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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 Nazi 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]

Actors[edit]

• Jacob Adler,[6] Yiddish actor
• Peggy Ashcroft (1907–1991)[7]
• Ben Barnes (born 1981), actor[8]
• Sacha Baron Cohen (born 1971),[9] comedian, known for playing comedic characters Ali G, Borat and Brüno; Borat is ironically portrayed as extremely anti-Semitic
• Alfie Bass (1916–1987), actor[10]
• Gina Bellman (born 1966), New Zealand-born actress[11]
• Steven Berkoff (born 1937), actor, writer and director[12]
• Lionel Blair (born 1931),[13] TV entertainer
• Claire Bloom (born 1931), actress[14]
• Helena Bonham Carter (born 1966), Academy Award-nominated English film/television actress[15]
• Josh Bowman (born 1988), actor[16][17]
• Bernard Bresslaw (1934–1993), actor[12]
• Eleanor Bron (born 1938),[18] actress and name inspiration for “Eleanor Rigby“
• Katrin Cartlidge (1961–2002),[19] actress
• Debbie Chazen (born 1971)[20]
• Dame Joan Collins (born 1933)[21] actress
• Sir Daniel Day-Lewis (born 1957)[22]
• Marty Feldman (1934–1982), comedian and actor[23]
• Fenella Fielding (1927-2018)[24]
• Maria Friedman,[25] musical theatre actress
• Rebecca Front (born 1964),[26] comedy actress
• Stephen Fry (born 1957),[27] comedian and actor (Jewish mother)
• Andrew Garfield (born 1983)[28]
• Rafi Gavron (born 1989), actor[29]
• Hermione Gingold,[30] actress
• Iddo Goldberg (born 1975)[31]
• Henry Goodman (born 1950),[32] actor
• Laurence Harvey (1928–1973),[33] actor
• Leslie Howard (1893–1943),[34] actor
• Jason Isaacs (born 1963),[35] actor
• Sid James (1913–1976),[36] comic actor (South African-born)
• Tony Jay (1933–2006), English-American actor[37]
• Lesley Joseph (born 1945),[38] Dorian in Birds of a Feather
• Miriam Karlin (1925–2011), actress (The Rag Trade)[12]
• Robert Kazinsky (born 1983), television actor (EastEnders)[39][40]
• Barbara Kellerman (born 1949), actress (in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The Sea Wolves)[41][42]
• Felicity Kendal (born 1946),[43] actress
• David Kossoff (1919–2005),[44] actor and stage monologuist
• Harry Landis (born 1931)[45]
• Anton Lesser (born 1952), actor[46]
• Mark Lester (born 1958), actor[47]
• Maureen Lipman (born 1946), film, television and theatre actress[12]
• Miriam Margolyes (born 1941),[48] actress
• Kay Mellor (born 1951),[49] actress and scriptwriter (Jewish mother)
• Warren Mitchell (1926-2015),[50]Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part
• Julian Morris (born 1983), actor[51]
• Tracy-Ann Oberman (born 1966), actress:[52]
• Sophie Okonedo (born 1969), Academy Award-nominated actress, Hotel Rwanda[53]
• Natalie Press (born 1980),[54] actress
• Lara Pulver (born 1980), actress in Spooks and Sherlock[55]
• Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989), English actor (Harry Potter)[56]
• David Rappaport (1951-1990),[57] actor with dwarfism
• Andrew Sachs (1930–2016), German-born English actor, Manuelin Fawlty Towers[12]
• Emma Samms (born 1960)[58]
• Jane Seymour (born 1951), actress[59]
• Carole Shelley (1939–2018), actress
• Sir Antony Sher (born 1949),[60] actor
• Georgia Slowe (born 1966), actress[61] Perdita in Emmerdale
• Sarah Solemani (born 1982),[62] actress in BBC series Him and Her
• Samantha Spiro,[63] actress
• Ed Stoppard (born 1974)[64]
• Gregg Sulkin (born 1992), actor[65]
• Clive Swift (1936–2019)[66] actor
• Dame Elizabeth Taylor (1932–2011),[67][68] actress
• Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born 1990), actor[69]
• Harriet Thorpe (born 1957), actress[70]
• Meier Tzelniker,[71] Yiddish actor
• Sam Wanamaker (1919-1993),[72] actor, Shakespeare’s Globeproject
• Zoë Wanamaker (born 1949),[73] actress
• Rachel Weisz (born 1970),[74] Oscar-winning actress
• Sophie Winkleman (born 1980),[75]
• Henry Woolf (born 1930),[76] actor

Directors[edit]

