Birth Place Matching "Coventry, England, UK" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Clive Owen
Actor | Children of Men
British actor Clive Owen is one of a handful of stars who, though he is best known for his art house films, can handle more mainstream films with equal measures of grace and skill. Owen is typically cast as characters whose primary traits are a balance of physical strength, intellect, conflicting ...
2. Jennie Jacques
Actress | Shank
Jennie Jacques is an English actress. Her first major role was as Annie Miller in Desperate Romantics (2009), a six-part BBC Two television drama serial about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood that was broadcast in July and August 2009. From 2013-2014 she played the lead role of WPC Gina Dawson on the...
3. Jordan Bolger
Actor | Tom and Jerry
Jordan Bolger was born on November 9, 1994 in Radford, Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and director, known for Tom & Jerry (2021), The Woman King (2022) and iBoy (2017).
4. Nigel Hawthorne
Actor | The Madness of King George
Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native UK and internationally, the unparalleled Nigel Hawthorne was born in Coventry, England on 5 April 1929, raised in South Africa and returned to the UK in the 1950s with his extensive work as a great gentleman of acting...
5. Alice Lowe
Actress | Sightseers
Alice Eva Lowe is an English actress and writer, mainly in comedy. She is best known for her roles as Madeline Wool/Liz Asher in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and as Tina in the 2012 film Sightseers, which she also co-wrote.
Lowe was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England. She attended Kenilworth ...
6. Jefferson Hall
Actor | Tenet
Jefferson Hall was born in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is known for Tenet (2020), Halloween (2018) and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015).
7. Billie Whitelaw
Actress | The Omen
Billie Whitelaw first appeared on the radio aged 11. She made her theatrical debut in 1950 and in films from 1953. She has made a speciality of playing intense, single-purposed women. Also, (on stage), she has appeared in many of the stranger plays by Samuel Beckett.
8. Sinead Matthews
Actress | Pride & Prejudice
Sinead Matthews was born in 1980 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), The Boat That Rocked (2009) and Vera Drake (2004).
9. Ellise Chappell
Actress | Yesterday
Ellise Chappell was born on March 21, 1992 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Yesterday (2019), Poldark (2015) and Young Wallander (2020).
10. Lisa Dillon
Actress | Suffragette
Lisa Dillon was born in 1979 in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Suffragette (2015), Hawking (2004) and Bright Young Things (2003).
11. Lee Child
Writer | Jack Reacher
Lee Child was born in the exact geographic centre of England, in the heart of the industrial badlands. Never saw a tree until he was 12. It was the sort of place where if you fell in the river, you had to go to the hospital for a mandatory stomach pump. The sort of place where minor disputes were ...
12. Rowena Wallace
Actress | You Can't See 'round Corners
Rowena Wallace was born on August 23, 1947 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for You Can't See 'round Corners (1969), The Rovers (1969) and Division 4 (1969).
13. Manjinder Virk
Actress | The Arbor
Manjinder was born in Coventry, to a car factory worker and his wife who had come to England from the Punjab. Manjinder describes her parents as " very liberal" - her father was involved in the Indian Workers Association - bringing herself and her sister up "like boys " - she has a brother - as ...
14. Charles Kay
Actor | Amadeus
Charles Kay was born on August 31, 1930 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Amadeus (1984), Henry V (1989) and Fall of Eagles (1974).
15. Emma Fryer
Actress | Kill List
Emma Fryer was born in Coventry, England, UK. She is known for Kill List (2011), In the Dark (2017) and Home Time (2009).
16. Gillian Barber
Actress | The Romeo Section
Gillian Barber was born on February 22, 1958 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress, known for The Romeo Section (2015), Chesapeake Shores (2016) and The Man in the High Castle (2015).
17. Clint Mansell
Composer | Black Swan
Clinton Darryl Mansell is an English singer, musician and film composer known for his collaborations with Darren Aronofsky. He composed Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain, Black Swan, The Wrestler, Noah, Ghost in the Shell, Peacemaker, Doom Patrol, Loving Vincent, Mass Effect 3, Titans, World ...
