- Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Nunn CBE (born 14 January, 1940) is an English theatre and film director. He has held both the posts of Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Director of the Royal National Theatre, following in the footsteps of Sir Peter Hall. He was knighted by the Queen in 2002. He was born in Ipswich, England and educated at Downing College, Cambridge, where he began his stage career. In 1968, he was appointed Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Richard Eyre
Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre CBE (born 28 March, 1943) is an English theatre, television, film director. - Peter Hall
Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall CBE (born 22 November, 1930) is an English theatre and film director. He was born in Bury St. Edmunds, in Suffolk, England and attended The Perse School, Cambridge. Hall learned Russian at the Joint Services School for Linguists during his National Service. He produced and acted in several productions while at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1953 from St Catharine's College. - Jim Broadbent
James Broadbent (born May 24, 1949) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning English theatre, film and television actor. - John Caird
John Caird (September 22, 1948-) is a British stage director and writer of plays, musicals and operas. John Caird was born in Canada of British parents. His father was the renowned Oxford theologian and Principal of Mansfield College, G.B.Caird. He is Honorary Associate Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company where he has staged and directed more that 20 plays, both classic (Brecht, Shakespeare and Strindberg) as well as a great deal of contemporary work. - Simon Callow
Simon Philip Hugh Callow, CBE (born June 15, 1949) is an English stage, film and television actor. He was born in Streatham, London, England to Neil Francis Callow (British) and Yvonne Mary Guise (French) and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of his mother. He studied at the Queen's University of Belfast before giving up his degree course to go into acting at the Drama Centre, London. - Paul Scofield
David Paul Scofield, CH, CBE (21 January 1922 – 19 March 2008) was an award-winning English actor of stage and screen. Noted for his distinctive voice and delivery, Scofield won both an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his role as Sir Thomas More in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons; he had previously originated the role in the stage version both in the West End and on Broadway, winning a Tony Award. - Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson (August 11 1949 - January 6 1990) was a Scottish actor in whose honour The Ian Charleson Awards were established Born and raised in Edinburgh, Charleson attended the Royal High School and then went on to attend the University of Edinburgh. He initially studied architecture but switched to an MA degree after cultivating an interest in acting. After graduating from Edinburgh he won a place at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). - Michael Blakemore
Michael Howell Blakemore, OBE, (born 18 June 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian actor, writer and theatre director. He is the only director ever to win Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play ("Copenhagen") and Best Director of a Musical ("Kiss Me, Kate") in the same year (2000). Blakemore was educated at The King's School, Sydney and went on to study medicine at the University of Sydney. The English actor Robert Morley, who was touring Australia, … - Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff CBE (born December 1, 1952 in Holland Park in West London, England) is an acclaimed British playwright, director and scriptwriter. The British Film Institute's "Screenonline" website describes him as "one of the most inventive and intriguing of writer-directors in Britain today." - Jonathan Kent
Jonathan Kent (born 1946, South Africa) is an English theatre director and opera director. He is most well known as one of the director/producer partners of London's Almeida Theatre between 1990 to 2002. After an upbringing in South Africa, where he went to school at Diocesan College, he came to London in the 1970s and trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Working under Giles Havergal and Phillip Prowse at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, … - Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an award-winning English actor best known for his appearance in "The Queen" (2006) in which he played the role of HRH The Prince of Wales. - Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs (born 6 June 1963) is a British actor. Raised in Liverpool and later in London, he fell accidentally into acting during his first year at university, and went on to study at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Initially known as a TV actor in the UK, his biggest international film break was being selected to portray the villain, Colonel William Tavington, opposite Mel Gibson in the Revolutionary War epic "The Patriot" (2000). - Paul Groothuis
