Best Brit actor/actress?

[mogster]

Here's my choice:



Especially when he plays this character :P

But he's an amazing person anyway.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/561441/

[ClassWarrior]

1. Ken and Emma. I was bummed when they split.

NGU.

[Mr Creosote]

13. Ken Barlow and Emma Bunton were an item?

Never knew that.

[Missy M]

2. To name just a few of the many great ones.....

Helen Mirren, Brenda Blethyn, Judi Dench, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Caine just too many to mention them all.

[bertha katzenengel]

3. Imelda Staunton. n/t

[mr blur]

7. I take it you've seen Vera Drake?

Wonderful performance.

[bertha katzenengel]

9. Yep. She was really fantastic. n/t

[replacement]

4. no contest

[ellenfl]

5. i LOVE brian blessed. is that from blackadder? ellen

[replacement]

10. Yeah it is

I'm not sure whether I liked him best as Richard IV, or as Prince Vultan--

[tjwmason]

11. Prince Vultan definitely.

He's wonderful - but then so is the entire film.

Welcome to D.U. :hi:

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Bwahaha!

No-one can overact like Blessed. There's a programme on at the moment - "Britain's Worst Celebrity Driver" (yes, they are getting desperate for ideas) and I saw him on it, hamming it up for all it's worth.

He was actually very good as Augustus in "I, Claudius" - and that was with Sian Phillips, John Hurt and Derek Jacobi, so there was stiff competition on the screen.

[Itchinjim]

6. Daniel Day-Lewis

There are few actors today who can match his talent.

[Mary Hinge]

8. Larry Olivier.....darlinks

[non sociopath skin]

14. I don't do "best ofs"....

:dilemma:

... but if I did it would be Jim Broadbent and/or Judi Dench.

The Skin

[moggie]

18. Jim Broadbent is excellent

His Marie Antoinette (with the National Theatre of Brent) was really moving!

Hmm, let's see. Some favourites:

Jim Broadbent, Jane Horrocks, Alison Steadman and Timothy Spall in Life is Sweet. Jane Horrocks in particular is terrific in this film, but Mike Leigh gets great performances from all the cast.

Juliet Stevenson in pretty much anything. I was annoyed to miss her in Death and the Maiden in the west end; got to see wossname instead, and she was good but not great.

Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren in The Madness of King George.

Simon Russell Beale as Ariel in the Tempest. I'm not much of a theatre-goer, but that was a mesmerising performance, one of those "how did he do that?" wonders.

Jonathan Pryce in Brazil.

Ian Holm in anything.

[Taxloss]

15. Alec Guinness.

Or Peter Sellers.



Or maybe Nigel Hawthorne.

[...of J.Temperance]

25. Oh yes mon amie :) Alec Guinness and 'The Madness of King George'

I ADORE 'Kind Hearts and Coronets', Dennis Price is FAB in that too. Nigel Hawthorne was BRILLIANT in 'The Madness of King George' and I love Helen Mirren as well, in pretty much anything.

[Briar]

16. Juliet Stevenson

In a new play at the Royal Court this autumn!

[mrfrapp]

17. Gary Oldman n/t

[moggie]

19. Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins

What? He's not British? But his accent was so convincing!

[fedsron2us]

20. George Sanders as Shere Khan in the Jungle Book.

I was rather hoping he was going to devour that loathsome goody two shoes Mowgli.

No surprise that Disney got a Brit to voice over the villain.

[...of J.Temperance]

26. I like some George Sanders films, notably

'Confessions of A Nazi Spy' (1939, Anatole Litvak), 'Rebecca' (1940, Alfred Hitchcock), 'The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry' (1945, Robert Siodmak) and 'Village of The Damned' (1960, Wolf Rilla)

Sanders also appeared in possibly the SECOND WORST film EVER made, that being an appalling thing called 'Psychomania'...no WONDER he topped himself not long after that was made.

The FIRST WORST film EVER made, obviously is 'Titanic', that excruciating nonsense with Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

21. Having just watched 'Sexy Beast'

I've got to give a huge shout out to Ben Kingsley. Absolutely staggering & brutal performance.

[caty]

22. Gerard Butler

"Dear Frankie" was great.

http://www.nndb.com/people/149/000089879/

[lockdown]

23. Kathy Burke

Anyone who tells Helena Bonham-Carter to "shut up you stupid cunt" is sound in my book. Not just a good laugh and down-to-earth chain smoker though, good actress too.

[...of J.Temperance]

24. I've always liked Richard Attenborough and Alec Guinness for

'Brighton Rock' (1947, Boulting Brothers), '10 Rillington Place' (1971, Richard Fleischer) and 'London Belongs To Me' (1948, Sidney Gilliat). Attenborough also had a bit part in possibly the GREATEST British film EVER - 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946, Powell/Pressburger) and 'I'm Alright Jack' (1959, John Boulting), 'Guns At Batasi' (1964, John Guillermin) and for 'Gandhi' (1982, Richard Attenborough)

Guinness:

'Kind Heart's and Coronets' (1949, Robert Hamer), 'The Ladykillers' (1955, Alexander MacKendrick), 'Our Man In Havana' (1959, Carol Reed), 'The Man In The White Suit' (1951, Alexander MacKendrick), 'Great Expectations' (1946, David Lean), 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962, David Lean) and 'Cromwell' (1970, Ken Hughes)