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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers (Richard Henry Sellers, 1925-1980), British comic actor of The Goon Show, Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther films, Dr. Strangelove, and Being There; Oscar-nominated, never won.

Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Serafinowicz (born 1972) is an English actor and comedian, voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, co-creator of Look Around You, star of The Peter Serafinowicz Show, Pete in Shaun of the Dead, The Tick, and host of Netflix's Million Dollar Secret.

Peter Stickles

Peter Stickles (born 1976, New York City) is an American actor and producer known for Shortbus (2006), Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven, Cemetery Gates, and many indie horror films; married to Michael Carbonaro since 2014.

Peter Stormare

Peter Stormare (Rolf Peter Ingvar Storm, born 1953) is a Swedish actor and director, a Royal Dramatic Theatre star known for Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Constantine, and Prison Break.

Peter Strauss

Peter Strauss (born 1947) is the American actor, not the Columbia law professor Peter L. Strauss, Emmy winner for The Jericho Mile and star of Rich Man, Poor Man, Masada, and Kane & Abel.

Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Ustinov (Peter Alexander Freiherr von Ustinov, 1921–2004) was a British actor, playwright, director, and raconteur of Russian, German, French, and Ethiopian descent; won Best Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, three Emmys, a Grammy, and served 36 years as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Peter Vack

Peter Vack (Peter Brown, born 1986) is an American actor, writer, director, and producer from New York, known for Mozart in the Jungle, I Just Want My Pants Back, and directing Assholes and www.RachelOrmont.com.

Peter Vaughan

Peter Vaughan (Peter Ewart Ohm, 1923-2016), English character actor of Porridge's Harry Grout, Our Friends in the North's Felix Hutchinson, and Maester Aemon in Game of Thrones; 222 screen credits over seven decades.

Peter Weller

Peter Weller (born 1947, Stevens Point, Wisconsin) is an American actor, director, and Renaissance art historian, known for RoboCop (1987), Buckaroo Banzai, and Naked Lunch, and for a UCLA PhD in Italian Renaissance art history.

Peter Wyngarde

Peter Wyngarde (Cyril Louis Goldbert, died 15 January 2018) was a British actor famous as Jason King in Department S (1969-70) and Jason King (1971-72); also Klytus in Flash Gordon; birth date disputed.

Petro Ninovskyi (Петро Ніньовський)

Petro Ninovskyi (Петро Ніньовський, born 1998, Kolomyia) is a Ukrainian actor, Vova in Sydorenky-Sidorenky, Demyan in SHTTL, Sasha Shevchenko in Ponies, and a Juilliard MFA graduate.

Petronella Barker (actress, born 1942)

Petronella Barker, born 1942 in Sittingbourne, Kent, is an English actress (Othello 1965, A Flea in Her Ear 1967) and first wife of Anthony Hopkins, mother of Abigail Hopkins; distinct from the Norwegian actress born 1965.

Peyton List (actress, born 1986)

Peyton List (born 1986, Boston) is the American actress known for As the World Turns, Mad Men, The Tomorrow People, Frequency, Gotham, and Star Trek: Picard; distinct from the younger Peyton Roi List (born 1998) of Jessie and Cobra Kai.

Phia Saban

Phia Saban (born 1998) is an English actress, a Guildhall School graduate, known as Queen Helaena Targaryen in House of the Dragon, Lady Aelfwynn in The Last Kingdom, and Solange in The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse.

Phil Cornwell

Phil Cornwell, Philip Cornwell, English actor, comedian, impressionist, and writer born 1957 in Southend, Essex; known for Stella Street, Dave Clifton in I'm Alan Partridge, Dead Ringers, Spitting Image, and voicing Gorillaz's Murdoc Niccals.

Phil Daniels

Phil Daniels (born 1958, Islington, London) is an English actor known for Jimmy in Quadrophenia (1979), Scum, Blur's Parklife narration, EastEnders' Kevin Wicks, Chicken Run, and House of the Dragon's Maester Gerardys; distinct from the 1890-born Canadian Justice Weekly founder of the same name.

Phil Davis (actor)

Phil Davis (Philip Davis), English actor, director, writer and narrator born 1953 in Grays, Essex; known for Quadrophenia, Mike Leigh's High Hopes and Vera Drake (BIFA Best Actor, BAFTA nomination), Whitechapel, Bleak House, and directing I.D. (1995).

Phil Dunster

Phil Dunster is an English actor trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Olivier-nominated for Pink Mist (2016), best known as Jamie Tartt on Ted Lasso (2023 Emmy nomination), now starring as Archie in HBO's Rooster and cast as Eret in live-action How to Train Your Dragon 2.

Phil Harris

Phil Harris, also known as Wonga Philip Harris, was an American bandleader and actor. He gained fame through his radio work and voicing Baloo in The Jungle Book (1967).

Phil Hartman

Phil Hartman (Philip Edward Hartmann, 1948-1998), Canadian-American comedian and graphic artist; SNL cast member 1986-1994 known as "The Glue," voice of Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz on The Simpsons, Bill McNeal on NewsRadio; killed in 1998 murder-suicide.

Phil Morris (actor)

Phil Morris (born 1959, Iowa City, Iowa) is an American actor, son of Greg Morris; known as Jackie Chiles on Seinfeld, Grant Collier in the 1988-90 Mission: Impossible revival, and the voice of Vandal Savage and Doc Saturday.

Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers (Philip Silver, 1911–1985), American comedian nicknamed the King of Chutzpah, starred as con-man Master Sergeant Ernie Bilko on CBS's The Phil Silvers Show (1955–1959), winning two Emmys and two Tonys.

Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall (1931-2022), American character actor born in Toledo, Ohio; played Lt. Bookman on Seinfeld, Richard Nixon in Secret Honor, and leads in Paul Thomas Anderson's Hard Eight, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia.

Philip Bosco

Philip Bosco, full name Philip Michael Bosco, was an American stage actor who appeared in about 50 Broadway productions and won the 1989 Tony Award for Lend Me a Tenor.

Philip Bretherton

Philip Bretherton (born 1955, Lancashire), English actor best known as Alistair Deacon in As Time Goes By with Judi Dench; extensive British TV credits, stage work including Tony Benn in Tony's Last Tape, and voiceover work.

Philip Carey

Philip Carey (Eugene Joseph Carey, 1925-2009), American actor of westerns and war films, star of TV's Laredo and Philip Marlowe, best known as Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live from 1979.

Philip Glenister

Philip Glenister (born 1963, Harrow, London) is an English actor famous as DCI Gene Hunt in BBC's Life on Mars (2006–07) and Ashes to Ashes (2008–10); also known for Cranford, Mad Dogs, Outcast, Belgravia, and the 2025 Bergerac reboot.

Philip Jackson (actor)

Philip Jackson (born 1948, Retford, England) is an English actor best known as Chief Inspector Japp in Agatha Christie's Poirot and Abbot Hugo in Robin of Sherwood, with films including Brassed Off and Scum.

Philip Michael Thomas

Philip Michael Thomas (born 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actor and musician, best known as Detective Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs on NBC's Miami Vice (1984–1989, 111 episodes). Distinguishing facts: Broadway debut in No Place to Be Somebody (1971), starred in Sparkle (1976), pursued an EGOT, voiced Lance Vance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967–2014), American film and stage actor and director; Oscar winner for Capote, three more nominations, three Tony nominations, co-founder of LAByrinth Theater Company; died February 2, 2014.