Actors and actresses in the Harry Potter movies

1. Daniel Radcliffe

Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Daniel Jacob Radcliffe was born on July 23, 1989 in Fulham, London, England, to casting agent Marcia Gresham (née Jacobson) and literary agent Alan Radcliffe. His father is from a Northern Irish Protestant background, while his mother was born in South Africa, to a Jewish family (from Lithuania, ...

2. Rupert Grint

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint was born in Harlow, Essex, England, the elder son of Joanne (Parsons) and Nigel Grint, who dealt in memorabilia. The first of 5 children, Rupert has one brother and three sisters.

Rupert grew up in Hertfordshire, the English county directly to the north of London, ...

3. Emma Watson

Actress | The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in Paris, France, to British parents, Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson, both lawyers. She moved to Oxfordshire when she was five, where she attended the Dragon School. From the age of six, Emma knew that she wanted to be an actress and, for a number of years,...

4. Richard Harris

Actor | Unforgiven

Richard St John Harris was born on October 1, 1930 in Limerick, Ireland, to a farming family, one of nine children born to Mildred (Harty) and Ivan Harris. He attended Crescent College, a Jesuit school, and was an excellent rugby player, with a strong passion for literature. Unfortunately, a bout ...

5. Michael Gambon

Actor | Gosford Park

Sir Michael Gambon was born in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland, to Mary (Hoare), a seamstress, and Edward Gambon, an engineer. After joining the National Theatre, under the Artistic Directorship of Sir Laurence Olivier, Gambon went on to appear in a number of leading roles in plays written by Alan Ayckbourn...

6. Robbie Coltrane

Actor | Cracker

Robbie Coltrane, one of Britain's most popular comedians who was head of debating society at school and won prizes for his art, is now a film star who played in two James Bond films and in the "Harry Potter" franchise.

Coltrane was born Anthony Robert McMillan on March 30, 1950, in Rutherglen, a ...

7. Bonnie Wright

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Bonnie Francesca Wright was born on February 17, 1991 to jewelers Gary Wright and Sheila Teague. Her debut performance was in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) as Ron Weasley's little sister Ginny Weasley. Bonnie tried out for the film due to her older brother Lewis mentioning she ...

8. James Phelps

Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

James Phelps was born on February 25, 1986 in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001).

9. Oliver Phelps

Actor | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Oliver Phelps was born about 13 minutes before his twin brother, James Phelps. He has always loved acting and appeared in many high school drama productions. In 2000 he and his brother were picked to play Fred (James) and George (Oliver) Weasley in the film adaptations of the Harry Potter book ...

10. Julie Walters

Actress | Billy Elliot

For decades, British actress and comedienne Dame Julie Walters has served as a sturdy representation of the working class with her passionate, earthy portrayals on England's stage, screen and television. A bona fide talent, her infectious spirit and self-deprecating sense of humor eventually ...

11. Mark Williams

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Mark Williams was born on August 22, 1959 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), 101 Dalmatians (1996) and Shakespeare in Love (1998).

12. Chris Rankin

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Christopher William Rankin lived with his parents in his native New Zealand until age 6 when they moved back to England.

He found his love for acting at the age of 11, at Northgate High School in Norfolk, as a member of the Youth Theatre Company of Dereham Operatic Society. While in school, Chris ...

13. Domhnall Gleeson

Actor | Ex Machina

Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and writer. He is best known for his portrayal of Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise (2010-2011), About Time (2013), Ex Machina (2015) and The Revenant (2015).

He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, alongside whom he has appeared in several films and ...

14. Geraldine Somerville

Actress | Gosford Park

Geraldine Somerville was born in Dublin. She lived in Co. Meath until she was six, when her parents moved to the Isle of Man. Geraldine went to dance classes from the age of 6 and, at the age of 8, she attended the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire. There, she was taught ballet, music...

15. Adrian Rawlins

Actor | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Adrian Rawlins was born on March 27, 1958 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002).

16. Ralph Fiennes

Actor | The Constant Gardener

Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus ...

