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21st-century English male actors

  • Christian Howard (actor)Christian Howard was born on the 4th of May 1984 in Sunderland, near Newcastle. He began his martial arts training at age 13 in Essex.
  • Jude LawDavid Jude Heyworth Law arrived in the London borough of Lewisham on the 29th of December 1972. His parents were both teachers who had married five years…
  • Ian McKellenIan Murray McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire. His family moved to Wigan when he was four months old, just before the Second…
  • Michael CaineMaurice Joseph Micklewhite was born on the 14th of March 1933 at St Olave's Hospital in the Rotherhithe district of London.
  • Tom HardyEdward Thomas Hardy was born in Hammersmith, London, on the 15th of September 1977. He grew up as the only child of Anne Barrett and Edward Chips Hardy.
  • Peter O'ToolePeter James O'Toole was born on the 2nd of August 1932 at St James's University Hospital in Leeds, Yorkshire. His father Patrick Joseph O'Toole worked as an…
  • Ed SheeranEdward Christopher Sheeran was born on the 17th of February 1991 in Halifax, West Yorkshire. His family moved to Framlingham, Suffolk, when he was four years…
  • Sacha Baron CohenSacha Noam Baron Cohen entered the world on the 13th of October 1971 within the Hammersmith area of London. He was born into an English Ashkenazi Jewish…
  • Benedict CumberbatchBenedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch entered the world on the 19th of July 1976 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in Hammersmith, London.
  • Daniel Day-LewisOn a gray afternoon in 1971, fourteen-year-old Daniel Day-Lewis walked past the church parked cars in Greenwich. He held a can of spray paint and felt a…
  • Anthony DanielsAnthony Daniels was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His father worked as an executive for a plastics company.
  • John BoyegaJohn Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega arrived in the Camberwell district of London on the 17th of March 1992. He grew up in Peckham with parents Abigail and…
  • Alan RickmanAlan Sidney Patrick Rickman was born on the 21st of February 1946 in Brentford, London. He grew up in Acton, a district to the west of Wormwood Scrubs Prison.
  • Ben KingsleyOn the 31st of December 1943, a boy named Krishna Pandit Bhanji entered the world in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire.
  • Idris ElbaIdrissa Akuna Elba was born on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney. He grew up as the only child to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man…
  • Patrick StewartPatrick Stewart was born on the 13th of July 1940 in Mirfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. His childhood home was a poor household where he experienced…
  • Andy SerkisAndrew Clement Serkis arrived in the world on the 20th of April 1964 within the quiet suburb of Ruislip Manor. His childhood unfolded across two distinct…
  • Simon CallowOn the 15th of June 1949, a boy named Simon Phillip Hugh Callow entered the world in Streatham, South London. His father was Neil Francis Callow, a…