- Katrina Kaif
Katrina is a Kashmiri-Brit fusion as his father was Indian and mom was English. Katrina was born on July 16th 1983 in Hong Kong; her family lived for a while in Hawaii and the moved to London. Katrina has seven other siblings and all sisters. Katrina started modeling when she was fourteen and her first shoot was for a jewellery brand. Katrina continued modeling in London and was approached by Kaizad Gustad for his film 'Boom'; after which the model decided to move to Mumbai.
- Marina Sirtis
Marina Sirtis (born March 29 1955) is a British actress who is most noted for playing the half-human half-Betazoid Counselor Deanna Troi on the television and film series "Star Trek: The Next Generation". She also provided the voice of Demona in the animated series, "Gargoyles". She is also noted for appearing in the Oscar winning movie "Crash" as well as a semi regular on "Girlfriends".
- Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury CBE (born October 16, 1925) is a four-time Tony-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, three-time Oscar-nominated, and eighteen-time Emmy-nominated English actress. Her multi-faceted career has spanned seven decades and she is well-known for her roles on both stage and screen. <br>
- Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 - October 22, 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and literary criticism. He is the father of the British novelist Martin Amis.
- Rosamund Pike
Rosamund Pike (born 27 January 1979) is an English actress, best known for her portrayals of Bond villainess Miranda Frost in "Die Another Day" and Jane Bennet in "Pride and Prejudice".
- Thandie Newton
Thandiwe Adjewa "Thandie" Newton (born 6 November 1972) is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress.
- Tilda Swinton
Katherine Mathilda Swinton (born November 5 1960), better known as Tilda Swinton, is a Golden Globe Award-nominated British actress known for both arthouse and mainstream films.
- 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...
- Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. Born in Catford, London, he is the son of the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton and the nephew of the historian Sir G R Elton. He studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School and the University of Manchester. He became a stand-up comedian and comedy writer shortly after leaving university in 1980, …
- Skandar Keynes
Skandar Amin Casper Keynes (born 5 September 1991) is an English actor. He is best known for starring as Edmund Pevensie in "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series. He will appear in the second installment, "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian", currently scheduled for release in the summer of 2008. Keynes was born in London to writer Randal Keynes and Zelfa Cecil Hourani.
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Marianne Jean-Baptiste received Academy Award, Golden Globe and British Academy Award nominations for her feature film debut role in "Secrets and Lies" in 1996. Since then, she has been seen in the films "The Cell," "28 Days," "The 24 Hour Woman," "Mr. Jealousy" and "Spy Games." Her television credits include the movies "Silent Hearts," "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence " and "The Man" and the mini-series "The Wedding."
- Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Anthony Scarfe (born 1 June 1936 in London) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He is best known for his work with Pink Floyd, particularly The Wall, and as an editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and an illustrator for The New Yorker. He is married to Jane Asher, whom he met in 1971 and married in 1981. They had a daughter in 1974 and two sons in 1981 and 1984.
- George Grossmith
George Grossmith (December 9 1847 - March 1 1912) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and singer, best remembered for creating a series of comic characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, for performing his own comic sketches, and for writing the comic novel (with his brother Weedon) "Diary of a Nobody".
- Lysette Anthony
Lysette Anthony is an English film, television, and theatre actor. Her parents are actors Michael Anthony and Bernadette Milnes and her birth name was Lysette Chodzko. Lysette has established herself as a talented and versatile actress and writer. Heralded as the ‘Face of the Eighties’ by David Bailey at the age of 16, Lysette was a highly successful model before she became a household name as an actress at the age of 20.
- Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave, CBE (born 30 January, 1937) is an Academy Award-winning English actress and member of the Redgrave family, one of the enduring theatrical dynasties. She is also a social activist for human rights.
- Maryam D'Abo
Maryam d'Abo (born December 27, 1960 in London, England, to a Georgian mother and Dutch father) is an actress. Her first notable performance was as Kara Milovy in the 1987 James Bond film, "The Living Daylights". She is a first cousin of the singer Mike d'Abo, and thus a first cousin once removed of Mike's daughter, actress Olivia d'Abo. Raised around Paris and Geneva, Maryam decided she wanted to be an actress at the age of 11.
- Mutya Buena
Rosa Isabel Mutya Buena, (born 21 May, 1985 in Kingsbury, London), known professionally as Mutya Buena, is an English singer and songwriter, who rose to fame as a member of the pop band Sugababes.
- Bernard Cornwell
Bernard Cornwell OBE (born February 23, 1944) is a prolific and popular English historical novelist. Bernard Cornwell was adopted by a family by the name of Wiggins. After he left them he changed his name to his mother's maiden name, Cornwell. Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was a Canadian airman. His mother was English, a member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted and brought up in Essex by the Wiggins family, …
- Emilia Fox
Emilia Rose Elizabeth Fox (born July 31, 1974 in London, England) is a British actress possibly best known for her role as pathologist Nikki Alexander in television series "Silent Witness", having joined the cast on the departure of Amanda Burton. Fox played Jeannie Hurst in the 2000 remake of "Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)". In 2003, Fox played Jane Seymour in a two-part television biopic on King Henry VIII, with Ray Winstone as the king, …
- Henry Jaglom
Henry Jaglom (born 26 January 1941, London, England) is a film director who specialises in independently made dramas loosely based on characters from his actual life, and often starring these very same individuals. Born into considerable wealth, Jaglom played small roles as an actor in 1960s films before editing "Easy Rider" (1969), directed by his friend Dennis Hopper.
