• 1980-07-13

After 20 years of performing in front of the camera - including roles in the massively successful Band of Brothers (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), Chernobyl (2019), and Humans (2015), to name a few, Philip Barantini transitioned into directing in the late 2010s, marking his first short film with the award

• 1961-04-12

Magdalene Mary Szubanski AO is an Australian television and film actress, comedian and writer. Szubanskis career started as a writer and performer of sketch comedy and has since progressed to production of TV, film acting, and musical theatre.

• 1925-02-04

Emma successfully auditioned for her first professional role, Needle, written by Jimmy McGovern, directed by Gillies MacKinnon when she was 17 years old (BBC, 1990).  Having secured representation with Sally Long-Innes at ICM (now Independent Talent), she began a successful early career in televisi

• 1954-09-07

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaDouglas William Doug Bradley (born 7 September 1954) is an English actor best known for his roles in the Hellraiser film series franchise.

• 1952-08-07

Alexei David Sayle (born 7 August 1952) is an English actor, author, stand-up comedian, television presenter and former recording artist. He was a leading figure in the British alternative comedy movement in the 1980s. He was voted the 18th greatest stand-up comic of all time on Channel 4s 100 Great

• 1949-07-12

Bernice Mary Stegers is an English actress, known for Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), My Life in Ruins (2009), Final Fantasy XII (2006), and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018).

• 1931-04-14

Kenneth Charles Cope is an English actor. He was best known for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk, Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.

• 1908-02-11

• 1936-02-09

Clive Swift was a British actor known to millions as Hyacinth Buckets hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC Ones 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys.

• 1937-08-08

Liverpudlian actor Tom Georgeson is best known for his roles in several groundbreaking TV dramas including Between the Lines and Boys from the Blackstuff, Scully and G.B.H. - the last three all penned by Alan Bleasdale. For film fans he is perhaps best remembered for his role as crook George Thomaso

• 1987-06-22

Joseph Maxwell Dempsie (born 22 June 1987) is an English actor, best known for his roles as Chris Miles in the E4 teen comedy-drama Skins (2007–2008) and Gendry Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2013; 2017–2019).Dempsies earlier acting credits include the medical dramas Peak Practice (2000),