17. Alan Rickman

Actor | Die Hard

Alan Rickman was born on a council estate in Acton, West London, to Margaret Doreen Rose (Bartlett), of English and Welsh descent, and Bernard Rickman, of Irish descent, who worked at a factory. Alan Rickman had an older brother (David), a younger brother (Michael), and a younger sister (Sheila). ...

18. Maggie Smith

Actress | Gosford Park

One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...

19. Tom Felton

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Tom Felton was born in Epsom, Surrey, to Sharon and Peter Felton. He has been acting since he was 8 years old at the suggestion of an actress friend of his family who recognized Felton's theatrical qualities. Felton met with an agent, and two weeks later, after auditioning with over 400 other ...

20. Jamie Waylett

Actor | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Jamie Waylett was born on July 21, 1989 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

21. Josh Herdman

Actor | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Joshua was born in Hampton, England to Martin and Jessica Herdman. He is the youngest of four boys. He started acting when he was about seven. His father is an actor and got him an agent. He got his big break when he auditioned for "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and got the part of Gregory...

22. Jason Isaacs

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Jason Isaacs was born in Liverpool. He studied law at Bristol University but fell in love with the theatre and directed, produced and appeared in dozens of productions there, at the National Student Theatre Festival and at the Edinburgh Festival. He graduated in 1985 but then attended the Royal ...

23. Helen McCrory

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Award-winning actress Helen Elizabeth McCrory was born in London, England, to Welsh-born Anne (Morgans) and Scottish-born Iain McCrory, a diplomat from Glasgow. After training at the Drama Centre London, Helen began her career on stage in the UK and won the Manchester Evening News' Best Actress ...

24. Helena Bonham Carter

Actress | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Helena Bonham Carter is an actress of great versatility, one of the UK's finest and most successful.

Bonham Carter was born May 26, 1966 in Golders Green, London, England, the youngest of three children of Elena (née Propper de Callejón), a psychotherapist, and Raymond Bonham Carter, a merchant ...

25. Gary Oldman

Actor | The Dark Knight

Gary Oldman is a talented English movie star and character actor, renowned for his expressive acting style. One of the most celebrated thespians of his generation, with a diverse career encompassing theatre, film and television, he is known for his roles as Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy (1986), ...

26. David Thewlis

Actor | Naked

David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and...

27. Timothy Spall

Actor | Mr. Turner

Timothy Leonard Spall is an award-winning classical character actor who was born on February 27, 1957, and raised in London. The son of blue-collar parents, Joseph L. Spall, a postal worker, and Sylvia R. (Leonard), a hairdresser, his interest in acting happened early and Spall auditioned and ...

28. Natalia Tena

Actress | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Natalia Gastiain Tena is an English actress and musician. She played Nymphadora Tonks in the Harry Potter film series, and the wildling Osha in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011).

Tena is also the lead singer and accordionist of Molotov Jukebox. The band released their debut album Carnival Flower...

29. George Harris

Actor | Raiders of the Lost Ark

George Harris was born on October 20, 1949 in Grenada, British West Indies [now Grenada]. He is an actor and producer, known for Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Layer Cake (2004) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

30. Brendan Gleeson

Actor | Calvary

Brendan Gleeson was born in Dublin, Ireland, to Pat and Frank Gleeson. From a very young age, he loved to learn, especially reading classical text in and outside the classroom. He took great attention to Irish play writers such as Samuel Beckett, which eventually led to him performing in his high ...

31. Toby Jones

Actor | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Widely regarded as one of the greatest stage and screen actors both in his native Great Britain and internationally, Toby Edward Heslewood Jones was born on September 7, 1966 in Hammersmith, London. His parents, Freddie Jones and Jennie Heslewood, are actors as well. Toby has two brothers: Rupert, ...

32. Richard Griffiths

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The avuncular star character actor Richard Griffiths grew up in a council flat in less than prosperous conditions, the son of deaf and volatile parents in a dysfunctional family setting. According to an article in the Telegraph newspaper, his father Thomas was a steelworker 'who fought in pubs for ...

