- 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).
- Julie Christie
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1941) is an Academy Award-winning English film actress. She was also a pop icon of the Swinging London era of the 1960s.
- Martin Freeman
Martin Freeman (born September 8 1971) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Tim Canterbury in the BBC's Golden Globe winning comedy "The Office", and as Arthur Dent in the film adaptation of Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Since leaving the Central School of Speech and Drama, Freeman has appeared in at least 18 TV shows, 14 theatre productions, and several radio productions.
- Finty Williams
Tara Cressida Frances Williams (born September 24, 1972) is an English actress who performs under the name Finty Williams. Williams trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She has starred a number of British films, frequently alongside her mother. She had a recurring role in the TV series "Born and Bred", and voices the title character in the animated children's series "Angelina Ballerina".
- James Frain
James Frain (born March 14, 1968) is a leading British stage and screen actor. Frain was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and studied drama at the University of East Anglia. He also studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He made his film debut in "Shadowlands" (1993), as a result of being spotted by Richard Attenborough. He has also appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He recently appeared in the television series 24 and Invasion.
- Alice Krige
Alice Krige is married to writer/director, Paul Schoolman, and lives what she describes as an "itinerant" lifestyle. Although she and her husband maintain a permanent home in the United States (Malibu, CA), they spend much of their time living and working abroad.
- Julian Sands
Julian Sands (born January 15, 1958) is a British actor.
- Elsie Fogerty
Elsie Fogerty, (born 16 December, 1865, London - died 4 July, 1945, Leamington, Warwickshire) was an English teacher of voice, diction and drama. She trained at the Paris Conservatoire, then taught at the Crystal Palace School of Art and Literature (1889) and Sir Frank Benson's London School of Acting. She founded the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1906 and trained such notable actors as Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft.
- Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage is a British theatre director who is currently Artistic Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London, England. He made his directorial debut with a production of "Last Yankee" at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. From 2000 – 2005 he served as Artistic Director of Sheffield Theatres where his high profile productions included "Edward II" with Joseph Fiennes, "Richard III" with Kenneth Branagh and "The Tempest" with Derek Jacobi.
- Joss Ackland
Joss Ackland CBE (born February 29, 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in more than 130 films in his career. He was born Sidney Edmond Jocelyn Ackland in North Kensington, London, and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared extensively on television, notably as C. S. Lewis in "Shadowlands" (1985). Ackland appears in the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 film "It Couldn't Happen Here", …
- Angus MacFadyen
Angus Macfadyen (born September 21, 1963) is a Scottish actor. Macfadyen was born in Glasgow and was raised partly in Africa, France, the Philippines and Singapore. His father was a doctor in the World Health Organization. Macfayden attended the University of Edinburgh, and the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He is best known for having played Robert the Bruce in the 1995 film "Braveheart" and Jeff Reinhart in "Saw III".
- Lindsay Duncan
Lindsay Vere Duncan (born 7 November 1950) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actress. She is a noted stage actress, winning the Tony Award for "Private Lives". Duncan was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. She studied at London's Central School of Speech and Drama and worked in mostly unheralded theatre roles before graduating to television productions in the 1980s. These productions included "On Approval" (1982), "Reilly, Ace of Spies" (1983), …
- 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, …
- 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, …
- Barry Foster
(John) Barry Foster was a British actor who played numerous film roles and gained acclaim as the TV detective in the five-series-long ITV program "Van der Valk" that spanned 20 years. Born in Beeston, Nottinghamshire, England, Foster worked as a plastics chemist before embarking on a career in acting. Foster trained as an actor at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, arriving there at the age of 20, a little older than the other students.
- 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.
- Virginia McKenna
Virginia McKenna OBE, (born June 7, 1931 in London) is an English stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. McKenna trained as an actress at the Central School of Speech and Drama then worked on stage in London's West End theatres before making her motion picture debut in 1952. She continued to appear in both films and on stage and in 1954/1955 was a member of the Old Vic theatre company.
- Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director and screenwriter. He was born in Broadstairs in Kent. In his youth, Robinson dreamed of being an actor and was admitted to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. His first film role was as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" (1968).
- Neil Pearson
Neil Pearson (born London, England, April 27, 1959) is a "housewives favourite" among British actors. Pearson came from a poor London family, and as a boy, attended Woolverstone Hall, an experimental boarding school, where he learned to act. After graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama, he made his first television appearance in 1982 and starred alongside Leonard Rossiter in Joe Orton's play "Loot" at the Lyric Theatre in London in 1984, …
- Mary Ure
Eileen Mary Ure (February 18, 1933 - April 3, 1975) was a Scottish actress. Born in Glasgow, where she studied at the School of Drama, she would go on to train for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Known for her beauty, Ure began performing on the London stage and quickly developed a reputation for her abilities as a dramatic actress. While starring in John Osborne's play, "Look Back in Anger", …
- Victoria Tennant
Victoria Tennant (born 30 September, 1953) is an English/American film and television actress. Tennant was born in London. Her mother, Irina Baronova, was a white Russian prima ballerina who appeared with the Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo. Her father, Cecil Tennant, was an English producer and talent agent who ran MCA's talent office and whose clients included Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, John Gielgud and Michael Redgrave.
- Abi Finley
Abi Finley (born 1983) also known as Abigail Finley is a Musical Theatre actress best known for her appearance on the Reality TV programme "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?". She was known as "Tomboy Maria". Finley gained a BA (honours) degree in English at the University of Leeds, before going on to complete a Masters in Musical Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
- Oliver Chris
Oliver Chris (November 2, 1978) is an English actor from Tunbridge Wells. He is 6ft 3in tall and studied at Michael Hall Steiner School followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared in several comedy series, including "The Office", "Green Wing", "According to Bex", "Nathan Barley", "The IT Crowd" and "Rescue Me". He appeared as the character Boyce in both the first and second series of "Green Wing".
