Browse period actors and actresses
Many actors and actresses have made period movies a mainstay in their careers. Here we've included a list of some of the more prominent period actors and the movies that they've performed in.
Actors
Rupert
Everett
The Madness of King George (1994)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
An Ideal Husband (1999)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
To Kill a King (2003)
Stage Beauty (2004)
Colin Firth
A Month in the Country (1987)
Valmont (1989)
The Advocate (1993)
Pride and Prejudice (1995)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Turn of the Screw (1999)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (2004)
Hugh Grant
Maurice (1987)
Rowing with the Wind (1988)
Impromptu (1991)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Restoration (1995)
Richard E.
Grant
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Portrait of a Lady (1995)
St. Ives (1998)
Gosford Park (2001)
Monsieur N. (2003)
Twelfth Night: Or What You Will (1996)
Rupert
Graves
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
The Madness of King George (1994)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
The Last King: Charles II (2003)
Ioan Gruffudd
Wilde (1997)
Horatio Hornblower (1998-2003)
Great Expectations (1999)
The Forsyte Saga (2002)
King Arthur (2004)
Amazing Grace (2006)
Ciaran Hinds
Persuasion (1995)
Ivanhoe (1997)
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Amazing Grace (2006)
Tom
Hollander
The Clandestine Marriage (1999)
Wives and Daughters (1999)
Nicholas Nickleby (2001)
Gosford Park (2001)
Stage Beauty (2004)
The Libertine (2004)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Daniel
Day Lewis
The Bounty (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Crucible (1996)
Rufus Sewell
Middlemarch (1994)
Carrington (1995)
Hamlet (1996)
The Woodlanders (1997)
Dangerous Beauty (1998)
The Last King: Charles II (2003)
Tristan & Isolde (2006)
Actressess
Helena
Bonham Carter
A Room with a View (1985)
Lady Jane (1986)
Maurice (1987)
Hamlet (1990)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Howard's End (1992)
Frankenstein (1994)
Judi Dench
Henry V (1989)
Hamlet (1996)
Mrs. Brown (1997)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Cranford (2007)
Jennifer Ehle
Romola Garai
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
Daniel Deronda (2002)
Vanity Fair (2004)
As You Like It (2006)
Amazing Grace (2006)
Emma (2009)
Keeley Hawes
The Moonstone (1996)
Our Mutual Friend (1998)
Wives and Daughters (1999)
Under the Greenwood Tree (2005)
Natasha Little
Far from the Madding Crowd (1998)
Vanity Fair (1998)
The Clandestine Marriage (1999)
Byron (2003)
Vanity Fair (2004)
Jodhi May
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Woodlanders (1997)
Aristocrats (1999)
The Turn of the Screw (1999)
The House of Mirth (2000)
Daniel Deronda (2002)
The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003)
Helen Mirren
Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
Prince of Jutland (1994)
The Madness of King George (1994)
Gosford Park (2001)
Elizabeth I (2005)
Samantha
Morton
Emma (1996)
Jane Eyre (1997)
Pandaemonium (2000)
The Libertine (2004)
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
Maggie Smith
Quartet (1981)
A Room with a View (1985)
Washington Square (1997)
David Copperfield (1999)
Gosford Park (2001)
Becoming Jane (2007)
Emma
Thompson
Henry V (1989)
Impromptu (1991)
Howard's End (1992)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Remains of the Day (1993)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Brideshead Revisited (2008)
Justine
Waddell
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