Paul Groothuis is an award-winning sound designer who has had a long and prolific career on the London stage. Groothuis was born in Holland and moved to the UK in 1979 to study Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He joined the National Theatre on the South Bank in 1984 and has designed sound for more than 120 productions at the NT. Some of his recent productions are "Rafta, Rafta...", "The Man of Mode", "The Life of Galileo", … - Roger Allam
Roger Allam is an English actor, best known for his stage career. He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of "Les Misérables". He has been nominated three times for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor, winning once. He has also been nominated for, and won, the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor. He has also appeared in many radio dramas for the BBC. In 2001, he starred in BBC Radio 4's adaptation of "Les Misérables", … - Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Lasdun CH (8 September 1914-11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century, particularly associated with the Brutalist design of the Royal National Theatre on London's South Bank of the River Thames. Lasdun studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and was a junior in the practice of Wells Coates. Like other Modernist architects, including Sir Basil Spence and Peter and Alison Smithson, … - Jeremy Sams
Jeremy Sams (born January 12, 1957 in London, England) is a British director, writer, translator, orchestrator, musical director, film composer, and lyricist. Sams studied Music, French, and German at Magdalene College, Cambridge and piano at Guildhall School of Music. Early on he worked as a freelance pianist and coach, giving frequent recitals and tours and doing stints as a repetiteur at opera houses in Brussels and Ankara. - Chiwetel Ejiofor
Chiwetel Ejiofor (pronounced approximately) (born 10 July 1974) is an award-winning British film and stage actor. - 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", … - Anna Maxwell Martin
Anna Maxwell Martin (sometimes credited as Anna Maxwell-Martin) is a BAFTA award winning English actress who has won acclaim for her performances as Lyra in "His Dark Materials" at the Royal National Theatre and as Esther Summerson in the BBC adaptation of "Bleak House" (2005). - Bob Crowley
Bob Crowley (born in Cork, Ireland) is a theatre director, scenic and costume designer. He is the brother of director John Crowley. He has been nominated for the Tony Award ten times, winning three for designing the Broadway productions of "Aida" (2000), "Carousel" (1994) and "The History Boys". - Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus (born November 30 1965 is an English director and dramatist. - Robert Stephens
Sir Robert Stephens (14 July 1931 - 12 November 1995) was a leading actor in the early years of England's Royal National Theatre. Stephens was born in Bristol, England, and rose to become one of the most respected actors of his generation. By the 1960s he was regarded as the natural successor to Laurence Olivier. He and his third wife, actress Maggie Smith appeared together on stage and in film, notably in the film version of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969. - David Hersey
David Hersey is a lighting designer who has designed the lighting for over 250 plays, musicals, operas, and ballets. His work has been seen in most corners of the globe and his many awards include the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for "Evita", "Cats", and "Les Misérables" and the Laurence Olivier Award for Lighting Design given in 1996. He has also been active in the world of theme parks in Florida and Italy, … - Tim Supple
Tim Supple is an English theatre and opera director, with a reputation for breathing new life into familiar stories. In 1993, Tim Supple was appointed the Artistic Director of the Young Vic, London. He has also worked with the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2000, Supple was invited to direct "Hansel and Gretel" for Opera North. In 2003, he directed their production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute". - David Bradley
David Bradley (born April 17, 1942) is an English character actor. He has recently become known for playing the caretaker of Hogwarts, Argus Filch, in the hugely popular "Harry Potter" series of films. Bradley was born in York, England. He became an actor in 1971, first appearing on television that year in the successful comedy "Nearest and Dearest" playing a police officer. - Denis Quilley
Denis Clifford Quilley (b. December 26 1927, Islington, North London - d. October 52003) was an English theatre, television and film character actor who was long associated with the Royal National Theatre. A generation of children grew up with his portrayal of Commander Traynor in the children's science fiction TV series "Timeslip". He was also heard in many television voiceovers. - Michael Bogdanov
