List of British actors
This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in theatre, film, television, and radio.
Born in 18th century
- Sophia Baddeley
- Margaret Agnes Bunn
- Louisa Chatterley
- Maria Foote
- Henry Gattie
- Charlotte Goodall
- Elizabeth Hartley
- Ann Catherine Holbrook
- John Philip Kemble
- Maria Theresa Kemble
- Henrietta Amelia Leeson
- Charles Mathews
- Harriet Siddons
- James Prescott Warde
- Mary Wells
- Charles Mayne Young
Born in 1800–1829
- George John Bennett
- Ira Aldridge
- Louisa Cranstoun Nisbett
- Sarah Fairbrother
- Helena Faucit
- Clara Fisher
- Isabella Glyn
- Thomas Hailes Lacy
- Laura Honey
- Priscilla Horton
- Frances Eleanor Jarman
- Charles Kean
- Ellen Kean
- Mary Anne Keeley
- Fanny Kemble
- Harriette Deborah Lacy
- Maria Ann Lovell
- Mary Anne Stirling
- Charlotte Vandenhoff
- Mary Warner
Born in the 1830s
- Adelaide Calvert
- Amy Fawsitt
- Henry Irving
- Eliza Newton
- John Lawrence Toole
- Charles Wyndham
Born in the 1840s
- Helen Barr
- Eleanor Bufton
- Lydia Foote
- Susan Galton
- Henrietta Hodson
- Adelaide Neilson
- Mary Frances Scott-Siddons
- Edward O'Connor Terry
- Ellen Terry
- Kate Terry
- Arthur Williams
Born in the 1850s
- George Alexander
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- Charles Danby
- Johnston Forbes-Robertson
- Charles Hawtrey
- Gwynne Herbert
- Marion Hood
- Frederick Kerr
- Lillie Langtry
- Marion Terry
Born in the 1860s
- George Arliss
- George Bellamy
- Lionel Belmore
- Nina Boucicault
- Arthur Bourchier
- Beatrice Campbell
- Lyn Harding
- Adeline Hayden Coffin
- C. Hayden Coffin
- Brandon Hurst
- Letty Lind
- A. E. Matthews
- Cyril Maude
- Winifred Mayo
- Julia Neilson
- Olga Nethersole
- Edmund Payne
- Courtice Pounds
- Morton Selten
- C. Aubrey Smith
- Marie Tempest
- Fred Terry
- Henry Vibart
- May Whitty
- Haidee Wright
- Huntley Wright
Born in the 1870s
- Henry Ainley
- Marie Ault
- Muriel Beaumont
- Lilian Braithwaite
- Constance Collier
- Finlay Currie
- Nigel De Brulier
- Agnes Fraser
- Edward Gordon Craig
- Mary Garden
- Evie Greene
- George Grossmith Jr.
- Seymour Hicks
- Halliwell Hobbes
- Mabel Love
- Montagu Love
- Maggie Moffat
- Gertie Millar
- Roy Redgrave
- Ada Reeve
- Henry Stephenson
- Ellaline Terriss
- Mabel Terry-Lewis
- Ernest Thesiger
- Henry Travers
- Irene Vanbrugh
- Violet Vanbrugh
- H.B. Warner
Born in the 1880s
- Lionel Atwill
- Viva Birkett
- Paul Cavanagh
- Charlie Chaplin
- May Clark
- Gladys Cooper
- Donald Crisp
- Evelyn D'Alroy
- Zena Dare
- Lily Elsie
- Edith Evans
- Lilian Fontaine
- Lynn Fontanne
- Alec Fraser
- Leslie Fuller
- Will Hay
- Holmes Herbert
- Boris Karloff
- Nora Kerin
- Ralph Lynn
- Miles Malleson
- Miles Mander
- Victor McLaglen
- Philip Merivale
- Dorothy Minto
- Reginald Owen
- Nancy Price
- Claude Rains
- Gabrielle Ray
- Elisabeth Risdon
- Margaret Scudamore
- Florence Smithson
- May Leslie Stuart
- Gladys Sylvani
- Godfrey Tearle
- Sybil Thorndike
- Tom Walls
- Margaret Wycherly
- George Zucco
Born in the 1890s
- Ronald Adam
- Chesney Allen
- Harold Bennett
- Amy Brandon Thomas
- Nigel Bruce
