- William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Brian Blessed
Brian Blessed is an English actor, who came to fame as PC 'Fancy' Smith in the BBC TV police drama series "Z Cars". He is a highly charismatic man with a booming voice, great beard and robust build ideal for the bushy bearded, often humorous men in Shakespearean and medieval dramas. The son of a miner, Blessed was born in the ex-mining town of Mexborough and grew up in the nearby town of Goldthorpe, South Yorkshire. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. - Joseph Millson
Joseph Millson is a theatre and television actor, born in Berkshire in 1974. In 2006 he appeared in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Complete Works Festival as Benedick in 'Much Ado About Nothing' (opposite Tamsin Greig) and Bastard in 'King John', both excellent performances with glowing reviews. "I have seen actors from Alan Bates to Matthew Macfadyen play Shakespeare’s Benedick, but Joseph Millson’s performance in the new RSC production strikes me as definitive. - Damian Lewis
Damian Lewis (born 11 February, 1971) is an English actor, born in St John's Wood, London. Lewis, whose family is from Wales, was educated at Eton College and graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1993, after which he served as a stage actor for the Royal Shakespeare Company. During his time with the RSC, he played Borgheim in Adrian Noble's production of Ibsen's "Little Eyolf", as well as Posthumus in Shakespeare's "Cymbeline". - Phyllida Law
Phyllida Law (born 8 May, 1932) is a Scottish actress. She was born in Glasgow to William and Megsie Law, who divorced after World War II. Law has worked extensively in television, including appearances in "Dixon of Dock Green" and "Rumpole of the Bailey". In 2007 she played Aunt Auriel in the drama Kingdom (TV series) starring Stephen Fry. She was married to Eric Thompson until his death in 1982. Their two children Emma and Sophie Thompson are both actresses. - Matthew Warchus
Matthew Warchus (born November 30 1965 is an English director and dramatist. - Michael York
Michael York OBE (born Michael Hugh Johnson, March 27, 1942) is an English actor, more recently known among mainstream audiences for his role of Basil Exposition in the "Austin Powers" series of films. - 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, … - Anthony Quayle
Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE (7 September 1913 - 20 October 1989) was an English actor and director. He was born in Ainsdale, Southport in Lancashire and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After appearing in music hall, he joined the Old Vic in 1932. During the Second World War he was an Army Officer and made one of the area commanders of the auxiliary units. - Will Thorp
Will Thorp (born 21 June 1977 in Bristol) is an English actor. He studied at Bath College and joined Musical Youth Theatre Company at an early age. He was also a member of the National Youth Theatre. His most famous role is flirty paramedic Paul 'Woody' Joyner in "Casualty". He has also done theatre work: roles including Don John & Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing (2004), Teddy in Robbers and Sam (Sambo) in Fire Down Under! in 2002. - John Powell
John Powell is a British film score composer born on 18 September 1963, and currently based in Los Angeles. Powell originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music. He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band "The Fabulistics". On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which led to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, … - David Nicholls
David Nicholls is the author of the novels "Starter for Ten" (2003) and "The Understudy". He was born on November 30 1966, and is the middle of three siblings. He attended Barton Peveril sixth-form college at Eastleigh, Hampshire, from 1983 to 1985 (taking A-levels in drama and theatre studies - like his elder and younger siblings -, English, physics and biology, and playing a wide range of roles in college drama productions, … - Mark Lamos
Mark Lamos (born March 10 1946) is a Tony Award-winning American theatre director, producer, and actor. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lamos studied violin and ballet at an early age and attended Northwestern University on a music scholarship. He began his theatrical career as an actor at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. - Tom Smith
Tom Smith (born in 1969 in Rochelle, Illinois) is an American playwright and theatre director. His published plays include "The Odyssey", "The Pathmaker", "Dangerous", "Gray", and "Marguerita's Secret Diary" in addition to edited versions of "Much Ado About Nothing", "The Comedy of Errors", "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and "Love's Labours Lost". - Des McAnuff
Des McAnuff (born June 19, 1952 in Princeton, Illinois) is a Tony award-winning director of such hit Broadway musicals as "Big River" and "The Who's Tommy". He has also produced Tony award-winning revivals of Broadway classics like "Guys and Dolls", "The Music Man", "Into the Woods", "42nd Street", "The King and I", and many others. - David Esbjornson
