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Ralph Ineson was born on 15 December 1969 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for The Witch (2015), The Green Knight (2021) and The Creator (2023).

John Simm was born on 10 July 1970 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and grew up in Nelson, Lancashire. He attended Edge End High School, Nelson, Lancashire, followed by Blackpool Drama College at 16 and the Drama Centre, London, at 19. He lives with his wife, actress Kate Magowan, and their children Ryan (born 13 August 2001) and Molly (born February 2007). Simm won the best actor award at the Valencia Film Festival for his film debut in Boston Kickout (1995).

A leading man of prodigious talents, Peter O'Toole was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, the son of Constance Jane Eliot (Ferguson), a Scottish nurse, and Patrick Joseph O'Toole, an Irish metal plater, football player and racecourse bookmaker. Upon leaving school, he decided to become a journalist, beginning as a newspaper copy boy. Although he succeeded in becoming a reporter, he discovered the theater and made his stage debut at age 17. He served as a radioman in the Royal Navy for two years, then attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where his classmates included Albert Finney, Alan Bates and Richard Harris.

O'Toole spent several years on-stage at the Bristol Old Vic, then made an inconspicuous film debut in the Disney classic Kidnapped (1960). In 1962, he was chosen by David Lean to play T.E. Lawrence in Lean's epic drama Lawrence of Arabia (1962). The role made O'Toole an international superstar and received him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. In 1963, he played Hamlet under Laurence Olivier's direction in the premiere production of the Royal National Theater. He continued successfully in artistically rich films as well as less artistic but commercially rewarding projects. He received Academy Award nominations (but no Oscar) for seven different films.

However, medical problems (originally thought to have been brought on by his drinking but which turned out to be stomach cancer) threatened to destroy his career and life in the 1970s. He survived by giving up alcohol and, after serious medical treatment, returned to films with triumphant performances in The Stunt Man (1980) and My Favorite Year (1982). His youthful beauty lost to time and drink, O'Toole has found meaningful roles increasingly difficult to come by, though he remained one of the greatest actors of his generation. He had two daughters, Pat and Kate O'Toole, from his marriage to actress Siân Phillips. He also had a son, Lorcan O'Toole, by model Karen Brown.

On December 14, 2013, Peter O'Toole died at age 81 in London, England.

Popular British character actor Tom Wilkinson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and came from a long line of urban farmers. He was the son of Marjorie (Percival) and Thomas Wilkinson. Economic hardships forced his family to move to Canada for a few years when Wilkinson was a child; then, after he had returned to England, he attended and graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in English and American Literature.

Wilkinson first became active in film and television in the mid-1970s, but did not become familiar to an international audience until 1997. That was when he starred as one of six unemployed workers who strip for cash in Best Picture nominee The Full Monty (1997), and went on to win a BAFTA for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. That same year, he was featured in Oscar and Lucinda (1997) and Wilde (1997). Wilkinson was also shown to memorable effect as a theatre financier with acting aspirations in Best Picture winner Shakespeare in Love (1998).

Over the next few years, Wilkinson would become more popular, especially with American audiences, with such roles as General Cornwallis alongside Mel Gibson in the blockbuster The Patriot (2000) and as the grief-stricken father, Matt Fowler, in the critically acclaimed Best Picture nominee In the Bedroom (2001). For his role in that movie, he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Since then, Wilkinson has made memorable appearances in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Batman Begins (2005), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), Valkyrie (2008), Duplicity (2009), The Ghost Writer (2010), The Debt (2010) and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011), among others. Wilkinson also received his second Academy Award nomination for his acclaimed role in Michael Clayton (2007).

Wilkinson won an Emmy Award for his work as Benjamin Franklin in HBO's John Adams (2008) mini-series. The same year, he received an Emmy nomination for his role in HBO movie Recount (2008), and has also received Emmy nominations for Normal (2003) and The Kennedys (2011).

Wilkinson had two children, Alice and Molly, with his wife Diana Hardcastle.

Gemma Elizabeth Whelan (born April 23, 1981) is an English actress and comedian, best known for playing Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones.

