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English actors: 2000s onward, Surnames Be to B

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Ace Bhatti

Ace Bhatti (Ahsen Rafiq Bhatti, born 1969) is a British actor from Nottingham, a LAMDA graduate known for Cardiac Arrest, The Sarah Jane Adventures, EastEnders' Dr. Yusef Khan, and Bohemian Rhapsody.

Andrew Buchan

Andrew Buchan (born 1979, Stockport) is an English actor and writer, a Durham and RADA graduate, known for Mark Latimer in Broadchurch, Garrow's Law, The Honourable Woman, The Crown, and This England.

Anna Brewster

Anna Brewster (born 1986, Birmingham) is an English actress known as Madame de Montespan in Versailles, Bazine Netal in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and Anita in Anita and Me; former model, first film lead in The Last Days of American Crime (2020).

Antony Byrne

Antony Byrne (born 1969, Newcastle-on-Tyne) is an English actor and RSC Shakespearean player; also credited as Tony or Anthony Byrne; known for Outlander's Hiram Crombie, The Witcher, and voicing Resident Evil Requiem's Victor Gideon.

Asa Butterfield

Asa Butterfield (born 1997, Islington, London) is an English actor known for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Hugo, Ender's Game, Otis Milburn in Netflix's Sex Education, his 2025 stage debut Second Best, and Adam in Unchosen (2026).

Cassian Bilton

Cassian Bilton (born 1995, Westminster, London) is a British actor known for Brother Dawn in Apple TV+'s Foundation (2021–2025), Sundance-winning short The Devil's Harmony, and Netflix's House of Guinness; Oxford-educated, formerly a stage actor.

Cressida Bonas

Cressida Bonas (born 1989, Winchester) is an English actress and former Royal Ballet School dancer known for White House Farm, Tulip Fever, The Bye Bye Man, and Doctor Thorne, and formerly Prince Harry's girlfriend.

Darren Boyd

Darren Boyd (born 1971, Hastings, England) is an English actor, BAFTA winner in 2012 for the Sky1 sitcom Spy, also known for Killing Eve, Luther, Trying, The Outlaws, Four Lions, and as C in Apple TV+'s Down Cemetery Road (2025).

David Bradley (English actor)

David John Bradley (born 1942, York) is an English character actor; Argus Filch in Harry Potter and Walder Frey in Game of Thrones, Olivier Award-winning stage veteran and the third actor to play Doctor Who's First Doctor.

Douglas Booth

Douglas John Booth (born 1992, London) is an English actor known for Worried About the Boy, Romeo and Juliet (2013), Jupiter Ascending, The Dirt, The Sandman, Young Werther, and ITV's The Blame.

Edward Bluemel

Edward Bluemel, born 1993 in Somerset, is a British actor known for Killing Eve, Sex Education, My Lady Jane, and as Hercule Poirot in the BBC's Hercule, and for stage roles including Born With Teeth.

Eliza Bennett

Eliza Bennett, English actress and singer born 1992 in Reading, Berkshire; began in West End's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, starred as Meggie in Inkheart, Jules Thomas in Sweet/Vicious, Amanda Carrington in Dynasty, and Marjorie Kern in Sexy Beast.

Eliza Butterworth

Eliza Butterworth (born 1993, Lincolnshire) is an English RADA-trained actress known for Lady Aelswith in The Last Kingdom (2015–2022, 45 episodes), Hester in The North Water, Carly Lord in A Town Called Malice, and her 2021 West End debut.

Ella Bruccoleri

Ella Bruccoleri (also Ella May Bruccoleri) is a British actress from Scarborough, North Yorkshire, trained at the Oxford School of Drama. Known for Sister Frances in Call the Midwife (2018–2022) and as lead Mary Bennet in the BBC's The Other Bennet Sister (2026), plus Polite Society, Paddington in Peru, and Wicker.

Emily Beecham

Emily Beecham (born 1984, Manchester) is a British actress, winner of the 2019 Cannes Best Actress award for Little Joe; also known for The Widow in Into the Badlands, Daphne, 1899, and Cruella.

