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How do you know a British actor is becoming a national treasure in real time? In the case of Stephen Graham, it’s the fact that every type of audience – British TV watchers, exciting thriller fans, and film auteur fanatics – has unanimously recognized the actor’s singular, invaluable talents across
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Ralph Fiennes is one of the most prolific British performers working today. He's had roles in prestige dramas, weirdo comedies, blockbuster franchises, and one-off independent films, playing everything from James Bond's boss and Greek hero Odysseus to a Nazi commandant and a wizard supervillain. He'
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If you don’t know Sir Ian McKellen, hang your head and turn in your Anglophile card. McKellen is as synonymous with British stage and screen as fish and chips are with its cuisine. He has led numerous stage productions and has been a leading man on television since playing
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Emerging leading man Jonathan Bailey has become nearly inescapable in recent years, with roles in beloved series from Broadchurch to Bridgerton. He's so charming that he could create chemistry with a brick wall; instead, he has chosen to defy the limits and stereotypes that still remain in the
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Ncuti Gatwa is one of those rare and spectacular actors living every other young actor’s dream: a much-deserved meteoric rise to stardom. Though he may seem like an overnight success, his breakout role in Sex Education only came after years of hard-won minor roles in theater and bit parts
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Nina Sosanya is one of those actors who is so ubiquitous that you might not realize how many shows you’ve seen her in until you start counting. From the buzziest titles to the niche-est projects, Sosanya’s name appears all over British TV and in several beloved franchises, including
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Sacha Dhawan has been diligently making a name for himself in the television world since he was just twelve years old. He was born and raised in Manchester by parents from Punjab, India. There, he studied theater from a young age and started landing television roles as a preteen. Dhawan
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On September 27, 2024, Dame Maggie Smith’s two sons shared the news that their mother had passed away at the age of 89. “She passed away peacefully in hospital early this morning, Friday 27th September. An intensely private person, she was with friends and family at the end,” her
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You may best know prolific stage and screen actor Adjoa Andoh from her role as a presiding member of Bridgerton’s ton, but offscreen, she’s more like British acting royalty. Born in 1963 and raised as the only Black girl in her small southern England town, Andoh’s life
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With his imposing physical presence and interesting, not quite handsome face, and trademark fall of dark hair, Matt Smith has played everything from artists to time lords, princes, and pimps. Smith was born in 1982 in Northamptonshire, and his first love was football. He signed on as a youth player
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We know him best as Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, in the ITV drama Foyle's War, which ran for eight series between 2002 and 2015. But Michael Kitchen has performed in all sorts of roles, from the James Bond franchise to William Shakespeare, on radio, stage, and TV,
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British actor Michael Fassbender was actually born in Heidelberg, Germany; his father, Josef, was German, and his mother, Adele, an Irish woman originally from Larne, County Antrim, in Northern Ireland. Michael was raised in the town of Killarney, Co. Kerry, in southwest Ireland, where his family moved when he was