List of British Jewish entertainers
This list of British Jewish entertainers includes entertainers (actors, directors, screenwriters, musicians, and others) from the United Kingdom and its predecessor states who are or were Jewish.
The number of Jews contributing to British cinema increased after 1933, when Jews were prohibited from working in Germany.[1] In the early 1930s, an anti-semitic newspaper, The Fascist (published by the Imperial Fascist League), sought to isolate the Jews in British cinema.[1]
In the 1970s, the scripts for television of British Jewish playwright Jack Rosenthal entitled Bar Mitzvah Boy and The Evacuees were praised as "unprecedented" "British-Jewish depictions".[2] Stephen Brook wrote in The Club in 1989 that while there had been Jewish actors in British theatre, Jews had been more prominent as producers or agents.[3] In 1995, The Independent observed that British Jewish comedians had taken the lead from American Jewish comedian Jackie Mason, by laughing at their own Jewish neuroses, Jewish mothers, and their leaning towards chicken soup and chopped liver, which they would not have done ten years prior.[4] By the year 2000, British-Jewish comics may have reached their largest numbers, including Arnold Brown, David Baddiel, and Sacha Baron Cohen.[5]
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Actors
- Jacob Adler,[6] Yiddish actor
- Ben Barnes (born 1981), actor[7]
- Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971),[8] comedian, notable for his comedy characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno; Borat is ironically portrayed as extremely anti-Semitic.
- Alfie Bass (1916–1987), actor[9]
- Gina Bellman (born 1966), New Zealand-born actress[10]
- Steven Berkoff (born 1937) actor, writer and director[11]
- Lionel Blair (born 1931),[12] TV entertainer
- Claire Bloom (born 1931), actress[13]
- John Bluthal (born 1928), actor
- Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966) Academy-Award nominated English film/television actress[14]
- Josh Bowman (born 1988), actor[15][16]
- Bernard Bresslaw (1934–1993), actor[11]
- Eleanor Bron (born 1938),[17] actress and name inspiration for Eleanor Rigby
- Katrin Cartlidge (1961–2002),[18] actress (Jewish mother)
- Debbie Chazen (born 1971)[19]
- Joan Collins (born 1933)[20] actress
- Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957)[21]
- Marty Feldman (1934–1982), television comedian (See "Film Actors" list, above.)
- Fenella Fielding (born 1927)[22]
- Maria Friedman,[23] musical theatre actress
- Rebecca Front (born 1964),[24] Comedy actress
- Stephen Fry (born 1957),[25] comedian and actor (Jewish mother)
- Andrew Garfield (born 1983)[26]
- Rafi Gavron (born 1989), actor[27]
- Hermione Gingold,[28] actress
- Iddo Goldberg (born 1975)[29]
- Henry Goodman (born 1950),[30] actor
- Laurence Harvey (1928–1973)[31] actor
- Leslie Howard (1893–1943),[32] actor
- Jason Isaacs (born 1963),[33] actor
- Sid James (1913–1976),[34] comic actor (South African-born)
- Tony Jay (1933–2006) English/American actor[35]
- Lesley Joseph (born 1945),[36] Dorian in Birds of a Feather
- Miriam Karlin (1925–2011) actress (The Rag Trade)[11]
- Paul Kaye (born 1965) comedian and writer[11]
- Robert Kazinsky (born 1983) television actor (EastEnders)[37][38]
- Barbara Kellerman (born 1949), actress (in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Sea Wolves)[39][40]
- Felicity Kendal (born 1946),[41] actress (convert to Judaism)
- David Kossoff (1919–2005),[42] actor and stage monologuist
- Harry Landis (born 1931)[43]
- Mark Lester (born 1958) actor[44]
- Maureen Lipman (born 1946) film, television and theatre actress[11]
- Miriam Margolyes (born 1941),[45] actress
- Kay Mellor (born 1951),[46] actress and scriptwriter (Jewish mother)
- Warren Mitchell (born 1926),[47] Alf Garnett in Til Death Us Do Part
- Aubrey Morris (born 1926)
- Julian Morris (born 1983), actor[48]
- Anthony Newley (1931–1999) English actor, singer and songwriter[11]
- Sophie Okonedo (born 1969) Academy Award-nominated actress (Hotel Rwanda) (Jewish mother) [49]
- Tracy-Ann Oberman (born 1966), actress:[50]
- Nathalie Press (born 1980),[51] actress
- Lara Pulver (born 1980) actress in Spooks and Sherlock (Jewish father)[52]
- Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) English actor (Harry Potter)[53]
- Andrew Sachs (born 1930) German-born English actor, Manuel in Fawlty Towers[11]
- Emma Samms (born 1960)[54]
- Jane Seymour (born 1951), actress[55]
