Rule Britannia! Which UK Actor Makes You Swoon?

Cafe Society
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I admit it, I am a sucker for an English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish actor, anyhow and anyway! It’s their bearing—no, it’s clearly the accent—no, it’s their smouldering eyes combined with that smooth reserve—or, it might even be their talent in many cases. Whatever it is, I cannot resist! Can you?

Name one UK actor (and I use this word in both the feminine and masculine sense, so everyone can comment) that never fails to make your heart and soul go thump in the night.

Watched “Calendar Girls” the other night for the first time, and noticed my top heartthrob Ciaran Hinds in the role of Helen Mirren’s husband,and looking mighty fine, too… I had just re-watched “Excaliber” a couple nights earlier and barely recognized him as King Lot. He was a mere child in that movie! But I totally fell for him for the first time in “Persuasion”, a 1995 Jane Austen adaptation, as Captain Wentworth, and then again as Brian Du Bois-Guilbert in 1997’s A & E mini-series, “Ivanhoe”. I haven’t seen “Munich” yet, and I know he doesn’t have a large role, but it’s at the top of my Netflix list as we speak. Nor have I seen his turn as Gaius Julius Caesar in “Rome”. But that will be remedied as soon as possible as well.

It’s his formidable height. It’s his ice-blue eyes. It’s that ruggedly handsome face. It’s the way he said, “Hello, luv!” to Helen Mirren in “Calendar Girls”. I dunno, but I know I swooned. And sighed. And went all mushy inside. Ahhh, Ciaran!

Who’s YOUR UK hunk or babe?

–Beck

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I have to choose?

Um. Ioan Gruffudd and James McAvoy are taking it in a tie right now. I’ll get back to you later. scoots off

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I’d have to go with the obvious, Clive Owen.
(Runners-up: Ewan McGregor, Dominic West, Alan Rickman)

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gigi, allow me to take Alan Rickman off your hands. Please.

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Jason Statham, followed closely by Ewan McGregor and Colin Firth.

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Liz Hurley, but “swoon” isn’t exactly the right word.

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I’m like a broken record about this, but the country of Ireland isn’t in the UK.

Anyway, for me, it’s Kiera Knightley, just because she’s (facially anyway) one of the most beautiful women alive.

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I gotta second this. I’ll get back at ya.

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And I apologize for that, I knew better! How about the British Isles/Ireland?
(Ciaran was born in Belfast, so I’d be remiss to exclude fabulous Ireland from this!)

Thanks for the correction! No harm intended.

–Beck

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None experienced! British Isles is fine.

Anyway, Ewan McGregor makes me go a little bit gay, too.

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EWAN!!! Ewan McGregor, hands down. I am a complete and total fangirl.

Second would have to be Christian Bale. Yum.

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Jodhi May at Wiki’

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Felicity Kendal

Second choice: Diana Rigg

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Oh, Colin Firth, definitely.

StG

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Do we really have to choose?

Sigh, I guess I’ll go with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers…but Clive Owen is awfully tempting, as is Sean Bean.

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Since Ireland can now play too, I pick Cillian Murphy. However, I would have listed Ewan first, but he’d already made others’ runner-up lists and Guin called outright dibs. So instead, I’d be more than happy to have a go with my then first choice for a bit of 28 Days Later. :slight_smile:

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Kenneth Branaugh as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. OMG swooning again.

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Absolutely…Kenneth Branaugh is my 2nd fave, if I can break my own rule…sigh…

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I gotta go with Keira and Ewan, too. Or maybe both…dreams happy dreams

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Ooooh…nummers!

Colin Firth–he could do anything to me, seriously.
Alan Rickman–hello!
Hugh Grant. Yes, he has lousy taste in hookers, but…

Who is the dreamy man who played Lupin in Harry Potter? (to me, he’s a British William Hurt).
I’m sure there are tons more, but a girl can only handle so much stiff upper lip at one time. :wink: