Acting graduates include...

Hayley Atwell 2005

Bess Foster in The Duchess, Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, How About You with Vanessa Redgrave, lead in Cassandra's Dream, dir. Woody Allen(feature films); A View from the Bridge (Duke of York's, West End), title role in Major Barbara, The Man of Mode, dir Nicholas Hytner (NT), Women Beware Women, (RSC), Prometheus Bound (Sound Theatre); Ruby in the Smoke, Fear of Fanny, The Line of Beauty (BBC), Mansfield Park (ITV).

Orlando Bloom 1999

New York I Love You, Will Turner in Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End, Elizabethtown, Kingdom of Heaven, Haven, Troy, Pirates of the Caribbean I: the Curse of the Black Pearl & Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest, The Calcium Kid, Legolas in The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, Black Hawk Down, Wilde, The Kelly Gang (feature films); In Celebration (Duke of York's); Extras dir. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant (BBC).

Stephen Campbell-Moore

Stephen Campbell-Moore

Stephen Campbell Moore 1999
Season of the Witch, Sea Wolf, The Day, The Bank Job, The History Boys, Amazing Grace, Bright Young Things, A Good Woman (feature films); Death of a Salesman (Compass), Octavius in Antony and Cleopatra, Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), The History Boys (NT and Broadway), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Albery Theatre), Richard II, Coriolanus (Almeida), The Changeling (Salisbury Playhouse); A Short Stay in Switzerland, Evan in Ashes to Ashes, Delafield in Lark Rise to Candleford, John Clarkson in Rough Crossings, Edward in Wallis & Edward, Hustle, He Knew He Was Right, Byron (BBC).

Daniel Craig 1991
Defiance, The Golden Compass, Flashbacks of A Fool, James Bond in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008), Invasion, Munich (dir. Steven Spielberg), Have you Heard, Layer Cake, The Jacket, Enduring Love, Ted & Sylvia, The Mother, The Power Of One, Elizabeth, The Trench, Tomb Raider, Road To Perdition, Hotel Splendide, Some Voices, I Dreamed Of Africa, Love And Rage, Love Is The Devil, Obsession, Saint Ex, Genghis Cohn (feature films); A Number (Royal Court), Hurly Burly (Old Vic), Angels In America (NT); Archangel, Copenhagen, The Ice House, Our Friends In The North (BBC), Kiss and Tell, Moll Flanders (ITV), Sword Of Honour, Shockers, Visitors (C4).

Oliver Dimsdale 1999
Tom in RocknRolla (feature film) dir. Guy Ritchie; Joe Fisher/Kris Johnson in Water (Filter/Lyric Hammersmith), Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night (Filter/RSC), Pravda (Birmingham Rep), The Creeper (West End and tour), The Comedy of Errors (Crucible, Sheffield), Troilus and Cressida (Old Vic), Accomplices (NT, Crucible, Sheffield), Ferdinand in The Tempest (RSC), Great Expectations (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Lark Rise to Candleford, Nostradamus, Casualty, Doctors, Dalziel and Pascoe, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Louis in He Knew He Was Right, Shelley in Byron (BBC); Felix Carter-Quinn in Harley Street (ITV).

Michelle Dockery 2004
Burnt by the Sun (NT), Yelena in Uncle Vanya (ETT), Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (shortlisted for the Evening Standard Award 2008, Best Newcomer) (Old Vic), dir. Sir Peter Hall, Dying for It (Almeida), Pillars of the Community (NT) - Ian Charleson Award commendation, The UN Inspector, Henry IV Parts I and II, His Dark Materials dir. Matt Wilde/Nicholas Hytner (all NT); Miss Irina's Children (CBS), Waking The Dead (BBC), Red Riding Trilogy (ITV), One Night (Channel 4), Dalziel & Pascoe, Fingersmith (BBC), Sue Padgett in Heartbeat (ITV), Dawn in Poppy Shakespeare, Mel in Consent (C4), Hogfather (Sky One).

