List of People From Kent - Actors

Actors

  • Thomas Robson Brownhill (1821–1864) – theatre actor and comedian
  • Ellen Ternan (1839–1914) – actress and mistress of Charles Dickens.
  • Francis Robert Benson (1858–1939) – actor and theatre manager
  • Lilian Braithwaite (1873–1948) – actress and Dame Commander of the British Empire
  • Sydney Greenstreet (1875–1954) – actor in films such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon
  • Victor McLaglen (1886–1956) – 1935 Academy Award winner for Best Actor
  • Ballard Berkeley (1904–1988) – actor noted for his role as Major Gowen in TV's Fawlty Towers
  • Margot Grahame (1911–1982) – actress in films such as The Informer and The Crimson Pirate
  • Harry Andrews (1911–1989) – actor in films such as Superman and Watership Down
  • Trevor Howard (1913–1988) – Academy Award nominated film actor
  • Peter Cushing (1913–1994) – film actor of the Hammer Films, Star Wars and Dr Who and the Daleks
  • Bob Todd (1922–1992) – comedy actor and sidekick of Benny Hill and Spike Milligan
  • Hattie Jacques (1924–1980) – comedy actress of the Carry On films and TV's Sykes
  • Frederick Treves (actor) (born 1925) – prolific TV actor
  • Alec McCowen (born 1925) – Golden Globe nominated film, theatre and TV actor
  • Peter Barkworth (1929–2006) – BAFTA winning actor
  • Dinsdale Landen (1932–2003) – TV actor
  • Lance Percival (1933) – comedy actor
  • Patsy Byrne (born 1933) – actress noted for her role as Nursie in TV's Blackadder II
  • Tom Baker (born 1934) – actor in TV's Doctor Who and Little Britain
  • Joanna Van Gyseghem (born 1941) – actress in TV's Duty Free and Rumpole of the Bailey
  • Michael Crawford (born 1942) – Tony Award winning comedy, film and musical actor
  • Brenda Blethyn (born 1946) – Academy Award nominated actress
  • Rusty Goffe (born 1948) – dwarf actor in the films Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and Willow
  • Fiona Reid (born 1951) – Canadian TV and film actress
  • Mark Rylance (born 1960) – theatre actor
  • Jack Dee (born 1962) – TV actor and comedian
  • Martin Ball (born 1964) – theatre and TV actor
  • Shaun Williamson (born 1964) – TV presenter and actor in TV's Eastenders
  • Naomi Watts (born 1968) – Academy Award nominated actress
  • Matthew Holness (c. 1968–) – comedy writer and actor in TV's Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
  • Ben Moor (born 1969) – comedy writer, and actor in TV's Fist of Fun
  • Mackenzie Crook (born 1971) – actor in TV's The Office
  • Shane Taylor (born 1973) – actor in TV's Band of Brothers
  • Chris Simmons (born 1975) – actor in TV's The Bill
  • Orlando Bloom (born 1977) – actor in the film series The Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean
  • Oliver Chris (born 1978) – actor in TV's Green Wing, The Office and Rescue Me
  • Kevin Bishop (born 1980) – actor in the film Muppet Treasure Island and TV's Grange Hill
  • Gemma Arterton (born 1986) – actress
  • Joseph McManners (born 1992) – musical theatre actor and singer
  • Tommy Knight (born 1993) - actor in TV's The Sarah Jane Adventures
  • Jack Scanlon (born 1998) – TV and film actor

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Famous quotes containing the word actors:

    “Today the young actors regard their environment with rage and disgust. They regard their Master not as disciples regard their Master, but as slaves regard their Master.”
    —Judith Malina (b. 1926)

    “To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
    —Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)

    “The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.”
    —Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)