series "Five Fingers", NBC insisted that he change his name, so he suggested using his middle name and has been David Hedison ever since.
- Robert Brown
Robert James Brown (July 23, 1921 - November 11, 2003) was an English actor known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond movies, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981. Brown was born and died in Swanage, Dorset, England. Before appearing in the Bond films, he had a long career as a bit-part actor in films and television. Two of his most notable parts were as the galley-master in "Ben-Hur" (1959) and as factory worker Bert Harker in the BBC's 1960s soap opera, …
- Bob Holness
Bob Holness (born 12 November 1928 in Vryheid, Natal, South Africa) is an English actor and presenter. Shortly after his birth in South Africa he moved to Ashford, Kent in the UK with his parents. After attending Ashford Grammar School and Maidstone College of Art, he then worked for a printing company before returning to South Africa. In 1955, he got his first job as a radio presenter.
- Julian Glover
Julian Wyatt Glover (born March 27 1935) is an English actor.
- Jesper Christensen
Jesper Christensen (born May 16, 1948 in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish actor. A veteran of European cinema, he has more recently made the transition to English language projects, including "The Interpreter" and "Revelations". He was recently cast in the James Bond film "Casino Royale" as the mysterious villain Mr. White.
- Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, …
- Bob Simmons
Bob Simmons (March 31, 1933 - 1988) was a stunt man best known for performing the James Bond gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: "Dr. No", "From Russia with Love", and "Goldfinger". Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene while not starring in the main role as James Bond.
- John Rhys-Davies
Actor John Rhys-Davies joined The Planetary Society's Advisory Council in 2004, but first began working with the Society in 1998 when he appeared on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse in the benefit performance, "An Evening on Mars with Ray Bradbury." Rhys-Davies appeared as the dwarf warrior Gimli in all three films of Peter Jackson 's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy.
- Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman (born May 15, 1918 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor who portrayed the title character, Doctor Julius No in the first James Bond film, "Dr. No. He also had roles in a wide variety of other films, including "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", and the TV series "Crime Story" and "The Twilight Zone". He has not been in a movie since 1988, …