Adrian Dunbar 1983
Eye of The Dolphin, Act of God, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, Blue 14, Kidnapped, Jonjo Mickybo, Triggermen, Shooters, How Harry Became a Tree, The General, Richard III, The Near Room, A World Apart, Widow's Peak, The Crying Game, Hear My Song, My Left Foot (feature films); theatre at Belfast Lyric, Royal Court, Tricycle, Young Vic and screenwriting and directing work; Child of Mine, Murder in Mind, Quatermass Experiment (BBC); The Whistleblowers, Suspicion, Murphy's Law, Tough Love (ITV).

Daniel Evans 1994
Charlie in The Ramen Girl, Tomorrow La Scala!, Sweeney, The Barber Of Siberia, Y Mabinogi (feature films); The Art of News (London Sinfonietta), Good Thing Going (RPO, Cadogan Hall), Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd (LPO, Royal Festival Hall), Paul Verlaine in Total Eclipse, George in Sunday in the Park with George (Menier Chocolate Factory, West End and Broadway), Cloud Nine (Crucible, Sheffield), Posthumus in Cymbeline, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (RSC), Ariel in The Tempest (Old Vic), Where Do We Live? (Royal Court Upstairs), Osvald in Ghosts (English Touring Theatre), Grand Hotel, Merrily We Roll Along (Donmar), 4:48 Psychosis, Other People, Cleansed (Royal Court), Candide in Candide, The Merchant of Venice, Peter Pan in Peter Pan (NT); Matthew in The Passion, Doctor Who, Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, Spooks, Daniel Deronda, Love In A Cold Climate, Deep Sleep, Great Expectations (BBC), Midsomer Murders, Dead Air, Being Dom Joly, The Vice (ITV), and other TV and radio work.

As director: Certain Young Men (Guildhall School of Music & Drama).

Susannah Fielding 2007
Kate Hardcastle in She Stoops to Conquer (feature film), Anita in Every Breath (film) dir. Ric Mellis; The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other (NT) dir. James MacDonald, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing opposite Simon Russell Beale, Polya in Philistines dir. Howard Davies, Rosa delle Rose in The Rose Tattoo (NT) opposite Zoë Wanamaker, dir. Steven Pimlott and Nicholas Hytner. Mrs Hubble in Great Expectations (Shaw Theatre), Old Wife in The Old Wife's Tale (Middle Temple); Sonjia in Wallender (BBC), Rochelle Chapman in The Bill (Talkback Thames).

Joseph Fiennes 1993
Spring 1941, Pretty/Handsome, Der Rote Baron, The Escapist, You, Me and Captain Longbridge, Against the Current, Goodbye Bafana, The Red Baron, Running With Scissors, Darwin Awards, Man to Man, The Merchant of Venice, The Great Raid, Luther, Leo, Stealing Beauty, Elizabeth, Shakespeare In Love, Rancid Aluminium, Enemy At The Gate, Forever Mine, Dust, Killing Me Softly, Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (feature films); Cyrano de Bergerac (Chichester), Epitaph for George Dillon (Comedy), Love's Labour's Lost (NT), Les Enfants Du Paradis, Troilus and Cressida, Son Of Man, The Herbal Bed, As You Like It (RSC), The Woman In Black, A Month In The Country (West End), The Grand Meaulnes, The Threepenny Opera, West Side Story, Jude The Obscure (Young Vic), A View From The Bridge (Birmingham Rep), Real Classy Affair (Royal Court), Edward II (Sheffield Crucible); The Vacillations of Poppy Carew (TV).

Mariah Gale 2003
Abraham's Point (feature film); As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost (RSC), The Sea (Theatre Royal, Haymarket), Vernon God Little (Young Vic), Ophelia in Hamlet, Octavia in Anthony and Cleopatra, Portia in Julius Caesar, Miranda in The Tempest (RSC), Annabella in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (Southwark Playhouse), Viola in Twelfth Night, Cymbeline (Regent's Park) - Ian Charleson Award for 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Twelfth Night, Musik, Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford Stage Company), The Lost Child (Chichester Festival Theatre), Stealing Sweets and Punching People(Latchmere); Oliver Twist, The Diary of Anne Frank (BBC), Skins (C4).

Richard Goulding 2007
John Amery in An English Tragedy (Watford Palace), Konstantin in The Seagull (RSC) dir. Trevor Nunn, King Lear, opposite Ian McKellen
(RSC) dir. Trevor Nunn. Prospero in The Tempest (BBC Radio).