David Esbjornson is an award-winning director and producer who has worked throughout the United States in regional theatres and on Broadway, and has established strong and productive relationships with some of the profession’s top playwrights, actors, and companies. Esbjornson is currently the artistic director of Seattle Repertory Theatre in Seattle, Washington. For seven years (1992-1999) he was artistic director of New York’s Classic Stage Company, … - Nicholas Burns
"Nicholas Burns" (born 1977) is an English actor, best known for his comic performances, such as playing the title character in "Nathan Barley". In addition to starring in the TV series, Burns appeared in an advertising poster for a fictional phone, the Wasp T12 Speechtool, to promote "Nathan Barley". Beyond "Barley" he has had recurring roles in the TV series "Absolute Power", … - Valentine Simmes
Valentine Simmes (fl. 1585 - 1622) was an Elizabethan era and Jacobean era printer; he did business in London, "on Adling Hill near Bainard's Castle at the sign of the White Swan." Simmes has a reputation as one of the better printers of his generation, and was responsible for several quartos of Shakespeare's plays. [See: Folios and Quartos (Shakespeare).] Nothing is known of Simmes's early life or personal history. He was active as a printer starting in 1585. - Robert Donat
Friedrich Robert Donath (March 18, 1905 - June 9, 1958), better known by his stage name Robert Donat, was a distinguished Academy Award-winning English film and stage actor of English, Polish and German descent. He was born in Withington, Manchester. Donat made his first stage appearance in 1921 and his film debut in 1932 in "Men of Tomorrow". His first great screen success came with "The Private Life of Henry VIII" (playing Thomas Culpepper), … - A. J. Antoon
A. J. Antoon, was an American theatre director. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Antoon was a graduate of Boston College and attended the Yale School of Drama. In 1972, the Broadway novice, a protegé of producer Joseph Papp, became the first director to be nominated in the same year for two Tony Awards as Best Director of a Play, for "Much Ado About Nothing" (which he adapted for television the following year) and "That Championship Season". - Morven Christie
Morven Christie (born c. 1979) is a Scottish actress. She was born in Glasgow. She originally studied TV and radio production before training at the Drama Centre, London. - Diederick Santer
Diederick Santer is a British television producer. He is currently the Executive Producer of the popular BBC television soap opera "EastEnders", with additional responsibility for developing younger skewing drama series and serials. Santer graduated from the University of Leeds with a degree in Psychology and the History and Philosophy of Science. - Joe Dowling
Joe Dowling is the Artistic Director for the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is also well known for his work as Artistic Director of the Abbey Theatre in Ireland, and has directed plays in all the major theatres in Ireland as well as theatres in London, New York, Washington D.C., Montreal and Alberta. Dowling has been long connected Irish theatre having founded Ireland's premiere drama school, the Gaiety School of Acting, … - George Rose
George Rose (February 19, 1920 - May 5, 1988) was a British actor. Born in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Rose studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama. After graduation he briefly worked as a farmer and secretary. After wartime service and studies at Oxford, he made his Old Vic stage debut in 1946. Rose made his Broadway debut in a 1946 production of "Henry IV, Part I" and remained in New York City for the remainder of the decade. - Adam Rayner
Adam Rayner is an English actor who has appeared on television in "At Home with the Braithwaites" and "Making Waves". He has also appeared on stage in "The Rivals" (Bristol Old Vic, 2004), "Romeo and Juliet" (Royal Shakespeare Theatre, 2006) and "Much Ado About Nothing" (Novello, 2006). - Claire Price
Claire Price was born on 4 July 1972 in Chesterfield, Derbyshire and is an actress best known for her current portrayal as DS Siobhan Clarke in the TV drama Rebus broadcast on the ITV Network. She plays opposite Ken Stott, (DI John Rebus) in the adaptations of the Inspector Rebus novels by Scottish author Ian Rankin. Previous television work has included one-episode roles in many other long-running crime drama series including "Dalziel and Pascoe", … - Hugh Fraser
Hugh Fraser is an English actor. He studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He was also a member of Telltale, a rock band who performed the theme music for "Rainbow", a childrens' television series. Hugh Fraser has appeared regularly in film and television roles. - George Whetstone
George Whetstone (1544?-1587?) was an English dramatist and author. He was the third son of Robert Whetstone (d. 1557), a member of a wealthy family that owned the manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire. George appears to have had a small inheritance which he soon spent, and he complains bitterly of the failure of a lawsuit to recover a further inheritance of which he had been unjustly deprived. - Nina Sosanya
