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Ian McKellenIan McKellen was born on the 25th of May 1939 in Burnley, Lancashire, but his earliest memories are not of the town itself, but of the steel plate that…
Kenneth BranaghKenneth Branagh was born on the 10th of December 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a working-class Protestant family where his father worked as a…
Jonathan PryceJohn Price was born on the 1st of June 1947 in Carmel, Flintshire, but the name Jonathan Pryce would become synonymous with global stardom.
Ben KingsleyOn the 31st of December 1943, a boy named Krishna Pandit Bhanji was born in Snainton, North Riding of Yorkshire, destined to become one of the most…
Idris ElbaIdrissa Akuna Elba was born on the 6th of September 1972 in the London Borough of Hackney, the only child to Winston Elba, a Sierra Leonean man who worked at…
Patrick StewartThe birds stopped singing when Patrick Stewart's father walked onto the parade ground, a potent image of authority that would haunt the boy's entire life.