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson 1986
Joy in Forgiveness, The Matron in Wild Child, Edythe Dubarry in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, I Really Hate My Job, Frozen, Marie Antoinette, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire and Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason, Yes, Afterlife, Intermission, Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself, American Cousins, The Girl In The Red Dress, Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, Dr Sleep, 24 Hour Party People, The Claim, Villa Des Roses, Bridget Jones's Diary, Topsy Turvey, Wonderland, Trainspotting, Rob Roy (feature films); Anna Weiss (West End), The Mill On The Floss (Shared Experience), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Glasgow Citizens), Shining Souls (Old Vic), Eurydice (title role) (Chichester Festival); The Taming of the Shrew, E=MC2, The Way We Live Now, In A Land Of Plenty, Hamish Macbeth, Clarissa (BBC), Alice in May Contain Nuts, Dirty Filthy Love, Advocates, Wish Me Luck, Shadow Of The Stone(ITV), Kelly in Wedding Belles (C4).

Rhys Ifans 1989
Restraint of Beasts, Golden Age, Four Last Songs, Behind the Mask, Chromophobia, Enduring Love, Vanity Fair, Danny Deckchair, Human Nature, Once Upon A Time In The Midlands, The Shipping News, 51st State, Little Nicky, Notting Hill, Street Life, The Sin Eater, Twin Town, Christmas Carol: The Movie, Dancing At Lughnasa (feature films); theatre at Theatr Clwyd, NT, Donmar and Royal Court; Peter Cook in Not Only But Always, Trial and Retribution (ITV).

Lennie James 1988
Tic, Fathers, Sons and Unholy Ghosts, Tosspot, Sahara, 24 Hour Party People, Lucky Break, Snatch, Among Giants, Lost In Space, Les Misérables (feature films); Raisin In The Sun (Young Vic), Fallout, This Is A Chair, Outside Of Heaven, Etta Jenks (Royal Court), Macbeth, The Piano Lesson (Tricycle), Two Gentlemen Of Verona(Globe/New York), Pericles, The Coup, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, No Two Ways (Lyric Hammersmith); The State Within, The Family Man, Between the Cracks, Something's Burning, Love Hurts, Storm Damage, Undercover Heart, Perfect Blue, People Of The Forest, Out Of The Blue, Civvies (BBC), Déjà Vu, Cold Feet, A Touch Of Frost (ITV), Buried (C4); Jericho (CBS). Waking Hours and No Two Ways were scripted by Lennie James.

Jocelyn Jee Esien 1996
Bridget Jones' Diary (feature film); Bonded (Theatre Fahodzi); Little Miss Jocelyn (series 1 and 2), The Lenny Henry Show, 3 Non Blondes, Brown-eyed Boy (BBC), In the Name of Love (ITV), Yvette in Baby Mother (C4 Films).

Sarah Lancashire 1986
And When Did You Last See Your Father (feature film); Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Blood Brothers (Albery) and regional theatre; Lark Rise to Candleford, Wuthering Heights, Dr Who, Oliver Twist, Cherished, Gentleman's Relish, Showstoppers, Bloomin' Marvellous (BBC); Angel Cake, The Cry, The Lucky Ones, The Verdict, Back Home, The Glass, Seeing Red, Coronation Street (Raquel Wolstenhulme), Sons and Lovers, Rose and Maloney, My Fragile Heart, Where the Heart Is, Sons and Lovers, The Rotters' Club (ITV). As director: The Afternoon Play: Viva Las Blackpool.

Damian Lewis 1993
Love and Virtue, The Escapist, Stormbreaker, Chromophobia, Keane, An Unfinished Life, Brides, Dreamcatcher III, Robinson Crusoe(feature films); Pillars of the Community (NT), Five Gold Rings, School For Wives (Almeida), Cymbeline, Much Ado About Nothing (RSC), Hamlet in Hamlet (Regent's Park), Into The Woods (Donmar), Laertes in Hamlet (tour and Broadway); Much Ado About Nothing, lead in Band of Brothers, Friends and Crocodiles, Warriors (BBC), Colditz, Jeffrey Archer - The Truth, Hearts And Bones, Soames in The Forsyte Saga (Series 1 & 2), The Confessions of a Diary Secretary (ITV); Life(US television).