Nina Sosanya is a British actress. She was born in London and her father is Nigerian. She trained at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, gaining A-Levels in Performing Arts. She has appeared in many roles in the theatre, on television and in films, for example in "People Like Us", "Teachers", "Love Actually", "Casanova", "Much Ado About Nothing", "Meadowlands", and the "Doctor Who" episode "Fear Her". - Michael Beach
Michael Anthony Beach (born October 30, 1963) is an American actor. Beach was born in Boston, Massachusetts, of Cape Verdean descent. He attended the prestigious Noble & Greenough School in Dedham, Massachusetts on scholarship from ABC (A Better Chance). He was introduced to acting when he was sidelined by a lacrosse injury during high school by a classmate. After high school he went on to graduate from New York City's Juilliard School, … - Roberta Maxwell
Roberta Maxwell (born circa 1942, Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress. She began studying for the stage at the age of 12. She joined John Clark for 2 years as the kid co-host of his "Junior Magazine" series for CBC Television, before becoming the youngest actress apprentice at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, ready to pursue an acting career, as she explains in a 1958 interview. - Donald Moffat
Donald Moffat (born December 26, 1930) is a Plymouth, Devon, English-born American actor. He has been in many motion pictures, including several big budget American films, usually in debonair but villainous roles. He has appeared on television in "The West Wing" and "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman". He has also appeared in many Broadway plays, including several stage classics, such as "The Cherry Orchard", "Much Ado About Nothing", … - Richard Cowley
Richard Cowley (died 1619) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a colleague of William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage in the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men. Cowley was in the c. 1591 production of "The Seven Deadly Sins", performed by personnel from the Admiral's Men and Lord Strange's Men - a production that included Richard Burbage and other future King's Men, Cowley acted seven minor roles in that production. - Oliver Cotton
Oliver Cotton (born 20 June 1944 in London, England) is an actor equally well known for his work on stage, TV and Film. He has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre playing in many productions including "The Royal Hunt Of The Sun", "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", "Much Ado About Nothing", "As You Like It", "Oedipus", "In His Own Write", "Hamlet", "Tamburlaine", "No Mans Land", … - Ishia Bennison
Ishia Bennison is a British actress, best known for her television appearances, although she is also a veteran stage actress. One of her earliest roles was playing a nurse in the 1980 Charlton Heston film, "The Awakening". She also had roles in the television drama "The Chinese Detective" (1981) and she played Ruth Lieberman in the BBC drama "Kessler" (1981). - Frederick Treves
Frederick William Treves is an English character actor with an extensive repertoire. He specialises in avuncular military and titled types. He was born on 29 March 1925 in Margate, Kent, England. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. His over a hundred television credits include roles in "The Cazalets", "The Jewel in the Crown", "A Dance to the Music of Time", "The Politician's Wife", "To Play the King", … - Aden Gillett
Aden Gillett (born 8 November, 1958) is a British actor best known for playing the role of Jack Maddox on the popular BBC series "The House of Eliott". He was born in the city Aden, Yemen, from which city he got his name. He is married to actress Sara Stewart with whom he has two children. He has played many roles on the stage, including Mr. Banks in a new production of "Mary Poppins" and Benedick in "Much Ado About Nothing". - Simon Rogers
Simon Rogers is a British musician and composer, notable for his chart success both as a musician and as a producer as well as for his considerable portfolio of television soundtrack work. In 1976, Rogers entered the Royal College of Music, London, later becoming an associate (ARCM) and winning their guitar prize in 1980. Upon leaving. he joined Ballet Rambert’s Mercury Ensemble as their guitarist. During this period he composed several ballet scores, … - Myanna Buring
MyAnna Buring is a Swedish actress best known for appearing in the 2005 horror film "The Descent". Buring was born in Sweden but grew up in the Middle East. When she turned 16, she moved to England. Buring graduated from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2004. She is also the assosciate director of the MahWaff Theatre Company. In 2006, Buring guest-starred in "The Impossible Planet", the first episode of a two-episode "Doctor Who" story. - Lawrence Barrett
Lawrence Barrett (April 4 1838 - March 20 1891), was an American stage actor. He was born Lawrence Brannigan to Irish emigrant parents in Paterson, New Jersey. He made his first stage appearance at Detroit as Murad in "The French Spy" in 1853. In December 1856 he made his first New York appearance at the Chambers Street theatre as "Sir Thomas Clifford" in "The Hunchback". In 1858 he was in the repertory company at the Boston Museum.
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