Emily Bergl

Emily Bergl (born 1975, Milton Keynes, England) is an English-American actress and cabaret singer known for The Rage: Carrie 2, Shameless, Desperate Housewives, and Broadway's The Lion in Winter and Good Night, Oscar.

Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt (Emily Olivia Leah Blunt), English actress born 1983 in London, star of The Devil Wears Prada, A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, and Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer; Golden Globe winner for Gideon's Daughter, wife of John Krasinski.

Esmé Bianco

Esmé Augusta Bianco, English actress, model, and burlesque performer born 1982 in St Albans; best known as Ros in Game of Thrones seasons 1–3 and Jane Chatwin in The Magicians; settled 2023 lawsuit against Marilyn Manson.

Eve Best

Eve Best (born Emily Frances Finlay Best, 1971, London) is an English actress trained at RADA; Olivier winner for Hedda Gabler, twice Tony-nominated on Broadway, known for Nurse Jackie's Dr O'Hara, The King's Speech's Wallis Simpson, and Princess Rhaenys in House of the Dragon.

Gary Beadle

Gary Beadle (born 1965, Bermondsey, London) is a British actor, brother of Rikki Beadle-Blair, known for Paul Trueman in EastEnders (2001–2004), Anna Scher training, hip-hop past, and recent roles in The Wheel of Time and The Gentlemen; distinct from reality star Gaz Beadle.

Geoff Bell (actor)

Geoff Bell (born 1963, London) is an English character actor known for hard-man roles in Green Street Hooligans, RocknRolla, War Horse, Kingsman, and as Richie Stevenson in MobLand (2025); not the New Zealand TV presenter of the same name.

George Blagden

George Blagden, also known by his roles as Athelstan in Vikings and Louis XIV in Versailles, is a British actor (born 1989, London) and Guildhall graduate who debuted as Grantaire in Tom Hooper's Les Misérables and later starred in the West End.

Gina Bellman

Gina Bellman, born 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand, is a British actress known for Jane in Coupling, Sophie Devereaux in Leverage and Leverage: Redemption, and Dennis Potter's Blackeyes.

Harki Bhambra

Harki Bhambra is a British actor from Leeds, West Yorkshire, known for Rab in Our Girl, Jaz in Two Doors Down, Mike in Doctor Who, Dr Samir Hasan in The Good Karma Hospital, and Avi Bhatt in Gran Turismo; a former chartered quantity surveyor trained at Mountview.

Hugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville (Hugh Richard Bonneville Williams, born 1963), English actor of Downton Abbey, Paddington and Notting Hill, trained at Webber Douglas and the RSC, with Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.

India de Beaufort

India de Beaufort (born 1987) is a British actress known for Run Fatboy Run, One Tree Hill's Miranda Stone, Kröd Mändoon's Aneka, One Day at a Time's Avery, and Olivia Moore on NBC's Night Court revival.

Isabella Brownson

Isabella Brownson (Isabella Kirby Brownson) is an English actress from Carlisle, Cumbria, a Guildhall graduate (2019) known as Hortense de Beauharnais in Napoleon (2023) and Katherine Grey in My Lady Jane (2024).

James Buckley (actor)

James Patrick Buckley (born 1987, Croydon) is an English actor known as Jay Cartwright in The Inbetweeners (2008-2010) and its films; also a prolific Cameo creator and Twitch, YouTube personality.

Jamie Bell

Jamie Bell (Andrew James Matfin Bell), English actor born 1986 in Billingham, County Durham; youngest-ever Best Actor BAFTA winner for Billy Elliot (2000), later known for Tintin, Fantastic Four, Rocketman, Half Man, and Peaky Blinders sequel.

Jamie Campbell Bower

Jamie Campbell Bower (born 1988, London) is a British actor and musician, also credited as James Campbell M Bower, known for young Grindelwald in Harry Potter, Caius in Twilight, Jace in The Mortal Instruments, and Henry/One/Vecna in Stranger Things, plus fronting the band COUNTERFEIT.