Whelan attended The King's High School for Girls in Warwick. In addition to being an actor and comedian, Whelan is also a professional dancer specializing in the tap and jazz dance styles. She is a member of the dance troupe the Beaux Belles, based in London. She is also trained in musical theatre and has a mezzo-soprano singing voice. Whelan can speak conversational Spanish. She lives in London. In July 2017, she was expecting her first child with husband Gerry. She gave birth to their daughter a few months later.

Whelan is vegetarian but had eaten meat on the sets of Game of Thrones.

As a comedian, Whelan won the Funny Women Variety Award for stand-up comedy in 2010. She often performs stand-up in character as Chastity Butterworth and in 2014 she recorded a pilot chat show for BBC Radio 4 called The Chastity Butterworth Show.

On screen, she has played supporting roles in several films and TV shows, including in the 2010 films Gulliver's Travels and The Wolfman. She has had roles in comedies including Upstart Crow, Uncle and The Agency.

In August 2011, she was cast as Yara Greyjoy in the HBO fantasy-drama television series Game of Thrones, and appeared as a recurring cast member from the second season onward.

Tall, gaunt, and particularly effective in horror and drama films, British actor Julian Sands was born in Otley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to Brenda and William Sands. He came to the attention of NBC when the network cast him in the TV miniseries The Sun Also Rises (1984) and then with Anthony Hopkins in the television film A Married Man (1983). Sands also got noticed for his very small roles in Privates on Parade (1983) and The Killing Fields (1984). It wasn't until his funny and romantic role opposite Helena Bonham Carter in A Room with a View (1985) and then his unusual role in Gothic (1986) that he garnered audience acclaim.

He continued work on screen in Vibes (1988), Impromptu (1991) and Steven Spielberg's Arachnophobia (1990), until his most remembered role as Warlock (1989), directed by Steve Miner. The film was a major success and he returned for the sequel, Warlock: The Armageddon (1993). Other credits include Naked Lunch (1991), Tale of a Vampire (1992) and the title role in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera (1998). Sands has more recently been in Stephen King's Rose Red (2002) and was occasionally seen on the English stage.

Sands disappeared on January 13, 2023 after going for a hike near the Mount Baldy area of California's San Bernardino Mountains. Local authorities and search and rescue teams conducted over six weeks of multiple ground and aerial searches, which were unsuccessful. On June 24, 2023, hikers near Mount Baldy discovered human remains. On June 27, 2023, local authorities confirmed the remains to be those of Sands. He was 65 years old.

Nick was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England on the 4th of October 1980. On leaving school he was offered a place at Cambridge University, but instead chose to study geophysics at the University of Durham, graduating with a first. Whilst at Durham he became involved in the local comedy circuits but on leaving did accept an offer from Cambridge to read for a doctorate in seismology. However he never completed his course because after joining the Footlights Revue and appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe he was spotted by a BBC producer who offered him radio work. He has since appeared in numerous sitcoms - Miranda (2009), Life's Too Short (2011) and most notably as the annoying promotions manager in Jessica Knappett's Drifters (2013). In 2014 his persona of Mr. Swallow attracted huge critical claim in a comic reworking of Dracula on stage and two years later he was similarly lauded as this time Mr. Swallow took on the role of Harry Houdini, appearing nightly in a glass tank like Houdini himself. The show transferred from Edinburgh and opened in London's Soho Theatre in 2017.

James Frain is one of Hollywood's most versatile and respected actors who has a reputation for bold, intelligent performances in a diverse body of work in which he's collaborated with some of the finest actors and directors working today.

James is well known for his portrayal of real life current and historical figures. On television/streaming these have included; Lord Warwick 'The Kingmaker' (in "The White Queen", Starz), the godfather of the English Reformation Thomas Cromwell (in "The Tudors", Showtime), LBJ speechwriter Richard Goodwin (in "Path to War", HBO Max) and Olympic rowing trainer Jack Beresford opposite Matt Smith (in "Bert and Dickie", BBC). In features James played world famous conductor, and classical pianist Daniel Barenboim in the Oscar nominated "Hilary and Jackie" (October Films) and the Spanish Ambassador in the Oscar nominated "Elizabeth" opposite Cate Blanchett (Working Title).

James also has considerable experience in genre in the cable and streaming space: as a DC villain in "Gotham" (Fox, HBO Max), a vampire in "True Blood" (HBO Max) and as Spock's father Sarek, as a younger man, in "Star Trek Discovery" (Paramount +).

