50 British Female Celebrities: Famous UK People

If you’re a follower of UK lifestyle and society, this post is for you. From BBC presenters to actresses, there is something for everyone here. Whether you are interested in life of celebrity gossip or biographies, this post will give you all about 50 of the best UK female celebrities.

1. Kate Beckinsale

Name	Kate Beckinsale
Date of Birth	26 July 1973
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Kathrin Romany Beckinsale is an English actress and model born on 26 July 1973. As a student at the University of Oxford, she made her film debut in 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing, following a few minor television roles. She featured in theatrical and radio performances and British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994) and The Golden Bowl (2000).

2. Emma Watson

Name	Emma Watson
Date of Birth	15 April 1990
Place of Birth	Paris, France
Occupation	Actress; Activist
Years active	1999–present

Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born in England on 15 April 1990 and is an actress and activist. She has received several awards, including a Young Artist Award and three MTV Movie Awards, for her roles in blockbusters and independent films and her work in women’s rights advocacy. Forbes and Vanity Fair have ranked Watson among the highest-paid actresses in the world, and Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.

3. Jenna Coleman

Name	Jenna Coleman
Date of Birth	27 April 1986
Place of Birth	Blackpool, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996- 2004–present

Jenna Coleman was born on April 27, 1986. She is an English actress. She is renowned for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale, Clara Oswald in Doctor Who, Queen Victoria in Victoria, Joanna Lindsay in The Cry, and Marie-Andrée Leclerc in The Serpent. She has also appeared in other films, such as Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Me Before You (2016). In 2022, she played Johanna Constantine in The Sandman, a fantasy drama series on Netflix.

4. Catherine – Princess of Wales

Name	Catherine, Princess of Wales
Date of Birth	9 January 1982
Place of Birth	Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, England
Married	Prince William
Education	University of St. Andrews (2005), St Andrew’s, Berkshire, Marlborough College, Downe House

Catherine, Princess of Wales, was born in Reading on January 9, 1982. Catherine’s childhood home was Bucklebury, Berkshire. She is a member of the royal family of Great Britain. She is married to the heir presumptive to the British throne, Prince William of Wales, making Catherine the likely next queen consort. Before studying art history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she met William in 2001, she attended St Andrew’s School and Marlborough College. Before their engagement was announced in November 2010, she worked in retail, marketing, and charitable work.

5. Lauren Cohan

Name	Lauren Cohan
Date of Birth	January 7, 1982
Place of Birth	Cherry Hill, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present

Lauren Cohan was born on January 7, 1982. She is an American-British actress best known for her role as Maggie Greene in The Walking Dead on AMC. Her film roles include the comedies Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) and The Boy (2016), the psychological thriller horror All Eyez on Me (2017), and the action thriller Mile 22 (2018). 

6. Gemma Atkinson

Name	Gemma Atkinson
Date of Birth	16 November 1984
Place of Birth	Bury, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress, radio host, and former glamour model
Partner	Gorka Márquez

Gemma Louise Atkinson was born on November 16, 1984, and is an English influencer, actress, radio host, and former glamour model. She portrayed Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks (2001–2005) and its three spin-off series, Hollyoaks: After Hours (2004), Hollyoaks: Let Loose (2005), and Hollyoaks: In the City (2006), Tamzin Bayle in Casualty (2011–2012) and Carly Hope in Emmerdale (2011–2014). On the Hits Radio Network, she currently hosts the drive time slot. Atkinson will reprise her role as Lisa Hunter on Hollyoaks, according to an announcement made in November 2021.

7. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Name	Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
Date of Birth	18 April 1987
Place of Birth	Plymouth, England
Occupation	Model; Actress
Partner(s)	Jason Statham(2010–present; engaged)

Rosie Alice Huntington-Whiteley was born in England on 18 April 1987 and is a model and actor. She is best known for her work for lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret, where she was formerly one of their “Angels,” for being the face of Burberry’s 2011 brand fragrance Burberry Body, for her work with Marks & Spencer, and, most recently, for her creative collaboration with denim-focused fashion brand Paige. She has supporting parts as Carly Spencer in the third edition of the Transformers film series, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, and The Splendid Angharad in the 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road.