18. Chris Jury
Actor | Lovejoy
Chris Jury is an award-winning actor and director. Born in Coventry in the English Midlands, Chris studied Drama/English at Hull University and began working as an actor in the theatre with such names as Mike Bradwell, Danny Boyle and Anthony Minghella; And with companies as diverse as Hull Truck, ...
19. Dominic Jephcott
Actor | Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story
Dominic Jephcott was born on July 28, 1957 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (1987), Paradise Postponed (1986) and Emmerdale Farm (1972).
20. Jassa Ahluwalia
Actor | Peaky Blinders
Jassa Ahluwalia was born on September 12, 1990 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Peaky Blinders (2013), Some Girls (2012) and Unforgotten (2015).
21. Jennifer Veal
Actress | Guild Wars 2
Jennifer Veal attended prestigious London performing arts schools Italia Conti at the age of 9 and Sylvia Young Theatre School 12-17 alongside stars such as Amy Winehouse, The Spice Girls and more. The stage then certainly took a shine to Jennifer leading to her West End debut in "Chitty Chitty ...
22. Martin Marquez
Actor | Les Misérables
Martin John Marquez was born on October 8th 1963 in Coventry to Anglo-Spanish parents, his English mother having met her husband whilst on holiday in Spain. Younger brother John Marquez is also an actor, the pair performing as comedy duo the Brothers Marquez as well as appearing together in 'East ...
23. Harold Innocent
Actor | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Harold Innocent was born on April 18, 1933 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), Brazil (1985) and Henry V (1989). He died on September 12, 1993 in London, England, UK.
24. Graeme Hawley
Actor | Kappatoo
Graeme Hawley was born in 1973 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Kappatoo (1990), Coronation Street (1960) and The Forsyte Saga (2002). He has been married to Elianne Byrne since 2008. They have two children.
25. Hazel O'Connor
Actress | Breaking Glass
Talented musician and actress, Hazel O'Connor's career has been a rollercoaster one. Her breakthrough came in the film Breaking Glass (1980), in which she played a singer struggling to cope within the music industry. Sadly, this was to be the case in her music career as she battled over copyrights ...
26. Ian Marter
Actor | Doctor Faustus
Ian Marter left university in 1969 and joined the Bristol Old Vic as an acting stage manager. In 1970, producer Barry Letts considered him for the role of Captain Mike Yates in Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons: Episode One (1971), but it ultimately went to Richard Franklin. However, Letts ...
27. Brendan Price
Actor | The Chinese Puzzle
Brendan Price was born on June 24, 1947 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The Chinese Puzzle (1974), Doctor Who (1963) and Target (1977).
28. Robin Parkinson
Actor | The Good Companions
Robin Parkinson was born on October 25, 1929 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Good Companions (1980), Moody and Pegg (1974) and Thursday Theatre (1964). He was previously married to Patricia A Rogers. He died on May 7, 2022 in the UK.
29. Louis Hilyer
Actor | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Louis Hilyer was born in 1964 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Modigliani (2004) and Downton Abbey (2010). He is married to Matilda Ziegler.
30. Doug Berry
Doug Berry (aka Andrew G. Ogleby) is an English actor and writer, born in the late 1960's to parents Donald and Valerie Ogleby. His home town, the then Motor City of Coventry was something of a boomtown at the time (following the devastation it had experienced during the heavy bombing raids of WWII...
31. Declan Bennett
Actor | Inside Llewyn Davis
Declan Bennett was born on March 20, 1981 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), EastEnders (1985) and Top of the Pops (1964).
32. Dennis King
Actor | Between Two Worlds
Legendary Broadway star of both dramas and musicals, he created the role of Francois Villon in Rudolf Friml's "The Vagabond King" in 1925, in which he also made his sound film debut opposite Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth, and Warner Oland five years later. Primarily a stage actor, he only made a...
33. Sheila Sweet
Actress | The Grove Family
Sheila Sweet was born on December 14, 1927 in Coventry, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Grove Family (1954), It's a Great Day! (1955) and The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp (1954). She was previously married to Richard Johnson and William Sylvester. She died on November 16, 2003 in Brent,...
34. Jo Neary
Actress | Suffragette
Jo Neary was born in 1972 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Suffragette (2015), Darkest Hour (2017) and Ideal (2005).