- Antony Sher (born 1949),[56] actor
- Georgia Slowe (born 1966) actress[57] Perdita in Emmerdale
- Sarah Solemani (born 1982),[58] actress in BBC series Him and Her
- Samantha Spiro,[59] actress
- Ed Stoppard (born 1974)[60]
- Gregg Sulkin (born 1992), actor[61]
- Clive Swift (born 1936)[62]
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born 1990), actor[63]
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011),[64][65] actress (English-born; convert to Judaism)
- Harriet Thorpe (born 1957) [66][67][68] English actress
- Meier Tzelniker,[69] Yiddish actor
- Rachel Weisz (1970–),[70] Oscar-winning actress
- Sam Wanamaker,[71] actor – "The Globe Theatre" project
- Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949),[72] actress
- David Warner (born 1941), actor best known as Jennings in The Omen
- Sophie Winkleman (born 1980)[73]
- Henry Woolf (born 1930),[74] actor
Directors
- Peter Brook,[75] director
- Stephen Frears (born 1941) Film director, producer (Jewish mother)[76]
- Nicholas Hytner,[77] director
- Roland Joffé (born 1945) Palme d'Or winning director[78]
- Beeban Kidron (born 1961)[79]
- Sir Alexander Korda (1893–1956) Hungarian-born film producer and director[80]
- Zoltan Korda (1895–1961) Hungarian-born film director, producer, and screenwriter[80]
- Mike Leigh (born 1943) writer and director of film and theatre[81]
- Sam Mendes (born 1965) Academy Award winning director (Jewish mother)[82]
- Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952) Film director, screenwriter, and playwright[83]
- David Puttnam (born 1941)[84]
- Gary Sinyor (born 1962) Film director, producer, and writer.[85]
Broadcasters
- Dani Behr (born 1971), TV presenter, actress and singer[11]
- Rabbi Lionel Blue,[86] radio broadcaster
- Jono Coleman,[87] radio broadcaster
- Mark Damazer, Controller BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7[88]
- Vanessa Feltz (born 1962),[87] TV presenter
- Sir Clement Freud (1924-2009)[89]
- Andy Goldstein (born 1973), sports broadcaster
- Gerard Hoffnung,[90] frequent guest appearances as humorous personality
- David Jacobs (1926–2013),[91] TV and radio presenter
- Ludwig Karl Koch,[92] broadcaster and sound recordist
- Nigella Lawson (born 1960), celebrity chef[93]
- Olly Mann (born 1981), radio presenter[94]
- James Max (born 1970), radio presenter[95]
- Mike Mendoza,[96] TalkSport Radio
- Gaby Roslin (born 1964),[97] TV presenter
- Natasha Kaplinsky (born 1972),[98] TV presenter, newsreader
- Robert Peston (born 1960), BBC news business correspondent[99]
- Esther Rantzen (born 1940),[100] TV presenter
- Jay Rayner (born 1966) broadcaster and food writer[101]
- Martin Samuel (born 1964), sports broadcaster[102]
- Charlie Wolf,[103] TalkSport Radio
- Claudia Winkleman (born 1972), TV presenter
- Alan Yentob (born 1947), arts broadcaster[104]
- Helen Zaltzman, broadcaster and podcaster[94]
Comedians
- Simon Amstell,[105] comedian, TV presenter and actor
- Ronni Ancona,[30] impressionist
- Sacha Baron Cohen,[106] impressionist, Ali G, Borat and Brüno
- Issy Bonn[107] Radio, film, and music hall comedian and singer
- Arnold Brown[108]
- Sam Costa, comedian[109]
- Ben Elton,[110] comedian and writer
- Marty Feldman,[111] comedian and actor
- Bud Flanagan,[112] comedian and actor
- Stephen Fry,[25] comedian and actor
- Steve Furst (born 1967), comedian and actor[113]
- Gerard Hoffnung,[90] humorous personality on radio, impresario of comedy musical festivals, cartoonist
- Paul Kaye, comedian and actor, Dennis Pennis[114]
- Matt Lucas[115]
- Denis Norden,[116] scriptwriter and radio and TV personality
- Alexei Sayle (born 1952), stand-up comedian[117]
- Peter Sellers,[118] comedian and actor
- Freddie Starr[119] comedian and actor
- Bernie Winters[120]
- Mike Winters[120]
- Andy Zaltzman (born 1974), comedian[121]
Musicians and singers
- Larry Adler,[122] harmonica player (American-born; naturalised British)
- Ambrose, bandleader (Obituary: Jewish Chronicle 18 June 1971 p35)
- Beardyman,[123] beatboxing artist
- Bellatrix,[124] beatboxing artist
- Elkie Brooks,[125] singer
- Ellie Goulding Singer, Songwriter
- Ian Broudie,[126] member of The Lightning Seeds
- Pete Burns,[127] of Dead or Alive (German Jewish mother)
- Tito Burns,[128][129] bandleader
- Johnny Clegg,[130] UK-born South African musician
- Alex Clare,[131] singer
- Antony Costa (born 1981)[132]
- Craig David,[133] singer
- Barry Fantoni,[134] jazz musician
- Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley,[135] members of 10cc.