- Aimee Osbourne
Aimee Rachel Osbourne (born September 2 1983 in London, England), is a singer, actress, and columnist. She is the fourth child of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and the first child to Ozzy's second wife Sharon. Unlike her siblings Jack and Kelly, she chose not to appear on her family's MTV reality show, "The Osbournes". She has three half siblings; Elliot, Jessica and Louis from Ozzy's first wife Thelma Riley; an adopted brother, …
- Jane Birkin
Jane Mallory Birkin OBE (born 14 December 1946) is an actress and singer. Birkin was born in London, England to David Birkin, a Royal Navy commander and World War II espionage hero, and Judy Campbell, an actress in Noel Coward musicals. Her great aunt was Freda Dudley Ward, a mistress of Edward VIII while he was Prince of Wales.
- Amanda Pays
Amanda Pays (born on June 6, 1959, in London, England) is an English actress. Pays is best known for her roles as Theora Jones in the movie and television series "Max Headroom" and as Christina "Tina" McGee in "The Flash". Pays also had a guest role in a first season episode of "The X-Files", playing the role of Phoebe Green. Pays is an interior designer and hosts Fine Living's "The Breathing Room".
- Lesley-Anne Down
Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is an English actress who is best known for her roles as Georgina Worsley in the ITV period drama "Upstairs, Downstairs", as Madeline Fabray LaMotte in "North and South" and as Jacqueline Payne Marone in the CBS soap opera "The Bold and the Beautiful". Lesley-Anne Down was born in London. At the age of ten, she began modeling and acting in her native UK. She won several beauty pageants and, at the age of 15, …
- Juliet Mills
Juliet Mills (born Juliet Maryon Mills on November 21 1941 in London) is an English character actress, most famous for her roles on shows such as "Nanny and the Professor" and "Passions". In both series, she plays characters who possess magical powers, but her character in the former series was presented as friendly and magical while the latter is a witch who wishes harm on many people (in an ironic twist, …
- Andy Fordham
Andy Fordham (born February 2, 1962 in London) is an English darts player, also known by his nickname, The Viking. He won the 2004 World Professional Darts Championship, beating Mervyn King in the final. He is also a four-time Semi-Finalist at the Lakeside, and the 1999 Winmau World Masters champion.
- Isabella Blow
Isabella Blow was a British magazine editor and international style icon. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. She studied for her A-levels at Heathfield School, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs. As she told Tamsin Blanchard of "The Observer" in 2002, "I've done the most peculiar jobs.
- Sophia Myles
Sophia Myles (born March 18, 1980) is an English film and television actress.
- Nina Bawden
Nina Bawden , whose birthday is January 19th , has written more than 19 novels for children and 23 novels for adults. Born in London and evacuated to South Wales during World War II, she now lives between Cambridge and Norwich in the United Kingdom and in a house on the Aegean Sea in Greece. Her well-known books include Carrie's War and The Peppermint Pig , winner of the Guardian Prize for Children's Fiction in 1976.
- Derek Waring
Derek Waring (born Derek Barton-Chapple; 26 April 1927 - 20 February 2007) (Note. Some sources give his birthdate as 26.4.1930) was an English actor who is best remembered for playing Detective Inspector Goss in "Z-Cars" from 1969 to 1973. He was married to the actress Dame Dorothy Tutin and had been educated at Dulwich College, London.
- Naveen Andrews
Naveen William Sidney Andrews (born January 17, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English actor, of Indian origin. He is known for his roles in "The English Patient" (1996) and as Sayid in the U.S.A. television series "Lost".
- Karima Adebibe
Karima Adebibe (born February 14, 1985 in London, England) is an English actress and model of Moroccan and of Irish/Greek descent. Formerly a sales assistant at the clothing store Topshop, she was selected on February 14 2006 (both her birthday and that of Lara Croft) to be the seventh (and current) model for Lara Croft in the popular video game series "Tomb Raider". The role involves promoting the game series "in-character" on television and radio, …
- Vidal Sassoon
Vidal Sassoon (born January 17, 1928) is a hairdresser. Sassoon was born to Jewish parents in London. His father was from Thessaloniki in northern Greece with Iraqi origins, and his mother, whose family was originally from Kiev, was born in London. Sassoon's works include the geometric, the wash-and-wear perm, and the "Nancy Kwan." They were all modern and low-maintenance. The hairstyles created by Sassoon relied on dark, straight, …
- Freddie Highmore
Alfred Thomas Highmore (born February 14, 1992) is a British actor.
- Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s "Fantasia".
- Sean Pertwee
Sean Pertwee (born June 4, 1964 in London) is an English actor.
- Paul Oakenfold
"Paul Oakenfold" is a record producer and one of the best-known, and most expensive (£25,000 per gig) Trance DJs worldwide.
- Peter Ellenshaw
William "Peter" Ellenshaw (May 24 1913 - February 12 2007) was an Anglo-American award-winning matte designer and special effects creator who worked on many Disney features. His first major project was the 1936 film "Things to Come". After World War II, he worked on films like "Quo Vadis" until he was recruited by Walt Disney Studios to work on their first live action film, "Treasure Island".
- Cecil Beaton
Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton (January 14, 1904 - January 18, 1980) was an English fashion and portrait photographer and a stage and costume designer for films and the theatre.
- Sandrine Holt
Sandrine Holt, originally named "Sandrine Ho" is a model turned actress. She is currently married to rock producer/engineer Travis Huff. She was born to a Chinese father and a French mother. At the age of five, she moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which has been her home ever since. She worked as a runway model in Paris before she became an actress. Holt debuted as an actress in 1991, appearing in "Black Robe" by Bruce Beresford.