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Kaluuya is the first black British actor to win an Academy Award for acting. [1] At age 32, Kaluuya became the seventh-youngest winner to win an Academy Award in the category. [1] 2024 Guy Pearce: The Brutalist: Pending Pearce was a British-Australian actor.
Ralph Arliss (born 11 September 1947) is a British actor. [1]His television credits include: Doctor Who (in the serial Planet of the Spiders), Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Survivors, Return of the Saint, Secret Army, Love for Lydia, Shoestring, Airline, The Jewel in the Crown, The Day Christ Died, A.D., Dempsey and Makepeace, Call Me Mister, Boon, Prime Suspect, Casualty and The Bill.
Daniel Day-Lewis has won three times from six lead actor nominations—the most wins for any male in the lead actor category. [4] Frances McDormand has won three times for her lead roles, out of six nominations—three lead and three supporting. [5] Meryl Streep is the most-nominated actor of all, with twenty-one nominations. [6]
Geoffrey M. McGivern is a British actor in film, television, radio and stage, as well as a comedian. He is best known for originating the role of Ford Prefect in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
Michael Christopher Sheen (born 5 February 1969) [1] is a Welsh actor. After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), he worked mainly in theatre throughout the 1990s with stage roles in Romeo and Juliet (1992), Don't Fool with Love (1993), Peer Gynt (1994), The Seagull (1995), The Homecoming (1997), and Henry V (1997).
Jeremy Brock (born 1959): British actor, producer, writer, and director. [34] Charlie Brooker (born 1971): British writer and satirist best known for his TV show Screenwipe. [35] Derren Brown (born 1971): English psychological illusionist, mentalist, and skeptic of paranormal phenomena.
John Sessions (born John Marshall; 11 January 1953 – 2 November 2020) was a British actor and comedian. He was known as a regular performer on comedy improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as co-creator, co-writer and co-star of the sitcom Stella Street, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood.
Baker began appearing in films and on television, as well as performing on stage for the Middlesex Repertory Company. He had small roles in All Over the Town (1949), Obsession (1949), Your Witness (1950), Lilli Marlene (1950), Something in the City (1950), The Rossiter Case (1951), Cloudburst (1951), Home to Danger (1951) and Whispering Smith Hits London (1952).