- Violet Carson
- Laddie Cliff
- Ivy Close
- Maurice Colbourne
- Ronald Colman
- Harry Cording
- Cicely Courtneidge
- Noël Coward
- Henry Daniell
- Phyllis Dare
- Reginald Denny
- Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
- Alexander Field
- Bud Flanagan
- Hermione Gingold
- Cedric Hardwicke
- Robertson Hare
- Kathleen Harrison
- Stanley Holloway
- Leslie Howard
- Bobby Howes
- Jack Hulbert
- Mervyn Johns
- Lillian Kemble-Cooper
- Jack Lambert
- Charles Laughton
- Stan Laurel
- John Laurie
- Flora Le Breton
- Beatrice Lillie
- John Loder
- Stanley Lupino
- Herbert Marshall
- Orlando Martins
- Max Miller
- Clifford Mollison
- Alan Mowbray
- Dennis Neilson-Terry
- Phyllis Neilson-Terry
- Vic Oliver
- Cecil Parker
- Basil Rathbone
- Philip Ray
- Kynaston Reeves
- Arnold Ridley
- Margaret Rutherford
- Olive Sloane
- Reginald Tate
- Barbara Tennant
- Heather Thatcher
- Arthur Treacher
- Norma Varden
- Jack Warner
Born in the 1900s
- Marguerite Allan
- Peggy Ashcroft
- Arthur Askey
- Angela Baddeley
- Hermione Baddeley
- Patrick Barr
- Ballard Berkeley
- Leslie Bradley
- Arthur Brough
- Jane Carr
- Edward Chapman
- Sylvia Coleridge
- Tom Conway
- Beryl Cooke
- Roland Culver
- Brenda Dean Paul
- Maurice Denham
- Robert Donat
- Evelyn Dove
- Angela du Maurier
- Leslie Dwyer
- Valentine Dyall
- Jean Forbes-Robertson
- Leslie French
- Greer Garson
- Leo Genn
- John Gielgud
- Cary Grant
- Rex Harrison
- William Hartnell
- Joan Hickson
- Bob Hope
- John Houseman
- Benita Hume
- Betty Huntley-Wright
- Wilfrid Hyde-White
- Freda Jackson
- Ursula Jeans
- Celia Johnson
- Griffith Jones
- James Robertson Justice
- Moultrie Kelsall
- Joan Kemp-Welch
- Esmond Knight
- Bernard Lee
- Beatrix Lehmann
- Queenie Leonard
- Roger Livesey
- Charles Lloyd-Pack
- James Mason
- Guy Middleton
- John Mills
- Robert Morley
- Clive Morton
- Alan Napier
- Anna Neagle
- Robert Newton
- Anthony Nicholls
- Dandy Nichols
- Mary Odette
- Laurence Olivier
- J. Pat O'Malley
- Michael Redgrave
- Trevor Reid
- Michael Rennie
- Ralph Richardson
- John Robinson
- Flora Robson
- Oriel Ross
- George Sanders
- Eileen Sharp
- Sebastian Shaw
- Ida Shepley
- Alastair Sim
- Francis L. Sullivan
- Nora Swinburne
- Jessica Tandy
- Ralph Truman
- Ronald Ward
- Naunton Wayne
- Alan Webb
- Lockwood West
- Donald Wolfit
- John Wood
- Diana Wynyard
Born in the 1910s
- Harry Andrews
- Bernard Archard
- Peter Arne
- Renee Asherson
- Alfie Bass
- Martin Benson
- Pamela Brown
- Brenda Bruce
- Hugh Burden
- Alfred Burke
- Edward Burnham
- Peter Butterworth
- Sebastian Cabot
- Phyllis Calvert
- Earl Cameron
- Eric Christmas
- Diana Churchill
- Alec Clunes
- Bryan Coleman
- Noel Coleman
- Peter Copley
- Peter Cushing
- Anthony Dawson
- Roger Delgado
- Michael Denison
- Robert Dorning
- Hamilton Dyce
- Arthur English
- Peter Finch
- Robert Flemyng
- Joan Fontaine
- Gretchen Franklin
- Michael Goodliffe
- Harold Goodwin
- Marius Goring
- Michael Gough
- Dulcie Gray
- John Gregson
- Joyce Grenfell
- Lucy Griffiths
- Alec Guinness
- Jimmy Hanley
- Olivia de Havilland
- Jack Hawkins
- Charles Hawtrey
