WRichard Ellef Ayoade is an English comedian, film director, screenwriter, television presenter, actor, and author best known for his role as the socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 BAFTA for Best Male Comedy Performance. He has often worked alongside Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Matt Berry, Matthew Holness, and Rich Fulcher.
WMark Philip David Billingham is an English novelist, actor, television screenwriter and comedian whose series of "Tom Thorne" crime novels are best-sellers in that genre.
WRussell Edward Brand is an English comedian, actor, radio host, writer, and activist.
WLouise Burfitt-Dons, is a British novelist, humanitarian, and former Conservative candidate.
WGuy Burt is an English author and BAFTA award-winning screenwriter who has worked on series such as The Borgias, and Wire in the Blood and is currently working on adapting the Alex Rider TV series.
WMarisa Calin is an American-born English actress, writer and producer.
WAlan Graham Carr is an English comedian and television personality.
WAshley Anthony Chin, also known by his stage name Muslim Belal, is an English actor, screenwriter, spoken word performance poet and a rapper of Jamaican descent.
WNazrin Choudhury is a British screenwriter and actress of Bangladeshi descent, best known for her radio dramas and extensive work in American television.
WPaul James Crook, known professionally as Mackenzie Crook, is an English actor, director, comedian and BAFTA-winning writer. He is known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office, Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films, and Orell in the HBO series Game of Thrones, and is the creator and star of BBC Four's Detectorists.
WRichard Dinnick is a British screenwriter, novelist, comic book writer and audio playwright. He is a frequent guest at writing events and such Doctor Who conventions as Gallifrey One as well as San Diego Comic Con.
WLeigh Francis is an English comedian, actor, writer, director, and producer. He is best known for creating Channel 4's Bo' Selecta! (2002–2006) and portraying Keith Lemon in several ITV and ITV2 shows including Celebrity Juice (2008–present), Keith Lemon's LemonAid (2012), Through the Keyhole (2013–present), and The Keith Lemon Sketch Show (2015–2016).
WGavin David Free is an English actor, director, cinematographer, and internet personality. He is best known for his work at Rooster Teeth—where he formerly served as creative director—featuring in many of their projects, including the Achievement Hunter gaming division. He directed season 7 of Red vs. Blue, as well as its miniseries Relocated.
WJane Loretta Anne Goldman is an English screenwriter, author and producer. With Matthew Vaughn, she co-wrote the screenplays of Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), as well as X-Men: First Class (2011), Kick-Ass (2010) and Stardust (2007). Goldman also worked on the story of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), the sequel to First Class, in partnership with Vaughn. Both met high critical praise for their partnership works.
WTony Grounds is a British playwright and screeenwriter, who has worked extensively in television. Described by The Independent as "the best TV writer of his generation", Grounds has written for all four of Britain's main channels.
WMiranda Katherine Hart Dyke, known professionally as Miranda Hart, is an English actress, comedian, and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in various British sitcoms including Hyperdrive and Not Going Out.
WChristina Hodson is a British screenwriter, known for Bumblebee (2018) and Birds of Prey (2020). Her 2016 film Shut In appeared on the 2012 Black List, an annual list of Hollywood's best-liked unproduced screenplays, as have two of her un-produced scripts.
WRussell Joseph Howard is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor, best known for his TV shows Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week. He won "Best Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards and was nominated for an if.comedy award for his 2006 Aberdeen Festival Fringe show. Howard cited comedians Lee Evans, Richard Pryor and Frank Skinner as influences.
WAbrar Hussain is a British filmmaker, writer, producer and director. He was raised in London, UK and studied at Kingston University.
WPeter John Kay is an English comedian, actor and occasional singer. Kay has written, produced, and acted in several television and film projects, and authored three books.
WKwame Kwei-Armah is a British actor, playwright, director, singer and broadcaster. He is best known for playing paramedic Finlay Newton in the BBC medical drama Casualty from 1999 until 2004. In 2005 he became the second black Briton to have a play staged in the West End of London. Kwei-Armah's award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama. He is currently the artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London, succeeding David Lan.