• Peter Brook,[77] director
• Stephen Frears (born 1941), film director, producer[78]
• Nicholas Hytner,[79] director
• Roland Joffé (born 1945), Palme d’Or-winning director[80]
• Beeban Kidron (born 1961)[81]
• Sir Alexander Korda (1893–1956), Hungarian-born film producer and director[82]
• Zoltan Korda (1895–1961), Hungarian-born film director, producer, and screenwriter[82]
• Mike Leigh (born 1943), writer and director of film and theatre[83]
• Sam Mendes (born 1965), Academy Award-winning director[84]
• Stephen Poliakoff (born 1952), film director, screenwriter, and playwright[85]
• David Puttnam (born 1941)[86]
• Gary Sinyor (born 1962), film director, producer, and writer[87]

Broadcasters[edit]

• Dani Behr (born 1971), TV presenter, actress and singer[12]
• Rabbi Lionel Blue,[88] radio broadcaster
• Jono Coleman,[89] radio broadcaster
• Mark Damazer, Controller, BBC Radio 4 and BBC 7[90]
• Vanessa Feltz (born 1962),[89] TV presenter
• Sir Clement Freud (1924–2009)[91]
• Gerard Hoffnung,[92] frequent guest appearances as humorous personality
• David Jacobs (1926–2013),[93] TV and radio presenter
• Natasha Kaplinsky (born 1972),[94] TV presenter, newsreader
• Ludwig Karl Koch,[95] broadcaster and sound recordist
• Nigella Lawson (born 1960), celebrity chef[96]
• Olly Mann (born 1981), radio presenter[97]
• James Max (born 1970), radio presenter[98]
• Mike Mendoza,[99]Talksport Radio
• Robert Peston (born 1960), BBC news business correspondent[100]
• Esther Rantzen (born 1940),[101] TV presenter
• Jay Rayner (born 1966), broadcaster and food writer[102]
• Gaby Roslin (born 1964),[103] TV presenter
• Martin Samuel (born 1964), sports broadcaster[104]
• Claudia Winkleman (born 1972), TV presenter
• Charlie Wolf,[105] TalkSport Radio
• Alan Yentob (born 1947), arts broadcaster[106]
• Helen Zaltzman, broadcaster and podcaster[107]

Comedians[edit]

• Simon Amstell,[108] comedian, TV presenter and actor
• Ronni Ancona,[32] impressionist
• Issy Bonn,[109] radio, film, and music hall comedian and singer
• Arnold Brown[110]
• Sam Costa, comedian[111]
• Ben Elton,[112] comedian and writer
• Bud Flanagan,[113] comedian and actor
• Steve Furst (born 1967), comedian and actor[114]
• Gerard Hoffnung[92] humorous personality on radio, impresario of comedy musical festivals, cartoonist
• Paul Kaye (born 1965), comedian, writer and actor (Dennis Pennis[12]
• 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[edit]

• Larry Adler,[122] harmonica player (American-born; naturalised British)
• Ambrose, bandleader[123]
• Gilad Atzmon ex IDF medic, Palestinian rights activist , Jazz musician and member of The Blockheads
• Beardyman,[124] beatboxing artist
• Bellatrix,[125] beatboxing artist
• Matt Black, of Coldcut[126] D.J.
• Stanley Black, pianist and bandleader[127]
• Marc Bolan, leader of rock band T. Rex of Polish Jewish and Russian Jewish ancestry [128]
• Elkie Brooks,[129] singer
• Ian Broudie,[130] of The Lightning Seeds
• Pete Burns,[131] of Dead or Alive
• Tito Burns,[132][133] bandleader
• Alex Clare,[134] singer
• Johnny Clegg,[135] UK-born South African musician
• Antony Costa (born 1981),[136] member of Blue
• Craig David,[137] singer
• Lynsey de Paul, singer-songwriter[138][139]
• Billy Duffy,[140] musician and guitarist for The Cult
• Barry Fantoni,[141] jazz musician
• Justine Frischmann, of Elastica[142]
• Jess Glynne,[143] singer
• Graham Gouldman, Lol Creme and Kevin Godley,[144] members of 10cc
• Benny Green,[145] saxophonist and broadcaster
• Peter Green,[146] founding member of Fleetwood Mac
• Adrian Gurvitz, [147] of The Gun & Baker Gurvitz Army
• Paul Gurvitz, [148] of The Gun & Baker Gurvitz Army
• Steffan Halperin,[149] drummer for The Chavs
• Dick James[150][151][152] singer, music publisher
• Chaz Jankel, [153] of The Blockheads
• Mick Jones,[154] guitarist for The Clash
• Laurence Juber, guitarist [155][156]
• Crispian Mills, singer of Kula Shaker[157][158]
• Anthony Newley, singer-songwriter and actor[159][160][161][162][163]
• Passenger[164]
• Peter Perrett, singer-songwriter of The Only Ones (Mother AustrianJew)[165]
• Yannis Philippakis, singer and guitarist of Foals. (Mother UkrainianJew)[166]
• Simon Phillips, drummer, Toto member, son of Sid Phillips.[167]
• Keith Reid (born 1946), lyricist for Procol Harum[168]
• Mark Ronson (born 1975), musician, DJ and producer[169]
• Samantha Ronson (born 1977), singer-songwriter[169]