8. Alice Eve

Name	Alice Eve
Date of Birth	1981/1982
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2004–present

Alice Sophia Eve is a British actress born in 1981 or 1982. Her filmography consists of She’s Out of My League, Men in Black 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Before We Go. She has recurred on the television series Entourage and Iron Fist. Eve has appeared in BBC’s The Rotters’ Club, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, and Hawking, as well as the drama film Stage Beauty.

9. Gemma Arterton

Name	Gemma Arterton
Date of Birth	2 February 1986
Place of Birth	Gravesend, England
Occupation	Actress; Producer
Years active	2007–present

The English actress and producer Gemma Christina Arterton was born on 2 February 1986. After making her stage debut in Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Globe Theatre in 2007, Arterton made her feature film debut in the comedy St. Trinian’s (2007). Her performance as Bond Girl Strawberry Fields in the 2008 James Bond film Quantum of Solace earned her the Empire Award for Best Newcomer.

Rebel Park Productions, which Arterton has owned and operated since 2016, specializes in creating content that features women in front of and behind the camera. She has served as executive producer on four feature-length films and two shorts.

10. Emilia Clarke

Name	Emilia Clarke
Date of Birth	23 October 1986
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2009–present

Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke was born on October 23, 1986. She is a British actress best known for her role as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. She has been nominated for multiple awards, including the Empire Award, the Saturn Award, and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Time magazine ranked Clarke among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2019. In 2009, she made her television debut as a guest star on Doctors, a BBC One medical soap opera.

11. Emily Blunt

Name	Emily Blunt
Date of Birth	23 February 1983
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present

Emily Olivia Leah Blunt was born on 23 February 1983 in England. She has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards and has won the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2020, Forbes ranked her among the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2001, Blunt made her stage acting debut in a production of The Royal Family.

She subsequently appeared in the 2003 television film Boudica and the miniseries Henry VIII as Queen Catherine Howard. She made her debut in a feature-length film with the drama My Summer of Love. Blunt’s breakthrough came in 2006 with her leading roles in Gideon’s Daughter and The Devil Wears Prada.

12. Elizabeth Hurley

Name	Elizabeth Hurley
Date of Birth	10 June 1965
Place of Birth	Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
Occupation	Actress; Model
Years active	1987–present

Elizabeth Jane Hurley was born in England on 10 June 1965 and is an actress and model. Her most notable film performances as an actress have been Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and the Devil in Bedazzled (2000). Hurley has as Morgan le Fay in Runaways (2019), based on the Marvel Comics series of the same name, and starred in the E! original series The Royals (2015-2018).

13. Daisy Ridley

Name	Daisy Ridley
Date of Birth	10 April 1992
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress; Voice artist
Years active	2013–present

Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley was born in England on 10 April 1992 and is an actress. She gained popularity for her portrayal of Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy: The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017), and The Rise of Skywalker (2018). (2019). She also appeared in the mystery film Murder on the Orient Express (2017), portrayed the title character in the romantic drama Ophelia (2018), and has occasionally voiced characters in films and video games, such as the live-action/animated film Peter Rabbit (2018) and the video game 12 Minutes.

14. Kelly Brook

Name	Kelly Brook
Date of Birth	23 November 1979
Place of Birth	Rochester, Kent, England
Occupation	Model; actress; media personality
Years active	1996–present

Kelly Ann Parsons was born on November 23, 1979. She is an English model, actress, and media personality professionally known as Kelly Brook. She is well-known for her modeling career in the United Kingdom and her role as Prudence on the NBC sitcom One Big Happy in the United States (2015). Brook is recognized as a sex and fashion icon. She was named FHM’s Sexiest Woman in the world in 2005, and as of 2015, she had been included in every FHM 100 Sexiest countdown since 1998.

15. Florence Pugh

Name	Florence Pugh
Date of Birth	3 January 1996
Place of Birth	Oxford, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2014–present

Florence Pugh is an English actress born on January 3, 1996. In 2014, she made her acting debut in The Falling, a drama film. Pugh won the British Independent Film Award in 2016 for her major role as a young bride in the independent movie Lady Macbeth. After acting in the 2018 television picture King Lear, she was nominated for the BAFTA Rising Star Award for leading part in the 2018 miniseries The Little Drummer Girl.

