- Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - 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. - 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. - Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 - 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Mike Gambit in "The New Avengers". - 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> - Rufus Sewell
Rufus Frederik Sewell (born October 29, 1967) is a British actor. In film, he appeared in "The Woodlanders", "Dangerous Beauty", "Dark City", "A Knight's Tale", and "Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence". On television, he became well known for his role as the hero, Will Ladislaw, in the BBC adaptation of George Eliot's "Middlemarch". - Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (born 8 March, 1943 in London) is two-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning English actress born into the famous Redgrave acting family. Her parents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, Lady Redgrave, her brother is Corin Redgrave and her sister is Vanessa Redgrave. She is the aunt of Natasha Richardson, Joely Richardson and Jemma Redgrave. - Geraldine McEwan
Geraldine McEwan (born Geraldine McKeown on May 9, 1932, in Old Windsor, Berkshire, England), is a British actress (of Irish extraction) with a diverse and successful history in film, theatre and television spanning 55 years. - 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). - Peter Land
Peter Land (July 9,1953) is a New Zealand actor and singer born Peter Oliver White in Taihape; son of Dr. Allan Neil White, made M.N.Z.M. for services to Medicine and the Community in the New Zealand New Year Honours 2007 and Molly Louise Copeland, whose maiden name provided Land with his last name. Educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School,Victoria University of Wellington and Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School, … - Ian McKellen
Sir Ian Murray McKellen, KBE (born May 25, 1939) is a veteran English stage and screen actor, the recipient of a Tony Award and two Oscar nominations. McKellen is best known to moviegoers in recent years for his roles as Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy and as Magneto in the "X-Men" trilogy. His work has spanned genres from serious Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction. - Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Dame Maggie Smith, is a two-time Academy Award, and Emmy-winning British film, stage, and television actress. - Rosemary Harris
Rosemary Harris (born September 19, 1930) is a Tony Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. - Jeremy Brett
Peter Jeremy William Huggins, better known as Jeremy Brett, was an English actor famous for his portrayal of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the British television series "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". - Frances de La de la Tour
Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944 in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire) is a Tony Award winning English actress - Alan Rickman
Naked Photos of Alan Rickman are available at MaleStars.com . They currently feature over 65,000 Nude Pics, Biographies, Video Clips, Articles, and Movie Reviews of famous stars. - Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in "The Avengers" and Tracy Bond in the 1969 James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". - Joyce Redman
Joyce Redman (born December 9, 1918) is a British actress. She was born in County Mayo, Ireland, to an Anglo-Irish family. She was educated by a private governess in Ireland, along with her three sisters. She was trained in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Her acting roles have been primarily in the theatre and in television movies. Her most successful efforts on the stage were during the 1940s, in "Shadow and Substance", "Claudia", … - Peter Cellier
Peter Cellier (born 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in film, stage and television. He is from a family of actors including his father Frank and sister Antoinette. One of his more recognisable roles was that of Sir Frank Gordon, the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury, in the BBC comedy series "Yes Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister". He also played the Major in the early episodes of "Keeping up Appearances". - Peter O'Toole
Peter Seamus O'Toole (Peter James O'Toole) (b. August 2 1932 (accepted but presumed date) is an eight-time Academy Award-nominated Irish actor. He has received three Golden Globes and an Emmy Award. He was also awarded an honorary Oscar for his body of work (2003). Despite eight nominations, he has yet to win a Best Actor Oscar. - Michael Gambon
Sir Michael John Gambon, KBE (born October 19, 1940), is an acclaimed Irish-British actor who has worked in television, film and theatre. - Tom Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel Courtenay (pronounced "Courtney") (born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of critically-acclaimed films including "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" (1962), "Billy Liar" (1963) and "Dr. Zhivago" (1965). In the latter two films he appeared alongside Julie Christie. - Michael Hordern
Sir Michael Murray Hordern (October 3, 1911 - May 2, 1995) was an English actor, knighted in 1983 for his services to the theatre. - Colin Blakely
Colin Blakely (September 23, 1930 - May 7, 1987) was a British character actor. He was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland and attended Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. Among his most celebrated film roles were as Maurice Braithwaite in "This Sporting Life" (1963) and as Dr. Watson to Robert Stephens's Holmes in "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970). Other roles include "The National Health", "A Man for All Seasons", "Young Winston", … - Joan Plowright
