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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Ruby Hartley

Ruby Hartley (born 1998) is a British actress, a 2019 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama graduate, best known as Stiorra in Netflix's The Last Kingdom seasons 4–5, with credits in Oh Rats and The Vicar's Wife.

Ruby Keeler

Ruby Keeler (Ethel Hilda Keeler, 1909–1993), Canadian-born American tap dancer and actress, star of Warner Bros. musicals 42nd Street, Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade opposite Dick Powell, wife of Al Jolson, and 1971 No, No, Nanette comeback star.

Ruby O. Fee

Ruby O. Fee (Ruby Moonstone Camilla Willow Fee, born 1996, San José, Costa Rica) is a German actress known for Allein gegen die Zeit, Tatort: Happy Birthday Sarah, Polar, Army of Thieves, and Netflix's Brick (2025), a multiple Jupiter Award winner.

Ruby Rose

Ruby Rose (Ruby Rose Langenheim, born 1986, Melbourne) is an Australian actress, MTV VJ, model, and DJ known for Orange Is the New Black, Batwoman, and gender-fluid advocacy.

Ruby Stokes

Ruby Stokes (Ruby May Stokes, born 2000, Hackney, London) is a British actress known for Francesca Bridgerton in Bridgerton seasons 1–2, Lucy Carlyle in Lockwood & Co., and films Una, Rocks, and A Banquet.

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax (Ruby Wachs), American-born comedian and mental health campaigner based in the UK; host of The Full Wax and Ruby Wax Meets..., script editor of Absolutely Fabulous, Oxford mindfulness master's, OBE 2015, founder of Frazzled Cafe.

Rudolph Walker

Rudolph Walker CBE (born 28 September 1939, San Juan, Trinidad) is a Trinidadian-born British actor who played Bill Reynolds in Love Thy Neighbour (1972–76) and has played Patrick Trueman in EastEnders since 2001; OBE 2006, CBE 2020.

Rudy Pankow

Rudy Pankow, born 1997 in Ketchikan, Alaska, is an American actor known as JJ Maybank in Netflix's Outer Banks (2020-2024), Young Sam in Uncharted (2022), Erwin in Accidental Texan, and Scotty in Reminders of Him (2026).

Rudy Reyes (actor)

Rudy Reyes (Rodolfo Reyes, born 1971), former Force Recon Marine and scout sniper who played himself in HBO's Generation Kill (2008); later Force Blue co-founder, SAS: Who Dares Wins and Special Forces instructor, author of Hero Living.

Rudy Youngblood

Rudy Youngblood, also known as Rudy Gonzalez, is an American actor born 1982, of reported Comanche and Cree descent, best known as Jaguar Paw in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto (2006); later credits include Beatdown, Wind Walkers, and Hell on the Border.

Rue McClanahan

Rue McClanahan (Eddi-Rue McClanahan, 1934–2010), American actress and comedian; Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls, Vivian on Maude, Aunt Fran on Mama's Family; 1987 Emmy winner.

Rufus Jones (actor)

Rufus Jones (born 1975, London) is an English actor and writer, David Wilkes in W1A, Dr. Foggerty in Hunderby, and creator-star of Channel 4's Home; not the musician or Rufus Sewell.

Rufus Sewell

Rufus Frederik Sewell, British actor born 1967 in Twickenham, trained at Central School of Speech and Drama; known for Middlemarch, Arcadia, Rock 'n' Roll (Olivier), The Man in the High Castle, Victoria, Scoop's Prince Andrew, and Hal Wyler in The Diplomat.

Rula Lenska

Rula Lenska (Róża Maria Leopoldyna Łubieńska), British actress born 1947 to Polish refugee aristocrats; breakthrough as Q in Rock Follies (1976), VO5 commercials, Claudia Colby in Coronation Street.

Rumer Willis

Rumer Willis (Rumer Glenn Willis, born 1988, Paducah, Kentucky) is an American actress and singer, eldest daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore; Dancing with the Stars season 20 winner and Broadway Chicago Roxie Hart (2015).

Rune Temte

Rune Temte (born 1965, Solbergelva, Norway) is a Norwegian actor, former Strømsgodset footballer, known as Ubba in The Last Kingdom, Bron-Char in Captain Marvel, and Bittelig in Time Bandits, set to play King Gorm in Bloodaxe.

Rupert Everett

Rupert James Hector Everett (born 1959) is an English actor, writer, and director, star of Another Country and My Best Friend's Wedding, and writer-director-star of The Happy Prince (2018) about Oscar Wilde.

Rupert Friend

Rupert Friend (born 1981, Oxfordshire) is a British actor known for Pride & Prejudice, The Young Victoria, Homeland's Peter Quinn, Hitman: Agent 47, and Wes Anderson films including Asteroid City.

Rupert Graves

Rupert Graves (Rupert Simeon Graves) is an English film, television, and theatre actor born 1963 in Weston-super-Mare, known for Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, Alec Scudder in Maurice, and DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.

Rupert Grint

Rupert Grint (born 1988, Harlow, Essex) is the British actor who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films (2001-2011), later starring in Servant, Knock at the Cabin, and returning as Ron in Broadway's Cursed Child in 2027.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor born in 1970, best known for playing MI5 officer Adam Carter in Spooks and DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel.

Rupert Vansittart

Rupert Vansittart (Rupert Nicholas Vansittart, b. 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey) is an English character actor known for Lord Ashfordly in Heartbeat, Yohn Royce in Game of Thrones, Mr Hurst in Pride and Prejudice, and Braveheart's Lord Bottoms.

Russ Abbot

Russ Abbot, born Russell Allan Roberts in 1947 in Chester, England, is a retired English comedian and actor whose 1980s Saturday-night sketch series drew 18 million viewers an episode.

Russ Tamblyn

Russ Tamblyn, born Russell Irving Tamblyn in 1934, is an American actor best known as Riff in West Side Story (1961) and Dr. Jacoby in Twin Peaks.

Russell Brand

Russell Edward Brand (born 1975, Grays, Essex), English comedian, actor, radio host, and author; star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, later YouTube/Rumble commentator; charged with rape and sexual assault in April 2025.

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe (born 1964, Wellington, New Zealand) is a New Zealand-born, Australian-raised actor who won the Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator (2000) and earned three consecutive nominations, later starring in A Beautiful Mind, The Loudest Voice, and Nuremberg.

Russell Harvard

Russell Harvard (born 1981, Pasadena, Texas) is a third-generation Deaf American actor known for There Will Be Blood, The Hammer, Mr. Wrench on Fargo, Tribes (Theatre World Award), and Broadway's King Lear and To Kill a Mockingbird.

Russell Hornsby

Russell Hornsby (born 1974) is an American stage, film, and television actor known for Lincoln Heights, Grimm's Hank Griffin, Maverick Carter in The Hate U Give, and BMF, with August Wilson stage credits including Fences and Jitney.

Russell Johnson

Russell Johnson (1924–2014), American character actor, played Professor Roy Hinkley on Gilligan's Island (1964–67, 98 episodes); WWII Army Air Forces veteran shot down over the Philippines; distinct from other people named Russell Johnson.

Russell Tovey

Russell Tovey, born 1981 in Billericay, Essex, is an English actor known for Being Human's George Sands, Rudge in The History Boys, Looking, and Years and Years, plus the Talk Art podcast.