- George Coulouris
George Coulouris was a prominent English film and stage actor. He was born in Salford, Lancashire, brought up both there and in Urmston, Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He was the son of a Greek immigrant father and English mother. He attended London's Central School of Speech and Drama, in the company of fellow students Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft. He died on April 25 1989, of heart failure following Parkinson's disease in London.
- Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield (born c. 1984) is an American-born British actor. Garfield was born in the USA and moved to the UK with his family as an infant. He attended City of London Freemens School in Ashtead, Surrey and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He is primarily a stage actor, but had a significant supporting role in the first series of teen Channel 4 drama "Sugar Rush".
- John Laurie
John Laurie (25 March 1897 - 23 June 1980) was an actor born in Dumfries, Scotland. He was educated at Dumfries Academy. He is probably most recognisable for his role as Private James Frazer, the gaunt-faced, intense, pessimistic undertaker and Home Guard soldier in the popular BBC sitcom "Dad's Army" from 1968 to 1977. When the plot resulted in the cast being left in some perceived peril, …
- Jonathan Firth
Jonathan Firth (born 6 April, 1967) is a British actor. Jonathan Firth is the younger brother of Colin Firth and Kate Firth. He was born in Essex, England, and studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He has acted in cinematic movies and also has some notable TV appearances, such as Fred Vincy in "Middlemarch" (1994), Sergeant Troy in "Far from the Madding Crowd" (1998) and Prince Albert in "Victoria & Albert" (2001).
- James Alexandrou
James Alekos Alexandrou (born 12 April 1985) is an English actor from London. He studied at the Anna Scher Theatre before landing the role of Martin Fowler in the BBC One soap opera "EastEnders" in 1996. He also appeared in the short film "Blessed Burden" and in 2003, Alexandrou won a celebrity edition of "The Weakest Link". On 14 April 2006, it was announced that Alexandrou wished to leave "EastEnders" in the Autumn of 2007.
- Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Rebecca Lenkiewicz is a UK theatre writer and actor. As writer, her plays include "Soho" for the Royal Shakespeare Company, "The Night Season" for the Royal National Theatre, and "Shoreditch Madonna" for Soho Theatre. She graduated from the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1996.
- Sarah Manners
Sarah Manners (born 25th August 1975 in Birmingham) is a popular English actress best known for her work on British television. She trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
- Hajaz Akram
Hajaz Akram is a British Asian actor, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama. He has appeared in numerous television dramas, including "Doctor Who", "Murder in Mind" and "Casualty", and is also the voice of DJ Panjit Gavaskar ("Radio Del Mundo") in "Grand Theft Auto". He has had film roles in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" and "Batman Begins".
- Tracy-Ann Oberman
Tracy-Ann Oberman (born August 1970 in London) is an English television, Theatre and radio actress and Writer, best known for her role as Chrissie Watts in the soap opera "EastEnders". She is a former student of Heathfield School for Girls ,Manchester University and the Central School of Speech and Drama.
- Chris Gascoyne
Chris Gascoyne (Born 1968, Huthwaite, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK) is a British born actor best known for his portrayal of Peter Barlow from 2000-2003 on Coronation Street He returned to 'The Street' in 2007. He has been married to actress Caroline Harding since October 2002 and has one child with her, three in total. He trained at the Central School Of Speech And Drama. Chris suffers from Dyslexia.
- Betsy Brantley
Betsy Brantley is an American actress. She was born in Rutherfordton, North Carolina on September 20, 1955. She is the older sister of producer/screenwriter Duncan Brantley, and former wife of both Simon Dutton and Steven Soderbergh. She is mother to Sarah Soderbergh. Betsy studied acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the United Kingdom. It was there that she was discovered to film a movie with Sean Connery entitled, "Five Days One Summer".
- Rodney Ackland
Rodney Ackland (May 181908 - December 6 1991), born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, died in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey. Ackland was an English playwright, actor, theatre director and screenwriter, educated at Balham Grammar School in London. In his 16th year he made his first stage appearance at the Gate Theatre Studio, playing Medvedieff in "The Lower Depths". Studied for the stage at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art.
- Tom Payne
Tom Payne (born 21 December 1982 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English actor. He is currently most well-known for playing Brett Aspinall in television drama series "Waterloo Road". Tom attended King Edward's School, Bath where he was a prolific contributor to the Drama Department. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in June 2005.
- Caroline John
Caroline John is a British actress best known for her role as Liz Shaw in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who", as well as several other television roles. After training at the Central School of Speech and Drama, she worked in theatre, touring with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre in "King Lear", "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead", …
- Ben Price
Ben Price (born 1972) is a British actor, who recently found fame after he starred as bisexual Conrad Gates, the captain of Earl's Park football team, in the British television series "Footballers' Wives". Price said he loved the role, driving around in expensive cars, living in mansions and working with a good crew, but he was not so keen on the large number of occasions that his posterior was shown. Price recently left the series, and has done some theatre work.
- Anna Madeley
Anna Madeley (born in 1977) is a British actor. She has been described by the British Theatre Guide's Philip Fisher as one of the United Kingdom's "brightest and most versatile young actresses". Madeley grew up in London, attending North London Collegiate School, and began her career as a child actress. She then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Madeley has performed three seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company(RSC): 2001-2 and 2003-4.
- Zoe Tapper
Zoe Tapper is a British actress who first came to prominence playing Nell Gwynne in Richard Eyre's award-winning film "Stage Beauty" (2004). She is currently appearing in "Othello" at Shakespeare's Globe. Her other film roles include Gwendolyn in the award-winning "Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont" (2005), alongside Joan Plowright, and "These Foolish Things" (2006), alongside Anjelica Huston.