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Actors awarded knighthoods
- Charlie ChaplinLondon, 1897. A seven-year-old boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. sat at the Central London District School for paupers, his head cocked slightly to one…
- 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.
- John GielgudOn the 14th of April 1904, Sir Arthur John Gielgud was born in a house on Cromwell Road in South Kensington. He entered the world as the third child of Frank…
- Tom HanksThomas Jeffrey Hanks arrived in the world on the 9th of July 1956 inside a hospital in Concord, California. His mother Janet Marylyn worked as a hospital…
- Kenneth BranaghKenneth Charles Branagh was born on the 10th of December 1960 in Belfast. His father worked as a plumber and joiner while his mother managed their home.
- Laurence OlivierLaurence Kerr Olivier was born on the 22nd of May 1907 in Dorking, Surrey. He entered the world as the youngest child of Reverend Gerard Kerr Olivier and…
- 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…
- Jonathan PryceJohn Price was born on the 1st of June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire. His father Isaac worked as a coal miner before running a small grocery shop with his wife…
- Ringo StarrRichard Starkey arrived at 9 Madryn Street in Dingle, Liverpool on the 7th of July 1940. His early years were defined by poverty and severe health crises…
- Alec GuinnessAlec Guinness de Cuffe entered the world at 155 Lauderdale Mansions South in Maida Vale, London, on the 2nd of April 1914.
- 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…