16. Lily Collins

Name	Lily Collins
Date of Birth	18 March 1989
Place of Birth	Guildford, Surrey, England
Occupation	Actress; Model
Years active	1992–present

Lily Jane Collins is a British and American actress and model born on 18 March 1989. Collins, born in Guildford, Surrey, and raised in Los Angeles, had his screen debut at the age of two in the BBC series Growing Pains. Collins began acting and modeling more frequently in the late 2000s, and she achieved a career breakthrough with her performance in The Blind Side, the third highest-grossing picture of 2009.

Collins was lauded for her performances as Marla Mabrey in the 2016 comedy Rules Don’t Apply, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and as a young woman with anorexia in the controversial Netflix film To the Bone.

17. Keira Knightley

Name	Keira Knightley
Date of Birth	26 March 1985
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Keira Christina Righton was born in England on 26 March 1985. She has been nominated for multiple awards, including two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and a Laurence Olivier Award, for her work in indie films and blockbusters, notably period dramas. In 2018, she was awarded an OBE for her contributions to theater and charity at Buckingham Palace.

18. Abbey Clancy

Name	Abbey Clancy
Date of Birth	10 January 1986
Place of Birth	Liverpool, England
Occupation	lingerie and catwalk model, and television personality
Education	Attended St Mary’s Primary School and St Julie’s Catholic High School. Clancy formed girl band Genie Queen

Abigail Marie Clancy was born on 10 January 1986 in Liverpool, and is an English lingerie and catwalk model and a television personality. In 2006, she placed second on Britain’s Next Top Model (cycle 2), and in 2013, she won series 11 of Strictly Come Dancing. She has presented Britain’s Next Top Model since 2015.

19. Cheryl Cole

Name	Cheryl Cole
Date of Birth	30 June 1983
Place of Birth	Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Occupation	Singer; Television personality
Years active	2002–present

Cheryl Ann Tweedy is an English singer and television personality; she was born on 30 June 1983. She won a spot in Girls Aloud, a girl group formed through ITV’s Popstars: The Rivals, and rose to prominence in late 2002. Cheryl was the first British female solo artist to have five UK number-one singles, and she held the record for most UK number-one singles by a British female solo artist until Jess Glynne surpassed her in 2018.

20. Rachel Riley

Name	Rachel Riley
Date of Birth	11 January 1986
Place of Birth	Rochford, Essex, England
Occupation	Television presenter
Years active	2009–present

Rachel Annabelle Riley is a British television presenter. She was born on 11 January 1986. She co-hosts the daytime puzzle show Countdown on Channel 4, and its comic spin-off 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She is a graduate of mathematics. She made her television debut at age 22 when she joined Countdown. She has recently co-presented The Gadget Show on Channel 5 (2013–14), and It’s Not Rocket Science on ITV, due to her interest in popularizing mathematics and the sciences (2016). In 2013, she also competed in the BBC dance competition Strictly Come Dancing.

21. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Name	Catherine Zeta-Jones
Date of Birth	25 September 1969
Place of Birth	Swansea, Wales
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1981–present

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born in Wales on September 25, 1969. She has received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award, in recognition of her versatility. Due to her filmmaking and humanitarian efforts, she was granted Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2010.

22. Jessica-Jane Clement

Name	Jessica-Jane Clement
Date of Birth	24 February 1985
Place of Birth	Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
Occupation	Actress, television presenter model
Years active	2003-Present

Jessica-Jane Stafford was born on February 24, 1985. She is an English actress, television presenter, and former glamour model best known for starring in the 2006-2012 BBC series The Real Hustle. Clement began her career as a successful glamour model who appeared on Page Three. At eighteen, she appeared in Playboy and modeled for photographers Byron Newman, Rankin, and Bob Carlos Clarke, for whom she was the “Living Doll” in the show “Love Dolls Never Die.” She was featured in various men’s magazines, with her modeling career expanding due to The Real Hustle’s fame and two breast augmentations.

