Actors and Actresses
Caroline Catz throws herself into representations of strong-minded women with enthusiasm. Quite often, they're women in uniform — she was as well known in Britain for roles in police procedurals The Bill and The Vice as she was for being Doc Martin's wife. Her family loved theater,
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Scottish actor Shirley Henderson, last seen on PBS Masterpiece as Aunt Western in Tom Jones, seems to pop up in everything, is instantly recognizable –– tiny, dark, and intense, with that characteristically high voice. She was known for years as “Spud’s girlfriend” from Trainspotting, until she became famous as Moaning
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Everything old eventually becomes new again, and that's more often true for Doctor Who than most other television programs. The man who initially rebooted the series in 2005 and former showrunner (Russell T. Davies) is returning to lead the show into its next decade. While he's
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It’s no surprise the subject of this installment of British Actors You Should Know has such a long and impressive list of credits. Samuel West does have acting in his blood, after all. His paternal grandfather, Lockwood West, is best known for appearances in 1952’s Pride and Prejudice
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Though he may not be a household name, Callum Woodhouse’s face is certainly a familiar one to PBS Masterpiece viewers. Young Mr. Woodhouse has already made an impression on American audiences with his roles in the period dramedies The Durrells (known in the states as The Durrells in Corfu)
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Talented, enthusiastic, diligent, and grounded are all words that can be used to describe seasoned actor Daniel Mays. The 44-year-old Mays could also be called a passionate advocate for bringing more working-class kids like him into the industry. The son of an electrician and a bank cashier, a career in
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Samantha Morton may currently reign as the much-maligned French queen Catherine de Medici on Starz's The Serpent Queen, but this is hardly the first remarkable performance from this critically acclaimed actress who deserves much more mainstream attention than she tends to get. She's been nominated for
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If Adeel Akhtar had deferred to paternal pressure, he might have followed in his father's footsteps and become an immigration lawyer. The London-born son of Pakistani and Kenyan immigrants did, in fact, study law. But fortunately for us, his mother enrolled him in National Youth Theatre classes on
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Where to start when profiling such a talented and charismatic actor as Andrew Scott? How about the fact that, aside from some youth theater workshop experience, this Dublin-born actor has had no official drama training? At 17, he was cast in a substantial role in an Irish film called Korea
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Anton Lesser is a perfect example of the type of artist our British Actors You Should Know series was intended to highlight. He is an actor with an impressive resume who is comfortable performing in all mediums. Yet many viewers may draw a blank when his name comes up. Midlands-born
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I’m embarrassed to admit that up until the last five years, or so I only knew Fiona Shaw as Aunt Petunia from the Harry Potter franchise. Maybe like me, you weren’t aware of her stellar stage career; that she was part of the “new wave” of actors to
Actors and Actresses
As any Anglophile rightly knows, the world of British entertainment is full of “hey, it’s that guy!” performers, talented, seemingly omnipresent actors who pop up in every sort of production but never seem to earn the widespread acclaim they so obviously deserve. Ben Whishaw is a perfect example of