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• Rowetta[172]
• Helen Shapiro,[173] singer
• Stacey Solomon,[174] finalist on X Factor 2009
• Rachel Stevens,[175] singer-songwriter, actress, TV presenter
• Yevgeny Sudbin,[176][177] concert pianist
• Lewis Taylor,[178] singer/songwriter
• Frankie Vaughan (1928–1999), singer[179]
• Jessie Ware,[180] singer-songwriter, musician
• John Weider,[181] musician
• Louise Wener of Sleeper[142]
• Amy Winehouse,[182] (1983–2011), singer/songwriter

Writers[edit]

• Alain Boublil,[183] author and lyricist
• Alan Coren (1938–2007)[184]
• Giles Coren[184]
• Victoria Coren Mitchell[184]
• Gillian Freeman (born 1929),[185] novelist and screenwriter
• Jane Goldman (born 1970), screenwriter, author and producer[186]
• Anthony Horowitz (born 1956)[187]
• Howard Jacobson (born 1942), author[188]
• Stephen Laughton, playwright[189]
• Julia Pascal,[190][191] playwright and director
• Harold Pinter,[192] playwright, director, actor
• Claire Rayner (1931–2010), agony aunt and broadcaster[193]
• Jon Ronson (born 1967), screenwriter[194]
• Michael Rosen (born 1946)[195]
• Jack Rosenthal (1931–2004), playwright[196]
• Tom Stoppard (born 1937), playwright[197]

Songwriters[edit]

• Lionel Bart (1930-1999), writer and composer of pop music and musicals[198]
• Don Black,[199] lyricist
• Herbert Kretzmer (born 1925), lyricist[200]
• Monty Norman,[201] lyricist, composer and singer (creator of the “James Bond Theme“)
• David Rose,[202] songwriter and composer
• Jule Styne,[203] songwriter (UK-born)
• Debbie Wiseman (born 1963), composer[204]

Classical musicians[edit]

• John Barnett,[205] composer
• Julius Benedict, composer[206]
• Maria Bland, singer[207]
• Giacobbe Cervetto,[208] cellist
• Harriet Cohen,[209] pianist
• Frederic Hymen Cowen,[210] composer
• Isidore de Lara,[211] composer
• Jacqueline du Pré,[212] cellist
• Gerald Finzi,[213] composer
• Norma Fisher,[214] pianist
• Benjamin Frankel,[215] composer
• Alexander Goehr,[216] composer; son of Walter Goehr
• Walter Goehr,[217] composer
• Berthold Goldschmidt,[218] composer
• Myra Hess,[209] pianist
• Alice Herz-Sommer (1903-2014), Czech-born Israeli-British pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian)
• Gerard Hoffnung,[92] tubist, illustrator and cartoonist, impresario, humorist
• Steven Isserlis,[212] cellist
• Hans Keller,[219] musicologist
• Yehudi Menuhin,[220] Lord Menuhin of Stoke d’Abernon; conductor and violinist (American/UK-based)
• Benno Moiseiwitsch,[209] pianist (Russian-born; naturalized 1937)
• Isaac Nathan,[221] composer
• Michael Nyman,[222] composer
• Murray Perahia,[209] American pianist (UK-based)
• James Rhodes, pianist[223]
• Landon Ronald,[206] conductor and composer
• Robert Saxton,[216] composer
• Rudolf Schwarz,[224] conductor
• Solomon,[225] professional name of the pianist Solomon Cutner
• Sir Georg Solti,[206] conductor
• Walter Susskind (1913–1980),[226] conductor
• Richard Tauber, Jewish-born Roman Catholic singer and composer (naturalised British citizen, 1940)[227]
• Lionel Tertis,[228] violist
• Simon Waley Waley,[229] musician
• Egon Wellesz,[230] composer
• Benjamin Zander,[231] music director

Ballet dancers[edit]

• Celia Franca,[232] ballerina
• Marie Rambert,[233] ballerina

Other[edit]

• Lotte Berk, dancer and health guru[234]
• Caprice Bourret,[235] model (American-born and raised)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_Jewish_entertainers