Actresses

Holly Willoughby was born on 10 February 1981 in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Keith Lemon: The Film (2012), Marple (2004) and Lemon La Vida Loca (2012). She has been married to Dan Baldwin since 4 August 2007. They have three children.

British actress Imogen Poots was born in Hammersmith, London, England, the daughter of English-born Fiona (Goodall), a journalist, and Trevor Poots, a Northern Ireland-born television producer. She was educated at Bute House Preparatory School for Girls, Queen's Gate School for Girls and Latymer Upper School, all in London. When she was a teenager she began attending the Youngblood Theatre Company, and developed a love of acting.

Poots' initial screen debut was a (2004) role in British medical drama Casualty (1986). She made her big screen debut as Young Valerie in V for Vendetta (2005), then went on to appear in various projects, including 28 Weeks Later (2007), Me and Orson Welles (2008), Centurion (2010), Bouquet of Barbed Wire (2010), Fright Night (2011), A Late Quartet (2012), Greetings from Tim Buckley (2012), and The Look of Love (2013).

Imogen Thomas was born on 27 November 1982 in Llanelli, Wales, UK. She is an actress, known for Loserville (2012), Big Brother Uncut (2003) and Hot Property (2019).

Isla Lang Fisher was born on February 3, 1976 in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher, who worked as a banker for the U.N. She spent her early childhood in Bathgate, Scotland, before moving to Perth, Australia with her family in the early 1980s. From a young age, Isla showed an interest in both acting and writing. At nine years old, she was appearing in Australian TV commercials. She landed some small parts in the Australian television series Bay City (1993). This led to a bigger part in the television series Paradise Beach (1993). When that show ended, she landed a role in the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988). While working on that show, she indulged in another of her passions, writing, and published two best-selling novels, "Seduced By Fame" and "Bewitched". In 1997, she was picked by the readers of FHM magazine as #35 on the list of the "100 Sexiest Women in the World", and in 2003, she placed 26th.

Isla has since appeared in the films Wedding Crashers (2005), The Lookout (2007), Hot Rod (2007) and Definitely, Maybe (2008), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), and Now You See Me (2013).

Joanne Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley ("Harry Potter"'s Muggle-family). Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce in Bristol at this time. Her mother, Anne, was half-French and half-Scottish. They met on a train as it left King's Cross Station in London. Her sister Diana is about 2 years younger than Joanne. In 1971, Peter Rowling moved his family to the nearby village of Winterbourne (still in the Bristol vicinity). During the family's residence in Winterbourne, Jo and Di Rowling were friends with neighborhood children, Ian and Vikki Potter. In 1974, the Rowling family moved yet again, this time to Tutshill, near the Welsh border-town of Chepstow in the Forest of Dean and across the Severn River from the greater Bristol area. Rowling admits to having been a bit of a daydreamer as a child and began writing stories at the age of six. After leaving Exeter University, where she read French and Classics, she started work as a teacher but daydreamed about becoming a writer. One day, stuck on a delayed train for four hours between Manchester and London, she dreamed up a boy called "Harry Potter". That was in 1990. It took her six years to write the book. In the meantime, she went to teach in Portugal, married a Portuguese television journalist, had her daughter, Jessica, divorced her husband and returned to Britain when Jessica was just three months old. She went to live in Edinburgh to be near her sister, Di. Her sudden penury made her realize that it was "back-against-the-wall time" and she decided to finish her "Harry Potter" book. She sent the manuscript to two agents and one publisher, looking up likely prospects in the library. One of these agents that she picked at random based on the fact that she liked his name, Christopher Little, was immediately captivated by the manuscript and signed her on as his client within three days. During the 1995-1996 time-frame, while hoping to get the manuscript for "Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone" published, Rowling worked as a French teacher in Edinburgh. Several publishers turned down the manuscript before Bloomsbury agreed to purchase it in 1996.

Jade Ewen was born on 24 January 1988 in Plaistow, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for End of a Gun (2016), Myths (2009) and Out There (2003).

Jacqueline Jossa was born on 29 October 1992 in Bexley, Kent, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for EastEnders (1985), Jacqueline's World (2018) and Celebrities Assemble (2019). She has been married to Dan Osborne since 24 June 2017. They have two children.

Helen Louise Milligan was born in October 1980 in Stockport, Cheshire, England, UK.

Hetti Bywater is an English actress from Eastbourne. She is known for her minor roles in Doctors and Casualty and in November 2011, she was cast as Lucy Beale in the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Bywater has had roles in Doctors, Casualty, the 2011 film St George's Day and the lead part in the 2011 film Counting Backwords.

Hetti was a student at The Theatre Workshop in Sussex and is represented by Mark Jermin Management.

Jacquie Beltrao was born on 21 April 1965 in Dublin, Ireland.