His past film credits include "TRON: Legacy" opposite Jeff Bridges, "Water for Elephants" opposite Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, "The Count of Monte Cristo" with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pearce, "Where the Heart Is" opposite Natalie Portman, and "Reindeer Games" with Ben Affleck and Charlize Theron.

James has an extensive theatre background having performed in the UK with The Royal Shakespeare Company, as Edmund in "King Lear" The Almeida, and The Royal Court. James co-starred with Ian McShane on Broadway in the critical hit production of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming", 2007, for which the cast won The Drama Critics Circle Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 James played Lionel Logue in The Chicago Shakespeare Theater's world premiere of "The Kings Speech".

James has a BA in English Drama and Film from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England) and a diploma in acting from London's Central School of Speech and Drama. While studying in London, James was spotted by Sir. Richard Attenborough, who immediately cast him in his first feature Shadowlands opposite Sir Anthony Hopkins, with whom he worked again on Julie Taymor's "Titus Andronicus".

James was born in Leeds, in the north of England, to an Irish Catholic family. He has seven younger brothers and sisters. The family moved South when he was young and James grew up in Stansted and Bishops Stortford on the Hertfordshire/Essex border. He went to a state secondary school at the Joyce Frankland Academy, in Newport. James was married to director Marta Cunningham. He has two teenage children and splits his time between Los Angeles and London.

Charlie Ross Heaton is an English actor and musician. He is known for starring as Jonathan Byers in the Netflix science fiction horror series, Stranger Things (2016). Beginning his career as a musician, Heaton appeared on British television before starring in Stranger Things and feature films like the 2016 indie thriller Shut In; he has since starred in the thriller films: Marrowbone (2017) & The New Mutants (2020), among others.

Matthew Lewis was born on 27 June 1989 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Me Before You (2016) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). He has been married to Angela Jones since 28 May 2018.

Mark Stanley was born on 29 April 1988 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Run (2019), Sulphur and White (2020) and Dark River (2017).

Steven Waddington was born on 28 November 1968 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Slow Horses (2022), Uncharted (2022) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992).

Felicity Montagu was born on 12 September 1960 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), Nighty Night (2004) and Alan Partridge (2013). She was previously married to Alan Nixon.

Julian Barratt was born on 4 May 1968 in Leeds, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for The Mighty Boosh (2003), Mindhorn (2016) and Nathan Barley (2005).

British actor Bob Peck was born in Leeds in north England on August 23, 1945. He attended Leeds Modern School and then graduated from Leeds College of Art before starting professional stage acting. Peck acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He also starred in more than 20 television dramas. In Britain, he was best known for his role in the 1985 television series, Edge of Darkness (1985). Internationally, he made his mark as "Robert Muldoon", a game warden in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993). Peck was known as a highly adaptable actor and garnered wide respect from his colleagues. Actor Sir Ian McKellen has credited Peck as being the actor from whom he has learned the most. Peck died in London of cancer at age 53. He had fought the disease for several years. He was survived by his wife, Jill Baker, two daughters and a son.

Fox is the daughter of the actor James Fox and 'Mary Elizabeth Piper', and the sister of Laurence Fox and also has three additional brothers. A large portion of her family is involved in acting, including her father, three of her four brothers, her uncles, her husband, and her sister-in-law. On 8 September 2007 she married the actor, comedian, writer, and director Richard Ayoade. She is also the sister-in-law of the actress Billie Piper.

Austin Haynes is a British actor who started acting at the age of seven.

Since landing his first cast TV role, in popular BBC1 drama The A Word, Austin has worked consistently in film and television.

Austin is a keen guitarist and featured in the infamous Co-Op's Christmas Commercial 'Round Are Way', busking with his younger brother, Rocco. The Commercial went on to win several awards including 'Best Casting Featuring Children' at the Casting Directors Association Awards in 2021 at BAFTA.

He has filmed an array of different TV roles in many well known productions such as 'Gentleman Jack', 'The A Word', 'Dodger', 'Andy and the Band', 'Teds Top Ten', 'All Creatures Great and Small' and Channel 4's 'Somewhere Boy', BAFTA nominated for best drama.