33. Fiona Shaw

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1

Shaw was already an accomplished theater actress when director Jim Sheridan awarded her a role in his film, My Left Foot (1989). The film is a telling of Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis), an Irishman disgruntled with his confinement to a body horribly crippled by cerebral palsy but who found ...

34. Harry Melling

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Harry Melling started acting at the age of 10 in the Harry Potter films playing the role of Dudley Dursley.

In his mid-teens he joined the National Youth Theatre appearing in a number of shows including "The Master and Margarita".

Harry at the age of 18 attended the LAMDA (London Academy Of Music and...

35. Matthew Lewis

Actor | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Matthew Lewis was born on June 27, 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 May 28, 2018.

36. Alfred Enoch

Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Alfred Lewis Enoch was born December 2, 1988 in Westminster, London, England, the son of English actor William Russell (William Russell Enoch) and Brazilian doctor Etheline Margareth Lewis. He is an actor, known for his role as Dean Thomas in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) (2001), ...

37. Devon Murray

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Devon Murray was born in County Kildare, Ireland in October 1988. His parents Michael and Fidelma Murray sent him to the Billie Barry when he was six, and within two weeks he landed a Tesco television ad. Within six months he was in his first movie, acting alongside Aidan Quinn in This Is My Father...

38. John Hurt

Actor | Nineteen Eighty-Four

One of stage, screen and TV's finest transatlantic talents, slight, gravel-voiced, pasty-looking John Vincent Hurt was born on January 22, 1940, in Shirebrook, a coal mining village, in Derbyshire, England. The youngest child of Phyllis (Massey), an engineer and one-time actress, and Reverend ...

39. Warwick Davis

Actor | Willow

English actor Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, the son of Susan J. (Pain) and Ashley Davis, an insurance broker. Davis was born with the condition spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenital (SED), which caused his dwarfism. He was educated at City of London Freemen's School. When he ...

40. Ian Hart

Actor | Backbeat

Ian Hart, born in England, began acting while a student in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. He stumbled into acting almost accidentally, but was cast in the play "The Government Inspector". He continued to work in British theatre and television, and first gained recognition for portraying John ...

41. Zoë Wanamaker

Actress | My Week with Marilyn

Zoë Wanamaker is an American expatriate actress, who has spend most of her career in the United Kingdom. She has worked extensively in the theatre. She has been nominated for 9 Laurence Olivier Awards, wining twice. She has also been nominated for 4 Tony Awards, without ever winning. In television,...

42. John Cleese

Actor | A Fish Called Wanda

John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...

43. David Bradley

Actor | The World's End

David Bradley was born on April 17, 1942 in York, Yorkshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for The World's End (2013), Hot Fuzz (2007) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011). He has been married to Rosanna Bradley since 1978. They have three children.

44. Emma Thompson

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Emma Thompson was born on April 15, 1959 in Paddington, London, into a family of actors - father Eric Thompson and mother Phyllida Law, who has co-starred with Thompson in several films. Her sister, Sophie Thompson, is an actor as well. Her father was English-born and her mother is Scottish-born. ...

45. Kenneth Branagh

Actor | Henry V

Kenneth Charles Branagh was born on December 10, 1960, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to parents William Branagh, a plumber and carpenter, and Frances (Harper), both born in 1930. He has two siblings, William Branagh, Jr. (born 1955) and Joyce Branagh (born 1970). When he was nine, his family ...

46. Miriam Margolyes

Actress | The Age of Innocence

A veteran of stage and screen, award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes has achieved success on both sides of the Atlantic. Winner of the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence (1993), she received Best Supporting Actress at the 1989 LA Critics Circle Awards for her role...

47. Gemma Jones

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Gemma Jones was born on December 4, 1942 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Bridget Jones's Baby (2016) and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010).

