Who are your favourite British actors & which roles do you rate as their best?

David Tenant as the Doctor
Ewan McGregor as anything
(I know they’re both Scots, does it still count?)

Hugh Laurie for House
Jude Law for Watson

@Blueroses Well they are British even though they’re sweaty jocks XD Just kidding

There are alot-
I like Robert Shaw.Did you know this?? ;)
Peter O’Toole- Lawrence of Arabia.He is very watchable
Peter Sellers-Being There and Dr.Strangelove I need to watch those movies again
Rex Harrison-My Fair Lady—I still want to kick his ass—
and Basil Rathbone’s pants.

@Blueroses – Kudos on the Doctor. ;-)

I love me some Cate Blanchete (sp?)...Her Elizabeth I is just top drawer. ;-)

How can anyone of you not mention Sir Patrick Stewart?

@lucillelucillelucille I didn’t know…no, err…...wonderful grammar there XD I mean, it’s not like you’ve mentioned it before at all! :¬)

I think Bill Nighy is brilliant, especially in Love, Actually
and I’m always happy to see John Cleese in a film

@ucme-I can’t help it.I just can’t ;)

@lucillelucillelucille It’s a Shaw thing you’re certainly dead keen on him…..warts & all XD

Hugh Laurie in everything BUT “House.” Not that it’s a bad show, I just can’t get over the fact that I can’t picture him as an American, despite how effortlessly he pulls of the accent.

Big ups for Patrick Stewart as well.

Colin Firth in Valmont. Rhys Ifans in Vanity Fair. Sir John Geilgud (?) in Calligula and Arthr. Helen Mirren in The Cook, the Thief,His Wife and her Lover. Dame Judi Dench in almost anyting. Ditto Maggie Smith.

How could I have forgotten James Callis? Did anyone see him in Sex, Chips and Rock & Roll? Oh, so sexy.
I’m a total Anglophile, I could think about British actors all night long. In fact….

Colin Firth in “Pride and Prejudice”; Rufus Sewell and Kate Beckinsale in “Cold Comfort Farm”; Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman and Kate Winslet in “Sense and Sensibility”. Of course, all of them are wonderful in many other roles as well. Stephen Fry is another favorite.

@ucme -Dead people are so non-threatening! :)

Alec Guinness particularly in the Ealing Comedies.

Hugh Laurie – House.

How about Sean Connery in James Bond. Though he is scottish.

@lucillelucillelucille Functional too. Could work as ballast on board your boat. Or you could even recreate a scene with him while at sea. Using ropes & pullys of course. Think of it as ventriliquism with a twist. Here’s to swimmin with bow legged women XD

Let me see :-/

Anthony Hopkins as Huh… Hannibal Lecter.
Richard Burton in the film Becket, 1964.
Michael Caine in The man who would be king.
Sean Connery as James Bond, without a doubt.
Alan Rickman for his role as German terrorist Hans Gruber in Die Hard.
Rowan Atkinson & Hugh Laurie for black adder.
Gary Oldman just for being himself Lol… :-/
Christopher Lee as Dracula.
John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.
Jeremy Irons, Mmmm, The Man in the iron mask.
Tim Roth for Made in Britain :-/

Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility and as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, Obadiah Slope in The Barchester Chronicles, Snow Cake, Something the Lord Made, and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves

Ben Kingsley in Gandhi

Emma Thompson in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually

Anthony Hopkins in Silence of the Lambs, Magic, Shadowlands, The World’s Fastest Indian

Patrick Stewart in all of the Star Trek entities and A Christmas Carol

Hugh Grant in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually

Judy Densch in Mrs. Brown, The Cranford series and Mrs. Henderson Presents.

Michael Caine in Educating Rita and Deathtrap

Helen Mirren in The Queen, Calendar Girls, Gosford Park

Bob Hoskins in Mrs. Henderson Presents, Masterpiece Theater: The Wind in the Willows, Masterpiece Theater: David Copperfield, Nixon

Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria, Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music

Robert Hardy in Sense and Sensibility and All Creatures Great and Small (TV series)

Peter Sellers in Being There, Hoffman and The Pink Panther Strikes Again, I Love You Alice B. Toklas

Christopher Timothy All Creatures Great and Small (TV series)

James McAvoy in Becoming Jane

Christopher Plummer in The Sound of Music

Alec Guiness in Star Wars

Matt Lucas in Masterpiece Theater: The Wind in the Willows

Dudley Moore in The Adventures of Milo and Otis (as the narrator), Romantic Comedy

Nicholas Rowe in The Young Sherlock Holmes

Sophie Ward in the Young Sherlock Holmes

Tom Conti in Rueben Rueben

Christian Bale is one of the outstanding actors of his generation, if Wernor Herzog wants him in a movie you know he’s arrived, bit of a douche, i’ll admit, but a real credit to his art form,

Tim Roth and

Gary Oldman

Paul Bettany in Gangster no1, that Darwin film, master and commander, beautiful mind etc,

Rufus Sewell in everything, very sexy ;)

Helen Miran, Judi Dench (beautiful)

All the old boys, Albert Finney, Brian Cox, the royal shakespere lot, Anthony Hopkins,

Peter Sellers? Pink Panther (detective whatshisface)
Dudley Moore (Milo, Otis) and that flick with Liza Minnelli

Ben Kingsley from Ghandi to Monster.

Emma Thompson

@mammal He was fuckin great in that you fuckin cunt :¬) She is posh totty personified.

Sean Bean – in the Sharpe series.
Sheridan Smith – Because I grew up with her.
Hugh Laurie – Because many americans think he’s american (good acting that).
Sean Connery – in Highlander.
Paddy Considine – Dead Mans Shoes (Epic film, If you don’t know it go and find it).

Hugh Laurie in House
Patrick Stewart in STTNG
Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal the Cannibal
Peter O’Toole as Lawrence of Arabia
Peter Sellers as Chance in Being There, and in Dr. Strangelove
Sean Connery as Bond, James Bond
Richard Harris as Dumbledore and English Bob, and pretty much anything
Tim Roth as Ringo in Pulp Fiction, and Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs

John Cleese in a Fish Called Wanda.

My all time favourite Brit actor is Julie Graham who I believe is very underrated. I think she is best known for William and Mary and At Home With The Braitwaites.

As far as more well known actors go I love Maggie Smith, Liz Smith, Dawn French, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Emma Thompson, Michael Caine and Julie Walters.

@Leanne1986 How could I possibly have forgotton Maggie Smith!? She was great in The Divine Wisdom of the Ya Ya Sisterhood, and Ladies in Lavendar and of course Harry Potter.

Of course I love all the guys in Monty Python, especially Eric Idle.

I just love Dr. House! He is the a-hole that everyone loves to hate.

@Skaggfacemutt He’s really good in a minor role in Sense and Sensibility too. You can check out a compliation of his scenes here

Ha-ha. He plays the sarcastic ass like no one else.