His films include comedy heist 'The Duke', where he starred alongside Jim Broadbent and Dame Helen Mirren, crime film 'The Pure and the Damned', 'Iniquity' and 'The Boys in the Boat' for MGM, where he was directed by George Clooney, due for worldwide release in December 2023.

Austin's first pivotal leading role was released in the summer of 2022, for StudioCanals 'The Railway Children Return' where he filmed alongside Jenny Agutter, Sheridan Smith and Sir Tom Courtenay. Austin plays Thomas, the grandson of Jenny Agutter's character, in the family adventure about a group of children evacuated to the Yorkshire countryside in the Second World War.

A natural flair for accents from a young age, Austin has been cast in many roles using an alternative to his natural Yorkshire accent, including American, London, Newcastle and Liverpool.

In November 2022, he was awarded 'Yorkshires Young Achiever of the Year' for 'Contribution to the Arts'.

Austin went on to complete filming on Jamie Child's feature film 'Jackdaw' for Anton Productions, working alongside Thomas Turgoose, Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson Cohen and BBC's 'The Power of Parker', working alongside Conleth Hill, Sheila Reid and Sian Gibson.

Austin has recently completed filming on The Responder (Series 2) alongside Martin Freeman and Adam Nagaitis and boxing biopic 'Giant' alongside Pierce Brosnan.

Matilda Firth was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and is the middle child of 3. A natural performer from a young age, she joined a children's drama class for an hour every Saturday afternoon where her love for acting soon shone through. Before long Matilda began picking up roles in commercials, TV shows and movies. Her first lead role came at only 6 years old when she starred in the 2021 McDonald's UK Christmas commercial directed by Bert and Bertie.

In 2022, Matilda filmed roles in Disney's Disenchanted, Vampire Academy, Sky's Christmas Carole and Starve Acre. She also filmed the role of Grace across 2 seasons of Hullraisers.

The following year Matilda completed shooting of the movie Subservience, starring Megan Fox, and played the role of Nancy in the second season of the highly acclaimed BBC show 'Time'. Later that year she filmed the role of Sophie in the popular mini-series 'Coma' and the role of Mille-Jo in the ground breaking ITV series 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office'.

In early 2024 Matilda joined the cast of Blumhouse's and Universal's 'Wolf Man', directed by Leigh Whannell, spending 3 months filming the movie in New Zealand. A few months later she joined the cast of the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers.

Matilda is represented by Paradigm Talent Agency (USA) and Articulate Agency (UK).

Mandip Gill studied BA Hons Acting at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in Preston, Lancashire. Whilst there, she met with different directors and practitioners. She later graduated and became a regular on the program Hollyoaks, set in Chester, UK.

Angela Griffin was born on 19 July 1976 in Cottingley, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress and director, known for The Wives (2024), Help (2021) and Crime (2021). She has been married to Jason Milligan since 27 July 2006. They have two children.

Philip Stone was an English character actor, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 1924. His first job was for an engineering company in Leeds and he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He was on stage at the West End in London from 1947. He also contracted tuberculosis that year and was forced to give up acting for several years to undergo treatment.

Stanley Kubrick noticed him during 1969 while acting in "The Contractor" at the Royal Court Theatre. Stone was the only actor to appear in three consecutive Kubrick films. He played the central character Alex's "P" (as in "M" and "P" for "Ma" and "Pa") in A Clockwork Orange (1971), and then subsequently played Graham, the Lyndon family lawyer, in Barry Lyndon (1975), and Delbert Grady, the original caretaker who murdered his family in The Shining (1980). The only other actor to be credited in three Kubrick films is Joe Turkel. Other film roles included Thunderball (1965), Where Eagles Dare (1968), Quest for Love (1971), Flash Gordon (1980) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). In the animated version of The Lord of the Rings (1978), he voiced the role of Theoden.

Stone was also a prolific stage and television actor, appearing in many popular TV series, including the very first episode of The Avengers (1961), as well as Dalziel and Pascoe (1996), A Touch of Frost (1992), Heartbeat (1992), Yes Minister (1980) and Coronation Street (1960). At one time he fronted his own production company, Philip Stone Productions. He died of a heart attack in London in 2003, aged 79.