WJosie Long is a British comedian. She started performing as a stand-up at the age of 14 and won the BBC New Comedy Awards at 17.
WBernard MacMahon is an American film director and screenwriter.
WJamie Mathieson is a British television screenwriter. A former stand-up comedian, he has written for a number of UK science fiction TV shows, namely Being Human, Dirk Gently, and for series 8, 9 and 10 of Doctor Who.
WAllison McGourty is an award-winning film producer and screenwriter.
WAlastair James Hay Murray is an English comedian, actor, musician and writer. His comedy often includes hard-edged social and political satire. In 2003 he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy, and in 2007 he was voted the 16th greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups.
WPatrick Ness is a British-American author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls.
WDavid Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.
WJohn Niven is a Scottish author and screenwriter. His books include Kill Your Friends, The Amateurs, and The Second Coming.
WIan Raymond Ogilvy is an English actor, playwright, and novelist.
WEddie Robson is a British comedy and science fiction writer best known for his sitcom Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully and his work on a variety of spin-offs from the BBC Television series Doctor Who. He has written books, comics, short stories and for television and theatre, and has worked as a freelance journalist for various science fiction magazines. He is married and lives in Lancaster.
WJonathan Stephen Ross is an English television and radio presenter, film critic, actor and comedian best known for presenting the BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross during the 2000s. Ross also hosted his own radio show on BBC Radio 2, and acted as a film critic and presenter of the Film programme. After leaving the BBC, Ross then began hosting a new chat show on ITV, The Jonathan Ross Show. Other regular roles have included being a regular panellist on the comedy sports quiz They Think It's All Over and being a regular presenter of the British Comedy Awards.
WTom Rob Smith is an English author, screenwriter and producer.
WLaura Madalene Solon is an English screenwriter, comedian, actress, and winner of the 2005 Perrier Comedy Award. She was the second woman to win as a solo performer, after Jenny Eclair in 1995.
WRobert Thorogood is an English screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the BBC One murder mystery series Death in Paradise. He won France Film's "En Route to France" award in 2012.
WAva Beverley Vidal is an English comedian. She has taken part in E4's Kings of Comedy. Her career in comedy began on the BBC's Urban Sketch Show.
WDavid Edward Williams, known professionally as David Walliams, is an English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality. He is best known for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series Rock Profile, Little Britain, and Come Fly With Me (2010–2011). Since 2012, Walliams has been a judge on the television talent show competition Britain's Got Talent on ITV. He is also a writer of children's books, having sold more than 37 million copies worldwide.
WJohn Walsh is a filmmaker and author. He is the founder of the film company Walsh Bros. Ltd. His film work on subjects such as social mobility and social justice have received two BAFTA nominations.
WJack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, presenter, actor, and writer. He is best known for starring as JP in the series Fresh Meat (2011–2016) and Alfie Wickers in the series Bad Education (2012–2014) and its spin-off film The Bad Education Movie (2015). He also co-wrote the latter two. From 2012 to 2018, Whitehall was a regular panellist on the game show A League of Their Own. In 2017, he appeared with his father in the Netflix comedy documentary series Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father and starred in the television series Decline and Fall. Since 2018, he has been the host of the Brit Awards.
WAlexander Ross Winter is an American-English actor and filmmaker. He played the slacker Bill in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). He is also known for his role as Marko in the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys; co-writing, co-directing, and starring in the 1993 film Freaked; and directing documentaries in the 2010s.
WEdgar Howard Wright is an English director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilization of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a signature editing style that includes transitions, whip pans and wipes. He began making independent short films before making his first feature film A Fistful of Fingers (1995). Wright created and directed the comedy series Asylum in 1996, written with David Walliams. After directing several other television shows, Wright directed the sitcom Spaced (1999–2001), which aired for two series and starred frequent collaborators Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.