Ronni AnconaW
Ronni Ancona

Veronica Jane Ancona is a Scottish actress, impressionist and author. She first became well known after appearing in The Big Impression.

Rona AndersonW
Rona Anderson

Rona Anderson was a Scottish stage, film, and television actress. She appeared in TV series and on the stage and films throughout the 1950s. She appeared in the films Scrooge and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and on TV in Dr Finlay's Casebook and Dixon of Dock Green.

Jean AylwinW
Jean Aylwin

Jean Aylwin, also known as Jean Isabella Griffin Aitkin, was a Scottish actress and singer, often billed as "The Lady Harry Lauder".

Rosana CadeW
Rosana Cade

Rosana Cade is a Glasgow-based live performance artist. She is known mainly for her queer, feminist and activist approaches to her work. She is notable for winning the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Awards 2016, for Physical/Visual Theatre with Cock and Bull, and has toured work to The National Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and international venues including Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon, Frascati, Amsterdam and Kwai Fong Theatre, Hong Kong.

Jean CadellW
Jean Cadell

Jean Dunlop Cadell was a Scottish character actress. Although her married name was Jean Dunlop Perceval-Clark she retained her maiden name in the context of acting.

Ruth ConnellW
Ruth Connell

Ruth Connell is a Scottish theatre, television and film actress and producer. She is also a former professional dancer and choreographer. Connell is known for her recurring role as Rowena in the CW series Supernatural. She was nominated as "Best Leading Actress" in the 2013 Broadway World Los Angeles Awards for her portrayal of Mrs Darling and Captain Hook at the Blank Theatre, Los Angeles in their award-winning production of Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers.

Laura CowieW
Laura Cowie

Laura Cowie was a Scottish silent film actress.

Kate DickieW
Kate Dickie

Kate Dickie is a Scottish actress who has appeared in television series, stage plays and films. She is known for her television roles as Lex in the BBC series Tinsel Town (2000–2001) and Lysa Arryn in the HBO series Game of Thrones. She supports the theatre company Solar Bear, which is known for its collaborations with deaf people, in part through her role as a patron.

Lindsay DuncanW
Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Vere Duncan, is a Scottish actress. On stage, she has won two Olivier Awards and a Tony Award. Duncan has starred in several plays by Harold Pinter. Her best known roles on television include: Barbara Douglas in Alan Bleasdale's G.B.H. (1991), Servilia of the Junii in the HBO/BBC/RAI series Rome (2005–2007), Adelaide Brooke in the Doctor Who special "The Waters of Mars" (2009) and Lady Smallwood in the BBC series Sherlock. On film, she portrayed Anthea Lahr in Prick Up Your Ears (1987), voiced the android TC-14 in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) and Alice's mother in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (2010), and played the acerbic theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson in Birdman or (2014).

Michelle DuncanW
Michelle Duncan

Michelle Duncan is a Scottish actress, known for Driving Lessons (2006), Atonement (2007) and The Broken (2008). She portrayed Shelley Stern in the biographical drama film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).

Agnes FraserW
Agnes Fraser

Agnes Fraser was a Scottish actress and soprano who appeared in the later Savoy Operas and in Edwardian musical comedy. She married the Gilbert and Sullivan performer Walter Passmore, with whom she frequently appeared on stage.

Laura FraserW
Laura Fraser

Laura Fraser is a Scottish actress. She has played Door in the urban fantasy series Neverwhere, Kate in the film A Knight's Tale, Cat MacKenzie in the BBC Three drama series Lip Service and Lydia Rodarte-Quayle in the AMC crime drama series Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul.

Isabella GlynW
Isabella Glyn

Isabella Glyn was a well-known Victorian-era Shakespearean actress.

Janey GodleyW
Janey Godley

Janey Godley is a Scottish stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Glasgow.

Michelle GomezW
Michelle Gomez

Michelle May Romney Marsham Antonia Gomez is a Scottish actress. She gained recognition for her roles in the comedy series The Book Group (2002–2003), Green Wing (2004–2007), and Bad Education (2012–2013). She went on to appear as Missy in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who (2014–2017), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Shirley HendersonW
Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson is a Scottish actress. Her film roles include Gail in Trainspotting (1996), Jude in the three Bridget Jones films (2001), and Moaning Myrtle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). Her other films include Topsy-Turvy (1999), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002), Frozen (2005), Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), Anna Karenina (2012), and the Netflix film Okja (2017).

Eileen HerlieW
Eileen Herlie

Eileen Herlie was a Scottish-American actress.

Morag HoodW
Morag Hood

Morag Hood was a British actress who featured in numerous television programmes, stage productions, and audio presentations in the UK from the 1960s up to the late 1990s.

Frieda InescortW
Frieda Inescort

Frieda Inescort was a Scottish-born actress best known for creating the role of Sorel Bliss in Noël Coward's play Hay Fever on Broadway. She also played the shingled lady in John Galsworthy's 1927 Broadway production Escape.

Elizabeth InverarityW
Elizabeth Inverarity

Elizabeth Inverarity, later "Mrs. Charles T. Martyn", was a Scottish opera soprano, popular singer and actress of the early 19th century, in England and in America. She also composed some ballads with her husband Charles Martyn, a bass from Bristol.

Beatrice IrwinW
Beatrice Irwin

Beatrice Irwin was an actress, poet, designer and promoter of the Baháʼí Faith. Born Alice Beatrice Simpson, she took Beatrice Irwin as her stage name and later adopted it as her real name.

Ashley JensenW
Ashley Jensen

Ashley Jensen is a Scottish actress and narrator. She was nominated for an Emmy for her role on the television series Extras, in which she appeared from 2005 to 2007. She was also a cast member of the ABC series Ugly Betty and the short-lived CBS sitcom Accidentally on Purpose. She also plays the main character in the comedy-drama detective television series Agatha Raisin.

