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Screen actors of the Anglosphere and Europe

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Brian Wilde

Brian George Wilde (1927-2008), English comedy actor, best known as prison officer Mr Barrowclough in Porridge (1974-77) and Walter "Foggy" Dewhurst in Last of the Summer Wine (1976-85, 1990-97, 116 episodes).

Briana Cuoco

Briana Cuoco (born 1988, Ventura, California) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer, younger sister of Kaley Cuoco; known for voicing Batgirl on Harley Quinn and playing Jenny the Butcher on Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives.

Brianna Hildebrand

Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand, born 1996 in College Station, Texas, is an American actress known as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the Deadpool films, Elodie in Trinkets, and Rory in Lucifer's final season.

Brianne Howey

Brianne Howey (born 1989) is an American actress known as Georgia Miller on Netflix's Ginny & Georgia (2021–), earlier Kat Rance in The Exorcist and Shauna Babcock in The Passage; films include Dear Santa and Kinda Pregnant.

Bridger Zadina

Bridger Zadina (full name Bridger Phillip Zadina) is an American actor and producer born 1994, in Duluth, Minnesota; known for Chad in Terri (2011), Sharkey on Bosch, Harvey on Better Things, Mordis on Inhumans, and voice roles in Spirit Riding Free and Max & Me.

Bridget Fonda

Bridget Fonda (Bridget Jane Fonda, born 1964) is a retired American actress of the Fonda acting family, known for Single White Female, Jackie Brown, and A Simple Plan; she retired after Snow Queen in 2002 and declined a return in 2023.

Bridget Moynahan

Bridget Moynahan (Kathryn Bridget Moynahan), American actress and model from Binghamton, New York; known as Natasha on Sex and the City, Susan Calvin in I, Robot, Erin Reagan in Blue Bloods, and Helen in John Wick.

Bridget Regan

Bridget Catherine Regan (born 1982, San Diego County, California) is an American actress known for Kahlan Amnell in Legend of the Seeker, Rose in Jane the Virgin, Dottie Underwood in Agent Carter, Poison Ivy in Batwoman, Monica Stevens in The Rookie, and Broadway's Is He Dead?.

Bridgit Mendler

Bridgit Mendler (born 1992), American actress, singer, and entrepreneur; star of Good Luck Charlie and Lemonade Mouth, debut album Hello My Name Is..., now cofounder and CEO of satellite ground station startup Northwood Space.

Brie Larson

Brie Larson (Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers), American actress born 1989 in Sacramento; Oscar winner for Room (2015), Marvel's Captain Marvel, director of Unicorn Store, star of Lessons in Chemistry.

Brigid Brannagh

Brigid Brannagh (born 1972), also credited as Brigid Walsh, is an American actress from San Francisco known for Pamela Moran in Army Wives and Stacey Yorkes in Marvel's Runaways.

Brigit Forsyth

Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell, 1940-2023), Scottish actress best known as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?; also Sharon and Elsie, Playing the Field, Still Open All Hours, and stage work.

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (1934-2025), French actress and singer, star of Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) and Le Mépris, retired 1973, founded the Fondation Brigitte Bardot in 1986.

Brigitte Nielsen

Brigitte Nielsen, born Gitte Nielsen (1963, Rødovre, Denmark), Danish model-turned-actress and singer; Red Sonja, Rocky IV's Ludmila Drago (reprised in Creed II), marriage to Stallone, and reality-TV revival.

Brit Marling

Brit Marling (born 1982, Chicago) is an American actress, screenwriter, and producer known for co-writing, producing, and starring in Another Earth and Sound of My Voice, both 2011 Sundance premieres, and for co-creating The OA and A Murder at the End of the World with Zal Batmanglij.

Britt Ekland

Britt Ekland (Britt-Marie Eklund, born 1942) is a Swedish actress, Peter Sellers's ex-wife, Bond girl Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun, and Willow in The Wicker Man.

Britt Robertson

Britt Robertson (birth name Brittany Leanna Robertson) is an American actress born in 1990 in Charlotte, North Carolina, known for Life Unexpected, The Secret Circle, and Tomorrowland.

Brittany Allen

Brittany Allen (born 1986, Toronto) is a Canadian actor and composer, Daytime Emmy winner for All My Children, Popclaw in The Boys, and a 2026 Emmy nominee for playing Roxie Hamler on The Pitt.

Brittany Curran

Brittany Curran (Brittany Elizabeth Curran), American actress born 1990 in Weymouth, Massachusetts; played Lucy Tranelli on Men of a Certain Age, Sophie Fletcher in Dear White People, and Fen on Syfy's The Magicians (2017-2020).

Brittany Daniel

Brittany Ann Daniel, American actress born 1976 in Gainesville, Florida; twin of Cynthia Daniel. Known as Jessica Wakefield on Sweet Valley High, Kelly Pitts on The Game, and a stage IV non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.

Brittany Murphy

Brittany Murphy (1977–2009) was an American actress known as Tai in Clueless, Luanne on King of the Hill, and for 8 Mile, Sin City, and Happy Feet. She died at 32 in 2009 of pneumonia, anemia, and prescription medications.

Brittany Snow

Brittany Snow (Brittany Anne Snow, born 1986, Tampa, Florida) is an American actress, singer, and director known for Guiding Light, American Dreams, Hairspray, the Pitch Perfect franchise, and her 2023 directorial debut Parachute.

Brock Peters

Brock Peters (George Fisher, 1927–2005), American actor and singer known for Tom Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird, Crown in Porgy and Bess, Admiral Cartwright in Star Trek IV and VI, Joseph Sisko on Deep Space Nine, and his 1990 SAG Life Achievement Award.

Broderick Crawford

Broderick Crawford (1911–1986), American actor; Oscar winner as Willie Stark in All the King's Men (1949) and star of the syndicated TV series Highway Patrol as Chief Dan Mathews.

Bronagh Gallagher

Bronagh Gallagher (born 1972) is a Northern Irish actress and soul singer from Derry, known as Bernie McGloughlin in The Commitments (1991), Pulp Fiction, The Phantom Menace, Brassic, and her Salty Dog Records albums.

Broncho Billy Anderson

Broncho Billy Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson, born Maxwell Henry Aronson, 1880-1971), American silent-film pioneer, first cowboy movie star, and co-founder of Essanay Studios, star of the Broncho Billy western series.

Bronson Pinchot

Bronson Pinchot (born 1959) is an American actor, Balki Bartokomous on Perfect Strangers (1986–93) and Serge in Beverly Hills Cop; Emmy-nominated in 1987, also a 400-plus audiobook narrator and star of Netflix's The Residence (2025).

Bronwyn James

Bronwyn James (born 1994, Wakefield, Yorkshire per IMDb; some databases list London) is an English actress known for Fanny Lambert in Harlots, ShenShen in Wicked (2024), DC Muriel Yeardsley in Wild Bill, Ellen McKenzie in The Dig, and Ruffnut in the 2025 live-action How to Train Your Dragon; trained at CAPA College and ALRA North, debuting in Hangmen (2015). Not the Australian actress Bronwen James of Cut and Anzac Girls.

Brooke Adams (actress)

Brooke Adams is an American actress born 1949 in New York City, star of Days of Heaven, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Dead Zone; not the wrestler Brooke Adams or Brooke Lee Adams. Married to Tony Shalhoub.

Brooke Bundy

Brooke Bundy names two American actresses: a veteran screen actress (born 1943 or 1944, NYC) who played Elaine Parker in Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and 4, and Bruce Bundy, Octavia in The Hunger Games.