- Pauline Henriques
- Wendy Hiller
- Thora Hird
- Michael Hordern
- Trevor Howard
- Richard Hurndall
- Sid James
- Edward Jewesbury
- Margo Johns
- Emrys Jones
- Geoffrey Keen
- Rachel Kempson
- Sam Kydd
- Vivien Leigh
- John Le Mesurier
- Desmond Llewelyn
- Margaret Lockwood
- Arthur Lowe
- Marne Maitland
- Frank Middlemass
- Kenneth More
- Peggy Mount
- Lionel Murton
- David Niven
- Merle Oberon
- Nigel Patrick
- Laurence Payne
- Lennard Pearce
- Jon Pertwee
- Donald Pleasence
- Dennis Price
- Anthony Quayle
- Luise Rainer
- Joyce Redman
- Beryl Reid
- Michael Ripper
- Paul Rogers
- Fanny Rowe
- Joan Sanderson
- Frank Singuineau
- June Spencer
- Nigel Stock
- Sydney Tafler
- Richard Todd
- Terry-Thomas
- David Tomlinson
- Geoffrey Toone
- Reg Varney
- Kay Walsh
- Thorley Walters
- Jack Watson
- Richard Wattis
- Anna Wing
- Norman Wisdom
- Googie Withers
- John Witty
Born in the 1920s
A–M
- Joss Ackland
- Michael Aldridge
- Jean Alexander
- Terence Alexander
- Patrick Allen
- Nicholas Amer
- Robert Arden
- Richard Attenborough
- Alan Badel
- Jill Balcon
- Ian Bannen
- Ronnie Barker
- Peter Barkworth
- Thelma Barlow
- John Barron
- Geoffrey Bayldon
- James Beck
- Tony Beckley
- Jill Bennett
- John Bennett
- Thane Bettany
- Honor Blackman
- Dirk Bogarde
- Peter Brace
- Tony Britton
- Lyndon Brook
- Faith Brook
- June Brown
- Robert Brown
- Dora Bryan
- Peter Burton
- Richard Burton
- Sheila Burrell
- Kathleen Byron
- John Carlin
- Ian Carmichael
- Peter Cellier
- Geoffrey Chater
- Tom Chatto
- George Cole
- Bonar Colleano
- Nicholas Courtney
- Michael Craig
- Bernard Cribbins
- Graham Crowden
- Peggy Cummins
- Paul Daneman
- Paul Danquah
- Nigel Davenport
- Jeffery Dench
- Edna Doré
- Roy Dotrice
- Jack Douglas
- Carl Duering
- Clive Dunn
- Paul Eddington
- Mark Eden
- Denholm Elliott
- Andrew Faulds
- Fenella Fielding
- Frank Finlay
- Gerald Flood
- Bryan Forbes
- Barry Foster
- Bernard Fox
- William Franklyn
- David Graham
- Charles Gray
- Elspet Gray
- Nigel Green
- Joan Greenwood
- James Grout
- Robert Hardy
- Gerald Harper
- Rosemary Harris
- Nigel Hawthorne
- Damaris Hayman
- Jack Hedley
- Audrey Hepburn
- Bernard Hepton
- Barbara Hicks
- Jacqueline Hill
- John Horsley
- Donald Houston
- Glyn Houston
- Peter Hughes
- Russell Hunter
- Gordon Jackson
- Hattie Jacques
- Saeed Jaffrey
- Emrys James
- Colin Jeavons
- Peter Jeffrey
- Lionel Jeffries
- Errol John
- Margaret John
- Glynis Johns
- Freddie Jones
- Peter Jones
- Patrick Jordan
- Yootha Joyce
- Miriam Karlin
- Maurice Kaufmann
- Bernard Kay
- Andrew Keir
- Deborah Kerr
- Patricia Kirkwood
- Danny La Rue
- Cleo Laine
- Harry Landis
- Angela Lansbury
- Philip Latham
- Peter Lawford
- Christopher Lee
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt
- Margaret Leighton
- Barry Letts
- Stephen Lewis
- David Lodge
- Barbara Lott
- Fulton Mackay
- Patrick Macnee
- Victor Maddern
- Carol Marsh
- Reginald Marsh
- Francis Matthews
- James Maxwell
- Bill Maynard
- Alec McCowen
- Buster Merryfield
- Peter Miles
- Warren Mitchell
- Ron Moody
- Roger Moore
- Aubrey Morris
- Barbara Murray