Sophie Kennedy ClarkW
Sophie Kennedy Clark

Sophie Kennedy Clark is a Scottish actress. She is the daughter of actress and singer Fiona Kennedy and the granddaughter of singer Calum Kennedy.

Deborah KerrW
Deborah Kerr

Deborah Jane Trimmer CBE, known professionally as Deborah Kerr, was a Scottish film, theatre and television actress. She was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and holds the record for an actress most nominated in the lead actress category without winning.

Phyllida LawW
Phyllida Law

Phyllida Ann Law is a Scottish actress, known for her numerous roles in film and television.

Rose LeslieW
Rose Leslie

Rose Eleanor Arbuthnot-Leslie is a Scottish actress. After winning a Scottish BAFTA for Best Acting Performance for her role in New Town, she rose to fame as Gwen Dawson in the ITV drama series Downton Abbey and as Ygritte in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones. She starred as Maia Rindell for three seasons of the CBS All Access legal and political drama The Good Fight.

Katie LeungW
Katie Leung

Katie Liu Leung is a Scottish actress. She played Cho Chang, the first love interest for lead character Harry Potter in the Harry Potter film series. In 2012, Leung made her stage debut in the play Wild Swans. Leung has an interest in painting and photography and studied art and design at the University of the Arts London.

Cecilia LoftusW
Cecilia Loftus

Cecilia Loftus was a Scottish actress, singer, mimic, vaudevillian, and music hall performer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Edith MacArthurW
Edith MacArthur

Edith MacArthur was a Scottish actress noted for her elegant screen presence.

Elizabeth MacLennanW
Elizabeth MacLennan

Elizabeth Margaret Ross MacLennan was a Scottish actress, writer and radical popular theatre practitioner.

Neve McIntoshW
Neve McIntosh

Neve McIntosh is a Scottish actress.

Pollyanna McIntoshW
Pollyanna McIntosh

Pollyanna McIntosh is a Scottish American writer, director and actress known for her roles in films Exam (2009), The Woman (2011), Let Us Prey (2014), the first season of Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard (2016), a starring role in The Walking Dead (2017–2018), and social issue horror film Darlin' (2019) which she wrote, directed and starred in. McIntosh is currently filming her role as Queen Ælfgifu of Denmark in the upcoming Netflix TV series Vikings: Valhalla (2021).

Michelle McManusW
Michelle McManus

Michelle McManus is a Scottish singer and former columnist, and television presenter. She won the second and final series of the UK talent show Pop Idol in 2003.

Eliza NewtonW
Eliza Newton

Eliza Newton was a Scottish stage actress.

Julie Wilson NimmoW
Julie Wilson Nimmo

Julie Wilson Nimmo is a Scottish actress and dancer. She is known for portraying the role of Miss Hoolie in the BBC children's series Balamory.

Marianna PalkaW
Marianna Palka

Marianna Bronislawa Barbara Palka is a Scottish actress, producer, director, and writer. She is the writer, director and star of the film Good Dick, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

Molly PearsonW
Molly Pearson

Mary Elizabeth "Molly" Pearson was a Scottish stage actress of the early 20th century. She was born in Edinburgh.

Rebecca PidgeonW
Rebecca Pidgeon

Rebecca Pidgeon is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. She has maintained a recording career while also acting on stage and in feature films. She is married to American playwright David Mamet.

Olive RaeW
Olive Rae

Olive Margaret Milne Rae (1878–1933) was a Scottish soprano concert singer and actress who appeared in comic opera and Edwardian musical comedy in London and on tours of the British provinces. During her brief stage career, she played the May Queen during the original production of Merrie England (1902) and created the roles of Titania in A Princess of Kensington (1903) and Lady Violet in The Earl and the Girl (1903–04).

Sheila ReidW
Sheila Reid

Sheila Reid is a Scottish actress, known for playing Madge Harvey in the ITV sitcom Benidorm (2007–2016). An original member of the Royal National Theatre in 1963, she played Bianca in the National's 1965 film version of Othello, with Laurence Olivier in the title role. Her other film appearances include Brazil (1985), The Winter Guest (1997) and Containment (2015).

Agnes Kelly RobertsonW
Agnes Kelly Robertson

Agnes Kelly Robertson was born in Edinburgh and became a popular actress on the American stage.

Elizabeth SellarsW
Elizabeth Sellars

Elizabeth Macdonald Sellars was a Scottish actress.

Harriet SiddonsW
Harriet Siddons

Harriet Siddons, sometimes known as Mrs Henry Siddons, was a Scottish actress and theatre manager.

Sophie StewartW
Sophie Stewart

Sophie Stewart was a British actress. She was born in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland in March 1908 and died in June 1977 at the age of 69, in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. In 1937 she starred in Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel as Lady Blakeney.

Kirsty StrainW
Kirsty Strain

Kirsty Strain is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles in the popular comedy sketch series, Burnistoun, and as Angie Warren in the BBC Scotland television series, River City. In December 2016, she was a supporting actress to several acting pieces by St. Paul's High School, at the Tramway Theatre in Glasgow. She can most recently be seen in Outlander and the feature films, And Violet and Anna and the Apocalypse.

Mary UreW
Mary Ure

Eileen Mary Ure was a British stage and film actress. She was the second Scottish-born actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, for her role in the 1960 film Sons and Lovers.

Molly UrquhartW
Molly Urquhart

Molly Urquhart was a Scottish actress.

Justine WaddellW
Justine Waddell

Justine Waddell is a South African-born British film and television actress. She played roles in the 2006 film The Fall and 2005 film Chaos as well as Tess in the 1998 LWT adaptation of Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Estella in the 1999 BBC adaptation of Great Expectations.