23. Holly Willoughby

Name	Holly Willoughby
Date of Birth	10 February 1981
Place of Birth	Brighton, East Sussex, England
Occupation	Television;  presenter; author; model
Years active	2000–present

Holly Marie Willoughby was born on 10 February 1981 and is an English presenter, novelist, and model. Together with Phillip Schofield, she co-hosts ITV’s This Morning (2009–present) and Dancing on Ice (2006–2011, 2018–present). Willoughby was a team leader on the ITV2 comic panel show Celebrity Juice from 2008 to 2020.

24. Hayley Atwell

Name	Hayley Atwell
Date of Birth	5 April 1982
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present

Hayley Elizabeth Atwell was born on 5 April 1982 in the United Kingdom and the United States. Atwell studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and made her stage debut in 2005 in James Kerr’s adaptation of the Ancient Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound. Her breakthrough role as Lady Elizabeth Foster in The Duchess (2008), for which she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, led to subsequent appearances in multiple West End productions and on television. The Pillars of the Earth (2010) earned her a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.

25. Michelle Keegan

Name	Michelle Keegan
Date of Birth	3 June 1987
Place of Birth	Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2007–present

Michelle Elizabeth Keegan was born on June 3, 1987. She is an English actress well-known for her roles as Tina McIntyre in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and Sergeant Georgie Lane on the BBC drama series Our Girl. Keegan additionally portrayed Tracy Shawcross in the BBC One drama Ordinary Lies, Tina Moore in the biopic Tina and Bobby, and Erin Croft in the Sky Max comedy Brassic.

26. Rachel Weisz

Name	Rachel Weisz
Date of Birth	7 March 1970 or 1971
Place of Birth	Westminster, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1992–present

Rachel Hannah Weisz was born in England on 7 March 1970 or 1971. She has received numerous honors, including an Academy Award, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a BAFTA Award. In the early 1990s, Weisz began acting in British theater and television and made her film debut with Death Machine (1994). She received a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award for her performance in the 1994 revival of Nol Coward’s play Design for Living. She subsequently starred in the 1999 Donmar Warehouse production of Tennessee Williams’ drama Suddenly, Last Summer.

27. Rosamund Pike

Name	Rosamund Pike
Date of Birth	1979
Place of Birth	Hammersmith, London
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1998–present

Rosamund Mary Ellen Pike is a British actress who was born in 1979. She has garnered numerous honors, including a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award, as well as Academy Award and British Academy Film Award nominations. Pike began her career as an actress by starring in theatre shows, including Romeo and Juliet and Gas Light.

Her cinematic debut as Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day (2002) earned her the Empire Award for Best Newcomer, following her television debut in A Rather English Marriage (1998). She earned the BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Libertine (2004) and portrayed Jane Bennet in Pride & Prejudice after her breakthrough (2005)

28. Sienna Miller

Name	Sienna Miller
Date of Birth	December 28, 1981
Place of Birth	New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present

Sienna Rosie Diana Miller was born on December 28, 1981, in the United States and Great Britain. She began her career as a photography model, appearing on the pages of Italian Vogue and the 2003 Pirelli calendar after being born in New York City and reared in London. Her breakthrough performance was in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie.

She was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Rising Star Award for portraying socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008). Following her appearance as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), she took a brief break from acting in the face of increased tabloid criticism.

29. Cara Delevingne

Name	Cara Delevingne
Date of Birth	12 August 1992
Place of Birth	Hammersmith, London, England
Occupation	Model; Actor; Singer
Years active	2009–present

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born in England on 12 August 1992 and is a model and actor. In 2009, after finishing school, she signed up with Storm Management. In 2012 and 2014, Delevingne won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Delevingne began her acting career with a small part in Joe Wright’s 2012 adaptation of Anna Karenina.

30. Rachel Stevens

Name	Rachel Stevens
Date of Birth	9 April 1978
Place of Birth	Southgate, London, England
Occupation	Former singer; Television personality; Actress; Businesswoman
Years active	1999–2005 (singer)2005–present (tv personality)

Rachel Lauren Stevens was born on April 9, 1978. She is a former English singer, television personality, actor, and entrepreneur. 1999 until 2003, she was a member of the pop group S Club 7. In September 2003, she released her debut studio album as a solo artist, Funky Dory.