Natasha Little 1994
Daphne in A Congregation of Ghosts, Flick in The Boys are Back in Town, Mr Nobody, Queen of Sheba's Pearls, Vanity Fair, The Island of the Mapmaker's Wife, Love in the 21st Century, Another Life, Greenfingers, The Criminal, The Clandestine Marriage (feature films); A Voyage Round My Father (Donmar and West End), The Alchemist (Birmingham Rep), The Vagina Monologues (Arts), The Novice (Almeida); Alice in Silent Witness, Extras, Augusta Leigh in Byron, Spooks 2, Murder in Mind, Dickens, Man And Boy, Becky Sharp in Vanity Fair, Rachel in This Life (BBC), Ann Shapland in Poirot - Cat Among the Pigeons, Rose Dawson in Foyle's War, Angell's Hell, The Crooked Man, Fanny in Far from the Madding Crowd (ITV).

Scott Maslen 1998
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (feature film); Jack Branning in EastEnders (BBC); DS Hunter in The Bill (ITV).

Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan

Alistair McGowan 1989
My Life in Ruins, Ealing Comedy (feature films); Measure for Measure (Thelma Holt), The Mikado (Gielgud), The Merry Wives of Windsor - the musical (RSC), Little Shop of Horrors (Duke of York's), Art (West End), Endgame, Kafka's Dick (Nottingham Playhouse); Bleak House, Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (series 1-4), Mayo, Jonathan Creek, Have I Got News for You (BBC) and radio work.

As director: Semi-Monde (Guildhall School of Music & Drama).

Ewan McGregor 1992
I Love you Philip Morris, Deception, Incendiary, The List, Cassandra's Dream, Stormbreaker, Miss Potter, Scenes of A Sexual Nature, Valiant, The Island, Robots, Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars I, II, III, Big Fish, Down With Love, Young Adam, Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, Moulin Rouge, Black Hawk Down, Rogue Trader, The Pillow Book, Emma, Brassed Off, Nightwatch, Nora, Eye Of The Beholder, A Life Less Ordinary, Velvet Goldmine, Little Voice (feature films); Iago in Othello (Donmar Warehouse), Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (Hampstead Theatre and West End) and TV.

Neil Morrissey 1983
Triggermen, The Bounty, The Match, Up 'N' Under (feature films); Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly), Acorn Antiques, Speed-The-Plow (West End); Waterloo Road, Follow Through, Murder in Mind, Men Down Under, Men Behaving Badly (series I-VII), Dive To Shark City, Happy Birthday Shakespeare (BBC), Boon (ITV), Playing Away, Blood Runner, Gentlemen and Players, Ellis Island, Pulaski (C4), The Journal (CBC).

Fay Ripley 1990
Roseanna's Grave, The Announcement, Eclipsed, Mute Witness (feature films); The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, Monday Monday, A Million Little Lies, Hustle, Bedtime, The Broker's Men, Fungus the Bogeyman, Bedtime, Dead Gorgeous, Stretford Wives, Green Eyed Monster, Karaoke (BBC), Dead Gorgeous, The Prince, Cold Feet, I Saw You, One For The Road, Frontiers (ITV).

Clive Rowe 1987
Manderlay, Crime Strike (feature films); As You Like It (Wyndham's), Jack & the Beanstalk, Widow Twankey in Aladdin(Hackney Empire), Simply Heavenly (Young Vic, Trafalgar Studios), Sadly Solo Jo (Cardiff and Greenwich), Chicago (Adelphi), Money, Candide, Peter Pan, Carousel - nominated for an Olivier Award, Fuente Ovejuna, Trackers, The Villains' Opera, Money, Guys And Dolls - won Olivier Award (NT), Company, Donmar Divas (Donmar), Twelfth Night, Zenobia, Measure For Measure (RSC), Troilus and Cressida, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, (Regent's Park); Hard Times, Doctor Who, Duke in Tracy Beaker series, Dalziel & Pascoe (BBC).