Michael Bogdanov (born December 15, 1938), is an English theatre director. Since the 1970s, Michael Bogdanov has established himself as one of Britain's leading theatre directors, from new works to modern reinterpretations of Shakespeare. Born in London of Russian and Welsh parents, Bogdanov was educated at the John Lyon School in Harrow-on-the-Hill, England, at Trinity College, Dublin, and in Germany and France. - Jeremy Northam
Jeremy Philip Northam (born December 1, 1961 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England) is an English actor. Son of John Northam (d. 2005), an Ibsen specialist and teacher first at Clare College, Cambridge, and later at Bristol, Jeremy was educated at Bristol Grammar School and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Northam performed at the Royal National Theatre, where he replaced Daniel Day Lewis in the role of Hamlet (1988). - Thea Sharrock
Thea Sharrock (born 1976) is an award-winning English theatre director. In 2001, when at age 22 she became artistic director of London's Southwark Playhouse, she was the youngest artistic director in British theatre. She is currently represented by US premiere of her production of "Heroes" in LA. She will next direct a revival of her Gate Theatre production of "The Emperor Jones" at the National Theatre. - Jim Cartwright
Jim Cartwright was born June 27, 1958 and grew up in Farnworth, near Bolton in Lancashire, England. He trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama. However it is as a playwright that he has really made his mark. Cartwright's very first play, "Road", won a number of awards before being adapted for TV and broadcast by the BBC. He is probably best known for the film "Little Voice", whose cast included Jane Horrocks, Michael Caine, Ewan McGregor, … - 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. - Peter Blythe
Peter Blythe (September 14, 1934-June 27, 2004) was a British character actor, best known as Samuel "Soapy Sam" Ballard on "Rumpole of the Bailey". Blythe, who was born in Yorkshire, studied drama on scholarship at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art after serving in the Royal Air Force. He began his professional career as a repertory player with the Living Theatre Company, the Nottingham Playhouse, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Matthew MacFadyen
Matthew Macfadyen (born October 17, 1974) is a British actor, best known for his role as MI5 agent Tom Quinn in the BBC television drama series "Spooks" and for starring as Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 2005 film version of "Pride and Prejudice". After having studied at the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts from 1992 to 1995, Matthew Macfadyen quickly became a well-known actor in British theatre, due primarily to his work with the stage company Cheek by Jowl, … - Dominic West
Dominic West (born October 15, 1969) is an English actor. - Bryony Lavery
Bryony Lavery (born 1947) is a modern British playwright, known for her successful and award-winning 2004 play "Frozen". Bryony Lavery says she was fed up with playing poor parts in plays, such as the left arm of a sofa, and decided to write better parts in plays for women. Her plays have this feminist undertones within them, and she has even written plays like "More Light" with entirely female casts. She has written over 20 plays since 1976. - Nick Dear
Nick Dear has been writing plays for stage, screen and radio for many years. Last year "Lunch in Venice" appeared at the Shell Connections festival at the National Theatre. His play "Power" premiered in 2003, and "Summefolk" in 1999 by the Royal National Theatre. "Power" deals with the intrigue and tension of the court of the young Louis XIV of France. Power has been transferred to theatres in Portugal and Hungary, … - Desmond Barrit
Desmond Barrit (born October 19, 1944 in Morriston, Swansea, Wales) is a British actor who has starred in productions of the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also appeared at the Chichester Festival Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre. - Sharman MacDonald
Sharman Macdonald (born 8 February 1951) is a Scottish playwright and former actress. She is perhaps best known for her plays "When I Was a Girl, I Used to Scream and Shout" and "The Girl with Red Hair", as well as for the screenplays for "The Winter Guest", which she adapted from her own play of the same title, and "The Edge of Love". - David Greig
David Greig is a Scottish playwright and director. Greig was born in Edinburgh in 1969 and was brought up in Nigeria. He studied drama at Bristol University. He has been commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company amongst others. His first play was produced in Glasgow in 1992. His plays have been produced around the world. In 1990 he co-founded Suspect Culture Theatre Group with Graham Eatough in Glasgow.
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