In October 2003, the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) granted the album its gold certification when it reached number nine on the UK album chart. Two singles were first released from the album, “Sweet Dreams My LA Ex” and “Funky Dory”: “Sweet Dreams My LA Ex” reached number two in the UK and gained a silver certification from the BPI.

31. Rebecca Mader

Name	Rebecca Mader
Date of Birth	24 April 1977
Place of Birth	Cambridge, England
Occupation	Actress, producer
Years active	2000–present

Rebecca Leigh Mader was born in Cambridge, England, on April 24, 1977. She is an English actress most recognized for her work as Charlotte Lewis on ABC’s Lost and Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West on ABC’s Once Upon a Time, for which she received critical praise. She spent one year as a model in New York City, starring in advertisements for L’Oréal, Colgate, and Wella Hair.

She began her television career as Morgan Gordon on the ABC daytime serial opera All My Children and Margaret Cochran on One Life to Live. In 2003, she debuted on the soap drama Guiding Light.

32. Felicity Jones

Name	Felicity Jones
Date of Birth	17 October 1983
Place of Birth	Birmingham, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1996–present

Felicity Rose Hadley Jones was born in the United Kingdom on 17 October 1983. Her professional acting career began at age 12 when she appeared in The Treasure Seekers (1996). She subsequently portrayed Ethel Hallow for one season of The Worst Witch and its sequel Weirdsister College. She has portrayed Emma Grundy in the BBC radio program The Archers. In 2016, Jones starred in the action-adventure film Inferno, co-featured in the action-adventure film Collide, and portrayed Jyn Erso in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. She got the BAFTA Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year in the same year.

33. Kate Winslet

Name	Kate Winslet
Date of Birth	5 October 1975
Place of Birth	Reading, Berkshire, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in England on 5 October 1975. She has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards, in recognition of her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, and her portrayals of strong and complicated women. In 2009 and 2021, Time magazine named Winslet one of the 100 most important persons in the world. In 2012, she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

34. Tamsin Egerton

Name	Tamsin Egerton
Date of Birth	26 November 1988
Place of Birth	Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2001–present

Tamsin Olivia Egerton was born on November 26, 1988. She is a British actress best known for her performances as Chelsea Parker in the 2007 film St Trinian’s, Holly Goodfellow in the 2005 film Keeping Mum, and Guinevere in the 2011 television series Camelot. In her film debut, Egerton played Holly Goodfellow, the precocious daughter of a vicar, in the 2005 black comedy Keeping Mum, in which she performed a nude scene. In St. Trinian’s, her breakout performance was as Chelsea, a privileged group member (2007). In 2009, she repeated the role in St. Trinian’s II: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold.

35. Rebecca Hall

Name	Rebecca Hall
Date of Birth	3 May 1982
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Actress; Filmmaker
Years active	1992–present

Rebecca Maria Hall was born in England on 3 May 1982 and is an actress and filmmaker. She made her first screen appearance at age 10 in her father, Sir Peter Hall’s 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn. In 2002, she made her professional stage debut in her father’s production of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, for which she received the Ian Charleson Award.

36. Imogen Thomas

Name	Imogen Thomas
Date of Birth	29 November 1982
Place of Birth	Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales
Occupation	Model; Television personality
Achievement	Miss Wales award in 2003

Imogen Mary Thomas was born on November 29, 1982. She is a Welsh television personality and model. She won Miss Wales in 2003 and competed on the seventh season of Big Brother on Channel 4 in 2006. Imogen and fellow Big Brother competitor Glyn Wise participated in the S4C Planed Plant paranormal investigation program Ofn, filmed at Chirk Castle. In addition, she represented herself in a cameo in the S4C soap drama Pobol y Cwm.

37. Amy Childs

Name	Amy Childs
Date of Birth	7 June 1990
Place of Birth	Barking, London, England
Occupation	Television personality; model
Years active	2010–present

Amy Andrea Childs was born on 7 June 1990 and is an English model and television personality. She appeared in the first two seasons of the ITV2 reality show The Only Way Is Essex, and then from 2011 to 2012, she starred in her reality show, It’s All About Amy. Childs finished fourth place on Celebrity Big Brother 8 on Channel 5 in 2011 and appeared on The Jump on Channel 4 in 2014. In 2020, Childs returned to The Only Way is Essex.