Simon Russell Beale CBE

Simon Russell Beale CBE

Simon Russell Beale CBE 1983
The Gathering, Alice In Wonderland (feature films); Leontes in The Winter's Tale, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard (Old Vic), Monty Python's Spamalot (Palace, London/Schubert, New York), Julius Caesar(Barbican/International Tour), Macbeth - title role (Almeida), The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Twelfth Night (Donmar), Jumpers, Humble Boy, Hamlet (title role), Undershaft in Major Barbara, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Money, Candide, Othello, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Volpone (NT), Richard III - title role, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, The Man Of Mode, Restoration, Playing With Trains, Some Americans Abroad (RSC); Series Presenter Sacred Music, A Dance To The Music Of Time, Persuasion (BBC).

Lesley Sharp 1982
Inkheart, The Love Child, Vera Drake, Cheeky, From Hell, The Full
Monty, Rita Sue And Bob Too, Naked, The Rachel Papers
(feature
films); Harper Regan, Mother Courage, Uncle Vanya, Murmuring Judges
(NT), Playing with Trains, Mary and Lizzie (RSC), Our Country's
Good, The Recruiting Officer, Greenland, Top Girls
(Royal Court), God
of Hell
(Donmar); The Children, Doctor Who, The Diary of Anne Frank, Our Hidden Lives, Carrie's War, Great Expectations, Playing The Field
(series 1- 3), Clocking Off, Nature Boy (BBC), Planespotting,
Afterlife
(series 1 and 2), The Second Coming, Carla, Bob and Rose,
Prime Suspect, Daylight Robbery, Frank Stubbs
(ITV).

Geraldine Somerville 1989
Lily Potter in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sixty-six, Gosford Park, Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Jilting Joe, True Blue, Haunted, Augustine, Bathing, Elizabeth (feature films); Power, Remember This, Blue Remembered Hills (NT), substantial theatre work at Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic, Lyric Hammersmith, Birmingham Rep, Shared Experience, Young Vic; The Children, Daphne, Inspector Lynley 6, Murder In Mind, Aristocrats, Heaven On Earth, After Miss Julie, The Deep Blue Sea (BBC), Jericho, The Safe House, Cracker, Daylight Robbery (ITV).

David Thewlis 1984
Veronika Decides to Die, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, The Inner Life of Martin Frost, The Omen, Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction, All the Invisible Children, The New World, Kingdom of Heaven, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Cheeky, Goodbye Charlie Bright, Gangster No. 1, Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?, Besieged, The Big Lebowski, Divorcing Jack, Seven Years in Tibet, The Island of Dr Moreau, Total Eclipse, Dragonheart, Restoration, Black Beauty, Naked, The Trial, Short and Curlies, Resurrected, Life is Sweet, Vroom (feature films); The Street II (ITV).

Zubin Varla 1992
Mad, Sad and Bad, Jacob (feature films); A Day Like Today (Young Vic), Two Gentlemen of Verona, Brutus in Julius Caesar, Midnight's Children, Caliban in The Tempest, title role in Roberto Zucco, Bartholomew Fair, Faust, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, The Painter Of Dishonour (RSC), The Enchantment, Attempts On Her Life, The Life Of Galileo, Cyrano de Bergerac (NT), Jesus Christ Superstar, Beautiful Thing (West End) and other theatre; Silent Witness, Spooks, Dalziel and Pascoe, Crocodile Shoes (BBC), Twelfth Night (C4).

Dominic West 1995
Punisher: War Zone, Hannibal Rising, 300, The Forgotten, Mona Lisa's Smile, Rock Star, Metal God, Jasper, 28 Days, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Diana And Me, The Gambler, True Blue, Richard III, Surviving Picasso, Chicago (feature films); The Voysey Inheritance (NT), Rock 'n' Roll (Duke of York's), As You Like It (Wyndham's), Design
For Living
(New York), The Country Wife (Sheffield Crucible), The Seagull (Old Vic), The Silver Tassie (Almeida); Out Of Hours (BBC), Nicholas Nickleby (ITV), Det. 'Jimmy' McNulty in The Wire (58 episodes, US television).

Jodie Whittaker 2005
Anne in Good, Beverley in St Trinian's, Jessie in Venus opposite Peter O'Toole (feature films); Bash (Trafalgar Studios), Awake and Sing, Enemies (Almeida), The Storm (Shakespeare's Globe); Wired (Granada), The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Thames TV), Consuming Passion, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Billy Two-Sheds, Doctors (BBC).