Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, was founded by Elsie Fogerty in 1906 to offer a new form of training in speech and drama for young actors and other students. The School offers 100 undergraduate, postgraduate, research degrees, and short courses in acting, actor training,...
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Jennifer Ehle
Jennifer Ehle ( /ˈiːliː/; born December 29, 1969) is an American actress of stage and screen. She is known for her BAFTA winning role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 mini-series Pride and Prejudice.
Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to English...
Frank Windsor
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins 12 July 1927, Walsall, Staffordshire) is an English actor, mainly on television.
He attended Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall. He began his career on radio and made an appearance in a 1953 film of Henry V ....
Kim Medcalf
Kim Louise Medcalf (born 8 December 1973) is an English actress and occasional singer. She has made occasional appearances as a singer and is best known for playing the character Sam Mitchell in the long running BBC Soap Opera EastEnders from 2002...
Suzanna Hamilton
Suzanna Hamilton (born 1960 in London) is an English actress. She is most famous for her performance as Julia in the modern film adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Suzanna Hamilton was a protégée of filmmaker, Claude...
Dawn French
Start Date:
- 1977
Ryan Davies
Ryan Davies (22 January 1937 — 22 April 1977) was a popular Welsh entertainer of the 1960s and 1970s. He was born in the Carmarthenshire village of Glanamman in the Black Mountain, Wales, and was educated in Bangor and at the Central School of...
Finty Williams
Tara Cressida Frances "Finty" Williams (born 24 September 1972) is an English actress.
Born in London, Williams trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama there, graduating in 1994. She has appeared in a number of British films, frequently...
Pamela Salem
Pamela Salem (born 22 January 1950) is a British film and television actress.
She was born in Bombay, India, and educated at Heidelberg University in Germany and later at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England. She is best...
Peter Davison
Peter Davison (born Peter M. G. Moffett on 13 April 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who...
Jill Balcon
Jill Angela Henriette Balcon (3 January 1925 – 18 July 2009) was an English film and radio actress. She made her film debut in Nicholas Nickleby (1947), though she was best known for her stage, television and radio work.
Balcon was born in...
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson (born 15 August 1946) is an English actor, comedian, historian, TV presenter and political activist. He is best known for playing Baldrick in the BBC television series Blackadder and for hosting Channel 4 programmes such as Time Team...
Ewan Bailey
Ewan Bailey (born 1966) is an actor, writer and voice artist located in Central London, best known for writing and performing in The Sunday Format, BBC Radio 4's satire of British Sunday newspapers, Funland, BBC Three's darker than dark comedy set...
Jerome Flynn
Jerome Flynn (born 16 March 1963) is an English actor best known for his role as Corporal Paddy Garvey of the King's Fusiliers in the ITV series Soldier Soldier.
Flynn was born in Bromley, Kent, the son of actor and singers Eric Flynn and drama...
Naomi Lee Schulke
Naomi Lee Schulke (born December 1978 in Jacobstow, Cornwall) is an actor, singer and musician.
Naomi began training as a classical musician at an early age and went on to gain a place as a singer at Trinity College of Music where she studied with...
James Purefoy
James Brian Mark Purefoy (born 3 June 1964) is an English actor best known for portraying Mark Antony in the HBO series Rome.
Purefoy was born in Taunton, Somerset. He was a boarder at Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset which he left with only one...
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress.
Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Surrey, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama. A prolific stage...
John Owen-Jones
John Owen-Jones (born 5 May 1971) is a Welsh musical theatre actor, best known for his portrayals of Jean Valjean in Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables and of The Phantom in Andrew Lloyd-Webber's The Phantom of the Opera. He...
Josette Simon
Josette Patricia Simon OBE (born 1960) is a British actor of Antiguan descent. She trained for the stage at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
She is best known for her portrayal of Dayna Mellanby in the third and fourth seasons of...
Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia “Judi” Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 9 December 1934) is an English film, stage and television actress.
Dench made her professional debut in 1957 with the Old Vic Company. Over the following few years she played in several of William...