Holly Hagan is known for Zoo Magazine UK (2005), Geordie OGs (2019) and Geordie Shore (2011).

Isy Suttie was born on 11 August 1978 in Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Peep Show (2003), Wonka (2023) and Whites (2010).

Jade Amelia Thirlwall was born on December 26, 1992 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England. She is a member of the British girl group Little Mix, along with Perrie Edwards and Leigh-Anne Pinnock. The band won The X Factor 2011, but she had actually auditioned for the show in both 2008 and 2010. She was sent home both times due to lack of confidence.

Jade Jones was born on 21 March 1993 in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales, UK.

Helen Pearson has a 40-year career in television and movies, and made her television debut in 'The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole' in 1987. Most recently Helen was in the Hallmark movie, "Rome in Love" which shot in Italy. Helen became a house-hold name by playing Frankie Osborne in Channel 4's "Hollyoaks" for 15 years as a series regular. Helen was also a series regular in BBC's "EastEnders" and ITV's "Emmerdale". She has worked in theater in a touring production of 'Educating Rita' - as Rita - and will be performing in "The Astonishing Times of Timothy Cratchit" at the Hope Mill Theatre November & December 2019.

Holly Quin-Ankrah was born in 1987 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Coronation Street (1960), Rock Rivals (2008) and Doctor Who: Redacted (2022).

Holliday Clark Grainger also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in Strike, DI Rachel Carey in the BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.

Isa Guha was born on 21 May 1985 in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She is married to Richard Thomas.

Isobel Lang was born on 16 July 1970 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK.

Hollie-Jay Bowes was born in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, UK. Hollie-Jay is an actor and writer, known for Waterloo Road (2006), No Offence (2015) and The Rising (2022).

Jacqueline Gold was born on 16 July 1960 in Beckenham, Bromley, Greater London, England, UK. She was married to Dan Cunningham. She died on 16 March 2023 in Surrey, England, UK.

Jackie Kabler was born in 1970 in London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wycliffe (1993), Setanta Sports News (2007) and Midlands Today (1964).

Jaala was born in a small town in Cornwall, England to creative parents. Her father being a successful musician, she always had a love for the arts. She became a dancer at a young age and performed with several companies, but gave this up to go to film school at the age of 19.

After graduating Jaala was offered a modeling contract in Sydney, Australia where she lived for a year before returning to London and becoming a TV Host for Fashion TV. Jaala then decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue acting where her talent was quickly noticed when she booked a lead role in the Warner Bros movie, 'Dam 999' just a few weeks after arriving.

Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress Award for her performance in the National Theatre's "Blood Wedding" and the Ian Charleson award for classical acting for playing "Rose Trelawney" in "Trelawney of the Wells." Helen's theatre work continued to win her critical praise and a large fan base through such work as the Royal Shakespeare Company's "Les Enfant du Paradis" opposite Joseph Fiennes, Rupert Graves and James Purefoy. At the Almeida Theatre, her productions included "The Triumph of Love" opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and the radical verse production, "Five Gold Rings," opposite Damian Lewis.

Helen also worked extensively at the Donmar Warehouse playing lead roles in "How I Learnt to Drive," "Old Times" directed by Roger Michel, and in Sam Mendes' farewell double bill of "Twelfth Night" and "Uncle Vanya" (a triumph in both London and New York). For her performance in "Twelfth Night," Helen was nominated for the Evening Standard Best Actress Award, and the New York Drama Desk Awards. She also founded the production company "The Public" with Michael Sheen, producing new work at the Liverpool Everyman, The Ambassadors and the Donmar (in which she also starred).

With over twenty productions under her belt, Mike Coveney recently wrote "We celebrate the careers of great actors Olivier, Ashcroft, Richardson, Gielgud, Dench, the Redgraves, Gambon, Walter, Sher, Russell Beale and McCrory."

On the small screen, Helen's first television film, Karl Francis' Streetlife (1995) with Rhys Ifans, won her the Welsh BAFTA, Monte Carlo Best Actress Award and the Royal Television Society's Best Actress Award, for her extraordinary performance as "Jo." The Edinburgh Film Festival wrote "simply the best performance this year." She went on to win Critics Circle Best Actress Award for her role as the barrister "Rose Fitzgerald" in the Channel 4 series North Square (2000), having been previously nominated for her performance in The Fragile Heart (1996). Helen showed diversity as an actress, appearing in comedies such as Lucky Jim (2003) with Stephen Tompkinson or Dead Gorgeous (2002) with Fay Ripley, as well as dramas such as Joe Wright's The Last King (2003) (for which she was nominated for the LA Television Awards) and Anna Karenina (2000).

Helen McCrory died on 16 April, 2021, in London, of cancer. She was 52, and was survived by her husband Damian Lewis and their two children.

Holly Walsh is known for Motherland (2016), The Other One (2017) and Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024).