38. Helen Flanagan

Name	Helen Flanagan
Date of Birth	7 August 1990
Place of Birth	Bury, Greater Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2000–present

Helen Flanagan, born in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, on August 7, 1990, is an English actress. She is best known for portraying Rosie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2000 to 2012, a role she reprised in 2017 before taking maternity leave on June 8, 2018. In January of 2000, Flanagan made her debut on Coronation Street as Rosie Webster. In 2006, she was nominated for the British Soap Award for “Best Dramatic Performance by a Young Actor or Actress.”

39. Rachel Hurd-Wood

Name	Rachel Hurd-Wood
Date of Birth	17 August 1990
Place of Birth	Streatham, London, England
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2002–present

Rachel Clare Hurd-Wood was born on August 17, 1990, in the Streatham district of South London, England. She is best known for her roles as Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (2003) and Rachel Maddox in Clique. Her performance was praised, and she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor and a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Leading Young Actress for her work.

40. Naomi Scott

Name	Naomi Scott
Date of Birth	6 May 1993
Place of Birth	Hounslow, London, England
Occupation	Actress; Singer
Years active	2008–present

Naomi Scott is an English actress and singer born on 6 May 1993. She rose to prominence for her roles in the 2011 television film Lemonade Mouth and the science fiction series Terra Nova. She was born in Hounslow. 2015 marked her as one of Screen International’s “Stars of Tomorrow.” In 2019, she was nominated for a Saturn Award for her performance as Princess Jasmine in Disney’s live-action musical fantasy film Aladdin. In addition, she has appeared in the 2017 superhero film Power Rangers and the action comedy Charlie’s Angels.

41. Samantha Harvey

Name	Samantha Harvey
Date of Birth	30 May 1993
Place of Birth	Harleston, Suffolk, England
Occupation	Singer
Years active	2014–present

Samantha Harvey was born on 30 May 1993 and is currently signed to Virgin EMI Records in the United Kingdom and Capitol Records in the United States. She initially gained a following by uploading YouTube covers of popular songs. “Forgive Forget,” her 2017 independently released single, peaked at 48 on the UK Singles Chart. “Please” was her debut single on a major label, released in February 2018. In March 2018, she released her first EP for a major label, Please.

42. Lucy Verasamy

Name	Lucy Verasamy
Date of Birth	2 August 1980
Place of Birth	King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England
Occupation	TV presenter
Years active	2005–present

Lucy Verasamy, born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, on 2 August 1980, is a British meteorologist for ITV Weather, ITV Racing, and ITV’s Good Morning Britain. After completing an internship at the Sky Weather Centre before becoming a weather forecaster, Verasamy joined Sky and became the regular weather presenter on the Sky News morning program Sunrise. As part of their Green Britain campaign, the Sky News website launched a program in 2007 named Climate Clinic – Ask Lucy, in which Verasamy answered questions posed by the public addressing climate change. She also contributes to The Weather Girls blog of Sky News.

43. Nigella Lawson

Name	Nigella Lawson
Date of Birth	6 January 1960
Place of Birth	Wandsworth, London, England
Occupation	Food writer; television cook; restaurant critic; journalist; author; television presenter
Years active	1983–present

Nigella Lucy Lawson was born in England on 6 January 1960 and is a food writer and television chef. She attended London’s Godolphin and Latymer School. Lawson began her career as a book reviewer and restaurant critic after graduating from the University of Oxford, where she was a member of Lady Margaret Hall, and then became the deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986. She subsequently began a career as a freelance journalist, contributing to a variety of publications and periodicals. 

44. Susanna Reid

Name	Susanna Reid
Date of Birth	10 December 1970
Place of Birth	Croydon, London, England
Occupation	Journalist; Television presenter
Years active	1982–present

Susanna Reid was born on 10 December 1970. She is an English journalist and television presenter. She co-hosted BBC Breakfast alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt from 2003 until 2014. She placed second on the eleventh season of Strictly Come Dancing in 2013. Reid, alongside Ben Shephard, Kate Garraway, and earlier Piers Morgan, has been the principal host of the ITV Breakfast show Good Morning Britain since 2014. In 2010 and 2011, she also hosted Sunday Morning Live on BBC One.