Nichola Burley was born in 1986 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Wuthering Heights (2011), Lynn + Lucy (2019) and Donkey Punch (2008).

Born on May 29, 1975 in Leeds, England, Melanie Brown became a member of Spice Girls in 1994. Their three albums sold more than 40 million copies worldwide and they had nine singles at number 1 in the UK.

"Hot" was her first solo album, released on 9th October 2000. It entered the UK charts at #28. Despite producing 2 Top 5 singles (3, if you include the hit "I Want You Back"), the album only ever re-entered the chart once after dropping out of the Top 100 - peaking at #95 when "Feels So Good" was being promoted in February 2001. To date, the album has sold about 50,000 copies in the UK. The album sold 8,000 copies in its first week.

After she parted with Virgin Records, she started a new successful career as TV presenter and actress. In 2001, her own show This Is My Moment (2000) was a great success and, after the second series, she made a documentary about Africans voodoos.

In 2002, she was one of the protagonists of the BBC3's sit-com Burn It (2003) and made her theater debut with "The Vagina Monologues" in London.

She has a lead role in two upcoming movies: the horror LD 50 Lethal Dose (2003) and the comedy The Seat Filler (2004) (with Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child).

From April to September 2004, she played the role of "Mimi" in the famous musical "Rent" on Broadway.

In 2005, Melanie released her second solo album, "L.A. State Of Mind", featuring the single "Today". Both the single and the album flopped...

Mark Pillow was born on 14 April 1959 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987), Wiseguy (1987) and Lara - Tödliche Eifersucht (2000). He has been married to Magdalena Barbara Plate since 23 November 1992. They have two children.

William Gaunt said in a recent interview that he might well have considered a career as a geologist or anthropologist, had not the theatre beckoned. The Yorkshire-born solicitor's son first studied drama at Baylor University in Texas, did a two-year stint in the army and eventually completed his actor training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His career began on the repertory stage, in one of his earliest roles essaying Mortimer Brewster in the farce Arsenic and Old Lace at the Salisbury Playhouse (1961). After a string of minor television roles, Gaunt landed his breakout role in Sergeant Cork (1963), a whodunit set in 1890s London. The series aired on television from 1963 to 1968. Gaunt was second-billed as Bob Marriott, the astute, methodical sidekick of the titular Scotland Yard sleuth. He then had a pivotal role in a BBC adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968) (as the heroine's brother) before acquiring a substantial cult following as the ever youthful-looking Nemesis agent Richard Barrett, a specialist code-breaker endowed with enhanced physical and metal powers, in ITC's supernatural adventure/espionage series The Champions (1968). The show was created by the team of Monty Berman and Dennis Spooner.

Gaunt subsequently divided his time between screen and stage. By the end of the 70s, he had served as artistic director of the Liverpool Playhouse. He directed several plays for the Farnham and Liverpool Repertory Companies and at the West End. He spent several seasons with the National Theatre, later headlining in the role of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Theatre Royal, Plymouth, 2006), Sorin and the Earl of Gloucester, respectively, in The Seagull and King Lear (RSC, 2007-2008). More recently, in 2021, he portrayed Duncan in Macbeth at the Almeida Theatre in London. This performance was filmed and screened two years later by BBC4 as The Tragedy of Macbeth (2023).

The screen had offered Gaunt another recurring role in The Challengers (1972), a miniseries set in the House of Commons and in Westminster's corridors of power. Moreover, leading roles in two popular sitcoms further reinvigorated his career: as a perpetually stressed dad, trying to cope with four kids who won't leave the nest, in the sitcom No Place Like Home (1983); and as a middle class husband, who, with his wife (Penelope Keith) is forced to assume guardianship over three orphaned grandchildren in Next of Kin (1995). Gaunt's portfolio of assorted characters has also included Charles Hurst QC in several episodes of Crown Court (1972), solicitor Edward Capstick in Capstick's Law (1989) and a warrior knight combating Davros and the Daleks in season 22 of Doctor Who (1963). He also lampooned his role in The Champions in a made-for-TV spoof, The Preventers (1996), which poked fun at 60s and 70s British adventure/spy series like The Avengers (1961) and The Persuaders! (1971).

Gaunt has been married to English actress Carolyn Lyster since 1974.