Amanda Donohoe
Amanda Donohoe (born 29 June 1962) is an English film and television actress. She is known for her 1980s relationship with popstar Adam Ant and her later work on television — including L.A. Law and Emmerdale — and her roles in successful movies...
Cherie Lunghi
Cherie M. Lunghi (born 4 April 1952) is an English film, television and theatre actress. She is probably best known for her role as Guinevere in the 1981 film Excalibur, as football manageress Gabriella Benson in the 1990s television series The...
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) is an English film and stage actress.
Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her paternal...
Natasha Richardson
Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of...
Trevor Griffiths
Trevor Griffiths is a Lecturer in Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh.
Mary Ure
Eileen Mary Ure (18 February 1933 – 3 April 1975) was a Scottish actress of stage and film.
Born in Glasgow where she studied at the school of drama, Ure was the daughter of civil engineer Colin McGregor Ure and Edith Swinburne. She went to the...
Ann Todd
Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1909 – 6 May 1993) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne, Sussex. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as...
Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders (born 6 July 1958) is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of...
Start Date:
- 1977
Phyllis Calvert
Phyllis Calvert (18 February 1915 – 8 October 2002) was an English film, stage and television actress. She was one of the leading stars of the Gainsborough melodramas of the 1940s.
Born Phyllis Hannah Bickle in Chelsea, she trained at the Margaret...
James Bolam
James Christopher Bolam, MBE (born 16 June 1935) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Jack Ford in When the Boat Comes In, Trevor Chaplin in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, Terry Collier in The Likely Lads and its sequel Whatever Happened to the...
Phoebe Nicholls
Phoebe Nicholls (born Sarah Phoebe Nicholls; in April, 1957) is an English film, television, and stage actor. She is known for her roles as Cordelia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited and as the mother of John Merrick in The Elephant Man.
Nicholls was...
Jonathan Firth
Jonathan Firth (born 6 April 1967) is a British actor best known for his roles in such noted British television productions as Middlemarch, Far from the Madding Crowd, and Victoria & Albert.
Jonathan Firth was born in Essex, England. His mother,...
Lynda Bellingham
Lynda Bellingham (born Meredith Lee Hughes on 31 May 1948) is a Canadian-born English actress, broadcaster and author.
Bellingham was born to a single mother in Montreal and adopted by an English couple at the age of four months. She was brought up...
Camille Mitchell
Camille Mitchell is an award-winning stage and television actress. Born in Los Angeles and raised in Canada, she is the daughter of Cameron Mitchell and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama located in London, England.
Her most repeated...
Alice Krige
Alice Maud Krige (pronounced /ˈkriːɡə/; born 28 June 1954) is a South African actress. Her first feature film role was as the Gilbert and Sullivan singer Sybil Gordon in the 1981 Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. Since then, she has...
Deepak Verma
Deepak Verma, (Born 1969) is a British Asian actor, writer and television/film producer.
Verma trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama for three years (1988-1991). He made his television debut in the Scottish detective series, Taggart in...
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately (born 6 February 1951) is an English actor.
Whately is known for his starring role as Neville Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his role as Dr Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, and as Robert ...
Jonathan Kent
Jonathan Kent (born 1946, South Africa) is an English theatre director and opera director. He is best known as a director/producer partner of Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre from 1990 to 2002.
After an upbringing in South Africa, educated at...
Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE (8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010) was an English actress.
A member of the well-known British acting family, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962. By the mid-1960s she had appeared in several films...
Hajaz Akram
Hajaz Akram is a British actor. Principal and founder of the Academy of Asian and Ethnic Dramatic Arts, Akram has trained and worked as an actor, teacher and director for 20 years.
He has appeared in numerous television dramas including Doctor Who,...
James Frain
James Dominic Frain (born 14 March 1968) is an English stage and screen actor. He is possibly best known for his role in the Showtime series The Tudors in which he appeared as Thomas Cromwell from 2007 to 2009, and for his role as vampire Franklin...
Selina Griffiths
Selina Jane Griffiths (born 1969 in Richmond upon Thames, Surrey) is an English actress.
She is the daughter of actors Annette Crosbie and Michael Griffiths. Her only brother, Owen Griffiths, is a sound engineer at a post production sound facility...