Joan Ann Olivier, Baroness Olivier DBE, "née" Dame Joan Plowright (born October 28 1929), is a British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier. She was made a Dame (DBE) in the New Year's Honours for 2004. - Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft DBE (22 December 1907 - 14 June 1991) was an acclaimed Academy Award-winning English actress. - John Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH (14 April, 1904 - 21 May 2000), known as Sir John Gielgud, was an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning theatre and film actor. He is generally regarded as one of the great English actors in history. - Derek Jacobi
Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE (born 22 October, 1938) is an English actor and director, knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre. Like Laurence Olivier, he bears the distinction of holding two knighthoods, Danish and British. - Cyril Cusack
Cyril Cusack (November 26, 1910 - October 7, 1993) was an Irish actor. Born in Durban, Natal, South Africa he was the son of a sergeant in the mounted police and an actress. His parents separated when he was young and his mother took him to England, and then to Ireland. Cusack's mother and her partner, Breifne O'Rorke, joined the O'Brien and Ireland Players. Cyril made his first stage performance at the age of seven. Cusack was educated in Newbridge College, Newbridge, Co. - Alan Webb
Alan Webb (2 July 1906-22 June 1982) was a veteran English stage and film actor. Webb was born in York, the son of Major Thomas Francis Albertoni Webb and mother Lili Fletcher. He was educated at Bramcote School, Scarborough, and Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth before serving in the Royal Navy. - Terence Knapp
Terence Richard Knapp (born February 14, 1932) is an English actor, director, educator, and author. He is an Emeritus Professor of Theatre, University of Hawaii at Manoa, a (Sir Winston, KG) Churchill Fellow and a Royal Academy of Dramatic Art Associate. - Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born 31 December 1937) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning film, stage and television actor. He was born and raised in Wales, but became an American citizen in 2000. - Charles Kay
Charles Kay, born Charles Piff (31 August, 1930 -) in Coventry, West Midlands, is an English actor. Kay studied medicine, then decided to train for the stage. He went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and after graduation, joined the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre. He created the roles of Jimmy in Arnold Wesker's "Roots" (1959) and Charles V in John Osborne's "Luther" (1961). - Irene Worth
Irene Worth, Honorary CBE, (b. June 23 1916, Fairbury, Nebraska - d. March 9 2002, New York City) was a distinguished stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the English and American theatre. - Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller DBE (August 15 1912 - May 14 2003) was a distinguished English film and stage actress. The Academy Award-winning actress enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly sixty years. Despite many notable film performances, she chose to remain primarily a stage actress. Born in Bramhall, Stockport, in Cheshire, the daughter of Frank Watkin Hiller and Marie Stone, … - Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (March 20, 1908—March 21, 1985) was an English actor of great renown. Redgrave was born in Bristol, the son of the silent film actor Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. He never knew his father, who left when Michael was only six months old, to pursue a career in Australia. His mother remarried Captain James Anderson, a wealthy tea planter, but he hated his step-father. - Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw, CBE (born June 6, 1932) is a distinguished English actress for both stage and film and has worked alongside notables such as Laurence Olivier, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, and Samuel Beckett (with whom she collaborated closely on theatrical techniques for twenty-five years). Appearing frequently on television, often in costume dramas such as "Jane Eyre" and "A Tale of Two Cities", … - Frank Finlay
Francis "Frank" Finlay, CBE (b. 6 August 1926, Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, England) is a British stage, film and television actor of English, Irish and Scottish descent. - Hugh Bonneville
Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, known professionally as Hugh Bonneville, (born 10 November 1963 in London) is an acclaimed English stage, film and television actor. Bonneville studied at Sherborne School and read theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge before training for the stage at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His first professional stage appearance was at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, … - Sinéad Cusack
Sinéad) Cusack is an Irish actress. She is the daughter of late actor Cyril Cusack and the late Maureen Cusack, and is the sister of actresses Sorcha Cusack, Niamh Cusack and half sister to Catherine Cusack. Her first acting roles were at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1970, she starred with Peter Sellers in the film "Hoffman". In 1975, she moved to London and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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