35. Barry John
Actor | Gandhi
Barry John was born in 1946 in Coventry, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Gandhi (1982), In Othello (2003) and Monsoon Wedding (2001).
36. Brian Hawksley
Actor | The Witches
Brian Hawksley was born on April 8, 1920 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Witches (1990), A Bridge Too Far (1977) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on September 28, 2001 in Haverfordwest, Pembrokshire, Wales, UK.
37. Sandra Maitland
Actress | Angie
Sandra Maitland was born in 1956 in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Angie (2012), Doctors (2000) and Misfits (2009).
38. Peter Evans
Actor | The Big Spender
Peter Evans was born on June 29, 1910 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Big Spender (1965), K.I.L. 1 (1962) and Seven Deadly Sins (1966). He was previously married to Ann Martin. He died on May 11, 1973 in Bromley, London, England, UK.
39. Caroline Embling
Actress | Tess
Caroline Embling was born in 1959 in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Tess (1979), Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978) and Kids (1979).
40. Terry Hall
Soundtrack | Showgirls
British singer-songwriter. Hall founded ska-punk group The Specials in 1978; they scored two UK number 1 hits with 'The Special A.K.A. Live EP' and 'Ghost Town' and were pioneering (in British music) for featuring both black and white musicians. Hall left in 1981 to form Fun Boy Three and then ...
41. Ellen Terry
Actress | Pillars of Society
Legendary British stage actress who made a few silent film appearances. The daughter of strolling players, she was born in Coventry into an almost exclusively theatrical family. Her grandparents were actors, as were all six of her siblings. But only her son, Edward Gordon Craig, would in any way ...
42. Pete Waterman
Soundtrack | Coming to America
Pete Waterman was born in England and became one of Europe's biggest pop music producers when he teamed up with Mike Stock and Matt Aitken.
Together, Stock Aitken Waterman produced songs for the biggest pop artists, including Samantha Fox, Rick Astley, Mel & Kim, Sinitta, Mandy Smith, Bananarama, ...
43. Alan Haywood
Actor | Smuggler's Bay
Alan Haywood was born on November 30, 1929 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Smuggler's Bay (1964), Richard the Lionheart (1962) and Doctor Who (1963). He died on March 6, 1995 in London, England, UK.
44. Alexandra Sim-Wise
Self | Playboy Cyber Girls
Luscious, buxom, and shapely redhead stunner Alexandra Sim-Wise was born on November 11, 1981 in Coventry, England. Alexandra's modeling career began when she was named the FHM Student of the Year in 2004. Sim-Wise attended the University of East Anglia and was the Captain of her University ...
45. Delia Derbyshire
Composer | The Legend of Hell House
Delia Derbyshire was born on May 5, 1937 in Coventry, West Midlands, England, UK. She was a composer, known for The Legend of Hell House (1973), The Sweeney (1974) and Doctor Who (2005). She died on July 3, 2001 in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK.
46. Denis Holmes
Actor | Sabrina
Denis Holmes was born on June 7, 1921 in Foleshill, Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Sabrina (1995), The Dark Island (1962) and The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (1965). He died on May 27, 2013 in the USA.
47. Sydney Isitt-Ager
Actress | Nativity!
Sydney Isitt-Ager was born on March 19, 1999 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Nativity! (2009), Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022) and Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! (2014).
48. Reg Dixon
Actor | No Smoking
A popular radio comedian in the 1940s and 50s in Britain, Reg Dixon's signature tune was 'Confidentially' which he wrote himself. A burly figure he wore a trilby hat his catchphrase was 'I'm not well, I'm proper poorly.'
In the 1950s he took over from the film comedian George Formby in the stage ...
49. Billie Myers
Soundtrack | Down to You
Billie Myers was born on June 14, 1971 in Coventry, England, UK. She is an actress and composer, known for Down to You (2000), So This Is Romance? (1997) and Billie Myers: Kiss the Rain (US Version) (1997).
50. Barrington Patterson
Actor | The Red Mosquito
Barrington Patterson was born on August 25, 1965 in Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Red Mosquito (2019), Hoodies vs. Hooligans (2014) and The Marker (2017). He died on March 22, 2022 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, UK.