48. Luke Youngblood

Actor | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Luke Youngblood was born on June 12, 1986 in Westminster, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Community (2009) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

49. Evanna Lynch

Actress | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Evanna Patricia Lynch is an Irish actress. Born in the town of Termonfeckin in Ireland, she is one of four children to Donal and Marguerite Lynch. Her acting career began in 2007 when she competed in an open audition against nearly 15,000 girls, and won the coveted role of Luna Lovegood in the "...

50. Rhys Ifans

Actor | The Amazing Spider-Man

Rhys Ifans was born and raised in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales, the son of teacher parents, Beti Wyn (Davies) and Eirwyn Evans. He was educated in two Welsh language schools - Ysgol Pentrecelyn, where his mother taught, and Ysgol Maes Garmon. During his childhood, Ifans showed an interest in...

51. Katie Leung

Actress | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Katie Leung began her career when she was cast as Cho Chang in the Warner Brothers feature film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a role she subsequently reprised for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II). Alongside her acting career, Katie ...

52. Robert Pattinson

Actor | Twilight

Robert Douglas Thomas Pattinson was born May 13, 1986 in London, England, to Richard Pattinson, a car dealer importing vintage cars, and Clare Pattinson (née Charlton), who worked as a booker at a model agency. He grew up in Barnes, southwest London with two older sisters. Robert discovered his ...

53. Clémence Poésy

Actress | In Bruges

Clémence Poésy was born Clémence Guichard in Paris in 1982. She took her mother's maiden name, Poésy, as her stage name. She attended an alternative school for most of her education, but spent her last year at L'École alsacienne.

She trained at the "Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique",...

54. Stanislav Yanevski

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Stanislav Yanevski was born on May 16, 1985 in Sofia, Bulgaria. He is an actor and producer, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Hostel: Part II (2007) and The Cloaking.

55. Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Actor | We Were the Lucky Ones

Henry Lloyd-Hughes was born on August 11, 1985 in London, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for We Were the Lucky Ones (2024), Archie (2023) and Marriage (2022).

56. Angelica Mandy

Actress | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Angelica Mandy was born on August 25, 1992 in Bath, Somerset, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Vanity Fair (2004) and The End (2012).

57. Danielle Tabor

Actress | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Danielle Tabor was born in 1984 in the UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

58. Rochelle Douglas

Actress | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Rochelle Douglas was born in the UK. She is known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002).

59. Emily Dale

Actress | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Emily Dale is known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Heaven Is Home (2025).

60. Sean Biggerstaff

Actor | Cashback

Sean Biggerstaff was born to a firefighter and a community education worker. He joined a local drama group and he acted as "Augustus Gloop" in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". After that, for six years, he joined the Scottish Youth Theatre. It was there he got his big break when Alan Rickman ...

61. William Melling

Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

William Melling was born on November 30, 1994 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005).

62. Shefali Chowdhury

Actress | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress, vastly known for her role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series. Shefali was born in Denbighshire, Wales, to Bangladeshi parents who migrated to the United Kingdom in the year 1980. She attended the Waverly School before her foray into acting and ...

63. Jessie Cave

Actress | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Jessie Cave studied Illustration and Animation at Kingston University, London, and worked backstage in various theatres before deciding to pursue acting.

She got a place at RADA to study Stage Management, but after watching some actors in rehearsal rooms she changed her mind and applied to drama ...

64. Hugh Mitchell

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Hugh Mitchell was born on September 7, 1989 in England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Da Vinci Code (2006) and Nicholas Nickleby (2002).

65. Shirley Henderson

Actress | Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

Shirley Henderson was the eldest of three sisters born into a working-class family in the village of Kincardine in Fife, Scotland. As a teenager she sang locally and performed in school drama clubs. Her first break came when she watched a singer on the Opportunity Knocks (1956) TV talent program ...

66. Robert Hardy

Actor | Sense and Sensibility

One of England's most successful and enduring character actors, with a prolific screen career on television and in films, Robert Hardy was acclaimed for his versatility and the depth of his performances.

Born in Cheltenham in 1925, he studied at Oxford University and, in 1949, he joined the ...

