In The Agatha Christie Hour, she was portrayed by British actress Angela Easterling, while in Agatha Christie's Poirot, she was portrayed by Pauline Moran.

American TV was the setting for the first dramatic portrayal of Miss Marple with Gracie Fields, the legendary British actress, playing her in a 1956 episode of Goodyear TV Playhouse based on A Murder Is Announced, the 1950 Christie novel.

* 1961 – Jane Leeves, British actress

* 1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, British model and actress

* 1917 – Valerie Hobson, British actress ( d. 1998 )

* 1941 – Julie Christie, British actress

* 1964 – Gina McKee, British actress

* 1945 – Diana Darvey, British actress, singer, and dancer ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – Jill Ireland, British actress ( d. 1990 )

Boudica is portrayed by British actress Ella Kenion.

* 1981 – Michelle Dockery, British actress

* 1963 – Caroline Aherne, British comedienne, writer and actress

* 1944 – Jane Lapotaire, British actress

* 1921 – Liz Smith, British actress

* 1960 – Maryam d ' Abo, British actress

* 1965 – Jackie Clune, British entertainer and actress

* 1986 – Heather Angel, British actress ( b. 1909 )

* 2008 – Kathy Staff, British actress ( b. 1928 )

Boztepe was romantically linked with British actress Jacqueline Bisset from 1997 until 2005.

* 1985 – Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-born British actress and model

* 1968 – Wendi Peters, British actress

* 1911 – Merle Oberon, British actress ( d. 1979 )

* 1976 – Kelly Macdonald, British actress

* 1983 – Emily Blunt, British actress

* 1931 – Claire Bloom, British actress

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British comedy-drama film starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi first released in the United Kingdom.

* 2002 London Film Critics Circle Awards: British Best Newcomer – Keira Knightley

Romanek's third feature was the 2010 British dystopian drama Never Let Me Go starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley.

The Keira dynasty finally ended in 1916 when the British annexed Darfur to the Sudan.

British actresses Keira Knightley and Lily Cole have been previously featured ; Stewart ′ s campaign was shot by photographer Candice, with Stewart under water.

Actresses like Ally McBeal star Calista Flockhart, Winona Ryder, recently the British actress Keira Knightley and singer Celine Dion have all been pinned with the term.

Steve Knightley ( born 1954 in Southampton, England ) is a singer-songwriter, musician and one half of British acoustic roots duo Show of Hands.

Alianza were a unique Anglo-Chilean collaboration between three British musicians, Steve Knightley, Phil Beer, and Dave Townsend, and three exiled Chilean musicians, Sergio Avila, Mauricio Venegas and Vladimir Vega.

Cerdic, who is of both Germanic and British descent and raised as a Roman citizen, served in his army as a young man.

Following the rapid change from a loose formation to a rigid line of battle both fleets raised their colours ; each British ship added additional Union Flags in its rigging in case its main flag was shot away.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

During this trip Douglass became legally free, as British supporters raised funds to purchase his freedom from his American owner Thomas Auld.

Also, some British sources have accounted the flag story ( He had the Spanish flag hauled down and the English flag hoisted in its stead ; Rooke's men quickly raised the British flag ... and Rooke claimed the Rock in the name of Queen Anne ; or Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own responsibility caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession in name of Queen Anne, whose government ratified the occupation ).

: What does seem nowadays proved is that the British troops who had landed on the South Mole area raised their flag to signal their presence to the ships, and avoid being fired upon by their own side.

He returned to France on 1 March 1815 ( see Hundred Days ), raised an army, but was comprehensively defeated by a British and Prussian force at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

Most of the revenue raised by the Mandate came from the Jewish minority but was spent on funding the British administration.

Therefore, with British permission, the Va ' ad raised its own taxes and ran independent services for the Jewish population.

On 29 March 1849, the British raised their flag on the citadel of Lahore and the Punjab was formally proclaimed to be part of the British Empire in India.

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was a British Army infantry regiment, originally raised in colonial North America as the Royal Americans, and recruited from American colonists.

With the creation of the British Empire, militias were also raised in the colonies, where little support could be provided by regular forces.

British flag raised by Queensland 1883

After several unsuccessful attempts, Nadir and his brothers finally raised a sufficiently large force — mostly from the British side of the Durand Line — to take Kabul on October 10, 1929.

In the British Empire ( originally in the maritime and hinterland sphere of influence of the East India Company, HEIC, later transformed into crown territories ), mainly in British India, the numbers of guns fired as a gun salute to the ruler of a so-called princely state became a politically highly significant indicator of his status, not governed by objective rules, but awarded ( and in various cases increased ) by the British paramount power, roughly reflecting his state's socio-economic, political and / or military weight, but also as a prestigious reward for loyalty to the Raj, in classes ( always odd numbers ) from three to 21 ( seven lacking ), for the " vassal " indigenous rulers ( normally hereditary with a throne, sometimes raised as a personal distinction for an individual ruling prince ).

The reason for the delay in relation to Canada and Australia was because the Statute still did not clarify the ability of the British Parliament to legislate concerning the Provinces of Canada, especially Quebec, which raised many objections, and the States of Australia.

He at times clashed with Churchill in the War Cabinet, and was unable to achieve significant assurances for increased commitment to Singapore's defences, but undertook morale boosting excursions to war affected cities and factories and was well received by the British press and generally raised awareness in Britain of Australia's contribution to its war effort.

** The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12, 500.

* October 21 – The word " Liberty " is first displayed on a flag raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts, in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.