- 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.
- Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is a two time Academy Award-winning, BAFTA-winning, and Golden Globe-winning American actor.
- Helen Mirren
From the age of 13 when she played Caliban in a school production of "The Tempest," Helen Mirren knew she wanted to be an actress. Her Russian-born father and English mother may have encouraged her to be a teacher like her siblings, but Mirren's mind was set.
- Bob Peck
Bob Peck was an English stage, television and film actor, who came to acting relatively late in life. He was probably best known to British audiences for his role as Ronald Craven in the acclaimed 1985 BBC drama serial "Edge of Darkness". The role won him "Best Actor" at that year's BAFTA Awards and helped to launch his television and film career. He later became familiar to American audiences for his film roles, …
- Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart OBE (born July 13, 1940) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated English film, television and stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield. Stewart has had a distinguished career in theatre for nearly fifty years, including performances as various characters in Shakespearean productions. However, he is most famous for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the U.S.S Enterprise in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", …
- Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born December 10 1960) is an Emmy Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated Northern Irish-born actor and film director.
- Anton Lesser
Anton Lesser (born 14 February 1952) is a British actor, he attended Moseley Grammar School and the University of Liverpool before going to RADA in 1977 where he was awarded the Bancroft Gold Medal as the most promising actor of his year. As an Associate Artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) he has played many of Shakespeare's most demanding roles, including Troilus ("Troilus and Cressida"), Edgar ("King Lear"), Petruchio, Romeo and Richard III.
- 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.
- Ian Richardson
Ian William Richardson CBE (7 April 1934 - 9 February 2007) was a Scottish actor best known for playing the machiavellian conservative politician Francis Urquhart in the "House of Cards" trilogy for the BBC. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989.
- Stephen Thorne
Stephen Thorne is a British actor of radio, film, stage and television. His television credits include "Z Cars", "Crossroads" and "Doctor Who". In "Doctor Who" he has played three major villains: Omega, Azal and Eldrad as well as an Ogron. On radio he appeared in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of "The Lord of the Rings" playing the voice of Treebeard, …
- Roger Rees
Roger Rees (born on May 4, 1944) is a British-American actor.
- 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, …
- Hugh Quarshie
Hugh Antony Kobna Quarshie (born December 22, 1954) is a British actor. Quarshie was born in Accra, Ghana, and emigrated with his family to the United Kingdom when he was aged three. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where he was Head of School, and then read PPE at Christ Church, University of Oxford. Following his education, Quarshie considered becoming a journalist, but took up acting instead. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, …
- Charles Dance
Charles Dance OBE (born October 10 1946) is an English actor.
- James Purefoy
James Purefoy (born June 3 1964) is an English actor born in Taunton, Somerset
- Penelope Keith
Penelope Anne Constance Keith, CBE, DL (born Penelope Hatfield on 2 April 1940) is an English actress who is best known for her roles in "The Good Life" and "To the Manor Born", and has also had a long career on stage.
- 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".
- Siobhan Redmond
Siobhan Redmond (born August 27, 1959) is a Scottish actress. Originally from Tollcross, Glasgow, Redmond's first television appearances were in the early 1980s. After appearing in the short-lived comedy sketch-show "Alfresco", her first major television success was as George Bulman's assistant Lucy McGinty in "Bulman" (1985-1987). Since then she has had some notable roles, including Maureen Connell in "Between the Lines" (1992-1994), …
- Janet Suzman
Janet Suzman (born February 9, 1939) is a South African actress and director.
- 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.
- Paul Bettany
Paul Bettany (born May 27, 1971) is an English film and stage actor. He may be best known for his roles as Geoffrey Chaucer in "A Knight's Tale", Charles in "A Beautiful Mind", Stephen Maturin in "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World", Peter Colt in "Wimbledon" and as Silas in "The Da Vinci Code".
- Sir Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE, (born December 31, 1943) is a British actor. Kingsley is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in Richard Attenborough's 1982 biopic, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
- Eileen Atkins
Dame Eileen June Atkins DBE (born 16 June 1934) is an English writer and award-winning film and theatre 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.
- 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.
- Ian Holm
Sir Ian Holm, CBE (born 12 September, 1931), is an Academy Award-nominated and Tony Award-winning English actor known for his stage work and for many film roles, including the hobbit Bilbo Baggins in the first and third films of the "Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, Father Vito Cornelius in "The Fifth Element" and as the android Ash in "Alien".
- 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".
- Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong is an English actor. Armstrong made his debut in the 1971 film "Get Carter", and has since worked regularly in British stage and television productions, often playing leading characters. Armstrong has also appeared in several films, although in this medium he has usually played supporting or minor rôles. Recently, he has appeared in the films "Sleepy Hollow", "The Mummy Returns" and "Van Helsing".
- Timothy Spall
Timothy Leonard Spall OBE (born February 27, 1957) is an English BAFTA award-nominated film, stage and television actor.
- Toby Stephens
Toby Stephens (born April 21, 1969) is an English stage, television and film actor, best known for playing supervillain Gustav Graves in the James Bond film "Die Another Day" (2002) and Edward Fairfax Rochester in the BBC television adaptation of "Jane Eyre" (2006).
- Julian Glover
Julian Wyatt Glover (born March 27 1935) is an English actor.
- David Threlfall
David Threlfall (born 12 October 1953, Manchester) is a British actor known for his role as Frank Gallagher in the Channel 4 comedy-drama series "Shameless". Threlfall has notched up a wide range of film and television credits since his screen debut in "Scum" in 1977. Television appearances include Edgar in the 1984 Granada Television "King Lear" opposite Lord Laurence Olivier, …
- Elizabeth Spriggs
Elizabeth Spriggs (born September 18, 1929 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England) is a British character actress. Her longest role on British television was as Nan on "Shine on Harvey Moon". She has also appeared in "Doctor Who" and in the BBC dramatisations of "Our Mutual Friend" and "Martin Chuzzlewit" both by Charles Dickens and George Eliot's "Middlemarch".
- 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.
- Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes (pronounced /ref fanz/; born 22 December 1962) is an English actor. He has appeared in films such as Schindler's List, Quiz Show, The English Patient, Oscar and Lucinda, Red Dragon, The Constant Gardener, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and the Harry Potter films. Most recently he appeared in The Reader.
- Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born September 19 1948) is an Academy Award, Tony Award, Screen Actors Guild, two-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning English film, television and stage actor.
- 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.
- Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (born August 11, 1944) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actor. He has had a successful career in theatre; he has been cast in many plays, while occasionally directing others. Although McDiarmid has appeared mostly in theatrical productions, he has also accepted roles in theatrical films and TV movies. Worldwide, he is most famous for his role as Palpatine in both the original and prequel "Star Wars" trilogies.
- Michael Williams
Michael Leonard Williams (9 July 1935 - 11 January 2001) was a British actor. Although best known as the husband of Dame Judi Dench, Williams had a distinguished career of his own, as both a classical and a comedy actor. Born into an Irish Catholic family in Liverpool, he attended St. Edward's College and worked as an insurance assessor before going into the theatre.
- Samuel West
Samuel Alexander Joseph West (born June 19, 1966) is a British actor and theatre director.