67. Imelda Staunton

Actress | Vera Drake

Imelda Staunton is an English actress and singer from Archway, London. Her ancestry is primarily Irish. She has worked extensively in theater, and has won 4 Laurence Olivier Awards; 3 for leading roles and one for a supporting role. Her best known role in films has been the recurring villain ...

68. Lee Ingleby

Actor | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Lee Ingleby was born on January 28, 1976 in Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003).

69. Lenny Henry

Actor | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Lenworth George Henry was born on August 29, 1958, in Dudley, West Midlands in England to a family of Jamaican immigrants. He made his TV debut on a talent show called "New Faces" in 1975 at the age of 16. He won and went on to things such as The Fosters (1976) and Tiswas (1974), which was when his...

70. Jimmy Gardner

Actor | Frenzy

Jimmy Gardner was born on August 24, 1924 in Newmarket, Suffolk, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Frenzy (1972), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). He died on May 3, 2010 in London, England, UK.

71. Edward Randell

Music_department | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Edward Randell was born on July 2, 1988 in Dulwich, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), Doctor Strange (2016) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).

72. Louis Doyle

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Louis Doyle is known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007).

73. Charlotte Skeoch

Actress | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Charlotte Skeoch was born on February 22, 1989 in Surrey, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011).

74. Julian Glover

Actor | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Julian Wyatt Glover was born on March 27, 1935 in Hampstead, London, England, to Honor Ellen Morgan (Wyatt), a BBC journalist, and Claude Gordon Glover, a BBC radio producer. He is of English, Scottish and Welsh ancestry. Primarily a classical stage actor, Glover trained at the National Youth ...

75. Martin Bayfield

Actor | Wrath of the Titans

Martin Bayfield was born on December 21, 1966 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Wrath of the Titans (2012), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009).

76. Christian Coulson

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Christian Coulson was born on October 3, 1978 in Manchester, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The Hours (2002) and The Good Liar (2019).

77. Jamie Yeates

Actor | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Jamie Yeates was born on October 27, 1983 in London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), The English Programme (1976) and Mr. Bean (1990). He has been married to Dominique DeBeer since December 17, 2011.

78. Eleanor Columbus

Actress | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Eleanor Columbus was born on October 12, 1989 in Washington, USA. She is a producer and actress, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and The VVitch: A New-England Folktale (2015).

79. Kathryn Hunter

Actress | The Tragedy of Macbeth

Kathryn Hunter was born on April 9, 1957 in New York, USA. She is an actress, known for The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021), Poor Things (2023) and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007). She was previously married to Marcello Magni.

80. Pam Ferris

Actress | Matilda

Pam Ferris was born on May 11, 1948 in Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany. She is an actress, known for Matilda (1996), Children of Men (2006) and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). She has been married to Roger Frost since August 1986.

81. Jeff Rawle

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Jeff Rawle was born on July 20, 1951 in Birmingham, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Doc Martin (2004) and Rebecca (2020). He has been married to Nina Marc since 1998. They have two children.

82. Julie Christie

Actress | Doctor Zhivago

Julie Christie, the British movie legend whom Al Pacino called "the most poetic of all actresses," was born in Chabua, Assam, India, on April 14, 1940, the daughter of a tea planter and his Welsh wife Rosemary, who was a painter. The young Christie grew up on her father's plantation before being ...

83. Scarlett Hefner

Actress | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2

Scarlett Hefner was born on October 6, 1990 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010). She has been married to Cooper ...

84. Elizabeth Spriggs

Actress | Sense and Sensibility

Elizabeth Spriggs was born on September 18, 1929 in Buxton, Derbyshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Sense and Sensibility (1995), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Paradise Road (1997). She was married to Murray Manson, Marshall Jones and Kenneth Spriggs. ...

85. Dawn French

Actress | French and Saunders

Dawn was educated at a weekly boarding school in Plymouth and spent the weekends with her grandparents who lived nearby She never felt at home at the school as it was too posh. She met Jennifer Saunders while training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech and Drama and became flat mates ...