- Benny Green,[136] saxophonist and broadcaster
- Peter Green,[137] founding member of Fleetwood Mac
- Steffan Halperin,[138] drummer for Klaxons
- Mick Jones,[139] guitarist for The Clash
- Manfred Mann (born 1940)
- Kelly Osbourne[140]
- Keith Reid (born 1946) lyricist for Procol Harum,[141]
- Helen Shapiro,[142] singer
- Mark Ronson (born 1975), musician, DJ and producer[143]
- Samantha Ronson (born 1977), singer-songwriter[143]
- Stacey Solomon,[144] finalist in X Factor 2009
- Rachel Stevens,[145] singer-songwriter, actress, TV presenter.
- Lewis Taylor,[146] singer/songwriter
- Frankie Vaughan (1928-1999), singer[147]
- Amy Winehouse,[148] (1983–2011), singer/songwriter
- Jess Glynne,[149] singer
- Jessie Ware,[150] singer-songwriter, musician
Writers
- Alain Boublil,[151] author and lyricist
- Alan Coren (1938-2007)[152]
- Giles Coren[152]
- Victoria Coren[152]
- Neil Gaiman (born 1960)[153]
- Jane Goldman (born 1970), screenwriter, author and producer.[154]
- Anthony Horowitz (born 1956)[155]
- Howard Jacobson (born 1942), author[156]
- Stephen Laughton, playwright [157]
- Julia Pascal[158][159] Playwright and director
- Harold Pinter,[160] playwright, director, actor
- Claire Rayner (1931-2010) agony aunt and broadcaster[161]
- Jon Ronson (born 1967), screenwriter[162]
- Michael Rosen (born 1946)[163]
- Jack Rosenthal (1931-2004), playwright[164]
- Tom Stoppard (born 1937), playwright[165]
Songwriters
- Don Black,[166] lyricist
- Herbert Kretzmer (born 1925), lyricist[167]
- Eric Maschwitz,[168] lyricist, writer and broadcaster
- Monty Norman,[169] lyricist, composer and singer (creator of "The James Bond Theme")
- David Rose,[170] songwriter and composer
- Jule Styne,[171] songwriter (UK-born)
- Debbie Wiseman (born 1963), composer[172]
Classical musicians
- John Barnett,[173] composer
- Julius Benedict, composer[174]
- Maria Bland, singer[175]
- Norbert Brainin,[176] violinist
- Giacobbe Cervetto,[177] cellist
- Harriet Cohen,[178] pianist
- Frederic Hymen Cowen,[179] composer
- Jacqueline du Pré,[180] cellist (convert to Judaism)
- Gerald Finzi,[181] composer
- Norma Fisher,[182] pianist
- Benjamin Frankel,[183] composer
- Walter Goehr,[184] composer
- Alexander Goehr,[185] composer, his son
- Berthold Goldschmidt,[186] composer
- Myra Hess,[178] pianist
- Gerard Hoffnung,[90] tubist, illustrator and cartoonist, impresario, humorist
- Steven Isserlis,[180] cellist
- Hans Keller,[187] musicologist
- Isidore de Lara,[188] composer
- Yehudi Menuhin,[189] Lord Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon; conductor and violinist (UK-based)
- Benno Moiseiwitsch,[178] pianist
- Isaac Nathan,[190] composer
- Michael Nyman,[151] composer
- Murray Perahia,[178] pianist (UK-based)
- James Rhodes, pianist[191]
- Landon Ronald,[174] conductor and composer
- Henry Russell (musician), pianist, baritone singer and composer.
- Robert Saxton,[185] composer
- Rudolf Schwarz,[192] conductor
- Solomon,[193] professional name of the pianist Solomon Cutner
- Sir Georg Solti,[174] conductor
- Walter Susskind (1913–1980),[194] conductor
- Richard Tauber, Jewish-born Roman Catholic singer and composer (naturalised British citizen, 1940)[195]
- Lionel Tertis,[196] violist
- Simon Waley Waley,[197] musician
- Egon Wellesz,[198] composer
- Benjamin Zander,[199] music director
Ballet dancers
- Celia Franca,[200] ballerina
- Marie Rambert,[201] ballerina
Other
- Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru[202]
- Caprice Bourret,[203] model (American-born and raised)
See also
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