45. Sarah Alexander

Name	Sarah Alexander
Date of Birth	3 January 1971
Place of Birth	Hammersmith, London, England
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1989–present

Sarah Alexander was born in England on 3 January 1971. She has appeared in several British television programs, including Armstrong and Miller, Smack the Pony, Coupling, The Worst Week of My Life, Green Wing, Marley’s Ghosts, and Jonathan Creek. In 1992, Alexander acted as a witness to an attempted robbery in The Bill. (Reference needed) She portrayed Muriel in an episode of the BBC comedy-drama Lovejoy the following year. In the 1994 film Drop the Dead Donkey, she portrayed Nicky, Damien’s risk-taking weather reporter lover.

46. Tulisa Contostavlos

Name	Tulisa Contostavlos
Date of Birth	13 July 1988
Place of Birth	London, England
Occupation	Singer; Songwriter; Rapper;  Actress; Television personality
Years active	2000–present

Tula Paulinea “Tulisa” Contostavlo is an English singer, television personality, and actress; she was born on 13 July 1988. As members of the R&B/hip hop group N-Dubz alongside her cousin Dappy and friend Fazer, they received two platinum- and two gold-certified albums, five MOBO awards, a Brit Award nominations, thirteen top 40 singles, six silver-certified singles, and three Urban Music Awards.

47. Gemma Merna

Name	Gemma Merna
Date of Birth	6 February 1984
Place of Birth	Manchester, England
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2006–2017, 2022–present

Gemma Merna was born in England on 6 February 1984 and is an actor and model. She is best known for portraying Carmel McQueen from 2006 to 2014 on the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks. In August of 2006, Merna joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap serial Hollyoaks. She received Best Comedy Performance at the British Soap Awards in 2007. Merna starred on All Star Family Fortunes in a Hollyoaks vs. Emmerdale special in 2008. In February 2013, she competed against gardener, landscape designer, and television personality Diarmuid Gavin on All Star Family Fortunes.

48. Billie Piper

Name	Billie Piper
Date of Birth	22 September 1982
Place of Birth	Swindon, Wiltshire, England
Occupation	Actress; Writer; Singer
Years active	1996–2003 (singer)2003–present (acting)

The English actress and former singer Billie Paul Piper was born on 22 September 1982. She first rose to prominence as a singer after releasing her debut single “Because We Want To” at 15, making her the youngest woman to ever reach number one on the UK Singles Chart. “Girlfriend,” her subsequent single, also debuted at number one.

Honey to the B was Piper’s debut studio album, released in 1998, and was certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. Her second studio album, Walk of Life, was released in 2000 and gave rise to her third number-one single, “Day & Night.” In 2003, Piper announced that she had left the music industry to pursue an acting career.

49. Anya Taylor-Joy

Name	Anya Taylor-Joy
Date of Birth	16 April 1996
Place of Birth	Miami, Florida, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2013–present

Anya-Josephine Marie Taylor-Joy is an actress. She was born in Miami on April 16, 1996, and reared in Buenos Aires and London. She has received numerous honors, including a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. She appeared on Time magazine’s 100 Next lists in 2021. She made her cinematic debut with a leading part in the 2015 horror film The Witch and has since starred in the horror films Split (2016), Glass (2019), and Thoroughbreds (2019). (2017). In 2017, she was awarded the Trophée Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival.

50. Pixie Lott

Name	Pixie Lott
Date of Birth	12 January 1991
Place of Birth	Bromley, London, England
Occupation	Singer; Songwriter; Actress
Years active	2006–present

Victoria Louise Lott born on January 12, 1991, professionally known as Pixie Lott, is an English singer and songwriter. Released in September 2009, her debut album Turn It Up debuted at number six on the UK Albums Chart and sold over 1.5 million copies. In addition, the album produced six straight top twenty songs on the UK Singles Chart, including two number-one singles, “Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh)” and “Boys and Girls.”

Her second album, Young Foolish Happy (2011), produced the number-one smash “All About Tonight” as well as the top ten songs “What Do You Take Me For?” and “Kiss the Stars.” The 2014 release of Lott’s self-titled third studio album featured the lead track “Nasty,” which peaked at number nine on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her sixth Top 10 single in the United Kingdom.