86. Eric Sykes

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

'Eric Sykes' started as a radio scriptwriter but he soon found he could perform as well as write. The slight handicap of being very hard of hearing doesn't interfere with his wonderful comic timing. The spectacles he wears have no lenses but contain a bone conducting hearing aid.

87. David Tennant

Actor | Doctor Who

Widely considered as one of the greatest stage and screen actors of his generation both in his native Scotland and internationally, David Tennant was born David John McDonald in West Lothian, Scotland, to Essdale Helen (McLeod) and Sandy McDonald, who was a Presbyterian minister. He is of Scottish ...

88. Roger Lloyd Pack

Actor | Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A superbly versatile character actor of lugubrious countenance and strong physical presence, Roger was the son of Charles Lloyd Pack, a frequent supporting actor in British films of the '50s and '60s. Roger was educated at Bedales, a prestigious co-educational school in Hampshire, noted for a ...

89. Miranda Richardson

Actress | The Crying Game

Miranda Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, England on March 3, 1958, to Marian Georgina (Townsend) and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive. She has one sister, eight years her senior. Her parents and sister are not involved in the performing arts. At an early age she performed...

90. Jean Southern

Actress | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Jean Southern was born on January 14, 1927 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Finney (1994) and The Glass Virgin (1995).

91. Margery Mason

Actress | The Princess Bride

Margery Mason was born on September 27, 1913 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Princess Bride (1987), Love Actually (2003) and Les Misérables (1998). She was married to Peter Daminoff. She died on January 26, 2014 in Swiss Cottage, Camden, London, England, UK.

92. Frances de la Tour

Actress | The History Boys

Frances de la Tour (born 30 July 1944) is an English actress, known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the television sitcom Rising Damp from 1974 until 1978. She is a Tony Award winner and three-time Olivier Award winner.

She performed as Mrs. Lintott in the play The History Boys in London and on ...

93. David Ryall

Actor | Around the World in 80 Days

David Ryall was born on January 5, 1935 in Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Around the World in 80 Days (2004), Automata (2014) and City of Ember (2008). He was married to Penny England, Cathy Buchwald and Gillian Eddison. He died on December 25, 2014 in London,...

94. Sian Thomas

Actress | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Aptly for a stage performer, Sian was born in Stratford-on-Avon, sister of fellow actress Sara Mair-Thomas, though she spent part of her childhood in Canada. After graduating in acting from the Central School of Speech and Drama, she spent a year in rep before working for two years at the Glasgow ...

95. Ciarán Hinds

Actor | Belfast

Ciarán Hinds was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 9, 1953. He was one of five children and the only son. His father was a doctor who hoped to have Ciarán follow in his footsteps, but that was not to be. It was his mother Moya, an amateur actress, who was the real influence behind his ...

96. Nick Shrim

He attends Dame Alice Owens School in North London.

97. Tony Maudsley

Actor | Sleepy Hollow

Trained at The Royal Welsh College Of Music & Drama, where he graduated in 1994. In 1998, was nominated in two categories, Best Actor and Best Newcomer, by The Royal Television Society, for his portrayal of Stefan Kisko in the made for TV movie, A Life for a Life (1998). He won Best Newcomer but ...

98. James Payton

Actor | Captain America: The First Avenger

Born under a Full Moon to Nigel and Jennifer Payton in the cold, dark winter of 1975 at St Paul's Hospital, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, James Payton was educated in the local area by rogues, vagabonds, bounders, cads, and the cinema. He is best known for his performances as Frank Longbottom in ...

99. Ray Fearon

Actor | Beauty and the Beast

Ray Fearon is a British actor of stage, theatre and film. He has worked with the RSC, Donmar, Almeida, National, and other theatres. Fearon was born on 5 August 1973 and grew up in London with his family. His West Indian parents raised him alongside his seven brothers and sisters. His film works ...

100. Timothy Bateson

Actor | Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Prolific British character actor, adept at eccentric or whimsical impersonations, particularly of Dickensian characters. The son of law society president Sir Dingwall Bateson, he won a scholarship to Wadham College, where he trained for acting with the Oxford University Dramatic Society. Straight ...